Well, there are likely some sale of lower costs items (such as CDs) that people would have paid for, but didn't because it was also available free. The existance of paid-download music sites demonstrates that.
I don't follow your logic. How does the existance (and success) of paid-download music sites demonstrate that people downloading music for free would have paid for it if it wasn't available for free?
All it demonstrates is that some people will pay to download some music.
Any argument claiming that downloading (or piracy of any kind) causes lost revenue is only a theory.
Hackers is an excellent movie! Sure all of the technical stuff is wrong, but at least it's all OBVIOUSLY wrong. It's a movie, it's not meant to be accurate, just to be entertaining. (which it is!)
Maybe I should have signed up with the name Phantom Phreak or something..
> a remote that can power on and eject the drive on your media device
You can power off (or reset) the xbox via remote thru XBMC also. And eject implies that you'll have to get up and switch/insert discs anyways, so why do you need it on your remote?
Note that he said power on.
> I don't know why you'd go to the hassle of an Xbox that doesn't let you completely control every by IR remote, and also requires you mod it.
I dont know why you think this- I can do everything I need thru the xbox remote.
You can turn your Xbox ON with the remote control?
I don't disagree that the Xbox is great as a media device, but not being able to turn on the Xbox with the remote control is very annoying.
Wow another Maximus user from Net140! Incredible!:) (I was 1:140/186)
I must still have my manual for Maximus 3 somewhere, I even got it signed by Scott Dudley.. Maximus 2 was awesome and Maximus 3 was absolutely amazing.. Ahh the good old days of Maximus and FidoNet. BinkleyTerm/Maximus/SquishMail.. It didn't get any better than that!
The smartcards used by DirecTV were designed by NDS Ltd (formerly News Datacom Ltd, aka NDC). NDS is not new to smartcard technology and has been using smartcards for years (as in the British Sky Broadcasting system).
It should also be noted that there have been MANY Electronic Counter Measures (ECMs) performed by DirecTV in the past (although the lastest ECM certainly seems to be the most difficult for pirates to recover from).
As to whether DirecTV pirates are 'hackers' or 'crackers', the vast majority of them are certinaly crackers. The primary motivation behind breaking DirecTV's security system is to make money - and it has been this way from day one. (the engineers who first broke the security system were funded by commercial pirates)
DirecTV's use of their technology to attack piracy is certainly not new to them, they have been perfoming ECMs since 1995.
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Hackers is an excellent movie! Sure all of the technical stuff is wrong, but at least it's all OBVIOUSLY wrong. It's a movie, it's not meant to be accurate, just to be entertaining. (which it is!)
Maybe I should have signed up with the name Phantom Phreak or something..
> a remote that can power on and eject the drive on your media device
You can power off (or reset) the xbox via remote thru XBMC also. And eject implies that you'll have to get up and switch/insert discs anyways, so why do you need it on your remote?
Note that he said power on.
> I don't know why you'd go to the hassle of an Xbox that doesn't let you completely control every by IR remote, and also requires you mod it.
I dont know why you think this- I can do everything I need thru the xbox remote.
You can turn your Xbox ON with the remote control?
I don't disagree that the Xbox is great as a media device, but not being able to turn on the Xbox with the remote control is very annoying.
Wow another Maximus user from Net140! Incredible! :) (I was 1:140/186)
I must still have my manual for Maximus 3 somewhere, I even got it signed by Scott Dudley.. Maximus 2 was awesome and Maximus 3 was absolutely amazing.. Ahh the good old days of Maximus and FidoNet. BinkleyTerm/Maximus/SquishMail.. It didn't get any better than that!
Isn't 512K a much rounder number? With winners being a member of the 'helf-meg club'?
The smartcards used by DirecTV were designed by NDS Ltd (formerly News Datacom Ltd, aka NDC). NDS is not new to smartcard technology and has been using smartcards for years (as in the British Sky Broadcasting system).
It should also be noted that there have been MANY Electronic Counter Measures (ECMs) performed by DirecTV in the past (although the lastest ECM certainly seems to be the most difficult for pirates to recover from).
As to whether DirecTV pirates are 'hackers' or 'crackers', the vast majority of them are certinaly crackers. The primary motivation behind breaking DirecTV's security system is to make money - and it has been this way from day one. (the engineers who first broke the security system were funded by commercial pirates)
DirecTV's use of their technology to attack piracy is certainly not new to them, they have been perfoming ECMs since 1995.
Actually, the name 'football card' comes from the picture on the front of the card. (a football player)