My reading of 1202 is that, as long as you leave the broadcast flag intact in the video stream, you're in the clear. Altering the hardware to ignore that would not necessarily do that.
Now, someone who used the hacked hardware would be breaking the law (not the DMCA, just the pre-DMCA copyright code).
The question, however, is whether the broadcast flag actually qualifies as a measure that effectively controls access. The fact that all receivers prior to a certain date retain access while ignoring the flag at the very least raises concerns over how effectively access is being controlled.
To assume that the RIAA won't continue simply because their current medium is obsolete is the height of idiocy. It is immediately obvious that iTMS and the like should at least keep them alive.
The promotional aspect of the RIAA will never go away. The manufacturing and distribution portion of their job will, for sure, though. As the RIAA has the most experience in promoting artists (as well as the most money and connections), they will likely continue to be the dominant players on that stage for the foreseeable future.
US automakers have traditionally tended to stick with what works, at least in the mass-market (their leading edge engines, e.g. the Northstar tend to be highly advanced designs). The mainstay of General Motors' full-size and mid-size sedan lineup, the 3800 engine is a cast-iron push-rod design that, save for the addition of electronic fuel injection in the 80's, is basically unchanged for a few decades. In the 3800's defense, it's a virtually indestructible engine which outlasts the cars it's put in.
The Saturn LW200 my mother has hits 70 at about 3000 rpm with a 2.2L Ecotec engine (admittedly, the Ecotec is basically a design from GM Europe).
I'm going to assume, given spelling and the fact that it's a soccer website, that it's using Imperial gallons and not US gallons, thus:
2/ Average MPG for a 1.6 litre 'family' car. This figure (27.9 miles/US gallon)...
FWIW, by my computations, the average mpg of US vehicles is about 22.5 mpg.
Methodology: given sales figures of the 10 best-selling light trucks and cars and their associated mileage figures, mileages were averaged using sales amounts as weights.
And as long as that's the case, iTMS isn't going to improve the state of music to any significant degree. All it does is create a new way to distribute, which will end up having zero effect on the RIAA. Their power is not from a distribution monopoly; it's from a virtual promotion monopoly (aided by the likes of ClearChannel and CBS).
However, I would be very surprised if more than a tiny percentage (by tiny percentage, I mean on the order of 1-2%) of those downloads are of songs not in catalog and not listed on one of the Billboard radio airplay charts.
I'm happy to hear this news, but I must also point out that taller people, in general, tend to have higher living expenses than you shorties out there.
One simple example: clothing. I cannot buy off-the-shelf pants (my size is 32-inch waist, 36-inch inseam). I have to special order everything, which effectively eliminates sales on such attire.
Another: transportation. I cannot fit in anything smaller than a midsize car (anything below a Saturn L-Series is out) and the best fit comes with a full-size sedan (or an SUV...), which means that I'll be spending $10,000 more than average on a car. If I take a plane, I'll have trouble sitting in coach; either spend more time (and time is money) at the airport in order to get a bulkhead seat or upgrade to business or first class.
It ain't easy being tall, but then again, being tall, thin (190 lbs), and having a 10.3:1 ratio between standing height and height "lying down" as it were tends to make me more popular with the ladies...;o)
Massachusetts is enlightened, imo. There's no distinction between beer, wine, and liquor. There's no state involvement, save for excise taxes (alcoholic beverages are covered by the "if you can eat it or wear it, there's no sales tax" rule*). Licensing is ultimately left to local governments.
Towns can choose to allow none, either, or both of alcohol by the drink (bars/restaurants/hotels) and packaged alcohol (hence why liquor stores are "package stores" or "packies" in Massachusetts); Wellesley allows by the drink but not packaged, for instance. The only state restrictions are:
No town may only issue one license in a given class; zero or at least two licenses must be in force at any given time. If there are two bars in town and one of them closes, the other's license is suspended until another bar opens in town. The same is true of packies.
By default, towns are prohibited from licensing more than one packie per 5,000 population, subject to the previous rule; this rule does not apply in towns with fewer than 10,000 population. Towns may override this regulation for a fixed period of time, provided that this override is approved at a town meeting.
Some of the regulatory stance is at least partially due, I would imagine, to the fact that the three most common professions of members of the Great and General Court are:
Lawyer
Funeral-home operator
Package store owner
*: interesting side-light: if you go to a store in Mass. and buy a pack of chewing gum, a 30-rack of High Life, and a pack of condoms, you'll only pay sales tax on the chewing gum; beer is considered food and the condoms are considered articles of clothing.
Remember how the RIAA was found guilty of price-fixing on CDs and settled?
This is a direct consequence of the settlement.
The RIAA maintained the effective price-fix by instituting a minimum advertised price rule. Stores could sell CDs for whatever price they wanted, but if the price they were advertising was above a certain threshold, the RIAA would pay for the advertising. This had the effect of keeping Wal-Mart and Best Buy from achieving a near-monopoly position in retailing (and thus being able to dictate to the RIAA in matters of content and pricing). Wal-Mart and Best Buy were planning to sell CDs at cost to lead to increased sales per square foot of the store (and generate foot traffic) and their plans would depend on being able to advertise $9 CDs (from a very limited selection; only the stuff that was new and exceptionally popular would be carried).
In order to prevent the big box retailers from taking over the retail market, the RIAA cut their legs out by giving stores that were willing to charge full price (and take a guaranteed profit) free advertising. This in turn kept the small stores and music specific chains in business.
Then Wal-Mart and Best Buy sued for price-fixing and won. The result since then has been even more more blandness in the recording business; with Wal-Mart and Best Buy accounting for greater and greater shares of the retail market, they will only carry CDs that will sell a lot of copies very quickly. Artists who only go consistently gold are getting pushed out because the retailers aren't interested.
If there's assloads of idiots (Jets fans are legendary for this...) putting money irrationally on one team to cover the spread, the spread moves in the opposite direction (because the bookie is trying to get more action on the other side). The idea is exactly the same, just that rather than move the odds, he moves the handicap.
Also, against -110, you only need to win 10% more often than you lose, or 11/21 of the time, or 52.4%. There's also a plethora of sports books that offer -107 (where you have to be right 51.7% of the time) on football and basketball. The baseball "dime line" averages out to -105 (51.2% success required). On football and basketball, where you have the spread, you can do a fair amount of lineshopping and turn a non-zero percentage of losses into pushes, pushes into wins, and even (though rarely) losses into wins.
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My reading of 1202 is that, as long as you leave the broadcast flag intact in the video stream, you're in the clear. Altering the hardware to ignore that would not necessarily do that.
Now, someone who used the hacked hardware would be breaking the law (not the DMCA, just the pre-DMCA copyright code).
The question, however, is whether the broadcast flag actually qualifies as a measure that effectively controls access. The fact that all receivers prior to a certain date retain access while ignoring the flag at the very least raises concerns over how effectively access is being controlled.
Princeton doesn's have a law school, dumb-ass.
With no encryption, I'm not sure that distributing hacks to disable the flag would qualify as a DMCA violation... that's the interesting question.
Yeah, but Mandrake et al have been cleaning RH's clock on the desktop now for a while.
Red Hat will still be maintaining RPM and employ the kernel hackers... what do you think the Enterprise Linux is based on? FreeBSD and .debs?
Or the Mandrake installer...
Don't use BCC/CC, then. Use a real mailing-list program.
Indeed, since the US taxes assets, I would argue that it is quite far from capitalism.
To assume that the RIAA won't continue simply because their current medium is obsolete is the height of idiocy. It is immediately obvious that iTMS and the like should at least keep them alive.
The promotional aspect of the RIAA will never go away. The manufacturing and distribution portion of their job will, for sure, though. As the RIAA has the most experience in promoting artists (as well as the most money and connections), they will likely continue to be the dominant players on that stage for the foreseeable future.
Hey, guy, chill out man... what did this guy post that indicates a leaning towards Maoism?
I know this may be asking too much for Slashdot, but could we actually have an intelligent, rational discussion here sometime?
US automakers have traditionally tended to stick with what works, at least in the mass-market (their leading edge engines, e.g. the Northstar tend to be highly advanced designs). The mainstay of General Motors' full-size and mid-size sedan lineup, the 3800 engine is a cast-iron push-rod design that, save for the addition of electronic fuel injection in the 80's, is basically unchanged for a few decades. In the 3800's defense, it's a virtually indestructible engine which outlasts the cars it's put in.
The Saturn LW200 my mother has hits 70 at about 3000 rpm with a 2.2L Ecotec engine (admittedly, the Ecotec is basically a design from GM Europe).
I'm going to assume, given spelling and the fact that it's a soccer website, that it's using Imperial gallons and not US gallons, thus:
FWIW, by my computations, the average mpg of US vehicles is about 22.5 mpg.
Methodology: given sales figures of the 10 best-selling light trucks and cars and their associated mileage figures, mileages were averaged using sales amounts as weights.
GM will also have hybrid SUVs shortly (the Saturn VUE being the first to go that route).
And as long as that's the case, iTMS isn't going to improve the state of music to any significant degree. All it does is create a new way to distribute, which will end up having zero effect on the RIAA. Their power is not from a distribution monopoly; it's from a virtual promotion monopoly (aided by the likes of ClearChannel and CBS).
However, I would be very surprised if more than a tiny percentage (by tiny percentage, I mean on the order of 1-2%) of those downloads are of songs not in catalog and not listed on one of the Billboard radio airplay charts.
I'm happy to hear this news, but I must also point out that taller people, in general, tend to have higher living expenses than you shorties out there.
One simple example: clothing. I cannot buy off-the-shelf pants (my size is 32-inch waist, 36-inch inseam). I have to special order everything, which effectively eliminates sales on such attire.
Another: transportation. I cannot fit in anything smaller than a midsize car (anything below a Saturn L-Series is out) and the best fit comes with a full-size sedan (or an SUV...), which means that I'll be spending $10,000 more than average on a car. If I take a plane, I'll have trouble sitting in coach; either spend more time (and time is money) at the airport in order to get a bulkhead seat or upgrade to business or first class.
It ain't easy being tall, but then again, being tall, thin (190 lbs), and having a 10.3:1 ratio between standing height and height "lying down" as it were tends to make me more popular with the ladies... ;o)
Massachusetts is enlightened, imo. There's no distinction between beer, wine, and liquor. There's no state involvement, save for excise taxes (alcoholic beverages are covered by the "if you can eat it or wear it, there's no sales tax" rule*). Licensing is ultimately left to local governments.
Towns can choose to allow none, either, or both of alcohol by the drink (bars/restaurants/hotels) and packaged alcohol (hence why liquor stores are "package stores" or "packies" in Massachusetts); Wellesley allows by the drink but not packaged, for instance. The only state restrictions are:
Some of the regulatory stance is at least partially due, I would imagine, to the fact that the three most common professions of members of the Great and General Court are:
*: interesting side-light: if you go to a store in Mass. and buy a pack of chewing gum, a 30-rack of High Life, and a pack of condoms, you'll only pay sales tax on the chewing gum; beer is considered food and the condoms are considered articles of clothing.
New York and Louisiana were the last two states to give up the 18 drinking age.
Just add a couple more gigs to the ACC library and you can host your own championship game! ;o)
[yes, I know I'll get modded down for daring to use sports humor on /. ...]
Remember how the RIAA was found guilty of price-fixing on CDs and settled?
This is a direct consequence of the settlement.
The RIAA maintained the effective price-fix by instituting a minimum advertised price rule. Stores could sell CDs for whatever price they wanted, but if the price they were advertising was above a certain threshold, the RIAA would pay for the advertising. This had the effect of keeping Wal-Mart and Best Buy from achieving a near-monopoly position in retailing (and thus being able to dictate to the RIAA in matters of content and pricing). Wal-Mart and Best Buy were planning to sell CDs at cost to lead to increased sales per square foot of the store (and generate foot traffic) and their plans would depend on being able to advertise $9 CDs (from a very limited selection; only the stuff that was new and exceptionally popular would be carried).
In order to prevent the big box retailers from taking over the retail market, the RIAA cut their legs out by giving stores that were willing to charge full price (and take a guaranteed profit) free advertising. This in turn kept the small stores and music specific chains in business.
Then Wal-Mart and Best Buy sued for price-fixing and won. The result since then has been even more more blandness in the recording business; with Wal-Mart and Best Buy accounting for greater and greater shares of the retail market, they will only carry CDs that will sell a lot of copies very quickly. Artists who only go consistently gold are getting pushed out because the retailers aren't interested.
However, has a distributor actually built a Linux distro for the G5?
Yeah, laying off is de rigeur in the bookie industry, especially among the more conservative books.
I've had traceroutes (even tcptraceroutes) to slashdot.org failing for the past few hours...
If there's assloads of idiots (Jets fans are legendary for this...) putting money irrationally on one team to cover the spread, the spread moves in the opposite direction (because the bookie is trying to get more action on the other side). The idea is exactly the same, just that rather than move the odds, he moves the handicap.
Also, against -110, you only need to win 10% more often than you lose, or 11/21 of the time, or 52.4%. There's also a plethora of sports books that offer -107 (where you have to be right 51.7% of the time) on football and basketball. The baseball "dime line" averages out to -105 (51.2% success required). On football and basketball, where you have the spread, you can do a fair amount of lineshopping and turn a non-zero percentage of losses into pushes, pushes into wins, and even (though rarely) losses into wins.