That's great but you don't represent the majority of the internet. Most people do want streaming video and couldn't care less if it happens to be encrypted. A good platform enables the functionality people want.
And you know that "most people do want streaming and couldn't care less if it happens to be encrypted" because... ?
That's your choice and of course you're entitled to your opinion, but please don't force it on everyone else. A lot more people enjoy watching content produced by Hollywood than are up in arms over standardising DRM.
No, you are still welcome to build your own computer, write your own software, make your own movie, distribute your own movie, watch your own movie, and do anything with your own hardware and software and movie that you like. But, the people that make their own movies want to be in control of their content. Nothing is wrong with that. If you want to view their content on their terms, you are welcome to. If you don't like their terms, don't watch their content.
I don't understand why people get so upset when content makers try to control their content. If you don't like it, just don't partake of their content, but it's not worth getting all upset about it. If you think things should be different, then only support those companies that believe what you do. But surely you should never be watching any mainstream movie, because then you are buying into their beliefs
Because they can not "control" the content.
You can not control the information, once it's out. Same goes for content. Or air.
So what do you suggest? DRM is not going to go away any time soon, no matter how much you might wish it to. Implementing any kind of reasonably secure DRM will necessarily require some secret component, even if it's only in your platform hardware and accessible via an open API.
Noone expects DRM to go away, and noone really cares.
Just leave the fucking DRM out of the standard.
We're getting rid of Flash just to get some other proprietary shit in?
Might as well just call this new technology 'ActiveX' and be innovative.
Dear Wowsers. The internet IS NOT YOURS EITHER. Don't like a protocol, file format, or DRM scheme? DONT USE IT.
Your freedom to choose means that you do not have the moral authority to dictate to other free people as to the manner in which they interact. I'm pretty sure that you dont use Netflix, so what fucking business is it of yours as to how Netflix delivers content? Its not your business at all, BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS NOT YOURS.
Nature of the fact that you're willing to use something that's been forced onto you does not fit well with your usage of phrase "free people".
I know thinking is hard, but you should try it sometimes.
DRM will be required by content providers. HTML5 video will never gain any market share without it. Otherwise we will continue to have Flash and Silverlight.
The really scary news is the fact these guys are getting extradited.
It's not that they don't deserve great eternal suffering, it's just that this is getting out of control.
Genuine question - when was the last time US has extradited its own citizen?
Would US extradite a person who killed 24 civilians? If not, why (besides blackmails/threats from US govt) are people supposed to extradite people to the US? Will we have US requesting extradition for someone talking bad about their president (sorry - CEO), in 5 years time?
I'm certain Apache could have been tuned but I don't think it's unreasonable for a developer to blame the software if you have to do a three year BSc in Apache Administration just to get something equivalent to 30 minutes playing in nginx.
I truly do hope that things are improving (competition is key in this environment!) but now I've left Apache on multiple servers, they're going to need to do more than just say "If you tune it, it can now match nginx speed", because my time is valuable too. I'm not going to jump back in until for most deployments it "just works".
What makes you think that extremely complex piece of software is supposed to be easy to setup, by just about everyone?
Developers can do their development on default setup, I don't see a problem with that.
If you need to use it on production setup (or replication of production setup), then get people who know what they're doing to configure it.
So does this mean New Zealand doesn't have full disclosure laws like Canada does? Remind me not to go there. For those that don't know in Canada, when you're accused of something, you get a thing called full disclosure. Showing all of the evidence against you, and I do mean all. Every single bit, right down to how they did what they did, and when they started doing it.
To put things into perspective...
Megaupload founders have been arrested, all of their assets have been frozen, their company has been destroyed, user files might be lost, bail has been delayed for 2 people who had it granted almost 2 weeks ago (police had to 'inspect premises', which seemingly takes more than a week), they have been 'demonized' in media... all of that without DoJ/FBI presenting *any* evidence to New Zealand police, or the court (for extradition case). Everything was seemingly based on the indictment document, which is not evidence but speculation (and fishing expedition - you should really read it). Judge that was deciding on bails said that he doesn't know whether case against Megaupload (in NZ) will be strong or not, because FBI has not presented any evidence to them. First extradition hearing is scheduled for 22nd of February (unless it was moved), and some evidence should be filed by then. We'll see.
That 3news reporter tried to talk to NZ ministry of justice and police, in order to find out what evidence FBI possibly presented to them before the operation, but nobody would talk to him. Governments are run like private companies now, they even get to decide whether they'll talk to people who pay their salaries.
I don't want things like this to happen. I don't want that UK guy to get extradited to the US for hosting a forum with links to 'copyrighted material. I don't want that journalist to die in Saudi Arabia because of a tweet. I don't want US threatening Sweden in order to get The Pirate Bay guys tried in court.
But people don't seem to care anymore, they think none of this affect them.
How wrong they are, they will learn in few years time:(
To point out that Internet access is not mandatory for any legal defense, but merely convenient. Considering that one of the issues is that Mr. Ortmann made $3.5 million more than MegaUpload paid him, he very likely already has a competent lawyer. The only reason for him to have direct Internet access would be to unjustly sway public opinion.
Considering that they froze all bank accounts, how much money he might have earned is irrelevant.
When you say unarmed, did you actually read the articles about this or are you following the great slashdot tradition of deciding on your own what the news should have been?
Because Im pretty sure "loaded gun" doesnt qualify as "unarmed".
A gun, stored in gun safe and loaded with a single rubber bullet certainly doesn't make one "armed" either.
I would presume that SWAT team is doing all arrests in the USA, since pretty much everyone could have a gun. Right?
Media reports that there were shotguns in the house, two were sawn-off shotguns, and Kim locked himself in his safe room with one of the sawn-off shotguns. Kim didn't have a gun license, so owning these guns was illegal in NZ. Guns were to protect my family, says Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
He had gun safes, shotgun in panic room was in gun safe and had 1 rubber bullet, and Kim was nowhere near the safe when arrested.
Since noone has bothered to give Kim DotCom a chance to say anything or defend himself, one NZ reporter tried to present things from different (one that doesn't burn witches) angle. You should watch the videos, at least for amusement factor.
Links are listed in the order reports were broadcast:
But I can tell you as a Canadian business traveller that the USA is orders of magnitude less intrusive when it comes to visitors to their country. The next time you're in China go try to surf Tibet videos on Youtube and let me know how that goes for you.
I can tell you that Chinese did not require my fingerprints and were very polite to me. Guess who was exactly the opposite?
I also don't care about watching Tibet videos on YouTube when visiting China, I don't watch them at home either.
Have fun watching Al Qaeda videos while killing time in your US hotel.
I've spent years coding the Perl; I'll be glad to bash the language as largely unsuitable for large scientific collaborations. The language wasn't really designed, but happened by urban sprawl and accretion over the years. The syntax is inconsistent and the code hard to read. Use something clean and designed well like Python.
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That's great but you don't represent the majority of the internet. Most people do want streaming video and couldn't care less if it happens to be encrypted. A good platform enables the functionality people want.
And you know that "most people do want streaming and couldn't care less if it happens to be encrypted" because ... ?
That's your choice and of course you're entitled to your opinion, but please don't force it on everyone else. A lot more people enjoy watching content produced by Hollywood than are up in arms over standardising DRM.
And this statement is based on what exactly?
Your feelings?
No, you are still welcome to build your own computer, write your own software, make your own movie, distribute your own movie, watch your own movie, and do anything with your own hardware and software and movie that you like. But, the people that make their own movies want to be in control of their content. Nothing is wrong with that. If you want to view their content on their terms, you are welcome to. If you don't like their terms, don't watch their content.
I don't understand why people get so upset when content makers try to control their content. If you don't like it, just don't partake of their content, but it's not worth getting all upset about it. If you think things should be different, then only support those companies that believe what you do. But surely you should never be watching any mainstream movie, because then you are buying into their beliefs
Because they can not "control" the content.
You can not control the information, once it's out. Same goes for content. Or air.
Sooner they realize that, better for everyone.
So what do you suggest? DRM is not going to go away any time soon, no matter how much you might wish it to. Implementing any kind of reasonably secure DRM will necessarily require some secret component, even if it's only in your platform hardware and accessible via an open API.
Noone expects DRM to go away, and noone really cares.
Just leave the fucking DRM out of the standard.
We're getting rid of Flash just to get some other proprietary shit in?
Might as well just call this new technology 'ActiveX' and be innovative.
Dear Wowsers. The internet IS NOT YOURS EITHER. Don't like a protocol, file format, or DRM scheme? DONT USE IT.
Your freedom to choose means that you do not have the moral authority to dictate to other free people as to the manner in which they interact. I'm pretty sure that you dont use Netflix, so what fucking business is it of yours as to how Netflix delivers content? Its not your business at all, BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS NOT YOURS.
Nature of the fact that you're willing to use something that's been forced onto you does not fit well with your usage of phrase "free people".
I know thinking is hard, but you should try it sometimes.
AND CAPS REALLY MAKE YOU LOOK SMARTER, TOO!
DRM will be required by content providers. HTML5 video will never gain any market share without it. Otherwise we will continue to have Flash and Silverlight.
So be it.
When it happens to someone from 'ruling caste', then it becomes a big deal.
The really scary news is the fact these guys are getting extradited.
It's not that they don't deserve great eternal suffering, it's just that this is getting out of control.
Genuine question - when was the last time US has extradited its own citizen?
Would US extradite a person who killed 24 civilians? If not, why (besides blackmails/threats from US govt) are people supposed to extradite people to the US? Will we have US requesting extradition for someone talking bad about their president (sorry - CEO), in 5 years time?
People don't realize what's coming, I am afraid :(
I'm certain Apache could have been tuned but I don't think it's unreasonable for a developer to blame the software if you have to do a three year BSc in Apache Administration just to get something equivalent to 30 minutes playing in nginx.
I truly do hope that things are improving (competition is key in this environment!) but now I've left Apache on multiple servers, they're going to need to do more than just say "If you tune it, it can now match nginx speed", because my time is valuable too. I'm not going to jump back in until for most deployments it "just works".
What makes you think that extremely complex piece of software is supposed to be easy to setup, by just about everyone?
Developers can do their development on default setup, I don't see a problem with that.
If you need to use it on production setup (or replication of production setup), then get people who know what they're doing to configure it.
If they hadn't brought their drone along, the hunters wouldn't have been shooting in the direction of a highway.
If she wasn't dressed like a slut, she wouldn't get raped, eh?
It's not US government shutting down US sites.
It is US government shutting down all other sites, so that users around world end up having to use US based 'service providers'.
That and "intellectual property" are the only 2 things that can keep US economy afloat for bit longer.
And they're betting big on it.
Might want to lay off the conspiracy sites. Here's a hint: If someone starts going on about 9/11 being an inside job, they are a conspiracy nut.
What I am actually enjoying is seeing so many 'conspiracy theories' from past 20 years turning out not to be conspiracy theories at all.
But blind mediocre nuts will just keep calling anything they don't like a "conspiracy theory".
So does this mean New Zealand doesn't have full disclosure laws like Canada does? Remind me not to go there. For those that don't know in Canada, when you're accused of something, you get a thing called full disclosure. Showing all of the evidence against you, and I do mean all. Every single bit, right down to how they did what they did, and when they started doing it.
To put things into perspective...
Megaupload founders have been arrested, all of their assets have been frozen, their company has been destroyed, user files might be lost, bail has been delayed for 2 people who had it granted almost 2 weeks ago (police had to 'inspect premises', which seemingly takes more than a week), they have been 'demonized' in media... all of that without DoJ/FBI presenting *any* evidence to New Zealand police, or the court (for extradition case). Everything was seemingly based on the indictment document, which is not evidence but speculation (and fishing expedition - you should really read it). Judge that was deciding on bails said that he doesn't know whether case against Megaupload (in NZ) will be strong or not, because FBI has not presented any evidence to them. First extradition hearing is scheduled for 22nd of February (unless it was moved), and some evidence should be filed by then. We'll see.
That 3news reporter tried to talk to NZ ministry of justice and police, in order to find out what evidence FBI possibly presented to them before the operation, but nobody would talk to him. Governments are run like private companies now, they even get to decide whether they'll talk to people who pay their salaries.
I don't want things like this to happen. I don't want that UK guy to get extradited to the US for hosting a forum with links to 'copyrighted material. I don't want that journalist to die in Saudi Arabia because of a tweet. I don't want US threatening Sweden in order to get The Pirate Bay guys tried in court.
But people don't seem to care anymore, they think none of this affect them.
How wrong they are, they will learn in few years time :(
To point out that Internet access is not mandatory for any legal defense, but merely convenient. Considering that one of the issues is that Mr. Ortmann made $3.5 million more than MegaUpload paid him, he very likely already has a competent lawyer. The only reason for him to have direct Internet access would be to unjustly sway public opinion.
Considering that they froze all bank accounts, how much money he might have earned is irrelevant.
When you say unarmed, did you actually read the articles about this or are you following the great slashdot tradition of deciding on your own what the news should have been?
Because Im pretty sure "loaded gun" doesnt qualify as "unarmed".
A gun, stored in gun safe and loaded with a single rubber bullet certainly doesn't make one "armed" either.
I would presume that SWAT team is doing all arrests in the USA, since pretty much everyone could have a gun. Right?
Media reports that there were shotguns in the house, two were sawn-off shotguns, and Kim locked himself in his safe room with one of the sawn-off shotguns. Kim didn't have a gun license, so owning these guns was illegal in NZ. Guns were to protect my family, says Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
He had gun safes, shotgun in panic room was in gun safe and had 1 rubber bullet, and Kim was nowhere near the safe when arrested.
Since noone has bothered to give Kim DotCom a chance to say anything or defend himself, one NZ reporter tried to present things from different (one that doesn't burn witches) angle. You should watch the videos, at least for amusement factor.
Links are listed in the order reports were broadcast:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Campbell-Live-enters-Kim-Dotcoms-Coatesville-mansion/tabid/817/articleID/242116/Default.aspx
http://www.3news.co.nz/Police-defend-actions-during-Dotcom-raid/tabid/423/articleID/242115/Default.aspx
http://www.3news.co.nz/Dotcom-charges-fraction-of-world-awash-with-copyright-breaches/tabid/817/articleID/242208/Default.aspx
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kim-Dotcoms-mansion-seized/tabid/423/articleID/242276/Default.aspx
There might be more reports, I might have not seen them all.
But I can tell you as a Canadian business traveller that the USA is orders of magnitude less intrusive when it comes to visitors to their country. The next time you're in China go try to surf Tibet videos on Youtube and let me know how that goes for you.
I can tell you that Chinese did not require my fingerprints and were very polite to me. Guess who was exactly the opposite?
I also don't care about watching Tibet videos on YouTube when visiting China, I don't watch them at home either.
Have fun watching Al Qaeda videos while killing time in your US hotel.
you never heard of iTunes?
i'm a dyed in the wool apple hater and i've heard of iTunes.
Hi.
I had problems running iTunes on my Ubuntu 10.04.
Could you help?
Thanks.
The problem with China, is that you don't know how much the legal decisions are based on the rule of law, or based on corruption.
Well, Apple should feel at home, then.
Of course a Chinese court found Apple to be in violation. Do you know how much justice $1.6 billion USD buys in China?
Certainly less justice than what 50mil USD of Hollywood money buys in the USA?
I really could give a shit about who likes what. If someone is a threat, they are gonna have to answer to the rest of us.
So, when will USA answer to the rest of us, eh?
funny, I've never known anyone to have that problem in the last 12 years of using Python. You must be one unlucky S.O.B. Sorry.
Funy, I've met tons of people who had that problem.
You must be one lucky S.O.B.
I've spent years coding the Perl; I'll be glad to bash the language as largely unsuitable for large scientific collaborations. The language wasn't really designed, but happened by urban sprawl and accretion over the years. The syntax is inconsistent and the code hard to read. Use something clean and designed well like Python.
Hahahahahahahaha.
Funny man.
X-Men: Androids
a low-tier banking executive makes more money than this man.
Well, look at the "Forbes 400 list" of richest Americans, and see how many of 20 richest actually produce a physical product.
And that's why system is about to collapse.