The real cause of music piracy is because a CD with 12 tracks isn't worth the money the labels are asking. Why anyone buys a CD which costs almost as much as a DVD is beyond me.
The labels needs to get a clue and realize they need to provide a value service to their 'customers' (not consumers). Not alienate them by crippling their machines with DRM'd malware which can be defeated and ripped by someone with a marker pen, sticky tape or shift key.
Download a movie off the net you just get to watch the movie. Buy the same movie from a shop and you get all the extra bonus material. Download an album off the net you get an album buy the album in the shop you get the same album. This is the real reason why the movie industry hasn't been clobbered by piracy to the same extent as the music cartels.
I really believe DRM free FLAC quality music downloads and streaming services are the way to go. They need to build a business model around that. Much like Google, Red Hat and MySql give their products away free and make money on providing services.
With PVR's now common and soon Video on Demand over broadband it seems to be the next logical step.
You only have to look at how popular recorded TV episodes have become on bittorent sites to see that people these days don't want to sit in front of the TV at prescribed times.
If they want to stop piracy they'll have to provide programming around other people schedules. People have a lot more things to do and are not prepared to fit their lives around their schedule.
I thought the whole idea of these new p2p networks was that they were decentralized which means any form of censorship has to be imposed at the application level. So doesn't this mean that third partly clients like KazzaLite are immune to these block lists?
And as nobody uses Kazza because of it's malware payload putting a blocklist in Kazza alone has about as much affect on piracy as blocking searches in bittorent.com
Actually I'm always initially skeptical google or not. When you stop to think about it though, this technology is not intrusive, unlike most of the other web advertising 'Enhancements' (flash ads, pop-up's, spyware) we've seen over the years. It's an extra service for google's customers, the advertisers. The 'Consumers' (that's us folks) aren't inconvenienced by this. Clever! Makes you wonder why the other webvertisers didn't think about it sooner. Oh and as the parent states it'll be even better if google released some of this technology to the OSS community.
The parent may be +5 funny but I think this is a valid point and illustrates the hypocrisy of the corporate world. The Bush administration is all too pleased to allow the teaching of intelligent design but at the same time give their corporate sponsors a monopoly on life itself. In the book of genesis God gave all living creatures to mankind, that means everyone, not just the corporatists.
So taking Bushes world view that God does in fact exist and that he created the earth and all living things we can conclude that.
The Government doesn't really believe in God. i.e. their lying. The Government is perpetrating a grand form of intellectual property theft from the whole of humanity and God himself.
"Then, go to a HIGH END clothing shop with a friend and a digital camera. Unlike the Gap, the people at good boutiques (Burberry, Armani, etc)"
Burberry? Armani? good boutiques! You must be joking. That's what all the Chavs wear.May as well go all the way and get the fake gold plated bling to go with it.
Some Bars and Clubs in the UK now have a no Burberry dress code thanks to it's association with drunken hooliganism.
Unfortunately that isn't entirely outside the realms of possibility. With allegations of gpl violation and now price fixing it seems Sony are more evil than Micro$oft.
Looks like the person who modded the Parent post as Troll is in the pay of Mr Shrub and his Overlords. It looks like our Corporate Masters read slashdot afterall. Keeping an eye on their minions?
I thought I'd highlight the point that they still haven't unified their encryption. They've just agreed to support each others "proprietary" encryption. So we effectively have 2 different encrypted zip formats.
However with most people using Winzip I don't think the PKWare version is going to be very common, at least on the windows platform anyway.
With a monopoly over He3 production they could cripple OPEC and effectively build their own society with an iron grip over the earth's economy. AKA Peter F Hamiltons Nights Dawn Trilogy
A few days after doubleclick develop their circumvention technology the filter company's will just come up with a way to get around it.
The ad companies are really shooting themselves by deluging people with so much crap. There is only so much people will bear. The rise of ad blocking software proves this. Now nobody gets to see their ads as their all being blocked.
I remember a case a few years ago where ez-board were spamming their board visitors with pop up ads for porn sites, I protested on their support forum, I was banned. Their policy is that anyone using ad blocking is a thief. The result of this was a surge in people abandoning their service. This included paying users.
There was a documentary about this. The tunnel itself is neutrally buoyant and slightly flexible. It's tethered to the seafloor so quakes, seafloor spreading and collisions with 50 year old Chinese submarines shouldn't be a problem. Having a vacuum in the tunnel reduces the risk of fire. I'd be more worried about terrorism TBH.
monitor all cars' speed and location, all the time, everywhere
The UK gov has an obsession with monitoring it's citizens. London already has more CCTV than any other capital. On average you're court on camera 300 times a day.
I expect their excuse is to improve road safety. The real reason is so they can issue more speeding tickets and increase the number of tolls.
The UK Motorist already pays 3 taxes to use the roads. Duty at the gas pump, Road Tax and tolls to use public roads in the form of the London congestion charge.
The Maglev technology has been around for over a decade as an experimental track somewhere in Germany.
This is the worlds first "Commercial" Maglev train.
The next step is the development of vacuum tunnels which can be anchored to the seabed. You'd be able to run a maglev train at hypersonic speed as there is no air friction. The only factor limiting the trains speed is how quickly you can accelerate the train without making the passengers sick.
A transatlantic crossing could be one in under an hour.
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And another point is the music cartels have to start releasing music more people will enjoy listening too. Not Brittany Spears!
Thats a much wider audience to target than their current 8-18 age bracket.
The real cause of music piracy is because a CD with 12 tracks isn't worth the money the labels are asking. Why anyone buys a CD which costs almost as much as a DVD is beyond me.
The labels needs to get a clue and realize they need to provide a value service to their 'customers' (not consumers). Not alienate them by crippling their machines with DRM'd malware which can be defeated and ripped by someone with a marker pen, sticky tape or shift key.
Download a movie off the net you just get to watch the movie. Buy the same movie from a shop and you get all the extra bonus material. Download an album off the net you get an album buy the album in the shop you get the same album. This is the real reason why the movie industry hasn't been clobbered by piracy to the same extent as the music cartels.
I really believe DRM free FLAC quality music downloads and streaming services are the way to go. They need to build a business model around that. Much like Google, Red Hat and MySql give their products away free and make money on providing services.
I thought only virgins were allowed to read slashdot?
With PVR's now common and soon Video on Demand over broadband it seems to be the next logical step.
You only have to look at how popular recorded TV episodes have become on bittorent sites to see that people these days don't want to sit in front of the TV at prescribed times.
If they want to stop piracy they'll have to provide programming around other people schedules. People have a lot more things to do and are not prepared to fit their lives around their schedule.
I thought the whole idea of these new p2p networks was that they were decentralized which means any form of censorship has to be imposed at the application level. So doesn't this mean that third partly clients like KazzaLite are immune to these block lists?
And as nobody uses Kazza because of it's malware payload putting a blocklist in Kazza alone has about as much affect on piracy as blocking searches in bittorent.com
Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Actually I'm always initially skeptical google or not. When you stop to think about it though, this technology is not intrusive, unlike most of the other web advertising 'Enhancements' (flash ads, pop-up's, spyware) we've seen over the years. It's an extra service for google's customers, the advertisers. The 'Consumers' (that's us folks) aren't inconvenienced by this. Clever! Makes you wonder why the other webvertisers didn't think about it sooner. Oh and as the parent states it'll be even better if google released some of this technology to the OSS community.
The parent may be +5 funny but I think this is a valid point and illustrates the hypocrisy of the corporate world. The Bush administration is all too pleased to allow the teaching of intelligent design but at the same time give their corporate sponsors a monopoly on life itself. In the book of genesis God gave all living creatures to mankind, that means everyone, not just the corporatists.
So taking Bushes world view that God does in fact exist and that he created the earth and all living things we can conclude that.
The Government doesn't really believe in God. i.e. their lying.
The Government is perpetrating a grand form of intellectual property theft from the whole of humanity and God himself.
Burberry? Armani? good boutiques! You must be joking. That's what all the Chavs wear.May as well go all the way and get the fake gold plated bling to go with it.
Some Bars and Clubs in the UK now have a no Burberry dress code thanks to it's association with drunken hooliganism.
I think you meant to say. "All Your DNS Are Belong to US"
Unfortunately that isn't entirely outside the realms of possibility. With allegations of gpl violation and now price fixing it seems Sony are more evil than Micro$oft.
Looks like the person who modded the Parent post as Troll is in the pay of Mr Shrub and his Overlords. It looks like our Corporate Masters read slashdot afterall. Keeping an eye on their minions?
Hopefully the MetaMods will get him.
I thought I'd highlight the point that they still haven't unified their encryption. They've just agreed to support each others "proprietary" encryption. So we effectively have 2 different encrypted zip formats.
However with most people using Winzip I don't think the PKWare version is going to be very common, at least on the windows platform anyway.
They all know he's guilty. He'll be arrested in due course.
He Has No Chance to Survive, Take Your Time.
Actually it was intended to be funny. It's just my sceptical sense of humour.
Any chance it can confirm the location of our missing landers?
With a monopoly over He3 production they could cripple OPEC and effectively build their own society with an iron grip over the earth's economy. AKA Peter F Hamiltons Nights Dawn Trilogy
1k He3 cooled CPU. That would make for a rather impressive though expensive Overclocked CPU!
I'm not sure if that should be moded funny or insightful.
Either way at least you can get a good blow job from a jet engine for a lot less whining noise.
A few days after doubleclick develop their circumvention technology the filter company's will just come up with a way to get around it.
The ad companies are really shooting themselves by deluging people with so much crap. There is only so much people will bear. The rise of ad blocking software proves this. Now nobody gets to see their ads as their all being blocked.
I remember a case a few years ago where ez-board were spamming their board visitors with pop up ads for porn sites, I protested on their support forum, I was banned. Their policy is that anyone using ad blocking is a thief. The result of this was a surge in people abandoning their service. This included paying users.
I don't think that p2p is the main reason for the increase in internet take up. I think cheaper and more wide spread broadband is responsible.
In the UK where BT tracks demand for braodband it's supprising how high the demand is in areas where there is a large over 60's retired population..
detect copyrighted works and then filter them with the "spyware" installed
So under the DMCA AD-Aware and all other spyware removal tools will be illegal as they could be used to circumvent DRM.
Sounds like a ploy by the pr0n industry to install more crapware on our pc's.
Come to think of it *nix will be illegal too as their spyware will only run under wind0ze.
The Riaa could easily say the recent court ruling preventing them from easily forcing ISP's to hand over customers details are behind the recent rise.
There was a documentary about this. The tunnel itself is neutrally buoyant and slightly flexible. It's tethered to the seafloor so quakes, seafloor spreading and collisions with 50 year old Chinese submarines shouldn't be a problem. Having a vacuum in the tunnel reduces the risk of fire. I'd be more worried about terrorism TBH.
monitor all cars' speed and location, all the time, everywhere
The UK gov has an obsession with monitoring it's citizens. London already has more CCTV than any other capital. On average you're court on camera 300 times a day.
I expect their excuse is to improve road safety. The real reason is so they can issue more speeding tickets and increase the number of tolls.
The UK Motorist already pays 3 taxes to use the roads. Duty at the gas pump, Road Tax and tolls to use public roads in the form of the London congestion charge.
The Maglev technology has been around for over a decade as an experimental track somewhere in Germany.
This is the worlds first "Commercial" Maglev train.
The next step is the development of vacuum tunnels which can be anchored to the seabed. You'd be able to run a maglev train at hypersonic speed as there is no air friction. The only factor limiting the trains speed is how quickly you can accelerate the train without making the passengers sick.
A transatlantic crossing could be one in under an hour.