BIOSes are used by old operating systems (DOS, for instance). Modern OS rely on their personal hardware recognition.
And what loads bootsector into memory? Boot fairy maybe?
EVERY system, new or old, including Linux, *BSD, Windoze, OS X etc etc needs to be loaded into memory first, before it can use it's more or less advanced hardware recognition, fancy drivers and so on. LILO, GRUB or NTLOADER need BIOS to read in the OS kernel from disk.
Dunno... shouldn't they rely on an inherently secure system, instead of security through obscurity? If so, the encryption wouldn't be compromised by publicizing the encryption hardware.
The actual encryption is probably a good one and someone getting few burned chips (custom made ASICs?) wouldn't be a problem. However, there may be actual keys on smartcard or whatever...
So we won't face random police raids for alledged infringements.
Unfortunately we MAY face them. Content mafia will happily try to harass people "to make example of them" and the compensation will probably turn out to be pennies for six months (I'm being optimistic here) seizure of equipment. The "compensation" will be treated as a cost of business.
And I thought they actually came to the idea that activity so many people enjoy should not be illegal... Must...give...up...logic...
But the text doesn't seem to be a real subtitle. It's too large to be a standard DVD caption text.
It's called "softsub". Some players allow you to use external text file with time codes to overlay text over video. You can choose font size, color etc.
It looks like DVD-ripped DivX with softsub to me, not DVD.
MPEG-4 is all nice if you just want to record and watch, maybe splice. That's it. It's not suitable for any more advanced editing.
When I capture from TV or camcorder for editing, I'm using MJPEG at minimal compression settings. It's still about 15GB/hour but the quality loss is insignificant (OK I'm not professional, they can afford to capture uncompressed and get best quality). MPEG-4 after two or three reencodings WILL look crappy and there's nothing that can be done about that.
So until it can do an hour of 95% quality MJPEG or uncompressed, it's basically a toy. Expensive toy. And don't hope it'll be a chick magnet;-)
How do you handle device handshaking/negotiation? You have 2 of these wireless harddrives for recording (and your neighbor has 1 too...). How does the camera decide which receiver to send to? I'll accept that it is easy to do excryption after that...
The same way as many cordless phones do. It would have a connector, to which you would connect (probably just touch) the camera. It would then negotiate random session key on that direct connection. The manual would read something like "touch disk unit to camera and hold until you hear a beep".
Well, maybe I should make it MY cash cow and sue these who describe this as a server side problem for time wasted going thru their boring writeup only to learn that they are clueless morons? And I will not forget "emotional distress", it's worth few millions in damages alone.
Now imagine if those keys were instead generated and stored on a special chip on the motherboard. The chip itself handles the decryption, so the key never needs to leave the chip.
And should the chip or other part of motherboard die, say bye to your oh-so-secure data. Forget the backups, thay are "secured" too.
And by the way, forget security at all. billg WILL have override master key.
That's "well suited to", not "designed for." I don't care if IBM had something else in mind; TCPA can and will be used for DRM.
If the TCPA member list on www.notcpa.org(?) can be trusted, there's an awful lot of companies with an awful lot of reasons to supports TCPA.
IBM may be into TCPA for security, but a dozen others may be in for DRM, M$ is surely counting on using TCPA to support it's monopoly.
It's a tool like a knife, but should we be happy when known evildoers get a truckload of knives? Or should we be afraid, that soon they stick them in our backs...
But realize that this is a new market and not a restriction on an existing one.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they say.
DRM as a concept isn't evil. It might be even good. Problem is in the details, namely in the way it is implemented. And I bet it will be implemented in a way that will benefit only the big evil corporations.
Assuming that I would like to buy an ebook, I'd like to be able to use it in a way no more restrictive than a dead-tree edition. Which means ability to tranfer to laptop, PDA, smartphone or whatever device I would carry - just like I can carry the normal book in my bag or in my pocket and don't need to pay for separate bag and pocket editions. I could even agree with some form of deactivating other copies so only one is accesible at a time. Current approach however is that I would have to pay for new copy for each device I want to have the book on. Which suddenly makes ebook more expensive than normal one even though the production cost is much less... Guess what, I won't be buying one.
The problem is, keeping two product lines alive until one turns out to be effectively dead may kill small company financially. Intel could do that. AMD maybe could do that. Transmeta can't afford such thing.
Seems there's a chance for the Chinese "Dragon" processors, maybe even that Russian "Elbrus" thing if it actually exists...
But while I'm on the subject, does anyone know of a house for sale in Europe?
Look for other places. European Empire (in development) is being bought by the same people. Soon we will have similar laws and due to tradition of silencing supporters of "unpopular" ideas, we won't be even able to complain about that.
US may be already taken over but Europe is just not yet delivered to purchaser.
Well, they add another clause somewhere in EULA stating that they forbid California residents from using their software. Maybe put similar text on their website. After double checking for too many "ROTFL"s in the text...
Yes, but these costs are in different column of the report sheet.
Company I worked for did outsorce some of the jobs. That meant, outsorcing company charged for the salary of their worker+profit+tax on all that. It came to approximately DOUBLE the cost of having own employee, but since it was not "personnel" cost it looked better. In the reports. On the charts.
In fact, it was the same person. Only changed a logo on his business card...
So, in short, the music industry loses nothing on me, since I wasn't going to buy the vast majority of modern music I downloaded anyways.
You're sooooo wrong. You made a common error of applying LOGIC to the situation.
The correct way of thinking is "if we (*AA) manage to eliminate any kind of file sharing whatsoever, the consumers will have no other choice but to buy stuff made by people who pay us". Soon, it will be codified as law, with the help of some good people like senator Hollings. Then the business shall fluorish, bonuses for media comglomerate execs and lobbyists shall be generous and all we (*AA) care about will be happy.
To the other side any proposal which removes control and ability to charge arbitrary sums of money for arbitrarily crappy content is unacceptable. Period.
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I think I DO own my hardware
So, you have publicly admitted to thinking? Specifically, non-approved thinking? Probably also not registered.
Expect our jackbooted thugs now. They should arrive shortly and take care of the problem.
Well, it's logical and sensible from technical point of view.
On the other hand, you can't expect university to do that. That would be setting themselves as the willing target for *AA lawyers.
BIOSes are used by old operating systems (DOS, for instance). Modern OS rely on their personal hardware recognition.
And what loads bootsector into memory? Boot fairy maybe?
EVERY system, new or old, including Linux, *BSD, Windoze, OS X etc etc needs to be loaded into memory first, before it can use it's more or less advanced hardware recognition, fancy drivers and so on. LILO, GRUB or NTLOADER need BIOS to read in the OS kernel from disk.
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman pours hot grits down YOUR pants!
Man, you got this one wrong. It should be more like...
In Soviet Russia, hot grits pour Natalie Portman down your pants!
Dunno ... shouldn't they rely on an inherently secure system, instead of security through obscurity? If so, the encryption wouldn't be compromised by publicizing the encryption hardware.
The actual encryption is probably a good one and someone getting few burned chips (custom made ASICs?) wouldn't be a problem. However, there may be actual keys on smartcard or whatever...
So we won't face random police raids for alledged infringements.
Unfortunately we MAY face them. Content mafia will happily try to harass people "to make example of them" and the compensation will probably turn out to be pennies for six months (I'm being optimistic here) seizure of equipment. The "compensation" will be treated as a cost of business.
And I thought they actually came to the idea that activity so many people enjoy should not be illegal... Must...give...up...logic...
But the text doesn't seem to be a real subtitle. It's too large to be a standard DVD caption text.
It's called "softsub". Some players allow you to use external text file with time codes to overlay text over video. You can choose font size, color etc.
It looks like DVD-ripped DivX with softsub to me, not DVD.
Nah, too much prior art.
Even your proposition itself could be infringing.
You're right!
;-)
MPEG-4 is all nice if you just want to record and watch, maybe splice. That's it. It's not suitable for any more advanced editing.
When I capture from TV or camcorder for editing, I'm using MJPEG at minimal compression settings. It's still about 15GB/hour but the quality loss is insignificant (OK I'm not professional, they can afford to capture uncompressed and get best quality). MPEG-4 after two or three reencodings WILL look crappy and there's nothing that can be done about that.
So until it can do an hour of 95% quality MJPEG or uncompressed, it's basically a toy. Expensive toy. And don't hope it'll be a chick magnet
How do you handle device handshaking/negotiation? You have 2 of these wireless harddrives for recording (and your neighbor has 1 too...). How does the camera decide which receiver to send to? I'll accept that it is easy to do excryption after that...
The same way as many cordless phones do. It would have a connector, to which you would connect (probably just touch) the camera. It would then negotiate random session key on that direct connection. The manual would read something like "touch disk unit to camera and hold until you hear a beep".
Should be simple enough, even for American.
Well, maybe I should make it MY cash cow and sue these who describe this as a server side problem for time wasted going thru their boring writeup only to learn that they are clueless morons? And I will not forget "emotional distress", it's worth few millions in damages alone.
Now imagine if those keys were instead generated and stored on a special chip on the motherboard. The chip itself handles the decryption, so the key never needs to leave the chip.
And should the chip or other part of motherboard die, say bye to your oh-so-secure data. Forget the backups, thay are "secured" too.
And by the way, forget security at all. billg WILL have override master key.
That's "well suited to", not "designed for." I don't care if IBM had something else in mind; TCPA can and will be used for DRM.
If the TCPA member list on www.notcpa.org(?) can be trusted, there's an awful lot of companies with an awful lot of reasons to supports TCPA.
IBM may be into TCPA for security, but a dozen others may be in for DRM, M$ is surely counting on using TCPA to support it's monopoly.
It's a tool like a knife, but should we be happy when known evildoers get a truckload of knives? Or should we be afraid, that soon they stick them in our backs...
Why all this talk seems to me to be "We only want to rape the customers halfway, so they won't see they're fucked"?
Just like FinePrint(tm) or some extremely complex and convoluted clauses in contracts, this isn't illegal.
It is, however, immoral.
Some people don't like immoral but technically legal tricks.
I just don't see how "securing for limited times to authors" can reasonably be translated to any time period measured from the death of the author.
Maybe they are religious and want the author's immortal soul to enjoy royalties?
make sure my watch is still on my wrist and my money is still in my wallet.
But are you really sure they still are yours? One day you might find they are only licensed to you...
But realize that this is a new market and not a restriction on an existing one.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they say.
DRM as a concept isn't evil. It might be even good. Problem is in the details, namely in the way it is implemented. And I bet it will be implemented in a way that will benefit only the big evil corporations.
Assuming that I would like to buy an ebook, I'd like to be able to use it in a way no more restrictive than a dead-tree edition. Which means ability to tranfer to laptop, PDA, smartphone or whatever device I would carry - just like I can carry the normal book in my bag or in my pocket and don't need to pay for separate bag and pocket editions. I could even agree with some form of deactivating other copies so only one is accesible at a time. Current approach however is that I would have to pay for new copy for each device I want to have the book on. Which suddenly makes ebook more expensive than normal one even though the production cost is much less... Guess what, I won't be buying one.
The problem is, keeping two product lines alive until one turns out to be effectively dead may kill small company financially. Intel could do that. AMD maybe could do that. Transmeta can't afford such thing.
Seems there's a chance for the Chinese "Dragon" processors, maybe even that Russian "Elbrus" thing if it actually exists...
Collecting a compulsory percentage without offering anything in return is called racketeering.
No it's called taxes
"Since we opened this new shop in Italian District, the mafia people are showing up every Thursday to collect the taxes"?
Seriously, it doesn't make that much difference who extorts money from me. I still get empty pockets and some empty promises.
But while I'm on the subject, does anyone know of a house for sale in Europe?
Look for other places. European Empire (in development) is being bought by the same people. Soon we will have similar laws and due to tradition of silencing supporters of "unpopular" ideas, we won't be even able to complain about that.
US may be already taken over but Europe is just not yet delivered to purchaser.
Well, they add another clause somewhere in EULA stating that they forbid California residents from using their software. Maybe put similar text on their website. After double checking for too many "ROTFL"s in the text...
but, there are hidden costs.
Yes, but these costs are in different column of the report sheet.
Company I worked for did outsorce some of the jobs. That meant, outsorcing company charged for the salary of their worker+profit+tax on all that. It came to approximately DOUBLE the cost of having own employee, but since it was not "personnel" cost it looked better. In the reports. On the charts.
In fact, it was the same person. Only changed a logo on his business card...
So, in short, the music industry loses nothing on me, since I wasn't going to buy the vast majority of modern music I downloaded anyways.
You're sooooo wrong. You made a common error of applying LOGIC to the situation.
The correct way of thinking is "if we (*AA) manage to eliminate any kind of file sharing whatsoever, the consumers will have no other choice but to buy stuff made by people who pay us". Soon, it will be codified as law, with the help of some good people like senator Hollings. Then the business shall fluorish, bonuses for media comglomerate execs and lobbyists shall be generous and all we (*AA) care about will be happy.
To the other side any proposal which removes control and ability to charge arbitrary sums of money for arbitrarily crappy content is unacceptable. Period.
Maybe these people you mention have the technology, but I'm not spending 5 grand to get fancy monitor for gaming...
Now we'll see how much will these Sharp ones cost. I hope it will be affordable.