Reading over their site, I get the distinct impression that they are just making a new implementation of an old idea - Java applets. Why not spend the effort making java work the way it should instead of creating a whole new mess?
Brilliant, Ted. How is it that if you sell me your 'product', you still manage to have it too? If you want to treat your music like every other buyable item on the planet, you stopped 'owning' that thing the minute you sold it to someone.
Strange that cassette tapes are still sold for 8.99. Production costs are basically identical to cds, and yet they are somehow allowed to sell them at approximately half the price. I guess we are stealing from the RIAA when we buy cassette tapes.
I can generally get about 1.5mbit/sec downloads and 500K uploads. Of course, in the middle of the day, this tends to drop a little, but nothing too extreme.
I think you might have missed the point. If only one person on the planet manages to bypass whatever security they put on the cd, everyone else now has access to it. As fast as you can say 'gnutella', millions of copies will be distributed.
It only takes one person to crack whatever protection they put on their content and convert it to mp3. One unprotected copy easily becomes a million. There will be no more trouble accessing any music you want in the future than there is now.
Strange idea of heaven. JSPs are possibly the *slowest* platform I have ever seen. Development is slow, deployment is slow, and execution is slow. I've been developing JSPs and servlets for 2 years using VisualAge and WebSphere, and you do not want to use these products on anything that needs to be fast. Sure, they might be scalable, but only because they start out so slow that they can't get much slower under heavy load. Look elsewhere for speed.
The fact that we are a republic has very little affect on preserving our freedoms. States are just as likely as individuals to vote to take away your rights. Our *constitution* is what forces government to behave itself. It really wouldn't be that big a difference if we had a direct democracy, as long as the constitution were in effect.
Very interesting point. I know that, in the US at least, they are a tax-exempt religious organization. How in the hell can they also have trade secrets? What is the business they are in if they are tax-exempt, and how do I become one?!?
Imagine an open-sourced DVD player that provides hooks such that anyone with a copy of the infamous DeCSS.c source can drop it into the source tree for the player, change a #define or re-run GNU's configure, and then build a fully functional DVD player.
Hmm. Could you mean maybe something like Xine? Muahahahahah!
Regardless of current legal issues, the information itself is only in your possession for as long as you keep it in your head (or maybe your safe). Once someone else knows the same information, there is no way that you can claim to own it. You can try to control it from that point on, but it has ceased to be yours.
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Reading over their site, I get the distinct impression that they are just making a new implementation of an old idea - Java applets. Why not spend the effort making java work the way it should instead of creating a whole new mess?
I have no problem with obscene amounts of money. I do have a problem with people distorting the original intent of the copyright system to do so.
Brilliant, Ted. How is it that if you sell me your 'product', you still manage to have it too? If you want to treat your music like every other buyable item on the planet, you stopped 'owning' that thing the minute you sold it to someone.
I can think of at least one category they are both in... :)
Strange that cassette tapes are still sold for 8.99. Production costs are basically identical to cds, and yet they are somehow allowed to sell them at approximately half the price. I guess we are stealing from the RIAA when we buy cassette tapes.
The purpose of copyright is not for you to make obscene amounts of money...
I can generally get about 1.5mbit/sec downloads and 500K uploads. Of course, in the middle of the day, this tends to drop a little, but nothing too extreme.
I think you might have missed the point. If only one person on the planet manages to bypass whatever security they put on the cd, everyone else now has access to it. As fast as you can say 'gnutella', millions of copies will be distributed.
You did notice that the serial number was dropped from the p4, right?
It only takes one person to crack whatever protection they put on their content and convert it to mp3. One unprotected copy easily becomes a million. There will be no more trouble accessing any music you want in the future than there is now.
Dude, you finally get it! Glad to see you come around after all this time.
I like Salon.com, I'll probably even plonk down the $30 just to show my support, much like I've been plonking at fairtunes.com
Strange idea of heaven. JSPs are possibly the *slowest* platform I have ever seen. Development is slow, deployment is slow, and execution is slow. I've been developing JSPs and servlets for 2 years using VisualAge and WebSphere, and you do not want to use these products on anything that needs to be fast. Sure, they might be scalable, but only because they start out so slow that they can't get much slower under heavy load. Look elsewhere for speed.
Whose line is it anyway?
The fact that we are a republic has very little affect on preserving our freedoms. States are just as likely as individuals to vote to take away your rights. Our *constitution* is what forces government to behave itself. It really wouldn't be that big a difference if we had a direct democracy, as long as the constitution were in effect.
What does a school newspaper have to do with this story? The students were publishing a web page completely outside of the school...
Actually, thigs are *fundamentally* random at the quantum level. The exact position of any given particle is not exact - it is a probability wave.
Would running this program on Wine or any other windows emulation software aid in bypassing the security measures?
Tom Cruise never even graduated from high school...
Very interesting point. I know that, in the US at least, they are a tax-exempt religious organization. How in the hell can they also have trade secrets? What is the business they are in if they are tax-exempt, and how do I become one?!?
Strange, I've never had vaporware running on my pc before. Does that mean it is actually running in the fifth dimension or something?
Regardless of current legal issues, the information itself is only in your possession for as long as you keep it in your head (or maybe your safe). Once someone else knows the same information, there is no way that you can claim to own it. You can try to control it from that point on, but it has ceased to be yours.
Seems like it was designed to fit every criteria that guy set up for making a successful p2p application.
Information isn't ownable. It is that simple.