But, should that leave the liability on the service provider? Is the phone company liable if someone sets up a big drug deal over the phone? Is the post office liable if you send a bomb or other illegal material via their system? No. I don't see why file-sharing is any different. The fact remains that the MPAA/RIAA don't want you to have any ways to potentially violate copyright, which means to do that they have to trample our rights. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
That's exactly the point. File sharing (including copyrighted material) has been going on for years (or maybe noone has heard of IRC and FTP). So what makes these dedicated file-sharing networks different? The fact that they are indexed and searchable. That's all.
Pretty soon it will be illegal for me to access a password-protected FTP site on my own box to retrieve music that I own and want to listen to on the computer that I am sitting at.
Sure, the courses of action being used by the MPAA and RIAA are legal - but should they be? It seems that the DMCA might be unconstitutional, and isn't that what the media conglomerates are using to battle file-sharing? Pretty soon you won't be able to send any files to anybody because they might be illegal. That's what I'm worried about. Like I said, the content of the files being shared should be irrelevant to the operators of the various file-sharing networks. The MPAA/RIAA are going after the file-sharing networks instead of the people actually breaking the law, because it's easier. It's like making sex illegal because some people might rape others. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
We are fighting for the right to share files. The content of those files is irrelevant, because in their efforts to stop sharing of copyrighted material, the MPAA/RIAA will step on our rights.
Saying that the mere existence of a file-sharing network equals copyright infringement is tantamount to completely disregarding 'innocent until proven guilty'. Something that I, as a US citizen, hold dear.
I'm fine with the MPAA/RIAA trying to keep people from distributing their stuff without permission. But when they step into the realm of the legal, paying consumer, and make it hard for them to exercise their legal rights, they've crossed the line. When I pay money for a CD, I'd damn well better be able to rip it and archive it on my HD and a CD, so that I can put the original safely away.
Oh yeah, you can technically rip it, but you can't tell anyone how, or you have broken the DMCA. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Also, using currently widespread technology, uncompressed digital video comparable to NTSC (D1) is 27MB/sec. That's a little under a gig an hour.
Of course, to work with D1 in realtime, your enitre box has to be fast enough to push around 27MB/sec - not just the HD, all of it. Today's higher-end consumer PC's are fast enough, at least for straight record/playback.
Besides, there's no point in storing an uncompressed HDTV stream, outside of video editing applications. You surely won't gain any quality as a viewer. When the signal is delivered MPEG-2 compressed, why not just store the stream directly? IIRC, HDTV uses between 4-9Mb/sec for a compressed stream. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Bah, burn the contents of those Windows disks onto a CD (along with Win98, and Win95 if you need to, you've got plenty of room, the CABs only take up ~100MB for each, and 16-bit Windows of course takes up far less) and pop it in. Then install from the Win98 folder, and when it asks for the disks, point it to the WIN31 or WFW folder you made and you're off! _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Don Hickman, a senior manager in the TVA inspector general's office, said the staff knew the SETI program could allow hackers into a computer system and pointed to a news story showing at least one successful infiltration of SETI's Web site. (emphasis mine)
So an incident on the webserver means that the SETI@home (spell it right, ppl) is insecure? I read that and laughed my ASS off. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
From what I understand, the difference only (currently) comes into play when you're using a stereo component CD recorder, which looks for a bit on the Music CD-R that is not present on the Data CD-R. That way, anyone using a component CD recorder is paying part of their money to the RIAA to compensate for 'piracy'.
If I'm wrong, please correct me, but that's the way I understand it to be. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Sorta. And you didn't double the vertical resolution, you doubled the horizontal resolution (keeping the double-wide pixels) which made for some nice color smoothing. You changed the image and color data once per frame back and forth between two different images (and shifted the screen 1 pixel in either direction and back). There are also ways to get hires with more colors by overlaying sprites (But you don't get 320x200, it's more like 192x200, but still impressive), you can stretch sprites, you can multiplex sprites, you can do all sorts of things with just the right raster timing. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...IIRC Sun already trademarked '.'. Therefore, all you renegade website will have to pony up to Sun for your unauthorised use of their clearly valid trademark.
Why is it clearly valid? Because they got to it first, that's why. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...but I think the FCC ended up extending that because of the slow adoptiong rate. Besides, it's not HDTV that has to be adopted, but DTV IIRC. HDTV is just a subset of DTV. DTV also includes SDTV (which is equivalent to the current NTSC resolution but in a fully digital signal). The station I work for is currently simulcasting it's NTSC broadcast on DTV, which makes us compliant. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...is take a cue from that Tivo spot and send two huge guys into the offices of the boneheads making these decisions, and throw them out the window. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Hell, my vacuum cleaner is lethal to Travan tape drives (it's probably either the vibrations through the floor or it MIGHT be drawing enough current to provide a sufficiently strong magnetic field... and I'm not going to systematically test tape drives in a quest to find out), and doesn't even need to touch the case for this to happen.
I remember having a Commodore 64 floppy disk erased once because it got too close to a vacuum cleaner. You're probably right on. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
You're a troll. The GPL doesn't prohibit charging for the work. The GPL insures that the people who get your work have the same rights, whether or not it's sold. Nice try. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I'm not blaming guns, or trenchcoats, or Doom, or whatever, I blame Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Enough said. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Make the MPAA/RIAA prove you downloaded something you don't legalyl own! As for "sharing" to others. Put all.mp3's and movies in.zip files with a text file that states that "you can only download and keep this file if you legally own the original (cassette,record,VHS,Beta/DVD). IF not you must immidiately delete this file."
Why even say you downloaded them at all? You have the original, you have a digital copy, you made it from the original as far as they know. No way to disprove this, either (unless the movie has one of those stupid 'bugs' somewhere on it). _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I have already had strange looks from people simply for mentioning MP3s in conversation. And people trying to tell me that copying from my own CDs to MP3s is illegal.
On this note, I have several CDs of which I own the original pressed CD, that I have encoded on a computer at work so that I don't have to worry about bringing the CD in and possibly forgetting it. Some people would say this is illegal, but it is just fair use. I have hidden the folder so that the average schmuck can't get to them, so that argument goes out the window. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Perhaps the better analogy would be that a perp buys a Whopper(r) sandwich, inserts poison, and kills a person by presenting that Whopper(r) sandwich to the victim. Burger King would be an accessory to murder by providing the medium used to pass the poison -- the above-mentioned Whopper(r) sandwich.
You're right, I've always been bad with analogies:) Same basic concept, though, behind both of them - a party that doesn't condone what some of their customers do, being responsible for their customers' actions. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
It's the same argument used against Napster - people are doing illegal things using your service so you are responsible. That line of reasoning would make Burger King liable if someone set up a drug deal while eating a Whopper in the restaurant.
There should be two possibilities for businesses like this: police everything and you are responsible for what you don't catch, or don't police anything and the responsibility falls on the user. Of course, that's what 'common carrier' status is. The phone company has it, why not ISPs? They serve a similar but decidedly different service - providing a means of communication between people. ISPs just allow broader communication than the phone company.
And following that (absurd) line of reasoning, why not go after the telco, too? After all, people downloading kiddie porn used phone lines to connect to the ISP where the kiddie porn was accessed from.
Keep in mind I'm not arguing against you, but rather with you.:) _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Typical problem with America - blame-shifting. Gotta find a scapegoat, ya know, our kids couldn't be that fucked up in the head. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
This is true in (almost) every BASIC in existence:
PEEK(n) - A function which results in the contents of memory location n
POKE n,m - A statement which stores m inside the memory location n
And about those DATA statements? They were commonly used as a primitive way of loading machinge language programs into memory. Those statements can (usually) be translated back into assembly (albeit sans any labels) and deciphered with knowledge of the C64 and the 6510. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Close. So close. 53280 ($D020) is the border color. 53281-53284 ($D021-D024) control background colors 1-4, of which 2, 3, and 4 are only used in extended color mode, giving you 4 background colors for text in exchange for the upper 192 characters. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Napster's users may be using Napster to commit illegal acts, but this is not Napster's fault. I suppose now we should sue GlobalSCAPE, the makers of CuteFTP because it allows users to commit illegal acts as well (or I suppose nobody trades warez by FTP, do they?). _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
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But, should that leave the liability on the service provider? Is the phone company liable if someone sets up a big drug deal over the phone? Is the post office liable if you send a bomb or other illegal material via their system? No. I don't see why file-sharing is any different. The fact remains that the MPAA/RIAA don't want you to have any ways to potentially violate copyright, which means to do that they have to trample our rights.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
That's exactly the point. File sharing (including copyrighted material) has been going on for years (or maybe noone has heard of IRC and FTP). So what makes these dedicated file-sharing networks different? The fact that they are indexed and searchable. That's all.
Pretty soon it will be illegal for me to access a password-protected FTP site on my own box to retrieve music that I own and want to listen to on the computer that I am sitting at.
Sure, the courses of action being used by the MPAA and RIAA are legal - but should they be? It seems that the DMCA might be unconstitutional, and isn't that what the media conglomerates are using to battle file-sharing? Pretty soon you won't be able to send any files to anybody because they might be illegal. That's what I'm worried about. Like I said, the content of the files being shared should be irrelevant to the operators of the various file-sharing networks. The MPAA/RIAA are going after the file-sharing networks instead of the people actually breaking the law, because it's easier. It's like making sex illegal because some people might rape others.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- What are we fighting for here, exactly?
We are fighting for the right to share files. The content of those files is irrelevant, because in their efforts to stop sharing of copyrighted material, the MPAA/RIAA will step on our rights.Saying that the mere existence of a file-sharing network equals copyright infringement is tantamount to completely disregarding 'innocent until proven guilty'. Something that I, as a US citizen, hold dear.
I'm fine with the MPAA/RIAA trying to keep people from distributing their stuff without permission. But when they step into the realm of the legal, paying consumer, and make it hard for them to exercise their legal rights, they've crossed the line. When I pay money for a CD, I'd damn well better be able to rip it and archive it on my HD and a CD, so that I can put the original safely away.
Oh yeah, you can technically rip it, but you can't tell anyone how, or you have broken the DMCA.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Also, using currently widespread technology, uncompressed digital video comparable to NTSC (D1) is 27MB/sec. That's a little under a gig an hour.
Of course, to work with D1 in realtime, your enitre box has to be fast enough to push around 27MB/sec - not just the HD, all of it. Today's higher-end consumer PC's are fast enough, at least for straight record/playback.
Besides, there's no point in storing an uncompressed HDTV stream, outside of video editing applications. You surely won't gain any quality as a viewer. When the signal is delivered MPEG-2 compressed, why not just store the stream directly? IIRC, HDTV uses between 4-9Mb/sec for a compressed stream.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Bah, burn the contents of those Windows disks onto a CD (along with Win98, and Win95 if you need to, you've got plenty of room, the CABs only take up ~100MB for each, and 16-bit Windows of course takes up far less) and pop it in. Then install from the Win98 folder, and when it asks for the disks, point it to the WIN31 or WFW folder you made and you're off!
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Don Hickman, a senior manager in the TVA inspector general's office, said the staff knew the SETI program could allow hackers into a computer system and pointed to a news story showing at least one successful infiltration of SETI's Web site. (emphasis mine)
So an incident on the webserver means that the SETI@home (spell it right, ppl) is insecure? I read that and laughed my ASS off._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
From what I understand, the difference only (currently) comes into play when you're using a stereo component CD recorder, which looks for a bit on the Music CD-R that is not present on the Data CD-R. That way, anyone using a component CD recorder is paying part of their money to the RIAA to compensate for 'piracy'.
If I'm wrong, please correct me, but that's the way I understand it to be.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Sorta. And you didn't double the vertical resolution, you doubled the horizontal resolution (keeping the double-wide pixels) which made for some nice color smoothing. You changed the image and color data once per frame back and forth between two different images (and shifted the screen 1 pixel in either direction and back). There are also ways to get hires with more colors by overlaying sprites (But you don't get 320x200, it's more like 192x200, but still impressive), you can stretch sprites, you can multiplex sprites, you can do all sorts of things with just the right raster timing.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...IIRC Sun already trademarked '.'. Therefore, all you renegade website will have to pony up to Sun for your unauthorised use of their clearly valid trademark.
Why is it clearly valid? Because they got to it first, that's why.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...but I think the FCC ended up extending that because of the slow adoptiong rate. Besides, it's not HDTV that has to be adopted, but DTV IIRC. HDTV is just a subset of DTV. DTV also includes SDTV (which is equivalent to the current NTSC resolution but in a fully digital signal). The station I work for is currently simulcasting it's NTSC broadcast on DTV, which makes us compliant.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...is take a cue from that Tivo spot and send two huge guys into the offices of the boneheads making these decisions, and throw them out the window.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I remember GEOS. It also came out for the Apple II, IIRC. Here's one - remember the Tandy CoCo 2?
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Hell, my vacuum cleaner is lethal to Travan tape drives (it's probably either the vibrations through the floor or it MIGHT be drawing enough current to provide a sufficiently strong magnetic field... and I'm not going to systematically test tape drives in a quest to find out), and doesn't even need to touch the case for this to happen.
I remember having a Commodore 64 floppy disk erased once because it got too close to a vacuum cleaner. You're probably right on._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
You're a troll. The GPL doesn't prohibit charging for the work. The GPL insures that the people who get your work have the same rights, whether or not it's sold. Nice try.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I'm not blaming guns, or trenchcoats, or Doom, or whatever, I blame Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Enough said.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Make the MPAA/RIAA prove you downloaded something you don't legalyl own! As for "sharing" to others. Put all
.mp3's and movies in .zip files with a text file that states that "you can only download and keep this file if you legally own the original (cassette,record,VHS,Beta/DVD). IF not you must immidiately delete this file."
Why even say you downloaded them at all? You have the original, you have a digital copy, you made it from the original as far as they know. No way to disprove this, either (unless the movie has one of those stupid 'bugs' somewhere on it)._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- I have already had strange looks from people simply for mentioning MP3s in conversation. And people trying to tell me that copying from my own CDs to MP3s is illegal.
On this note, I have several CDs of which I own the original pressed CD, that I have encoded on a computer at work so that I don't have to worry about bringing the CD in and possibly forgetting it. Some people would say this is illegal, but it is just fair use. I have hidden the folder so that the average schmuck can't get to them, so that argument goes out the window._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Perhaps the better analogy would be that a perp buys a Whopper(r) sandwich, inserts poison, and kills a person by presenting that Whopper(r) sandwich to the victim. Burger King would be an accessory to murder by providing the medium used to pass the poison -- the above-mentioned Whopper(r) sandwich.
You're right, I've always been bad with analogies_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
It's the same argument used against Napster - people are doing illegal things using your service so you are responsible. That line of reasoning would make Burger King liable if someone set up a drug deal while eating a Whopper in the restaurant.
:)
There should be two possibilities for businesses like this: police everything and you are responsible for what you don't catch, or don't police anything and the responsibility falls on the user. Of course, that's what 'common carrier' status is. The phone company has it, why not ISPs? They serve a similar but decidedly different service - providing a means of communication between people. ISPs just allow broader communication than the phone company.
And following that (absurd) line of reasoning, why not go after the telco, too? After all, people downloading kiddie porn used phone lines to connect to the ISP where the kiddie porn was accessed from.
Keep in mind I'm not arguing against you, but rather with you.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I knew there was a good reason that I didn't put IE5.5 on my box. Now it comes to fruition.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Typical problem with America - blame-shifting. Gotta find a scapegoat, ya know, our kids couldn't be that fucked up in the head.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
This is true in (almost) every BASIC in existence:
PEEK(n) - A function which results in the contents of memory location n
POKE n,m - A statement which stores m inside the memory location n
And about those DATA statements? They were commonly used as a primitive way of loading machinge language programs into memory. Those statements can (usually) be translated back into assembly (albeit sans any labels) and deciphered with knowledge of the C64 and the 6510.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Close. So close. 53280 ($D020) is the border color. 53281-53284 ($D021-D024) control background colors 1-4, of which 2, 3, and 4 are only used in extended color mode, giving you 4 background colors for text in exchange for the upper 192 characters.
_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Napster's users may be using Napster to commit illegal acts, but this is not Napster's fault. I suppose now we should sue GlobalSCAPE, the makers of CuteFTP because it allows users to commit illegal acts as well (or I suppose nobody trades warez by FTP, do they?).
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Abit CUSL2-C: $112
Pentium III 1GHz: $230
Kingston 512MB PC133 SDRAM: $424
IBM Deskstar 75GXP: $257
Creative Labs 48X CDROM: $23
HP 9140I CD-RW 8x4x32x: $145
The feeling you get when you can give the [RI|MP]AA a big FUCK YOU: Priceless
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT