Yeah but when the 'dissident' FCC commisioners held a public meeting in Atlanta on media consolidation, none of the big corporate papers or TV stations would announce that it was coming up. *That's* media control.
(Darn. The most relevant link I can find offhand is this one, which requires that you sit through an ad to see the whole thing)
It's not so much the entertainment programming as the influence on public opinion issues - i.e. what do they show, and what do they not show, on the news?
Is the recent mistreatment of the Dixie Chicks. The head of Cumulus Media, which owns 41 radio stations, decided himself that none of the stations would play the Dixie Chicks any more.
See this link for more on this. What we see and hear is decided by corporate heads and lawyers.
Expect to hear (or to not hear in this case) more of this.
I don't think they often have juries on this sort of thing, but (going offtopic) I think some cases of interest to slashdot readers would have juries. If you're interested in jury nullification, check out theFully Informed Jury Association. Note that they attract a lot of interest from, shall we say, fringe groups (of whom we might be as well). However they do a good job of staying on their message.
Ed Felten has an interesting item on where the money goes for a CD. I'm sure there's a fairly wide variation, but what he quotes is $2.85 for the artist and about $5.00 for the record company overhead.
So - is the contribution of the record company worth almost twice the contribution of the artist?
To get a bit more on topic, I'm not sure which side of this the cost of a tool like Pro Tools comes from, but from earlier comments it appears the artist, since they have to cover the production costs (yes, from an advance, but that gets taken out of their $2.85 till its paid off, if ever).
So...umm...I'm not where I'm going from here...Lets see - less expensive for the artist is good, but overproduction is bad..umm..
hmmm...
What's the definition of a "communication service provider?" I can see this being used to prevent the user of a "communication service" (say, Gnutella) with intent to defraud a "communication service provider" (say, a record company)
I think the point is that if you've seen MSFT's source code you can no longer participate in developing anything related to a MSFT product; you'd be vulnerable to accusations of learning something from seeing that code and using the knowledge in your product.
Whether or not anything of value can be learned from viewing MSFT code is a different matter...
I don't think he should push the example above. If industry gets wind that it will suddenly become much easier to pin them down as responsible for specific pollution related health and environmental problems, then they'll try and kill it.
How is the argument "ban Segways because people can ride them irresponsibly" different from "ban P2P networks because people can use them infringe on copyrights?"
I think there's a possible way to prevent this happening in the future. Ironically, it may be DRM systems that do it.
Of course it's a long shot...
But...what if a law was passed to say that any DRM system must respect copyright expiration? In other words a content protection device must stop protecting its content when the copywrite expires.
In this case, extending the copyright won't matter so much since the DRM will expire regardless of what congress does after its created.
(now that I write this I see a hole. An individual DRM system could probably connect back to a server somewhere that could be updated to say 'don't expire, we got another extension'. hmm...)
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That's "peek"...sheesh...
Isn't a Mandrake sort of a cut-rate dragon?
Yeah but when the 'dissident' FCC commisioners held a public meeting in Atlanta on media consolidation, none of the big corporate papers or TV stations would announce that it was coming up. *That's* media control.
(Darn. The most relevant link I can find offhand is this one, which requires that you sit through an ad to see the whole thing)
It's not so much the entertainment programming as the influence on public opinion issues - i.e. what do they show, and what do they not show, on the news?
Is the recent mistreatment of the Dixie Chicks. The head of Cumulus Media, which owns 41 radio stations, decided himself that none of the stations would play the Dixie Chicks any more.
See this link for more on this. What we see and hear is decided by corporate heads and lawyers.
Expect to hear (or to not hear in this case) more of this.
I don't think they often have juries on this sort of thing, but (going offtopic) I think some cases of interest to slashdot readers would have juries. If you're interested in jury nullification, check out theFully Informed Jury Association. Note that they attract a lot of interest from, shall we say, fringe groups (of whom we might be as well). However they do a good job of staying on their message.
Sorry, 39. Learned it on a PDP/8 in 10th grade...
I learned with Fortran II (not IV). What does that say?
Ed Felten has an interesting item on where the money goes for a CD. I'm sure there's a fairly wide variation, but what he quotes is $2.85 for the artist and about $5.00 for the record company overhead. So - is the contribution of the record company worth almost twice the contribution of the artist? To get a bit more on topic, I'm not sure which side of this the cost of a tool like Pro Tools comes from, but from earlier comments it appears the artist, since they have to cover the production costs (yes, from an advance, but that gets taken out of their $2.85 till its paid off, if ever). So...umm...I'm not where I'm going from here...Lets see - less expensive for the artist is good, but overproduction is bad..umm.. hmmm...
Go wireless!
Don't be so quick. The vikings abandoned their greenland settlements when the temperature dropped.
What's the definition of a "communication service provider?" I can see this being used to prevent the user of a "communication service" (say, Gnutella) with intent to defraud a "communication service provider" (say, a record company)
King Crimson, of course. Listen to Thrak or B'Boom and you'll never go back to Rush again
IMHO, is that a book like this needs to exist. Templates are *way* too complicated for something that is supposed to reduce complication.
But what if you can't buy a player that will play non-DRM media? That's where they're going...
this
Be afraid...
What a great idea!
I run a small software group writing control code for semiconductor processing equipment. I read a lot of literature and what works for my group is:
- code reviews on every check-in
- lots of refactoring
- incremental releases
- constant testing
- individual 'craftsmanship'
So what do I tell my group? I tell them "any piece of code you write you should be proud to show at a job interview."
And I lead by example.
No no no.
I think the point is that if you've seen MSFT's source code you can no longer participate in developing anything related to a MSFT product; you'd be vulnerable to accusations of learning something from seeing that code and using the knowledge in your product.
Whether or not anything of value can be learned from viewing MSFT code is a different matter...
I'm trying to decide if this is funny or if the person didn't actually read the review, in particular the part about the editing and 25 cents...
Actually I grew up next to the cemetary in which Snowflake Bentley is buried. Nice headstone.
(There's another grave in that cemetary that opens up, but that's another story)
Hey - two Vermont slashdot references in two weeks! Is that some kind of record?
I don't think he should push the example above. If industry gets wind that it will suddenly become much easier to pin them down as responsible for specific pollution related health and environmental problems, then they'll try and kill it.
Quick poll - of those who *have* ridden a Segway, who thinks that they are inherently dangerous and should be banned?
A question:
How is the argument "ban Segways because people can ride them irresponsibly" different from "ban P2P networks because people can use them infringe on copyrights?"
Saw a bicycle friday evening in Portland OR.
The operator was driving down the street at night.
No lights. No reflectors. Grey vehicle out in traffic and no helmet on operator.
I'd ban the damned things too.
I think there's a possible way to prevent this happening in the future. Ironically, it may be DRM systems that do it.
Of course it's a long shot...
But...what if a law was passed to say that any DRM system must respect copyright expiration? In other words a content protection device must stop protecting its content when the copywrite expires.
In this case, extending the copyright won't matter so much since the DRM will expire regardless of what congress does after its created.
(now that I write this I see a hole. An individual DRM system could probably connect back to a server somewhere that could be updated to say 'don't expire, we got another extension'. hmm...)