And if they can't find it? If say, some big website/isp/cable company decides that no "competitor" can advertise on any of their channels (or mags, or sites, etc)? And then you get two other companies to decide the same thing, and all of a sudden there's no real way to tell the whole world about the best site on the Net (i.e. the one you want to advertise). This is the media spectrum we face today. Getting outside of the walled garden is a bitch, and with incredibly restrictive copyright laws, it'll stay that way and make sure all the old, classic content stays wrapped up tighter than a properly administered *BSD server. --
is called a gnubrary. Pretty simple really. I can drive to the library and get a ton of cds or music. Why can't I drive there with my computer? Just make the app officially a part of the library (laws are good for this) and then none of the materials ever have to leave the "property". --
nah, I just have better things to do than watch commercials and wait until tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. EST to watch the programs I enjoy. Fool. Oh, and unless you read my comment as dripping with cynicism and sarcasm, you read it wrong. --
i always wondered where the other 5 fans of the family guy had gotten to.
here's one of them. And I know at least a few others use Bearshare, if you know what I mean. Don't let stupid network execs keep you from watching raunchy comedy. I hope they decide to order some more episodes, it was good stuff. --
I hate to do it, but whatever. When I read the thread, the comment was marked as funny. Moderation takes time, and now I've spent 5 times as much time reading your post and telling you how useless it is, than anyone needed to. Don't bitch about moderation, run your own site if it bothers you, it works (although probably not the way you want), just relax. --
There's also a big difference in punishing a child like an adult and not not punishing them at all. When I was in Jr. High, fighting was a 3-day suspension, now hacking is a 10-day suspension with possible criminal prosecution? Treat kids like adults and they make adult decisions, which they are totally unqualified to make. Teach responsibility, not fear. My guess is that the school wanted to put the fear of them into the kid, and it looks like it worked. --
the difference between doing an action to something, and doing an action to someone. As well as the state of mind when such an action took place. What types of behaviour do you wish to encourage, and which to subvert? --
you're missing the point. Yes, MS has competing programs in many of those areas. The problem is illegally utilizing their monopoly to kill competition in unfair ways. Or even, gasp, use underhanded tactics to gain market share. When you control the OS so tightly it's easy. You don't even have to break stuff, just don't fix specific OS problems other apps have. Then, after they spend the money to include a work around, you can finally get to the problem and gain a few more weeks or months as their fix is broken.
It's just happened so many times before, that's why I don't like it. Win2k is fine, I am happy with most of the apps you mentioned, most work pretty well. Forcing people to buy stuff they don't need crosses a pretty hard line in my personal opinion of where the "market" should end. Monopoly is a dangerous thing to our markets, especially when your business is selling bits of plastic (or just electrons) for $100 a pop. Bah, another ms rant on/., who'da thunk it. --
well since they've been using the same core for 10 years, maybe some of those people can work on it. Ahh, the joys of selling a product with no production costs. --
yea, what a great market choice. We push out DIVX and still get stuck with a digital medium which takes a felony to copy. This is why we're pretty much fucked. If you can present a slightly lesser evil, people think they are making a good choice. But look where that leads us. --
it sucks, but you're probably on to something. That bad thing is that if that works for someone, everyone else will start piling on the ads to illustrate the value of not having them. Curious, that. (oh, and it happened to pr0n sites about 2 years ago) --
I can live on a piece of land. I can't do that with air. Of course you could say that I could rent out the air and get some land, but then I'd be using money, not the actual product.
Then there's the whole "what is this thing used for?" question. Air frequencies will by used to transmit communication services. They don't get used up, this is the only infinite characteristic they exhibit. There are most definitely a limited number of usable ones in any particular geography. This was industry's argument againt Low-Power FM radio, that it would interfere with their commercial signals and degrade service. Both sides submitted conflicting studies, the industry's later turned out to be "extrapolations on lab data". But going back to the differences between air frequencies and land.
You can't corrupt air frequencies. No matter how much Howard Stern or Radio Free Europe comes across the airwaves, you can switch it over the next day. Try that with industrial real estate.
I like my government having a trump card over the media industry. I've seen too many examples of the power of communication abused, it's so close to that right now anyway. I don't think we need to go the rest of the way. I'm not really sure exactly how things are right now as far as licences go, but I like to think that abuses have some form of punishment. Remove a central authority that represent the interests of the public and you lose that. In 10 years 2 or 3 companies would decide what gets transmitted, anywhere, anytime. And charge you a pretty penny for it. --
Ha, lower taxes. Where you see this money is in the stock price and dividends for media companies. Those that are invested here are the ones who get the cash. Lower taxes, nice, funny. --
the issue really isn't the high cost of drugs (that's just part of it). The real story is the huge increase in demand that has followed the legalizing of public advertisements. People diagnose themselves based on a 30 second ad, then tell their doctors what they need. This puts the doctors in a tough place. Take the time (and money) to do a thorough check and prescribe the correct drug, or sign a prescription. From the article.."Of those who asked for a specific drug by name, nearly half were given a prescription for it; 21 percent were recommended a different drug." --
the cost of prescription drugs and drug advertising. A few hypocondriacs out there are going to spend about 20% of the total tax money spent on drugs because their TV told them they might have a disease. A very rare disease that few people have, however, their doctors won't fight them and will sign the prescription. So now your insurance is paying a premium for an unneeded but stunningly marketed drug. Simple answer, you shouldn't promote hard-core drugs on TV. But would you get that from an industry that was paid over $2B (US) by these drug companies that have seen 100% growth in demand for the drugs they can now advertise on TV. (cover story) Anyway, you asked for an example, and this is kinda-on topic...so there. --
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These kids killed because, IMHO, they got pushed so far out of normal existence, it didn't really matter anymore. Look at the media forces that push different people away and you'll find a better culprit than the one which probably kept me from getting into a number of fights. Ban elitist consumer culture, if you want to ban something evil. --
..instead engage SDMI in a constructive dialogue on how the academic aspects of your research can be shared without jeopardizing the commercial interests of the owners of the various technologies.
..at least one of the technologies that was the subject of the Public Challenge, the Verance Watermark, is already in commercial use and the disclosure of any information that might assist others to remove this watermark would seriously jeopardize the technology and the content it protects.
The specific purpose of providing these encoded files and for setting up the Challenge was to assist SDMI in determining which of the proposed technologies are best suited to protect content in Phase II products.
Failure wasn't an option. It was commercial research. However, since they didn't take the money, they didn't agree. Reading the part about the "clik-thru" agreement (spelling for emphasis) made me laff.
Anyway, I hope that this story will illustrate the dangers of the DMCA so that the european equivalent which is on its way will never come up.
Would it make _sense_ for them to let people download songs for free to sample them? Sure.
Does that mean you have the right to do it if they decide they don't want you to?
Rights are decided socially. The technical implications of the internet have not been integrated into copyright law. While you ponder a response, check out some music. Consume it, if you can. Don't think for a second that I don't feel creators should be compensated for their works, but I can't pay my rent with Napster (without breaking good laws).
Please tell Morcheeba, Tranquility Bass, The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Badly Drawn Boy and Brakeman Junction that I'm sorry I stole their music. But they might be happy to know that I now own their CD's. I know, I know, I should be a good consumer and wait for MTV or Clear Channel to tell me what music is good, but what can I say, I'm a dirty fucking thief.
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If people find content worth it - they'll pay.
And if they can't find it? If say, some big website/isp/cable company decides that no "competitor" can advertise on any of their channels (or mags, or sites, etc)? And then you get two other companies to decide the same thing, and all of a sudden there's no real way to tell the whole world about the best site on the Net (i.e. the one you want to advertise). This is the media spectrum we face today. Getting outside of the walled garden is a bitch, and with incredibly restrictive copyright laws, it'll stay that way and make sure all the old, classic content stays wrapped up tighter than a properly administered *BSD server.
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is called a gnubrary. Pretty simple really. I can drive to the library and get a ton of cds or music. Why can't I drive there with my computer? Just make the app officially a part of the library (laws are good for this) and then none of the materials ever have to leave the "property".
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nah, I just have better things to do than watch commercials and wait until tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. EST to watch the programs I enjoy. Fool. Oh, and unless you read my comment as dripping with cynicism and sarcasm, you read it wrong.
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i always wondered where the other 5 fans of the family guy had gotten to.
here's one of them. And I know at least a few others use Bearshare, if you know what I mean. Don't let stupid network execs keep you from watching raunchy comedy. I hope they decide to order some more episodes, it was good stuff.
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I hate to do it, but whatever. When I read the thread, the comment was marked as funny. Moderation takes time, and now I've spent 5 times as much time reading your post and telling you how useless it is, than anyone needed to. Don't bitch about moderation, run your own site if it bothers you, it works (although probably not the way you want), just relax.
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hmm, lost my first response, thanks windows.
There's also a big difference in punishing a child like an adult and not not punishing them at all. When I was in Jr. High, fighting was a 3-day suspension, now hacking is a 10-day suspension with possible criminal prosecution? Treat kids like adults and they make adult decisions, which they are totally unqualified to make. Teach responsibility, not fear. My guess is that the school wanted to put the fear of them into the kid, and it looks like it worked.
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yea, schools here have a history for treating kids like kids and not prosecuting them. And before you draw too many criticisms of my comparison, remeber that the same number of people are dead in both cases.
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the difference between doing an action to something, and doing an action to someone. As well as the state of mind when such an action took place. What types of behaviour do you wish to encourage, and which to subvert?
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you're missing the point. Yes, MS has competing programs in many of those areas. The problem is illegally utilizing their monopoly to kill competition in unfair ways. Or even, gasp, use underhanded tactics to gain market share. When you control the OS so tightly it's easy. You don't even have to break stuff, just don't fix specific OS problems other apps have. Then, after they spend the money to include a work around, you can finally get to the problem and gain a few more weeks or months as their fix is broken.
/., who'da thunk it.
It's just happened so many times before, that's why I don't like it. Win2k is fine, I am happy with most of the apps you mentioned, most work pretty well. Forcing people to buy stuff they don't need crosses a pretty hard line in my personal opinion of where the "market" should end. Monopoly is a dangerous thing to our markets, especially when your business is selling bits of plastic (or just electrons) for $100 a pop. Bah, another ms rant on
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well since they've been using the same core for 10 years, maybe some of those people can work on it. Ahh, the joys of selling a product with no production costs.
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Why miss it?
a sad day indeed.
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yea, what a great market choice. We push out DIVX and still get stuck with a digital medium which takes a felony to copy. This is why we're pretty much fucked. If you can present a slightly lesser evil, people think they are making a good choice. But look where that leads us.
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You read it here first.
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it sucks, but you're probably on to something. That bad thing is that if that works for someone, everyone else will start piling on the ads to illustrate the value of not having them. Curious, that. (oh, and it happened to pr0n sites about 2 years ago)
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say goodbye to the next 3. Oh wait, did someone say something bad about hype?
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I can live on a piece of land. I can't do that with air. Of course you could say that I could rent out the air and get some land, but then I'd be using money, not the actual product.
Then there's the whole "what is this thing used for?" question. Air frequencies will by used to transmit communication services. They don't get used up, this is the only infinite characteristic they exhibit. There are most definitely a limited number of usable ones in any particular geography. This was industry's argument againt Low-Power FM radio, that it would interfere with their commercial signals and degrade service. Both sides submitted conflicting studies, the industry's later turned out to be "extrapolations on lab data". But going back to the differences between air frequencies and land.
You can't corrupt air frequencies. No matter how much Howard Stern or Radio Free Europe comes across the airwaves, you can switch it over the next day. Try that with industrial real estate.
I like my government having a trump card over the media industry. I've seen too many examples of the power of communication abused, it's so close to that right now anyway. I don't think we need to go the rest of the way. I'm not really sure exactly how things are right now as far as licences go, but I like to think that abuses have some form of punishment. Remove a central authority that represent the interests of the public and you lose that. In 10 years 2 or 3 companies would decide what gets transmitted, anywhere, anytime. And charge you a pretty penny for it.
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Ha, lower taxes. Where you see this money is in the stock price and dividends for media companies. Those that are invested here are the ones who get the cash. Lower taxes, nice, funny.
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the issue really isn't the high cost of drugs (that's just part of it). The real story is the huge increase in demand that has followed the legalizing of public advertisements. People diagnose themselves based on a 30 second ad, then tell their doctors what they need. This puts the doctors in a tough place. Take the time (and money) to do a thorough check and prescribe the correct drug, or sign a prescription. From the article.."Of those who asked for a specific drug by name, nearly half were given a prescription for it; 21 percent were recommended a different drug."
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the cost of prescription drugs and drug advertising. A few hypocondriacs out there are going to spend about 20% of the total tax money spent on drugs because their TV told them they might have a disease. A very rare disease that few people have, however, their doctors won't fight them and will sign the prescription. So now your insurance is paying a premium for an unneeded but stunningly marketed drug. Simple answer, you shouldn't promote hard-core drugs on TV. But would you get that from an industry that was paid over $2B (US) by these drug companies that have seen 100% growth in demand for the drugs they can now advertise on TV. (cover story) Anyway, you asked for an example, and this is kinda-on topic...so there.
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in my dream world it would be built into the OS, making the programming yokel easy. IIRC, some of the Pentium designs used some chip logic that would guess ahead a certain amount to find shortcuts for processing. If you have a bunch of processors, and one monitoring the guesses, you could get above optimal performance. Call it the Intuition Engine ©®
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These kids killed because, IMHO, they got pushed so far out of normal existence, it didn't really matter anymore. Look at the media forces that push different people away and you'll find a better culprit than the one which probably kept me from getting into a number of fights. Ban elitist consumer culture, if you want to ban something evil.
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Moral? Did you read the letter?
..instead engage SDMI in a constructive dialogue on how the academic aspects of your research can be shared without jeopardizing the commercial interests of the owners of the various technologies.
..at least one of the technologies that was the subject of the Public Challenge, the Verance Watermark, is already in commercial use and the disclosure of any information that might assist others to remove this watermark would seriously jeopardize the technology and the content it protects.
The specific purpose of providing these encoded files and for setting up the Challenge was to assist SDMI in determining which of the proposed technologies are best suited to protect content in Phase II products.
Failure wasn't an option. It was commercial research. However, since they didn't take the money, they didn't agree. Reading the part about the "clik-thru" agreement (spelling for emphasis) made me laff.
Anyway, I hope that this story will illustrate the dangers of the DMCA so that the european equivalent which is on its way will never come up.
'twould be nice, wouldn't it.
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Would it make _sense_ for them to let people download songs for free to sample them? Sure.
Does that mean you have the right to do it if they decide they don't want you to?
Rights are decided socially. The technical implications of the internet have not been integrated into copyright law. While you ponder a response, check out some music. Consume it, if you can. Don't think for a second that I don't feel creators should be compensated for their works, but I can't pay my rent with Napster (without breaking good laws).
Here's some light reading (in the meantime) of some laws that might hold an equitable solution.
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can you quote somebody on this?
That's why U.S. copyrights are not a recognition of property rights (as the Supreme Court and the House of Representatives have noted).
Please?
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Please tell Morcheeba, Tranquility Bass, The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Badly Drawn Boy and Brakeman Junction that I'm sorry I stole their music. But they might be happy to know that I now own their CD's. I know, I know, I should be a good consumer and wait for MTV or Clear Channel to tell me what music is good, but what can I say, I'm a dirty fucking thief.
(nice troll, BTW)
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