The wide-screen iMac specs page [apple.com] gives the native resolution of the 17" iMac as 1440x900. This is a 16:10 display ratio, which is about as close as any monitor I know of gets to the Golden Ratio [surrey.ac.uk], (1 + sqrt(5)/2), or approximately 1.618.
Clearly Apple is trying to channel Pyramid Power [geocities.com] to sell more computers.
Uh... no. 1.618 is just the aspect ratio of most film stock.
Movie makers knew about that ratio a long time before apple even existed.;-)
What Apple's doing is not Astroturfing. Astroturfing is when fake grassroots organizations (get it? grassroots...fake grass...Astroturf...?) start coming out in favor of a company. These organizations are bankrolled by that company.
As has been noted here and several other places, many of the people in these testimonials are NOT on Apple's payroll. The DJ chick and the guy that used to work for Wired are two prime examples.
Uhuh. I'll believe it when I see the small print.
Note: there isn't any claiming that they weren't paid for their opinions. Which is pretty much like the way that their benchmarks which claimed that the G4 was better than the P3 didn't mention that they were running an old version of the benchmark software compiled explicitly for the 486.
Why the hell for? These are real people. Not actors reading from a script. They are expressing their own experiences with Windows, from varying points of views.
Actually, you sold it to the Daemon. The matrix was made with FreeBSD. >=)
He's actually referring to the MadOnion 3DMark2001 benchmark.
http://www.madonion.com
If you've never seen it, it's a killer.
Simon
Why MSNBC pulled the article-no, it's not bias....
on
The Power of Palladium
·
· Score: 5, Informative
Here's the simple explanation for why MSNBC pulled the article:
It's a Newsweek article.
Newsweek charge for archive access.
The article is now over a week old, and has been moved to their archives.
Simple. If you want to get the article, you can still buy it from Newsweek for $2.95, or for a lot more if you want access to their entire library of stuff.
You can still find it if you go to www.newsweek.com , and search the archives for Palladium.
Just how much faster do you think the paramedics will arrive if you can call from inside the theater rather than having to go into the lobby? 30 seconds? Does that very rare 30 second savings counterbalance the thousands or millions of hours of life stolen from others by inconsiderate cell phone users? I don't think so.
It does balance out if you're a paramedic or a doctor who has gone to a movie, knowing that they can be paged because they're on call, but that they don't have to worry about not being reachable.
Currently, with over 80,000 people having voted, 77% of people think that the pledge should have the wording "Under God" in there, and 23% of people think that it shouldn't.
Although it may be a coincidence, 77% is pretty much precisely the percentage of people who identified themselves as Christian in the US in 2001. (American Religious Identity Survey, 2001 - sample size, 50,000 people; for more details: http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html)
Funny how it works out that the people who that was put in for in the first place are the ones who think that it should stay in:)
Must be the new math. If half your collection fits on 6G, fair guess is that all would fit on 12G. I don't understand how 12G is "several times" 10G (the large iPod size).
Reread the post.
Half my collection fit on a 6Gb drive about two years ago.
Unless you'd like to suggest how you're going to replace your iPod drive with a 20Gb drive in a year or so?
I'm hoping that in a year or so, 3 solid days of music will still be enough to tide me over, and I won't feel a need to upgrade.
I can see where that would be a problem for your solution - I guess it might help if you had better software to manage what's on your player at any given time.
Well, given that I used to use a Nomad Jukebox with 6Gb of space on it, and I already filled that with half of my CD collection... and not to mention that I *don't want to shuffle crap onto and off of the player* -- I want to put it on there and forget about it -- I would already fill an iPod several times over.
Heck, these days a 20Gb might not fill it.
BTW: What sound quality do you store you MP3s in? I doubt you'd get 3 solid days of music if you recorded them at anything approaching high quality.
Of course, the ability to slip it into any computer (give or take) isn't the only advantage of having a removable drive -- as I'm sure dozens of people have pointed out by now, it makes it easy to upgrade as well.
You seem to have forgotten that the iPod uses Firewire, and works as an external disk (in addition to it's transparent sync). Upgrades happen transparently to the user, and there is no need to 'remove the disk'. You just use a firewire cable and connect it.
Ummm.... he meant upgrade as in "increase disk size", not as in "update firmware".
Unless you'd like to suggest how you're going to replace your iPod drive with a 20Gb drive in a year or so?
Oh yeah. Without opening it up and voiding your warranty, you can't.
First, Toshiba isn't the first to sell an "iPod competitor". We've already seen the Treo 10 [com.com] ("...which is similar in appearance and function to the iPod...") and Nomad [nomadworld.com] hit the market, with similar press responses.
The amusing thing is, even though the press might compare the Nomad 3.0 with the iPod, the Nomad 3.0 was leaked on the Creative Nomad newsgroups about a year before the iPod was announced.
And all the specs were the same as when it was released.
The details of their Audigy stuff were released at the same time.
Toshiba was once at the top of the notebook computer industry because they are cheap, but people have caught on. You get what you pay for. I am an A+ certified tech, and have repaired hundreds of Toshiba laptops. Junk! Did you know a part has to fail in the field three times before they will accept that it is defective? Don't buy their i-pod rip off. It will be garbage.
I wouldn't buy an iPod then; they both use the same hard drive internally.
You did know that Toshiba make the hard drives for the iPod, didn't you?
Given that the XBox has pretty much turned out to be a dud, there's every reason to expect that this will too. Rather doubt you'll see a PS2 or GameCube port of this crap, and that's what really matters.
Awww... whassamatter baby? Jealous because you bought a crappy console and are trying to justify your choice on Slashdot?
Tell ya what... go buy an XBox. You'll feel better.
Wrong. Explain to me how you get a "buffer overflow" with PICTURE DATA? Try to open a 100 meg JPEG? Most viewers will handle even this.
The JPEG has fixed-size headers and thus unless the programmer is a dimwit, buffer overflows are hard to come by. In a commercial product, they simply won't exist (I dare you to give me an example of a picture viewer with a buffer overflow exploit!)
You malform the compressed stream, so that the decompressor overflows.
An example of this would be saying that your image is 32x32, and providing 32 lines of 32 pixel data long -- but for the last line, providing 47 bytes of data.
The specific part of the JPEG file formats which are targettable are the first decode step (huffman decoding) -- where you send it a deliberately malformed huffman bitstream. The *second* attackable part is the zero run length decoding step. If the attack comes after either of those, it's going to be benign -- because after that, it's all transforms in image space.
I'm gona guess IE uses about 10megs per instance, just off the top of my head. Each window is a seperate instance (as is obvious from the *lack* of the essential File>Quit [something that they flamed mozilla for *having* in the article I might add])
Nice guess, but wrong. Each window is a separate *window*. It doesn't have separate instances unless you open new instances of the IE app yourself.
Actually, these days film projects use 72fps and shutter 3 times per frame; mainly because people got used to their local TV refresh rates (60fps or 50fps, depending on the location), and anything less than that is visibly noticeable for most people.
You wont notice the difference between 35mm and digital unless you are told - and this is the reality.
No, it's the reality for YOU.
When I saw Star Wars, I could see every single pixel. Everything looked smoothed out. And there were noticable jaggies, stairstepping, and compression artefacts.
(The big problem here is that the CCD arrays are just that - arrays. Add some randomness to pixel locations, and it might actually be quite good).
And before we crucify MS, every single public company does it. Investors and analysts don't like crazy up and down profits. They like the earnings line chart to climb up like a ramp if possible, and since that is what they like, companies will try to give it to them.
Which is one of two things that I've never understood about the stock market.
A lot of businesses are seasonal. A hell of a lot. Quarterly reporting adversely affects those businesses - because they have to have that ramp. Which means that if you typically have a summer slump, you have to do something radical every summer to beat it, instead of just riding out until your more than twice as profitable winter months.
It's insane. One of the reasons why Porsche (IIRC) is always profitable on paper is because they do yearly reporting. The markets keep asking them to go quarterly, but they keep refusing because of exactly this.
The other issue I have is the fact that the stock market expects growth or you die. You can't have a completely successful little company that makes enough to get by -- that's viewed as a failure.
Ancient Greece is still famous for its great plays and playwrights. However, numerous plays dating back from that time are still performed, printed, translated, and used as the basis of other works today.
Is this stealing? Is it immoral?
If it were stealing, you would be stealing from a dead guy, so don't be daft. Him and his immediate family died a hell of a long time ago.
Wrong Piracy is theft. Specifically, theft upon the open sea. What you are calling piracy, is in fact, copyright violation. A copyright violation is a civil, not criminal matter. At least it is that way currently in the US. By continuing to call copyright violation, piracy; you are granting ground to those who oppose and oppress us. Stop it.
I've posted this before, but I'll post it again just for you.
Sorry, but Copyright violation is NOT solely a civil matter, and hasn't been since 1992. You are behind the times. It can be a federal felony offense.
FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF VIOLATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS AND TRADE SECRETS) VI. APPENDICES
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY - COPYRIGHT FELONY ACT
H.R. Rep. No. 997, 102ND Cong., 2ND Sess. 1992, 1992 U.S.C.C.A.N. 3569, P.L. 102-561, CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DATES OF CONSIDERATION AND PASSAGE Senate: June 4, October 8, 1992 House: October 3, 1992 Senate Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-268, Apr. 7, 1992 (To accompany S. 893) House Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-997, Oct. 3, 1992 (To accompany S. 893) HOUSE REPORT NO. 102-997 October 3, 1992 [To accompany S. 893]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Act (S. 893) to amend title 18, United States Code, to impose criminal sanctions for violation of software copyright, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the Act as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:
SECTION 1. CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Section 2319(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Any person who commits an offense under subsection (a) of this section-
"(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, with a retail value of more than $2,500;
"(2) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and
"(3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, in any other case.".
When you make a copyright violation, you are forfeiting someone copyright grant and that is a civil offense. Nobody except the grant receiver may prossecute you.
Sorry, but that's not accurate as of 1992. You snooze, you lose. Copyright violation is and can be a federal felony offense. That is, a criminal offense.
FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF VIOLATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS AND TRADE SECRETS) VI. APPENDICES
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY - COPYRIGHT FELONY ACT
H.R. Rep. No. 997, 102ND Cong., 2ND Sess. 1992, 1992 U.S.C.C.A.N. 3569, P.L. 102-561, CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DATES OF CONSIDERATION AND PASSAGE Senate: June 4, October 8, 1992 House: October 3, 1992 Senate Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-268, Apr. 7, 1992 (To accompany S. 893) House Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-997, Oct. 3, 1992 (To accompany S. 893) HOUSE REPORT NO. 102-997 October 3, 1992 [To accompany S. 893]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Act (S. 893) to amend title 18, United States Code, to impose criminal sanctions for violation of software copyright, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the Act as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:
SECTION 1. CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Section 2319(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Any person who commits an offense under subsection (a) of this section-
"(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, with a retail value of more than $2,500;
"(2) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and
"(3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, in any other case.".
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The wide-screen iMac specs page [apple.com] gives the native
;-)
resolution of the 17" iMac as 1440x900. This is a 16:10 display ratio, which is about as
close as any monitor I know of gets to the
Golden Ratio [surrey.ac.uk], (1 + sqrt(5)/2), or approximately 1.618.
Clearly Apple is trying to channel Pyramid Power [geocities.com]
to sell more computers.
Uh... no. 1.618 is just the aspect ratio of most film stock.
Movie makers knew about that ratio a long time before apple even existed.
Simon
Funny you should mention a term Microsoft is credited with inventing.
Funny that the term wasn't invented by Microsoft.
Risks Digest, June 1993
What Apple's doing is not Astroturfing.
Astroturfing is when fake grassroots organizations
(get it? grassroots...fake grass...Astroturf...?)
start coming out in favor of a company. These
organizations are bankrolled by that company.
As has been noted here and several other places,
many of the people in these testimonials are NOT
on Apple's payroll. The DJ chick and the guy that
used to work for Wired are two prime examples.
Uhuh. I'll believe it when I see the small print.
Note: there isn't any claiming that they weren't paid for their opinions. Which is pretty much like the way that their benchmarks which claimed that the G4 was better than the P3 didn't mention that they were running an old version of the benchmark software compiled explicitly for the 486.
Simon
Why the hell for? These are real people. Not actors reading from a script. They are expressing their own experiences with Windows, from varying points of views.
It's called Astroturf.
Simon
Actually, you sold it to the Daemon. The matrix was made with FreeBSD. >=)
He's actually referring to the MadOnion 3DMark2001 benchmark.
http://www.madonion.com
If you've never seen it, it's a killer.
Simon
Here's the simple explanation for why MSNBC pulled the article:
It's a Newsweek article.
Newsweek charge for archive access.
The article is now over a week old, and has been moved to their archives.
Simple. If you want to get the article, you can still buy it from Newsweek for $2.95, or for a lot more if you want access to their entire library of stuff.
You can still find it if you go to www.newsweek.com , and search the archives for Palladium.
Simon
Thanks!
I've been trying to work out what SourceDepot was really called in the outside world for ages. I've been looking for a good replacement for VSS.
Si
2nd unit. 'nuff said.
Just how much faster do you think the paramedics will arrive if you can call from inside the theater rather than having to go into the lobby? 30 seconds? Does that very rare 30 second savings counterbalance the thousands or millions of hours of life stolen from others by inconsiderate cell phone users? I don't think so.
It does balance out if you're a paramedic or a doctor who has gone to a movie, knowing that they can be paged because they're on call, but that they don't have to worry about not being reachable.
Simon
Currently, with over 80,000 people having voted, 77% of people think that the pledge should have the wording "Under God" in there, and 23% of people think that it shouldn't.
:)
Although it may be a coincidence, 77% is pretty much precisely the percentage of people who identified themselves as Christian in the US in 2001. (American Religious Identity Survey, 2001 - sample size, 50,000 people; for more details: http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html)
Funny how it works out that the people who that was put in for in the first place are the ones who think that it should stay in
Simon
Hmmm... Wonder if a "Rebel against Linux Day" story would make front page? Microsoft's struggle to battle the communist open sourcers.
We could call it Lindependence Day.
*rotfl* these crappy-ass puns just kill me.
RTFM
Last time I had lycoris running, I tried to do just that with the GUI-based LILO config tool that comes with it.
Couldn't work out what settings I needed, so I brought up the manual.
The manual was one introductory passage, and a series of chapter headings all marked "Not written yet".
Handy advice!
Must be the new math. If half your collection fits on 6G, fair guess is that all would fit on 12G. I don't understand how 12G is "several times" 10G (the large iPod size).
Reread the post.
Half my collection fit on a 6Gb drive about two years ago.
I buy music regularly.
Simon
Unless you'd like to suggest how you're going to replace your iPod drive with a 20Gb drive in a year or so?
I'm hoping that in a year or so, 3 solid days of music will still be enough to tide me over, and I won't feel a need to upgrade.
I can see where that would be a problem for your solution - I guess it might help if you had better software to manage what's on your player at any given time.
Well, given that I used to use a Nomad Jukebox with 6Gb of space on it, and I already filled that with half of my CD collection... and not to mention that I *don't want to shuffle crap onto and off of the player* -- I want to put it on there and forget about it -- I would already fill an iPod several times over.
Heck, these days a 20Gb might not fill it.
BTW: What sound quality do you store you MP3s in? I doubt you'd get 3 solid days of music if you recorded them at anything approaching high quality.
Simon
Ummm.... he meant upgrade as in "increase disk size", not as in "update firmware".
Unless you'd like to suggest how you're going to replace your iPod drive with a 20Gb drive in a year or so?
Oh yeah. Without opening it up and voiding your warranty, you can't.
Simon
First, Toshiba isn't the first to sell an "iPod competitor". We've already seen the Treo 10 [com.com] ("...which is similar in appearance and function to the iPod...") and Nomad [nomadworld.com] hit the market, with similar press responses.
The amusing thing is, even though the press might compare the Nomad 3.0 with the iPod, the Nomad 3.0 was leaked on the Creative Nomad newsgroups about a year before the iPod was announced.
And all the specs were the same as when it was released.
The details of their Audigy stuff were released at the same time.
Simon
Toshiba was once at the top of the notebook computer industry because they are cheap, but people have caught on. You get what you pay for. I am an A+ certified tech, and have repaired hundreds of Toshiba laptops. Junk! Did you know a part has to fail in the field three times before they will accept that it is defective? Don't buy their i-pod rip off. It will be garbage.
I wouldn't buy an iPod then; they both use the same hard drive internally.
You did know that Toshiba make the hard drives for the iPod, didn't you?
Simon
Given that the XBox has pretty much turned out to be a dud, there's every reason to expect that this will too. Rather doubt you'll see a PS2 or GameCube port of this crap, and that's what really matters.
Awww... whassamatter baby? Jealous because you bought a crappy console and are trying to justify your choice on Slashdot?
Tell ya what... go buy an XBox. You'll feel better.
Wrong. Explain to me how you get a "buffer overflow" with PICTURE DATA? Try to open a 100 meg JPEG? Most viewers will handle even this.
The JPEG has fixed-size headers and thus unless the programmer is a dimwit, buffer overflows are hard to come by. In a commercial product, they simply won't exist (I dare you to give me an example of a picture viewer with a buffer overflow exploit!)
You malform the compressed stream, so that the decompressor overflows.
An example of this would be saying that your image is 32x32, and providing 32 lines of 32 pixel data long -- but for the last line, providing 47 bytes of data.
The specific part of the JPEG file formats which are targettable are the first decode step (huffman decoding) -- where you send it a deliberately malformed huffman bitstream. The *second* attackable part is the zero run length decoding step. If the attack comes after either of those, it's going to be benign -- because after that, it's all transforms in image space.
Simon
I'm gona guess IE uses about 10megs per instance, just off the top of my head. Each window is a seperate instance (as is obvious from the *lack* of the essential File>Quit [something that they flamed mozilla for *having* in the article I might add])
Nice guess, but wrong. Each window is a separate *window*. It doesn't have separate instances unless you open new instances of the IE app yourself.
Simon
Actually, these days film projects use 72fps and shutter 3 times per frame; mainly because people got used to their local TV refresh rates (60fps or 50fps, depending on the location), and anything less than that is visibly noticeable for most people.
:)
Everyone just got accustomed to that frame rate
Simon
You wont notice the difference between 35mm and digital unless you are told - and this is the reality.
No, it's the reality for YOU.
When I saw Star Wars, I could see every single pixel. Everything looked smoothed out. And there were noticable jaggies, stairstepping, and compression artefacts.
(The big problem here is that the CCD arrays are just that - arrays. Add some randomness to pixel locations, and it might actually be quite good).
Simon
And before we crucify MS, every single public company does it. Investors and analysts don't like crazy up and down profits. They like the earnings line chart to climb up like a ramp if possible, and since that is what they like, companies will try to give it to them.
Which is one of two things that I've never understood about the stock market.
A lot of businesses are seasonal. A hell of a lot. Quarterly reporting adversely affects those businesses - because they have to have that ramp. Which means that if you typically have a summer slump, you have to do something radical every summer to beat it, instead of just riding out until your more than twice as profitable winter months.
It's insane. One of the reasons why Porsche (IIRC) is always profitable on paper is because they do yearly reporting. The markets keep asking them to go quarterly, but they keep refusing because of exactly this.
The other issue I have is the fact that the stock market expects growth or you die. You can't have a completely successful little company that makes enough to get by -- that's viewed as a failure.
Simon
Ancient Greece is still famous for its great plays and playwrights. However, numerous plays dating back from that time are still performed, printed, translated, and used as the basis of other works today.
Is this stealing? Is it immoral?
If it were stealing, you would be stealing from a dead guy, so don't be daft. Him and his immediate family died a hell of a long time ago.
Try another strawman.
Simon
Wrong Piracy is theft. Specifically, theft upon the open sea. What you are calling piracy, is in fact, copyright violation. A copyright violation is a civil, not criminal matter. At least it is that way currently in the US. By continuing to call copyright violation, piracy; you are granting ground to those who oppose and oppress us. Stop it.
I've posted this before, but I'll post it again just for you.
Sorry, but Copyright violation is NOT solely a civil matter, and hasn't been since 1992. You are behind the times. It can be a federal felony offense.
http://www.cybercrime.gov/CFAleghist.htm [cybercrime.gov]
FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF
VIOLATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS
(COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS AND TRADE SECRETS)
VI. APPENDICES
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY - COPYRIGHT FELONY ACT
H.R. Rep. No. 997, 102ND Cong., 2ND Sess. 1992, 1992 U.S.C.C.A.N. 3569,
P.L. 102-561, CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT
INFRINGEMENT
DATES OF CONSIDERATION AND PASSAGE
Senate: June 4, October 8, 1992
House: October 3, 1992
Senate Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-268,
Apr. 7, 1992 (To accompany S. 893)
House Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-997,
Oct. 3, 1992 (To accompany S. 893)
HOUSE REPORT NO. 102-997
October 3, 1992
[To accompany S. 893]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Act (S. 893) to amend title 18, United States Code, to impose criminal sanctions for violation of software copyright, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the Act as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:
SECTION 1. CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Section 2319(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Any person who commits an offense under subsection (a) of this section-
"(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, with a retail value of more than $2,500;
"(2) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and
"(3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, in any other case.".
When you make a copyright violation, you are forfeiting someone copyright grant and that is a civil offense. Nobody except the grant receiver may prossecute you.
Sorry, but that's not accurate as of 1992. You snooze, you lose. Copyright violation is and can be a federal felony offense. That is, a criminal offense.
http://www.cybercrime.gov/CFAleghist.htm
FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF
VIOLATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS
(COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS AND TRADE SECRETS)
VI. APPENDICES
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY - COPYRIGHT FELONY ACT
H.R. Rep. No. 997, 102ND Cong., 2ND Sess. 1992, 1992 U.S.C.C.A.N. 3569,
P.L. 102-561, CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT
INFRINGEMENT
DATES OF CONSIDERATION AND PASSAGE
Senate: June 4, October 8, 1992
House: October 3, 1992
Senate Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-268,
Apr. 7, 1992 (To accompany S. 893)
House Report (Judiciary Committee) No. 102-997,
Oct. 3, 1992 (To accompany S. 893)
HOUSE REPORT NO. 102-997
October 3, 1992
[To accompany S. 893]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Act (S. 893) to amend title 18, United States Code, to impose criminal sanctions for violation of software copyright, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the Act as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:
SECTION 1. CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Section 2319(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Any person who commits an offense under subsection (a) of this section-
"(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, with a retail value of more than $2,500;
"(2) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and
"(3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, in any other case.".