AACS: What happen ? AACS cronies: Somebody set up us the (KEY.)
MPAA experts: We get (BLOGS.) AACS: What ! MPAA experts: (IP Trace) turn on. AACS: It's you !! Consumers: How are you (MafIAA)!! Consumers: All your (HD-DVDs) are belong to us. Consumers: You are on the way to destruction. AACS: What you say !! Consumers: You have no chance to survive make your time. Consumers: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
MPAA experts: Captain !! * AACS: Take off every (lawyers) !! AACS: You know what you doing. AACS: (SUE). AACS: For great (PROFIT.)
With product cycle getting shorter all the time, is it any surprise that products are no longer designed for durability? How else could companies compelled upgrades required to produce 'record breaking' revenue quarter after quarter?
Looking at the history of Sony products, it has never been a big fan of interoperability as evident by Beta, Memory Stick, UMD, BlueRay, etc. Is it any surprise it's going do its own thing AGAIN?
Until penalties for data breach has some serious teeth (say, for every dollar of loss inflicted on the customer, fine the offending company ten dollars) companies will never take the security of customer data seriously.
My understanding is that it should be easy enough to implement WPA on older (.11a/b) hardware, but companies much rather sell end user new hardware (.11g etc.) than spending development time to upgrade old hardware (that does not generate additional revenue.) This is evident in that Apple's old AirPort (.11b) does support WPA but other venders' (that would include YOU, Linksys) old.11a/b products do not.
The content industry has already admitted DRM has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with forcing the consumer to pay for the same content, over and over again. It should come as no surprise then, that the downloaded content failed to work (so that the sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H consumer will be compelled to pay for the same content, again.)
Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration. [SNIP]
As our Führer said, "it's just a ****ing piece of paper."
Hu Jintao knows how to say absolutely nothing and say it well. That sentence is a masterpiece of meaningless airy drivel. You can read it and reread it and there just isn't anything there. Any speechwriter worth his salt should be envious of that hot air.
So in the end everything cancelled out. Absolutely nothing was said or reassured.
...lasted a bit longer than CSS...maybe next time they might make it last a whole 6 months, maybe even ***gasp*** a whole YEAR before...
Next time they will have the Gestap^H^H^H^H^H FBI busting down doors and shootin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H pacifying their paying customers.. ahm, pirates in their homes. We all know that piracy funds terrorists.
This would be a good thing. Just think of how 99% of all blogs would then disappear, freeing up HUGE amounts of wasted bandwidth and reducing the Google Index by 1 good 2/3rds!
And I thought most of the bandwidth today are being wasted by Spammers?
My experience with most organizations is that bad attitude tend to trickle down from the top. Apple's land shark behavior does not reflect positively on Jobs or most Apple officers.
Have MS's programmers still not worked out that file size is an UNSIGNED Int?
Evidently they have, since 8GB is outside the range of an unsigned int (typically a 32bit quantity) It's more likely to be an unsigned long long (64bit quantity) or for the.NET 2002 people, unsigned __int64.
Now he has been sentenced. Hooray, we were right there with you all the way dude, at least in a metaphorical sense.
In the mean time, pirated DVDs continued to be manufactured (and I mean serious manufacturing, not a couple of guys with a dozen or two DVD burners) and sold by street vendors.
As of this post, price for completed auctions are around 80k yen for 20GB units. That's about 30k yen premium over retail, which isn't much if you considered the profiteering that went on on ePay during the first three months after xbox360 launch.
... And what are they going for on the Japanese eBay and CraigsList?
Actually eBay bowed out of Japanese market some years back. Online auction in Japan is dominated by Yahoo. That said, as of this writing there are 2435 entries returned for search keyword "Playstation 3" and "3" with some bid for 20gb unit hitting 1.2 million yen, or about 103k in USD.
Good idea, that's why it'll never fly. There are too much money tied to 'intellectual property.' Too much money and power at stake, groups with vested interest will see to it that it meets an undeserving end.
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Narrator: In A.D. (2007,) war was beginning.
....
AACS: What happen ?
AACS cronies: Somebody set up us the (KEY.)
MPAA experts: We get (BLOGS.)
AACS: What !
MPAA experts: (IP Trace) turn on.
AACS: It's you !!
Consumers: How are you (MafIAA)!!
Consumers: All your (HD-DVDs) are belong to us.
Consumers: You are on the way to destruction.
AACS: What you say !!
Consumers: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Consumers: Ha Ha Ha Ha
MPAA experts: Captain !! *
AACS: Take off every (lawyers) !!
AACS: You know what you doing.
AACS: (SUE).
AACS: For great (PROFIT.)
With product cycle getting shorter all the time, is it any surprise that products are no longer designed for durability? How else could companies compelled upgrades required to produce 'record breaking' revenue quarter after quarter?
Looking at the history of Sony products, it has never been a big fan of interoperability as evident by Beta, Memory Stick, UMD, BlueRay, etc. Is it any surprise it's going do its own thing AGAIN?
Wait till you have the breast meat and drum sticks.
Until penalties for data breach has some serious teeth (say, for every dollar of loss inflicted on the customer, fine the offending company ten dollars) companies will never take the security of customer data seriously.
My understanding is that it should be easy enough to implement WPA on older (.11a/b) hardware, but companies much rather sell end user new hardware (.11g etc.) than spending development time to upgrade old hardware (that does not generate additional revenue.) This is evident in that Apple's old AirPort (.11b) does support WPA but other venders' (that would include YOU, Linksys) old .11a/b products do not.
The content industry has already admitted DRM has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with forcing the consumer to pay for the same content, over and over again. It should come as no surprise then, that the downloaded content failed to work (so that the sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H consumer will be compelled to pay for the same content, again.)
My experience with most organizations is that bad attitude tend to trickle down from the top. Apple's land shark behavior does not reflect positively on Jobs or most Apple officers.
Let them know how much you DISLIKE this bill.
Applicant is honest in their response to the survey.
ancient pr0n.
In the mean time, pirated DVDs continued to be manufactured (and I mean serious manufacturing, not a couple of guys with a dozen or two DVD burners) and sold by street vendors.
"If there is a buck to be made, do it. Screw everyone else. Screw the planet."
(This is from an antique Bloom County strip)
"Are earthlings white meated or dark meated?"
As of this post, price for completed auctions are around 80k yen for 20GB units. That's about 30k yen premium over retail, which isn't much if you considered the profiteering that went on on ePay during the first three months after xbox360 launch.
Good idea, that's why it'll never fly. There are too much money tied to 'intellectual property.' Too much money and power at stake, groups with vested interest will see to it that it meets an undeserving end.