Here's one for you - what do you think would happen to that computer if she did actually find a source out there that could download at speeds anywhere near what has just been advertised for her? I once had access to a really high speed connection on a corporate LAN and was downloading from another corp a set of ISO for some software - concurrently. I didn't think much about the download until my mouse began to respond more slowly and the system started to become unresponsive. When I investigated I found that the data was coming down so fast the Windows PC was choking (WIN2K). The HD light was solid and the drive was chunking as fast as it could. I do not recall the speed at the time but it was faster than anything I've ever come close to at home - damned impressive except for Windows choking. I'd be damned surprised if Windows of any flavor is going to be able to handle the speeds they are talking about here - but would love to test it:-)
I've been told that decompressing the video and then recompressing it takes more CPU than it's worth. I see where you're going and maybe that would work - specialized hardware decodes it and then you've got hardware specialized to recode it. Tried it? I'd be interested in how it works out, every time there's a MythTV discussion and someone asks about recording HD via the decoded output they get shot down and told it's too much data
Sorry but the "analog hole" is crap when it comes to HD. The bitrates are just too high to be grabbing the uncompressed (aka analog) video and compressing it down for later viewing in some sort of realtime fashion. Even OTA HD signals are compressed - there's a reason why recording those signals does so in it's already compressed form!
That said, the Doom9 guys have already whacked some of the BD stuff in the past - they actually used the SAME keys as the HD-DVD guys did at the pressing plant prior to HD-DVD switching keys. (lol) It's pretty obvious that this guy hasn't been keeping up with the hacks aimed at his format. I do recall that BD had an extra security layer that could be brought into play and hadn't been seen yet but I am pretty sure it too would fall as soon as it rears it's head.
Honestly the biggest thing that appeared to be stopping the Doom9 guys with regards to BD was the lack of AFFORDABLE PC based players. The XBOX add-on was a huge boost for hacking efforts on HD-DVD because it was affordable, for BD you've got nothing but expensive players and the PS3. As soon as more reasonably priced players are out with halfway decent software folks will attack it more heavily:-)
BTW HD-DVD apparently has the ability to ban down to the individual player too. However the Doom9 guys have gone after things other than the player key in order to keep that from happening to them. BD likely also has keys further up the food chain that will not be so easiyl stopped too....
Actually you'd be surprised at just how many people are ripping older DVDs. I work on lots of machines for neighbors and friends of friends that get spyware on their machines. I have been SHOCKED at hoe many of them can barely tie their own shoe laces but have DVD ripping software on their machine and frequently a couple of movies. Laptops especially because people want to travel and have something to watch but not risk their physical media. the other day my SO was buying a movie that she found cheap at a grocery store. When she got to the checkout the clerk was going on and on about how you could rip DVD easily, told her what packages to get (one that's been taken off the market here BTW), and even went so far as to tell her you could rent DVDs - rip them - and keep a copy "legally"! Full of crap but it just goes to show you how common it has become!
So while someone's mother might not be ripping DVDs I think you'll find that if she wanted to she wouldn't have much trouble finding out HOW or getting the software to do it if she desired...
No no, it's not ME that doesn't have a firm fixed upper limit - it's the sheeple:-) When they see that my max is above their's durng a normal non-snipe bid process after they have bid and mine bumps it becomes a competition to outbid and "win" - prices spiral. Worse comes to worse they don't beat me and simply bump the price up and I pay more. Generally I set my max bid and leave it alone until the snipe is done. Just lost one tonight actually - bummer.
You still don't win all the time because sometimes other's do have higher prices you don't see that are proxied and that's okay - however it leads to situations like the one described above where Ebay may show the wrong person winning momentarily.
Here's how it goes. Price is say $20 so sheeple says what a bargain and bids $22. I see it and decide to bid $25, sheeple sees that their price has been beaten and bids it up past my final bid - my bid loses.
Sniping - I see price at $22 and instead of beating that price right away I logon to the snipe service, type in my max amount, I log off happy. 5 SECONDS before the auction closes, with potentially the sheeple who bid first refreshing like mad, my bid is entered. Before said sheeple can decide that yeah they are really okay with getting it for $1 over my max bid or upping their price a few times before giving up the auction is over. Instead of my having to fight a bid war I bid just once.
Best of all Phantombidder is CHEAP, WEB based, and I can bid in groups. I can find 8 auctions of an item I want, setup snipes for ALL of them, put them ALL in one group, and whenever one of them is successful it stops bidding on ALL others. Oh, I only pay for successful bids too:-)
You can argue this is stupid but since I've been doing it I get more of what I want for less.
That's normal - someone used a bid sniping service like Phantombidder.com to bid at the last possible split second. A lag in processing that bid is why you were first shown a win and then later shown it at a higher price - I've actually won and lost auctions like that:-) Yes, I snipe often - keeps me from bidding against sheeple who just bid ever higher instead of simply setting a bid and forgetting...
Yes, the software is expecting certain kinds of responses blah blah and you can modify the software to accept other inputs as valid. Except that the software is signed and verified at bootup by the TPM. TPM is a chain of trust sort of thing with the root of that trust buried in a chip filled with crypto and digital signatures. Many (damn near all actually) of the suggestions posted here so far violate that chain of trust and will be spotted by the TPM and a flag thrown on the play. Done RIGHT you're not going to be getting around the TPM so easily. Question is, did it get implemented "right"? These guys claimed they found a crack and have now pulled back so who knows.
What folks seem to forget is that the folks who designed the TPM chip were ALL already aware of all the kinds of things people are suggesting here. The XBOX 360 supposedly uses TPM and apparently trying to tap some of it's data lines is enough for it to shutdown. Data lines are apparently crypto'd when using TPM blah blah so just firing up a logic analyzer gets you pretty much squat. The guys who did this spec weren't dummies and there's big money on the line...
Legal insurance? Not familiar with such a thing and Google doesn't seem to be either. Insured against someone slipping and falling in my home yes but not against say the RIAA kicking down my door. As for an impartial expert, who would pay for such a thing? Certainly not the court. Both accuser and accused would bring their own experts. Do some reading on some of the RIAA cases and you'll see that they go down much like I described. It's sounding as if you're not from the US and if so I can tell you that yes, we're really THAT screwed up now. The situation works in favor of large companies and lawyers. Large companies lobby for laws and lawyers, well they win out no matter what but in this environment they thrive! Many folks don't realize how bad it is until they get caught up in it themselves, it needs to change but I have no idea how or when such a change will be effected....:-(
You seem to misunderstand how this works - for you to even show up in court you'll want a lawyer unless you're truly suicidal. Figure a couple grand retainer for starters. Then they will do all sorts of crap to tangle you in red tape, the judge likely won't have a clue as to what's going on, and he will also not understand the difference between a mod chip used for regions and something for pirating. They will claim it's for pirating, you will be the bad guy saying it's not, you will have to dig out of that hole - expert witnesses aren't free either BTW. My lawyer tells me that if I hire a Dr. for my case to testify they will simply hire two and claim I'm full of crap - the Dr. win or lose will want on the order of $5K for showing up. Is it getting clearer yet? The big bad media company says you're bad, you must prove otherwise because they will be believed and have hordes of folks lined up to testify about how you've done who knows what and it cost them cash. Geeks understand the tech stuff, juries and judges have NO clue. Do you think a tech savvy person would get past jury selection? LOL!
When done you might manage to win, maybe, or maybe after a few months they will drop it - maybe. When it's all done, win or lose or drop, the lawyer hands you his bill - YOU pay it not them. This is called losing when you've won and depending upon how expensive the lawyer was you could be looking at a second mortgage - seriously.... Welcome to our legal system!
Oh,this is civil court, forget a court appointed anything. If you're lucky the EFF will have taken up your cause but they cannot help everyone - this is why I give them cash every year. you should too!
This is how the RIAA manages to hand threats to people that amount to extortion. Pay them multiple grand and sign something promising to never do it again or take your chances in court where losing could cost you a bazillion and winning is sure to cost you more than they originally offered to let you go with.
And you would be INCORRECT. It is currently not possible to run unsigned homebrew within the VM however it IS possible to break the VM and run *native* Linux if you have an older firmware flash. Efforts are underway to further break the platform and while it's got a ways to go it's slowly getting there - yeah I bought a couple of 360 with the old flash just for this but I'll admit I've not done much with them. I actually updated one but the other is being reserved for whatever hacking trouble I can get into with it down the road.:-) I own multiple older XBOX with XBMC on them as multimedia boxes and am hoping to do the same with the 360 or the new XBMC Linux port.
Oh, indeed you might be able to fight and claim thjat the region coding is less a copy protection and more a profit mechanism and shouldn't apply. It will only cost you your home and family's income for who knows how long to make the case. Legal abuse at it's very best....
At least the sheeple are slowly starting to wake up to just how bad things have gotten but it's going to be a VERY long time before we reclaim some of the right's we've lost. Sadly they have only just begun with the anger stage, torches and pitchforks will be awhile coming I fear.
If that were the case then there would be FAR fewer people bitching about the fees TIVO charges! Part of the fees for TIVO goes to paying for a reliable guide service and it just works, much like a toaster.
Read some of the discussions the TIVO folks have on this! Multiple cable sources, OTA, and multiple SAT can all be had in a single spot. Different cable and SAT packages just make this worse. It's a nightmare to keep up with for a general purpose box and it's no wonder to me that services charge for this. A P2P solution might work to lower load on a single source, which seems to have been the issues here, but coming up with a way for everyone to describe exactly what data they ened for their specific geo area and offerings would certainly be a challenge! Me, I just use a DTIVO:-)
The URL is there and it is valid. However for some reason the underscore between the and Scrivener is being removed when linked. Here's the second post that has the PNG of his letter. There will be a space in it from the/. software because I'm not making it a link. There should be an underscore between the and scrivener.blogspot.com. The date in the URL is 2002/06 and there are hypens between the words copyright is dead 2. With a little work you CAN get to this guy's pages just fine, most of the links here are being parsed badly and screwed up somehow is all. The underscore in teh domain portion of the name really breaks thing!
In this case I did it because it was EASY. Scripted and pretty well documented overall. Once done the box is back to being a toaster - as in easy to use with ZERO maintenance by me or the woman. I've attempted to setup Myth more than once - toaster it was NOT! For other video formats I use XBMC which is again, much like a toaster with no maintenance other than added features that require updating the code. That code updating BTW is an FTP of binaries. XBMC is being ported to Linux, when that is done perhaps I'll be on a "true" Linux box but only if it's *easy* as I'm NOT the only person in the household that wishes to watch the TV. If Myth were done for a dedicated platform ala XBOX and were that dirt simple to install then IMO it would be adopted bigtime, alas that's not the case. I don't mind tinkering with my desktop box, tinkering with the entertainment for the whole family is NOT an option. I take down the TIVO only when everyone is away for a day or two. (lol) Maybe the LinuxMCE project will get "there" one day...
Actually a hacked DTIVO will do MORE than a standard S2 TIVO will! Suggest Googling Zipper and TIVO. Actually, I did it for you -> http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html
Neat little car but if I'm going to be forced to drive one I want it to be built like this -> http://youtube.com/watch?v=UPu0Dbe9nMA Now that would be fun!
As you've pointed out you have comopetition ni your neck of the woods, many places have little of that. All of those 3rd party DSL providers etc. provide that via the COPPER infrastructure because the ovt. forced the phone companies to allow it. My old DSL line was actually based out of a GTE facility via COVAD, the same facility that GTE told me was too far away to provide DSL. The first time I tried to have it hooked up I was told that the facility had no additional pairs - despite the fact I was giving up a phone line that came out of the same facility at the same time I was getting DSL! I waited a week and tried again successfully. Friends of mine who lived closer to their facility tried to get DSL and were also denied, when they asked about perhaps having a 3rd party like COVAD provide the service the operator told them point blank that that wasn't possible because THEY "owned" the lines and were the only possible providers - an outright lie and illegal to boot. Be glad that you have some sort of true competition where you live, here we have Verizon and ComCast to choose from and FIOS isn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye. I've spoken to the Verzion folks about FIOs in my area, right nwo it's not even on the drawing board and we're a suburb of Washington D.C. - it's pathetic.
That competition that is currently ongoing over the copper? It's not going to be allowed on the fiber. Verizon lobbied for and was granted exclusive use - why do you think they are suddenly so hot to roll it out?
Verizon is funding this rollout? You mean the zillion sin tax subsidies didn't fund it? Trust me, Verizon is getting plenty of incentive to roll this stuff out! They are skimping on copper because they know that eventually when FIOS is more fully rolled out it's their competitors that will be taking over the copper and they intend to hand them an albatross.
Verizon was going gangbusters on fiber rollout until they were forced to share their copper with 3rd party providers. As soon as that occured fiber rollout slowed to a crawl and they began lobbying for regulatory protection of the fiber infrastructure so that they wouldn't be required to "share" it like they were the copper. They got that protection and are proceeding to rollout FIOS as fast as they can (still slow but faster - it's a big job). Verizon intends to dump the copper just as soon as they can, often times (not always) they are REMOVING copper as they install fiber into homes - switching away from fiber that they provide to a competitor in the future will be further burdened by this practice.
Your assumption about the FIOS techs is unfounded. The friend of mine who has told me about this occuring in Maryland has been actively encouraged by his supervisors to join the FIOS ranks and many of his teamates have indeed gone over to the other side of the house to work FIOS. they are promoting from within to at least a certain degree, this frined of mine already has his Father working in the FIOS area so it's not just the younger ones moving either. There ARE downsides to moving including LONG commutes, not being allowed to take the vehicles home (commute unpaid to depot), and forced overtime so it's no panacea to do FIOS.
Oh, it's not just the copper falling apart from lack of maintenace either - their trucks are also falling apart! Lack of maintenance and an aging fleet of crap vehicles is causing problems for the techs too. Verizon refuses to buy anything new and the old stuff is wearing out pretty badly. His truck looks like it's been through a war and breaks down regularly fo fun things like brakes and transmisison issues....
I have a friend who works for Verizon up North of Baltimore. For th elast year+ he has been telling me story after story about how Verizon has dismissed the crews who are responsible for copper infrastructure maintenance. He says the ONLY work done on the copper infrastructure is repairs, no tree trimming etc. is being done. As a result the length of time to get a repair done has gotten pretty long as the calls grow ever higher. Installing new lines and things like that is now a nightmare in smoe communities - techs pull pairs thinking they are unused (there's few if any left) and often end up disconnecting someone in order to get another working, that person then has to put in a service call - round and round they go.
The focus is on FIOS rollout. Techs are being actively encouraged to move from the copper sector to the FIOS group. However the FIOS group apparently has their trucks tracked more closely and is often forced to work OT. FIOS rollout is going slow because often when someone goes to FIOS they go for a triple play which is Phone, 'net, and video. Often times this requires rewiring the ENTIRE house becasueof the standards that have been laid down regarding quality of cabling - coax etc. The result is that the techs are often getting maybe 2 installs a day done and working OT most every day. Some techs take shortcuts by simply reusing "substandard" coax but they can get into trouble for doing so.
Verizon is also pissed off at the cable companies up there taking their phone business. The cable companies often disconnect the internal wiring at the outside box and jumper the wires to backfeed from inside (how mine's done). Verizon has actually begun REMOVING the boxes from the outsides of some people's houses when they cancel with Verizon in order to interfere with the cable companies trying to do this.
Make no mistake - there's an ongoing battle here beneath the surface. It comes as NO surprise to me that Verizon is doing this same thing in Virginia. From what I've been told by the guy I know their plan is to roll out FIOS while allowing the copper to "rot". At some point in the future they plan to sell off or lease the copper to 3rd party CLECS and burden them with the maintenance\repair of what's left of the copper. Never mind that Verizon received massive subsidies and were given rights of way on public\private lands to run the cables in the first place! I can say for sure that the trees in my neighborhood haven't been trimmed back in at least 5 years and on my block alone there are *multiple* cases of trees LAYING limbs against the phone lines. Not too far from me a tree fell against the lines and into the road, the police trimmed the tree out of the road but the trunk still lays against the phone lines some 2 months later. Very glad to see this coming to light, it's disgusting!
So others have patched your code and because of the license being GPL you're not comfortable using it in a commercial product. Has it occured to you that if it were BSD you might not have ever seen those patches? Folks could patch your code and release binaries without ever having to submit them to you - in commercial products too! Not sure I'd be happy about that if it were me but apparently at least some people are okay with it
I should've searched for unRAId in the discussion before posting my own endorsement - I'd be able to mod you up then (doh!).
I 100% agree with you on unRAID - it rox! I'm not using any sort of background Linux stuff to do my backups but I do use an unattended backup package that works just fine with unRAID (Acronis). The speed could be better (I'm not yet on the 2.6 based version) but it keeps up stutter free with my XBMC box so it's fast enough for me.:-) Not having striped data also rocks, lets me spin down everything not in use. ResierFS is easier to recover data from than damned weirdo' striped data sets too - there's a reason that recovery firms specifically mention if they can recover from RAID crashes heh. All in all it's a good system, several of my friends now run it and I'm building a second system for my used disks that get upgraded out of the primary system.
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Here's one for you - what do you think would happen to that computer if she did actually find a source out there that could download at speeds anywhere near what has just been advertised for her? I once had access to a really high speed connection on a corporate LAN and was downloading from another corp a set of ISO for some software - concurrently. I didn't think much about the download until my mouse began to respond more slowly and the system started to become unresponsive. When I investigated I found that the data was coming down so fast the Windows PC was choking (WIN2K). The HD light was solid and the drive was chunking as fast as it could. I do not recall the speed at the time but it was faster than anything I've ever come close to at home - damned impressive except for Windows choking. I'd be damned surprised if Windows of any flavor is going to be able to handle the speeds they are talking about here - but would love to test it :-)
I've been told that decompressing the video and then recompressing it takes more CPU than it's worth. I see where you're going and maybe that would work - specialized hardware decodes it and then you've got hardware specialized to recode it. Tried it? I'd be interested in how it works out, every time there's a MythTV discussion and someone asks about recording HD via the decoded output they get shot down and told it's too much data
Sorry but the "analog hole" is crap when it comes to HD. The bitrates are just too high to be grabbing the uncompressed (aka analog) video and compressing it down for later viewing in some sort of realtime fashion. Even OTA HD signals are compressed - there's a reason why recording those signals does so in it's already compressed form!
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That said, the Doom9 guys have already whacked some of the BD stuff in the past - they actually used the SAME keys as the HD-DVD guys did at the pressing plant prior to HD-DVD switching keys. (lol) It's pretty obvious that this guy hasn't been keeping up with the hacks aimed at his format. I do recall that BD had an extra security layer that could be brought into play and hadn't been seen yet but I am pretty sure it too would fall as soon as it rears it's head.
Honestly the biggest thing that appeared to be stopping the Doom9 guys with regards to BD was the lack of AFFORDABLE PC based players. The XBOX add-on was a huge boost for hacking efforts on HD-DVD because it was affordable, for BD you've got nothing but expensive players and the PS3. As soon as more reasonably priced players are out with halfway decent software folks will attack it more heavily
BTW HD-DVD apparently has the ability to ban down to the individual player too. However the Doom9 guys have gone after things other than the player key in order to keep that from happening to them. BD likely also has keys further up the food chain that will not be so easiyl stopped too....
Actually you'd be surprised at just how many people are ripping older DVDs. I work on lots of machines for neighbors and friends of friends that get spyware on their machines. I have been SHOCKED at hoe many of them can barely tie their own shoe laces but have DVD ripping software on their machine and frequently a couple of movies. Laptops especially because people want to travel and have something to watch but not risk their physical media. the other day my SO was buying a movie that she found cheap at a grocery store. When she got to the checkout the clerk was going on and on about how you could rip DVD easily, told her what packages to get (one that's been taken off the market here BTW), and even went so far as to tell her you could rent DVDs - rip them - and keep a copy "legally"! Full of crap but it just goes to show you how common it has become!
So while someone's mother might not be ripping DVDs I think you'll find that if she wanted to she wouldn't have much trouble finding out HOW or getting the software to do it if she desired...
No no, it's not ME that doesn't have a firm fixed upper limit - it's the sheeple :-) When they see that my max is above their's durng a normal non-snipe bid process after they have bid and mine bumps it becomes a competition to outbid and "win" - prices spiral. Worse comes to worse they don't beat me and simply bump the price up and I pay more. Generally I set my max bid and leave it alone until the snipe is done. Just lost one tonight actually - bummer.
You still don't win all the time because sometimes other's do have higher prices you don't see that are proxied and that's okay - however it leads to situations like the one described above where Ebay may show the wrong person winning momentarily.
Here's how it goes. Price is say $20 so sheeple says what a bargain and bids $22. I see it and decide to bid $25, sheeple sees that their price has been beaten and bids it up past my final bid - my bid loses.
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Sniping - I see price at $22 and instead of beating that price right away I logon to the snipe service, type in my max amount, I log off happy. 5 SECONDS before the auction closes, with potentially the sheeple who bid first refreshing like mad, my bid is entered. Before said sheeple can decide that yeah they are really okay with getting it for $1 over my max bid or upping their price a few times before giving up the auction is over. Instead of my having to fight a bid war I bid just once.
Best of all Phantombidder is CHEAP, WEB based, and I can bid in groups. I can find 8 auctions of an item I want, setup snipes for ALL of them, put them ALL in one group, and whenever one of them is successful it stops bidding on ALL others. Oh, I only pay for successful bids too
You can argue this is stupid but since I've been doing it I get more of what I want for less.
That's normal - someone used a bid sniping service like Phantombidder.com to bid at the last possible split second. A lag in processing that bid is why you were first shown a win and then later shown it at a higher price - I've actually won and lost auctions like that :-) Yes, I snipe often - keeps me from bidding against sheeple who just bid ever higher instead of simply setting a bid and forgetting...
Suggest further reading on the subject....
Yes, the software is expecting certain kinds of responses blah blah and you can modify the software to accept other inputs as valid. Except that the software is signed and verified at bootup by the TPM. TPM is a chain of trust sort of thing with the root of that trust buried in a chip filled with crypto and digital signatures. Many (damn near all actually) of the suggestions posted here so far violate that chain of trust and will be spotted by the TPM and a flag thrown on the play. Done RIGHT you're not going to be getting around the TPM so easily. Question is, did it get implemented "right"? These guys claimed they found a crack and have now pulled back so who knows.
What folks seem to forget is that the folks who designed the TPM chip were ALL already aware of all the kinds of things people are suggesting here. The XBOX 360 supposedly uses TPM and apparently trying to tap some of it's data lines is enough for it to shutdown. Data lines are apparently crypto'd when using TPM blah blah so just firing up a logic analyzer gets you pretty much squat. The guys who did this spec weren't dummies and there's big money on the line...
Legal insurance? Not familiar with such a thing and Google doesn't seem to be either. Insured against someone slipping and falling in my home yes but not against say the RIAA kicking down my door. As for an impartial expert, who would pay for such a thing? Certainly not the court. Both accuser and accused would bring their own experts. Do some reading on some of the RIAA cases and you'll see that they go down much like I described. It's sounding as if you're not from the US and if so I can tell you that yes, we're really THAT screwed up now. The situation works in favor of large companies and lawyers. Large companies lobby for laws and lawyers, well they win out no matter what but in this environment they thrive! Many folks don't realize how bad it is until they get caught up in it themselves, it needs to change but I have no idea how or when such a change will be effected.... :-(
You seem to misunderstand how this works - for you to even show up in court you'll want a lawyer unless you're truly suicidal. Figure a couple grand retainer for starters. Then they will do all sorts of crap to tangle you in red tape, the judge likely won't have a clue as to what's going on, and he will also not understand the difference between a mod chip used for regions and something for pirating. They will claim it's for pirating, you will be the bad guy saying it's not, you will have to dig out of that hole - expert witnesses aren't free either BTW. My lawyer tells me that if I hire a Dr. for my case to testify they will simply hire two and claim I'm full of crap - the Dr. win or lose will want on the order of $5K for showing up. Is it getting clearer yet? The big bad media company says you're bad, you must prove otherwise because they will be believed and have hordes of folks lined up to testify about how you've done who knows what and it cost them cash. Geeks understand the tech stuff, juries and judges have NO clue. Do you think a tech savvy person would get past jury selection? LOL!
When done you might manage to win, maybe, or maybe after a few months they will drop it - maybe. When it's all done, win or lose or drop, the lawyer hands you his bill - YOU pay it not them. This is called losing when you've won and depending upon how expensive the lawyer was you could be looking at a second mortgage - seriously.... Welcome to our legal system!
Oh,this is civil court, forget a court appointed anything. If you're lucky the EFF will have taken up your cause but they cannot help everyone - this is why I give them cash every year. you should too!
This is how the RIAA manages to hand threats to people that amount to extortion. Pay them multiple grand and sign something promising to never do it again or take your chances in court where losing could cost you a bazillion and winning is sure to cost you more than they originally offered to let you go with.
And you would be INCORRECT. It is currently not possible to run unsigned homebrew within the VM however it IS possible to break the VM and run *native* Linux if you have an older firmware flash. Efforts are underway to further break the platform and while it's got a ways to go it's slowly getting there - yeah I bought a couple of 360 with the old flash just for this but I'll admit I've not done much with them. I actually updated one but the other is being reserved for whatever hacking trouble I can get into with it down the road. :-) I own multiple older XBOX with XBMC on them as multimedia boxes and am hoping to do the same with the 360 or the new XBMC Linux port.
Suggested reading http://www.free60.org/wiki/Main_Page
Oh, indeed you might be able to fight and claim thjat the region coding is less a copy protection and more a profit mechanism and shouldn't apply. It will only cost you your home and family's income for who knows how long to make the case. Legal abuse at it's very best....
At least the sheeple are slowly starting to wake up to just how bad things have gotten but it's going to be a VERY long time before we reclaim some of the right's we've lost. Sadly they have only just begun with the anger stage, torches and pitchforks will be awhile coming I fear.
If that were the case then there would be FAR fewer people bitching about the fees TIVO charges! Part of the fees for TIVO goes to paying for a reliable guide service and it just works, much like a toaster.
Read some of the discussions the TIVO folks have on this! Multiple cable sources, OTA, and multiple SAT can all be had in a single spot. Different cable and SAT packages just make this worse. It's a nightmare to keep up with for a general purpose box and it's no wonder to me that services charge for this. A P2P solution might work to lower load on a single source, which seems to have been the issues here, but coming up with a way for everyone to describe exactly what data they ened for their specific geo area and offerings would certainly be a challenge! Me, I just use a DTIVO :-)
The URL is there and it is valid. However for some reason the underscore between the and Scrivener is being removed when linked. Here's the second post that has the PNG of his letter. There will be a space in it from the /. software because I'm not making it a link. There should be an underscore between the and scrivener.blogspot.com. The date in the URL is 2002/06 and there are hypens between the words copyright is dead 2. With a little work you CAN get to this guy's pages just fine, most of the links here are being parsed badly and screwed up somehow is all. The underscore in teh domain portion of the name really breaks thing!
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In this case I did it because it was EASY. Scripted and pretty well documented overall. Once done the box is back to being a toaster - as in easy to use with ZERO maintenance by me or the woman. I've attempted to setup Myth more than once - toaster it was NOT! For other video formats I use XBMC which is again, much like a toaster with no maintenance other than added features that require updating the code. That code updating BTW is an FTP of binaries. XBMC is being ported to Linux, when that is done perhaps I'll be on a
"true" Linux box but only if it's *easy* as I'm NOT the only person in the household that wishes to watch the TV. If Myth were done for a dedicated platform ala XBOX and were that dirt simple to install then IMO it would be adopted bigtime, alas that's not the case. I don't mind tinkering with my desktop box, tinkering with the entertainment for the whole family is NOT an option. I take down the TIVO only when everyone is away for a day or two. (lol) Maybe the LinuxMCE project will get "there" one day...
Actually a hacked DTIVO will do MORE than a standard S2 TIVO will! Suggest Googling Zipper and TIVO. Actually, I did it for you -> http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html
Extraction, sharing among TIVO units, and more!
Neat little car but if I'm going to be forced to drive one I want it to be built like this -> http://youtube.com/watch?v=UPu0Dbe9nMA Now that would be fun!
Won't start or drive? Umm, no sorry - FUD.
As you've pointed out you have comopetition ni your neck of the woods, many places have little of that. All of those 3rd party DSL providers etc. provide that via the COPPER infrastructure because the ovt. forced the phone companies to allow it. My old DSL line was actually based out of a GTE facility via COVAD, the same facility that GTE told me was too far away to provide DSL. The first time I tried to have it hooked up I was told that the facility had no additional pairs - despite the fact I was giving up a phone line that came out of the same facility at the same time I was getting DSL! I waited a week and tried again successfully. Friends of mine who lived closer to their facility tried to get DSL and were also denied, when they asked about perhaps having a 3rd party like COVAD provide the service the operator told them point blank that that wasn't possible because THEY "owned" the lines and were the only possible providers - an outright lie and illegal to boot. Be glad that you have some sort of true competition where you live, here we have Verizon and ComCast to choose from and FIOS isn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye. I've spoken to the Verzion folks about FIOs in my area, right nwo it's not even on the drawing board and we're a suburb of Washington D.C. - it's pathetic.
That competition that is currently ongoing over the copper? It's not going to be allowed on the fiber. Verizon lobbied for and was granted exclusive use - why do you think they are suddenly so hot to roll it out?
Verizon is funding this rollout? You mean the zillion sin tax subsidies didn't fund it? Trust me, Verizon is getting plenty of incentive to roll this stuff out! They are skimping on copper because they know that eventually when FIOS is more fully rolled out it's their competitors that will be taking over the copper and they intend to hand them an albatross.
Verizon was going gangbusters on fiber rollout until they were forced to share their copper with 3rd party providers. As soon as that occured fiber rollout slowed to a crawl and they began lobbying for regulatory protection of the fiber infrastructure so that they wouldn't be required to "share" it like they were the copper. They got that protection and are proceeding to rollout FIOS as fast as they can (still slow but faster - it's a big job). Verizon intends to dump the copper just as soon as they can, often times (not always) they are REMOVING copper as they install fiber into homes - switching away from fiber that they provide to a competitor in the future will be further burdened by this practice.
Your assumption about the FIOS techs is unfounded. The friend of mine who has told me about this occuring in Maryland has been actively encouraged by his supervisors to join the FIOS ranks and many of his teamates have indeed gone over to the other side of the house to work FIOS. they are promoting from within to at least a certain degree, this frined of mine already has his Father working in the FIOS area so it's not just the younger ones moving either. There ARE downsides to moving including LONG commutes, not being allowed to take the vehicles home (commute unpaid to depot), and forced overtime so it's no panacea to do FIOS.
Oh, it's not just the copper falling apart from lack of maintenace either - their trucks are also falling apart! Lack of maintenance and an aging fleet of crap vehicles is causing problems for the techs too. Verizon refuses to buy anything new and the old stuff is wearing out pretty badly. His truck looks like it's been through a war and breaks down regularly fo fun things like brakes and transmisison issues....
I have a friend who works for Verizon up North of Baltimore. For th elast year+ he has been telling me story after story about how Verizon has dismissed the crews who are responsible for copper infrastructure maintenance. He says the ONLY work done on the copper infrastructure is repairs, no tree trimming etc. is being done. As a result the length of time to get a repair done has gotten pretty long as the calls grow ever higher. Installing new lines and things like that is now a nightmare in smoe communities - techs pull pairs thinking they are unused (there's few if any left) and often end up disconnecting someone in order to get another working, that person then has to put in a service call - round and round they go.
The focus is on FIOS rollout. Techs are being actively encouraged to move from the copper sector to the FIOS group. However the FIOS group apparently has their trucks tracked more closely and is often forced to work OT. FIOS rollout is going slow because often when someone goes to FIOS they go for a triple play which is Phone, 'net, and video. Often times this requires rewiring the ENTIRE house becasueof the standards that have been laid down regarding quality of cabling - coax etc. The result is that the techs are often getting maybe 2 installs a day done and working OT most every day. Some techs take shortcuts by simply reusing "substandard" coax but they can get into trouble for doing so.
Verizon is also pissed off at the cable companies up there taking their phone business. The cable companies often disconnect the internal wiring at the outside box and jumper the wires to backfeed from inside (how mine's done). Verizon has actually begun REMOVING the boxes from the outsides of some people's houses when they cancel with Verizon in order to interfere with the cable companies trying to do this.
Make no mistake - there's an ongoing battle here beneath the surface. It comes as NO surprise to me that Verizon is doing this same thing in Virginia. From what I've been told by the guy I know their plan is to roll out FIOS while allowing the copper to "rot". At some point in the future they plan to sell off or lease the copper to 3rd party CLECS and burden them with the maintenance\repair of what's left of the copper. Never mind that Verizon received massive subsidies and were given rights of way on public\private lands to run the cables in the first place! I can say for sure that the trees in my neighborhood haven't been trimmed back in at least 5 years and on my block alone there are *multiple* cases of trees LAYING limbs against the phone lines. Not too far from me a tree fell against the lines and into the road, the police trimmed the tree out of the road but the trunk still lays against the phone lines some 2 months later. Very glad to see this coming to light, it's disgusting!
So others have patched your code and because of the license being GPL you're not comfortable using it in a commercial product. Has it occured to you that if it were BSD you might not have ever seen those patches? Folks could patch your code and release binaries without ever having to submit them to you - in commercial products too! Not sure I'd be happy about that if it were me but apparently at least some people are okay with it
I should've searched for unRAId in the discussion before posting my own endorsement - I'd be able to mod you up then (doh!).
:-) Not having striped data also rocks, lets me spin down everything not in use. ResierFS is easier to recover data from than damned weirdo' striped data sets too - there's a reason that recovery firms specifically mention if they can recover from RAID crashes heh. All in all it's a good system, several of my friends now run it and I'm building a second system for my used disks that get upgraded out of the primary system.
I 100% agree with you on unRAID - it rox! I'm not using any sort of background Linux stuff to do my backups but I do use an unattended backup package that works just fine with unRAID (Acronis). The speed could be better (I'm not yet on the 2.6 based version) but it keeps up stutter free with my XBMC box so it's fast enough for me.