It was possible before DeCSS to decode DVDs, and encode VCDs with them. There are plenty of DVDRips floating around, but DeCSS has nothing to do with them.
So, DeCSS is irrelevant as far as piracy. Get it now?
1. Lots of First Posts 2. OOG Posts (well worth the read) 3. Any negative post about Linux 4. Any positive post about Microsoft 5. Following from 3 & 4, any opinion that goes against the prevailing Slashdot winds. 6. Hot grits
In short, you tolerate the crap in order to find the interesting posts. Does anyone really think another post proclaiming Open Source as the One True Way deserves to be marked to +5 insightful? The insightful posts are those that fly in the face of popular opinion, and make Slashdot worth reading. It's just a shame that the moderation system delegates those posts to the same level as the "Taco's mom" posts.
If we allow that mp3.com is legally a "person" then it follows that mp3.com could, under fair use, rip any CDs it owns into mp3, for its own listening. To say that they also have the right under fair use to provide any sort of mp3 service to other owners of the CD is stretching it.
It amuses me that people bash software companies for their licensing schemes, and bore us with nostalgia for Borland's "like a book" agreement, and then turn around and claim that they have a "license" to a song. You bought a CD. If you want to listen to it elsewhere, you carry it with you. If you want to sell it, you go right ahead. If you step on it, you are not entitled to a free replacement copy, anymore than you'd get a book replaced if you dropped it in the bathtub.
Oh, hell no. Iowa is simply giving people the ability to continue to BUY software. If some states choose to be reasonable, and work against UCITA, then Johnny Slashdot can't scream about switching to Open Source software to fight the evil software companies, and will have to revert to pouring hot grits down his pants and stalking Natalie Portman. I'm afraid Iowa is just getting in the way of progress.
And this machine has spent 35 days doing what exactly ? Running idle ?
Quake 3, distributed.net client, web browsing, email, withstanding constant port-scanning and attempted 'sploits (thank you, cable-scanning kiddies), word processing, irc.....blah blah blah. It does everything I need my home workstation to do, without the frequent explorer crashes of Win 98 and NT 4. I'm not in love with it, or even claiming it's as good or better than anything else....I just can't jump on the 65,000 bugs bandwagon and claim that I've had problems with it.
I installed Windows 2000 Professional 5 weeks ago, and haven't had to reboot due to error or installation of software yet (read: 35 days uptime). That counts as stable for me, no matter how much I want to toe the "Microsoft Sucks" line.
change from something people did furtively on IRC, to an absolute right of the people to have whatever they want, whenever they want? I guess when programs like Napster make it possible for any clueless newbie on cable or University ethernet to serve up mp3s to the masses, it becomes acceptable?
Seriously, just because it's easy to steal, doesn't make it right--at least have the decency to hide what you're doing, people. The quote from Lars comparing these people to looters was quite appropriate.
Napster was conceived with the simple goal of facilitating the exchange of pirated music, and they spammed Efnet mp3 channels to build their user base of Rickey Martin and Britney Spears mp3 leeches. Nothing about this company helps the cause of free speech, or a better distribution model for the music industry.
Could you please create a Pirated Music category, for news about Napster and its clones, so that those of us who don't care about this company or its users can filter it from the main page, and pay it the attention it deserves?
K-lining a script kiddie is guaranteed to bring a DoS attack, that's why. Get the point? If these admins are going to be attacked for administering their own networks, then it's really not worth their while to provide this free service to people. If everyone would stop whining about their IRC being taking away, and comparing this to grade school punishment, they may actually realize that people are getting tired of running IRC servers, which is painfully evident on rapidly-shrinking Efnet.
So you can't connect to IRC for a day...if things don't change, the large IRC networks will gradually disappear. Not that this would necessarily be a bad thing, but it's pretty silly to whine about being denied a free service, for which the admins receive no compensation or reward, just a lot of juvenile whining.
and I don't see where I can exclude these Littleton/Jon-Katz-is-the-oppressed-geek-messiah stories. I understand that this is probably interesting to many people that are bitter about their high school experiences, but I don't have time to wallow in their self-pity. How about adding a Littleton category so I can skip it?
On the other hand, due to the massive overhead this will put on ISPs, this law is practically impossible to implement. Once it fails abjectly, we can point to the "Great Australian Censorship Experiment" as a model of failure, when similar laws are introduced in other countries.
To be fair, I think Slashdot has sold it's soul to advertisers as well, just to the advertisers Rob believes in. Just check out the redirects from adfu.blockstackers.com. (hit adfu.blockstackers.com/redir.pl?XXX where XXX is an integer between 1 and 300 or so) You'll see a whole lot of linux websites, distributers of open source software, etc. So, Slashdot's soul is sold. We just like the buyers...
That's called demographics. Do you suppose Microsoft is beating down Rob's door to advertise on this site? Companies spend their advertising money in ways that are designed to reach as much of their targeted audience as possible. I suppose that once all the Linux-related companies realized that/. would be an ideal location, you would have suggested to Rob that he turn down that revenue and wait for those Norton Anti-Virus for NT ads to come rolling in.
Like it or not, websites need to be paid for in some way, and advertising is the dominant model. If you can point me to any evidence that the content of/. changed after these ads started, please do. If the content hasn't changed, and has merely drawn companies that fit the prevailing attitude, that's not selling out...it's intelligent marketing, and it beats the hell out of CyberThrill and XXX banners that I would never conceivably click.
I, for one, appreciate visiting a website where the advertising is actually directed to me, and I've actually been know to click a banner or two.
Linux would have a much better reputation for installation if, for every article like this that describes problems installing linux for the first time, they had an accompanying article written by a Mac user installing NT for the first time. The Linux newbie would be reading slashdot before the NT newbie got off the phone with Microsoft, then Diamond, then Creative, then Adaptec, etc. tech support.
Your better solution is exactly what they're doing. The CD and cassette can be ordered from their website, or you can download it, or you can wait until June to buy it in stores. The original poster either mis-heard the CNN report or CNN once again got their technology story wrong. Either way, Public Enemy is offerring a range of choices, and the fan can choose his/her preferred format.
The downloads section of their site has one of PE's songs in mp3 and mp4(yuck) format, and at the bottom says to view the Atomic Pop trailer for the new CD in Quicktime 3 format. My poor hotel line can't handle that sort of stress, but maybe someone else could check it out:)
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So, DeCSS is irrelevant as far as piracy. Get it now?
1. Lots of First Posts
2. OOG Posts (well worth the read)
3. Any negative post about Linux
4. Any positive post about Microsoft
5. Following from 3 & 4, any opinion that goes against the prevailing Slashdot winds.
6. Hot grits
In short, you tolerate the crap in order to find the interesting posts. Does anyone really think another post proclaiming Open Source as the One True Way deserves to be marked to +5 insightful? The insightful posts are those that fly in the face of popular opinion, and make Slashdot worth reading. It's just a shame that the moderation system delegates those posts to the same level as the "Taco's mom" posts.
It amuses me that people bash software companies for their licensing schemes, and bore us with nostalgia for Borland's "like a book" agreement, and then turn around and claim that they have a "license" to a song. You bought a CD. If you want to listen to it elsewhere, you carry it with you. If you want to sell it, you go right ahead. If you step on it, you are not entitled to a free replacement copy, anymore than you'd get a book replaced if you dropped it in the bathtub.
Oh, hell no. Iowa is simply giving people the ability to continue to BUY software. If some states choose to be reasonable, and work against UCITA, then Johnny Slashdot can't scream about switching to Open Source software to fight the evil software companies, and will have to revert to pouring hot grits down his pants and stalking Natalie Portman. I'm afraid Iowa is just getting in the way of progress.
Quake 3, distributed.net client, web browsing, email, withstanding constant port-scanning and attempted 'sploits (thank you, cable-scanning kiddies), word processing, irc.....blah blah blah. It does everything I need my home workstation to do, without the frequent explorer crashes of Win 98 and NT 4. I'm not in love with it, or even claiming it's as good or better than anything else....I just can't jump on the 65,000 bugs bandwagon and claim that I've had problems with it.
I installed Windows 2000 Professional 5 weeks ago, and haven't had to reboot due to error or installation of software yet (read: 35 days uptime). That counts as stable for me, no matter how much I want to toe the "Microsoft Sucks" line.
I'm just dumb...the link didn't survive the preview...sorry about that. Maybe I'd have better luck posting about hot grits....
Just for kicks, I dug up the Y2K statement for the DNS system. It has some interesting info.
Ok, this is offtopic now, but....
Anyone running Linux/*BSD on cable, and still has telnet and ftp (etc.) still running AND on standard ports, needs to have his/her head examined.
change from something people did furtively on IRC, to an absolute right of the people to have whatever they want, whenever they want? I guess when programs like Napster make it possible for any clueless newbie on cable or University ethernet to serve up mp3s to the masses, it becomes acceptable?
Seriously, just because it's easy to steal, doesn't make it right--at least have the decency to hide what you're doing, people. The quote from Lars comparing these people to looters was quite appropriate.
Napster was conceived with the simple goal of facilitating the exchange of pirated music, and they spammed Efnet mp3 channels to build their user base of Rickey Martin and Britney Spears mp3 leeches. Nothing about this company helps the cause of free speech, or a better distribution model for the music industry.
Could you please create a Pirated Music category, for news about Napster and its clones, so that those of us who don't care about this company or its users can filter it from the main page, and pay it the attention it deserves?
They're definitely not unknown. Liv Tyler, Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McLellan, and John Rhys-Davies are all listed in the credits.
It's cool that they're actually doing the trilogy, instead of trying to cram them all into one long movie.
K-lining a script kiddie is guaranteed to bring a DoS attack, that's why. Get the point? If these admins are going to be attacked for administering their own networks, then it's really not worth their while to provide this free service to people. If everyone would stop whining about their IRC being taking away, and comparing this to grade school punishment, they may actually realize that people are getting tired of running IRC servers, which is painfully evident on rapidly-shrinking Efnet.
So you can't connect to IRC for a day...if things don't change, the large IRC networks will gradually disappear. Not that this would necessarily be a bad thing, but it's pretty silly to whine about being denied a free service, for which the admins receive no compensation or reward, just a lot of juvenile whining.
Of course, you realize that you're being given the port speed and not line speed when it tells you 115k?
and I don't see where I can exclude these Littleton/Jon-Katz-is-the-oppressed-geek-messiah stories. I understand that this is probably interesting to many people that are bitter about their high school experiences, but I don't have time to wallow in their self-pity. How about adding a Littleton category so I can skip it?
On the other hand, due to the massive overhead this will put on ISPs, this law is practically impossible to implement. Once it fails abjectly, we can point to the "Great Australian Censorship Experiment" as a model of failure, when similar laws are introduced in other countries.
That's called demographics. Do you suppose Microsoft is beating down Rob's door to advertise on this site? Companies spend their advertising money in ways that are designed to reach as much of their targeted audience as possible. I suppose that once all the Linux-related companies realized that
Like it or not, websites need to be paid for in some way, and advertising is the dominant model. If you can point me to any evidence that the content of
I, for one, appreciate visiting a website where the advertising is actually directed to me, and I've actually been know to click a banner or two.
Linux would have a much better reputation for installation if, for every article like this that describes problems installing linux for the first time, they had an accompanying article written by a Mac user installing NT for the first time. The Linux newbie would be reading slashdot before the NT newbie got off the phone with Microsoft, then Diamond, then Creative, then Adaptec, etc. tech support.
Your better solution is exactly what they're doing. The CD and cassette can be ordered from their website, or you can download it, or you can wait until June to buy it in stores. The original poster either mis-heard the CNN report or CNN once again got their technology story wrong. Either way, Public Enemy is offerring a range of choices, and the fan can choose his/her preferred format.
The downloads section of their site has one of PE's songs in mp3 and mp4(yuck) format, and at the bottom says to view the Atomic Pop trailer for the new CD in Quicktime 3 format. My poor hotel line can't handle that sort of stress, but maybe someone else could check it out :)
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http://www.atomicpop.com/atomicpopmusic/PEdownl