but if it gets to the point where you have to pay money to rent studio time to copy audio, do you really think that someone who doesn't expect to get some remuneration will go to the trouble?
I don't. I'm not imagining renting studio time. I think that there is a population of people who own decent audio equipment (think of all the independent musicians) who would go to the effort of copying at least some music. Think of how many new major label album releases there are in a year that anyone actually cares about - not all that many. I don't think that every single song from every album would end up on the net, but if a million people buy an album, what are the odds that at least one of them will have the inclination and the means to copy it? I'd say they're pretty good.
Partly, I guess it depends on what kind of priveleges the record companies would get under this agreement. Would they get BSA-like rights to "audit" anyone's music collection at any time? Would they get freenet (currently not even a major haven for music piracy) banned globally? These aren't things that they're currently asking for, but they'd be necessary to really stem the flow of pirated music. I highly doubt that anyone would consent to give the record companies those rights. That makes this entire authoritarian hypothetical situation rather pointless. The most they'd realistically get is the right to use copy-protected CD's, shut down p2p services, and tax blank CDs. None of that would come close to stopping piracy.
You're missing the point. I wasn't comparing the actual acts of hacking deCSS/xbox/whatever to bypassing these theoretical "technical and legal protections", I was comparing the motives. The motive people have for doing all these things is the same - because they can.
The hardest it can possibly be made to copy digital audio (I'm talking about audio here, but video is similar) is take a microphone and stick it in front of a speaker. Sure, the sound quality will suck if Joe Sixpack does it, but all it takes is one good studio recording and it'll be all over the Internet. It's quite easy to put something on the Internet anonymously - you could even use Freenet, if it comes to that. Unless RIAA thugs break into your house in the middle of a pirating session, there's almost no risk.
Laws and technological measures may make it harder to pirate music, but they can never stop it. Look at kiddy porn laws - have they stopped it? The most laws can ever do is force music trading further underground.
Who are these people that will "pirate" works even if the content creators are given all of the technological and legal protections they're asking for? I.e., who will go to whatever technical lengths are required to copy the materials and risk whatever legal sanctions may accrue?
The same people who broke deCSS, hacked the Xbox, and who take camcorders to pre-release showings of major movies. They do it because they can, and it raises their status in parts of the online community. Since all of this can be done relatively anonymously, there's no real legal way to stop people from releasing copyrighted stuff on the Internet.
The record companies know that, even if they were given all copy protection they wanted (barring the banning of unlicensed microphones), people would still pirate music. It only takes one person circumventing the protection to open a work to the world.
Nope - the Xbox key is 2048 bits, would take 2^1024 times longer to crack than a 1024 bir key. Besides, who would build a $10M machine to win a $200K proze?
Why do I have to specify a video output device in the first place ? Why can't it figure out the best one to use on it's own ?
You don't, and it does. However, for those with buggy xv drivers (such as everyone with a R300 Radeon - you listening, ATI?), it can be nice to have that option.
Oh great, so now I should watch videos in EITHER fullscreen OR not, but I can't switch back in forth without closing down the player and opening it again
Sure you can. Push 'f'. It's all in the mplayer documentation.
Rhythmbox is built for GNOME 2 and gstreamer, and fits right in on a GNOME desktop (KDE too, if you're using Bluecurve or Keramik/Geramik). It takes a little effort to get working right now, but it should become a lot easier once GNOME 2.2 final is released in a month or so.
Someone does some faulty math based on statistics they found on the Internet, their result doesn't agree with a statistic they found somewhere else on the Internet, and it winds up on the front page of Slashdot?
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The.net page is pretty obviously incomplete - it doesn't even show Visual Basic. In any case, I'll bet less than 1% of Java or.NET projects are developed with anothing other than Java or C# (and maybe VB.net).
Does anyone else find it kind of telling that an article on X-Box posted at 02:47 has 106 replies whereas one about weddings posted three hours earlier only has 22?????
Not really, considering the Xbox article was on the front page and this isn't.
My PC is faster than an Xbox. Even if I don't upgrade it, it will always be faster than an Xbox. Sure, games may come out which take advantage of newer computers, but my computer, as is, will continue to beat all of the consoles at least until the PS3, etc. come out.
Also, your price comparison is a little unfair - you're adding the price of the monitor and sound system to the PC, but not the console. TV's and surround systems don't come cheap. And, if you alreayd have one, you can hook up your PC just as easily as a console.
Finally, assuming I already have a halfway decent computer (which almost everyone does), I can buy a Radeon 9500 and a nice sound card for less than the price of a new console. PC gaming isn't really expensivce, especially for what you get.
Good point, but why would you need something as big as an SUV to carry hiking equipment? If you can carry it on your back, you can probably fit it in a sedan.
Yeah, I know, you might need to bring other stuff too, but even so, most minivans and station wagons have similar carring capacity to SUVs (more, in some cases).
They changed that a few years ago - now you just can't export it to the Axis of Evil. Anyway, Windows doesn't really contain crypto (unless you count the IE SSL code, but that could easily be removed).
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I don't. I'm not imagining renting studio time. I think that there is a population of people who own decent audio equipment (think of all the independent musicians) who would go to the effort of copying at least some music. Think of how many new major label album releases there are in a year that anyone actually cares about - not all that many. I don't think that every single song from every album would end up on the net, but if a million people buy an album, what are the odds that at least one of them will have the inclination and the means to copy it? I'd say they're pretty good.
Partly, I guess it depends on what kind of priveleges the record companies would get under this agreement. Would they get BSA-like rights to "audit" anyone's music collection at any time? Would they get freenet (currently not even a major haven for music piracy) banned globally? These aren't things that they're currently asking for, but they'd be necessary to really stem the flow of pirated music. I highly doubt that anyone would consent to give the record companies those rights. That makes this entire authoritarian hypothetical situation rather pointless. The most they'd realistically get is the right to use copy-protected CD's, shut down p2p services, and tax blank CDs. None of that would come close to stopping piracy.
The hardest it can possibly be made to copy digital audio (I'm talking about audio here, but video is similar) is take a microphone and stick it in front of a speaker. Sure, the sound quality will suck if Joe Sixpack does it, but all it takes is one good studio recording and it'll be all over the Internet. It's quite easy to put something on the Internet anonymously - you could even use Freenet, if it comes to that. Unless RIAA thugs break into your house in the middle of a pirating session, there's almost no risk.
Laws and technological measures may make it harder to pirate music, but they can never stop it. Look at kiddy porn laws - have they stopped it? The most laws can ever do is force music trading further underground.
The same people who broke deCSS, hacked the Xbox, and who take camcorders to pre-release showings of major movies. They do it because they can, and it raises their status in parts of the online community. Since all of this can be done relatively anonymously, there's no real legal way to stop people from releasing copyrighted stuff on the Internet.
The record companies know that, even if they were given all copy protection they wanted (barring the banning of unlicensed microphones), people would still pirate music. It only takes one person circumventing the protection to open a work to the world.
You'd have to decide on the sport you wanted them to play. I suggest soccer.
Maybe, but Microsoft (usually) provides free patches for their vulnerabilities, including this one. It's hard to compete with free.
Nope - the Xbox key is 2048 bits, would take 2^1024 times longer to crack than a 1024 bir key. Besides, who would build a $10M machine to win a $200K proze?
Unreal 2 is just a later build of the UT engine.
It does switch out. Make sure the mplayer fullscreen "window" has focus by clicking on it.
skinned != exactly resemble
Presumably there's some reason why a GUI is important for a movie program. I'm not quite sure what it is, though.
You don't, and it does. However, for those with buggy xv drivers (such as everyone with a R300 Radeon - you listening, ATI?), it can be nice to have that option.
Oh great, so now I should watch videos in EITHER fullscreen OR not, but I can't switch back in forth without closing down the player and opening it again
Sure you can. Push 'f'. It's all in the mplayer documentation.
Rhythmbox is built for GNOME 2 and gstreamer, and fits right in on a GNOME desktop (KDE too, if you're using Bluecurve or Keramik/Geramik). It takes a little effort to get working right now, but it should become a lot easier once GNOME 2.2 final is released in a month or so.
Sawfish, and probably most other window managers, makes it trivial to map "killall mplayer; mplayer ~/educational.avi" to any key combo you want.
Someone does some faulty math based on statistics they found on the Internet, their result doesn't agree with a statistic they found somewhere else on the Internet, and it winds up on the front page of Slashdot?
The .net page is pretty obviously incomplete - it doesn't even show Visual Basic. In any case, I'll bet less than 1% of Java or .NET projects are developed with anothing other than Java or C# (and maybe VB.net).
You forgot Zelda (which, incidentally, isn't usually named after the console it's on).
Not really, considering the Xbox article was on the front page and this isn't.
It's not like anyone ever had to boot into Windows to use Encarta anyway.
Mozilla does support AA, you just have to enable it with a hidden preference. Debian (and probably some other distros) does that by default.
Also, your price comparison is a little unfair - you're adding the price of the monitor and sound system to the PC, but not the console. TV's and surround systems don't come cheap. And, if you alreayd have one, you can hook up your PC just as easily as a console.
Finally, assuming I already have a halfway decent computer (which almost everyone does), I can buy a Radeon 9500 and a nice sound card for less than the price of a new console. PC gaming isn't really expensivce, especially for what you get.
Which would be even worse than C.
Yeah, I know, you might need to bring other stuff too, but even so, most minivans and station wagons have similar carring capacity to SUVs (more, in some cases).
Whatever happened to hiking to where you're gonna camp?
They changed that a few years ago - now you just can't export it to the Axis of Evil. Anyway, Windows doesn't really contain crypto (unless you count the IE SSL code, but that could easily be removed).