It's very simple, I want this in my TV because I want to skew the results as easy as I can. I want the "Star Trek Marathon watching" demographic to skyrocket.
As much as they pretend about the money, the REAL reason what "file sharing is wrong" is becuase it allows for a subtle shift in the societal mindshare concerning how music gets distributed. The "content industry" is a misnomer, it's actually a "distributiuon industry", producing either very little or NO new content at all. Allowing the public (PARTICULARLY the artists) to begin to think about alternative means of distribution as actual possibilities (not just pipe dreams) is the first step on the road to utter decimation of the status quo.
Look suspisciously like MANILLA FOLDERS. This is not "innovation", it's just some guy who looked at the tabbed folders in his dek drawer and noticed that you could move them around, so he transferred that concept to the computer. Transferring a very common concept to a computer is NOT INNOVATON any more than the concept of reading words from a computer is no more innovative than reading them from the printed page!
I don't understand how the medium affects the copyright.
I think this particular medium does affect it, though, because:
A) They are given free reign to use public property without paying anything. It would be like setting up a public art project, and then suing people who took pictures. If they want to keep thier copyright intact they shouldn't broadcast it over public airwaves (cable only).
B) They are using, in addition to "air", people's bidies, houses, cars, pets, etc. for thier "medium" (radio waves go through all that stuff). It would be VERY hard, no IMPOSSIBLE, to justify owning the copyright on something that is forcibly written onto somone elses body.
I wonder, does this "contract" that we have with the networks also mean that we must buy things too? What if we make a point of expressly NOT buying everything we see in commercials, would that make us thieves if we DO watch the commercials?
Once again, it's old worn-out business models running at hurricane speeds into the reenforeced concrete wall of technology and progress. If they absolutly demand that thier advertisements get seen, then start using product placement in the shows! Oh, wait, that would hurt thier lucrative syndication racket^H^H^H^H^H market. How about making thier business a micropayment one, where you pay per minute watched (with ads deducting from the bill)? Oh, that would require innovation and investment on thier part. Again, not going to happen.
As soon as all of the *cough* "Content" industries fail we may finally have a chance to see some real creative innovation in both the kinds of shows we watch and the models in which we pay for them, but until then, I'll just sit back and enjoy watching them squirm about like the stuck pigs that they are.
It is *mathematically impossible* to have any sort of "secure" media format. Attempting to legislate it into existance is tantamount to legislating gravity away. IT CANNOT BE DONE. What you NEED to do is make certian that she understands this simple fact of nature. There is no possible legislation that will work. None at all. The reason why people advocate the changing of business models by those that sell content is simply becuase that is the only possible alternative.
Imagine, if you will, the analogy of power companies wanting to base thier industry on oil, which for the moment is a in abundant supply. Imagine if over the years, they completely run out of oil, and I mean COMPLETELY run out. Now, in order to keep thier business going, they come up with the idea of using an over-unity (free-energy, perpetual motion, etc.) machine to supply them power. Since such a machine does not exist, and CAN NOT exist, which option seems more logical to you (and to your congresswoman): A) Legislate that a perpetual motion machine must be created by the year 2006, or B) Tell the power companies they they will simply have to think up a new business model and explore alternate means of power.
This is potentially free training -- there's no way the military could possibly pay to train that many hours or train to that level of skill. And study after study has shown that gaming skills transfer over to combat situations, and that transfer of training is even more dramatic when combat displays and actions can be adapted to be more like their videogame counterparts.
That said, however, the money saved in training is offset by additional money spent in DE-training so as to stop the GI's from attempting to rocket jump up to the second floor of the barracks.
The worst, though, was that they didn't produce a final episode.
I thought that the "worst" was the fact that most of the actors on that show had to learned that it was cancelled through thier friends or on the news. The press release went out before they even told the actors on the show!
We can only hope that Groening recognizes this point and brings us to a stunning (and satisfying) conclusion before the show becomes bogged down with the dead weight of unfunny seasons.
I think one of the really neat things about the Simpsons is that it reflects our own cultural insanity. The day when the Simpsons runs out of material will be the day we, as a culture, finally move ourselves out of the wasteland of ignorance and stupidity. It's win-win!
I have no inside knowledge of FOX or other broadcasting companies, but if they function the same way that other companies that I have worked at do, then I know exactly why you see the really fantsatic shows being canned in thier prime: new blood. Every time managment changes or restructures, there is some subconcious need from the newbies to change things around, if for no other reason than to justify thier existance. The usual route is to attack what was successful before, tear it down, and bring out the solid gold shnazzy New Thing(tm) that will wow everyone. Maybe it works one time out of a hundred, but that doesn't stop people from trying to be the lucky golden boy.
This is just a guess, but I'll put a tenner down that the reason why Futurama never really got the support that it should have, and why it's being dropped now, is becuase maybe a week after the pilot, the heads of that department in FOX got restructured and the pastic wrap came off a whole new lineup of fresh-faced marketing and programming execs. They couldn't drop the Simpsons (it just has TOO MUCH momentum), so they decided to carve up everything else they could touch and fill the void with the neeto ideas they had during thier training in the frat house.
...on how many naoseconds will pass between this and the time when law enforcement agencies decide to link this checkout system with thier fingerprint databases.
Did all of the drives on the AS/400 die simultaniously? Is all the information on those drives encrypted and the key lost? For less than the cost of paying people to ype in 24/7 the 25,000 tax records they could pay one kid from college to do a little research on how those machines store data and write a perl script to pull out the old records from the drives themselves.
You have to get the key safely to the other side, and since the key is the same size as the data, if you have a way to securly send the key, why not just send the data itself?
...That you won't have to pay anything if THEY fire YOU. As long as that is true, you don't have to worry about things going sour in the future, becuase you can always just force them to fire you.
That's what he's been doing to them - so why the big ho-ha when he gets a bit of his own medicine?
Simple, because that is what is his users ASK of him. Most people download spyware don't know that it's there. When was the last time you intentionally installed Cydoor? When was the last time your version of p2p software said in big letters "This software will install spyware now Yes/No"?
Now if he packaged ad-aware inside of kazaalite and didn't tell anyone what he was doing, THEN he'd be getting a taste of his own medicine. This, however, is completely different.
You are auniversity, right? You MUST have some IP of your own, right? Well, go the the exact same judge that the BSA goes to and present the exact same legal work tha they do and "audit" the BSA offices for illigal copies of your code.
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It's very simple, I want this in my TV because I want to skew the results as easy as I can. I want the "Star Trek Marathon watching" demographic to skyrocket.
It's not about the money!
As much as they pretend about the money, the REAL reason what "file sharing is wrong" is becuase it allows for a subtle shift in the societal mindshare concerning how music gets distributed. The "content industry" is a misnomer, it's actually a "distributiuon industry", producing either very little or NO new content at all. Allowing the public (PARTICULARLY the artists) to begin to think about alternative means of distribution as actual possibilities (not just pipe dreams) is the first step on the road to utter decimation of the status quo.
That's just th eamount they game him through legal means, not the under the table money.
I wouldn't. I'd recommend buying the tapes.
Yeah, you want to make sure that the artist gets paid, so buy the tapes!
Look suspisciously like MANILLA FOLDERS. This is not "innovation", it's just some guy who looked at the tabbed folders in his dek drawer and noticed that you could move them around, so he transferred that concept to the computer. Transferring a very common concept to a computer is NOT INNOVATON any more than the concept of reading words from a computer is no more innovative than reading them from the printed page!
I don't understand how the medium affects the copyright.
I think this particular medium does affect it, though, because:
A) They are given free reign to use public property without paying anything. It would be like setting up a public art project, and then suing people who took pictures. If they want to keep thier copyright intact they shouldn't broadcast it over public airwaves (cable only).
B) They are using, in addition to "air", people's bidies, houses, cars, pets, etc. for thier "medium" (radio waves go through all that stuff). It would be VERY hard, no IMPOSSIBLE, to justify owning the copyright on something that is forcibly written onto somone elses body.
I wonder, does this "contract" that we have with the networks also mean that we must buy things too? What if we make a point of expressly NOT buying everything we see in commercials, would that make us thieves if we DO watch the commercials?
Once again, it's old worn-out business models running at hurricane speeds into the reenforeced concrete wall of technology and progress. If they absolutly demand that thier advertisements get seen, then start using product placement in the shows! Oh, wait, that would hurt thier lucrative syndication racket^H^H^H^H^H market. How about making thier business a micropayment one, where you pay per minute watched (with ads deducting from the bill)? Oh, that would require innovation and investment on thier part. Again, not going to happen.
As soon as all of the *cough* "Content" industries fail we may finally have a chance to see some real creative innovation in both the kinds of shows we watch and the models in which we pay for them, but until then, I'll just sit back and enjoy watching them squirm about like the stuck pigs that they are.
Then I'll just take my public airwaves back please... Oh, NOW who's the thief?
It is *mathematically impossible* to have any sort of "secure" media format. Attempting to legislate it into existance is tantamount to legislating gravity away. IT CANNOT BE DONE. What you NEED to do is make certian that she understands this simple fact of nature. There is no possible legislation that will work. None at all. The reason why people advocate the changing of business models by those that sell content is simply becuase that is the only possible alternative.
Imagine, if you will, the analogy of power companies wanting to base thier industry on oil, which for the moment is a in abundant supply. Imagine if over the years, they completely run out of oil, and I mean COMPLETELY run out. Now, in order to keep thier business going, they come up with the idea of using an over-unity (free-energy, perpetual motion, etc.) machine to supply them power. Since such a machine does not exist, and CAN NOT exist, which option seems more logical to you (and to your congresswoman): A) Legislate that a perpetual motion machine must be created by the year 2006, or B) Tell the power companies they they will simply have to think up a new business model and explore alternate means of power.
This is potentially free training -- there's no way the military could possibly pay to train that many hours or train to that level of skill. And study after study has shown that gaming skills transfer over to combat situations, and that transfer of training is even more dramatic when combat displays and actions can be adapted to be more like their videogame counterparts.
That said, however, the money saved in training is offset by additional money spent in DE-training so as to stop the GI's from attempting to rocket jump up to the second floor of the barracks.
The Geneva convention would just ban "camping" and take all the fun out of them...
Scene one: Itchy, Scratchy and Bin Ladin in a barber shop...
The worst, though, was that they didn't produce a final episode.
I thought that the "worst" was the fact that most of the actors on that show had to learned that it was cancelled through thier friends or on the news. The press release went out before they even told the actors on the show!
We can only hope that Groening recognizes this point and brings us to a stunning (and satisfying) conclusion before the show becomes bogged down with the dead weight of unfunny seasons.
I think one of the really neat things about the Simpsons is that it reflects our own cultural insanity. The day when the Simpsons runs out of material will be the day we, as a culture, finally move ourselves out of the wasteland of ignorance and stupidity. It's win-win!
I have no inside knowledge of FOX or other broadcasting companies, but if they function the same way that other companies that I have worked at do, then I know exactly why you see the really fantsatic shows being canned in thier prime: new blood. Every time managment changes or restructures, there is some subconcious need from the newbies to change things around, if for no other reason than to justify thier existance. The usual route is to attack what was successful before, tear it down, and bring out the solid gold shnazzy New Thing(tm) that will wow everyone. Maybe it works one time out of a hundred, but that doesn't stop people from trying to be the lucky golden boy.
This is just a guess, but I'll put a tenner down that the reason why Futurama never really got the support that it should have, and why it's being dropped now, is becuase maybe a week after the pilot, the heads of that department in FOX got restructured and the pastic wrap came off a whole new lineup of fresh-faced marketing and programming execs. They couldn't drop the Simpsons (it just has TOO MUCH momentum), so they decided to carve up everything else they could touch and fill the void with the neeto ideas they had during thier training in the frat house.
I love how this very page seems to have died... The web is a massive irony generator.
...on how many naoseconds will pass between this and the time when law enforcement agencies decide to link this checkout system with thier fingerprint databases.
Did all of the drives on the AS/400 die simultaniously? Is all the information on those drives encrypted and the key lost? For less than the cost of paying people to ype in 24/7 the 25,000 tax records they could pay one kid from college to do a little research on how those machines store data and write a perl script to pull out the old records from the drives themselves.
You have to get the key safely to the other side, and since the key is the same size as the data, if you have a way to securly send the key, why not just send the data itself?
...That you won't have to pay anything if THEY fire YOU. As long as that is true, you don't have to worry about things going sour in the future, becuase you can always just force them to fire you.
That's what he's been doing to them - so why the big ho-ha when he gets a bit of his own medicine?
Simple, because that is what is his users ASK of him. Most people download spyware don't know that it's there. When was the last time you intentionally installed Cydoor? When was the last time your version of p2p software said in big letters "This software will install spyware now Yes/No"?
Now if he packaged ad-aware inside of kazaalite and didn't tell anyone what he was doing, THEN he'd be getting a taste of his own medicine. This, however, is completely different.
Assinine alliterationist are always awaiting an astounding ass-kicking.
"Ned, where did all the servers go!?!?"
"Don't worry, boss, they were all transfered over to the IBM e-server!"
"Oooooh, excellent! Ah, where exactly IS the e-server?"
"Oh, that got stolen."
Think Japan, Taiwan, England, France, Saudi Arabia, etc..
ALL ALLIES OF THE US.
You are auniversity, right? You MUST have some IP of your own, right? Well, go the the exact same judge that the BSA goes to and present the exact same legal work tha they do and "audit" the BSA offices for illigal copies of your code.