There are no bad rips. It's not possible. Only WurldMedia can post content to their "seeding servers". All others are sharers/clients. Downloads are checked with hashing keys to make sure the match valid content from the seeding servers.
This also allows you to download one file from dozens of locations simultaneously.
You're paying money to buy. This isn't sharing. You can't post your own content. You will own a legally licensed copy of the content that you can put on your portable devices, just like the new Napster.
I think you've got to idea, except you're missing some details. #1 this will be no monthly fee, #2 the users get paid for providing the download bandwidth.
You are correct. You will get paid for providing the bandwidth. They try to make it simple for you to use that to buy more music to share, but I believe they'll even cut you a check.
The big feature is you get paid for providing your bandwidth to others on the p2p network.
Also, you can download from many different nodes simultaneously, since the content on the system is completely controlled. I believe it's an SHA-1 hash they're using to verify that each copy is a legitimate copy.
I highly doubt there will ever be a lite version of this client. They've already thought of that.
Since when was space the 51st state? And if so, since when has there been a state that I can't go to as a citizen?
If I was looking to make money off of this, I'd go to Canada or Mexico, start sending people out into space, and make millions while the whole thing gets fought out in court, generating millions of dollars worth of free advertising. I'd probably end up selling the company before a decision ever comes around, and go live in Costa Rica.
What's the US gonna do, shoot down passenger space craft just because congress can't get a bill through? Talk about a PR nightmare!
Re:Thankfully, the H2 is not trendy in C'ville
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man if I had some modpoints I'd try to give you 3 for that one.
I work for a sister company of one of those, and yeah, we can definitely handle the bandwidth. We have a 1gbps pipe from Level3 and that's filled up before. We get DDOS attacks every day, but they do the "open a connection and forget it" type of attacks since bandwidth isn't a problem.
My database system gets about 300,000 hits a day, and that's just a small cluster of windows servers now days...
Mainly the way we do it is to try our best to make a resilent redundant system, and then monitor for bottlenecks and make work arounds with code (i.e. write to log files and have a cron interact with the database every 5 minutes, etc). These bottlenecks will bite you a lot harder than the bandwidth.
Need a reliable open source DRM solution that can be proven trustworthy so we can finally have pay content that's not platform dependent.
If you can build a linux box for $70 and call it a linksys router, then with a OSS DRM you should be able to create the equivalent of MCE2005 for $250.
It's about using Internet distribution for video content instead of having to wait for your show to come on so you can TiVO it.
It's pretty expensive as a PVR. It's the best tivo I've seen as far as user interface, but it's not THAT much more usable.
Big problem at the moment is price. The system we're using for testing at work runs $2500. But we can expect the price will go down, just like DVD players, CD-Burners, etc.
And although I'm developing for the system, I'm an Apple zealot, not a Microsoft one.
Timeshifting won't be an issue within a couple of years because everything will be going toward a Video-on-demand model where you can pay a small amount for a rental, or pay a little more to keep the content forever.
You'll also be able to transfer the content to other devices throughout your home and to portable devices.
There is one obvious drawback: we'll all be locked into Microsoft's solution.
But if it's a good solution, I'm not sure most of us will mind. I don't mind being locked into my Powerbook G4.
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This is all available now with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Once the price drops down to $500 for a VCR like unit, I think we'll all have them.
Not a huge Microsoft fan, but I'm developing a channel for this system, and I gotta tell you, it's pretty slick.
bah, both projects have been worked on for a long time because achieving either one would make you our Thomas Edison. He didn't die a poor man and his legacy lives on as GE.
All major PC manufacturers will be creating PCs for this purpose (why would they want to miss out on a new high-end market). I'm coding a service for MCE2005 at work at the moment, and HP is known as being the provider of the most exceptional systems. Don't know if that will hold true forever.
Both the RIAA and MPAA require their content to be DRM encrypted before being sold digitally. Microsoft already has a system that has yet to be cracked, so they threw up a system that uses graphics-rich webpages to control Windows Media Player.
If the price of the units get down to $500 instead of $2500, this will be a big hit. The DRM on the files is fair, since it lets you burn them to disc.
From my point of view, we need to do whatever it takes to move on from current cable TV, it feels so archaic.
Ignoring ecological problems, you just made this a no brainer for dollars and sense. Being independent of oil could EASILY save us $100 billion per year in defense spending, so essentially the gov't COULD pick up the tab without creating even more debt.
Hell, this could probably save the defense department more than that.
IF you're serving papers to the CPD, the CPD can do whatever it wants, since it's a private company. If the CPD says "get off my lawn", and you don't, you're trespassing.
Why are the presidential debates ran by a private company? How could they republicans and democrats put up with that? Because they own it jointly.
Microsoft's MCE2005 launch this month is what's fueling all of the new press. I'm currently involved in bringing the adult market to this device, but I wasn't sure the bandwidth was there to be really effective until the other day when I saw the slashdot article about Verizon's FTTP at 15Mbps.
I can stream 3 movies at full HDTV quality at that bitrate! I wasn't quite sold on the idea for the immediate future (was designing the system for thinking couple years ahead) but now it looks like anyone that's willing to spend the $1000 it takes to get one of these Windows machines, you'll be able to do serious Internet TV by mid-next year.
I'm not looking forward to rebooting my TV everyday again, however.
I work for a credit card processor, and DDOS is now the norm for us. Everyday. Fortunately it only took a couple of days to get the system completely stable while accepting daily DDOS attacks as the norm.
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... already does this as well. This idea would have been news 7 years ago and an obvious idea 3 years ago.
move along.
They are using the Windows Media Rights Manager to encrypt their content. This has not been cracked yet.
Stop being so pessimistic when you don't know the details.
There are no bad rips. It's not possible. Only WurldMedia can post content to their "seeding servers". All others are sharers/clients. Downloads are checked with hashing keys to make sure the match valid content from the seeding servers.
This also allows you to download one file from dozens of locations simultaneously.
You're paying money to buy. This isn't sharing. You can't post your own content. You will own a legally licensed copy of the content that you can put on your portable devices, just like the new Napster.
I think you've got to idea, except you're missing some details. #1 this will be no monthly fee, #2 the users get paid for providing the download bandwidth.
You are correct. You will get paid for providing the bandwidth. They try to make it simple for you to use that to buy more music to share, but I believe they'll even cut you a check.
The big feature is you get paid for providing your bandwidth to others on the p2p network.
Also, you can download from many different nodes simultaneously, since the content on the system is completely controlled. I believe it's an SHA-1 hash they're using to verify that each copy is a legitimate copy.
I highly doubt there will ever be a lite version of this client. They've already thought of that.
They are DRM'd. You can't post your own information, but you are paid for allowing others to download files your purchased from your p2p node.
Since when was space the 51st state? And if so, since when has there been a state that I can't go to as a citizen?
If I was looking to make money off of this, I'd go to Canada or Mexico, start sending people out into space, and make millions while the whole thing gets fought out in court, generating millions of dollars worth of free advertising. I'd probably end up selling the company before a decision ever comes around, and go live in Costa Rica.
What's the US gonna do, shoot down passenger space craft just because congress can't get a bill through? Talk about a PR nightmare!
man if I had some modpoints I'd try to give you 3 for that one.
agnots!
acronyms get NASTY on this site.
not linux, but http://www.renoise.com/ is a great tracker. Old school retrofitted to the new technology.
Either everyone is making a bad joke here about H2 meaning hydrogen, or they don't live in an area where the hummer h2 is trendy.
:D
I'm hoping it's the first one, kinda, although i'd be happy if I never saw an H2
I work for a sister company of one of those, and yeah, we can definitely handle the bandwidth. We have a 1gbps pipe from Level3 and that's filled up before. We get DDOS attacks every day, but they do the "open a connection and forget it" type of attacks since bandwidth isn't a problem.
My database system gets about 300,000 hits a day, and that's just a small cluster of windows servers now days...
Mainly the way we do it is to try our best to make a resilent redundant system, and then monitor for bottlenecks and make work arounds with code (i.e. write to log files and have a cron interact with the database every 5 minutes, etc). These bottlenecks will bite you a lot harder than the bandwidth.
Need a reliable open source DRM solution that can be proven trustworthy so we can finally have pay content that's not platform dependent.
If you can build a linux box for $70 and call it a linksys router, then with a OSS DRM you should be able to create the equivalent of MCE2005 for $250.
It's about using Internet distribution for video content instead of having to wait for your show to come on so you can TiVO it.
It's pretty expensive as a PVR. It's the best tivo I've seen as far as user interface, but it's not THAT much more usable.
Big problem at the moment is price. The system we're using for testing at work runs $2500. But we can expect the price will go down, just like DVD players, CD-Burners, etc.
And although I'm developing for the system, I'm an Apple zealot, not a Microsoft one.
Timeshifting won't be an issue within a couple of years because everything will be going toward a Video-on-demand model where you can pay a small amount for a rental, or pay a little more to keep the content forever.
You'll also be able to transfer the content to other devices throughout your home and to portable devices.
There is one obvious drawback: we'll all be locked into Microsoft's solution.
But if it's a good solution, I'm not sure most of us will mind. I don't mind being locked into my Powerbook G4.
This is all available now with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Once the price drops down to $500 for a VCR like unit, I think we'll all have them.
Not a huge Microsoft fan, but I'm developing a channel for this system, and I gotta tell you, it's pretty slick.
bah, both projects have been worked on for a long time because achieving either one would make you our Thomas Edison. He didn't die a poor man and his legacy lives on as GE.
All major PC manufacturers will be creating PCs for this purpose (why would they want to miss out on a new high-end market). I'm coding a service for MCE2005 at work at the moment, and HP is known as being the provider of the most exceptional systems. Don't know if that will hold true forever.
Both the RIAA and MPAA require their content to be DRM encrypted before being sold digitally. Microsoft already has a system that has yet to be cracked, so they threw up a system that uses graphics-rich webpages to control Windows Media Player.
If the price of the units get down to $500 instead of $2500, this will be a big hit. The DRM on the files is fair, since it lets you burn them to disc.
From my point of view, we need to do whatever it takes to move on from current cable TV, it feels so archaic.
Ignoring ecological problems, you just made this a no brainer for dollars and sense. Being independent of oil could EASILY save us $100 billion per year in defense spending, so essentially the gov't COULD pick up the tab without creating even more debt.
Hell, this could probably save the defense department more than that.
IF you're serving papers to the CPD, the CPD can do whatever it wants, since it's a private company. If the CPD says "get off my lawn", and you don't, you're trespassing.
Why are the presidential debates ran by a private company? How could they republicans and democrats put up with that? Because they own it jointly.
I think this guy hit a sweet spot with his assembler! Looks to me like it's almost C!
I could see his tools leading to growth in the homegrown retro games arena
Microsoft's MCE2005 launch this month is what's fueling all of the new press. I'm currently involved in bringing the adult market to this device, but I wasn't sure the bandwidth was there to be really effective until the other day when I saw the slashdot article about Verizon's FTTP at 15Mbps.
I can stream 3 movies at full HDTV quality at that bitrate! I wasn't quite sold on the idea for the immediate future (was designing the system for thinking couple years ahead) but now it looks like anyone that's willing to spend the $1000 it takes to get one of these Windows machines, you'll be able to do serious Internet TV by mid-next year.
I'm not looking forward to rebooting my TV everyday again, however.
Don't know if I'd want to go work for them! Something tells me having billing stop once a month isn't too good for company longevity! :D
I work for a credit card processor, and DDOS is now the norm for us. Everyday. Fortunately it only took a couple of days to get the system completely stable while accepting daily DDOS attacks as the norm.