I would imagine that the increase in customer end bandwidth would cause the content owners and distribution networks to up the server side of the equation as well to keep up with the demand.
If all sides of the equation are upgrading at the same rate, I doubt the increase in scale would cause any more complicated difficulties that we already have to deal with daily.
you can put a lot of books on one computer... and at walmart.com I can buy a computer for less than the price of one of my calculus books in college... minus the monitor of course.
After you throw this kind of bandwidth out there, cable and satellite tv will be on the internet instead. We will have TiVo, without having to record it ourselves. Life is about to get very very good.
I work for a drm company and if the label allows backups and burning to cd (so far, we've talked every label into turning these features on), you should be happy.
I'm definitely feeling your concern, and I try to do my best to encourage content providers to take these concerns into account.
A lot of people like to pay for what the use, ESPECIALLY in the European markets. Those guys are willing to spend many times the price that Americans will for services just to not get the long-term contract.
I agree people will pay for a product that's costs, lets say $2, if it's good enough, but most vendors aren't willing to sell anything for that low of a price because of the transaction costs involved, and the banks aren't willing to lower transaction costs because it really does cost them more money to do more processing.
So you're left with two models for selling content on the web, subscription or micropayment. My company specializes in DRM videos, and we have clients offering videos in both subscription and micropayment environments.
People ARE willing to buy large amounts of micropayment credits, often times spending much more than the subscription cost of similar sites, because they can use them when they want without any contracts.
What isn't available yet, is a trusted centralized authority for providing access to webpages (which is where most people seem to bring up micropayments). Everything is there for this to happen, but no one has stepped up to the plate. I for one would be willing to pay for 1000 page views of quality content at $10/pop.
we know how to use devices, how about teaching us how to communicate in person, and have the other person believe we're not weird without putting up a front.
maybe that's not such a bad thought. Our system is pretty good, but I'd have to think we can come up with something better from the lessons learned over the past two centuries.
Remember when that school in Phoenix got raided for students supposedly trading music. I didn't really believe it until I found out that one of my old friends was there that day, and they used to patriot act to allow them to have a "sealed warrant", meaning their work computers were confiscated permanently, and they didn't have to tell them why.
there's a lot more people using computers now days that there used to be, and the growth hasn't been with geeks, it's been with grandparents wanting to talk to their families over the internet.
how about showing how much nicer it feels some time... bmw seems to have no problem conveying that ad, and I never feel like I wanna buy one of their cars because they look cool after watching one of their commercials.
man god, when I see an ipod commercial I feel like I need one some my friends don't hate me. kind of a turn off, personally.
I agree, although I think it should be more like a week than 2 days. I let a friend of mine borrow my old G3 Powerbook for a trip on the otherside of the country. He said he absolutely hated it most of the flight there, but got used to it by the time he landed (4 hour flight). He was in love with the laptop by the time he got home, even though it was 3 or 4 years old.
I could only imagine how many people would want to keep their iBooks with a 7 day grace period, especially if it came with a free microsoft-compatible office suite pre-installed. (here comes a tangent, sorry)
I have another friend that liked using the same laptop (I begrudgedly sold it to his brother a while ago because I was broke and he was twisting my arm), but he decided to go back to XP because the office suite was more compatible (he didn't have office x installed btw).
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//*sigh* the good old days unsigned far char* video = (unsigned far char *)0xA0000000L;
int offset = 0; for (int y = 0; y < 200; y++) {
for (int x = 0; x < 320; x++) {
int offset = (y << 6) + (y << 8) + x;
unsigned char color = (unsigned char)(offset & 0xFF);
video[offset] = color;
} }
Many of the major labels don't exactly get it. Working for a DRM company, it has been very interesting to see exactly how distant these folks are from reality. They are uninformed of exactly what the people want, and that people are willing to pay a fair price for a fair product. They tend to base all of their decisions off the buying habits of teenagers (probably not THAT bad of an idea) and have somewhat of a grasp on the technology that was available for protecting content in the late 90's.
I don't see them selling pay-per-play. Subscription services, maybe and probably, but I think the free-market's gonna kill the pay-per-play idea.
I know first-hand that BMG is wanting to sell DRM encrypted wma files the mixers and movie sound-effect houses, but they want to remove the DRM encryption once it gets to the end user, and use the DRM as a way for safe transit.
Obvious holes in this security plan, just like installation keys, but in their view it's better than nothing.
I really wish he wouldn't use those types of terms. They may seem cool when you're reading them on slashdot, but to a Microsoft exec (or any other company for that matter) is going to picture a pissed off 15 year old locked in his bedroom whenever they see nonsense like this.
I'm not always formal online, but I'm always professional when dealing with business. This seems like a time to be professional.
I happen to work for DRM Networks, a company providing Windows Media DRM services. I have run a live stream of an event for a trade show, encrypted on the fly. I did this using Windows Media Encoder (free download from microsoft.com) for the DRM encryption, a Windows Media Server to push the stream out, and our licensing server for authentication.
The video lagged about 30-60 seconds after an hour presentation, and the stream was available immediately.
This solution only works for Windows (I'm a mac and linux user so I'd love to point out something that works on those platforms, but it's just not easily available, yet).
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mov dx, 42
mov ah, 9c
int 21
42: ds "assembly is cool even if I can't remember the details"
I would imagine that the increase in customer end bandwidth would cause the content owners and distribution networks to up the server side of the equation as well to keep up with the demand.
If all sides of the equation are upgrading at the same rate, I doubt the increase in scale would cause any more complicated difficulties that we already have to deal with daily.
3" mini-CD's seem to work fine in standard sized players... why couldn't the same concept apply to new players for this format?
you can put a lot of books on one computer... and at walmart.com I can buy a computer for less than the price of one of my calculus books in college... minus the monitor of course.
After you throw this kind of bandwidth out there, cable and satellite tv will be on the internet instead. We will have TiVo, without having to record it ourselves. Life is about to get very very good.
I work for a drm company and if the label allows backups and burning to cd (so far, we've talked every label into turning these features on), you should be happy.
I'm definitely feeling your concern, and I try to do my best to encourage content providers to take these concerns into account.
A lot of people like to pay for what the use, ESPECIALLY in the European markets. Those guys are willing to spend many times the price that Americans will for services just to not get the long-term contract.
I agree people will pay for a product that's costs, lets say $2, if it's good enough, but most vendors aren't willing to sell anything for that low of a price because of the transaction costs involved, and the banks aren't willing to lower transaction costs because it really does cost them more money to do more processing.
So you're left with two models for selling content on the web, subscription or micropayment. My company specializes in DRM videos, and we have clients offering videos in both subscription and micropayment environments.
People ARE willing to buy large amounts of micropayment credits, often times spending much more than the subscription cost of similar sites, because they can use them when they want without any contracts.
What isn't available yet, is a trusted centralized authority for providing access to webpages (which is where most people seem to bring up micropayments). Everything is there for this to happen, but no one has stepped up to the plate. I for one would be willing to pay for 1000 page views of quality content at $10/pop.
I'm starting to ramble... sorry.
nah dating won't help you be an expert. I'm married and still don't get it. :)
mmmm seige tanks acquired by taking an scv with a dark arbiter's mind control, and then dropped with an arbiter already in seige mode... muhhahahaha
errr... god I'm a dork!
I play this game on mac, but all of my pc's also have a copy installed. I play this game more than any other game still, it's just THAT good.
that's what I do for a living. unfortunately only porn producers are currently willing to sell their videos this way.
we know how to use devices, how about teaching us how to communicate in person, and have the other person believe we're not weird without putting up a front.
maybe that's an oxymoron?
maybe that's not such a bad thought. Our system is pretty good, but I'd have to think we can come up with something better from the lessons learned over the past two centuries.
Yay! We stopped them in libraries. Now they're using my wireless hotspot.
*knock knock* comes the feds knocking at an innocent person's door after a terrorist parked in front of his house for 15 minutes to send an email.
This definitely sounds worth surrendering our rights over
Remember when that school in Phoenix got raided for students supposedly trading music. I didn't really believe it until I found out that one of my old friends was there that day, and they used to patriot act to allow them to have a "sealed warrant", meaning their work computers were confiscated permanently, and they didn't have to tell them why.
sorry missed your point :) yeah, magazines and news are silly
there's a lot more people using computers now days that there used to be, and the growth hasn't been with geeks, it's been with grandparents wanting to talk to their families over the internet.
how about showing how much nicer it feels some time... bmw seems to have no problem conveying that ad, and I never feel like I wanna buy one of their cars because they look cool after watching one of their commercials.
man god, when I see an ipod commercial I feel like I need one some my friends don't hate me. kind of a turn off, personally.
I agree, although I think it should be more like a week than 2 days. I let a friend of mine borrow my old G3 Powerbook for a trip on the otherside of the country. He said he absolutely hated it most of the flight there, but got used to it by the time he landed (4 hour flight). He was in love with the laptop by the time he got home, even though it was 3 or 4 years old.
I could only imagine how many people would want to keep their iBooks with a 7 day grace period, especially if it came with a free microsoft-compatible office suite pre-installed. (here comes a tangent, sorry)
I have another friend that liked using the same laptop (I begrudgedly sold it to his brother a while ago because I was broke and he was twisting my arm), but he decided to go back to XP because the office suite was more compatible (he didn't have office x installed btw).
//*sigh* the good old days
unsigned far char* video = (unsigned far char *)0xA0000000L;
int offset = 0;
for (int y = 0; y < 200; y++) {
for (int x = 0; x < 320; x++) {
int offset = (y << 6) + (y << 8) + x;
unsigned char color = (unsigned char)(offset & 0xFF);
video[offset] = color;
}
}
What do you expect Americans to do? Shoot Bill Gates?
You sound as if you think we actually CAN do something about this.
Many of the major labels don't exactly get it. Working for a DRM company, it has been very interesting to see exactly how distant these folks are from reality. They are uninformed of exactly what the people want, and that people are willing to pay a fair price for a fair product. They tend to base all of their decisions off the buying habits of teenagers (probably not THAT bad of an idea) and have somewhat of a grasp on the technology that was available for protecting content in the late 90's.
I don't see them selling pay-per-play. Subscription services, maybe and probably, but I think the free-market's gonna kill the pay-per-play idea.
I know first-hand that BMG is wanting to sell DRM encrypted wma files the mixers and movie sound-effect houses, but they want to remove the DRM encryption once it gets to the end user, and use the DRM as a way for safe transit.
Obvious holes in this security plan, just like installation keys, but in their view it's better than nothing.
I really wish he wouldn't use those types of terms. They may seem cool when you're reading them on slashdot, but to a Microsoft exec (or any other company for that matter) is going to picture a pissed off 15 year old locked in his bedroom whenever they see nonsense like this.
I'm not always formal online, but I'm always professional when dealing with business. This seems like a time to be professional.
I happen to work for DRM Networks, a company providing Windows Media DRM services. I have run a live stream of an event for a trade show, encrypted on the fly. I did this using Windows Media Encoder (free download from microsoft.com) for the DRM encryption, a Windows Media Server to push the stream out, and our licensing server for authentication.
The video lagged about 30-60 seconds after an hour presentation, and the stream was available immediately.
This solution only works for Windows (I'm a mac and linux user so I'd love to point out something that works on those platforms, but it's just not easily available, yet).
http://www.drmnetworks.com/