You're forgetting about the No Electronic Theft Act. In 1994, the Justice Department tried to prosecute someone who released copyrighted software on the Internet. The case was dismissed because infringement had to be associated with financial gain. The No Electronic Theft Act closed this loophole.
Here's a quote:
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The criminal copyright and trademark provisions in titles 17 and 18 of the U.S. Code are amended to:
Permit the Department to prosecute individuals under misdemeanor or felony provisions(1) in cases involving large-scale illegal reproduction or distribution of copyrighted works where the infringers act willfully but without a discernible profit motive...
For instance, I can't ditch Sprint and use my Sprint PCS Samsung phone with Verizon service
Because most handsets are subsidized by wireless carriers. Your Samsung phone probably has a Sprint logo on it somewhere. Hence, Sprint doesn't want you to take a phone it subsidized and use it on a competing network.
Before we start raising Ogg Vobis up the proverbial flagpole, let us remember that MP3 is heavily entrenched in the hardware decoder market. Will a $0.75 per unit increase change this? Probably not.
Most cooking shows feature a chef cooking upwards of 8-10 complex dishes in the span of an hour. I find it almost impossible to follow along. Your show, on the other hand, focuses on a few recopies, showing the necessary techniques and hardware needed. Do you think shows like yours will start a new trend, whereby quality > quantity?
A corporate board voted to give themselves a no-recourse loan from corporate coffers to purchase stock. Explain to me how this was ever in the company's interest?
The reason why this sort of thing happens is because corporate officers are paid primarily in stock options. Then say, "Hey, I need money to buy these options." So, the board OKs low-interest loans so that those compensated primarily in stock options can purchase them. The idea being that if your financial success is tied directly to the company's stock price, you'll work you a** off to make the company successful. To some extent, this system has its merits, but it can lead to corruption.
Another thing that happens is that corporate boards will offer executives low-interest (sometimes even zero-interest) loans to executives so that they don't sell their stock. The executives say, "unless you give my $X, I'll have to sell some of my shares to afford the 22-room mansion I need." The board doesn't want the executive to sell his shares, which might make investors uneasy, so they agree. This happened recently with execs from Tyco, Global Crossing, Enron and (gasp!) WorldCom.
Because of these scandals, there's a movement to compensate executive in cash only, which might forgo some of the shanagins we've seen. Then, of course, we'll be back to "[XYZ Corporate Executive] made how much money last year? He doesn't even play baseball!"
First, is it possible for HBO et al. to broadcast Macrovision copy protection on their signal so that one cannot record such broadcasts? I know TiVo honors copy protection (on video tapes primarily) so I wondered.
I don't know about "broadcasting" the macrovision signal, but I assume the cable company can if you need a cable box (digital cable) to view content.
However, I do know the way TiVo handles
Macrovision: it keeps the signal in tact, but you can still watch the program normally. However, if you send the signal to a VCR, the picture will become garbled. I've tested this with my TiVo Series II: I can "view" a DVD with Macrovision through the TiVo, but the secobd I pass that signal from the TiVo to a VCR, the copy protection kicks in.
At first we were like, 'A book? Gee, why don't we just go all the way and paint on some cave walls or something?'" recalled Marlatt of his earliest conversations with the publisher.
However, Broadway's response convinced the author that he should reconsider.
"They told me, 'Well then, you just go ahead and keep publishing on the Internet, for free, like an idiot,'" said Marlatt.
Overall, it's a very funny book. My only complaint is that, clearly, they didn't have enough content, so they raised the font size to make everything fit. This is the opposite of any of The Onion books, which had to reduce the size to (near) unreadable levels in order to fit their tabloid-sized newspaper into a book format.
And besides, will anyone really stand for this? The idea of recordable media -- vcrs, in particular -- is very deeply ingrained, and most people probably consider it their "right" to record their television. And rightly so!
Yes, but the broadcast industry does not see it that way, and they have enough lobbying money to overturn fair use. Turner Entertainment's Jamie Kellner claims that by not watching commercials, you're stealing TV. Notice the word stealing.
So when the broadcast industry and the motion picture industry claim they want to prevent copying (or stealing) digital content, they won't stop with the peer-to-peer file traders. They'll target time-shifting. The broadcast flags they are proposing could easily say "don't record this program." Because, after all, if you own a PVR, you'll skip over the commercials.
Time Warner cable is debuting a set-top box with a PVR. But, there is no commercial skipping available. That's right, you can time-shift the West Wing, but you cannot hit the fast-forward button. There isn't one.
Unfortunately, there might be a way for Sony to revive this copy protection. Couldn't Sony just reduce the the distance between the bogus data track and the audio so that a person with a marker couldn't reliably separate the two?
Historically, Star Wars movies have not been critically acclaimed by critics. For example, Here's a line aboout the Empire Strikes Back from the New York Times:
Confession: When I went to see "The Empire Strikes Back" I found myself glancing at my watch almost as often as I did when I was sitting through a truly terrible movie called "The Island."
The Empire Strikes Back" is not a truly terrible movie. It's a nice movie. It's not, by any means, as nice as "Star Wars." It's not as fresh and funny and surprising and witty, but it is nice and inoffensive and, in a way that no one associated with it need be ashamed of, it's also silly. Attending to it is a lot like reading the middle of a comic book. It is amusing in fitful patches but you're likely to find more beauty, suspense, discipline, craft and art when watching a New York harbor pilot bring the Queen Elizabeth 2 into her Hudson River berth, which is what "The Empire Strikes Back" most reminds me of. It's a big, expensive, time-consuming, essentially mechanical operation.
Yet, mostly everybody agreess that ESB is the best Star Wars film. And most critics hated the original Star Wars. Of the reviews I've read of the original trilogy, only Roger Ebert seemed to really get it.
Just keep this in mind when reading reviews of the latest Star Wars.
How is it possible to power a Pentium 4 system with a 150 Watt power supply? For desktop systems, Intel requires a *minimum* 300 Watt power supply. Granted, the Arprotek system doesn't have all the extra drive bays and expansion cards of a standard desktop system, but it does have an AGP slot and a PCI slot.
I wonder what would happen if you added a high-end video card and a Sound Blaster Audigy to this mini system. My guess: random reboots. Doesn't the processor consume 50 Watts by itself. That doesn't leave much juice for the rest of the sytem *and* the expansion cards.
..which makes this the longest lag we've ever had betweeen a set of Slashdot quesions and their answers, a record previously held by the late Douglas Adams, whose question post went up on May 2, 2000, but didn't get his answers to us until June 21, 2000.
Doesn't Metallica hold this record? I seem to remember an Ask Slashdot feature about the Napster lawsuit in 2000; although they originally agreed to answer the top ten questions, they *never* replied.
Deutsche Bahn will file suit in Germany, where all three search engine companies have subsidiaries, because it feels it would not stand a chance in a U.S. court because of freedom of speech allowed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
"There is no chance to sue them in the U.S. You are really allowed to put anything on the Internet there," Schreyer said.
Not true. IANAL, but there are types of speech that are not protected, for example, yelling fire in a crowded theater. However, the U.S. courts would most likely have a more strict set of rules for defining non-protected speech.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, us Americans and our stupid obsession with free speech. I've heard it all before from these Euro-wimps.
I read the Intel review; it contains the same horses**t that most so-called enthusiasts heap on Intel the boards. Let's review some of the issues:
First and foremost, Intel boards are stable. In my experience, only Asus even comes close to approaching Intel's stability. That alone makes a big difference. Who really cares if XYZ motherboard rune 3 percent faster if you have to reboot every hour?
Second, I find that the lack of features complaint is mostly whining from the RAID camp. Buy a stupid add-in card and shut up already! Besides this, I find Intel boards to have plenty of features. In September I bought an Intel board with built-in LAN, audio, and 6 USB ports for $130. Here's the kicker: it had USB 2.0 built-in. How's that for features?
Granted, Intel boards are more expensive. But overall, they do not deserve the bad reputation from enthusiasts.
Don't be too overjoyed about this ruling. For a second, pretend that the U.S. Supreme Court makes a similar in favor of Napster, ruling that the company is not responsible for individual copyright violations. So, take this to its logical conclusion: In such a world, whats to stop the RIAA, MPAA, etc. from forming a BSA-like organization to go after individual file traders? Ever lookup the cost of copyright violations? Heck, the legal fees alone could sink anyone. Using some sinister methods, targeted lawsuits could do a lot of damage. The EFF couldn't possibly afford to step in.
The film isn't done. As is typical with effects-laden material, there are still many shots that are not "high-res" yet.
Why in the hell would anyone at Lucasfilm be attending the indie South by Southwest convention? Are we to insinuate that someone other than Lucasfilm has a cut of the movie?
There is no doubt that some people have seen the movie. But this was just a rough cut. If Harry said that he was screened a rough cut, maybe I would believe him. The fact of the matter is, there is nothing is his review that hasn't been leaked in the spy reports on TheForce.Net, or in the "scriptament" that is floating on the Web.
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That's even more impressive since they haven't started filming it yet!
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In Saddam-controlled Iraq, Turing test proves you!
For multiroom viewing, there is some DRM, it's called TiVoGuard. It basically encrypts the transfer. To decrypt to it:
1. The TiVos must be under the same user account; and
2. The TiVos must be located on the same subnet.
There have been talks about defeating requirement #2 by using a VPN, however, that still wouldn't get around requirement #1.
And of course, the BSA is against it.
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You're forgetting about the No Electronic Theft Act. In 1994, the Justice Department tried to prosecute someone who released copyrighted software on the Internet. The case was dismissed because infringement had to be associated with financial gain. The No Electronic Theft Act closed this loophole.
Here's a quote:
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http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/netsum. htm
The terrorists win!
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Because most handsets are subsidized by wireless carriers. Your Samsung phone probably has a Sprint logo on it somewhere. Hence, Sprint doesn't want you to take a phone it subsidized and use it on a competing network.
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No, no. You're thinking of Strom Thurmond (R-SC).
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Now I'll have to buy the White Album again.
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So did I, does that mean ... Hey, what's that noise?
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Before we start raising Ogg Vobis up the proverbial flagpole, let us remember that MP3 is heavily entrenched in the hardware decoder market. Will a $0.75 per unit increase change this? Probably not.
Most cooking shows feature a chef cooking upwards of 8-10 complex dishes in the span of an hour. I find it almost impossible to follow along. Your show, on the other hand, focuses on a few recopies, showing the necessary techniques and hardware needed. Do you think shows like yours will start a new trend, whereby quality > quantity?
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The reason why this sort of thing happens is because corporate officers are paid primarily in stock options. Then say, "Hey, I need money to buy these options." So, the board OKs low-interest loans so that those compensated primarily in stock options can purchase them. The idea being that if your financial success is tied directly to the company's stock price, you'll work you a** off to make the company successful. To some extent, this system has its merits, but it can lead to corruption.
Another thing that happens is that corporate boards will offer executives low-interest (sometimes even zero-interest) loans to executives so that they don't sell their stock. The executives say, "unless you give my $X, I'll have to sell some of my shares to afford the 22-room mansion I need." The board doesn't want the executive to sell his shares, which might make investors uneasy, so they agree. This happened recently with execs from Tyco, Global Crossing, Enron and (gasp!) WorldCom.
Because of these scandals, there's a movement to compensate executive in cash only, which might forgo some of the shanagins we've seen. Then, of course, we'll be back to "[XYZ Corporate Executive] made how much money last year? He doesn't even play baseball!"
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I don't know about "broadcasting" the macrovision signal, but I assume the cable company can if you need a cable box (digital cable) to view content.
However, I do know the way TiVo handles Macrovision: it keeps the signal in tact, but you can still watch the program normally. However, if you send the signal to a VCR, the picture will become garbled. I've tested this with my TiVo Series II: I can "view" a DVD with Macrovision through the TiVo, but the secobd I pass that signal from the TiVo to a VCR, the copy protection kicks in.
I love the story they wrote announcing the book:
Overall, it's a very funny book. My only complaint is that, clearly, they didn't have enough content, so they raised the font size to make everything fit. This is the opposite of any of The Onion books, which had to reduce the size to (near) unreadable levels in order to fit their tabloid-sized newspaper into a book format.
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Yes, but the broadcast industry does not see it that way, and they have enough lobbying money to overturn fair use. Turner Entertainment's Jamie Kellner claims that by not watching commercials, you're stealing TV. Notice the word stealing.
So when the broadcast industry and the motion picture industry claim they want to prevent copying (or stealing) digital content, they won't stop with the peer-to-peer file traders. They'll target time-shifting. The broadcast flags they are proposing could easily say "don't record this program." Because, after all, if you own a PVR, you'll skip over the commercials.
Time Warner cable is debuting a set-top box with a PVR. But, there is no commercial skipping available. That's right, you can time-shift the West Wing, but you cannot hit the fast-forward button. There isn't one.
Funny how that goes.
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Unfortunately, there might be a way for Sony to revive this copy protection. Couldn't Sony just reduce the the distance between the bogus data track and the audio so that a person with a marker couldn't reliably separate the two?
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Historically, Star Wars movies have not been critically acclaimed by critics. For example, Here's a line aboout the Empire Strikes Back from the New York Times:
Yet, mostly everybody agreess that ESB is the best Star Wars film. And most critics hated the original Star Wars. Of the reviews I've read of the original trilogy, only Roger Ebert seemed to really get it.
Just keep this in mind when reading reviews of the latest Star Wars.
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How is it possible to power a Pentium 4 system with a 150 Watt power supply? For desktop systems, Intel requires a *minimum* 300 Watt power supply. Granted, the Arprotek system doesn't have all the extra drive bays and expansion cards of a standard desktop system, but it does have an AGP slot and a PCI slot.
I wonder what would happen if you added a high-end video card and a Sound Blaster Audigy to this mini system. My guess: random reboots. Doesn't the processor consume 50 Watts by itself. That doesn't leave much juice for the rest of the sytem *and* the expansion cards.
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Doesn't Metallica hold this record? I seem to remember an Ask Slashdot feature about the Napster lawsuit in 2000; although they originally agreed to answer the top ten questions, they *never* replied.
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From the article:
Not true. IANAL, but there are types of speech that are not protected, for example, yelling fire in a crowded theater. However, the U.S. courts would most likely have a more strict set of rules for defining non-protected speech.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, us Americans and our stupid obsession with free speech. I've heard it all before from these Euro-wimps.
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I read the Intel review; it contains the same horses**t that most so-called enthusiasts heap on Intel the boards. Let's review some of the issues:
Granted, Intel boards are more expensive. But overall, they do not deserve the bad reputation from enthusiasts.
Not so fast.
Don't be too overjoyed about this ruling. For a second, pretend that the U.S. Supreme Court makes a similar in favor of Napster, ruling that the company is not responsible for individual copyright violations. So, take this to its logical conclusion: In such a world, whats to stop the RIAA, MPAA, etc. from forming a BSA-like organization to go after individual file traders? Ever lookup the cost of copyright violations? Heck, the legal fees alone could sink anyone. Using some sinister methods, targeted lawsuits could do a lot of damage. The EFF couldn't possibly afford to step in.
OK, people, reality check:
There is no doubt that some people have seen the movie. But this was just a rough cut. If Harry said that he was screened a rough cut, maybe I would believe him. The fact of the matter is, there is nothing is his review that hasn't been leaked in the spy reports on TheForce.Net, or in the "scriptament" that is floating on the Web.
The linked article states that Loki is now filing Chapter 9 bankruptcy. IANAL, but shouldn't that be Chapter 7 (liquidation)?