It's all vaporware right now. Palladium is no longer called Palladium due to MS getting a negative reaction on/. and other consumer sites.
The MPEG consortium is going to implement DRM. Its a proposal.
Real is releasing a lot of their stuff as open source code.
That's all dependent on one key thing: WILL CONSUMERS BUY INTO IT?
I dont think so. Remember the DiVX DVD disc format? With all that inane DRM that circuit city tried to push? Dead. No one bought it.
Sony decided to have an advantage when it was developing the Minidisc. They bought CBS Records. They release the MD player and deck and a lot of shitty Michael Jackson MDs out to consumers roughly 10 years ago. It didnt have the marketplace reception here (Japan is another story) due to strong drm and nothing good released in that format. CDs were way to strong at the time.
I'm not opposed to certain aspects of the trusted computing initiative. There was an article on here a while back that had an IBM scientist talk about the encryption chip that they were testing on Linux.
Gamers buy Graphics Cards (GPUs) from NVidia and ATI to play games that look really neat? If not then the P4 CPUs would melt the computer down trying to render all the graphics. The Encryption Chips (I'll just call them EPUs) are useful in , lets say, speeding up a SSHed X session, SCP, or anything encrypted. Heck, If I need something encrypted or decrypted using the AES format, I'd like to take the load off of my computer. I can perfectly see Red Hat building that into linux.
Thats all predicated on Open Standards.
If Microsoft tries to submarine the entire process, they will be subjected to massive scrutiny from the engineers that frequent sites like these and Joe Six-Pack who wonders why his new computer doesnt do what he wants it do to.
In this day and age, disclosure and honesty and trust will do a lot to help the advent of EPUs in new computers.
Bald-faced lies, incompetent software, backroom deals, and the ludditeness of the RIAA/MPAA will destroy all of it.
Great! The Europeans are sensible about all of this. Downloading music off of the internet is no different than recording music off of the radio and digitizing it. All music is just sound waves anyway.
I think that anyone that resells copyrighted material deserves whatever the content mafia deems possible.
If the content cartel would just ease up about suing all of their potential customers, they wouldnt have a problem with piracy. Each industry has its own issues to deal with.
Software. Makes $80 billion dollars, loses $12 billion on piracy. Software activation and antipiracy stuff (MICROSOFT AND QUICKEN) are a hassle to customers. They have to justify their existence in the face of open sourced competition.
Movies. Makes a couple of billion dollars (I'm guessing maybe more), loses millions to crappy divx screeners and stuff. People are buying $20 DVDs buy the handful, renting DVD's for $4, and going to movies for $7 a whole hell of a lot! I find it hard to belive their claims about piracy when they are making money hand over fist. Given to head in the sand syndrome when they didnt allow Linux Users to have a version of DVD viewing software. If a bunch of programmers can make their own OS, then decoding DVDs must be trivially easy (Especially when Xing leaves a key around in plain sight--- geniuses). Region Coding is just a sham. Stop now and youll sell more movies. Go digital in projection screens and stop whining about costs to get movies out to justify delayed releases. Global simultaneous releases will do a lot to squashing piracy. Keep those DVD prices at $20 or less.
Music Industry. Must move away from selling CD's a lot. Must sell DRM-less digital download in the MP3, Mp4, or SHN format. Must convince stores like best buy to install kiosks that allow users to hook up iPods or Nomads to swipe credit cards and get albums for $2 (this reduces payoffs to teamsters and costs to get cds pressed and stuff), and singles for $0.10. It;d be a gold mine and I'd buy like crazy. In the meantime, stop suing your customers, stop peddling locked cds WITHOUT LABELING THEM, YOU DECEITFUL BASTARDS, and ease up on piracy. Lastly, dont pay broadcasters to play songs. Thats got you in a bigger bind than this. Oh, and get much more responsive to consumer tastes and demands. And never again sell a Britney Spears to the american public. Spears will be a porn star within 5 years, as if Christina Aguilera isnt one.
If the music industry doesnt serve its customers, it will become irrelevant. Why do you think that your devoted mouthpiece and IT whipping bitch Hilary Rosen left your sorry excuse for an industry? You guys suck, and we are taking our money elsewhere.
No, they're probably fearful of Congress maybe passing a law that would make their concerns a moot point. Or maybe its just plain stupid to piss off your customers.
I got an iPod for Christmas. It was a Mac 5gb and at school I use it on my PC running windows 2000. I reformatted it using Xplay and now use MusicMatch jukebox to put stuff on it and EphPhod or whatever the heck it's called to get stuff off it. On the mac I have a gazillion tools to get songs off it it. The music sits in an invisible folder called iPod_Control in some goofy format with folders named F0-F20.
My friend has a creative archos and all the songs on there are just in plain sight at the root level of the disc.
DRM will not work. The tech savvy people wont buy it and we influence the purchases of other people. I have been asked a lot about my iPod here in downtown Chicago and Ive seen 6-7 other people around that have one. I see the white headphones and just nod.
The movie studios are asking for the technically impossible to be done. 321 studios has the DVD ripping tools that finally make the process easy. These are DVD's THAT I OWN YOU AND AS MY PRIVATE PROPERTY I CAN DO ANYTHING WITH, EVEN USE A SHITTY DVD AS A BEER COASTER. I ONLY DO THIS WITH DVD'S I OWN. YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME HOLLYWOOD.
Ripping a DVD to a VCD is a long process. I need a faster computer to make it not take all night. I see no harm in duping a dvd that I own. $20 is a good investment, and i might get clumsy and break it.
Hollywood is just paranoid about losing money while at the SAME TIME they are making hands over fist on movies, especially geek movies like Star Wars, LoTR, Trek, Matrix, you name it.
I will not buy an HDTV that wont allow digital recording unfettered. Just relax Valenti. Your'e 80 years old and the TV, VHS tape (BOSTON STRANGLER!! RUN!!) and Cable must have caused runs in your shorts a lot worse than this.
Your buddy Hilary was in collusion with Big Radio in selling us crappy music. $20 for one Movie is a great deal. $20 for a song? Thats money for a night out at the bars. I can record a sound wave any way I want. I might not want to buy a piece of pressed plastic any more.
Also Jack, region coding and css encryption is just unnessary. Just stop. I am willing to pay for digital content in the way that I want and I'm willing to venture that there are a lot more computer enthusiasts that are as well. Just stop shoving "sky is falling" rhetoric down the throats of congressman.
We wont stop protesting unless you give us what we want how we want it. I want to pay for digital content. I have been paying for movies, dvds, dvd rentals, and vhs tapes for a long time. I like movies, Im willing to support you a lot.
Dont give us that "No broadband is wanted because no good content is there". Broadband costs $50 a month and thats too much for most people. Not me. As soon as the price goes broadband usage will go up big time.
Maybe customers dont want to download a 700 meg file that's DRM encoded? Maybe VOD by cable systems is a different story.
Piss us off and we dont pay you. How blunt is that?
That palladium stuff will be good for the military and maybe really important enterprise stuff. Viruses only happen because MS has a security model of swiss fucking cheese. How many viruses has linux/unix had in the past 5 years? A hell of a lot less than what popped up for Windows last month!
Im not buying that bullshit and we should instruct everyone else not to either. Enlightened customers are only a good thing.
Thats why it is up to us knowledgeable people to tell our friends what is going on and pressure congressman to have them enact laws requiring labels similar to "Smoking Cigarettes Might Cause Cancer" ala "DRM Enabled". (Ideally. Realistically, I dont think that would happen. People deserve to be told the truth. Its bad enough that the cartel negotiates for this stuff without public scrutiny. Heck, the NAB kicked out the press on the broadcast flag negotiation. Assholes)
If we are going to be sold a hobbled product, have the balls to tell us it's crippled. May market forces prevail. I am wary about buying an HDTV because I dont want to buy an obsolete tv that wont record digitally.
DRM will not work. One, customers have to buy it, and know they are buying it. I wasn't happy to find out that DVDs were encrypted and locked down regionally. Dont the movie studios want the money of consumers, regardless of where they live and what they use to watch movies? DVD's are the best invention yet, and I buy at least 2 a month.
Watching DVDs on Linux is a pain in the ass. I have to install all this "illegal" stuff because they didnt want their CSS broken. Tough. Its a math equation, and if a group of computer programmers are smart enough to make an OS, breaking DVD encryption must be trivially easy. It only helped when XING left one of the keys lying around. What is the movie industry going to do, use the DMCA to preemptively shut down math departments on fear that their students will be learning skills to make circumvention programs?
Also, DRM leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. How many people like Martha Stewart after her alleged stock manipulation incident? She may or may not have done anything wrong (shes guilty, go redecorate your prison cell) but no one likes her.
The record companies are souring on their customers too. I want a pure cd, not a hobbled one. When I run the risk of ruining computer hardware with a disc getting stuck, how does that encourage me to buy more CDs?
Also, whether the cartels like it or not, once anything is on my computer, by common sense it is MINE to do with as I wish. You dont want me to do something against your interests, put a gun to my head as I use it.
Granted this is scary for the companies because they arent used to losing control. Its a new millenium and this is simply darwinism:ADAPT OR DIE. The internet is on and never getting shut off.
Lastly, they are correct when they call the idiots who resell copied cds and dvds as pirates. They cause you to lose money. Since online services do not serve the customer the way the customer wants, you arent losing any money. Keep your customers happy with good products priced reasonably (DVD's at 20, cds at 10 or less and dropping, leave off the Digital RESTRICTIONS Management), and they will keep you happy with money.
Chipotle. Kickass mexican food. If you are even in Chicago, go west to Oakbrook and go have dinner at the McDonald;s lodge. Oustanding food, this is a traditional restauraunt on their corporate headquarters overlooking a lake and a golf course.
Microsoft is going to have to work harder now to keep up. Apple needs to put the PPC970 from IBM and integrate USB2 pronto. Other than that, this was a marvelous keynote.
The thing is, when Sony fought to make VCRs legal, they didnt own Columbia Pictures or CBS Records yet. Sony bought CBS Records in the late eighties and Columbia a couple of years later.
AOL Time Warner has got to be an even more conflicted company. AOL wants to sell broadband, but Warner Brothers wants to neutralize it with DRM.
The irony is delicious when one arm of the company sues the other.
Lastly, this is all a big land grab based on the assumption that consumers will buy products that have DRM built in . I will not spend my money on a neutered product.
The DRM in DVDs is a joke, and DVD players have hidden codes in them to make the players region free. At least some of them
Anyone who is dumb enough to resell burned cds deserves to go to jail.
Anyone who downloads a song for personal use is no different from a person that would tape and encode a song off of a radio.
Sharing a song is fine. Reselling what isnt yours is bad. Dont give them fuel to the fire.
Reselling deprives them of money. Downloading is free promotion( Money hasnt been earned )
Downloading is not a crime
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Bullshit. No company paid attention to the fact that there would be a market for a Linux/FreeBSD DVD player (or if not a market, then at least a NEED for a DVD player).
So what if he reverse-engineered the CSS algorithm? Its just a math equation, albeit complicated. The creators of the CSS algorithm must not have been ignorant of Moore's Law (processors double in speed every 18 months).
DeCSS was used for Jon to watch movies he bought on his computer. Most DVD players on windows include a DVD-Application anyway. Is using linux a crime? True, some other people can use the decrypted movie files, pipe them into the DiVX slimming machine and burn out 700 meg VCDs, but
MOST PEOPLE DONT KNOW HOW TO SET THEIR VCR CLOCKS, LET ALONE PROGRAM A COMPUTER.
I still value going to Blockbuster and renting a DVD for $4. Its a great deal for the money. DVD's are $20-30 in price, some cheaper, and its also a fair price to pay.
True, with my knowledge of DeCSS, I CAN rent a movie, watch it, Rip it overnight and burn a VCD then return it, but I dont. Id miss out on the cool featurettes that make DVDs worth the money.
All math equations and computer code are free speech. Especially the GPL. Just let the kid be free.
President Reagan had alzheimers disease while he was in office. I'm not too sure to when it started to kick in, but something must have happened. Also, Bush Sr used to the the CIA director...
Right on! They can make defective cds. They can sell them. They cant make us buy them. The slashdotters know this well. When Joe Six-Pack cant play a cd anymore, thats when the RIAA is screwed.
XNU is the kernel. Its a mix of BSD and Mach. BSD stuff is kicked into kernel space to get rid of the message passing overhead. Also, the Mach Kernel has been around in NeXT for quite some time
Apple is a profitable computer company because it sells its own hardware. Thats why everyting works. You can install the BSD layer of OSX on your PC. Its called Darwin. Its a mix of all 3 BSDs with a kernel called XNU.
Actually, the kernel is XNU. It's a hybrid mix of Mach with some BSD stuff that would normally be in userspace kicked down into kernel space to get rid of the Mach message passing overhead. XNU isnt a Microkernel or a Monolithic kernel. It's somewhere in between. Also, the drivers are done with something called IOKit, which is a nice safe abstration
A pure Mach microkernel (GNU Hurd) is really slow and that server paradigm just isnt practical right now. Maybe later.
Darwin has the XNU kernel with a lot of the BSD stuff sitting around. The only thing that's not cool with Darwin is the netinfo databse. It's NeXTish, but could stand to be replaced.
There was an episode of DS9 where the defiant got stuck in the past thanks to an orb. The defiant wound up right near the Enterprise of Captain Kirk.
The Enterprise and Defiant were near some space station and klingons were on the station too. They were trying to kill Tribbles. There was a brawl in the cafeteria where Worf has to point out that yes those were ridgless klingons, its a long story and not discussed with outsiders.
I think after 10 years the creative team of Berman and Braga has gotten a little stale. They were wonderful on TNG (then again they had GR there at the start).
STVoyager wasnt something I liked at the beginning. Now I watch and download old episodes and am starting to like some of the Episodes.
DS9 seemed a little too foreign, but its growing on me too.
Some of the plots are just plain lame. Star Trek needs fewer quality episodes, not more crappy ones.
Braga himself complains about this. I was drawn into TNG by the stellar acting (no pun intended), and got a lot of science inspiration from the show. I guess with a lot of other fans out there willing to contribute to this huge monster, UPN just got lazy and kept it going just for the money.
Look at the comics made by DC. Every couple of years the creative teams rotate out and they keep it fresh. Star Trek should not use the same plot lines forever and ever. It just gets old.
I like what Enterprise is doing by taking it back into the past. Just dont let that get stale. UPN woulnd't want to lose my interest, would it?
With all the other garbage on TV today, the Star Trek shows have good morals, tell a good story and throw in wonder with a little advanced technology to boot.
The movies are predictable. The only good one in my opinion (I havent seen all of the TOS movies) is First Contact.
I've read the leaked script for Nemesis and hope that they can clean the thing up a little.
Please dont write formulaic sci-fi anymore. I want new stuff.
Thats not what Im arguing. I worry that the error correction on my drives (a 2 year old 16x TDK VeloCD burner and a Cendyne (Pioneer) dvd rom drive from last year) would fail with all this garbage being thrown at it. Im also interested in getting a titanium powerbook and want discs to not get stuck in there.
Consumers should have the right to know wether discs wont corrupt their hardware by being made in a nonstandard format. CDRom drives might be different from Audio CD players, but I dont want error correction hardware hosed. Its probably all a scam to get everyone to buy new hardware
If one of these discs dont adhere to the ISO cd rom format like those audio CD's that dont adhere to the red book audio cd format, I wont risk my equipment on something that pretends to be what it isnt. I would feel much happier if CDs with this scheme came with a warning label similar to the ones on cigarette packs.
"Warning: This CD does is not a standard data cd and could disrupt your hardware. Caveat Emptor"
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It wont happen. Theyre too firmly entrenched with too much money and too much to lose.
Candle Makers didnt complain when Thomas Edison made the light bulb.
Railroad industries didnt complain when the airplane was made.
Neither of my two examples resorted to thuggery to protect them selves. Change or Die. Simple darwinism
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Tough Luck RIAA. Your member companies need to put out better music or get out of the business
It's all vaporware right now. Palladium is no longer called Palladium due to MS getting a negative reaction on /. and other consumer sites.
The MPEG consortium is going to implement DRM. Its a proposal.
Real is releasing a lot of their stuff as open source code.
That's all dependent on one key thing: WILL CONSUMERS BUY INTO IT?
I dont think so. Remember the DiVX DVD disc format? With all that inane DRM that circuit city tried to push? Dead. No one bought it.
Sony decided to have an advantage when it was developing the Minidisc. They bought CBS Records. They release the MD player and deck and a lot of shitty Michael Jackson MDs out to consumers roughly 10 years ago. It didnt have the marketplace reception here (Japan is another story) due to strong drm and nothing good released in that format. CDs were way to strong at the time.
I'm not opposed to certain aspects of the trusted computing initiative. There was an article on here a while back that had an IBM scientist talk about the encryption chip that they were testing on Linux.
Gamers buy Graphics Cards (GPUs) from NVidia and ATI to play games that look really neat? If not then the P4 CPUs would melt the computer down trying to render all the graphics. The Encryption Chips (I'll just call them EPUs) are useful in , lets say, speeding up a SSHed X session, SCP, or anything encrypted. Heck, If I need something encrypted or decrypted using the AES format, I'd like to take the load off of my computer. I can perfectly see Red Hat building that into linux.
Thats all predicated on Open Standards.
If Microsoft tries to submarine the entire process, they will be subjected to massive scrutiny from the engineers that frequent sites like these and Joe Six-Pack who wonders why his new computer doesnt do what he wants it do to.
In this day and age, disclosure and honesty and trust will do a lot to help the advent of EPUs in new computers.
Bald-faced lies, incompetent software, backroom deals, and the ludditeness of the RIAA/MPAA will destroy all of it.
Be Warned
I am a college student, so I get the discount.
Great! The Europeans are sensible about all of this. Downloading music off of the internet is no different than recording music off of the radio and digitizing it. All music is just sound waves anyway.
I think that anyone that resells copyrighted material deserves whatever the content mafia deems possible.
If the content cartel would just ease up about suing all of their potential customers, they wouldnt have a problem with piracy. Each industry has its own issues to deal with.
Software. Makes $80 billion dollars, loses $12 billion on piracy.
Software activation and antipiracy stuff (MICROSOFT AND QUICKEN) are a hassle to customers. They have to justify their existence in the face of open sourced competition.
Movies. Makes a couple of billion dollars (I'm guessing maybe more), loses millions to crappy divx screeners and stuff. People are buying $20 DVDs buy the handful, renting DVD's for $4, and going to movies for $7 a whole hell of a lot! I find it hard to belive their claims about piracy when they are making money hand over fist. Given to head in the sand syndrome when they didnt allow Linux Users to have a version of DVD viewing software. If a bunch of programmers can make their own OS, then decoding DVDs must be trivially easy (Especially when Xing leaves a key around in plain sight--- geniuses). Region Coding is just a sham. Stop now and youll sell more movies. Go digital in projection screens and stop whining about costs to get movies out to justify delayed releases. Global simultaneous releases will do a lot to squashing piracy. Keep those DVD prices at $20 or less.
Music Industry. Must move away from selling CD's a lot. Must sell DRM-less digital download in the MP3, Mp4, or SHN format. Must convince stores like best buy to install kiosks that allow users to hook up iPods or Nomads to swipe credit cards and get albums for $2 (this reduces payoffs to teamsters and costs to get cds pressed and stuff), and singles for $0.10. It;d be a gold mine and I'd buy like crazy. In the meantime, stop suing your customers, stop peddling locked cds WITHOUT LABELING THEM, YOU DECEITFUL BASTARDS, and ease up on piracy. Lastly, dont pay broadcasters to play songs. Thats got you in a bigger bind than this. Oh, and get much more responsive to consumer tastes and demands. And never again sell a Britney Spears to the american public. Spears will be a porn star within 5 years, as if Christina Aguilera isnt one.
If the music industry doesnt serve its customers, it will become irrelevant. Why do you think that your devoted mouthpiece and IT whipping bitch Hilary Rosen left your sorry excuse for an industry? You guys suck, and we are taking our money elsewhere.
No, they're probably fearful of Congress maybe passing a law that would make their concerns a moot point. Or maybe its just plain stupid to piss off your customers.
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I got an iPod for Christmas. It was a Mac 5gb and at school I use it on my PC running windows 2000. I reformatted it using Xplay and now use MusicMatch jukebox to put stuff on it and EphPhod or whatever the heck it's called to get stuff off it. On the mac I have a gazillion tools to get songs off it it. The music sits in an invisible folder called iPod_Control in some goofy format with folders named F0-F20.
My friend has a creative archos and all the songs on there are just in plain sight at the root level of the disc.
DRM will not work. The tech savvy people wont buy it and we influence the purchases of other people. I have been asked a lot about my iPod here in downtown Chicago and Ive seen 6-7 other people around that have one. I see the white headphones and just nod.
The movie studios are asking for the technically impossible to be done. 321 studios has the DVD ripping tools that finally make the process easy. These are DVD's THAT I OWN YOU AND AS MY PRIVATE PROPERTY I CAN DO ANYTHING WITH, EVEN USE A SHITTY DVD AS A BEER COASTER. I ONLY DO THIS WITH DVD'S I OWN. YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME HOLLYWOOD
Ripping a DVD to a VCD is a long process. I need a faster computer to make it not take all night. I see no harm in duping a dvd that I own. $20 is a good investment, and i might get clumsy and break it.
Hollywood is just paranoid about losing money while at the SAME TIME they are making hands over fist on movies, especially geek movies like Star Wars, LoTR, Trek, Matrix, you name it.
I will not buy an HDTV that wont allow digital recording unfettered. Just relax Valenti. Your'e 80 years old and the TV, VHS tape (BOSTON STRANGLER!! RUN!!) and Cable must have caused runs in your shorts a lot worse than this.
Your buddy Hilary was in collusion with Big Radio in selling us crappy music. $20 for one Movie is a great deal. $20 for a song? Thats money for a night out at the bars. I can record a sound wave any way I want. I might not want to buy a piece of pressed plastic any more.
Also Jack, region coding and css encryption is just unnessary. Just stop. I am willing to pay for digital content in the way that I want and I'm willing to venture that there are a lot more computer enthusiasts that are as well. Just stop shoving "sky is falling" rhetoric down the throats of congressman.
We wont stop protesting unless you give us what we want how we want it. I want to pay for digital content. I have been paying for movies, dvds, dvd rentals, and vhs tapes for a long time. I like movies, Im willing to support you a lot.
Dont give us that "No broadband is wanted because no good content is there". Broadband costs $50 a month and thats too much for most people. Not me. As soon as the price goes broadband usage will go up big time.
Maybe customers dont want to download a 700 meg file that's DRM encoded? Maybe VOD by cable systems is a different story.
Piss us off and we dont pay you. How blunt is that?
That palladium stuff will be good for the military and maybe really important enterprise stuff. Viruses only happen because MS has a security model of swiss fucking cheese. How many viruses has linux/unix had in the past 5 years? A hell of a lot less than what popped up for Windows last month!
Im not buying that bullshit and we should instruct everyone else not to either. Enlightened customers are only a good thing.
Thats why it is up to us knowledgeable people to tell our friends what is going on and pressure congressman to have them enact laws requiring labels similar to "Smoking Cigarettes Might Cause Cancer" ala "DRM Enabled". (Ideally. Realistically, I dont think that would happen. People deserve to be told the truth. Its bad enough that the cartel negotiates for this stuff without public scrutiny. Heck, the NAB kicked out the press on the broadcast flag negotiation. Assholes)
If we are going to be sold a hobbled product, have the balls to tell us it's crippled. May market forces prevail. I am wary about buying an HDTV because I dont want to buy an obsolete tv that wont record digitally.
DRM will not work. One, customers have to buy it, and know they are buying it. I wasn't happy to find out that DVDs were encrypted and locked down regionally. Dont the movie studios want the money of consumers, regardless of where they live and what they use to watch movies? DVD's are the best invention yet, and I buy at least 2 a month.
Watching DVDs on Linux is a pain in the ass. I have to install all this "illegal" stuff because they didnt want their CSS broken. Tough. Its a math equation, and if a group of computer programmers are smart enough to make an OS, breaking DVD encryption must be trivially easy. It only helped when XING left one of the keys lying around. What is the movie industry going to do, use the DMCA to preemptively shut down math departments on fear that their students will be learning skills to make circumvention programs?
Also, DRM leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. How many people like Martha Stewart after her alleged stock manipulation incident? She may or may not have done anything wrong (shes guilty, go redecorate your prison cell) but no one likes her.
The record companies are souring on their customers too. I want a pure cd, not a hobbled one. When I run the risk of ruining computer hardware with a disc getting stuck, how does that encourage me to buy more CDs?
Also, whether the cartels like it or not, once anything is on my computer, by common sense it is MINE to do with as I wish. You dont want me to do something against your interests, put a gun to my head as I use it.
Granted this is scary for the companies because they arent used to losing control. Its a new millenium and this is simply darwinism:ADAPT OR DIE. The internet is on and never getting shut off.
Lastly, they are correct when they call the idiots who resell copied cds and dvds as pirates. They cause you to lose money. Since online services do not serve the customer the way the customer wants, you arent losing any money.
Keep your customers happy with good products priced reasonably (DVD's at 20, cds at 10 or less and dropping, leave off the Digital RESTRICTIONS Management), and they will keep you happy with money.
Chipotle. Kickass mexican food. If you are even in Chicago, go west to Oakbrook and go have dinner at the McDonald;s lodge. Oustanding food, this is a traditional restauraunt on their corporate headquarters overlooking a lake and a golf course.
there are a lot of PC components that can be useful here
Microsoft is going to have to work harder now to keep up. Apple needs to put the PPC970 from IBM and integrate USB2 pronto. Other than that, this was a marvelous keynote.
The thing is, when Sony fought to make VCRs legal, they didnt own Columbia Pictures or CBS Records yet. Sony bought CBS Records in the late eighties and Columbia a couple of years later.
AOL Time Warner has got to be an even more conflicted company. AOL wants to sell broadband, but Warner Brothers wants to neutralize it with DRM.
The irony is delicious when one arm of the company sues the other.
Lastly, this is all a big land grab based on the assumption that consumers will buy products that have DRM built in . I will not spend my money on a neutered product.
The DRM in DVDs is a joke, and DVD players have hidden codes in them to make the players region free. At least some of them
The thing with copyrights is, how long does a corporation own them?
I do not condone taxpayer money going to a cartel. I have made my point to my 2 senators (Fitzgerald and Durbin) about this.
Anyone who is dumb enough to resell burned cds deserves to go to jail.
Anyone who downloads a song for personal use is no different from a person that would tape and encode a song off of a radio.
Sharing a song is fine. Reselling what isnt yours is bad. Dont give them fuel to the fire.
Reselling deprives them of money. Downloading is free promotion( Money hasnt been earned )
Downloading is not a crime
Bullshit. No company paid attention to the fact that there would be a market for a Linux/FreeBSD DVD player (or if not a market, then at least a NEED for a DVD player).
So what if he reverse-engineered the CSS algorithm? Its just a math equation, albeit complicated. The creators of the CSS algorithm must not have been ignorant of Moore's Law (processors double in speed every 18 months).
DeCSS was used for Jon to watch movies he bought on his computer. Most DVD players on windows include a DVD-Application anyway. Is using linux a crime? True, some other people can use the decrypted movie files, pipe them into the DiVX slimming machine and burn out 700 meg VCDs, but
MOST PEOPLE DONT KNOW HOW TO SET THEIR VCR CLOCKS, LET ALONE PROGRAM A COMPUTER.
I still value going to Blockbuster and renting a DVD for $4. Its a great deal for the money. DVD's are $20-30 in price, some cheaper, and its also a fair price to pay.
True, with my knowledge of DeCSS, I CAN rent a movie, watch it, Rip it overnight and burn a VCD then return it, but I dont. Id miss out on the cool featurettes that make DVDs worth the money.
All math equations and computer code are free speech. Especially the GPL. Just let the kid be free.
President Reagan had alzheimers disease while he was in office. I'm not too sure to when it started to kick in, but something must have happened. Also, Bush Sr used to the the CIA director...
Right on! They can make defective cds. They can sell them. They cant make us buy them. The slashdotters know this well. When Joe Six-Pack cant play a cd anymore, thats when the RIAA is screwed.
Philips, please sue them fast.
XNU is the kernel. Its a mix of BSD and Mach. BSD stuff is kicked into kernel space to get rid of the message passing overhead. Also, the Mach Kernel has been around in NeXT for quite some time
Apple is a profitable computer company because it sells its own hardware. Thats why everyting works. You can install the BSD layer of OSX on your PC. Its called Darwin. Its a mix of all 3 BSDs with a kernel called XNU.
Actually, the kernel is XNU. It's a hybrid mix of Mach with some BSD stuff that would normally be in userspace kicked down into kernel space to get rid of the Mach message passing overhead. XNU isnt a Microkernel or a Monolithic kernel. It's somewhere in between. Also, the drivers are done with something called IOKit, which is a nice safe abstration
A pure Mach microkernel (GNU Hurd) is really slow and that server paradigm just isnt practical right now. Maybe later.
Darwin has the XNU kernel with a lot of the BSD stuff sitting around. The only thing that's not cool with Darwin is the netinfo databse. It's NeXTish, but could stand to be replaced.
That actually was explained, sort of.
There was an episode of DS9 where the defiant got stuck in the past thanks to an orb. The defiant wound up right near the Enterprise of Captain Kirk.
The Enterprise and Defiant were near some space station and klingons were on the station too. They were trying to kill Tribbles. There was a brawl in the cafeteria where Worf has to point out that yes those were ridgless klingons, its a long story and not discussed with outsiders.
I think after 10 years the creative team of Berman and Braga has gotten a little stale. They were wonderful on TNG (then again they had GR there at the start).
STVoyager wasnt something I liked at the beginning. Now I watch and download old episodes and am starting to like some of the Episodes.
DS9 seemed a little too foreign, but its growing on me too.
Some of the plots are just plain lame. Star Trek needs fewer quality episodes, not more crappy ones.
Braga himself complains about this.
I was drawn into TNG by the stellar acting (no pun intended), and got a lot of science inspiration from the show. I guess with a lot of other fans out there willing to contribute to this huge monster, UPN just got lazy and kept it going just for the money.
Look at the comics made by DC. Every couple of years the creative teams rotate out and they keep it fresh. Star Trek should not use the same plot lines forever and ever. It just gets old.
I like what Enterprise is doing by taking it back into the past. Just dont let that get stale. UPN woulnd't want to lose my interest, would it?
With all the other garbage on TV today, the Star Trek shows have good morals, tell a good story and throw in wonder with a little advanced technology to boot.
The movies are predictable. The only good one in my opinion (I havent seen all of the TOS movies) is First Contact.
I've read the leaked script for Nemesis and hope that they can clean the thing up a little.
Please dont write formulaic sci-fi anymore. I want new stuff.
Thats not what Im arguing. I worry that the error correction on my drives (a 2 year old 16x TDK VeloCD burner and a Cendyne (Pioneer) dvd rom drive from last year) would fail with all this garbage being thrown at it. Im also interested in getting a titanium powerbook and want discs to not get stuck in there.
Consumers should have the right to know wether discs wont corrupt their hardware by being made in a nonstandard format. CDRom drives might be different from Audio CD players, but I dont want error correction hardware hosed. Its probably all a scam to get everyone to buy new hardware
If one of these discs dont adhere to the ISO cd rom format like those audio CD's that dont adhere to the red book audio cd format, I wont risk my equipment on something that pretends to be what it isnt. I would feel much happier if CDs with this scheme came with a warning label similar to the ones on cigarette packs.
"Warning: This CD does is not a standard data cd and could disrupt your hardware. Caveat Emptor"
It wont happen. Theyre too firmly entrenched with too much money and too much to lose.
Candle Makers didnt complain when Thomas Edison made the light bulb.
Railroad industries didnt complain when the airplane was made.
Neither of my two examples resorted to thuggery to protect them selves. Change or Die. Simple darwinism