Now I'm just a humble corporate drone but wasn't Slammer doubling in size every 8 or 9 seconds simply by spreading as fast as the internet would let it?
How in the world are these "flash attacks" supposed to attack the entire internet in seconds? Launch from multiple points at once? Go faster than light?
The idea should be to maximize the pepetuation of information, not to make artists rich or allow them power/ego trips.
Silly me. I always thought that copyright was there to protect artists and give them the support they needed to create new art. You know, let them sell their art for money so that they can do stuff like pay the rent and buy food.
My understanding from the article is that you or someone from your company were somehow contacted by Sarah Faulder or a representative of the MPA and told that your site was breaking the law hence the "went after" remark.
The MPA has decided its in the best intrests not to have the work of its members listed and redistributed on a website so you're obviously wrong in some way, shape or form.
Maybe the songwriters and publishers are planning to license their work as to more directly profit from it?
1) It's not the RIAA its the MPA. The MPA represents music publishers not record labels.
2) Lyrics sites hurt the industry because they provide a service of redistributing copyrighted work. The songwriter has the right to choose how his or her work is distributed and for what cost if any.
What they're saying by their actions is: We don't have the resources to offer you a license to reproduce the lyrics in a web database that serves our members in a positive manner. Instead, we have plenty of resources to have lawyers to send out threatening letters for not having a license we won't provide to you.
Could you point out the place in the article that says the MPA is bringing out the lawyers to send C&D letters. Maybe Sarah made a polite phone call to Darryl explaining the situation?
Just a question but where did you get the idea that an association should allow unlimited redistribution of material copyrighted by its members while everything is worked out?
Unless you're a top songwriter you basically get paid dirt.
Songwriters should be allowed to make money off the lyrics since they wrote them in the first place.
That being said, I think LyricFind and the MPA should sit down and work out a licensing agreement with each other to work out a deal that benefits all three parites involved (Songwriters, LyricFind and consumers).
Our copyright law is rather anal. Contrary to popular belieft you can't copy something for personal use at all. No exceptions.
For you to copy ANY music requires permission from the songwriter, the musicians and the distributor as they each hold a copyright for a seperate part of the article (music, lyrics and the sound recording itself).
That being said, if someone infringes someone's copyright it's a civil action rather than a criminal action (except when its a for-profit). We also have something similar to the DMCA except it only enables civil suits (ie, if I remove DeCSS from a DVD the DVD company come sue me if they feel I'm doing anything nasty).
* Music is a linear stream making it easy to cache the stuff thats coming ahead. You just start dumping data as fast as you can into memory while you have periods where the CD can be read.
* Games tend to randomly access the disc more than anything. Sure you can try to predict whats coming next or even have special caches for certain code and data but you have to remember this is a portable system. You can't just go and strap on a 4 meg memory cache because you feel like it. It would chew down on juice more than the optical drive
* Whats the point of 1.8G of data on the disc when you're going to have such a tiny amount of main memory?
Cartridges do still have a big advantage over CDs in the portable environment.
By using an optical drive, Sony has basically shot themselves in the foot.
Optical drives require a motor, adding bulk. They require juice for these motors. More so than the amount of power needed to drive the ROM on a cartridge. They also aren't really great for situation where the console is in constant motion.
They're going to have to pull something really special out of their ass to make an optical drive feasible for a portable.
1.8 gigs is irrelevant when your batteries last 4 hours and your system can't be moved while playing lest you disrupt the FMV.
Look at the Game Gear. Nobody wanted a big backlit, colour LCD screen if it chewed on batteries.
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NAT is not the same as a firewall
I think that's why the parent called it a "poor man's firewall".
That's scary.
You can call Sydney cheaper than I can and I live in Australia!
Now more modren GPUs have gained some limited programmability, but they still aren't general purpose processors.
Yes they are. DX9 class GPUs are turing complete. Given enough cycles they can solve any problem you give them. Just like a CPU.
Perhaps NASA could sell the old tunnels on eBay?
Now I'm just a humble corporate drone but wasn't Slammer doubling in size every 8 or 9 seconds simply by spreading as fast as the internet would let it?
How in the world are these "flash attacks" supposed to attack the entire internet in seconds? Launch from multiple points at once? Go faster than light?
Is ROT13 such a lost art?
Yes.
Watch the amazing troll Karl Cocknozzle as he backflips around making contradictions throughout his entire post!
Never has a troll like him been so skilled in the field of acrobatics!
All this should have been in the article.
My mistake.
Sorry.
The idea should be to maximize the pepetuation of information, not to make artists rich or allow them power/ego trips.
Silly me. I always thought that copyright was there to protect artists and give them the support they needed to create new art. You know, let them sell their art for money so that they can do stuff like pay the rent and buy food.
My understanding from the article is that you or someone from your company were somehow contacted by Sarah Faulder or a representative of the MPA and told that your site was breaking the law hence the "went after" remark.
Oh come on...
You'll actually tell me with a straight face that any work created after 1928 will at some point be included in the public domain.
Yeah... and I'm Walt Disney.
lyrics.ch was gone after by the NMPA. The people going after LyricFind are the MPA.
Music publishers as in people who take the work of actual songwriters and publish it in printed manuscript form and sell it for actual money.
The MPA has decided its in the best intrests not to have the work of its members listed and redistributed on a website so you're obviously wrong in some way, shape or form.
Maybe the songwriters and publishers are planning to license their work as to more directly profit from it?
1) It's not the RIAA its the MPA. The MPA represents music publishers not record labels.
2) Lyrics sites hurt the industry because they provide a service of redistributing copyrighted work. The songwriter has the right to choose how his or her work is distributed and for what cost if any.
What they're saying by their actions is: We don't have the resources to offer you a license to reproduce the lyrics in a web database that serves our members in a positive manner. Instead, we have plenty of resources to have lawyers to send out threatening letters for not having a license we won't provide to you.
Could you point out the place in the article that says the MPA is bringing out the lawyers to send C&D letters. Maybe Sarah made a polite phone call to Darryl explaining the situation?
Just a question but where did you get the idea that an association should allow unlimited redistribution of material copyrighted by its members while everything is worked out?
Last time I checked, redistributing copyrighted material is illegal.
What she means is that "just because nobody is there to sell them the right to redistribute lyrics doesn't give them the right to just do it anyway".
Unless you're a top songwriter you basically get paid dirt.
Songwriters should be allowed to make money off the lyrics since they wrote them in the first place.
That being said, I think LyricFind and the MPA should sit down and work out a licensing agreement with each other to work out a deal that benefits all three parites involved (Songwriters, LyricFind and consumers).
You just infringed on the copyright council's copyright byt posting that.
Incorrect.
Our copyright law is rather anal. Contrary to popular belieft you can't copy something for personal use at all. No exceptions.
For you to copy ANY music requires permission from the songwriter, the musicians and the distributor as they each hold a copyright for a seperate part of the article (music, lyrics and the sound recording itself).
That being said, if someone infringes someone's copyright it's a civil action rather than a criminal action (except when its a for-profit). We also have something similar to the DMCA except it only enables civil suits (ie, if I remove DeCSS from a DVD the DVD company come sue me if they feel I'm doing anything nasty).
For more information see the Copyright Council's web page and also their fact sheet on music and copyright.
Well consider the following:
* Music is a linear stream making it easy to cache the stuff thats coming ahead. You just start dumping data as fast as you can into memory while you have periods where the CD can be read.
* Games tend to randomly access the disc more than anything. Sure you can try to predict whats coming next or even have special caches for certain code and data but you have to remember this is a portable system. You can't just go and strap on a 4 meg memory cache because you feel like it. It would chew down on juice more than the optical drive
* Whats the point of 1.8G of data on the disc when you're going to have such a tiny amount of main memory?
Cartridges do still have a big advantage over CDs in the portable environment.
All this is pretty irrelevant.
By using an optical drive, Sony has basically shot themselves in the foot.
Optical drives require a motor, adding bulk. They require juice for these motors. More so than the amount of power needed to drive the ROM on a cartridge. They also aren't really great for situation where the console is in constant motion.
They're going to have to pull something really special out of their ass to make an optical drive feasible for a portable.
1.8 gigs is irrelevant when your batteries last 4 hours and your system can't be moved while playing lest you disrupt the FMV.
Look at the Game Gear. Nobody wanted a big backlit, colour LCD screen if it chewed on batteries.
The PS2 may still be 200 bucks but the PS1 is well under 100 at most places.
Why do you think 90% of all kiddie movie title licenses still come out on PS1? Because every 6 year old has one and probably can't afford a PS2.
I know Slashdot people tend not to read the article but this is ridiculous.
From the blurb:
Wireless works in places but in general this land is covered in hardwood and pines and the signal drops off quickly.
I'll bite.
Windows XP doesn't use DOS. Neither does 2K.
They have a command interpreter and a recovery console but they aren't the base the OS is laid on.
HAND.