Well, basically, this is a stepping stone... By creating a precedent where the ISP must comply to a subpoena requesting user information, they are setting up future cases to create new legislation that would require all ISPs to create, retain and maintain detailed logs of users activities and actions, to support the subpoena. How they go about that, I'm not sure (I'm no lawyer), but the short and skinny is, you are losing your anonymity whether you like it or not.
Extend this to other organizations, and you see my biggest fear. I'm not the least worried about the RIAA personally, I'm more worried about other organizations (including my ISP) having awesome usage and marketing data about me lying around.
In so far as spam, a Spammer would own the copyright to the email, and so when you copied it off and sent it to spamarchive, he could utilize the DMCA to find the 'anti-spam' zealot.;)
Okay, so I'm confused (and frankly, I could just be mixed up in the syntax of this)...
The artist creates a work, and he's the copyright holder of that work.
The record company/manufacturer presses the work for distribution and for sale, but only after the artist grants a license to that copyrighted work.
The record company, therefore, has no copyright on the work that's been pressed/manufactured.
So what does this have to do with remaking a song. The artist still owns the copyright, and the person who remakes the song must also get a license, right?
Am I wrong??? This doesn't sound right to me, otherwise we could all add a short 1 second banner to the beginning of all our songs and call it a remake, and then not violate the original copyright???
The only complaint I have with it are the fans... Too damn loud! Of course I have a 10K RPM scsi drive in the mix so that doesn't help either. Upgrading the fans to panaflo's or something similar, throwing in maybe that cool looking vantec Nexus controller:
-- snip -- "The enormous success for Orbitz is directly related to these pop-unders," said Mark Rattin, creative director for Chicago-based Otherwise. "There's an enormous segment of the population that are appreciating these ads." He said that similar commercials have appeared online over the last eight months.
Um... An enormous segment of the population??? Who are these people? No one appreciates this kind of marketing. Banner ads alone are a pain (Heck, you can't even read stories on Yahoo for the blinking/animated gif in the middle of the article.
Someday, hopefully soon, these cavalier marketing folks will go out of business and things will settle down. Some advertising I guess I'll have to live with, but this stuff is too extreme.
But, honestly, I don't ever see pop [up|under] ads. Thankfully, Mozilla solves that little problem for me. ---
Truth is... if *hacker* has access to physical box, you have no security. Nuff said.
The whole password protect grub etc might be useful to keep the uninitiated out of your box, but in so far as locking down your system, that's just silly.
With respect to Windows XP, 2000 et.al., When I look at companies developing server products and compare the companies with like products selling for the NT platform vs. the companies developing for Solaris/HPUX etc, it's very clear to me the distinction between the two. Sure, this is a generalization, but I've yet to see a scaleable multi-thousand user Exchange Server in production. Seems to me the NT crowd still doesn't get it, therefore it's a foregone conclusion that security is both misunderstood and not a significant concern.
Wow, this is so pertinent. At my former employ, I was able to watch a group of talented, but misguided programmers build an entire CORBA framework that provided absolutely no functionality, nor solved any of the companies products needs. In effect wasting 2 years writing code that couldn't be sold. Today the company is spiralling into oblivion, but it's really sad that management and even the programmers themselves never saw the light until it was too late.
The truth is, it wasn't the code that was bad, it was the mindset. People just couldn't wrap their minds around the companies products (cuz it wasn't sexy afterall) to focus and decided they would invent/build their own thing. I left 6 months before the end, executive staff fired, half the company layed off which had already been cut down about 4 times over the previous year. I feel bad for the guys who wrote the code though. They really thought they were building something, but at the end of the day their code is going on the shelf.
Code gone wrong... Management gone wrong... It's the new era, now, and hopefully we've all learned something.
I think an even more interesting question is why would you ever actually buy one of these cars? Sure... 300 hp is great in a heavy car that can't take a turn without losing the back-end.
Sorry, I'll keep my BMW's, Boxsters, 911s and even Honda's with their petite but just as powerful motors and at least a proper suspension that doesn't date back to the 50's.
Is it really??? Sure, I guess I can live without it today, but have you noticed how more and more information for services are available only on the web? If this trend continues, this 'luxury' will be a necessity to just figure out how to renew your driving license for example.
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Well, basically, this is a stepping stone... By creating a precedent where the ISP must comply to a subpoena requesting user information, they are setting up future cases to create new legislation that would require all ISPs to create, retain and maintain detailed logs of users activities and actions, to support the subpoena. How they go about that, I'm not sure (I'm no lawyer), but the short and skinny is, you are losing your anonymity whether you like it or not.
Extend this to other organizations, and you see my biggest fear. I'm not the least worried about the RIAA personally, I'm more worried about other organizations (including my ISP) having awesome usage and marketing data about me lying around.
Sam
Right...
;)
In so far as spam, a Spammer would own the copyright to the email, and so when you copied it off and sent it to spamarchive, he could utilize the DMCA to find the 'anti-spam' zealot.
Okay, so I'm confused (and frankly, I could just be mixed up in the syntax of this)...
The artist creates a work, and he's the copyright holder of that work.
The record company/manufacturer presses the work for distribution and for sale, but only after the artist grants a license to that copyrighted work.
The record company, therefore, has no copyright on the work that's been pressed/manufactured.
So what does this have to do with remaking a song. The artist still owns the copyright, and the person who remakes the song must also get a license, right?
Am I wrong??? This doesn't sound right to me, otherwise we could all add a short 1 second banner to the beginning of all our songs and call it a remake, and then not violate the original copyright???
I understand what you mean, but how often are you swapping CD's/DVD's on your player???
What are you talking about???
The 600 is basically a regular micro-ATX computer case with a custom fascia and kind of funky drive mounts. I love this case, by the way...
atc600
The only complaint I have with it are the fans... Too damn loud! Of course I have a 10K RPM scsi drive in the mix so that doesn't help either. Upgrading the fans to panaflo's or something similar, throwing in maybe that cool looking vantec Nexus controller:
Vantec fan controller
Get some fast EIDE 8MB quiet drives, and your system would almost be ready for the AV rack.
-- snip --
"The enormous success for Orbitz is directly related to these pop-unders," said Mark Rattin, creative director for Chicago-based Otherwise. "There's an enormous segment of the population that are appreciating these ads." He said that similar commercials have appeared online over the last eight months.
Um... An enormous segment of the population??? Who are these people? No one appreciates this kind of marketing. Banner ads alone are a pain (Heck, you can't even read stories on Yahoo for the blinking/animated gif in the middle of the article.
Someday, hopefully soon, these cavalier marketing folks will go out of business and things will settle down. Some advertising I guess I'll have to live with, but this stuff is too extreme.
But, honestly, I don't ever see pop [up|under] ads. Thankfully, Mozilla solves that little problem for me.
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um...
single user mode require's root password...
Truth is... if *hacker* has access to physical box, you have no security. Nuff said.
The whole password protect grub etc might be useful to keep the uninitiated out of your box, but in so far as locking down your system, that's just silly.
With respect to Windows XP, 2000 et.al., When I look at companies developing server products and compare the companies with like products selling for the NT platform vs. the companies developing for Solaris/HPUX etc, it's very clear to me the distinction between the two. Sure, this is a generalization, but I've yet to see a scaleable multi-thousand user Exchange Server in production. Seems to me the NT crowd still doesn't get it, therefore it's a foregone conclusion that security is both misunderstood and not a significant concern.
Sam
Wow, this is so pertinent. At my former employ, I was able to watch a group of talented, but misguided programmers build an entire CORBA framework that provided absolutely no functionality, nor solved any of the companies products needs. In effect wasting 2 years writing code that couldn't be sold. Today the company is spiralling into oblivion, but it's really sad that management and even the programmers themselves never saw the light until it was too late.
The truth is, it wasn't the code that was bad, it was the mindset. People just couldn't wrap their minds around the companies products (cuz it wasn't sexy afterall) to focus and decided they would invent/build their own thing. I left 6 months before the end, executive staff fired, half the company layed off which had already been cut down about 4 times over the previous year. I feel bad for the guys who wrote the code though. They really thought they were building something, but at the end of the day their code is going on the shelf.
Code gone wrong... Management gone wrong... It's the new era, now, and hopefully we've all learned something.
I think an even more interesting question is why would you ever actually buy one of these cars? Sure... 300 hp is great in a heavy car that can't take a turn without losing the back-end.
Sorry, I'll keep my BMW's, Boxsters, 911s and even Honda's with their petite but just as powerful motors and at least a proper suspension that doesn't date back to the 50's.
Is it really??? Sure, I guess I can live without it today, but have you noticed how more and more information for services are available only on the web? If this trend continues, this 'luxury' will be a necessity to just figure out how to renew your driving license for example.