Check out http://www.iqtvra.org/noipix.html and become 100% IPIX free. I guess not having any 3D content on my web page makes my 100% IPIX free. Seriously, IPIX must be stopped as this represents a threat to free software in general, i.e. it would be very bad for us if it became common place to sue on weaker patents as individual free software developers done have the resources to fight these in court. The most effective way to fight this is by purging IPIX's technology from the web, i.e. if you know anyone who distributes content in IPIX format please incurage them to switch formats and maybe point them to the following pages:
I don't really know what they will do, but here is what I suspect..
They will Watermark the new CDs so that it will survive the MP3 encoding process and politically force the portable players that use SDMI and MP3 to not use the MP3s unless they are watermarked. Then you will be able to purchase a special CD ripper which will only work with your portable to embed an ignore watermark code.
What we must do is: (1) figure out how to defeat the water marking process efficently in encoded MP3s (so that I don't need to depend on the encoder of an MP3 to pirate his encoded MP3) I know a tiny bit about about the research in related areas and this looks possible. (2) find a hardware hack to disable this `feature' of a portable player without removing it's ability to play SDMI music. The dificulty here is if they put these two fetures on the same chip, but even then it would still not be impossible. (3) find an efficent way to translate SDMI music into MP3. This could be a simple as plugging your SDMI portable into your sound card, but I would recommend a total software solution. I suppose the easy solution would be to write fake sound card drivers for Linux and Windows to trap the software SDMI players output and rout it to an MP3 encoder or a WAV file.
We also need a more effective way to pirate music as piracy is ultimatly the only check on the price that the music industry can charge, i.e. maybe a network of systems which pass on MP3 requests via email and don't let anyone know what the whole network looks like.
Further more, we need to be thinking about claiming the next generation of technilogical advances in digital music for free software and the pirate MP3 worlds, i.e. it would be nice for a major patent in the field to require any implementation to be GPLed.
Perhaps we should have a policy of making ``more desciptive posts'' when we make links to member only sites, i.e. ask for a summery with any link to a members only site. This seems like a good policy since it allows potentially valuble content to be posted and those of us who don't want to join can still get the message.
In this case it would have been worth providing a basic list of what they liked and didn't like about the various OSes. This could probable have been done in one paragraph without even a hint of copyright enfriengment.
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Check out http://www.iqtvra.org/noipix.html and become 100% IPIX free. I guess not having any 3D content on my web page makes my 100% IPIX free. Seriously, IPIX must be stopped as this represents a threat to free software in general, i.e. it would be very bad for us if it became common place to sue on weaker patents as individual free software developers done have the resources to fight these in court. The most effective way to fight this is by purging IPIX's technology from the web, i.e. if you know anyone who distributes content in IPIX format please incurage them to switch formats and maybe point them to the following pages:
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I don't really know what they will do, but here is what I suspect..
They will Watermark the new CDs so that it will survive the MP3 encoding process and politically force the portable players that use SDMI and MP3 to not use the MP3s unless they are watermarked. Then you will be able to purchase a special CD ripper which will only work with your portable to embed an ignore watermark code.
What we must do is:
(1) figure out how to defeat the water marking process efficently in encoded MP3s (so that I don't need to depend on the encoder of an MP3 to pirate his encoded MP3) I know a tiny bit about about the research in related areas and this looks possible.
(2) find a hardware hack to disable this `feature' of a portable player without removing it's ability to play SDMI music. The dificulty here is if they put these two fetures on the same chip, but even then it would still not be impossible.
(3) find an efficent way to translate SDMI music into MP3. This could be a simple as plugging your SDMI portable into your sound card, but I would recommend a total software solution. I suppose the easy solution would be to write fake sound card drivers for Linux and Windows to trap the software SDMI players output and rout it to an MP3 encoder or a WAV file.
We also need a more effective way to pirate music as piracy is ultimatly the only check on the price that the music industry can charge, i.e. maybe a network of systems which pass on MP3 requests via email and don't let anyone know what the whole network looks like.
Further more, we need to be thinking about claiming the next generation of technilogical advances in digital music for free software and the pirate MP3 worlds, i.e. it would be nice for a major patent in the field to require any implementation to be GPLed.
Perhaps we should have a policy of making ``more desciptive posts'' when we make links to member only sites, i.e. ask for a summery with any link to a members only site. This seems like a good policy since it allows potentially valuble content to be posted and those of us who don't want to join can still get the message.
In this case it would have been worth providing a basic list of what they liked and didn't like about the various OSes. This could probable have been done in one paragraph without even a hint of copyright enfriengment.