It's an agreement between the manufacturers, withOUT the consent of the consumers.
I believe pretty much "everywhere" (at least on this planet).
The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is a standard for content distribution and digital rights management, intended to restrict access to and copying of the next generation of optical discs and DVDs. The specification was publicly released in April 2005 and the standard has been adopted as the access restriction scheme for HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD). It is developed by AACS Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA), a consortium that includes Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Warner Bros., IBM, Toshiba and Sony. AACS has been operating under an "interim agreement" since the final specification (including provisions for Managed Copy) has not yet been finalised.
Since appearing in devices in 2006, most AACS decryption keys have been extracted from weakly protected software players and published on the Internet.
So, if you Buy/rent DVDs and/or Blu-ray - you're screwed (at least in 2011, or until the stream can be modified to remove the security...)
And my hope is that someone will start a class action lawsuit on behalf of owners who legally bought home theater equipment and legal copies of HD movies against those DRM trolls.
I am sure that many people all over the globe will support this cause.
What they are doing is like telling the customers WE DON'T TRUST YOU and that ain't the way to run a business.
Granted, most of the game players are kids, so basically they are bullying kids with all those dreaded DRM thingies.
There lies a silver lining though --- game players are there, throngs of them.
If they don't play this game, they will play another.
Business opportunities opening up whenever there is some screw-ups and this one ought to be big enough for others to invest in an all-open online gaming platform, no DRM, nothing.
No. They always have that "I am perfectly safe here, no one gonna want to kill me because I ain't hating nobody" feeling.
Not even thousands of their equally innocent infidels brothers and sisters got slaughtered in yet another attack can shake their believe that "They Are Safe".
I mean, how many times the Islamic terrorists have struck the infidels ?
* London subway bombing * WTC twin tower incident * Madrid Train Station bombing * Riots and car burning in France * Riots by African Muslims in Italy * Cold blooded murder of a famous movie director in Denmark * Killing of 7 American soldiers inside an Army Camp in USA
There are more, of course, such as * Bali Bombing (Twice) * Jakarta Marriot Hotel Bombing (Twice) * Pakistan Hotel Bombing * Bombay Massacre * Westerners kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic terrorists, in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Yemen, among other places
But them infidels just do not care.
They seems to think that they are safe, but in fact, they are already exposed to a lot of danger.
The so-called study is biased. The sociologists that run the study are anti-Science.
1. A strong nation needs scientists and mathematicians more than anything else.
2. The idea of not increasing native-born scientists on the basis that "employers ain't gonna pay more if there is an over-supply of scientists" is totally bullshit.
3. Most of the scientists in America are foreign born. And those foreign-born scientists have no difficulties in going back to their homeland if they can live better back home.
4. Imagine the scenario of foreign born scientists leaving America while there are not enough native-born scientists to fill the posts, what type of future America gonna have?
4. Does that anti-science sociologist want America to become another Zimbabwe?
But there have been too many cases of just that, patent holder exert their rights over everything, and case remain locked in court for years and years, while costly legal battle drag on.
It's not making any sense, but then, that's the way it is.
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But they're your government. They can send you a new one rather quickly.
Wanna bet?
Bureaucracy knows no bound, especially if your passport has been used by someone to assassinate a terrorist.
Well ...
Re-read what you have written.
It's an agreement between the manufacturers, withOUT the consent of the consumers.
I believe pretty much "everywhere" (at least on this planet).
The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is a standard for content distribution and digital rights management, intended to restrict access to and copying of the next generation of optical discs and DVDs. The specification was publicly released in April 2005 and the standard has been adopted as the access restriction scheme for HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD). It is developed by AACS Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA), a consortium that includes Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Warner Bros., IBM, Toshiba and Sony. AACS has been operating under an "interim agreement" since the final specification (including provisions for Managed Copy) has not yet been finalised.
Since appearing in devices in 2006, most AACS decryption keys have been extracted from weakly protected software players and published on the Internet.
So, if you Buy/rent DVDs and/or Blu-ray - you're screwed (at least in 2011, or until the stream can be modified to remove the security...)
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
But in the case you have describe, it IS malice !
And my hope is that someone will start a class action lawsuit on behalf of owners who legally bought home theater equipment and legal copies of HD movies against those DRM trolls.
I am sure that many people all over the globe will support this cause.
This is getting too ridiculous.
For those with Gigabit bandwidth, downloading an HD1080p movie is a piece of cake.
But for the rest of us, arrrggghhh !
... what's the world ranking for Googlestan in term of carbon footprint?
With the online DRM which will boot you out every single time you have a dropped line, no one, not even those with pirated copies, will be spared.
It's Ubuntu that package the whole thing and decide on the default font size.
E only plays the part of supplying the critically needed libraries.
What they are doing is like telling the customers WE DON'T TRUST YOU and that ain't the way to run a business.
Granted, most of the game players are kids, so basically they are bullying kids with all those dreaded DRM thingies.
There lies a silver lining though --- game players are there, throngs of them.
If they don't play this game, they will play another.
Business opportunities opening up whenever there is some screw-ups and this one ought to be big enough for others to invest in an all-open online gaming platform, no DRM, nothing.
Just log on and play.
VP 4 has higher compression ratio than VP 3.
VP 6 reportedly has 50% more compression than VP 4.
According to ON2's site, they are saying that VP 8 achieves 40% more compression than VP 6, with much less noise.
Of course I take all those claim with a grain of salt. Let's half the claims, then.
VP 6 achieves 25% more compression than VP 4.
VP 8 achieves 20% more compression than VP 6.
Which means VP 8 is at least 50% better than VP 4, which is in itself better than VP 3 / Ogg Theora.
It will be interesting to see if Google would use On2's compression technique on YouTube.
Shhh... don't say it so loud.
The infidels will not believe what you tell them.
No. They always have that "I am perfectly safe here, no one gonna want to kill me because I ain't hating nobody" feeling.
Not even thousands of their equally innocent infidels brothers and sisters got slaughtered in yet another attack can shake their believe that "They Are Safe".
I mean, how many times the Islamic terrorists have struck the infidels ?
* London subway bombing
* WTC twin tower incident
* Madrid Train Station bombing
* Riots and car burning in France
* Riots by African Muslims in Italy
* Cold blooded murder of a famous movie director in Denmark
* Killing of 7 American soldiers inside an Army Camp in USA
There are more, of course, such as
* Bali Bombing (Twice)
* Jakarta Marriot Hotel Bombing (Twice)
* Pakistan Hotel Bombing
* Bombay Massacre
* Westerners kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic terrorists, in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Yemen, among other places
But them infidels just do not care.
They seems to think that they are safe, but in fact, they are already exposed to a lot of danger.
CIA / Homeland Security / NSA / FBI *are* the sponsors of Islamic terrorism.
And the above came from a paranoid.
Believe it.
And how to protect the workers' health from the bombardments of the EMPs?
I do code in HLL, but I do not give up the right to code in ASM.
In fact, coding in ASM is super fun !
Couple years ago I code in MASM, but now I use FASM (Flat Assembler) instead.
It is available from http://www.flatassembler.net/.
Enjoy ! :D
Here's an awesome assembler that do wonders --- Flat Assembler.
Download from: http://flatassembler.net/download.php [flatassembler.net]
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Try FLAT Assembler.
A free assembler that do real wonders !
Download from: http://flatassembler.net/download.php
Forum: http://board.flatassembler.net/index.php
This little program demonstrate how screw up Windows (any version, including Win 7 ) are !
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/RegHide.zip
Get the low down on Hidden Registry Keys from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897446.aspx
Or test it on your test machine :
http://live.sysinternals.com/Reghide.exe
Oh please don't go over your head in this.
India's tech field has improved, but not to the point of design such a chip yet !
Without the West, India is still a big nothing !
Intel ought to focus. They need to focus more on CPU rather than Larrabee, which is an obvious mistake.
Water Cooled Data Center In A Container?
There are times I am forced to, like if I'm doing gaming video, I have to do it using the Direct-X toolkit.
I mean, there is no other way around, since some users are using ATI cards and CUDA is useless on ATI GPUs.
But on other projects, I do bare metals, and when I have the chance, I go assembly.
.... or am I missing something??
The so-called study is biased. The sociologists that run the study are anti-Science.
1. A strong nation needs scientists and mathematicians more than anything else.
2. The idea of not increasing native-born scientists on the basis that "employers ain't gonna pay more if there is an over-supply of scientists" is totally bullshit.
3. Most of the scientists in America are foreign born. And those foreign-born scientists have no difficulties in going back to their homeland if they can live better back home.
4. Imagine the scenario of foreign born scientists leaving America while there are not enough native-born scientists to fill the posts, what type of future America gonna have?
4. Does that anti-science sociologist want America to become another Zimbabwe?
But there have been too many cases of just that, patent holder exert their rights over everything, and case remain locked in court for years and years, while costly legal battle drag on.
It's not making any sense, but then, that's the way it is.