Ah, but I always thought you could have more than 5 computers play a protected track - as long as you are streaming (or sharing as iTunes calls it). If you copy the music file to another computer, you need to authorize it - and that is limited to 5 total.
I don't mess with the DRM stuff I get for free from iTMS anyway. I get it simply 'cause it's free - it doesn't mean I listen to any of it. Today's music doesn't really interest me all that much anymore.
Not really. There's been a steady creep towards more onerous DRM as time goes on from iTMS.
First was the restriction of streaming libraries to local subnets. Second was reducing the number of CDs burned from a playlist from 10 to 7. Third was changing from 5 concurrent listeners to 5 different listeners per day. Fourth was the recent reports that iPhoto albums, iMovie movies and Keynote presentations that use iTMS songs refuse to play on other systems.
The only loosening of restrictions was changing the number of authorized computers to listen to a DRM'd file from three to five.
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Not if I am just being bitter and sarcastic regarding the DVD-R and DVD+R scenario. I lived through DVD-VHS, Laserdisc and RCA Selectavision, v.fast and kflex, DVD-R and DVD+R, and many other format wars.
I'm not under any impressions of how cool this technology is or what it can potentially give me in knock-out picture quality.
I am more concerned with what exactly will I not be able to do with it once it comes out. Right now I can hook up my DVD player through the component inputs on my HDTV-ready set. This set does not have i-Link, DVI or other digital inputs even though this is a fairly recent (3 years old) Sony XBR. I am loathe to replace a perfectly good set since the only reason I would be replacing it is because someone dreamed up a digital DRM scheme for component interconnects and obsoleted my set.
I doubt the new formats will allow analog outputs in HD format since in my case they will be unprotected.
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Apple officially is part of the Blu-Ray spec. That means the PC Manufacturers will support HD-DVD. Just like the DVD-R DVD+R wars.
I'm really in no rush for all of this to shake out. The longer it takes the better. The fact that DVD got blown wide open with DeCSS was a good thing. The main driving force behind the new standard is not better resolution or more storage - it's just to get a second chance to re-DRM the crap out of the new standard and kill off DVD.
The Japanese make quite good chocolate in the Hokkaido area. Especially the raw or "nama" chocolate. Royce (Japanese)(English) being one of the local favorites.
It's quite rare these products show up in the US, but a local Japanese fair once had a representative show up and were selling boxes of the stuff.
As far as the US is concerned. They have no problems whoring Song of the South out to foreign countries to make a buck (Such as Japan and Europe) and not releasing it here in the US.
Lately it's been off the market anywhere since 2001 or thereabouts. It's been off the market in the US for a hell of a lot longer. The last I saw of it was a theater release back in the late 70's.
The Tex Avery films and other cartoon classics can still be seen overseas. I've watched Heckle & Jeckle hunt pygmies using certain bait (watermelon) and depicted the African natives in a racist, sterotypical fashion. All of this on a children's show in Japan.
If the copyright holders can make a buck off of it, they certainly will. Even political correctness won't stop them. They just find a new market.
I've been shocked at how digital restorations look when compared to how I remember films when they were first played.
Two recent examples from my memory where I noticed this:
Speed Racer and Kima: The White Lion.
These were shown in my youth ('70s) on a local UHF channel and I distinctly remember the colors being so washed out they were not so much black and white but various shades of red and very little other color. The originals aired in Japan perhaps 10 years earlier.
Now I have DVD restorations of both, and it is incredible to see these films cleaned up and in their full color. As an added bonus, two clips of the opening credits of Jungle Taitei (AKA: Kimba) were on the DVD in their unrestored state. One was an early black and white version and the other looked exactly how I remembered it from the old days: muddy reds.
I think they are referring to the older gramophone record players. They were totally mechanical (wind-up) and have either flat records or use wax cylinders. Sound was very tinny and clicks and pops were part of any listening experience.
No, it doesn't. But California already gets this "road use tax" on alternative fuel vehicles via the registration fees. Here's the explanation from California on taxing vehicles that don't use gasoline or diesel:
Operators of vehicles powered by liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, or compressed natural gas may pay their tax for the use of such fuels by paying an annual flat rate tax. The flat rate fee is an annual tax. The period for which the annual fee payment shall apply will be any twelve-month period beginning with the month in which payment is made.
And here:
Tax Rate
18 cents per gallon. [Sec. 8651] Rate for compressed natural gas is 7 cents per 100 cu.ft., 6 cents per gallon for liquid petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas, but operators of LPG and LNG vehicles pay an annual flat tax (see Special Provisions, below). [Sec. 8651.6]
Special Provisions
Annual flat tax in lieu of use fuel tax, at the following rates: $36 for cars and other vehicles 4000 lbs. or less $72 for vehicles up to 8000 lbs. $120 for vehicles up to 12,000 lbs. and $168 for vehicles over 12,000 lbs. [Sec. 8651.7] Vehicle registration fees may apply.
Now does this mean that when I entertain myself, I need to pay someone? Tell that to anyone who masturbates.
Let's see who gets ripped off here: 1. Bandwidth. This is P2P, so everyone shares here. 2. Media. I'm storing the item on my own machine. 3. Service provider. I pay for my ISP service, they provide me with bandwidth. Same goes for those who are sharing on the P2P network. 4. Content. Ah, here's the nugget. It's called "theft" and "stealing" because these are marketing buzzwords from the RIAA and MPAA that everyone easily understands. Say "copyright infringement" and people tend to shut down and not listen.
Infringement != theft. It does mean potential loss of revenue. If I duplicate a DVD and pass it on to a friend, it's one potential loss of a sale. By the same extension, if he comes over and we watch a DVD and the film sucks, it's also a potential loss of a sale. Distributing a film via torrents is multiplying that loss hundreds or thousands-fold. Now we are into the same argument the BSA uses to gripe about software piracy and their inflated losses. Because actual losses <= potential losses.
Downloading when the DVD is available just down the street or when it's playing in the theater is just WRONG. Downloading films where they are unlicensed in your home country (and where the prospect of licensing is zero) may be infringement (but not theft) because there are no potential sales.
I've used Lokitorrent (within the past month, I might add) although I am not concerned with MPAA action in that I didn't download any MPAA (or RIAA or BSA) protected property. DVDs are cheap enough, thank you. I'll be less than amused and quite pissed if I do get a nastygram, because it means they either can't read the logs or are falsifying their data.
This link (it appears to be an online petition) describes the problem and shows the offending icon in a banner.
For the lazy (Google's translation, not mine): As for the patent which assumes that it infringed, the help mode as it is called in Ichitaro, in other words " after clicking the idea contest of the specification which is, when it clicks the other idea contest, those where symbol description latter is indicated ". It is no more than functional one which views this frequently to also some appearance for the human who leads to the software, exists everywhere. Help topic indicatory function of the Windows and balloon help function of the MaccOs, are the similar function which is from the time before.
Mac centric? You are a few years behind the curve. I'll help you catch up:
10/23/2001 iPod announced, Mac-only 11/2001 First 3rd party Windows workarounds appear 7/17/2002 Apple iPod officially supports Windows along with Musicmatch jukebox 4/28/2003 iTunes music store launched (Mac-only) 10/16/2003 iTunes music store now supports Windows and iTunes is available for Windows
Regarding the "draconian DRM", is there anyone else who allows several different machines to share music downloaded with one account as well as burn tracks to CD and download to a portable player?
Finally, whether the iPod is too expensive for what it is (or not) is a personal choice and I'll leave it at that.
Yeah, tell that to Sony and whoever else has an interest in that new Appleseed movie. Full torrents and subtitles were available at least as far back as November-December 2004.
Sorta puts a dent in a commercial theater release this month, doesn't it?
Some of the fansubs I've seen released recently are high-quality rips from Japanese DVDs, digital satellite feeds, or HDTV sources. Subtitles are spot-on accurate too.
Yeah, some of them are crap quality - mainly very old titles that are only available on analog (VHS) sources, but you take what you can get.
And I need to thank you guys for that wonderful application. I made some modifications to it and used it to circumvent the VPN and steal some admin passwords to prove the lack of security on my campus for my master's thesis on (the lack of) 802.11 security. It made them rethink their network security setup.
All I needed was a WiFi DoS utility and I whitelisted the rogue AP, the victims never had a chance.
I bought my Sony XBR around 5 years ago. The HD tuner for it was "coming soon". Here I am 5 years later and there still isn't a tuner for it.
Why? DRM is why. They went from component and DVI to iLink (encrypted) and HDMI. Leaving anyone who is an early adopter fully bent over.
Yes, I can get my satellite company to supply me with an HD box that has component outputs. There are disclaimers on the said devices stating that the HD signal can be downgraded to SD at any time. Hardly worth my forking over the $$$ to upgrade anything. I'll stick with progressive scan and DVDs and be happy. I'm years away from upgrading any of my sets.
Accurate? There's a really simple explanation for the 30,000MPH blurb. It makes great headlines to throw out something like that, but it's grossly misleading.
When the GPS first turns on with a cold start, it has no idea where it is. It's possible it may remember the coordinates of the last time it was on, but that could be anywhere. Power the sucker up, it's in Boise, Idaho. 5 minutes later, it gets a good signal lock and you are in Los Angeles. That's about 11,000 MPH right there.
One of the OEM receivers we use here at work does this. When it powers on with a cold start, it always came up with the same coordinates. I plugged them into mapquest and the default coordinates turn out to be the lab at the company where it was developed.
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Ah, but I always thought you could have more than 5 computers play a protected track - as long as you are streaming (or sharing as iTunes calls it). If you copy the music file to another computer, you need to authorize it - and that is limited to 5 total.
I don't mess with the DRM stuff I get for free from iTMS anyway. I get it simply 'cause it's free - it doesn't mean I listen to any of it. Today's music doesn't really interest me all that much anymore.
You are correct that this restrictin applies even if the user does not have a single DRM protected song and has never purchased anything from iTMS.
However, iTunes and iTMS come as a package deal and cannot be separated. Therefore, I lump them together.
Not really. There's been a steady creep towards more onerous DRM as time goes on from iTMS.
First was the restriction of streaming libraries to local subnets.
Second was reducing the number of CDs burned from a playlist from 10 to 7.
Third was changing from 5 concurrent listeners to 5 different listeners per day.
Fourth was the recent reports that iPhoto albums, iMovie movies and Keynote presentations that use iTMS songs refuse to play on other systems.
The only loosening of restrictions was changing the number of authorized computers to listen to a DRM'd file from three to five.
Not if I am just being bitter and sarcastic regarding the DVD-R and DVD+R scenario. I lived through DVD-VHS, Laserdisc and RCA Selectavision, v.fast and kflex, DVD-R and DVD+R, and many other format wars.
I'm not under any impressions of how cool this technology is or what it can potentially give me in knock-out picture quality.
I am more concerned with what exactly will I not be able to do with it once it comes out. Right now I can hook up my DVD player through the component inputs on my HDTV-ready set. This set does not have i-Link, DVI or other digital inputs even though this is a fairly recent (3 years old) Sony XBR. I am loathe to replace a perfectly good set since the only reason I would be replacing it is because someone dreamed up a digital DRM scheme for component interconnects and obsoleted my set.
I doubt the new formats will allow analog outputs in HD format since in my case they will be unprotected.
Apple officially is part of the Blu-Ray spec. That means the PC Manufacturers will support HD-DVD. Just like the DVD-R DVD+R wars.
I'm really in no rush for all of this to shake out. The longer it takes the better. The fact that DVD got blown wide open with DeCSS was a good thing. The main driving force behind the new standard is not better resolution or more storage - it's just to get a second chance to re-DRM the crap out of the new standard and kill off DVD.
I do too. I find it particularly funny that these helpful windows installation wizard popups keep appearing on my Mac (OS X) box.
Actually that makes me picture images like the bumper cars seen at amusement parks. Imagine all the electric cars, running around making sparks...
If they hang used tires around them and let people bang into each other, it'll reduce road rage as well.
The Japanese make quite good chocolate in the Hokkaido area. Especially the raw or "nama" chocolate. Royce (Japanese) (English) being one of the local favorites.
It's quite rare these products show up in the US, but a local Japanese fair once had a representative show up and were selling boxes of the stuff.
As far as the US is concerned. They have no problems whoring Song of the South out to foreign countries to make a buck (Such as Japan and Europe) and not releasing it here in the US.
Lately it's been off the market anywhere since 2001 or thereabouts. It's been off the market in the US for a hell of a lot longer. The last I saw of it was a theater release back in the late 70's.
The Tex Avery films and other cartoon classics can still be seen overseas. I've watched Heckle & Jeckle hunt pygmies using certain bait (watermelon) and depicted the African natives in a racist, sterotypical fashion. All of this on a children's show in Japan.
If the copyright holders can make a buck off of it, they certainly will. Even political correctness won't stop them. They just find a new market.
Just goes to show how much I know about old-style players.
I've been shocked at how digital restorations look when compared to how I remember films when they were first played.
Two recent examples from my memory where I noticed this:
Speed Racer and Kima: The White Lion.
These were shown in my youth ('70s) on a local UHF channel and I distinctly remember the colors being so washed out they were not so much black and white but various shades of red and very little other color. The originals aired in Japan perhaps 10 years earlier.
Now I have DVD restorations of both, and it is incredible to see these films cleaned up and in their full color. As an added bonus, two clips of the opening credits of Jungle Taitei (AKA: Kimba) were on the DVD in their unrestored state. One was an early black and white version and the other looked exactly how I remembered it from the old days: muddy reds.
I think they are referring to the older gramophone record players. They were totally mechanical (wind-up) and have either flat records or use wax cylinders. Sound was very tinny and clicks and pops were part of any listening experience.
No, it doesn't. But California already gets this "road use tax" on alternative fuel vehicles via the registration fees. Here's the explanation from California on taxing vehicles that don't use gasoline or diesel:
Operators of vehicles powered by liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, or compressed natural gas may pay their tax for the use of such fuels by paying an annual flat rate tax. The flat rate fee is an annual tax. The period for which the annual fee payment shall apply will be any twelve-month period beginning with the month in which payment is made.
And here:
Tax Rate
18 cents per gallon. [Sec. 8651] Rate for compressed natural gas is 7 cents per 100 cu.ft., 6 cents per gallon for liquid petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas, but operators of LPG and LNG vehicles pay an annual flat tax (see Special Provisions, below). [Sec. 8651.6]
Special Provisions
Annual flat tax in lieu of use fuel tax, at the following rates: $36 for cars and other vehicles 4000 lbs. or less $72 for vehicles up to 8000 lbs. $120 for vehicles up to 12,000 lbs. and $168 for vehicles over 12,000 lbs. [Sec. 8651.7] Vehicle registration fees may apply.
Now does this mean that when I entertain myself, I need to pay someone? Tell that to anyone who masturbates.
Let's see who gets ripped off here:
1. Bandwidth. This is P2P, so everyone shares here.
2. Media. I'm storing the item on my own machine.
3. Service provider. I pay for my ISP service, they provide me with bandwidth. Same goes for those who are sharing on the P2P network.
4. Content. Ah, here's the nugget. It's called "theft" and "stealing" because these are marketing buzzwords from the RIAA and MPAA that everyone easily understands. Say "copyright infringement" and people tend to shut down and not listen.
Infringement != theft. It does mean potential loss of revenue. If I duplicate a DVD and pass it on to a friend, it's one potential loss of a sale. By the same extension, if he comes over and we watch a DVD and the film sucks, it's also a potential loss of a sale. Distributing a film via torrents is multiplying that loss hundreds or thousands-fold. Now we are into the same argument the BSA uses to gripe about software piracy and their inflated losses. Because actual losses <= potential losses.
Downloading when the DVD is available just down the street or when it's playing in the theater is just WRONG. Downloading films where they are unlicensed in your home country (and where the prospect of licensing is zero) may be infringement (but not theft) because there are no potential sales.
I've used Lokitorrent (within the past month, I might add) although I am not concerned with MPAA action in that I didn't download any MPAA (or RIAA or BSA) protected property. DVDs are cheap enough, thank you. I'll be less than amused and quite pissed if I do get a nastygram, because it means they either can't read the logs or are falsifying their data.
IIRC, when I originally posted this, there was no English translation.
Thanks anyway.
Hope I got the URL right.
This link (it appears to be an online petition) describes the problem and shows the offending icon in a banner.
For the lazy (Google's translation, not mine):
As for the patent which assumes that it infringed, the help mode as it is called in Ichitaro, in other words " after clicking the idea contest of the specification which is, when it clicks the other idea contest, those where symbol description latter is indicated ". It is no more than functional one which views this frequently to also some appearance for the human who leads to the software, exists everywhere. Help topic indicatory function of the Windows and balloon help function of the MaccOs, are the similar function which is from the time before.
Mac centric? You are a few years behind the curve. I'll help you catch up:
10/23/2001 iPod announced, Mac-only
11/2001 First 3rd party Windows workarounds appear
7/17/2002 Apple iPod officially supports Windows along with Musicmatch jukebox
4/28/2003 iTunes music store launched (Mac-only)
10/16/2003 iTunes music store now supports Windows and iTunes is available for Windows
Regarding the "draconian DRM", is there anyone else who allows several different machines to share music downloaded with one account as well as burn tracks to CD and download to a portable player?
Finally, whether the iPod is too expensive for what it is (or not) is a personal choice and I'll leave it at that.
Yes, it's four markets. But if the reception is particularly good, it may see a wider release.
Yeah, tell that to Sony and whoever else has an interest in that new Appleseed movie. Full torrents and subtitles were available at least as far back as November-December 2004.
Sorta puts a dent in a commercial theater release this month, doesn't it?
Some of the fansubs I've seen released recently are high-quality rips from Japanese DVDs, digital satellite feeds, or HDTV sources. Subtitles are spot-on accurate too.
Yeah, some of them are crap quality - mainly very old titles that are only available on analog (VHS) sources, but you take what you can get.
And I need to thank you guys for that wonderful application. I made some modifications to it and used it to circumvent the VPN and steal some admin passwords to prove the lack of security on my campus for my master's thesis on (the lack of) 802.11 security. It made them rethink their network security setup.
All I needed was a WiFi DoS utility and I whitelisted the rogue AP, the victims never had a chance.
Great, isn't it?
I bought my Sony XBR around 5 years ago. The HD tuner for it was "coming soon". Here I am 5 years later and there still isn't a tuner for it.
Why? DRM is why. They went from component and DVI to iLink (encrypted) and HDMI. Leaving anyone who is an early adopter fully bent over.
Yes, I can get my satellite company to supply me with an HD box that has component outputs. There are disclaimers on the said devices stating that the HD signal can be downgraded to SD at any time. Hardly worth my forking over the $$$ to upgrade anything. I'll stick with progressive scan and DVDs and be happy. I'm years away from upgrading any of my sets.
Can't day specifically. It has to do with editing the link in the address window and autocomplete. Now that I am trying to duplicate it, I can't.
Actually, that may have been the intent. I've seen Safari mangle links that way before - and been bitten by them.
Accurate? There's a really simple explanation for the 30,000MPH blurb. It makes great headlines to throw out something like that, but it's grossly misleading.
When the GPS first turns on with a cold start, it has no idea where it is. It's possible it may remember the coordinates of the last time it was on, but that could be anywhere. Power the sucker up, it's in Boise, Idaho. 5 minutes later, it gets a good signal lock and you are in Los Angeles. That's about 11,000 MPH right there.
One of the OEM receivers we use here at work does this. When it powers on with a cold start, it always came up with the same coordinates. I plugged them into mapquest and the default coordinates turn out to be the lab at the company where it was developed.