If the RIAA died tomorrow, and no one ever paid for music anymore, how would the new system work?
I think that before we all say that the RIAA has to die, we should come up with some viable alternatives so that our favorite artists don't end up broke and in the gutter.
I might lose some karma for this, but...
That's a load of bullshit.
The RIAA searches for a song that's in their members' catalogs. Then, when a hit comes up, they warn the user that they're sharing copyrighted material and may be sued. I'm sure that before they actually go to court, they will validate that the song is actually an illegal copy.
I'm no fan of the RIAA, but if they want to destroy the fileswapping systems, this is the way to do it. Sue some kids with gigs of shared songs and send warnings to everyone else telling them "It could happen to you!"
What's more, the latest legal judgements make this method pretty much the only way the RIAA can fight back.
Now it's our job to make the connections completely untraceable, sending the RIAA back to the drawing boards. All this is doing is forcing the software community to innovate even more. Don't think of it as a bad thing, it's software evolution in action!
To minimize your storage costs, try using LZip: Lossy Compression. Sure, you won't be able to restore your system to EXACTLY the same state, but you can compress your files to as little as 0% of their original size!
This is a very versatile appliance. The display isn't limited to showing the song title, as far as I can tell; you could have it showing system stats, e-mail, or pretty much anything else you want. And the IR interface doesn't interpret the signals, so the raw IR data goes back to the server. With a little hacking, you could have a 2-line console operating anywhere you want, using an IR keyboard to control it.
The SliMP3 supports MPEG 1/2, layers 2/3, for both VBR and fixed data rates up to 384Kbps (the maximum for MP3). The SliMP3 server software will soon support automatic endoing/transcoding from other formats, but the player will still speak MPEG.
It's cool, but expensive
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For $10 you can get PalmAmp software to operate WinAmp/XMMS remotely. Add some extra-long speaker cables, and you've got a more functional version of this for a whole lot less. But this is still pretty cool.
With the increasing ease of distributing copyrighted works, do you think that the "Fair Use" clause of copyright law will have to be modified or eliminated completely?
Why? I'm all for suing Microsoft over defective products and lost productivity from Nimda and all the Outlook worms, but antitrust legislation is going too far. They have the product that everyone wants for a reason.
Enough with the court-mandated solutions already. Even if Windows wasn't installed by default on basically every computer in the world, people would still request it, simply because no one has given them a better option. As was pointed out a few articles ago, Linux is still too hard to use, and doesn't have enough non-geek functionality. For all the Libertarian posturing on Slashdot, we should be the ones discouraging this court action and letting the free market decide.
I release software open source because of laziness and fear of angry mob reprisal. It's time-consuming to try to get software published, and if I tried to release the software as shareware, I'd have to publish my address, or get a PO Box.
The ego boost you get from people telling you how much they like your software ain't bad either.
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The mafia kills people.
The RIAA sends people messages over a computer.
If those both scare you equally, you have issues.
How is that relevant exactly?
I think that before we all say that the RIAA has to die, we should come up with some viable alternatives so that our favorite artists don't end up broke and in the gutter.
But, all in all, I'm with you...the RIAA must go.
That's a load of bullshit.
The RIAA searches for a song that's in their members' catalogs. Then, when a hit comes up, they warn the user that they're sharing copyrighted material and may be sued. I'm sure that before they actually go to court, they will validate that the song is actually an illegal copy.
The main job of a company is to make money.
Progress is usually, but not always, a side effect of making money.
I'm no fan of the RIAA, but if they want to destroy the fileswapping systems, this is the way to do it. Sue some kids with gigs of shared songs and send warnings to everyone else telling them "It could happen to you!" What's more, the latest legal judgements make this method pretty much the only way the RIAA can fight back. Now it's our job to make the connections completely untraceable, sending the RIAA back to the drawing boards. All this is doing is forcing the software community to innovate even more. Don't think of it as a bad thing, it's software evolution in action!
There is no shortage of bandwidth, and the frequencies that ham radio operators use aren't even suitable for digital communications.
To minimize your storage costs, try using LZip: Lossy Compression. Sure, you won't be able to restore your system to EXACTLY the same state, but you can compress your files to as little as 0% of their original size!
But the actual method that the TiVo developers used to accomplish this isn't. And that is what they are patenting.
And before anyone says that the method IS obvious, remember, in hindsight, everything's pretty obvious.
If this means that next-generation TiVo's will include a way to download shows via ethernet built-in, this is very good news.
This is a very versatile appliance. The display isn't limited to showing the song title, as far as I can tell; you could have it showing system stats, e-mail, or pretty much anything else you want. And the IR interface doesn't interpret the signals, so the raw IR data goes back to the server. With a little hacking, you could have a 2-line console operating anywhere you want, using an IR keyboard to control it.
For $10 you can get PalmAmp software to operate WinAmp/XMMS remotely. Add some extra-long speaker cables, and you've got a more functional version of this for a whole lot less. But this is still pretty cool.
With the increasing ease of distributing copyrighted works, do you think that the "Fair Use" clause of copyright law will have to be modified or eliminated completely?
Why? I'm all for suing Microsoft over defective products and lost productivity from Nimda and all the Outlook worms, but antitrust legislation is going too far. They have the product that everyone wants for a reason.
Enough with the court-mandated solutions already. Even if Windows wasn't installed by default on basically every computer in the world, people would still request it, simply because no one has given them a better option. As was pointed out a few articles ago, Linux is still too hard to use, and doesn't have enough non-geek functionality. For all the Libertarian posturing on Slashdot, we should be the ones discouraging this court action and letting the free market decide.
Maybe before the economy crashed. I can't think of any open-source companies that are still doing well enough to release free software.
The ego boost you get from people telling you how much they like your software ain't bad either.