I agree with most of that, 'cept that i really don't think that pulling files from napster to replace damaged cd's is legal, you were not given a warenty on your CD that says that if you damage it you get a new copy for free. Tech. you probly have to buy a new CD. BUT thats really not my point here. The fact that napster by default shares the music you download, you can change that i believe, but its the default. I think thats a pretty compelling reason to think that the people at napster knew exactly what they were creating, and what it would be used for, that is the illegal copying of MP3's, they were hoping they could hide behind the counduit argument because they don't actualy store the files themselves. This makes them different than search engines that really are used for the most part for legal things. But napster was created to do illegal things, they knew what kind of monster they were creating, maybe not knowing how popular it would become, but when it became as big as it has, they should have shut down and saved their asses, but now they are going to lose and i wouldn't be suprised if at least one of them goes to jail.
There are a million explanations why CD sales increased last year, none of them having to do with MP3s. And all those artists will start complaing when people stop buying their CD's. right now the percentage of people using napster is tiny compared to all the people in the world buying cd's.
A) contract B) if they do they lose money, even if they did sell mp3's online and everyone dumped napster and bought them, most of the country would not be able to buy their music because they don't have net access let alone a mp3 player. What they do have is a CD player and want to buy CD's and as such metalica will continue to sell CD's in the only way they can, by using a record label. C) they make alot of money right now, why screw with a good thing?
What possible evidence do you have that MP3's had any thing to do with record sales last year?? anything?? maybe more people are listening to music, maybe there are more kids out there now than before that like britny spears(gag) Maybe the record industry has found a better advirtising method(not MP3) makeing a broad assumption that MP3's are what caused the increse is just a little over simplfied. I do no know anyone that buys any CD that they weren't planning on buying because they heard it on napster first.
As long as napster and its clones are around, there is no market for distributing mp3's on the net, and every time someone comes up with an alt. format everyone complaines about it because it prevents them from making "backups" which they can put where ever they want, including their friends computers, on in a napster-like system. The sad fact is the MOST of the people on napster now would not pay for the music as long as they could get it for free via napster. There are a few people that have used napster that would jump at the chance to get their music online directly for the band or even the record company, but MOST of them, myself included, quit using napster after a few hours because we realized how horribly wrong the things that happen there are. Basicly, if people want to buy their music online in a downloadable format, they need to quit putting their current music on napster, BUT this won't help much because the vast majority of people on napster use it because its free, they want want free music and won't pay for it if they don't have to.
A better example that is close to this case would be distributing copied VHS tapes, that is illegal, in fact making a bunch of copies of your tapes and putting them out on your curb for anyone to take is most likly illegal(but doesn't do enough damage to bother investigating because 5k people don't come and take them.) this is the way it should be. As far as fair use laws go i believe that what they are ment for is so that YOU can make a back up of YOUR media for YOUR use. Or someone else can make a back up of YOUR media for YOUR use. I doubt it covers the idea of Copying YOUR media for ANOTHER'S use. Basicly if you want mp3's of your CD, make it yourself. Don't try to get around the spirit of the law by trying to find unintentional loopholes in the law. Thats what big corperations do, and we don't like it when they do that right??
They only got info off of napster. That means that if they did collect info on people under the age of 13, that napster had already collected info about them. Besides all they were doing is collecting user names that a broadcast over the system whenever you download something, so if you download music from a 13yo aren't you collecting data from a 13yo??? (:
So let me get this straight, we don't think Metalica should be sueing napster for allowing people to trade pirated music thru their system. BUT now they shoudln't be allowed to go after the people who are actualy doing it because its an "invasion of their privacy?" DUH! so what is being said is that Metalica should just set back and watch their record sales slip just so a bunch of cheap punks can get free music. If they can't afford to buy the CD then they don't get to have it. Period. Everyone is mad because record lables force people to buy CD's if they want the music, well napster users are trying to force the record labels to give it away for free. What makes the napster people's way better? And i still don't see how this is an invasion of privacy. the useres distributing the illegal copies were putting them up for all to see, and now metalica is calling them on it. and guess what, the law is on metalica's side, and not because they have more money, but becuase the way things happen on napster are just plain wrong.
Is there a difference between the mp3 i ripped from a CD i own and an mp3 of the same song i got from someone on napster? I say yes, they may have the same digital data, bit for bit, but one is a copy of a CD i own and the other is a copy of a CD that someone else owns. I'm tempted to say that its ok for me to have the copy i made but not the copy the other person made, they are different, every CD is distinct even if it has the same digital data on it, at some level they are at least a little bit different. So now if i destroy my CD, and have never made a copy of it, or a backup of any kind, is it ok for my friend to give me a copy of theirs? is it ok for some big central distribution center, unrelated to the creator of the orginal CD, to give me a copy of the destroyed CD, even if i can prove that i owned it at some point. I guess i'm leaning towards No. If i didn't back it up myself and it is destoryed, its my own fault(or the fault of someone who is responsible) and i(or the responsible party) should have to go buy a new copy from the creator. It seems like I have the right to back up my copy and keep it safe but i really don't have the right to someone elses backup of their CD. And as such even getting mp3s of CD's i already own, from napstere really isn't right. So the way i see it, i have the right to make mp3's of my CD's, but not to grab mp3's made from other people's cd's.
The fact that napster really can't keep abusers out of their network is just one more reason to shut them down untill they can. They need some kind of system that validates email address and doesn't allow things like hotmail and geocities accounts that are just as easy to get as napster accounts.
I imagine most actual bands and musicians would want their works transmitted freely over the net HELLO! have you not realized all of the artists out there slamming napster??? two have even filed law suits! Most artists do not want their work being given to everyone for free, every time someone steals a song by getting it from napster the artist loses money. I can't count the number of times i'v been in a chat room where i see someone who says "I don't even buy CD's anymore, i just get everything from napster and burn it to a CD." This is exactly why artists are scared. if they don't sell CD's they don't make any money! and the problem gets worse every day! This ruling is a great victory for artists and is a sign of things to come, napster will lose their law suit, they are grosly neglegent as to how their software can be used. We all know they made their software specificly to fill a nitch. Instead of policing their own network for illegal files, they simply say that they don't consider themselves responsible for what is on it. They did that from the very begining. They knew exactly what it would be used for. I just hope that while they are at it, the artists manage send a few of the people running large MP3 databases on napaster off to jail where they belong
you most certainly can get 100fps on a screen set a 85hz. you disable wait for v-sync on your card, it will put the new frame to the screen as soon as is ready, regardless of weather or not the last frame is done being transfered. you get a tearing effect that looks very ugly but if you are going for raw FPS then its easy to live with.
This is not insightful, its just windows bashing. what kind of security do these things need??? they all talk via sat. if you want to get into them you either have to hold them in your hand or be able to crack the sat. system. for the former the soldier better have erased the thing before the bad guys got it. in the later the system would have bigger problems than its OS. as far as intercepting the transmisions, what the hell does that have to do with the OS? they are going to be encrypted in some way and any OS can be coded to be able to read the stream if you know how. plus when these things we being designed, mobile linux/BSD most likely didn't even exist! it was either start from scratch or use CE or Palm. Palm just really isn't very good at this sort of thing plus it didn't do color. and CE was right there ready to go, just write the new drivers and the apps. The palmtops are just dumb clients, they send and receive data and if the enemy gets a hold of one intact, then its only a matter of time, no matter what OS is being used before they can crack it. So come on guys, security????? this has nothing to do with security, they aren't running a web server where anyone can push and pull at it all they want!
There was more bile directed at bruce because it backfired on him. i'm sure this isn't what he was expecting. It is very unprofesional for him to have sent the item into slashdot in the first place. but lets also not forget that slashdot did post the story without doing any checking. Its time slashdot realized the power it has and must do a better job of making sure it is not being abused by its submiters. for a weblog,linking to a bad story is just as bad as publishing it in the first place.
The problem is that people are making bad account transfers Verants problem. when this happens they call verants customer service line to complain. So verant has to do something to make it clear they aren't the people to call. As well as removing any liability they may have. as far as randomizing things in EQ, its a problem. if everything is random it makes doing quests very hard since you will never know where everything is. NPC's can't even give you a hint cause everything is random. plus sometimes you want to make sure players have gotten past certain creatures before they get to things like dragons. and you really don't want dragons spawning in newbie areas.
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Hehe, I lurk around in CS alot, the landscape engine is still really slow, BUT its getting better all the time and shows all signs of being very fast when its finished. The engine itself is also faily slow at somethings still but it is fairly far along and doesn't seem to be losing any steam on the development front. Go and try it out!
This is the same thing as if I were to run a big ext. cord up from the utility room of my apt. building so i wouldn't have to take elec. from my own outlets. Its illegal. duh. And people seem to be assuming that if they had taken their computer downstairs to the lab they would have been allowed to plug into the network there. Well at least at my school (U of Iowa) thats a big no no and i'm guessing its the same at most other schools.
At the same time, if i were to try pulling this at my school i would just get put on probation with the school and that would be the end of it. i seriously doubt that the police would have ever gotten involved. and as such i think the students actualy getting charged with theft is more than a little overkill.
huh??? EVERY single person i know that uses windows uses the start button, its really great, has most of the stuff i ever use right there and i don't have to shrink anything down to get to it, i don't even have the task back visible, i just hit the start button on my keyboard or ctrl-esc does the same thing if you have an old keyboard. really the only thing in windows that needs to be copied is the task bar and the start button. Well and the control panel, and thats already there in alot of distro's and also the desktop but that was really coppied from like a mac or something, so copy it from there instead! and make sure its at the top of the file hirearchy in save/open dialogs! if its not it useless!
We have the right to privacy, not to being ananyomous. We should be held acountable for our words spoken in a public forum. Do i mean that things like anonymous posting on slashdot should be done away with? of course not, but i do think that slashdot should be logging it. this log should be encrypted and stored somewhere that only the right people can get to it. and i don't mean the feds. BUT if someone is passing them selves off as an expert and saying blatent lies that actualy hurt a person or a company. a court order should be allowed to view the logs to discover the IP of the poster so that other leagal charges could be filed. This is the only thing, this data should be used for, and thats a bad example, think more along the lines of a serial killer confessing in an anon slahsdot post. it sure would be nice if that could be trace, and if it can't, i'd hate to be the guys running the site, knowing that you could have helped stop a killer wouldn't be an easy thing to live with. But i say again that this data needs to be protected with great effort. Its not there for the NSA to spy on us, it should be there to help protect the public from a specific, publicly disclosed threat. Another thing that i think is already widely done but really should be enforced is ISP's logging what account has which IP addreses at what times. This shouldn't imply that the owner of an account is responsibly if the account is used for something illegal, but it is at least a good place to start looking. Once again this log should be well protected by the ISP and not just turned over to the gov't at the drop of a hat. Yes there is the posibility of abuse, but there is with everything, but the gains far out weigh the risks in my opinion.
Actualy the quake fiasco is a good reason for them to keep it closed source. All of that security stuff could really be alot of extra work that none of them know how to do. its just a pain in the ass. games and security are really two totaly different things. As much as i would like to have a look at their code, i really do see why they are keeping it closed source.
If i were a broadcast network. i would want to be pretty sure that the only company making any money off of my $5million prime time drama is me or possibly the people who make it for me. if someone else tapes its and sends it out again, with more ads, even if they don't put the ads in the actualy tv picture, i expect compensation above and beyond what i already got for the orginal ads. Why should i expect it? because I created the content. Period. I own it, i have allowed it to be publicly distributed in a manner that i chose. People can buy descramblers to try to get past any protections i have set up. i don't like that, but air is air and if i'm sending a signal thru that cable that comes into your house then thats my problem. But what you can't do it record MY programming and then send it out in another medium. especialy if you are making money from it. If you are, then you are no better than someone who sells bootleg tapes. That is what iCave is trying to do. Make money from someone else's work. Sounds alot like what big companies do, try to screw over the little guy. But when the little guy tries to screw over the big companies, is that any better? of course not! What if you are not making money from redisributing someone elses content? If its just to a couple of friends, no one cares, if its to half a million people? well you better get ready to pay. those network affiliates pay and awfull large amount of money to the networks for the right to show their programming.
Ah! but Sony isn't making money from the quality of the programming. they are making money from the quality of the TV. iCave is taking someone elses work and selling advertising space around it while at the same time not rewarding the actual owners of the material. As someone else has mentioned, this is the same thing as putting someone else's webpage in a fram and then selling banner adds around it. Its wrong and if its not technicly illegal, it should be. How would slashdot like it if CNN put slashdot.org in a frame and put adds around it??
What do we need 140 gigs of space for? HDTV, current dvd's can't even begin to store an entire movie in HDTV format. The DVD's you buy now may have digital movies, but the quality on them is terrible compared to what HDTV will have. (assuming the cable companies get off their asses and start working out a standard for transmision) I believe my DVD Player can play back 500 lines of resolution, but i belive HDTV is like 2000 something X 1000 something, that at least 4 times the data, plus if you don't compress it, you have even more problems. So we do need something like this, but not untill HDTV takes hold. And i doubt that will happen any time in the next 5 years. But after that we may all be buying new players for our home theaters, i think the days of going 20 years with only one video standard are over. Get ready to shell out that $300 every 5 years.
i was thinking more along the lines of internet access. I remember paying like a buck and hour for compuserve about 8 years ago. Or how about how expensive DSL service is when it first comes to an area, in Iowa City its about $700 for US West to set the line up. in Atlanta where more people use it, its only around $100, or at least i'v been been told thats the price.
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I agree with most of that, 'cept that i really don't think that pulling files from napster to replace damaged cd's is legal, you were not given a warenty on your CD that says that if you damage it you get a new copy for free. Tech. you probly have to buy a new CD. BUT thats really not my point here. The fact that napster by default shares the music you download, you can change that i believe, but its the default. I think thats a pretty compelling reason to think that the people at napster knew exactly what they were creating, and what it would be used for, that is the illegal copying of MP3's, they were hoping they could hide behind the counduit argument because they don't actualy store the files themselves. This makes them different than search engines that really are used for the most part for legal things. But napster was created to do illegal things, they knew what kind of monster they were creating, maybe not knowing how popular it would become, but when it became as big as it has, they should have shut down and saved their asses, but now they are going to lose and i wouldn't be suprised if at least one of them goes to jail.
There are a million explanations why CD sales increased last year, none of them having to do with MP3s. And all those artists will start complaing when people stop buying their CD's. right now the percentage of people using napster is tiny compared to all the people in the world buying cd's.
Reasons Metalica hasn't dumped their lable
A) contract
B) if they do they lose money, even if they did sell mp3's online and everyone dumped napster and bought them, most of the country would not be able to buy their music because they don't have net access let alone a mp3 player. What they do have is a CD player and want to buy CD's and as such metalica will continue to sell CD's in the only way they can, by using a record label.
C) they make alot of money right now, why screw with a good thing?
What possible evidence do you have that MP3's had any thing to do with record sales last year?? anything?? maybe more people are listening to music, maybe there are more kids out there now than before that like britny spears(gag) Maybe the record industry has found a better advirtising method(not MP3) makeing a broad assumption that MP3's are what caused the increse is just a little over simplfied. I do no know anyone that buys any CD that they weren't planning on buying because they heard it on napster first.
As long as napster and its clones are around, there is no market for distributing mp3's on the net, and every time someone comes up with an alt. format everyone complaines about it because it prevents them from making "backups" which they can put where ever they want, including their friends computers, on in a napster-like system. The sad fact is the MOST of the people on napster now would not pay for the music as long as they could get it for free via napster. There are a few people that have used napster that would jump at the chance to get their music online directly for the band or even the record company, but MOST of them, myself included, quit using napster after a few hours because we realized how horribly wrong the things that happen there are. Basicly, if people want to buy their music online in a downloadable format, they need to quit putting their current music on napster, BUT this won't help much because the vast majority of people on napster use it because its free, they want want free music and won't pay for it if they don't have to.
A better example that is close to this case would be distributing copied VHS tapes, that is illegal, in fact making a bunch of copies of your tapes and putting them out on your curb for anyone to take is most likly illegal(but doesn't do enough damage to bother investigating because 5k people don't come and take them.) this is the way it should be. As far as fair use laws go i believe that what they are ment for is so that YOU can make a back up of YOUR media for YOUR use. Or someone else can make a back up of YOUR media for YOUR use. I doubt it covers the idea of Copying YOUR media for ANOTHER'S use. Basicly if you want mp3's of your CD, make it yourself. Don't try to get around the spirit of the law by trying to find unintentional loopholes in the law. Thats what big corperations do, and we don't like it when they do that right??
They only got info off of napster. That means that if they did collect info on people under the age of 13, that napster had already collected info about them. Besides all they were doing is collecting user names that a broadcast over the system whenever you download something, so if you download music from a 13yo aren't you collecting data from a 13yo??? (:
So let me get this straight, we don't think Metalica should be sueing napster for allowing people to trade pirated music thru their system. BUT now they shoudln't be allowed to go after the people who are actualy doing it because its an "invasion of their privacy?" DUH! so what is being said is that Metalica should just set back and watch their record sales slip just so a bunch of cheap punks can get free music. If they can't afford to buy the CD then they don't get to have it. Period. Everyone is mad because record lables force people to buy CD's if they want the music, well napster users are trying to force the record labels to give it away for free. What makes the napster people's way better? And i still don't see how this is an invasion of privacy. the useres distributing the illegal copies were putting them up for all to see, and now metalica is calling them on it. and guess what, the law is on metalica's side, and not because they have more money, but becuase the way things happen on napster are just plain wrong.
Is there a difference between the mp3 i ripped from a CD i own and an mp3 of the same song i got from someone on napster? I say yes, they may have the same digital data, bit for bit, but one is a copy of a CD i own and the other is a copy of a CD that someone else owns. I'm tempted to say that its ok for me to have the copy i made but not the copy the other person made, they are different, every CD is distinct even if it has the same digital data on it, at some level they are at least a little bit different. So now if i destroy my CD, and have never made a copy of it, or a backup of any kind, is it ok for my friend to give me a copy of theirs? is it ok for some big central distribution center, unrelated to the creator of the orginal CD, to give me a copy of the destroyed CD, even if i can prove that i owned it at some point. I guess i'm leaning towards No. If i didn't back it up myself and it is destoryed, its my own fault(or the fault of someone who is responsible) and i(or the responsible party) should have to go buy a new copy from the creator. It seems like I have the right to back up my copy and keep it safe but i really don't have the right to someone elses backup of their CD. And as such even getting mp3s of CD's i already own, from napstere really isn't right. So the way i see it, i have the right to make mp3's of my CD's, but not to grab mp3's made from other people's cd's.
The fact that napster really can't keep abusers out of their network is just one more reason to shut them down untill they can. They need some kind of system that validates email address and doesn't allow things like hotmail and geocities accounts that are just as easy to get as napster accounts.
I imagine most actual bands and musicians would want their works transmitted freely over the net
HELLO! have you not realized all of the artists out there slamming napster??? two have even filed law suits! Most artists do not want their work being given to everyone for free, every time someone steals a song by getting it from napster the artist loses money. I can't count the number of times i'v been in a chat room where i see someone who says "I don't even buy CD's anymore, i just get everything from napster and burn it to a CD." This is exactly why artists are scared. if they don't sell CD's they don't make any money! and the problem gets worse every day! This ruling is a great victory for artists and is a sign of things to come, napster will lose their law suit, they are grosly neglegent as to how their software can be used. We all know they made their software specificly to fill a nitch. Instead of policing their own network for illegal files, they simply say that they don't consider themselves responsible for what is on it. They did that from the very begining. They knew exactly what it would be used for. I just hope that while they are at it, the artists manage send a few of the people running large MP3 databases on napaster off to jail where they belong
you most certainly can get 100fps on a screen set a 85hz. you disable wait for v-sync on your card, it will put the new frame to the screen as soon as is ready, regardless of weather or not the last frame is done being transfered. you get a tearing effect that looks very ugly but if you are going for raw FPS then its easy to live with.
This is not insightful, its just windows bashing. what kind of security do these things need??? they all talk via sat. if you want to get into them you either have to hold them in your hand or be able to crack the sat. system. for the former the soldier better have erased the thing before the bad guys got it. in the later the system would have bigger problems than its OS. as far as intercepting the transmisions, what the hell does that have to do with the OS? they are going to be encrypted in some way and any OS can be coded to be able to read the stream if you know how. plus when these things we being designed, mobile linux/BSD most likely didn't even exist! it was either start from scratch or use CE or Palm. Palm just really isn't very good at this sort of thing plus it didn't do color. and CE was right there ready to go, just write the new drivers and the apps. The palmtops are just dumb clients, they send and receive data and if the enemy gets a hold of one intact, then its only a matter of time, no matter what OS is being used before they can crack it. So come on guys, security????? this has nothing to do with security, they aren't running a web server where anyone can push and pull at it all they want!
There was more bile directed at bruce because it backfired on him. i'm sure this isn't what he was expecting. It is very unprofesional for him to have sent the item into slashdot in the first place. but lets also not forget that slashdot did post the story without doing any checking. Its time slashdot realized the power it has and must do a better job of making sure it is not being abused by its submiters. for a weblog,linking to a bad story is just as bad as publishing it in the first place.
The problem is that people are making bad account transfers Verants problem. when this happens they call verants customer service line to complain. So verant has to do something to make it clear they aren't the people to call. As well as removing any liability they may have. as far as randomizing things in EQ, its a problem. if everything is random it makes doing quests very hard since you will never know where everything is. NPC's can't even give you a hint cause everything is random. plus sometimes you want to make sure players have gotten past certain creatures before they get to things like dragons. and you really don't want dragons spawning in newbie areas.
Hehe, I lurk around in CS alot, the landscape engine is still really slow, BUT its getting better all the time and shows all signs of being very fast when its finished. The engine itself is also faily slow at somethings still but it is fairly far along and doesn't seem to be losing any steam on the development front. Go and try it out!
This is the same thing as if I were to run a big ext. cord up from the utility room of my apt. building so i wouldn't have to take elec. from my own outlets. Its illegal. duh. And people seem to be assuming that if they had taken their computer downstairs to the lab they would have been allowed to plug into the network there. Well at least at my school (U of Iowa) thats a big no no and i'm guessing its the same at most other schools.
At the same time, if i were to try pulling this at my school i would just get put on probation with the school and that would be the end of it. i seriously doubt that the police would have ever gotten involved. and as such i think the students actualy getting charged with theft is more than a little overkill.
huh??? EVERY single person i know that uses windows uses the start button, its really great, has most of the stuff i ever use right there and i don't have to shrink anything down to get to it, i don't even have the task back visible, i just hit the start button on my keyboard or ctrl-esc does the same thing if you have an old keyboard. really the only thing in windows that needs to be copied is the task bar and the start button. Well and the control panel, and thats already there in alot of distro's and also the desktop but that was really coppied from like a mac or something, so copy it from there instead! and make sure its at the top of the file hirearchy in save/open dialogs! if its not it useless!
We have the right to privacy, not to being ananyomous. We should be held acountable for our words spoken in a public forum. Do i mean that things like anonymous posting on slashdot should be done away with? of course not, but i do think that slashdot should be logging it. this log should be encrypted and stored somewhere that only the right people can get to it. and i don't mean the feds. BUT if someone is passing them selves off as an expert and saying blatent lies that actualy hurt a person or a company. a court order should be allowed to view the logs to discover the IP of the poster so that other leagal charges could be filed. This is the only thing, this data should be used for, and thats a bad example, think more along the lines of a serial killer confessing in an anon slahsdot post. it sure would be nice if that could be trace, and if it can't, i'd hate to be the guys running the site, knowing that you could have helped stop a killer wouldn't be an easy thing to live with. But i say again that this data needs to be protected with great effort. Its not there for the NSA to spy on us, it should be there to help protect the public from a specific, publicly disclosed threat. Another thing that i think is already widely done but really should be enforced is ISP's logging what account has which IP addreses at what times. This shouldn't imply that the owner of an account is responsibly if the account is used for something illegal, but it is at least a good place to start looking. Once again this log should be well protected by the ISP and not just turned over to the gov't at the drop of a hat. Yes there is the posibility of abuse, but there is with everything, but the gains far out weigh the risks in my opinion.
Actualy the quake fiasco is a good reason for them to keep it closed source. All of that security stuff could really be alot of extra work that none of them know how to do. its just a pain in the ass. games and security are really two totaly different things. As much as i would like to have a look at their code, i really do see why they are keeping it closed source.
If i were a broadcast network. i would want to be pretty sure that the only company making any money off of my $5million prime time drama is me or possibly the people who make it for me. if someone else tapes its and sends it out again, with more ads, even if they don't put the ads in the actualy tv picture, i expect compensation above and beyond what i already got for the orginal ads. Why should i expect it? because I created the content. Period. I own it, i have allowed it to be publicly distributed in a manner that i chose. People can buy descramblers to try to get past any protections i have set up. i don't like that, but air is air and if i'm sending a signal thru that cable that comes into your house then thats my problem. But what you can't do it record MY programming and then send it out in another medium. especialy if you are making money from it. If you are, then you are no better than someone who sells bootleg tapes. That is what iCave is trying to do. Make money from someone else's work. Sounds alot like what big companies do, try to screw over the little guy. But when the little guy tries to screw over the big companies, is that any better? of course not! What if you are not making money from redisributing someone elses content? If its just to a couple of friends, no one cares, if its to half a million people? well you better get ready to pay. those network affiliates pay and awfull large amount of money to the networks for the right to show their programming.
Ah! but Sony isn't making money from the quality of the programming. they are making money from the quality of the TV. iCave is taking someone elses work and selling advertising space around it while at the same time not rewarding the actual owners of the material. As someone else has mentioned, this is the same thing as putting someone else's webpage in a fram and then selling banner adds around it. Its wrong and if its not technicly illegal, it should be. How would slashdot like it if CNN put slashdot.org in a frame and put adds around it??
What do we need 140 gigs of space for? HDTV, current dvd's can't even begin to store an entire movie in HDTV format. The DVD's you buy now may have digital movies, but the quality on them is terrible compared to what HDTV will have. (assuming the cable companies get off their asses and start working out a standard for transmision) I believe my DVD Player can play back 500 lines of resolution, but i belive HDTV is like 2000 something X 1000 something, that at least 4 times the data, plus if you don't compress it, you have even more problems. So we do need something like this, but not untill HDTV takes hold. And i doubt that will happen any time in the next 5 years. But after that we may all be buying new players for our home theaters, i think the days of going 20 years with only one video standard are over. Get ready to shell out that $300 every 5 years.
Now multiply that by alot of @home customers and you get yourself a nice win95 DDoS.
i was thinking more along the lines of internet access. I remember paying like a buck and hour for compuserve about 8 years ago. Or how about how expensive DSL service is when it first comes to an area, in Iowa City its about $700 for US West to set the line up. in Atlanta where more people use it, its only around $100, or at least i'v been been told thats the price.