iRATE radio is a project that downloads music that bands have released for free, and plays it to you. Based on how you rate the tracks you are given, it gives you more that it thinks you'll like by comparing with other peoples ratings. This results in a pile of MP3's that you like (at least to some degree:), and an easy way to get more that fit your tastes. You also have control over how regularly you hear each track, and so on.
It is Java based, and I am a developer on it:) (hence the plug). If we were to get a couple more programmers, designers, writers, or whatever, it would move along at a good clip. A rewrite of the server is underway which will mean that making that side of things better will a lot easier.
Also, a lot of work has gone into the client itself. If you haven't checked it out for a while, go download the latest version (right now the CVS version is broken, hopefully that'll be fixed in a couple of days)
The iRATE project downloads music from sites like these, and gives them to you inside a music player. You then say how much you like various tracks, and it compares your ratings to those of other people, and gives you more stuff it thinks you'll like. You end up with a large collection of indie music that is filtered to be what you consider good stuff. (And then you can buy CDs of it to support the band if you like:)
Oh yes, it is definatly a money grab. However, unfortunatly, that doesn't stop the fact that it could be reasonably argued that it is a substantially different product, so they are effectivly different instances, and the copyright license of one has no bearing over the other.
It isn't in the interests of the companies to do this (except perhaps the smaller labels who understand that how you behave towards the people who buy your products is reflected in how they behave towards those products).
Which brings me to my point: of whether those download stations for digitised music I hear some music store chains were thinking of will happen?
I wouldn't be too surprised to see them happen in a restricted sense. I mean, if there was a server somewhere that had a huge number of songs, and a legal agreement with the record companies to allow this to happen, I wouldn't be surprised to see them offer a service to music shops where the tracks are downloaded at the users request, it would allow a wider range of samples and less messing with CDs. This said, apparently the labels were against music shop listening posts in the first place, so if they still don't like them they may be unwilling to allow them to go to the next step.
This is true, I'm sitting at a uni computer right now that the department gave me for research purposes, with a good ol' 52x24x52x on it. However, I was thinking more in a 'walk down the street' context.
Have i bought the rights to "Dark Side of the Moon" as an entity, or just as a particular instance?
It would be fairly easy, and somewhat reasonable, to argue that you have bought the rights to the non-SACD CD version only, as there is talent (and significant man-hours) going into the production of the extra enhancements in the SACD version that aren't in the other version.
Association chief executive Terence O'Neill-Joyce said it was preparing a submission against the proposal. "It's really about enforcement. How on earth are we going to stop things like copycat kiosks springing up around the country?"
For a while, these were common, at least in the city I live in. Many of the larger dairies had them. They had the appropriate part of the copyright act printed on them, along with a note that they are not to be used for copyright violation, however they had bigger writing saying things like 'back up your music and data'. They seemed to vanish part way through last year, likely due to a recording industry crack down (or because, in the uni city I'm in, you only need walk 10 meters before you meet someone with a CD-burner)
Cash is a hassle; you have to keep track of how many slips of paper you have in your wallet. Credit card? It's always right there with me.
Live in a country that uses EFTPOS (or an equivalent), where knowing the number is meaningless. It requires swiping on a card reader (most pizza deliveries have the machine hooked to a cellphone), entering a PIN, and the money comes out of your bank account. Nothing that can be stolen without significantly more work than copying a few numbers. Not so good for doing 'remote' buying, unfortunatly. But it does mean that you can almost completly avoid cash if you like.
On a related note, is it just me, or does Moz get paged out a LOT quicker than many other apps?
I noticed this on Linux. However, when I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel, either not so much was being swapped out, or it was being swapped in much faster. In general it does seem to take longer to come back to the front after being not used for a while than most apps, however it is larger than most that I run for long durations, also (this is the case for Fire{bird|fox} anyhow).
Check out iRATE radio. It is a collaborative rating system that downloads music from groups that have explicitly permitted their music to be released for free. It also has the nice effect that it gets things based on how much you say you liked the other stuff, and what other people thought of it. As time goes on, what it picks for you gets better and better and you find out about all kinds of artists (and styles!) that you wouldn't have otherwise heard of.
It is an open source project, so if you feel like hacking some code for an entertaining project, developers are welcome.
After a while, you end up with a nice "I'm not supporting the RIAA labels" feeling, also:)
Yes, downloading is illegal. Yes, it should not be done.
While we all know what you mean, I want to be pedantic. Downloading is not illegal. Downloading, even when just restricted to music is not illegal. It is important that the perception that "Downloading from Kazaa is illegal" isn't spread any further.
There are many sites and services that provide access to music free for download, because the artist has released it as such. My current favourite is Machinae Supremacy. However, there are many more. I suggest you have a look at a couple of things. First is a program: iRATE which downloads music and adjusts to your preferences based on what other people like. (If you don't mind building code, get the CVS version, it is quite improved on the stable version). Another thing that makes for good reading is this article which provides information on, among other things, where legally free music can be found.
I can't see your 'easy way to automatically configure the interface without the use of a protocol such as BOOTP/DHCP'. The IPv6 is not 'only' built with the MAC address... You also need network address.
Because it doesn't need to query for an address like DHCP. It first of all makes up its own address using a defined prefix and a MAC address, and then asks the router (using a method in the protocol, not something bolted on like DHCP) what network it is in. Combines the network address and the MAC address to have a unique network address.
When I was playing with it a while back, I gave my router an IPv6 network, and automatically all the other (capable) machines on the network joined up, much cleaner than DHCP.
Yes but you still need 4 times the memory. So you have to upgrade memory. The 2600 series is a small router. Modifying internet backbone routers for IPv6 will cost millions dollars.
In some cases, the memory used will be less as the routing tables are smaller. You don't need to have nearly so many special cases cause in IPv4 due to a lack of address space (i.e. no routing entry for that little/28 network). All you need is the route to the larger network (/80 or larger), which is split up into parts at the appropriate place.
But when the IPv6 rollout is finally done, not all the effects will be positive: the new Version 6 Internet will be slower, more friendly to peer-to-peer-based copyright violation systems, and the computers on it will almost certainly be less secure.
I'm a little confused by the notion that Free (freedom) software is considered free (no cost). Sure, generally it doesn't cost money, but there are other costs. As an open source user, I have free (no money) access to the software, with the hopeful expectation that I'll report bugs and so on to improve it more. However, because I have some programming skills and a desire to contribute back, this is where the cost that I pay comes in. I spend time helping improve programs that do almost what I want/need, in return for which, other people improve it also, and I get the benefit of that.
This cost may be optional, but it is there nonetheless. The programs I like the most I have paid for by offering my bugfinding time, and developer skills.
Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. Bill Gates General Partner, Micro-Soft
Well damn. I guess he was right all along. This ideal still has yet to arrive.
None of this seems to me to be anything bad, it is just a way of controlling who has ready access to documents. While reading the comments, I thought about how it could be implemented as an open source system. If I get free time I may look into prototyping it. Here's what I've come up with so far:
You will need three components generally:
A server-side daemon
This tracks what documents are registered against it, who should be allowed to use it and when and so on. It stores the private keys of the documents, and also public keys of all the potential users. When a user requests a document, it issues a challenge, which they encrypt with their public key, and send back. This is how it knows the user is valid (unless their key has been stolen). It then sends the key that allows the document to be decrypted, assuming all the rights are OK.
A client-side daemon
This is less important, and could probably be removed entierly, but will do caching and allow things like offline access. It acts as an intermediate between the local application and the main server. It will cache the keys and so on, for the time period that they are allowed. It may also store user credentials for a while, so that passwords don't have to be reentered. Ideally, the user password will decrypt the key used for authentication against the main server.
A client-side application
This is the application, OpenOffice, or whatever. When it wants to open a locked document, it goes through the process of asking the client-side daemon for a key. The daemon either replies with the key, or queries the user for a password and then returns the key. This may involve asking the server for the key if it has never been queried before.
This is just off the top of my head, and there are a lot of details missing. What it won't protect against is someone who legitimatly has access to the document running off with it, but it would make it very difficult for anyone to see it who wasn't supposed to have access to it. If desired, you could also have flags for 'no printing', etc, but they would have to be respected by the application so couldn't be relied upon.
One other thing that may be of interest from this is that there sometimes may be no need to distribute an entire document, just a token, and if the person tries to access the token, the latest version of the document is fetched from the server. This could be another way of dealing with dynamic documents.
I might look into this further some time. If you are interested, email me, and I'll find a place to document stuff.
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iRATE radio is a project that downloads music that bands have released for free, and plays it to you. Based on how you rate the tracks you are given, it gives you more that it thinks you'll like by comparing with other peoples ratings. This results in a pile of MP3's that you like (at least to some degree :), and an easy way to get more that fit your tastes. You also have control over how regularly you hear each track, and so on.
It is Java based, and I am a developer on it :) (hence the plug). If we were to get a couple more programmers, designers, writers, or whatever, it would move along at a good clip. A rewrite of the server is underway which will mean that making that side of things better will a lot easier.
Also, a lot of work has gone into the client itself. If you haven't checked it out for a while, go download the latest version (right now the CVS version is broken, hopefully that'll be fixed in a couple of days)
The iRATE project downloads music from sites like these, and gives them to you inside a music player. You then say how much you like various tracks, and it compares your ratings to those of other people, and gives you more stuff it thinks you'll like. You end up with a large collection of indie music that is filtered to be what you consider good stuff. (And then you can buy CDs of it to support the band if you like :)
Oh yes, it is definatly a money grab. However, unfortunatly, that doesn't stop the fact that it could be reasonably argued that it is a substantially different product, so they are effectivly different instances, and the copyright license of one has no bearing over the other. It isn't in the interests of the companies to do this (except perhaps the smaller labels who understand that how you behave towards the people who buy your products is reflected in how they behave towards those products).
I wouldn't be too surprised to see them happen in a restricted sense. I mean, if there was a server somewhere that had a huge number of songs, and a legal agreement with the record companies to allow this to happen, I wouldn't be surprised to see them offer a service to music shops where the tracks are downloaded at the users request, it would allow a wider range of samples and less messing with CDs. This said, apparently the labels were against music shop listening posts in the first place, so if they still don't like them they may be unwilling to allow them to go to the next step.
This is true, I'm sitting at a uni computer right now that the department gave me for research purposes, with a good ol' 52x24x52x on it. However, I was thinking more in a 'walk down the street' context.
It would be fairly easy, and somewhat reasonable, to argue that you have bought the rights to the non-SACD CD version only, as there is talent (and significant man-hours) going into the production of the extra enhancements in the SACD version that aren't in the other version.
For a while, these were common, at least in the city I live in. Many of the larger dairies had them. They had the appropriate part of the copyright act printed on them, along with a note that they are not to be used for copyright violation, however they had bigger writing saying things like 'back up your music and data'. They seemed to vanish part way through last year, likely due to a recording industry crack down (or because, in the uni city I'm in, you only need walk 10 meters before you meet someone with a CD-burner)
Live in a country that uses EFTPOS (or an equivalent), where knowing the number is meaningless. It requires swiping on a card reader (most pizza deliveries have the machine hooked to a cellphone), entering a PIN, and the money comes out of your bank account. Nothing that can be stolen without significantly more work than copying a few numbers. Not so good for doing 'remote' buying, unfortunatly. But it does mean that you can almost completly avoid cash if you like.
I noticed this on Linux. However, when I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel, either not so much was being swapped out, or it was being swapped in much faster. In general it does seem to take longer to come back to the front after being not used for a while than most apps, however it is larger than most that I run for long durations, also (this is the case for Fire{bird|fox} anyhow).
In X, middle click (i.e. paste)
Check out iRATE radio. It is a collaborative rating system that downloads music from groups that have explicitly permitted their music to be released for free. It also has the nice effect that it gets things based on how much you say you liked the other stuff, and what other people thought of it. As time goes on, what it picks for you gets better and better and you find out about all kinds of artists (and styles!) that you wouldn't have otherwise heard of.
It is an open source project, so if you feel like hacking some code for an entertaining project, developers are welcome.
After a while, you end up with a nice "I'm not supporting the RIAA labels" feeling, also :)
...it has been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
From the link you give:
What is it they know that we don't?
While we all know what you mean, I want to be pedantic. Downloading is not illegal. Downloading, even when just restricted to music is not illegal. It is important that the perception that "Downloading from Kazaa is illegal" isn't spread any further.
There are many sites and services that provide access to music free for download, because the artist has released it as such. My current favourite is Machinae Supremacy. However, there are many more. I suggest you have a look at a couple of things. First is a program: iRATE which downloads music and adjusts to your preferences based on what other people like. (If you don't mind building code, get the CVS version, it is quite improved on the stable version). Another thing that makes for good reading is this article which provides information on, among other things, where legally free music can be found.
Because it doesn't need to query for an address like DHCP. It first of all makes up its own address using a defined prefix and a MAC address, and then asks the router (using a method in the protocol, not something bolted on like DHCP) what network it is in. Combines the network address and the MAC address to have a unique network address.
When I was playing with it a while back, I gave my router an IPv6 network, and automatically all the other (capable) machines on the network joined up, much cleaner than DHCP.
In some cases, the memory used will be less as the routing tables are smaller. You don't need to have nearly so many special cases cause in IPv4 due to a lack of address space (i.e. no routing entry for that little /28 network). All you need is the route to the larger network (/80 or larger), which is split up into parts at the appropriate place.
This is true, he seems to be writing more pessimisticly than actually slamming it.
But when the IPv6 rollout is finally done, not all the effects will be positive: the new Version 6 Internet will be slower, more friendly to peer-to-peer-based copyright violation systems, and the computers on it will almost certainly be less secure.
Not really in the same boat, but a day or two ago my gf got one that was simply (from memory):
I NEED MONEY
I NEED US$17,000,000 NOW!
CAN YOU HELP ME?
I'm a little confused by the notion that Free (freedom) software is considered free (no cost). Sure, generally it doesn't cost money, but there are other costs. As an open source user, I have free (no money) access to the software, with the hopeful expectation that I'll report bugs and so on to improve it more. However, because I have some programming skills and a desire to contribute back, this is where the cost that I pay comes in. I spend time helping improve programs that do almost what I want/need, in return for which, other people improve it also, and I get the benefit of that.
This cost may be optional, but it is there nonetheless. The programs I like the most I have paid for by offering my bugfinding time, and developer skills.
Well damn. I guess he was right all along. This ideal still has yet to arrive.
To add another, which is a program that actually finds legally free music to match your tastes once it has learnt them: iRATE
None of this seems to me to be anything bad, it is just a way of controlling who has ready access to documents. While reading the comments, I thought about how it could be implemented as an open source system. If I get free time I may look into prototyping it. Here's what I've come up with so far:
You will need three components generally:
A server-side daemon
This tracks what documents are registered against it, who should be allowed to use it and when and so on. It stores the private keys of the documents, and also public keys of all the potential users. When a user requests a document, it issues a challenge, which they encrypt with their public key, and send back. This is how it knows the user is valid (unless their key has been stolen). It then sends the key that allows the document to be decrypted, assuming all the rights are OK.
A client-side daemon
This is less important, and could probably be removed entierly, but will do caching and allow things like offline access. It acts as an intermediate between the local application and the main server. It will cache the keys and so on, for the time period that they are allowed. It may also store user credentials for a while, so that passwords don't have to be reentered. Ideally, the user password will decrypt the key used for authentication against the main server.
A client-side application
This is the application, OpenOffice, or whatever. When it wants to open a locked document, it goes through the process of asking the client-side daemon for a key. The daemon either replies with the key, or queries the user for a password and then returns the key. This may involve asking the server for the key if it has never been queried before.
This is just off the top of my head, and there are a lot of details missing. What it won't protect against is someone who legitimatly has access to the document running off with it, but it would make it very difficult for anyone to see it who wasn't supposed to have access to it. If desired, you could also have flags for 'no printing', etc, but they would have to be respected by the application so couldn't be relied upon.
One other thing that may be of interest from this is that there sometimes may be no need to distribute an entire document, just a token, and if the person tries to access the token, the latest version of the document is fetched from the server. This could be another way of dealing with dynamic documents.
I might look into this further some time. If you are interested, email me, and I'll find a place to document stuff.
So...you mean to say..the Patent office rejected a patent? Excuse me, I think I'm lost. Is this Slashdot?
Who says that old games aren't realistic?