The first one to market with an interface that can easily be hacked will be the winner in my book. The Tivo benefits from being easily modifiable, why not a MP3 player? CMIIW, If the Terrapin Mine (linux, right?) played oggs I think we'd have something.
*Editor's Note: Now that we've successfully converted our writer to a Windows PC, we will be working on getting her to try a Pocket PC. Stay tuned for more developments!
Next week: MS Borg Implants: Do they really feel as though a thousand shards of poison dipped glass have just been shoved in your eye?
Also, see the result of our torture tests! Can an Apple user resist Microsoft's best "Information Modification Specialists"? Watch how our newest 'convert' bows to our will ^W^W^W^W loves all MS products!
All this and a Windows 98 user converts to Windows IP, and loses all rights to anything they create while using our new EULA!
Great fun! Don't be late or we'll kick this dog and beat your kids!
The only way I'd want to see this is if *I* could use it too.
Far to much power is being consolidated in far to few people.
Give everyone this tech and everyone would spy on each other for a year or two, then it would be common and boring. (except in small towns, where people would like to know the last time the neigbors wiped their ass.)
A breakout box for all the cables to go into, rather than having them all stuck in the back. That would allow many more options for placement, and reduce cable pileup.
I think that the US needs Taiwan as much as they need us.
I mean where would carnivals and fairs get their stuffed bannanas and funny bendy pens?
More RIAA 'wisdom' from musicunited.org
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Copying CDs
It's okay to copy music onto an analog cassette, but not for commercial purposes.
It's also okay to copy music onto special Audio CD-R's, mini-discs, and digital tapes (because royalties have been paid on them) - but, again, not for commercial purposes. Beyond that, there's no legal "right" to copy the copyrighted music on a CD onto a CD-R. However, burning a copy of CD onto a CD-R, or transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won't usually raise concerns so long as:
The copy is made from an authorized original CD that you legitimately own
The copy is just for your personal use. It's not a personal use - in fact, it's illegal - to give away the copy or lend it to others for copying.
The owners of copyrighted music have the right to use protection technology to allow or prevent copying.
Remember, it's never okay to sell or make commercial use of a copy that you make.
No metion of "Fair Use" in there. Note how they don't say it's *legal* to make a copy for yourself?...won't usually raise concerns...
Hey Sniper - Try the RIAA. Leave the regular joes alone.
Quote from website.
Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, Multi-Platinum Award Winning Artist, Producer, Founder and CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment: "As an artist who has dedicated his life to music and the music business, I have seen what illegal music copying has done and continues to do to new and established musicians. I understand why people download music, but for me and my fellow artists, this is our livelihood. When you make an illegal copy, you're stealing from the artist. It's that simple. Every single day we're out here pouring our hearts and souls into making music for everyone to enjoy. What if you didn't get paid for your job? Put yourself in our shoes!"
The greatest ripoff artist of all time has the gall to say this. Listen up, SEAN COMBS. You owe me for having to put up with your over-sampled, entirely lifted 'music'. You are an excellent example of how 'the public' will eat anything put in front of them, including a steaming bowl of crap. Put yourself in our shoes, INDEED.
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She loves the hot pink underwater glider! It will match all of her outfits, her car, her RV, her house, her guitar, Ken's cardigan and her jetski. I wonder when Presidential Barbie will start bombing Iraq?
Are camcorders in theaters really that much of a source of pirated copies? In the music biz, the source of most pre-release copies comes from pre-release reviewer CDs OR the engineer/assistant (insider) on the project.
Besides, the people who don't care about the (piss-poor) quality of 'camcorded' movies aren't going to care about some stupid watermark floating on the screen.
Another piracy-battling idea that will be ignored (by pirates) and yet make lots of $$$ for the company that brings it to market.
It seems that piracy-battling solutions are the only thing that makes $$$ while not working. That and Congress.
The scenario above is unrealistic in one respect: the very existence of XYZ software as an alternative is unrealistic. Why? Because DRMP creates many barriers to entry. You can't just write new software and put it on the market. The new software needs to have a passport and incorporate an authorized DRM agent. If you want to market a new product that competes with an important Microsoft product, you may need to get Microsoft to license your use of their certified DRMP agent, certify your software is DRMP compliant, and issue you passports. How probable is it that such a situation will lead to a vibrant and competitive marketplace?
Bold is mine. This will not just apply to software, it will apply to everything. Music, books, art, etc. The list goes on. Anything that you create now, even if it is for your own amusement, will be shut down by Digital Restrictions Management. This is just one step in the control of *creation of content*.
Entertainment companies do not want to just control all of their content, they want to control ALL content. You will need to register with 'a third party' for a signature to release your *own works*. Of course, to keep the sigantures from just being owned by 'anyone', they will be prohibitively expensive. You will be unable to compete with the entertainment companies, the software companies, and all others. You won't even be allowed to release your own works of art, music or writing.
Somehow I doubt that a themometer will be allowed to shut down anything, in law or in practice.
It is the independent creation of content that is being threatened, and don't you forget it.
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Give him a break - he's still got a hangover from the going away party.
I believe he's still recovering from a going away party.
The amazing story of Barbra Streisand working for /. as an editor is right under the Star Wars story.
The first one to market with an interface that can easily be hacked will be the winner in my book. The Tivo benefits from being easily modifiable, why not a MP3 player? CMIIW, If the Terrapin Mine (linux, right?) played oggs I think we'd have something.
Next week: MS Borg Implants: Do they really feel as though a thousand shards of poison dipped glass have just been shoved in your eye?
Also, see the result of our torture tests! Can an Apple user resist Microsoft's best "Information Modification Specialists"? Watch how our newest 'convert' bows to our will ^W^W^W^W loves all MS products!
All this and a Windows 98 user converts to Windows IP, and loses all rights to anything they create while using our new EULA!
Great fun! Don't be late or we'll kick this dog and beat your kids!
What if we made a Beowulf cluster out of the lack of Beowulf questions? Would that implode with the force of a thousand suns?
Far to much power is being consolidated in far to few people.
Give everyone this tech and everyone would spy on each other for a year or two, then it would be common and boring. (except in small towns, where people would like to know the last time the neigbors wiped their ass.)
Just a thought.
I thought that it was to prove a point that a linux webserver can run on anything.
I mean where would carnivals and fairs get their stuffed bannanas and funny bendy pens?
It's okay to copy music onto an analog cassette, but not for commercial purposes.
It's also okay to copy music onto special Audio CD-R's, mini-discs, and digital tapes (because royalties have been paid on them) - but, again, not for commercial purposes.
Beyond that, there's no legal "right" to copy the copyrighted music on a CD onto a CD-R. However, burning a copy of CD onto a CD-R, or transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won't usually raise concerns so long as:
The copy is made from an authorized original CD that you legitimately own
The copy is just for your personal use. It's not a personal use - in fact, it's illegal - to give away the copy or lend it to others for copying.
The owners of copyrighted music have the right to use protection technology to allow or prevent copying.
Remember, it's never okay to sell or make commercial use of a copy that you make.
No metion of "Fair Use" in there. Note how they don't say it's *legal* to make a copy for yourself? ...won't usually raise concerns ...
Hey Sniper - Try the RIAA. Leave the regular joes alone.
Quote from website. Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, Multi-Platinum Award Winning Artist, Producer, Founder and CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment: "As an artist who has dedicated his life to music and the music business, I have seen what illegal music copying has done and continues to do to new and established musicians. I understand why people download music, but for me and my fellow artists, this is our livelihood. When you make an illegal copy, you're stealing from the artist. It's that simple. Every single day we're out here pouring our hearts and souls into making music for everyone to enjoy. What if you didn't get paid for your job? Put yourself in our shoes!"
The greatest ripoff artist of all time has the gall to say this. Listen up, SEAN COMBS. You owe me for having to put up with your over-sampled, entirely lifted 'music'. You are an excellent example of how 'the public' will eat anything put in front of them, including a steaming bowl of crap. Put yourself in our shoes, INDEED.
I think they were all drunk and stoned at a going away party.
I think they were all drunk at a going away party.
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Bob from Accounting gets to look in the 2001 Sales figures, but Ted from Janitorial Services does not.
Names and passwords, logs and a good sysadmin sounds like it would do just fine.
Oh wait. That wouldn't be unusual. DAMMIT!
She loves the hot pink underwater glider! It will match all of her outfits, her car, her RV, her house, her guitar, Ken's cardigan and her jetski. I wonder when Presidential Barbie will start bombing Iraq?
Besides, the people who don't care about the (piss-poor) quality of 'camcorded' movies aren't going to care about some stupid watermark floating on the screen.
Another piracy-battling idea that will be ignored (by pirates) and yet make lots of $$$ for the company that brings it to market.
It seems that piracy-battling solutions are the only thing that makes $$$ while not working. That and Congress.
I did it too hard and now I can't see! Bad trip, man, bad trip!!! Ahhhh.....my eyes, they burn!!!
To read what you both are saying would assume that I am at work and am wasting time.
Thanks.
Bold is mine. This will not just apply to software, it will apply to everything. Music, books, art, etc. The list goes on. Anything that you create now, even if it is for your own amusement, will be shut down by Digital Restrictions Management. This is just one step in the control of *creation of content*.
Entertainment companies do not want to just control all of their content, they want to control ALL content. You will need to register with 'a third party' for a signature to release your *own works*. Of course, to keep the sigantures from just being owned by 'anyone', they will be prohibitively expensive. You will be unable to compete with the entertainment companies, the software companies, and all others. You won't even be allowed to release your own works of art, music or writing.
Somehow I doubt that a themometer will be allowed to shut down anything, in law or in practice.
It is the independent creation of content that is being threatened, and don't you forget it.
Like I said - irony lost. But that's ok. And I still think this story should be on the front page. :P