You're naive. When movie companies start producing DRM-encumbered content, the people will follow. VCRs were replaced because the movie companies decided that they perferred the DVD format, and gradually switched to that format, while killing off the VHS tape. The DVD player was expensive when it was first released, but now it's a cheap commodity-- I bought my neighbor a $29 model for Christmas. In a few years (2, 5, 10, 20, who cares?), those same cheap commodities-- which everyone will have-- will be "protected".
If you think that if it takes 20 years it doesn't matter, then you're not just naive, you're a damned idiot.
When mass-produced entertainment becomes protected, the masses will buy protected playback system. Those protected system are, or will be, backed by government law, thanks for big business lobbyists. Then your small studios will be forced into using old technology, and old technology breaks. How long do you think you can keep your current DVD player in good working order? Can you get your tape player repaired? How about your 8-track, or laser-disc player, or TV? The market for "iold technology" will become smaller and smaller, until the independant studios can't produce goods any longer, or there isn't anyone left with working playback systems.
Oh, that'll take 75 years, you may say. We're talking about rights here; who cares what the timeframe is?
You know the story about boiling a frog? You stick a frog in a pot of boiling water, and he jumps out real fast. You stick it in cool water, and it stays there while you turn up the heat. Before the frog knows whats going on, it's dead.
What are you going to do when there isn't a RCA-out on your DVD player / video card? Put a video camera in front of your TV to make backups? And are you really going to be satisfied with the results?
Rather than go after the angle of DVD playback (which has a jar of worms regarding licencing, etc), I would have liked the questioning to center around pure fair use.
With things like the broadcast flag and encryption, it is increasingly difficult to excersize free use for the purposes of "comment and criticism", parody, etc. How does Valenti propose to protect those rights, which I believe supercede copyright law?
Shouldn't an individual have the right to take licenced media and reproduce pieces of it for, say, educational discourse? With the measures currently taken, that will soon be (legally) impossible.
We all know there will always be technological ways to circumvent these barriors, but we shuold not be criminalized for it!
When your TV no longer accepts analog inputs, and there are no VCRs / PVRs / DVD players with analog outputs, and the signal is encrypted, how are you going to (easily) make a copy?
Before you scoff, think about HDTVs, and how the gov. is requiring their public acceptance.
Well, I'm not about to do the homework, being lazy and all, but I'm going to *guess* that you found those tracks because they're on major labels. I doubt that WalMart would go to the trouble of dealing with a thousand different "indie" (i.e., small or without big-5 distribution) labels.
But I'm almost vaguely sort-of impressed. I d/l'ed the sample for Ministry's "Filth Pig" track, and there, plain as day, was Al singing "How the fuck do you sleep at night?". What criteria do they censor on?
For another take on the origins of IBM, read IBM And The Holocaust by Edwin Black. While I think it's true that any company could have been in IBM's place in WWII, I don't think we should ignore the fact that IBM played both sides.
I don't knwo where to begin with you. What the hell are you talking about? Did you, or the people who modded you up, read the article? You say he's complaining about the licence? I'm not sure how you can make a complaint out of this:
You'd be hard pressed to find a license less restrictive than the BSD License.
You say he doesn't mention or recognize that 5.2 is a New Technology release? Wrong, but thanks for playing. To quote the article, again:
There are two parts to RELEASE: the new technology release (which is, as of this writing, at version 5.2) and the production release (which is, as of this writing, at 4.9).
Then later:
This is, after all, the "new technology release" and as such it is not meant for production servers, but I was expecting more from 5.2.
You say he doesnt "highlight" that he's using a new CPU? What's this quote about:
Most of my testing was done on the AMD64 edition, but I did install and use the i386 edition as well.
Admittedly, this wasn't until later in the article, but the first portion of the article was about FreeBSD in general, and explaining the release system. So what's you real beef with the article? You sure seem mad about something.
Sounds like a job for... SlashRadio! (Or/R, for folks with ADD.)
On a slightly more serious note, how's this model different from what mp3.com started off as, aside from the moderators (which were, IIRC, the unwashed masses on mp3.com)?
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You're naive. When movie companies start producing DRM-encumbered content, the people will follow. VCRs were replaced because the movie companies decided that they perferred the DVD format, and gradually switched to that format, while killing off the VHS tape. The DVD player was expensive when it was first released, but now it's a cheap commodity-- I bought my neighbor a $29 model for Christmas. In a few years (2, 5, 10, 20, who cares?), those same cheap commodities-- which everyone will have-- will be "protected".
If you think that if it takes 20 years it doesn't matter, then you're not just naive, you're a damned idiot.
When mass-produced entertainment becomes protected, the masses will buy protected playback system. Those protected system are, or will be, backed by government law, thanks for big business lobbyists. Then your small studios will be forced into using old technology, and old technology breaks. How long do you think you can keep your current DVD player in good working order? Can you get your tape player repaired? How about your 8-track, or laser-disc player, or TV? The market for "iold technology" will become smaller and smaller, until the independant studios can't produce goods any longer, or there isn't anyone left with working playback systems.
Oh, that'll take 75 years, you may say. We're talking about rights here; who cares what the timeframe is?
You know the story about boiling a frog? You stick a frog in a pot of boiling water, and he jumps out real fast. You stick it in cool water, and it stays there while you turn up the heat. Before the frog knows whats going on, it's dead.
Consumers are the frog.
What are you going to do when there isn't a RCA-out on your DVD player / video card? Put a video camera in front of your TV to make backups? And are you really going to be satisfied with the results?
Rather than go after the angle of DVD playback (which has a jar of worms regarding licencing, etc), I would have liked the questioning to center around pure fair use.
With things like the broadcast flag and encryption, it is increasingly difficult to excersize free use for the purposes of "comment and criticism", parody, etc. How does Valenti propose to protect those rights, which I believe supercede copyright law?
Shouldn't an individual have the right to take licenced media and reproduce pieces of it for, say, educational discourse? With the measures currently taken, that will soon be (legally) impossible.
We all know there will always be technological ways to circumvent these barriors, but we shuold not be criminalized for it!
Not true.
When your TV no longer accepts analog inputs, and there are no VCRs / PVRs / DVD players with analog outputs, and the signal is encrypted, how are you going to (easily) make a copy?
Before you scoff, think about HDTVs, and how the gov. is requiring their public acceptance.
Rest in peace, David Blood.
Well, I'm not about to do the homework, being lazy and all, but I'm going to *guess* that you found those tracks because they're on major labels. I doubt that WalMart would go to the trouble of dealing with a thousand different "indie" (i.e., small or without big-5 distribution) labels.
But I'm almost vaguely sort-of impressed. I d/l'ed the sample for Ministry's "Filth Pig" track, and there, plain as day, was Al singing "How the fuck do you sleep at night?". What criteria do they censor on?
For another take on the origins of IBM, read IBM And The Holocaust by Edwin Black. While I think it's true that any company could have been in IBM's place in WWII, I don't think we should ignore the fact that IBM played both sides.
I don't knwo where to begin with you. What the hell are you talking about? Did you, or the people who modded you up, read the article? You say he's complaining about the licence? I'm not sure how you can make a complaint out of this:
You'd be hard pressed to find a license less restrictive than the BSD License.
You say he doesn't mention or recognize that 5.2 is a New Technology release? Wrong, but thanks for playing. To quote the article, again:
There are two parts to RELEASE: the new technology release (which is, as of this writing, at version 5.2) and the production release (which is, as of this writing, at 4.9).
Then later:
This is, after all, the "new technology release" and as such it is not meant for production servers, but I was expecting more from 5.2.
You say he doesnt "highlight" that he's using a new CPU? What's this quote about:
Most of my testing was done on the AMD64 edition, but I did install and use the i386 edition as well.
Admittedly, this wasn't until later in the article, but the first portion of the article was about FreeBSD in general, and explaining the release system. So what's you real beef with the article? You sure seem mad about something.
Pardon the ignorance, but what's an ABI?
Sounds like a job for... SlashRadio! (Or /R, for folks with ADD.)
On a slightly more serious note, how's this model different from what mp3.com started off as, aside from the moderators (which were, IIRC, the unwashed masses on mp3.com)?
So it should be GNU/Flexibility/Linux? Might want to check with RS on that one...