Monday night, I was working on a project with my son (Call of Duty 4) and had totally forgotten about Terminator:Sarah Conner Chronicles being on. Come Tuesday, while the internet reality was on hold because it was WoW server maintenance day, I went to fox.com and decided to watch the episode online. It was that point that I realized I was doing a disservice to myself because I had a PC hooked up from the DVI on the video card to one of the HDMI inputs on my Samsung 50" plasma TV. I got to watch the entire episode, commercial free, in HD. It was convenient, widescreen, and from now on I plan on watching T:SCC at my convenience. Commercial free, of course.
P2P has become like anyting else lately. It's targeted because people like it, use it in excess, and think there's no repercussions for using it illegally. Kind of like underage drinking, smoking, and illicit drug use, or illegaly owning a firearm.
If you don't want to get caught drinking, you drink in the company of people you trust. If you don't want your parents knowing you smoke or use drugs, you take measures to make sure they don't find your stash or catch you using it. If you don't have a permit to carry a gun, you don't wear it on your hip.
In the same respect, if you're filesharing, you should take measures to make sure you can trust who you're sharing with, make sure that you conceal it using a secure VPN or tunnelized network, and you keep it encrypted or hidden so that if someone sees it they don't know what is or how to look at it.
SECURITY is your best defense at sharing data, any kind of data, be it legal or not. If you want to protect your ass, you need to protect your assets. The only way to do that is to make sure you either secure your little P2P stealth-net or simply don't do it at all. Since most of us would elect the former than the latter, that means using the skills you have and the knowledge you can share and creating a secure, tunnelized P2P network that uses encryption.
Be smart people.
It started with Pokemon on an old Gameboy. I wanted him to start reading more and thought one of the ways would be to simply get him interested in playing a game that he could relate to because he was watching Pokemon on TV all the time. That's all it took. Soon, he was kicking my ass in Quake2 and Quake3, owning me in Unreal Tournament, and by the time he was 11 he was playing tournament grade Counterstrike. Then came WoW, Halo, Halo2, Halo3, etc. We play a lot of the same games together and his skill and understanding of game dynamics is far beyond mine. Now if I could only get him interested in hot rodding...
We've already informed our users that we will not be supporting the iPhone. If they buy one they will be on their own. We're currently a Microsoft shop and recently fell victim to one of our support staff informing the general user population that we support MACs. After the statement was released, those of us in the IT core team found ourselves sandbagged by the head of support because we didn't even have a single MAC in the department that we could troubleshoot MAC issues with.
When the announcement of the iPhone was made with a firm release date, we immediately informed the support head that not only do we currently have issues supporting Blackberrys (like the new Curve) but we have no way of offering support for the iPhone and that we should make sure that the user population would be made aware that they would be on their own should any decide to buy one.
Personally, I like the gadget's potential, but the reality is that you can't support user issues if you don't have the knowledge or equipment to troubleshoot those issues.
I guess my son should stop playing World of Warcraft for 3 hours a night. He's only got A's in all of his classes except the one where he has a B+.
Ironically, the B+ is his first class after lunch. Hmm. I wonder if he's sleepy after eating lunch or if it's playing WoW that's preventing him from reaching scholastic excellence.
Spend more time researching the impact of removing scholastic programs like Physical Education, Band, Orchestra, and expansion of Athletic Programs to include more sports alternatives. Or better yet, just give the money wasted on such studies to a well deserving school so they can buy books, computers, and maybe add a wood shop or machine shop.
Specialists like Jay Beale, Ed Skoudis and Mike Poor. My firm meets with them for a security audit once a year every January.It takes them a few days to audit our systems and they report to us with a draft and final report. We usually have everythign buttoned down by the time the final report arrives.
As the DMCA is an American Law, what would happen if they distribute the servers over different nations and continents?
The current belief is that the DMCA effects only the US and it's enforcible territories. There are alternatives to the high licensing fees sought by the RIAA thru the CARP decisions.
The "legal" one of these is to seek a server to stream your audio from a server in Canada or Europe. Both Canada and most of Europe have no desire to hamper internet growth and as evidenced by the Canadians:
"By not regulating, we hope to support the growth of new media services in Canada," says Françoise Bertrand, CRTC Chairperson. "The CRTC is one of the first regulators in the world to clarify its position on the Internet."
The entire posting can be found here: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/NEWS/RELEASES/1999/R9905 17.htm
Also, look for a post by Yui Chan on this page: http://www.saveinternetradio.org/discus/messages/4/11.asp?1016856393 . It details just how SOCAN operates and will probably continue to operate regardless of what the RIAA seeks and how hte CARP rules.
The "illegal" method is to simply go "private" and not broadcast your station information to shoutcast.com. My station has already done this, and I have seen no discernable drop in listeners because they've already bookmarked me. When I have to start changing port numbers to remain undetectable, I'll merely announce the port changes on the broadcast.
I listen to Digitally Imported [www.di.fm] Radio at home, school, work, and I know they have multiple servers. Although the majority of them seem to come from europe, etc, what are the ramifications as to the charges if they are not US-Based non-profit organizations/servers?
Based on what I stated above (assuming, it was wholly correct), all servers not located in the Continental US and it's enforcable territories would continue to operate (assuming it is "legally") as they are now.
I know DI is asking for monetary and bandwidth contributions, as their bandwidth is a real b*tch.
On average -- 2000 users @ 16KBps = 31MBps.
I see some server-to-server bandwidth sharing ala p2p, as tonnes of individual servers maybe take 100 or so users. Splits the bandwidth over multiple hosts and multiple locations, and can't be shut down very easily. We're talking something Morpheus-like.
A PtP sharing system would be problematic. You're talking streaming pre-programmed audio content. PtP is much more suited for downloading and searching than it is for broadcasting.
My personal idea is: streaming audio encryption. My prospect revolves around sending your listeners an encrypted datastream that would be decoded on their end by a downloaded key from your site. In effect, you are no longer streaming audio, because the encryption would render a public performance of the audio impossible. Only the end user would be able to decrypt the stream into a listenable format. This is a workaround on the "digital audio" issue because you're no longer publicly streaming audio; You're streaming digital data. If the enduser has no key... no music.
There's a lot of information at saveinternetradio.org. you should take the time to educate yourselves on the issue. I personally run a shoutcast server for my site at slackersunion.org that's absolutely nothing but heavy metal, and although it only gets between 5 and 20 listeners a day, it's in danger of getting shut down because of this whole issue. There's no provision in any of this mess for the "amature" broadcaster or hobbyist, like myself. Ultimately, it's us little people that get screwed.
Check out the site and help in the fight.
-Phil
You nailed it on the head about the CONTROL issue. That's definately it. But don't think it's *not* about money either. They go hand in hand.
As for anyone that thinks the money goes to the artists, you're mistaken. Not a red cent has gone to any artists in the last few years from licensing and copyright royalties. It's all going to the RIAA.
-Phil
This is definately an alternative that's already being discussed in the messageboards at saveinternetradio.org.
The Canadians have far more "lax" and realistic pricing on thier copyright/royalty fees. If you stream audio from your home to a shoutcast server, set it up in Canada and you'll buy yourself some time.
XM will more than likey suffer the same fate. If you look at the US Code and can wade thru the legalease, look at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/114.html. by reading the code, you cna see that anyone streaming or broadcasting anything in digital format is screwed.
My station has already gone underground.
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Monday night, I was working on a project with my son (Call of Duty 4) and had totally forgotten about Terminator:Sarah Conner Chronicles being on. Come Tuesday, while the internet reality was on hold because it was WoW server maintenance day, I went to fox.com and decided to watch the episode online. It was that point that I realized I was doing a disservice to myself because I had a PC hooked up from the DVI on the video card to one of the HDMI inputs on my Samsung 50" plasma TV. I got to watch the entire episode, commercial free, in HD. It was convenient, widescreen, and from now on I plan on watching T:SCC at my convenience. Commercial free, of course.
P2P has become like anyting else lately. It's targeted because people like it, use it in excess, and think there's no repercussions for using it illegally. Kind of like underage drinking, smoking, and illicit drug use, or illegaly owning a firearm. If you don't want to get caught drinking, you drink in the company of people you trust. If you don't want your parents knowing you smoke or use drugs, you take measures to make sure they don't find your stash or catch you using it. If you don't have a permit to carry a gun, you don't wear it on your hip. In the same respect, if you're filesharing, you should take measures to make sure you can trust who you're sharing with, make sure that you conceal it using a secure VPN or tunnelized network, and you keep it encrypted or hidden so that if someone sees it they don't know what is or how to look at it. SECURITY is your best defense at sharing data, any kind of data, be it legal or not. If you want to protect your ass, you need to protect your assets. The only way to do that is to make sure you either secure your little P2P stealth-net or simply don't do it at all. Since most of us would elect the former than the latter, that means using the skills you have and the knowledge you can share and creating a secure, tunnelized P2P network that uses encryption. Be smart people.
It started with Pokemon on an old Gameboy. I wanted him to start reading more and thought one of the ways would be to simply get him interested in playing a game that he could relate to because he was watching Pokemon on TV all the time. That's all it took. Soon, he was kicking my ass in Quake2 and Quake3, owning me in Unreal Tournament, and by the time he was 11 he was playing tournament grade Counterstrike. Then came WoW, Halo, Halo2, Halo3, etc. We play a lot of the same games together and his skill and understanding of game dynamics is far beyond mine. Now if I could only get him interested in hot rodding...
-Phil
We've already informed our users that we will not be supporting the iPhone. If they buy one they will be on their own. We're currently a Microsoft shop and recently fell victim to one of our support staff informing the general user population that we support MACs. After the statement was released, those of us in the IT core team found ourselves sandbagged by the head of support because we didn't even have a single MAC in the department that we could troubleshoot MAC issues with.
When the announcement of the iPhone was made with a firm release date, we immediately informed the support head that not only do we currently have issues supporting Blackberrys (like the new Curve) but we have no way of offering support for the iPhone and that we should make sure that the user population would be made aware that they would be on their own should any decide to buy one.
Personally, I like the gadget's potential, but the reality is that you can't support user issues if you don't have the knowledge or equipment to troubleshoot those issues.
I guess my son should stop playing World of Warcraft for 3 hours a night. He's only got A's in all of his classes except the one where he has a B+. Ironically, the B+ is his first class after lunch. Hmm. I wonder if he's sleepy after eating lunch or if it's playing WoW that's preventing him from reaching scholastic excellence. Spend more time researching the impact of removing scholastic programs like Physical Education, Band, Orchestra, and expansion of Athletic Programs to include more sports alternatives. Or better yet, just give the money wasted on such studies to a well deserving school so they can buy books, computers, and maybe add a wood shop or machine shop.
Specialists like Jay Beale, Ed Skoudis and Mike Poor. My firm meets with them for a security audit once a year every January.It takes them a few days to audit our systems and they report to us with a draft and final report. We usually have everythign buttoned down by the time the final report arrives.
The current belief is that the DMCA effects only the US and it's enforcible territories. There are alternatives to the high licensing fees sought by the RIAA thru the CARP decisions.
The "legal" one of these is to seek a server to stream your audio from a server in Canada or Europe. Both Canada and most of Europe have no desire to hamper internet growth and as evidenced by the Canadians: The entire posting can be found here: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/NEWS/RELEASES/1999/R990
Also, look for a post by Yui Chan on this page: http://www.saveinternetradio.org/discus/messages/
The "illegal" method is to simply go "private" and not broadcast your station information to shoutcast.com. My station has already done this, and I have seen no discernable drop in listeners because they've already bookmarked me. When I have to start changing port numbers to remain undetectable, I'll merely announce the port changes on the broadcast.
I listen to Digitally Imported [www.di.fm] Radio at home, school, work, and I know they have multiple servers. Although the majority of them seem to come from europe, etc, what are the ramifications as to the charges if they are not US-Based non-profit organizations/servers?
Based on what I stated above (assuming, it was wholly correct), all servers not located in the Continental US and it's enforcable territories would continue to operate (assuming it is "legally") as they are now.
I know DI is asking for monetary and bandwidth contributions, as their bandwidth is a real b*tch. On average -- 2000 users @ 16KBps = 31MBps.
I see some server-to-server bandwidth sharing ala p2p, as tonnes of individual servers maybe take 100 or so users. Splits the bandwidth over multiple hosts and multiple locations, and can't be shut down very easily. We're talking something Morpheus-like.
A PtP sharing system would be problematic. You're talking streaming pre-programmed audio content. PtP is much more suited for downloading and searching than it is for broadcasting.
My personal idea is: streaming audio encryption. My prospect revolves around sending your listeners an encrypted datastream that would be decoded on their end by a downloaded key from your site. In effect, you are no longer streaming audio, because the encryption would render a public performance of the audio impossible. Only the end user would be able to decrypt the stream into a listenable format. This is a workaround on the "digital audio" issue because you're no longer publicly streaming audio; You're streaming digital data. If the enduser has no key... no music.
-pb
There's a lot of information at saveinternetradio.org. you should take the time to educate yourselves on the issue. I personally run a shoutcast server for my site at slackersunion.org that's absolutely nothing but heavy metal, and although it only gets between 5 and 20 listeners a day, it's in danger of getting shut down because of this whole issue. There's no provision in any of this mess for the "amature" broadcaster or hobbyist, like myself. Ultimately, it's us little people that get screwed. Check out the site and help in the fight. -Phil
You nailed it on the head about the CONTROL issue. That's definately it. But don't think it's *not* about money either. They go hand in hand. As for anyone that thinks the money goes to the artists, you're mistaken. Not a red cent has gone to any artists in the last few years from licensing and copyright royalties. It's all going to the RIAA. -Phil
This is definately an alternative that's already being discussed in the messageboards at saveinternetradio.org. The Canadians have far more "lax" and realistic pricing on thier copyright/royalty fees. If you stream audio from your home to a shoutcast server, set it up in Canada and you'll buy yourself some time.
XM will more than likey suffer the same fate. If you look at the US Code and can wade thru the legalease, look at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/114.html. by reading the code, you cna see that anyone streaming or broadcasting anything in digital format is screwed. My station has already gone underground.