Well, OK so the WWW is not free. It is cheap though. I could cancel my ISP service and just use the local library or university although I suppose somebody is still paying for this.
Taxes
Maybe TV and the internet will merge into something different than either. Banner ads on TV? Commercials online? Like an earlier post said information wants to be free, but people also want money and the advertising industry isn't going anywhere...although, I would hope there is going to be some drastic changes.
Fairly idealistic. I presume we'll see banner ads on TV's someday, but arguably thats already in the form of product placement. We already have commericals online, such as those big banners that take up the whole page for a few moments, ie the ads at places like the Salon and so on.
Next we'll see online ad companies saying people like mozilla and opera users are thieves because they block pop-up ads. And the situation just repeats itself.
AOL spokesman Mark Harrad confirmed the company's ad-skipping plans
They're skipping now? A bit of a typo...
cable operator is also looking at including copyright-protection technology in such devices. The technology would limit how viewers can use content delivered to their homes.
This is getting insane. Next they will have a CDTBPA like law for video players. If your sending out the content to my home, and im paying for that service (either through the advertising or subscription) I'm damn well allowed to do what I want with that stuff (within piracy laws, obviously).
Just because they send out advertising with it, doesn't mean I have to watch it. So how's this different from deleting it? I spose they'll be telling us what to watch, what to listen to etc, Oh wait......
It really doesn't matter about matching or costing less than a competitors console. If its reasonably priced, and it has figurehead games and a reasonable fan base, it will go well.
Pros and Cons:
P2 - Its older, but thats not necessarily a hard thing. Its got crap all RAM, and its hard to program for, but its still got more support than the X-Box. It has good titles, the FF series, and a good controller.
X-Box - Its a great console, but no matter how much it costs, if its got no figurehead titles, it won't sell. And it doesn't. Halo is ok, but thats all that's even made me look twice. Im writing it off already, due to no games coming that interest me.
Gamecube - Not out here (Australia) yet, so i cannot comment.
Give me PC anyday.
Its actually a change of strategy about how their playing the game.
In the beginning of P2P, the RIAA and the companies comprising of it tried to sue Napster out of existence, hoping that if they could succeed, the user-friendly and well-known way to download songs would be stopped, and an end to mass-sharing.
This approach obviously failed, as P2P networks and protocols were jumping up faster than they could threaten them with. The loss of a main central point (ie lots of different P2P programs) was another point that stopped the RIAA from suing the companies. So they changed tact.
Now they're threating anyone large companies, organisation, groups with enough at stake etc with dmca letters, trying to curb their P2P their. Most companies, organisations and universities have high-bandwidth, which allows for easy and quick downloads.
If the RIAA can get these to ban P2P, a lot of the high bandwidth use is shut-down, therefore home use is the only real way to download songs, and since most people have 56k modems, this would stop the huge amounts of downloads, due to bandwidth constraints.
There will always be P2P sharing, but if they can target places of mass-downloading, they will stop a large amount of sharing and downloading.
No No, your still the enemy. Your analogy is flawed.
The above statement qualifies -
A bully has been stealing lunch money form you. Now another person steals the lunch money from him. But it doesn't necessarily mean that your are the 2nd bully's friend.
Regardless, it doesn't apply to Blizz vs Sony. Blizzard attempted to stop pirating and sort of missed the mark a little. Sony have then sent out threathing letters, knowing most (tech) people use P2P sharings.
The key word here is Poison Pen. Sony more likely has no evidence besides a tip-off. So just send out a threating letter (much like blizz's to bnetd, thats the irony) saying P2P, sue bla bla bla...
In other words, Sony vs Vivendi, and Sony is just targeting a high profile company of Vivendi's.
Well you didn't succeed. Regardless. IT was a poor attempt at humour, if indeed it was. Im not the brightest bulb in town, but i can certainly recognise most sarcasm. Your's didn't make the grade. NEXT!
Your an idiot. Free Advertising != Sueing about 10,000 fans.
Im sorry. But you haven't a friggin clue what this issue is about, and your making inane comments.
To implement checking, they need blizzard's cd-key system. And a company giving their cd-key algorithm to an open-source project is laughable, to say the least.
Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. IANAL (obviously), but i could easily see bnetd as a trademark violation, considering its almost identical and it has an extra letter tacked on. Thanks for that.
Seriously, the only thing that they can do is ask for the closure of war3pub.net. Though there on very shaky public support for that if that website is only distributing the beta. If anyone anywhere starts distributing the War 3 full game when its out, Blizzard/Vivendi WILL hunt them out and sue the living death out of them. Of this i have no doubt.
I fully support the bnetd ideal. That is, supplying a different server then the blizzard one. You would be a lot less likely to find n00bs so to speak there. However.... I get sick of paying for the thousands of warez users that download the iso or image, then burn to cd, then are able to play fully on bnetd.
Unfortunately, blizzard's key remains the copy protection stopping that, and bnetd weren't able to support that at all. So it's back to the beginning.
Maybe if blizz could implement a central cd key verification server ie Half-Life's WON servers, it would be more beneficial. But still, the whole situation sucks. Blizzard aren't that bad, its more likely vivendi or just a complete miscommunication hogwash.
Though i have heard, that blizzard must prosecute now, or they aren't able to prosecute pirates/cd-key removal later on. This true?
Everyone having problems now? No, microsoft is making profit, oracle also makes profit.
Microsoft and Oracle are everybody?
What he means is the economy in general, as well as most of the tech industry is experiencing a down turn. Providing exceptions doesn't change the stats quo that is happening at the moment
Open Source companies aren't really built on the hype and hyperbole of the DotComs. Having a substantial product allows for more longevity (sp?) than a web based retailer.
"But maintaining that model, in which big music companies play an important filtering role for audiences, depends both on large streams of revenue and on control of copyrighted works."
They don't seem to understand this point. Most digital consumers notice the irrelvancy of the "big record companies". What we want is direct support of the artist, and paying the artist for their work instead of the majority of a "CD" being used up in overhead. I think most will play fair, if the prices come down and the artist is more fiscally supported, not the farce that is going on now.
Slashdot Mirror
Woah you can't patent it now. By putting it up here its Prior Art!
That should say "Taxes" in reply to the first quote, then the second quote starts. My kingdom for AUTOMATIC BREAKS!!!
Well, OK so the WWW is not free. It is cheap though. I could cancel my ISP service and just use the local library or university although I suppose somebody is still paying for this.
Taxes Maybe TV and the internet will merge into something different than either. Banner ads on TV? Commercials online? Like an earlier post said information wants to be free, but people also want money and the advertising industry isn't going anywhere...although, I would hope there is going to be some drastic changes.
Fairly idealistic. I presume we'll see banner ads on TV's someday, but arguably thats already in the form of product placement. We already have commericals online, such as those big banners that take up the whole page for a few moments, ie the ads at places like the Salon and so on.
Next we'll see online ad companies saying people like mozilla and opera users are thieves because they block pop-up ads. And the situation just repeats itself.
AOL spokesman Mark Harrad confirmed the company's ad-skipping plans
They're skipping now? A bit of a typo...
cable operator is also looking at including copyright-protection technology in such devices. The technology would limit how viewers can use content delivered to their homes.
This is getting insane. Next they will have a CDTBPA like law for video players. If your sending out the content to my home, and im paying for that service (either through the advertising or subscription) I'm damn well allowed to do what I want with that stuff (within piracy laws, obviously).
Just because they send out advertising with it, doesn't mean I have to watch it. So how's this different from deleting it? I spose they'll be telling us what to watch, what to listen to etc, Oh wait......
Which ISP do you have? Either you pay the ISP the money for connection and usage, or you get one of those "advertising ISP's".
I think he means that for every hour that we watch the Idiot Box, were paying for $1.20 worth of TV. I could be wrong, however.....
But do they get the first 100 hours ad-free?
It really doesn't matter about matching or costing less than a competitors console. If its reasonably priced, and it has figurehead games and a reasonable fan base, it will go well. Pros and Cons: P2 - Its older, but thats not necessarily a hard thing. Its got crap all RAM, and its hard to program for, but its still got more support than the X-Box. It has good titles, the FF series, and a good controller. X-Box - Its a great console, but no matter how much it costs, if its got no figurehead titles, it won't sell. And it doesn't. Halo is ok, but thats all that's even made me look twice. Im writing it off already, due to no games coming that interest me. Gamecube - Not out here (Australia) yet, so i cannot comment. Give me PC anyday.
A fine example of Mods on Crack. +3 Funny?
Its actually a change of strategy about how their playing the game.
In the beginning of P2P, the RIAA and the companies comprising of it tried to sue Napster out of existence, hoping that if they could succeed, the user-friendly and well-known way to download songs would be stopped, and an end to mass-sharing.
This approach obviously failed, as P2P networks and protocols were jumping up faster than they could threaten them with. The loss of a main central point (ie lots of different P2P programs) was another point that stopped the RIAA from suing the companies. So they changed tact.
Now they're threating anyone large companies, organisation, groups with enough at stake etc with dmca letters, trying to curb their P2P their. Most companies, organisations and universities have high-bandwidth, which allows for easy and quick downloads.
If the RIAA can get these to ban P2P, a lot of the high bandwidth use is shut-down, therefore home use is the only real way to download songs, and since most people have 56k modems, this would stop the huge amounts of downloads, due to bandwidth constraints.
There will always be P2P sharing, but if they can target places of mass-downloading, they will stop a large amount of sharing and downloading.
That's my take on it, anyway.
No No, your still the enemy. Your analogy is flawed.
The above statement qualifies -
A bully has been stealing lunch money form you. Now another person steals the lunch money from him. But it doesn't necessarily mean that your are the 2nd bully's friend.
Regardless, it doesn't apply to Blizz vs Sony. Blizzard attempted to stop pirating and sort of missed the mark a little. Sony have then sent out threathing letters, knowing most (tech) people use P2P sharings.
The key word here is Poison Pen. Sony more likely has no evidence besides a tip-off. So just send out a threating letter (much like blizz's to bnetd, thats the irony) saying P2P, sue bla bla bla...
In other words, Sony vs Vivendi, and Sony is just targeting a high profile company of Vivendi's.
Good old Hawkwind. Im listening to them right now for instance. Funny.
I have had posts modded up to 5(Funny) before
So have I. Point?
The moderators are useless to say the least. Being modded up or down doesn't mean anything.
Well you didn't succeed. Regardless. IT was a poor attempt at humour, if indeed it was. Im not the brightest bulb in town, but i can certainly recognise most sarcasm. Your's didn't make the grade. NEXT!
Your an idiot. Free Advertising != Sueing about 10,000 fans. Im sorry. But you haven't a friggin clue what this issue is about, and your making inane comments.
To implement checking, they need blizzard's cd-key system. And a company giving their cd-key algorithm to an open-source project is laughable, to say the least.
Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. IANAL (obviously), but i could easily see bnetd as a trademark violation, considering its almost identical and it has an extra letter tacked on. Thanks for that.
Mod parent up, i have no mod points.
Yeah lets sue an IRC channel. That will work!
Seriously, the only thing that they can do is ask for the closure of war3pub.net. Though there on very shaky public support for that if that website is only distributing the beta. If anyone anywhere starts distributing the War 3 full game when its out, Blizzard/Vivendi WILL hunt them out and sue the living death out of them. Of this i have no doubt.
I fully support the bnetd ideal. That is, supplying a different server then the blizzard one. You would be a lot less likely to find n00bs so to speak there. However.... I get sick of paying for the thousands of warez users that download the iso or image, then burn to cd, then are able to play fully on bnetd.
Unfortunately, blizzard's key remains the copy protection stopping that, and bnetd weren't able to support that at all. So it's back to the beginning.
Maybe if blizz could implement a central cd key verification server ie Half-Life's WON servers, it would be more beneficial. But still, the whole situation sucks. Blizzard aren't that bad, its more likely vivendi or just a complete miscommunication hogwash.
Though i have heard, that blizzard must prosecute now, or they aren't able to prosecute pirates/cd-key removal later on. This true?
The Judge's first name was Rush?
And if so, why didn't the formation of Uranus frustrate the birth of Neptune in the same way?
I must be high....
instead of just talking bullshit.
:)
Well besides Microsoft and its Peruvian Adventures i spose
Everyone having problems now? No, microsoft is making profit, oracle also makes profit.
Microsoft and Oracle are everybody? What he means is the economy in general, as well as most of the tech industry is experiencing a down turn. Providing exceptions doesn't change the stats quo that is happening at the moment
Open Source companies aren't really built on the hype and hyperbole of the DotComs. Having a substantial product allows for more longevity (sp?) than a web based retailer.
"But maintaining that model, in which big music companies play an important filtering role for audiences, depends both on large streams of revenue and on control of copyrighted works."
They don't seem to understand this point. Most digital consumers notice the irrelvancy of the "big record companies". What we want is direct support of the artist, and paying the artist for their work instead of the majority of a "CD" being used up in overhead. I think most will play fair, if the prices come down and the artist is more fiscally supported, not the farce that is going on now.