Founded in 1922 as the trade association of the American film industry, the MPAA has broadened its mandate over the years to reflect the diversity of an expanding industry. The initial task assigned to the association was to stem the waves of criticism of American movies, then silent, while sometimes rambunctious and rowdy, and to restore a more favorable public image for the motion picture business.
My point is that the government was not looking for some free speech to regulate, this was a grass roots movement that probably would have culminated in government response if the movie industry did not police itself. The Slashdot status quo is quick to blame (US) government for regulating freedoms. The MPAA is another target because *gasp* they don't like illegal file sharing.
Calling this a reaction to a governmet threat is an oversimplification. Here are a few more facts I found after some googling...
Jack Valenti, who created the MPAA system, says it wasn't designed for producers, major studios, directors or critics. "It was designed for parents," he says.
Valenti, representing the MPAA met with the National American Theater Owners (NATO) and International Film Importers & Distributors of America (IFIDA). Eventually the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG), other professional organizations and representatives of the major religions where included in an effort to determine how to strike a balance between the artistic freedom demanded by the actors and directors and those who demanded some sort of standards. In November of 1968 the first MPAA ratings system was announced.
Another early institution that was hurting the movie business was the Hays (Hayes??) Commission. I gave up searching for more info on it...
before the Amish left his house they bestowed upon him a minute fraction of their knowledge of statistical methods, which he then wielded to gather the data backing his claims.
ESB and RotJ were so good that I will watch 3 more crappy episodes (just like the majority of slashdotters). If they were good Lucas could redeem himself. If they were bad they would still be really popular because people would see them just to see how bad they are.
Either way it would be exciting to see some more Star Wars movies where you didn't know what was coming (Assuming, ignorantly, that this would be uncharted territory). Watching a prequel trilogy is like watching the Titanic, you just sit there waiting/hoping for the boat to sink. LotR is an exception for reasons beyond my understanding.
You should fight piracy by making what you sell higher quality, so that anything you could easily pirate would be a cheap knockoff of what you can give them for a fee.
I don't see how you can make a digital product higher quality than its pirated copy. Fancy ones and zeros won't work...
If by cover-up you mean the Army investigating its own soldiers, then yes I guess it was a cover-up. If you have proof of a cover-up that is not being handled by the legal system, please inform me and the appropriate authorities.
Despite your fondest desires, Abu Garab is not scrapping the system. The Big Evil System(TM) has weathered worse tragedies and it will weather this one.
And my analogy was supposed to be small-minded, I was poking fun at the logical fallacy of the parent:
You cannot promote democracy and torture prisoners at the same time.
Actually Parker called in to Matt Drudge's radio show to dispute that this film was just another attack on Bush.
Drudge Report: Team America
Marionette puppets are used throughout the film to mock terror threats, and media figures who dominate the nation's airwaves. But Parker and Stone save most of the mocking for left-wing pundits and Michael Moore.
"Bush is not even in the film," Parker said Sunday night from Los Angeles during the DRUDGE REPORT radio broadcast.
"I would ask that people wait and see it, before passing a judgement."
I wasn't really clear with the whole amusing idea...
I meant that if a group of people could produce false positives then they could derail the RIAA's efforts. For instance, the RIAA had to apologize after sending a threatening letter to Penn State about one of its Astro Servers. Professer Usher's Usher.mp3 produced a false positive.
Of course, this would also produce false positives for illegal file-sharing folks.
I know nothing about law, but I would think that some groups would like to produce false positives and be drug into court just to make the RIAA look bad. (like slashdot lawyers... or people with a lot of money and a bone to pick with the RIAA)
There are already many video-game type training methods being employed to train infanty riflemen (and police).
These include reaction-time scenarios (with friendlies mixed in) and some decision making scenarios.
I remember one particular scenario that showed a group of shadowy figures running toward the user's position through the forest.
Gunshots are heard from the forest and many riflemen will open fire before they properly identify the target... which is a group of women and children running from their unseen attackers. That was memorable training for anyone that opened fire.
I've read a few posts from slashdot's armchair generals informing the masses that it is a bad idea to do training in a video-game type environment. At ease, Rambo, the military isn't scrapping tough training for Counterstrike. You can not accurately simulate combat during training. The military must do their best by simulating as many aspects of combat
as possible. Food, water, and sleep deprivation along with fatigue simulates some of the stess of war. Combined arms live fire exercises teach the sounds (and some fear) of battle. Blanks, paintballs, simunitions , and MILES
gear allow you to fight force-on-force instead of pop-up targets. And simulations like this war-room give soldiers and Marines a chance to repeatedly practice scenarios in an easily-manipulated environment that would be extremely expensive to replicate outside of a video game.
How would one go about giving their P2P bots false positives? I don't share any files illegally, but I think it would be amusing to see them accuse someone of doing it that actually wasn't.
Music IS in a class by itself
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When it comes to stealing via P2P, music rules. The format works well on computers (unlike books). The files are relatively quick to download (unlike movies).
People commonly listen to many songs over and over. The same is not true for movies and books.
Software is very similar to music in all of the above ways, except Joe Q. Public isn't tech savvy enough to steal his software from P2P... yet.
I can't tell if you are trolling about this whole Canada-US thing or not, but here goes...
In my experience, telemarketers will not simply remove you from their list when you ask them too. Actually, they are often overly-insistent on a line of discussion that involves you being led towards buying their product.
So, US-Canadadian cultural differences aside, the Do-Not-Call list is rather similar to your polite request; only this polite request carries a big stick ($11,000).
Slashdot Mirror
"You get Wall-Hack yet?" "Yup!" "Boy, I can't wait til ESP Text comes out. Its just no fun without it."
Founded in 1922 as the trade association of the American film industry, the MPAA has broadened its mandate over the years to reflect the diversity of an expanding industry. The initial task assigned to the association was to stem the waves of criticism of American movies, then silent, while sometimes rambunctious and rowdy, and to restore a more favorable public image for the motion picture business.
My point is that the government was not looking for some free speech to regulate, this was a grass roots movement that probably would have culminated in government response if the movie industry did not police itself. The Slashdot status quo is quick to blame (US) government for regulating freedoms. The MPAA is another target because *gasp* they don't like illegal file sharing.
Calling this a reaction to a governmet threat is an oversimplification. Here are a few more facts I found after some googling...
Jack Valenti, who created the MPAA system, says it wasn't designed for producers, major studios, directors or critics. "It was designed for parents," he says.
Valenti, representing the MPAA met with the National American Theater Owners (NATO) and International Film Importers & Distributors of America (IFIDA). Eventually the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG), other professional organizations and representatives of the major religions where included in an effort to determine how to strike a balance between the artistic freedom demanded by the actors and directors and those who demanded some sort of standards. In November of 1968 the first MPAA ratings system was announced.
Another early institution that was hurting the movie business was the Hays (Hayes??) Commission. I gave up searching for more info on it...
If my memory serves, it was actually the threat of boycott from civilian groups (mostly the conservative religious type).
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Alas, here we are.
before the Amish left his house they bestowed upon him a minute fraction of their knowledge of statistical methods, which he then wielded to gather the data backing his claims.
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ESB and RotJ were so good that I will watch 3 more crappy episodes (just like the majority of slashdotters). If they were good Lucas could redeem himself. If they were bad they would still be really popular because people would see them just to see how bad they are.
Either way it would be exciting to see some more Star Wars movies where you didn't know what was coming (Assuming, ignorantly, that this would be uncharted territory). Watching a prequel trilogy is like watching the Titanic, you just sit there waiting/hoping for the boat to sink. LotR is an exception for reasons beyond my understanding.
I don't see how you can make a digital product higher quality than its pirated copy. Fancy ones and zeros won't work...
Despite your fondest desires, Abu Garab is not scrapping the system. The Big Evil System(TM) has weathered worse tragedies and it will weather this one.
And my analogy was supposed to be small-minded, I was poking fun at the logical fallacy of the parent:
You cannot promote democracy and torture prisoners at the same time.
Marionette puppets are used throughout the film to mock terror threats, and media figures who dominate the nation's airwaves. But Parker and Stone save most of the mocking for left-wing pundits and Michael Moore.
"Bush is not even in the film," Parker said Sunday night from Los Angeles during the DRUDGE REPORT radio broadcast.
"I would ask that people wait and see it, before passing a judgement."
Yeah!
You cannot uphold the law and kill innocents. Get rid of the cops!
You cannot promote justice and imprison innocents. Scrap the legal system!
You cannot promote clean babies and keep dirty bath water! Throw them both out!
oops. Forgot the link: RIAA apologizes to Penn State
I wasn't really clear with the whole amusing idea... I meant that if a group of people could produce false positives then they could derail the RIAA's efforts. For instance, the RIAA had to apologize after sending a threatening letter to Penn State about one of its Astro Servers. Professer Usher's Usher.mp3 produced a false positive. Of course, this would also produce false positives for illegal file-sharing folks. I know nothing about law, but I would think that some groups would like to produce false positives and be drug into court just to make the RIAA look bad. (like slashdot lawyers ... or people with a lot of money and a bone to pick with the RIAA)
I remember one particular scenario that showed a group of shadowy figures running toward the user's position through the forest. Gunshots are heard from the forest and many riflemen will open fire before they properly identify the target... which is a group of women and children running from their unseen attackers. That was memorable training for anyone that opened fire.
I've read a few posts from slashdot's armchair generals informing the masses that it is a bad idea to do training in a video-game type environment. At ease, Rambo, the military isn't scrapping tough training for Counterstrike. You can not accurately simulate combat during training. The military must do their best by simulating as many aspects of combat as possible. Food, water, and sleep deprivation along with fatigue simulates some of the stess of war. Combined arms live fire exercises teach the sounds (and some fear) of battle. Blanks, paintballs, simunitions , and MILES gear allow you to fight force-on-force instead of pop-up targets. And simulations like this war-room give soldiers and Marines a chance to repeatedly practice scenarios in an easily-manipulated environment that would be extremely expensive to replicate outside of a video game.
How would one go about giving their P2P bots false positives? I don't share any files illegally, but I think it would be amusing to see them accuse someone of doing it that actually wasn't.
When it comes to stealing via P2P, music rules. The format works well on computers (unlike books). The files are relatively quick to download (unlike movies). People commonly listen to many songs over and over. The same is not true for movies and books. Software is very similar to music in all of the above ways, except Joe Q. Public isn't tech savvy enough to steal his software from P2P... yet.
I can't tell if you are trolling about this whole Canada-US thing or not, but here goes... In my experience, telemarketers will not simply remove you from their list when you ask them too. Actually, they are often overly-insistent on a line of discussion that involves you being led towards buying their product. So, US-Canadadian cultural differences aside, the Do-Not-Call list is rather similar to your polite request; only this polite request carries a big stick ($11,000).