Loke I said, It never bothered me to give out this information, because usually already had it (Waldenbooks/Borders discount card) It always bothered me when Radio Shack did this because they never seemed to do anything with this information, so they know I stop by every so often to buy some of their overpriced parts, the least they could do is mail me a damn coupon or something. A friend of mine told me it was related to how radio shack employees get their commission. Whatever, this is off topic now.
Hell, I think the last time I went to a booksore they wanted to know my name and address and such. I always thought it was for demographics and so they could mail me coupons, but go figure. Now the FBI knows I read Terry Pratchett.
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The twist: The Super MP3 will come with a tracking signature -- a digital fingerprint -- that will identify the PC that made it.
"People will pay for better MP3s," said Henry Linde, Thomson Multimedia's vice president of new media business. "If the MP3 file that Brad King encodes shows up on a system, we will know where it comes from. We call it lightweight DRM, but it won't prevent you from doing anything."
And then what? If one of my MP3's shows up on somebody else's system, is sombody going to make me justify the exchange? Err... No officer I never gave cooldude76 any MP3 files, he must've stolen it!
"The term "financial gain" includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works."
Personally I find that to be a little bizarre, How can haveing somebody elses comprighted works be of a financial value to me, there is not a legal way to profit from somebody elses copyright, so it sounds to me like the Music Industry wants to cry "because downloading an MP3 is a financial gain for me, it must be a loss for them."
Most rounded cables have more insulation per wire than flat cable, and I suppose you could do twisted-pair cables, like cat5 cable, to cut down on crosstalk. Not sure though I'm no engineer.
To quote a friend of mine, after showing him the article "By the time I get used to it, they will have changed it again, and I won't know if I'm holding 20 dollars or green toilet paper."
From what I understand, Playstation CDs (at least the original Playstation) do not contain any form of copy protection per se. Rather, there is a special ring of data around the hub of the discs, that contain region codes, etc, that only CD stamping machines can create. This is not really any different that region coded DVD.
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Loke I said, It never bothered me to give out this information, because usually already had it (Waldenbooks/Borders discount card) It always bothered me when Radio Shack did this because they never seemed to do anything with this information, so they know I stop by every so often to buy some of their overpriced parts, the least they could do is mail me a damn coupon or something. A friend of mine told me it was related to how radio shack employees get their commission. Whatever, this is off topic now.
But you'd have to do some serious number crunching to produce a hologram that produced the same speckle pattern as the fob.
Hell, I think the last time I went to a booksore they wanted to know my name and address and such. I always thought it was for demographics and so they could mail me coupons, but go figure. Now the FBI knows I read Terry Pratchett.
errr... http://www.search.msn.com/ ?
Quote from the article: The twist: The Super MP3 will come with a tracking signature -- a digital fingerprint -- that will identify the PC that made it. "People will pay for better MP3s," said Henry Linde, Thomson Multimedia's vice president of new media business. "If the MP3 file that Brad King encodes shows up on a system, we will know where it comes from. We call it lightweight DRM, but it won't prevent you from doing anything." And then what? If one of my MP3's shows up on somebody else's system, is sombody going to make me justify the exchange? Err... No officer I never gave cooldude76 any MP3 files, he must've stolen it!
Well it does have one advantage, this radio station probbably gets past all of the rediculous new webcasting fees.
So, why don't you go talk to Carmack and tell him what he SHOULD be doing? I'm sure he'll listen to a balanced individual such as you.
"The term "financial gain" includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works." Personally I find that to be a little bizarre, How can haveing somebody elses comprighted works be of a financial value to me, there is not a legal way to profit from somebody elses copyright, so it sounds to me like the Music Industry wants to cry "because downloading an MP3 is a financial gain for me, it must be a loss for them."
Most rounded cables have more insulation per wire than flat cable, and I suppose you could do twisted-pair cables, like cat5 cable, to cut down on crosstalk. Not sure though I'm no engineer.
To quote a friend of mine, after showing him the article "By the time I get used to it, they will have changed it again, and I won't know if I'm holding 20 dollars or green toilet paper."
My ASUS A7V has a spot for such a device to attach as well, so even fairly modern motherboards have it.
From what I understand, Playstation CDs (at least the original Playstation) do not contain any form of copy protection per se. Rather, there is a special ring of data around the hub of the discs, that contain region codes, etc, that only CD stamping machines can create. This is not really any different that region coded DVD.