The settlement does not prevent them entering the music industry as such, it merely prevents them from entering it under the Apple name.
Since they are buying Universal, which is an established brand...I would imagine that they will merely keep the name but make them a legal subsidiary of Apple.
It would mean that any DRM system that is worked out for music will have to consider the interests of Apple/Universal. This effectively avoids a MS lockout on music, which would obviously be very harmful to sales as the Mac is very media orientated.
Otherwise you are right, there seems not that much of a natural fit between these companies.
As you and I live in the UK, we unfortunately have no fair rights. In fact the EUCD that is currently passing through Europe is actually harsher then the DMCA in some respects.
The EUCD prevents all copying of encrypted material, and the posession of hard/software that enables you to do so. It does allow national governemts a list of exceptions that they can sign up for, but the choice of which of these to implement is entirely up to that goverment (this kept Denmark and other more civilized countries on board). However the UK government has only signed up to two of these, and so we currently have a situation where not only DeCSS is illegal, but also general security research into CSS!
Just once, I really wish that the UK would avoid copying every infringement of civil libeties that happens across the pond...
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Among other nice options such as killing all flash in a page:) it has a dropdown menu for what browser/OS you want to impersonate. And they must be doing well with it - as far as MS was concerned I was running XP/IE6 so the doors opened...
I don't disagree that it will run on XBox2/DVD player/Non-MS flashy-box-of-tricks du jour on an non-consumer hackable embedded OS, but I think that you will see that a Linux/BSD OS on a *consumer PC* as will take a very long time to play these easily or to the same pocessor power/quality ratio (i.e. about the time that Fancy MS Codec 10 comes out).
Actually having faked my UA (thanks, Moz PrefBar) and looked at the video samples, they come in.exe format. Now I don't know about you but I am just a bit (!) dubious about running video files that are explicitly executable code.
And the reason that I am dubious about MS as a video supplier is that I am sure that they will work very hard to make sure that consumers can only run these files on Windows.
I also find it very noticable that MS formats are getting into a major DVD release as DRM is getting into MS software. An assisted lockout for MS in the OS arena if they can deliver a non-piratable system to Hollywood?
If you are referring to Abu Hamza, I can confirm that he has given extremely inflametory speeches in which he has called for the death of all Jews, prased OBL for 9/11 etc. I do not have a problem with this in as far as I do believe in free speech, even if I do not agree with the content of said speech.
He is however wanted for terrorism offences in several countries, and has been raided by Special Branch (think kinda uber FBI) who found false passports and terrorist recruitment materials within his mosque. Abu Hamza's support for these movements is not disputed even by him.
The problem many of us have is that there exist many established routes for dealing with this - extradition, even criminal charges. The goverment however is unwilling or unable to secure a conviction in a court of law, and appears set to proceed down an extra-judicial route led by the Home Secretary to strip him of citizenship.
Comments about the quality of goverments that attemt to evade the rule of law are encouraged.
Why would I need a DivX player to play a VCD? It is already on a CD and I can't improve the quality by converting it to DivX, it would just be wasting cycles and a CD-R.
Just wait till the Chinese shit a brick when they get interent access that is effectively impossible to tie to a certain individual. I always wondered if Indel's CPUID was going to be demanded in China.
Great! What I really want is a company beoming a monopoly in the Linux market...I look at Advanced Server, per-seat licencing, a move away from free ethics. The day Red Hat call in the BSA is the day they become as SCO in my eyes.
Your laptop would have to have the correct bootblock. If you did install this bootblock it would turn over nearly all control of your machine over to our server at which time you would not have access to any hardware on your machines save network card, video card keyboard and mouse. You would then reach a prompt demanding a username and password within 30sec. If you failed to insert a valid combo then security would be paged. If you did insert a correct combo then your machine would become a dumb client on the server.
This is all slightly moot as the fact that your network card did not have a recognised MAC address for that network cable would have alerted security about.2 seconds after your machine passed POST.
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Jesus, have we come to the point of KP on ./? Is it possible to have this guy's IP completely banned?
Since they are buying Universal, which is an established brand...I would imagine that they will merely keep the name but make them a legal subsidiary of Apple.
It would mean that any DRM system that is worked out for music will have to consider the interests of Apple/Universal. This effectively avoids a MS lockout on music, which would obviously be very harmful to sales as the Mac is very media orientated.
Otherwise you are right, there seems not that much of a natural fit between these companies.
Grandparent clearly says that the EUCD is *passing through* Europe.
The EUCD prevents all copying of encrypted material, and the posession of hard/software that enables you to do so. It does allow national governemts a list of exceptions that they can sign up for, but the choice of which of these to implement is entirely up to that goverment (this kept Denmark and other more civilized countries on board). However the UK government has only signed up to two of these, and so we currently have a situation where not only DeCSS is illegal, but also general security research into CSS!
Just once, I really wish that the UK would avoid copying every infringement of civil libeties that happens across the pond...
Among other nice options such as killing all flash in a page :) it has a dropdown menu for what browser/OS you want to impersonate. And they must be doing well with it - as far as MS was concerned I was running XP/IE6 so the doors opened...
I don't disagree that it will run on XBox2/DVD player/Non-MS flashy-box-of-tricks du jour on an non-consumer hackable embedded OS, but I think that you will see that a Linux/BSD OS on a *consumer PC* as will take a very long time to play these easily or to the same pocessor power/quality ratio (i.e. about the time that Fancy MS Codec 10 comes out).
And the reason that I am dubious about MS as a video supplier is that I am sure that they will work very hard to make sure that consumers can only run these files on Windows.
I also find it very noticable that MS formats are getting into a major DVD release as DRM is getting into MS software. An assisted lockout for MS in the OS arena if they can deliver a non-piratable system to Hollywood?
Umm...Iceland had a functioning democracy with a constitution about 800 years before the founding of the US...
He is however wanted for terrorism offences in several countries, and has been raided by Special Branch (think kinda uber FBI) who found false passports and terrorist recruitment materials within his mosque. Abu Hamza's support for these movements is not disputed even by him.
The problem many of us have is that there exist many established routes for dealing with this - extradition, even criminal charges. The goverment however is unwilling or unable to secure a conviction in a court of law, and appears set to proceed down an extra-judicial route led by the Home Secretary to strip him of citizenship.
Comments about the quality of goverments that attemt to evade the rule of law are encouraged.
Please tell me you are trolling...
Why would I need a DivX player to play a VCD? It is already on a CD and I can't improve the quality by converting it to DivX, it would just be wasting cycles and a CD-R.
Just wait till the Chinese shit a brick when they get interent access that is effectively impossible to tie to a certain individual. I always wondered if Indel's CPUID was going to be demanded in China.
Have to agree...the product looks nice, but this website makes the company look a bit amateur.
The golf war? They really shouldn't have let those WWE commentators on the US Open...
Umm...notice how we in the UK have been able to fight the IRA for 30 years without bombing Belfast (that's the IRAs gob.
As the BBC is the site with the highest traffic in Europe in think in this case it would be a beebing(?) of Slashdot.
I believe that a new Executive Order has alredy been made on this issue that reverses the Carter EO.
Was this filed on April 1st?
Easy - I want them to stop trying to create barriers to entry.
Great! What I really want is a company beoming a monopoly in the Linux market...I look at Advanced Server, per-seat licencing, a move away from free ethics. The day Red Hat call in the BSA is the day they become as SCO in my eyes.
Do you have to work hard at that? I hope you fucking die. Slowly and in agony.
You would then find that the internal gyros would work just fine as a guidance system for the remaining mile or so...
Got any cool and unusual stuff on your site?
This is all slightly moot as the fact that your network card did not have a recognised MAC address for that network cable would have alerted security about .2 seconds after your machine passed POST.
I could go on but I might have to shoot you. ;)