The problem is that they reversed engineered patented technology to find out how to circumvent the security. The universal remote sends a reset signal every time, which no one is supposed to know about. Illustrates the problems with security through obscurity.
Skylink reverse engineered Chamberlain's patented garage door opener system, which uses a code that changes every time to prevent burglars from recording the code and tranmitting at a later date to break in. Skyline's transmitter remote essentially resets the receiver every time, thereby producing the same code every time. This results in a circumvention of the security, making it easy for a burglar to record and break in using the reset sequence, not normally available to the public. Skyline's device violates Chamberlain's patents. Skyline deserves to lose this case.
No one's saying you can't run any software you want on drm enabled systems. You just won't be able to decrypt drm protected files unless the drm file provider trusts the software you're running.
The 1st ammendment doesn't limit free speech to only non-commercial free-speech. Passing laws distinguishing and limiting commercial free speech is inherently unconstitutional. It's not necessarily bad though, since we would like truth in advertising, etc.
I think by the time I've paid sales tax on an item, I'v paid double for the item, if you count the federal and state taxes I had to pay on the earned money.
what shield? They were hauling people away in handcuffs for breaking accounting rules. You can't just say corporation as if it's an alien lifeform. A corporation is simply a group of people working together to run a business. Therefore since these people have rights and responsibilities as individuals, as a group they also should have certain rights and responsibilities.
I'm not in favor of the DMCA, but I haven't seen it cause consumers any grief, except linux users wanting a free software dvd player. And that is a small minority.
Your joking, right? Ever heard of supply and demand? If there is sickness, there is demand. Someone will try to cure the sickness, producing a supply for monetary and other reasons. The motive to supply a cure decreases as patent life decreases. However, the available technology to build upon decreases as the ptatent life increases. The trick is to find a good balance point.
From the RIAA's perspective, there's no point in having the govt. force DRM down the computer industries throat. They make their money selling cds. If DRM is around, they may offer music for sale on the internet, which may or may not increase their bottom line. If DRM doesn't catch on, they'll still keep selling cds, and stick to the "old business model", ignoring the internet. It's not worth their lobbying money to fight this battle, especially when the MPAA has a much bigger interest in the issue anyway.
So explain to me how your old laptop can do more than a DRM enabled laptop, when the old one can't play DRM files at all. Or do you plan on obtaining a cracked viewer to use these files.
The hardware features proposed by Transmeta, as well as Intel and AMD, could vastly improve the security of linux. Yet everyone here keeps talking about boycotting this type of hardware. These features do not restrict anything if you trust your software (e.g. open source). They only enable more features.
Actually, the Libertarian platform agrees more with the Republican platform than the Democratic platform. For instance, Libertarians want to eliminate welfare and social security. While Republican want to decrease these programs, Democrats want to increase them. Also Democrats like big govt. running everything while both Republicans and Libertarians feel less govt. is better. The main place where Republicans and Libertarians clash is that lLibertarians don't support religious right type issues that Republicans do. Of course there is also the patriot act, but Libertarians do believe in the responsibility of govt. to police and defend against foreign ememies.
"b) Companies like AMI have repeatedly claimed that they aren't part of Palladium. However, isn't it true that without AMI's trusted BIOS (and all the other components necessary to build a "trusted computer"), Palladium wouldn't work? Why does AMI think they shouldn't be held responsible for enabling Palladium and similar schemes?"
I would say DRM allows copyrighted material to be sold digitally, which would otherwise be remanded to the "old business model" that everybody on slashdot bitches about. Therefore, claiming DRM makes your computer less useful is flawed. At the very least is does nothing less than a non- DRM computer if you choose not to use DRM content.
But if you tinker with the code, how do sw vendors providing secure media guarantee that you're not providing a compromised system? That's the point of signing the code.
Yes, but it's the important part, which Apple couldn't get right for a decade. I had to suffer through using those crappy machines back then, and the worst part was listening to people claim it was a good OS. MS and Linux were way ahead of Apple in the 90s. When Steve Jobs took over again, he knew this and bought NeXT, and gave that up for BSD in the end. He didn't choose Linux because GPL is way to restrictive.
No, free market means free to do whatever you want, including price fixing. This isn't a problem since another competitor will enter a market and undercut the cartel's prices if there is price fixing. Price fixing is not even happening in this case since the RIAA members don't even sell the same products. Each has it's own monopoly on a particular artist guaranteed by law.
If I'm selling a Britney Spears cd, no one else can sell one at any price. Copyright legislation gives me this right. Therefore, how can there be price fixing when no 2 RIAA members even sell the same products. Therefore, the case is ridiculous.
Copyright law gives a producer exclusive right to sell a cd. So if I own the copyright, I set the price. No one else can compete. RIAA members cannot price fix because the don't sell the same products. Only 1 member sells britney spears, another sells metallica, etc.
"I see your point, but why should you have to work twice as hard and be twice as educated to get the same job and same salary as a white male?
And then even if you get this salary, white males who you work with will not respect you as an equal."
I think you're naive if you think this is still true. 99% or more, companies and schools treat everyone the same. Affirmative action had a place at one time, but now does more harm than good. The problem with affirmative action is it gives people the excuse to say "he just got in to that school because he's black", making it difficult for minorities to prove they really earned their positions, rather than receiving them to fill quotas.
"In the coming DRM-enabled world, do you get to distribute your garage band over the internet? No! Your digital recording choices will be limited to DRM no-copy file formats which won't go anywhere, and you will not be able to do anything about it legally, because its not the music that is protected by this law, its the DRM no-copy file format."
Explain to me how DRM will not allow you to make or distribute mp3 files. You can't because you don't know what you're talking about.
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The problem is that they reversed engineered patented technology to find out how to circumvent the security. The universal remote sends a reset signal every time, which no one is supposed to know about. Illustrates the problems with security through obscurity.
Skylink reverse engineered Chamberlain's patented garage door opener system, which uses a code that changes every time to prevent burglars from recording the code and tranmitting at a later date to break in. Skyline's transmitter remote essentially resets the receiver every time, thereby producing the same code every time. This results in a circumvention of the security, making it easy for a burglar to record and break in using the reset sequence, not normally available to the public. Skyline's device violates Chamberlain's patents. Skyline deserves to lose this case.
So you want to take away Unwashed Joe's freedom because you think you know better.
No one's saying you can't run any software you want on drm enabled systems. You just won't be able to decrypt drm protected files unless the drm file provider trusts the software you're running.
Again, why not use mp3? DRM cannot control mp3.
Didn't ET hack a speak 'n spell to phone home? Good thing the DMCA wasn't around then. He might be sitting in prison now for the mods.
The 1st ammendment doesn't limit free speech to only non-commercial free-speech. Passing laws distinguishing and limiting commercial free speech is inherently unconstitutional. It's not necessarily bad though, since we would like truth in advertising, etc.
I think by the time I've paid sales tax on an item, I'v paid double for the item, if you count the federal and state taxes I had to pay on the earned money.
what shield? They were hauling people away in handcuffs for breaking accounting rules. You can't just say corporation as if it's an alien lifeform. A corporation is simply a group of people working together to run a business. Therefore since these people have rights and responsibilities as individuals, as a group they also should have certain rights and responsibilities.
I'm not in favor of the DMCA, but I haven't seen it cause consumers any grief, except linux users wanting a free software dvd player. And that is a small minority.
Your joking, right? Ever heard of supply and demand? If there is sickness, there is demand. Someone will try to cure the sickness, producing a supply for monetary and other reasons. The motive to supply a cure decreases as patent life decreases. However, the available technology to build upon decreases as the ptatent life increases. The trick is to find a good balance point.
From the RIAA's perspective, there's no point in having the govt. force DRM down the computer industries throat. They make their money selling cds. If DRM is around, they may offer music for sale on the internet, which may or may not increase their bottom line. If DRM doesn't catch on, they'll still keep selling cds, and stick to the "old business model", ignoring the internet. It's not worth their lobbying money to fight this battle, especially when the MPAA has a much bigger interest in the issue anyway.
So explain to me how your old laptop can do more than a DRM enabled laptop, when the old one can't play DRM files at all. Or do you plan on obtaining a cracked viewer to use these files.
The hardware features proposed by Transmeta, as well as Intel and AMD, could vastly improve the security of linux. Yet everyone here keeps talking about boycotting this type of hardware. These features do not restrict anything if you trust your software (e.g. open source). They only enable more features.
Actually, the Libertarian platform agrees more with the Republican platform than the Democratic platform. For instance, Libertarians want to eliminate welfare and social security. While Republican want to decrease these programs, Democrats want to increase them. Also Democrats like big govt. running everything while both Republicans and Libertarians feel less govt. is better. The main place where Republicans and Libertarians clash is that lLibertarians don't support religious right type issues that Republicans do. Of course there is also the patriot act, but Libertarians do believe in the responsibility of govt. to police and defend against foreign ememies.
"b) Companies like AMI have repeatedly claimed that they aren't part of Palladium. However, isn't it true that without AMI's trusted BIOS (and all the other components necessary to build a "trusted computer"), Palladium wouldn't work? Why does AMI think they shouldn't be held responsible for enabling Palladium and similar schemes?"
I would say DRM allows copyrighted material to be sold digitally, which would otherwise be remanded to the "old business model" that everybody on slashdot bitches about. Therefore, claiming DRM makes your computer less useful is flawed. At the very least is does nothing less than a non- DRM computer if you choose not to use DRM content.
"Therefore, AMI is fundamentally supporting Palladium, thus Microsoft, to dominate future web contents and infrastructure."
I believe that will be left up to the consumer, as it should.
But if you tinker with the code, how do sw vendors providing secure media guarantee that you're not providing a compromised system? That's the point of signing the code.
Yes, but it's the important part, which Apple couldn't get right for a decade. I had to suffer through using those crappy machines back then, and the worst part was listening to people claim it was a good OS. MS and Linux were way ahead of Apple in the 90s. When Steve Jobs took over again, he knew this and bought NeXT, and gave that up for BSD in the end. He didn't choose Linux because GPL is way to restrictive.
No, free market means free to do whatever you want, including price fixing. This isn't a problem since another competitor will enter a market and undercut the cartel's prices if there is price fixing. Price fixing is not even happening in this case since the RIAA members don't even sell the same products. Each has it's own monopoly on a particular artist guaranteed by law.
If I'm selling a Britney Spears cd, no one else can sell one at any price. Copyright legislation gives me this right. Therefore, how can there be price fixing when no 2 RIAA members even sell the same products. Therefore, the case is ridiculous.
Copyright law gives a producer exclusive right to sell a cd. So if I own the copyright, I set the price. No one else can compete. RIAA members cannot price fix because the don't sell the same products. Only 1 member sells britney spears, another sells metallica, etc.
BSD is the OS. The other stuff is just Apples GUI.
"I see your point, but why should you have to work twice as hard and be twice as educated to get the same job and same salary as a white male? And then even if you get this salary, white males who you work with will not respect you as an equal."
I think you're naive if you think this is still true. 99% or more, companies and schools treat everyone the same. Affirmative action had a place at one time, but now does more harm than good. The problem with affirmative action is it gives people the excuse to say "he just got in to that school because he's black", making it difficult for minorities to prove they really earned their positions, rather than receiving them to fill quotas.
"In the coming DRM-enabled world, do you get to distribute your garage band over the internet? No! Your digital recording choices will be limited to DRM no-copy file formats which won't go anywhere, and you will not be able to do anything about it legally, because its not the music that is protected by this law, its the DRM no-copy file format."
Explain to me how DRM will not allow you to make or distribute mp3 files. You can't because you don't know what you're talking about.