You'd be surprised how popular Shadow is. Everyone I know has Private Press and just about every song has been used in television commercials and interludes. Last week I remember noticing three different shadow tracks on BBC one in the space of 10 minutes.
Six Days was also in the charts, and received a fair amount of radio airplay on BBC Radio 1.
Who cares about DRM? Copies of media on the net have been created by the users from other sources, for example CD to mp3, or DVD to DivX. For DRM to work, the content creator must enable it. I doubt the people making the files to share are going to tick the DRM box.
DRM will only restrict legimate media outlets. The consumer will have a choice...pay for a cripled version, or download an unrestricted version for free. They are shooting themselves in the foot. At least we are getting to watch history in the making.
don't forget that most of the MPEG4 codecs used for DVD rips don't support Dobly 5.1 sound
They support any audio/video codec you want to throw at them. Of which Dolby Digital 5.1 is one. AVI, the most common DixV "format", is merely a container for the data streams.
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. "
Right idea, wrong wording, "force" is not accurate here. The website is geared to have it stream into the browser. You have to go looking for the download link, and you need to be a little more tech-savy than the average PC user to understand why downloading is a good thing. It's the not the "default" way to play it.
The zip file format allows users to save the file.
In part one, there were people protesting the destruction of the machines. The humans you refer to are the ruling classes, who don't like things that are not profitable to them.
BitTorrent is going the right way, having p2p as another internet service. Take away the search functionality and you are mostly safe from the likes of RIAA. Of course, you will have websites with databases of files that can be accessed.;-)
However, last time I tried it, it didn't seem to do multi-point transfers, meaning that you are likely getting the upstream of an async DSL link. Can't contend with the 320KB/sec I'm currently getting direct from the source. They'll need to sort that out before anyone other than Slashdot geeks take it seriously.
Exactly, we're talking media here, not software. Future technology should be backwards compatiable, technologically speaking. The only fly in the ointment are groups like the MPAA, where backwards compatability is not in their interest.
In the bargain-bin, where it belongs. It does a poor job of ripping-off some classic books.
Anyway...back on-topic, what they are doing here is piss-poor. Companies like Warner Bros really took a risk when they started producing DVDs. I have a lot of WB disks because that at the time, there wasn't much else available. Studios like them launched the format.
However, people like Lucas are willing to let others take the risk on new technology, and when it's finally considered to be successful, then they cash in. And they will be the biggest selling DVDs of all time, until SW comes out of course. Leaves a sickly taste in your mouth, doesn't it?
Yeah, but the p2p versions are VHS "rips". Dire. I'd be as well sticking on my own VHS versions.
There is a DVD version of Temple of Doom on WinMX, outstanding quality, but no one has the complete file. No idea what the original source was, at the very least it was a digital rip from laserdisk, but it really looks DVD quality.
Of course, I wouldn't know so much about the availablity of these if they had brought them out years ago. I would own them by now, but after all these profitering delays, I might not bother giving them my cash after all.
WRT to deleting your media, I've got all of my music on a linux box running apache and samba. The Windows box I generally use to play music doesn't have write access to anything except an "incomming" directory.
This was originally done to prevent guests at parties etc deleting/moving things in the grand tradition of drunken computing. Fortunately it should also protect me from this sort of thing. Nice.
It's not a technical problem. The most dangerous periods in flying are takeoff and landing. They'd rather you weren't playing your gameboy or watching a DVD, and therefore not paying attention to what is going on.
You can get most of them on p2p. Just search for "banned cartoon". Bit of an eye opener, especially the early Disney ones that were highly offensive to just about every culture on the planet.
I understand your points, and I really felt the same way before 9/11.
So, what exactly has changed? The US psyche has been changed because this is the first time there was a large number of innocents on your home soil. Previously, even during full-scale wars, the US mainland has been safe.
However, the many parts of the world have had death on their doorsteps for years. Why change your views on privacy and civil liberties on one event? The "Everything changed" thing just isn't true.
Why do other countries, who are far less involved in the rest of the world, see so much more?
Most terrorism is related to territorial disputes, e.g Northern Ireland/IRA, Basque Region/ETA and Saudi Arabia/Al Qaeda. Many countries don't have terrorist attacks in them at all, so I wouldn't go so far as to say the US is more or less targeted than anywhere else that has a terrorist problem.
Also, the US is no more "open" than most places in the free world, where a lot of the terrorism seems to be.
It is really extraordinary, though, that the US can be as hated around the world as it is, that we can be as open as we are, even going so far as to have lots of the people who hate us living here, and that things are nonetheless quite safe.
No one hates you. They hate some of the things your government has done. Only extremists see that as validation for killing civilians.
Yes, because WEP can be used to limit access to your network full stop (putting weaknesses aside). With IPsec, you need to firewall the wireness network and treat it as untrusted, because anyone can get on to it.
Can IPsec be used with a secure key system, where clients must have a particular key file to get a secure tunnel? If you set IPsec as a requirement (and throw away all other traffic), then you could do something very similar to WEP, but at a IP level. Sure, untrusted clients will be able to associate, but they can't do anything, except perhaps flood the bandwidth with DOS garbage.
If this becomes popular, I can see the intelligence agencies having a fit. They might lose one of their best information feeds; the internet.
If this sort of technology were to be rolled into the main distributions as well as Microsoft/Apple packages, the internet would then have a decent level of privacy.
but why aren't the benefits of lower production costs being passed on to the consumer?
Am I the only one who saw elements of a troll in the original article submission here? The submitter should have just written "click reply to slag off the RIAA".
Historically, in the music industry, the savings are never passed on. When CDs first arrived the price was high "because it's a new format". Did they ever come down? So, what effect should a relatively cheap piece of production software have on the consumers price?
Also, I may be wrong here, but don't the artists have to pay for the studio time out of their advance payment? I wonder if they are seeing any of the benefits? Somehow, I think not.
Nah, data is stored on the disc in a different way, with a lot more redundancy. That's why you can store 750 meg of wave audio files, but only 650 meg of data. The interleaving of the data means that a chunk could go missing and there would be enough data around it to reconstuct it perfectly. If the disk gets too damaged, you get CRC errors.
As you say, with even one error per disk on average, CDs would be useless for data.
Is it even using X? A lot of 3D cards work by specifying a transparent colour in the 2D chipset, which is overlayed over the 3D output. They are two distinct renderers, with the 2D plane being used for scores etc. Anything that is in the 3D part is getting done by your graphics card using it's own drivers, not X.
Unless I'm missing something...I'm not an X-expert.
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Dre is about as sold-out as it is possible to get. Shame, because he was a great producer, and The Chronic was a classic.
Six Days was also in the charts, and received a fair amount of radio airplay on BBC Radio 1.
DRM will only restrict legimate media outlets. The consumer will have a choice...pay for a cripled version, or download an unrestricted version for free. They are shooting themselves in the foot. At least we are getting to watch history in the making.
don't forget that most of the MPEG4 codecs used for DVD rips don't support Dobly 5.1 sound
They support any audio/video codec you want to throw at them. Of which Dolby Digital 5.1 is one. AVI, the most common DixV "format", is merely a container for the data streams.
Yeah!!! They should shut down the entire system until it's fixed. The legitimate users will love that!!
1984, George Orwell. (on-line version)
What are the odds on them starting to recruit children from the schools first...?
The zip file format allows users to save the file.
Sound familiar?
Stop whining!! Hey, I'm a police officer...
However, last time I tried it, it didn't seem to do multi-point transfers, meaning that you are likely getting the upstream of an async DSL link. Can't contend with the 320KB/sec I'm currently getting direct from the source. They'll need to sort that out before anyone other than Slashdot geeks take it seriously.
Exactly, we're talking media here, not software. Future technology should be backwards compatiable, technologically speaking. The only fly in the ointment are groups like the MPAA, where backwards compatability is not in their interest.
Mmmmm, objectivity...
In the bargain-bin, where it belongs. It does a poor job of ripping-off some classic books.
Anyway...back on-topic, what they are doing here is piss-poor. Companies like Warner Bros really took a risk when they started producing DVDs. I have a lot of WB disks because that at the time, there wasn't much else available. Studios like them launched the format.
However, people like Lucas are willing to let others take the risk on new technology, and when it's finally considered to be successful, then they cash in. And they will be the biggest selling DVDs of all time, until SW comes out of course. Leaves a sickly taste in your mouth, doesn't it?
There is a DVD version of Temple of Doom on WinMX, outstanding quality, but no one has the complete file. No idea what the original source was, at the very least it was a digital rip from laserdisk, but it really looks DVD quality.
Of course, I wouldn't know so much about the availablity of these if they had brought them out years ago. I would own them by now, but after all these profitering delays, I might not bother giving them my cash after all.
This was originally done to prevent guests at parties etc deleting/moving things in the grand tradition of drunken computing. Fortunately it should also protect me from this sort of thing. Nice.
It's not a technical problem. The most dangerous periods in flying are takeoff and landing. They'd rather you weren't playing your gameboy or watching a DVD, and therefore not paying attention to what is going on.
You can get most of them on p2p. Just search for "banned cartoon". Bit of an eye opener, especially the early Disney ones that were highly offensive to just about every culture on the planet.
So, what exactly has changed? The US psyche has been changed because this is the first time there was a large number of innocents on your home soil. Previously, even during full-scale wars, the US mainland has been safe.
However, the many parts of the world have had death on their doorsteps for years. Why change your views on privacy and civil liberties on one event? The "Everything changed" thing just isn't true.
Why do other countries, who are far less involved in the rest of the world, see so much more?
Most terrorism is related to territorial disputes, e.g Northern Ireland/IRA, Basque Region/ETA and Saudi Arabia/Al Qaeda. Many countries don't have terrorist attacks in them at all, so I wouldn't go so far as to say the US is more or less targeted than anywhere else that has a terrorist problem.
Also, the US is no more "open" than most places in the free world, where a lot of the terrorism seems to be.
It is really extraordinary, though, that the US can be as hated around the world as it is, that we can be as open as we are, even going so far as to have lots of the people who hate us living here, and that things are nonetheless quite safe.
No one hates you. They hate some of the things your government has done. Only extremists see that as validation for killing civilians.
Can IPsec be used with a secure key system, where clients must have a particular key file to get a secure tunnel? If you set IPsec as a requirement (and throw away all other traffic), then you could do something very similar to WEP, but at a IP level. Sure, untrusted clients will be able to associate, but they can't do anything, except perhaps flood the bandwidth with DOS garbage.
Exactly. They can still target someone who deserves it. However, they can't scan most e-mails, like they are right now.
If this sort of technology were to be rolled into the main distributions as well as Microsoft/Apple packages, the internet would then have a decent level of privacy.
Am I the only one who saw elements of a troll in the original article submission here? The submitter should have just written "click reply to slag off the RIAA".
Historically, in the music industry, the savings are never passed on. When CDs first arrived the price was high "because it's a new format". Did they ever come down? So, what effect should a relatively cheap piece of production software have on the consumers price?
Also, I may be wrong here, but don't the artists have to pay for the studio time out of their advance payment? I wonder if they are seeing any of the benefits? Somehow, I think not.
As you say, with even one error per disk on average, CDs would be useless for data.
Unless I'm missing something...I'm not an X-expert.
Jeez, a stupid spelling mistake in a modded-up post...d'oh!
Which, depending on the way it goes, could blow the bible out of the water.