"Within five minutes, if I can get hold of her, this will come to an end," said Gordon Pate of Dana Point, Calif., when told by The Associated Press that a federal subpoena had been issued over his daughter's music downloads.
if enough parents say this, ILLEGAL filesharing could indeed be on its way to coming to an end. in fact, I think this is just what the mass media is planning out of all this. subpoena enough parents, parents WILL force the kids to stop sharing, and jail a few dozen as warning to all the rest. The parental action group grassroots will be afire with warning to parent to be on their kids' case and always know what they are doing.
on the other hand, with all the illegal sharers gone, if p2p itself survives (and you KNOW it will survive) then maybe it could then be touted to actually be used for non infringing use, and maybe get some of the laws softened.
IMHO, If hundreds or thousands of parents are jailed, even for a short period of time, families could be thrown into upheaval. And what about single-parent families? They might even have to be taken as temporary wards of the state, if relatives can't take them in.
One of the few good things that would come of this line of thinking, would be responsibility. Parents would be MUCH MUCH stricter with their children if they knew it was their ass on the line and that they could be jailed because little Johnny decided he/she did not want to pay for the music he/she listens to.
I am sorry to be so gloomy, but I can only see a massive backlash (of some form) coming with the way this is being handled. It is one thing for millions of Americans to be irresponsible with their online accounts; it is quite another for the government (by the people and for the people) to be even more irresponsible the the taxpayer's money in how they respond to this problem.
There really should be an objective oversight committee on this issue so that the GOVERNMENT's concerns, and the people's concerns are dealt with and so that the government and the people do not have to foot the bill of the the mass media's jihad against filesharers (who just may be future potential consumers, considering there are 50 MILLION of them) This is a problem, just not in the proportions they are blowing it into.
(to all english majors cringing out there, I apologize for all the preposition-ended sentences);)
yes, but most likely any users scared away from linux will go over to unix instead, not to MS. Atleast that's the way it looks to me... but hey, MS could be just trying to cause "division and confusion in the camp" if they are the ones behind this.
InterTrust's engineers developed and patented what they say are key inventions in two areas: so-called digital-rights management and trusted systems.
...and it just so happens these are two much-maligned topics here... makes one wonder if a slashdotter forsaw all this and patented it early to take ms down;)
If settlement talks fail and InterTrust prevails in court, it would be entitled to a court order halting sales of all those products. InterTrust CEO Talal Shamoon asks rhetorically, "How much would that be worth to Microsoft?"
indeed, this person should be asking him/herself the same thing before going to bed each night...;)
Seattle, said SCO's newest threats aren't a concern because far too many businesses are now using Linux.
"I don't see how they could sue so many [companies] to pony up for a licensing fee,"
OT, but this is the same as the p2p argument of too many people are already doing it. on the other hand, it just goes to show how confusing the ip laws and the relaxation of standards in the uspto regarding IP have become.
In May, SCO warned all commercial Linux users that they could be using its code illegally and recommended that they seek legal advice to decide what to do about the issue
in my opinion, that's like warning all drivers that they could be breaking some obscure traffic law, and that they should read up before they might be pulled over. Sure, it's probably true, but what to do about it?
They own the site, but do they own the airwaves? the block of space above their portion of the planet? the slice of universe extending out from the earth? (that last one was a stretch, nonetheless...)
If someone opens a node and it extends over the park, the only thing they can do is do an intensive search of everyone coming into the park to make sure they aren't carrying anything that could access the node. I don't think that would go over very well.
when you spend money to make a service available, only to be undercut by technology, you are going to be upset (as will be the person providing the service)... it's human nature.
This is another example of a new service that is not yet regulated, and the companies that are regulated are getting hot around the collar over it.
The workers laid off by the cotton loom didn't like it either, but see where they are today.
I'll have to look into that. my main complaint with java is that it is so high level, and programmer-centric. There's so much stuff in there that only helps the programmer. I would gladly pay the price in time and study to make something more user friendly
While an attacker would need administrator rights to a system to grab the file that contains the password hashes, the file is still valuable, said David Dittrich, a senior security researcher at University of Washington.
if a hacker had administrator rights, wouldn't it already be game over? On the other hand, a 20 gb hack isn't extremely portable
If you're holding out for the totally unrestricted, uncompressed downloads for $0.04 per song, like some folks here seem to be doing, I think you'll be hearing a lot of silence. Or using illegal services. The copyright holders for popular music (the big 5 labels, the RIAA, etc.) will never, never, go with a service who's restrictions on illegal redistribution amount to nothing more than "the honor system."
Sometimes it looks to me like that is the point. If I lower the bar so far that the **aa will never go for it, I can claim to be waiting for a better service, but still take the moral high ground over downloading.
On the other hand, if 40 million people didn't like MY product, I would rethink my strategy (as opposed to saying that there is something wrong with 40 million people).
A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online
By TERESA RIORDAN
the 1997 science-fiction movie "The Velocity Trap," the interstellar banking system is so decimated by electronic crime that the only way to exchange money is in cold hard cash. Armored federal banking ships have to shuttle currency from planet to planet.
Carl Amos, an inventor in Atlanta, also anticipates a return to the cash economy but without the computer-generated visual effects. Mr. Amos recently patented a way to pay for online transactions with bills and coins rather than credit or banking cards.
"In upwards of three-quarters of the world, most money transactions are cash only," said Mr. Amos, who envisions a big market for his invention.
Basically, what Mr. Amos has patented is a new combination of existing technologies.
His patent, No. 6,554,184, covers a modified A.T.M. that not only dispenses money but, like a vending machine, accepts cash, which can be used to transfer money from one person to another or to pay for online purchases.
"It's a method patent, a new way of doing business," Mr. Amos said. "These are off-the-shelf components. All I had to do was build the machine and write the software."
Mr. Amos is a rare breed: an independent inventor who actually makes a living off his inventions. A former electrical engineer at I.B.M., he left corporate life to develop his idea for a holographic lens. Since he patented the lens in 1994, he estimates, he has received about $1 million in royalties.
Mr. Amos, one of six children, grew up on a farm in Ohio, where he set up his own skunk works in a shed. Not all his inventions were successful. One was a parachute to be worn while leaping off the garage. "I survived, obviously," Mr. Amos said. "My siblings survived, too, thank goodness."
Mr. Amos said his latest invention, should it become widely available, would obviate the need for services provided by Western Union and other money-transfer companies.
Another big market in the United States, Mr. Amos said, might be teenagers. Though they do not usually have their own credit cards, they usually have cash and are more than willing to spend it to download music or games.
Mr. Amos also said his system should appeal to those who were worried about identity theft on the Internet or who simply wanted the privacy it provided.
Gamblers may be interested in the technology. Many credit-card companies, for example, will not authorize payments to gambling sites. Nor will PayPal, the biggest third-party payment option on the Internet.
Tom Turano, a law partner specializing in banking patents at Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston, called the invention a "cute idea."
"It's like a funky A.T.M.," Mr. Turano said. But the patent itself, he said, is "fairly narrow" and may be easy for others to come up with similar inventions that do not infringe the patent.
Mr. Amos, who is represented by a licensing firm in Connecticut, said he was approaching banks about licensing his patent. "Western Union and Moneygram haven't called me yet," Mr. Amos said. "But I don't expect them to."
In case of slashdotting, and to avoid registration
A person has legitimately bought a copy of some software. They offer it online at kazaa. Another copy is made (copyright violation) and sent to another computer (theft, technically). This is theft, because the new copy that was made and sent to the other computer was completely removed (the other computer now has the full, functioning program) and was not paid for. When you get right down to it, that group of actions matches the law's definition of theft. correct me if I'm wrong in any of my logic here
FineArch, Inc., Tokyo Japan based semiconductor LSI design company, developed the system IP to decode the next generation digital music compression format, Ogg Vorbis(http://www. vorbis.com). FineArch successfully completed the Ogg vorbis sytstem IP to run at 12 Mhz. This is about 1/6 of the clock speed required to decode Ogg Vorbis with a single CPU system. This ultra low power IP fits well with the today's portable music player market where battery life is critical factor.
Ogg Vorbis is attracting much attention to the digital music world as a "license and royalty free" compression format. Ogg Vorbis is also known as its higher quality, higher compression ratio compared to MP3, current standard of the compression music format. Encoding and decoding process of Ogg Vorbis is more CPU intensive task than those of MP3. Hardware implementation of Ogg Vorbis has been scarce. FineArch.Inc fully noted the potential of the Ogg Vorbis, developed the Ogg Vorbis playback System IP.
This "System IP" consisted of Hardwared IP and Software IP which needed to build a portable music player. It has all the necessary components to build a standard portable music player.
"Hardware IP" includes "MultiCore Architecture"; CPU and DSP, Memory card interface, External memory interface, LCD controller, and Key input function. Only external memory and audio D/A converter is needed to build a complete portable player system.
"Software IP" includes DSP firmware do decode Ogg vorbis and the CPU firmware for overall system control. Fully utilizing the advantage of MultiCore architecture system sofware stacks are carefully distributed to CPU and DSP, achieving 12 MHz. This is the lowest system clock speed in the industry known today.
This "System IP" will be licensed to any customers looking for the royalty free, high quality digital music decoding capabilities on their system. Such system includes the portable music player,the game console, PDA, and the portable music entertainment system. FineArch also has the FPGA evaluation kit, which can be ordered directly.
in case of slashdotting by rabid mp3 advocates;)
do I get a cake?
If they didn't want it taped, they shouldn't have broadcasted it;) seriously, that sounds like they want to have their cake and eat it too. If they want to sell a show on DVD they can. If they release it and the laws say it can be recorded for personal use, then we can do that. *sigh* where did the days go when a company could make it on the merits of its good product, not on whether they can buy the laws needed to prop up a dying market. [ed. don't take any of this seriously if you value your sanity.]
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on the other hand, with all the illegal sharers gone, if p2p itself survives (and you KNOW it will survive) then maybe it could then be touted to actually be used for non infringing use, and maybe get some of the laws softened.
IMHO, If hundreds or thousands of parents are jailed, even for a short period of time, families could be thrown into upheaval. And what about single-parent families? They might even have to be taken as temporary wards of the state, if relatives can't take them in.
One of the few good things that would come of this line of thinking, would be responsibility. Parents would be MUCH MUCH stricter with their children if they knew it was their ass on the line and that they could be jailed because little Johnny decided he/she did not want to pay for the music he/she listens to.
I am sorry to be so gloomy, but I can only see a massive backlash (of some form) coming with the way this is being handled. It is one thing for millions of Americans to be irresponsible with their online accounts; it is quite another for the government (by the people and for the people) to be even more irresponsible the the taxpayer's money in how they respond to this problem.
There really should be an objective oversight committee on this issue so that the GOVERNMENT's concerns, and the people's concerns are dealt with and so that the government and the people do not have to foot the bill of the the mass media's jihad against filesharers (who just may be future potential consumers, considering there are 50 MILLION of them) This is a problem, just not in the proportions they are blowing it into.
(to all english majors cringing out there, I apologize for all the preposition-ended sentences) ;)
yes, but most likely any users scared away from linux will go over to unix instead, not to MS. Atleast that's the way it looks to me... but hey, MS could be just trying to cause "division and confusion in the camp" if they are the ones behind this.
that's exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote that
but such is the state of current IP and IP laws
that was the point
right, the real question is why go to the game when you can catch the live streamcast from someone's webcam who is on the local wifi node ;)
If someone opens a node and it extends over the park, the only thing they can do is do an intensive search of everyone coming into the park to make sure they aren't carrying anything that could access the node. I don't think that would go over very well.
This is another example of a new service that is not yet regulated, and the companies that are regulated are getting hot around the collar over it.
The workers laid off by the cotton loom didn't like it either, but see where they are today.
I'll have to look into that. my main complaint with java is that it is so high level, and programmer-centric. There's so much stuff in there that only helps the programmer. I would gladly pay the price in time and study to make something more user friendly
atleast that's something useful, as opposed to the other 'stuff'
Why wasn't something like this found years ago, as opposed to, say, after ms machines already rule half the planet
or, considering the state of the government, kill the messenger and institute a program to eliminate everyone who knows about the hack...
I just saw how nasty this could be taken. I did not mean it that way. I apologize
he can swing it quicker
True, but until humanity as a whole starts worrying about things like this that could affect us all, we're just showing how little we value ourselves.
Perhaps that's what they're trying to fix... Call it piracy enough and people will start to believe you
On the other hand, if 40 million people didn't like MY product, I would rethink my strategy (as opposed to saying that there is something wrong with 40 million people).
By TERESA RIORDAN
the 1997 science-fiction movie "The Velocity Trap," the interstellar banking system is so decimated by electronic crime that the only way to exchange money is in cold hard cash. Armored federal banking ships have to shuttle currency from planet to planet.
Carl Amos, an inventor in Atlanta, also anticipates a return to the cash economy but without the computer-generated visual effects. Mr. Amos recently patented a way to pay for online transactions with bills and coins rather than credit or banking cards.
"In upwards of three-quarters of the world, most money transactions are cash only," said Mr. Amos, who envisions a big market for his invention.
Basically, what Mr. Amos has patented is a new combination of existing technologies.
His patent, No. 6,554,184, covers a modified A.T.M. that not only dispenses money but, like a vending machine, accepts cash, which can be used to transfer money from one person to another or to pay for online purchases.
"It's a method patent, a new way of doing business," Mr. Amos said. "These are off-the-shelf components. All I had to do was build the machine and write the software."
Mr. Amos is a rare breed: an independent inventor who actually makes a living off his inventions. A former electrical engineer at I.B.M., he left corporate life to develop his idea for a holographic lens. Since he patented the lens in 1994, he estimates, he has received about $1 million in royalties.
Mr. Amos, one of six children, grew up on a farm in Ohio, where he set up his own skunk works in a shed. Not all his inventions were successful. One was a parachute to be worn while leaping off the garage. "I survived, obviously," Mr. Amos said. "My siblings survived, too, thank goodness."
Mr. Amos said his latest invention, should it become widely available, would obviate the need for services provided by Western Union and other money-transfer companies.
Another big market in the United States, Mr. Amos said, might be teenagers. Though they do not usually have their own credit cards, they usually have cash and are more than willing to spend it to download music or games.
Mr. Amos also said his system should appeal to those who were worried about identity theft on the Internet or who simply wanted the privacy it provided.
Gamblers may be interested in the technology. Many credit-card companies, for example, will not authorize payments to gambling sites. Nor will PayPal, the biggest third-party payment option on the Internet.
Tom Turano, a law partner specializing in banking patents at Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston, called the invention a "cute idea."
"It's like a funky A.T.M.," Mr. Turano said. But the patent itself, he said, is "fairly narrow" and may be easy for others to come up with similar inventions that do not infringe the patent.
Mr. Amos, who is represented by a licensing firm in Connecticut, said he was approaching banks about licensing his patent. "Western Union and Moneygram haven't called me yet," Mr. Amos said. "But I don't expect them to."
In case of slashdotting, and to avoid registration
A person has legitimately bought a copy of some software. They offer it online at kazaa. Another copy is made (copyright violation) and sent to another computer (theft, technically). This is theft, because the new copy that was made and sent to the other computer was completely removed (the other computer now has the full, functioning program) and was not paid for. When you get right down to it, that group of actions matches the law's definition of theft. correct me if I'm wrong in any of my logic here
FineArch, Inc., Tokyo Japan based semiconductor LSI design company, developed the system IP to decode the next generation digital music compression format, Ogg Vorbis(http://www. vorbis.com). FineArch successfully completed the Ogg vorbis sytstem IP to run at 12 Mhz. This is about 1/6 of the clock speed required to decode Ogg Vorbis with a single CPU system. This ultra low power IP fits well with the today's portable music player market where battery life is critical factor. Ogg Vorbis is attracting much attention to the digital music world as a "license and royalty free" compression format. Ogg Vorbis is also known as its higher quality, higher compression ratio compared to MP3, current standard of the compression music format. Encoding and decoding process of Ogg Vorbis is more CPU intensive task than those of MP3. Hardware implementation of Ogg Vorbis has been scarce. FineArch.Inc fully noted the potential of the Ogg Vorbis, developed the Ogg Vorbis playback System IP. This "System IP" consisted of Hardwared IP and Software IP which needed to build a portable music player. It has all the necessary components to build a standard portable music player. "Hardware IP" includes "MultiCore Architecture"; CPU and DSP, Memory card interface, External memory interface, LCD controller, and Key input function. Only external memory and audio D/A converter is needed to build a complete portable player system. "Software IP" includes DSP firmware do decode Ogg vorbis and the CPU firmware for overall system control. Fully utilizing the advantage of MultiCore architecture system sofware stacks are carefully distributed to CPU and DSP, achieving 12 MHz. This is the lowest system clock speed in the industry known today. This "System IP" will be licensed to any customers looking for the royalty free, high quality digital music decoding capabilities on their system. Such system includes the portable music player,the game console, PDA, and the portable music entertainment system. FineArch also has the FPGA evaluation kit, which can be ordered directly. in case of slashdotting by rabid mp3 advocates ;)
do I get a cake?
If they didn't want it taped, they shouldn't have broadcasted it ;) seriously, that sounds like they want to have their cake and eat it too. If they want to sell a show on DVD they can. If they release it and the laws say it can be recorded for personal use, then we can do that. *sigh* where did the days go when a company could make it on the merits of its good product, not on whether they can buy the laws needed to prop up a dying market. [ed. don't take any of this seriously if you value your sanity.]