I suppose i should have been more specific in my accusations. I was an mechanical engineer for two years and ended up switching to information systems. I think that tech has an excellent engineering program, and their computer science program is really making progress. However, the MIS is run out of the business department, which is sorely lacking in qualified teachers. Which I suppose is my own dumb fault for staying with them for another two years instead of transfering, but what can i say, all the booze and such had clouded my thoughts. Anyways, for anyone who has been there recently and suffered the ridiculous tution hikes, you know how not woith it it is becoming, Especially when they're hiking tution 20% next year. Also, the fiscal irresponsibility of this school is a shinning example of why engineers shouldn't run businesses. But I suppose now that they cut the football team they wont have to support them or give out all those sports scholarships, so they can just fall back on little Jimmy's rich parents to foot the bill for the tution hike.
I went to tech for 4 years and I can say personally that the administration there doesn't care a bit about the students. The only reason that the administration would ever take any kind of action would be if it 1) made them look good or 2) made them money.
I would also like to mention that I was one of the first (back in the day when running hotline servers and making money of banner click throughs were all the rage) at tech to get busted by the riaa. Thh whole time the riaa was threatening me with a $15.5 million dollar lawsuit (you can bet my parents were thrilled) the school never did anything except threaten me themselves.
As long as i have a soapbox to stand on I would also like to mention that after four years I decided that the faculty was so worthless and underqualified that I best take myself somewhere else cause a degree from tech WONT get you a job unless you want to work in Michigan or Wisconson!
I am happy to say that while still degreeless (I'm starting classes again this summer online to finish) I chose to go the certification route and am now a happily employed Systems Administrator as well as running a consulting business on the side.
Screw You Tompkins and Janners!
Once you burn it to cd couldn't you just rip it and re-encode it again? If the watermark is embedded within the audio itself then there would have to be a "magical" bitrate where encoding would distort it enough to render it useless. Since we can't percieve the watermarking anyways that bitrate should be fairly high leaving plenty of quality left for unwatermarked audio listening goodness. This seems like an easy solution to me, but perhaps they made their watermark resilient enough to withstand re-encoding.
I think if i have to pay almost full price for an album that i have to make myself then i damn well better be able to do what i want with it without trying to sidestep the built in copy protection. In the mean time i think i'll take my p2p.
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maybe he should get his money's worth and go sexually assault five children then...
1st post!?!? yay me if so!
Right on Brotha, with gas prices on the rise, you better believe students are going to be paying for the gas in his Viper.
I suppose i should have been more specific in my accusations. I was an mechanical engineer for two years and ended up switching to information systems. I think that tech has an excellent engineering program, and their computer science program is really making progress. However, the MIS is run out of the business department, which is sorely lacking in qualified teachers. Which I suppose is my own dumb fault for staying with them for another two years instead of transfering, but what can i say, all the booze and such had clouded my thoughts. Anyways, for anyone who has been there recently and suffered the ridiculous tution hikes, you know how not woith it it is becoming, Especially when they're hiking tution 20% next year. Also, the fiscal irresponsibility of this school is a shinning example of why engineers shouldn't run businesses. But I suppose now that they cut the football team they wont have to support them or give out all those sports scholarships, so they can just fall back on little Jimmy's rich parents to foot the bill for the tution hike.
I went to tech for 4 years and I can say personally that the administration there doesn't care a bit about the students. The only reason that the administration would ever take any kind of action would be if it 1) made them look good or 2) made them money. I would also like to mention that I was one of the first (back in the day when running hotline servers and making money of banner click throughs were all the rage) at tech to get busted by the riaa. Thh whole time the riaa was threatening me with a $15.5 million dollar lawsuit (you can bet my parents were thrilled) the school never did anything except threaten me themselves. As long as i have a soapbox to stand on I would also like to mention that after four years I decided that the faculty was so worthless and underqualified that I best take myself somewhere else cause a degree from tech WONT get you a job unless you want to work in Michigan or Wisconson! I am happy to say that while still degreeless (I'm starting classes again this summer online to finish) I chose to go the certification route and am now a happily employed Systems Administrator as well as running a consulting business on the side. Screw You Tompkins and Janners!
So, just to repeat - its not copy protection, its copyright protection. Personally, I could care less, because I'm not stealing music.
Lord knows I am...
Once you burn it to cd couldn't you just rip it and re-encode it again? If the watermark is embedded within the audio itself then there would have to be a "magical" bitrate where encoding would distort it enough to render it useless. Since we can't percieve the watermarking anyways that bitrate should be fairly high leaving plenty of quality left for unwatermarked audio listening goodness. This seems like an easy solution to me, but perhaps they made their watermark resilient enough to withstand re-encoding.
I think if i have to pay almost full price for an album that i have to make myself then i damn well better be able to do what i want with it without trying to sidestep the built in copy protection. In the mean time i think i'll take my p2p.
Right On! More terrain for me to ski...maybe some year I WILL be able ski to work in LA, screw rush hour!