Alice in wonderland was 86 years. It was published in 1865 and the movie came out in 1951. Lewis Carroll died in 1898, so using today's Life + 70 it would still have been in copyright.
The copyright actually expired in 1907. This means they have already done this.
So does disney owe royalties to the families of the writers of the books they base their movies on?
At some point ideas become part of the culture and are no longer owned by anyone person. I believe the founders had it right with a 14 year term and one 14 year extension. We should go back to that model, but the extension should cost enough to ensure that not every work is extended for the full term.
The $60 appliance will then require a bunch of subscriptions. Show me a $60 appliance that can play Hulu without one. Any PC hooked to a TV can do that job without additional monthly cost.
The key is scrambled with a 128-bit device specific key for registered commercial devices making a GNU General Public License product impossible to legally develop for the Linux-libre community.
You can't even get a key if your OS does not conspire against the user.
My issue is it cannot be done and allow me to own my own computer. Most consumers probably don't care about that, but I do.
Yes, it is true. Hell, just think about it. There is no way in an opensource browser and opensource OS to do this. Even if there were some magic keys, I could sniff them out of the kernel with GDB.
HLS requires a locked down OS. It requires OS that conspires against the user. Read the damn spec for it.
Even if DRM were not bad, why bother putting it in the spec when the CDM has to still be a proprietary third part plugin? What gain is there?
No, my critique is that DRM is bad and adding it to the spec is useless. It means compromising ideals for absolutely no gain.
There cannot be a standard CDM, DRM implementations have to be hidden and blackbox like. Else they will fail. If the same plugin just took in encrypted files and output them via normal methods capture would be trivial. Hell, linux users could redirect the output to a file.
Nope. It will not work everywhere, it cannot. If the plugin was universal then there is nothing stopping us linux users from writing the output to a file instead of the display. That means the DRM would be useless. Instead it will need a CDM for windows to use protected path, one for whatever OSX uses and that will be that. Nothing else will get support.
Because the plugin will still be proprietary and OS specific. It has to be, else we linux users can just fire the output into a file. So instead it has to use some CDM for the OS it is on that only outputs to protected path hardware.
The CDM will still be platform specific. It has to be. Otherwise I can just write the output to a file. That makes the DRM dead as a door nail. So instead it will have to use protected path on windows, whatever OSX calls it and that will be it. There will no support for anyone else.
The average viewer is not watching for that reason, they are watching the equivalent of a minstrel show but with nerds instead of African Americans. They only want a caricature of what nerds are, and they want to laugh at them, not with them.
Sure, but that does not mean these shows cannot exist on Netflix.
House of Cards does well on Netflix, Boardwalk Empire does well on HBO, showtime has seen much success with The Borgias. None of those shows are ever going to be what most Americans watch. Yet, enough do watch to make them profitable to continue to produce.
Most American TV viewers watch Idol and Dancing with the stars, so we can ignore their judgement as a baseline for what is good.
I am pretty excited about this, I never watched the show on TV, but found it on Netflix and loved it. Netflix has recently been doing a great job creating content so I am pretty hopeful. I am really looking forward to next season of House of Cards.
I would suggest you cancel home phone service. It seems unnecessary unless you have very small children. I am also not sure how having home services changes the affordability of cellular service.
I don't think 100 minutes a month is just for folks with home phone service. We are almost at the end of my billing period and I have not used that many.
I am not suggesting anyone move. I am only stating that 80% is pretty darn good. That means that there is an 8 out of 10 chance this might work for you.
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Alice in wonderland was 86 years.
It was published in 1865 and the movie came out in 1951. Lewis Carroll died in 1898, so using today's Life + 70 it would still have been in copyright.
The copyright actually expired in 1907. This means they have already done this.
Not sure, but disney will not care, they just will make sure it is no retroactive.
Hulu is free for use on the PC.
There are lots of these things that are free to view on a PC but they charge for access by appliances.
Using todays lengths those stories would not all have been in the public domain.
Orphan works belong in the public domain. How that is not blindingly obvious I do not know.
So does disney owe royalties to the families of the writers of the books they base their movies on?
At some point ideas become part of the culture and are no longer owned by anyone person. I believe the founders had it right with a 14 year term and one 14 year extension. We should go back to that model, but the extension should cost enough to ensure that not every work is extended for the full term.
The $60 appliance will then require a bunch of subscriptions. Show me a $60 appliance that can play Hulu without one. Any PC hooked to a TV can do that job without additional monthly cost.
Bullshit, go read the wiki article at least.
The key is scrambled with a 128-bit device specific key for registered commercial devices making a GNU General Public License product impossible to legally develop for the Linux-libre community.
You can't even get a key if your OS does not conspire against the user.
My issue is it cannot be done and allow me to own my own computer. Most consumers probably don't care about that, but I do.
Yes, it is true.
Hell, just think about it. There is no way in an opensource browser and opensource OS to do this. Even if there were some magic keys, I could sniff them out of the kernel with GDB.
HLS requires a locked down OS. It requires OS that conspires against the user. Read the damn spec for it.
Even if DRM were not bad, why bother putting it in the spec when the CDM has to still be a proprietary third part plugin? What gain is there?
Sure, and with this plugin you will be doing the same exact thing. Well probably not the first one, since I think protected path fails on VMs.
So spamming slashdot is your method of solving this?
Your cunning plan is not very cunning. People will avoid donating because of this behavior.
No, my critique is that DRM is bad and adding it to the spec is useless. It means compromising ideals for absolutely no gain.
There cannot be a standard CDM, DRM implementations have to be hidden and blackbox like. Else they will fail. If the same plugin just took in encrypted files and output them via normal methods capture would be trivial. Hell, linux users could redirect the output to a file.
If only there were some way to hook a computer to an HDTV, but that would be impossible right?
Rent seeking is the new innovation at Microsoft.
Someone needs to stand up to these folks. Let's see these patents tossed out.
Nope. It will not work everywhere, it cannot.
If the plugin was universal then there is nothing stopping us linux users from writing the output to a file instead of the display. That means the DRM would be useless. Instead it will need a CDM for windows to use protected path, one for whatever OSX uses and that will be that. Nothing else will get support.
Because the plugin will still be proprietary and OS specific. It has to be, else we linux users can just fire the output into a file. So instead it has to use some CDM for the OS it is on that only outputs to protected path hardware.
This will not change any of that.
The CDM will still be platform specific. It has to be. Otherwise I can just write the output to a file. That makes the DRM dead as a door nail. So instead it will have to use protected path on windows, whatever OSX calls it and that will be it. There will no support for anyone else.
This will not change that. The CDM will still be hardware and likely OS specific.
Even 1 percent of steam is a lot more than 5 or 6 folks.
The steam console will change these numbers considerably.
The average viewer is not watching for that reason, they are watching the equivalent of a minstrel show but with nerds instead of African Americans. They only want a caricature of what nerds are, and they want to laugh at them, not with them.
Sure, but that does not mean these shows cannot exist on Netflix.
House of Cards does well on Netflix, Boardwalk Empire does well on HBO, showtime has seen much success with The Borgias. None of those shows are ever going to be what most Americans watch. Yet, enough do watch to make them profitable to continue to produce.
Is that supposed to be an improvement?
If slashdot allowed images, I would place the "Your not helping" meme right here.
Wow, they watched a show that belittles folks like me, instead of watching idiots sing. I guess it is better than mistrel shows.
Most American TV viewers watch Idol and Dancing with the stars, so we can ignore their judgement as a baseline for what is good.
I am pretty excited about this, I never watched the show on TV, but found it on Netflix and loved it. Netflix has recently been doing a great job creating content so I am pretty hopeful. I am really looking forward to next season of House of Cards.
Still less outages than I had with cable.
Mind you I had TWC, so if you had a reputable provider instead you may have not had this level of outages.
I would suggest you cancel home phone service. It seems unnecessary unless you have very small children. I am also not sure how having home services changes the affordability of cellular service.
I don't think 100 minutes a month is just for folks with home phone service. We are almost at the end of my billing period and I have not used that many.
I am not suggesting anyone move. I am only stating that 80% is pretty darn good. That means that there is an 8 out of 10 chance this might work for you.