That statement is true. It is a breach of copyright to make a copy(any type, including archival) of any digital media except computer programs.
So, you are permitted to make backup(and other types - security/bugfix) copies of software CDs, but the Copyright Act of Australia (1968 & 1988) prohibits copying of audio, video, picture disk, etc media.
See my post from a couple of days ago for the references to the Act itself.
AFAICT, making copies for back-up, bugfixing or security testing is still excepted in the Australian copyright law.
Sorry, when I waded my way through the Copyright Act 1968(ugh!), I kind of mixed things up in my mind.
So, YES, archival copies of a computer program(extremely specific, a WAV file is NOT a program), is allowed under Section 47C.(1)
It's the archival of sound recordings which is limited to (mainly) the National Archives.
Interestingly, both the 1968 act(Broadcast Decoding Devices)) and 1988 act(Digital Rights Management) have provisions making copy protection circumvention devices illegal to make, sell, import, advertise or supply, unless used for the purposes you describe above.(2) You can still USE them legally, however. Doing something illegal with the decoded media is still illegal, though.
The parent uses a redirect from debian.org to an image which I can't really explain, 'cause I really didn't spend long enough looking at to comprehend.
From the picture, this MB looks like VIA EPIA board, which has no MPEG decoder, unlike the EPIA-M. That might be the "next version" plans that they mention.
In any event, both use shared memory. There's no dedicated graphics RAM onboard and that slows down games/video playback, etc horribly.
The next version probably *will* play back DVD(MPEG-2) smoothly, but forget anything near full screen resolution playback with any other codec. That'll have to be done in software, and it just won't work.
FYI, I have an old Dell GX1(tiny case, PIII/450) as a dedicated PVR/DVD machine. It can play back full screen PAL video at 80% CPU load(mplayer -vo dga), and that's only because it has a 4Mb Rage Pro embedded video system. If it used shared memory, it wouldn't even come close.
you relize copying a CD so you can listen to it on your MP3 player is legitmate?
You also relize making a copy so you can listen to it on your computer is legitiment?
Not in Australia, it isn't. There's no such "fair use" law over here. The best we've got is a court case to cite, which found time shifting with a video recorder is "reasonable" for "limted purposes".
Hauppauge has been making noises about Linux drivers for almost a year now, but they're still in the depths of the engineering department. There is a leaked binary 3rd party driver which runs python, but it's not something I want to insmod.
Thankfully, there's a project (ivtv) which is writing a clean-room open source driver for the PVR-[23]50. It still relies on the Hauppauge firmware binaries to be uploaded to the card, but as they're external to the modules and extracted from the Windows driver, there's no conflicts except with the most rabid open source zealots.
BTW, transcoding the resultant MPEG through ffmpeg with the -deinterlace option to a 2.5MB/s DiVX file gives an excellent picture.
I jumped from Bigpond to IINet, and the difference is unbelievable. IINet does block some incoming ports(mail/web/CIFS), but the service can't be beat. A web redirecter and fetchmail are all that's needed.
I think it's unlikely that patches won't be rolled back into the source. After several minor(or major) version changes, you run the risk of your internal patched not applying easily.
Of course, that assumes that they'll be keeping up with development. They may simply choose a version and run with that for several years (eg 5++) and then upgrade to a more recent stable for new designs.
If it's not broken, don't fix it. You don't see most electronic equipment getting design upgrades regularly. Major problems are fixed, but the guts arn't re-designed until the next upgrade cycle.
For a 512/128 service, anything between AU$70 and AU$100 (US $40 to $60) with excess charged at AU$0.20/Mb($200/Gb).
My ISP(iinet.net.au) is *MUCH* better than most, 6Gb on peak/6Gb off peak and then a bandwidth cap of 72Kb/s until you go back under the rolling 30 day limit.
> Why is it that the non-religous generally have > higher moral standards and more integrity than > the average religous person?
Perhaps because they know they are responsible for their own actions, while most religions have a carefully designed set of scapegoates which can be hauled out when needed, and are not subject to the burden of proof, or for that matter, reason.
The current world record stands at 102,800ft. Here's a pretty good story on it, though I've seen a documentary which was better. Both a Frenchman and an Australian have plans to go higher, but havn't managed it yet(as far as I know).
I havn't seen rot, but I have seen a co-worker's music video DVD start to delaminate. It was visible as interference patterns in a "blob" shape about 8mm diameter starting at the spindle.
Careful probing with a fingernail showed that the layers weren't the same diameter in the spindle hole. The "lip" had been catching on the retention spindle in the case, and had eventually separated the layers.
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That statement is true. It is a breach of copyright to make a copy(any type, including archival) of any digital media except computer programs.
So, you are permitted to make backup(and other types - security/bugfix) copies of software CDs, but the Copyright Act of Australia (1968 & 1988) prohibits copying of audio, video, picture disk, etc media.
See my post from a couple of days ago for the references to the Act itself.
COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 See Section 47C
AFAICT, making copies for back-up, bugfixing or security testing is still excepted in the Australian copyright law.
Sorry, when I waded my way through the Copyright Act 1968(ugh!), I kind of mixed things up in my mind.
So, YES, archival copies of a computer program(extremely specific, a WAV file is NOT a program), is allowed under Section 47C.(1)
It's the archival of sound recordings which is limited to (mainly) the National Archives.
Interestingly, both the 1968 act(Broadcast Decoding Devices)) and 1988 act(Digital Rights Management) have provisions making copy protection circumvention devices illegal to make, sell, import, advertise or supply, unless used for the purposes you describe above.(2) You can still USE them legally, however. Doing something illegal with the decoded media is still illegal, though.
Ref: (1) COPYRIGHT ACT 1968
(2) Short Summary of Changes to the Copyright Act - See second point in What else is changing?
Not in Australia, it isn't.
The parent uses a redirect from debian.org to an image which I can't really explain, 'cause I really didn't spend long enough looking at to comprehend.
From the picture, this MB looks like VIA EPIA board, which has no MPEG decoder, unlike the EPIA-M. That might be the "next version" plans that they mention.
In any event, both use shared memory. There's no dedicated graphics RAM onboard and that slows down games/video playback, etc horribly.
The next version probably *will* play back DVD(MPEG-2) smoothly, but forget anything near full screen resolution playback with any other codec. That'll have to be done in software, and it just won't work.
FYI, I have an old Dell GX1(tiny case, PIII/450) as a dedicated PVR/DVD machine. It can play back full screen PAL video at 80% CPU load(mplayer -vo dga), and that's only because it has a 4Mb Rage Pro embedded video system. If it used shared memory, it wouldn't even come close.
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You also relize making a copy so you can listen to it on your computer is legitiment?
Not in Australia, it isn't. There's no such "fair use" law over here. The best we've got is a court case to cite, which found time shifting with a video recorder is "reasonable" for "limted purposes".
That's an MSWin problem, not the card.
With the (still in alpha) open source linux driver, a capture(cat /dev/video0 > file.mpg) takes 2% cpu on my PIII/450.
Hauppauge has been making noises about Linux drivers for almost a year now, but they're still in the depths of the engineering department. There is a leaked binary 3rd party driver which runs python, but it's not something I want to insmod.
Thankfully, there's a project (ivtv) which is writing a clean-room open source driver for the PVR-[23]50. It still relies on the Hauppauge firmware binaries to be uploaded to the card, but as they're external to the modules and extracted from the Windows driver, there's no conflicts except with the most rabid open source zealots.
BTW, transcoding the resultant MPEG through ffmpeg with the -deinterlace option to a 2.5MB/s DiVX file gives an excellent picture.
I jumped from Bigpond to IINet, and the difference is unbelievable. IINet does block some incoming ports(mail/web/CIFS), but the service can't be beat. A web redirecter and fetchmail are all that's needed.
I think it's unlikely that patches won't be rolled back into the source. After several minor(or major) version changes, you run the risk of your internal patched not applying easily.
Of course, that assumes that they'll be keeping up with development. They may simply choose a version and run with that for several years (eg 5++) and then upgrade to a more recent stable for new designs.
If it's not broken, don't fix it. You don't see most electronic equipment getting design upgrades regularly. Major problems are fixed, but the guts arn't re-designed until the next upgrade cycle.
Slackware forever. Honestly, what else would you trust when it absolutely positively has to be stable, secure, and easy
Debian!
I accidently used a DB25 parallel printer cable instead of an external DB25 SCSI cable.
The cable and CD both survived, but the genie escaped from the SCSI controller. BTW, we're talking about a *really* old 8 bit Adaptec ISA card here.
You've got to be kidding! Here in AU excess is $0.20/Mb - $200/Gb. Count yourself lucky!
> Especially as ovber the last few months I usually
> average at least over 100GB a month
Would you mind giving a per-protocol/per-application breakdown of this usage? Inquiring minds want to know...
> How much do you pay for your precious 4 gigs?
For a 512/128 service, anything between AU$70 and AU$100 (US $40 to $60) with excess charged at AU$0.20/Mb($200/Gb).
My ISP(iinet.net.au) is *MUCH* better than most, 6Gb on peak/6Gb off peak and then a bandwidth cap of 72Kb/s until you go back under the rolling 30 day limit.
> It's 24 degrees and sunny, for all your poor ;-)
> northern hemisphere chaps stuck in winter
It's 32 C and 95% humidity here. Blech!
> where is it Friday afternoon already?
Eastern Australia, New Zealand, many Pacific islands, Siberia.....
Sorry, I didn't explain myself - mplayer launches an xterm to display the video inside, keeping the current xterm for status messages.
I can't work out how to change *that* xterm's font size - alt/shift/control-rightclick has no effect.
Watching Ghost in the Shell TV episodes on a 1600x1200 display with the mplayer xterm maximized is an experience no one should miss!
Now, if I could only work out how to tell mplayer to use a smaller font....
> Why is it that the non-religous generally have
> higher moral standards and more integrity than
> the average religous person?
Perhaps because they know they are responsible for their own actions, while most religions have a carefully designed set of scapegoates which can be hauled out when needed, and are not subject to the burden of proof, or for that matter, reason.
"The Devil make me do it!"
The current world record stands at 102,800ft. Here's a pretty good story on it, though I've seen a documentary which was better. Both a Frenchman and an Australian have plans to go higher, but havn't managed it yet(as far as I know).
I havn't seen rot, but I have seen a co-worker's music video DVD start to delaminate. It was visible as interference patterns in a "blob" shape about 8mm diameter starting at the spindle.
Careful probing with a fingernail showed that the layers weren't the same diameter in the spindle hole. The "lip" had been catching on the retention spindle in the case, and had eventually separated the layers.
By *eventually*, I mean a week or so...
Ah, the memories of aaquake. A 132x44 console on a 486DX2/66. *sigh*
> machine with a GUI?
It's a suggestion. I'm not saying it's a good suggestion.
After many years of development and goal redefinement, it will be released as MegaMaid.