There's a per-copy cost associated with being able to play dvd's. If a piece of software is freely distributable, every time a copy is made, the MPAA thinks it is owed money. That's why I said "free." Someone could very easily produce a commercial player, but linux users tend to dislike non-free software.
The fact of the matter is that the MPAA is being a pain in the ass over this CSS stuff...CSS has nothing to do with piracy, because pirates either copy the DVD, css and all, or just legally descramble it and capture the result. They use the false argument that DeCSS somehow aids piracy to ensure that there isn't a single legal DVD player out there that they don't get a cut of. The MPAA's idea that they deserve a cut of every copy of DVD player software is what's making all of the free DVD players illegal. We linux users just want to play our legally owned dvd's without compromising our principles of free software, and if the MPAA won't give us what we want, then screw them.
The author should stop griping about the difficulties of playing DVD's, because the MPAA has not allowed linux users a free, legal way to play dvd's. DeCSS, which is what most dvd-playing software is based upon, is illegal in the US.
The author loses a lot of credibility by not having his facts straight....he looks like a damn n00b.
Seriously, why should anyone take the time to give Microsoft an opportunity to spin this and cover it up? If Ford were making trucks that randomly explode, and some independent study discovers this, should they keep it hush-hush to save Ford's PR? Of course not. Microsoft's reputation will suffer a bit from this, as it should.
...until you actually need to CHANGE what the program does. If it can work forever as a "black box" then keeping it the same is fine. However, somewhere down the road, that piece of software is going to need to be updated, or the hardware it's on will break with no replacement available. Leaving it the way it is is just running away from the problem. You should start migrating it NOW while the COBOL programmers are still around.
If art can be copied infinitely, it has no value in a scarcity-based economic model such as our own. Technology is, among other things, the most efficient tool for reproducing art the world has ever known.
...is to just monitor consumption of copyrighted works. Everyone pools 200$, and each song just gets a percentage based on its "mindshare." If, say, Madonna's music constitutes 1% of all music downloads, she gets 1% of the pool. Of course, this requires huge amounts of monitoring of popular media, but it is the only way to allow art to embrace technology.
Here is a poem by al-Mutanabbi:
"Glory and honour were healed when you were healed, and your pain passed on to your enemies. Light, that had left the sun, as if it was sick in its body, came back to it. By race, the Arabs are supreme in the world, but a foreigner will take part with the Arabs of good heart."
And I wondered why I've never heard of him.
When they say that women are a significant portion of gamers they have to include things like card games...those crappy little things they have on MSN and so forth. Besides, even if women were an important demographic in the real computer game world, the article's puerile suggestions aren't what they would find appealing anyways.
Drivel.
SWG players are paying a monthly fee. If the game is not playable because of developer incompetence then the player should get a refund. You don't see google working at 50%....if the player can't play their game 24 / 7 they're getting ripped off.
"Kazaa and its ilk are merely repackaging someone else's property, intellectual though it may be.."
What do you call what the RIAA does? They just take what artists make, repackage it, and sell it at a huge profit.
You don't call being able to fire up an app and hear ny song you want within 10 minutes an innovation? P2P has demonstrated that it's possible to get anything to anyone instantaneously....which stands in stark contrast with the media industry, which stands around with its thumb up its ass for months, manufacturing pretty cover art and all that bullshit.
P2P's innovation is giving anyone anything instantly. The RIAA, however, does something simple and stupid that anyone with a lot of money could do....makes cd's. In fact, it does a pretty shitty job at that too. Now that I think about it, they can't even find good music, either.
So what the hell are the recording labels good for?
If you want a decent desktop OS and games you have to dual boot. Period. That's the god-awful truth and it's not changing any time in the next 5 years.
This is about whether CORPORATIONS can issue subpoenas. That was NEVER intended by our Government's framers. The governement represents, or at least, ought to represent, the will of the people. The RIAA represents the desire of rich greedy people to get more money by knifing artists and the people.
Quite simply, this enforcement campaign would never happen without the DMCA, because people don't consider copyright infringement to be a serious crime. Before the DMCA, enforcement of copyright law was generally in touch with the public's perception. There was no public outcry, so the police only cracked down on huge cracker rings.
The DMCA is the hijacking of the will of the American people for corporate profit. The RIAA wants to use our "basic human rights" to bleed us dry. It already has laid claim to powers reserved for our government, while declaring itself immune to the protections of the constitution, especially against unreasonable search and seizure. So please, the last thing I want to hear some ignorant troll bitching about is how we're depriving the RIAA of its rights.
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Who would you rather have monitoring your music? The government or the RIAA?
Really, put aside your "oh no the government is out to get me" views for a minute, and consider whether anyone in the government honestly gives a shit whether you are listening to RATM or not. Remember, the RIAA has declared itself immune to the protections under the bill of rights...so if Rosen's your queen, you have no right to free speech, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and so forth.
...what this is like is someone who talks to a really dumb secretary, and, with a combination of wit and cleverness manages to get her to reveal confidential information. He did not "break into" anything. He coaxed a supposedly secure device into telling him secrets.
Besides, why should the sysadmins have OUR GOVERNMENT covering their asses for not having done their job properly?
The RIAA is like a donkey cart owner suing the automobile. You're not good for anything anymore so just sit down and shut up.
IP as we know it is a totally recent creation. Before that there was no pop music machine. You couldn't make one shitty song, have a huge company cram it down the throats of everyone in the world, and rape people in the ass for 20$ a pop. You couldn't own a sound. You owned yourself, and your guitar, and your skills to play it. No, to become famous, you had to actually ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING. People had to think that it was worth shelling out to come see you, and if they didn't you either STARVED OR GOT A JOB. Has there ever been another time in history before IP when the most widely known artists were widely derided as manufactured, talentless crap? NO. Back then, music was open source. A composer would play music, and we were free to learn it or get the sheet music and play it ourselves. If you couldn't play it better than anyone else, you were good for nothing.
Now, with the advent of "recording" a song gains its identity by the person who sings it. The idea of songs that can be recorded, put onto shiny little discs and sold for lots of money was very nice and all, but it's over now. Time to go back to the way music has been done for the other 99.99% of human history.
Bands will continue to record and produce CD's because they need the exposure. With such a globally-aware marketplace, bands without professional MP3's available will just slip through the cracks. In order to make money, they're going to have to do it the way musicians have been doing it since the beginning of time....put out a guitar case or charge admission. This will also have the added benefit of eliminating whiny little princesses who expect that those damn commoners are going to shell out for her new cd.
This is not a totalitarian state (yet). There's nothing in the principles of a free market economy that states that broken business models should be kept alive via legislation and lawsuits. The RIAA is going down, and it's going to take as many file-sharers with it as possible. So look out, things aren't going to get any easier for a long time.
Microsoft can dominate the Apple market for another 2 years! Openoffice will be fored to wage its battle on the other 96% of the systems out there! Whatever shall we do?!
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There's a per-copy cost associated with being able to play dvd's. If a piece of software is freely distributable, every time a copy is made, the MPAA thinks it is owed money. That's why I said "free." Someone could very easily produce a commercial player, but linux users tend to dislike non-free software. The fact of the matter is that the MPAA is being a pain in the ass over this CSS stuff...CSS has nothing to do with piracy, because pirates either copy the DVD, css and all, or just legally descramble it and capture the result. They use the false argument that DeCSS somehow aids piracy to ensure that there isn't a single legal DVD player out there that they don't get a cut of. The MPAA's idea that they deserve a cut of every copy of DVD player software is what's making all of the free DVD players illegal. We linux users just want to play our legally owned dvd's without compromising our principles of free software, and if the MPAA won't give us what we want, then screw them.
The author should stop griping about the difficulties of playing DVD's, because the MPAA has not allowed linux users a free, legal way to play dvd's. DeCSS, which is what most dvd-playing software is based upon, is illegal in the US. The author loses a lot of credibility by not having his facts straight....he looks like a damn n00b.
Seriously, why should anyone take the time to give Microsoft an opportunity to spin this and cover it up? If Ford were making trucks that randomly explode, and some independent study discovers this, should they keep it hush-hush to save Ford's PR? Of course not. Microsoft's reputation will suffer a bit from this, as it should.
...until you actually need to CHANGE what the program does. If it can work forever as a "black box" then keeping it the same is fine. However, somewhere down the road, that piece of software is going to need to be updated, or the hardware it's on will break with no replacement available. Leaving it the way it is is just running away from the problem. You should start migrating it NOW while the COBOL programmers are still around.
If art can be copied infinitely, it has no value in a scarcity-based economic model such as our own. Technology is, among other things, the most efficient tool for reproducing art the world has ever known.
...is to just monitor consumption of copyrighted works. Everyone pools 200$, and each song just gets a percentage based on its "mindshare." If, say, Madonna's music constitutes 1% of all music downloads, she gets 1% of the pool. Of course, this requires huge amounts of monitoring of popular media, but it is the only way to allow art to embrace technology.
A bunch of people too dumb to make a real movie or actually understand the Matrix are just going to try and cash in on the matrix buzz.
Here is a poem by al-Mutanabbi: "Glory and honour were healed when you were healed, and your pain passed on to your enemies. Light, that had left the sun, as if it was sick in its body, came back to it. By race, the Arabs are supreme in the world, but a foreigner will take part with the Arabs of good heart." And I wondered why I've never heard of him.
When they say that women are a significant portion of gamers they have to include things like card games...those crappy little things they have on MSN and so forth. Besides, even if women were an important demographic in the real computer game world, the article's puerile suggestions aren't what they would find appealing anyways. Drivel.
It's actually 699 per processor....which over an entire fortune 1000 company running linux, is probably an astonomical amount.
So can I just rip cd-quality audio off of a new cd, and then "broadcast" it to one of my friends so long as I pay a penny to the RIAA?
SWG players are paying a monthly fee. If the game is not playable because of developer incompetence then the player should get a refund. You don't see google working at 50%....if the player can't play their game 24 / 7 they're getting ripped off.
"Kazaa and its ilk are merely repackaging someone else's property, intellectual though it may be.." What do you call what the RIAA does? They just take what artists make, repackage it, and sell it at a huge profit. You don't call being able to fire up an app and hear ny song you want within 10 minutes an innovation? P2P has demonstrated that it's possible to get anything to anyone instantaneously....which stands in stark contrast with the media industry, which stands around with its thumb up its ass for months, manufacturing pretty cover art and all that bullshit. P2P's innovation is giving anyone anything instantly. The RIAA, however, does something simple and stupid that anyone with a lot of money could do....makes cd's. In fact, it does a pretty shitty job at that too. Now that I think about it, they can't even find good music, either. So what the hell are the recording labels good for?
Yes, but the sexual behavior of the US military is hardly indicative of the larger population.
Kazaa clients should upload all files out in ROT13. Then say as part of the EULA that the user may not decrypt the files under penalty of DMCA-raping.
This way if the RIAA tries to get files, we can sue them under the DMCA.
Yeah, but a virus running as root (e.g. any application on windows) is going to do a helluva lot more damage than something running at user level.
If you want a decent desktop OS and games you have to dual boot. Period. That's the god-awful truth and it's not changing any time in the next 5 years.
This is about whether CORPORATIONS can issue subpoenas. That was NEVER intended by our Government's framers. The governement represents, or at least, ought to represent, the will of the people. The RIAA represents the desire of rich greedy people to get more money by knifing artists and the people.
Quite simply, this enforcement campaign would never happen without the DMCA, because people don't consider copyright infringement to be a serious crime. Before the DMCA, enforcement of copyright law was generally in touch with the public's perception. There was no public outcry, so the police only cracked down on huge cracker rings.
The DMCA is the hijacking of the will of the American people for corporate profit. The RIAA wants to use our "basic human rights" to bleed us dry. It already has laid claim to powers reserved for our government, while declaring itself immune to the protections of the constitution, especially against unreasonable search and seizure. So please, the last thing I want to hear some ignorant troll bitching about is how we're depriving the RIAA of its rights.
Who would you rather have monitoring your music? The government or the RIAA?
Really, put aside your "oh no the government is out to get me" views for a minute, and consider whether anyone in the government honestly gives a shit whether you are listening to RATM or not. Remember, the RIAA has declared itself immune to the protections under the bill of rights...so if Rosen's your queen, you have no right to free speech, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and so forth.
He's talking about sex.
...what this is like is someone who talks to a really dumb secretary, and, with a combination of wit and cleverness manages to get her to reveal confidential information. He did not "break into" anything. He coaxed a supposedly secure device into telling him secrets.
Besides, why should the sysadmins have OUR GOVERNMENT covering their asses for not having done their job properly?
The RIAA is like a donkey cart owner suing the automobile. You're not good for anything anymore so just sit down and shut up. IP as we know it is a totally recent creation. Before that there was no pop music machine. You couldn't make one shitty song, have a huge company cram it down the throats of everyone in the world, and rape people in the ass for 20$ a pop. You couldn't own a sound. You owned yourself, and your guitar, and your skills to play it. No, to become famous, you had to actually ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING. People had to think that it was worth shelling out to come see you, and if they didn't you either STARVED OR GOT A JOB. Has there ever been another time in history before IP when the most widely known artists were widely derided as manufactured, talentless crap? NO. Back then, music was open source. A composer would play music, and we were free to learn it or get the sheet music and play it ourselves. If you couldn't play it better than anyone else, you were good for nothing. Now, with the advent of "recording" a song gains its identity by the person who sings it. The idea of songs that can be recorded, put onto shiny little discs and sold for lots of money was very nice and all, but it's over now. Time to go back to the way music has been done for the other 99.99% of human history. Bands will continue to record and produce CD's because they need the exposure. With such a globally-aware marketplace, bands without professional MP3's available will just slip through the cracks. In order to make money, they're going to have to do it the way musicians have been doing it since the beginning of time....put out a guitar case or charge admission. This will also have the added benefit of eliminating whiny little princesses who expect that those damn commoners are going to shell out for her new cd. This is not a totalitarian state (yet). There's nothing in the principles of a free market economy that states that broken business models should be kept alive via legislation and lawsuits. The RIAA is going down, and it's going to take as many file-sharers with it as possible. So look out, things aren't going to get any easier for a long time.
the sweet just ain't as sweet.
....no one would ever patch this shit and it would be a hacker's playground. It's an ugly truth but it's the truth.
Microsoft can dominate the Apple market for another 2 years! Openoffice will be fored to wage its battle on the other 96% of the systems out there! Whatever shall we do?!