I can think of another two other ways:
3. Profit!
4. Press. The press often get promotional copies of DVDs and CDs months in advance. Most promot videotapes I've seen have timecodes on the screen or periodicly show some text that read "promotional video not for sale". I don't know if the DVDs do this however. If they do then it would prevent people from making perfect copies. Certainly for CDs it is very easy to distribute perfect copies before the release.
Not that I wouldn't dig it...but considering Apple has attempted to restrict the copying of songs from iPod _to_ desktop it is unlikely that they'll introduce iPod-to-iPod transfers.
i signed up with eryxma in february. my login password didn't work. i contacted customer support twice and got no response. i then forgot about it cause i didn't have my website ready. 6 months later when i finally had my website ready my password still didn't work. sent them another email. again, no response. not a big deal...i'm out $16 but i won't use them again.
i think piracy is bad for open source. if illegal copies of win2k and photoshop were not available then students and others who cannot afford expensive software would not use the software. thus, they would be look for cheaper or free alternatives.
maybe?
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>As much as I hate bought legislation, why didn't the Tech Industry buy off their own Congressmen to >compete with this foolishness?
Because the Tech Industry doesn't care about us. They care about making money. They will still be able to make money post-"enforced copy-protection".
If there's anything that Cisco's "Wall Of Oppression" firewall proved is that these tech companies that people on Slashdot adore and identify with as being the corporate embodiment of themselves are anything but. They are simply corporations in pursuit of money. People have ideals and ethics. Companies do not.
We all thought the tech companies were different from the other megacorps because they were started by people like us. They aren't different.
I've been living for London for about a year now doing mainly contract work. I came over here on a student work visa that is soon about to end.
My impressions of London are as follows: Very expensive. I pay £300/month for flat in central London (Whitechapel). It is a slum. Mice/rats and mushrooms growing in the bathroom. Yuck. Everything else is expensive as well. It was recently (and in the past) named the most expensive city in Europe.
Very oppressive. Public transport is hideously expensive. If you live in London unless you want to spend money to get out...you are stuck. Luckily if you are doing IT you have a lot of money...Also there is a lot to do here, but it is honestly a pain in the ass to get around the city.
Money: London is full of dot.coms and web consultancies and tons of vacancies. Basic knowledge of any web technology will get you a job. I got my first job six months ago with a few months knowledge of Perl and a lot of balls. I was making £20/hr. I was meant to write Perl/CGI/DBI scripts. I barely knew Perl. As they say here, I blagged it. 6 months and 4 contracts later I've learned a great deal and am now making the ridiculous sum of £50/hr. I see job adverts all the time for £60+ outside of London. For me this is a lot, maybe its not for you Silicon-Valley-startup-share-option-millionares.
Alas, immigration laws are stringent. Unless you get a company to sponser you for a visa or do the student program I did you can't work here. Once you get the visa, you can ONLY work for the company that hired you. They are relaxing the laws because they finally realized that their economy will suffer if they don't fill the vacancies but as of now its very difficult to work in the UK.
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I can think of another two other ways:
3. Profit!
4. Press. The press often get promotional copies of DVDs and CDs months in advance. Most promot videotapes I've seen have timecodes on the screen or periodicly show some text that read "promotional video not for sale". I don't know if the DVDs do this however. If they do then it would prevent people from making perfect copies. Certainly for CDs it is very easy to distribute perfect copies before the release.
Not that I wouldn't dig it...but considering Apple has attempted to restrict the copying of songs from iPod _to_ desktop it is unlikely that they'll introduce iPod-to-iPod transfers.
i signed up with eryxma in february. my login password didn't work. i contacted customer support twice and got no response. i then forgot about it cause i didn't have my website ready. 6 months later when i finally had my website ready my password still didn't work. sent them another email. again, no response. not a big deal...i'm out $16 but i won't use them again.
A friend of mine also recently had money stolen from his PayPal account. The person who stole his money also bought digital cameras with it!
Weird! I wonder how many people this guy has ripped off!
i think piracy is bad for open source. if illegal copies of win2k and photoshop were not available then students and others who cannot afford expensive software would not use the software. thus, they would be look for cheaper or free alternatives.
maybe?
>As much as I hate bought legislation, why didn't the Tech Industry buy off their own Congressmen to >compete with this foolishness?
Because the Tech Industry doesn't care about us. They care about making money. They will still be able to make money post-"enforced copy-protection".
If there's anything that Cisco's "Wall Of Oppression" firewall proved is that these tech companies that people on Slashdot adore and identify with as being the corporate embodiment of themselves are anything but. They are simply corporations in pursuit of money. People have ideals and ethics. Companies do not.
We all thought the tech companies were different from the other megacorps because they were started by people like us. They aren't different.
Is there an open-source equivalent? A codec/server solution intended for small screens, low bandwith, and low processing power?
He probably used "Conservative" instead of "Republican" and "Labour" for "Democratic".
I've been living for London for about a year now doing mainly contract work. I came over here on a student work visa that is soon about to end.
My impressions of London are as follows:
Very expensive. I pay £300/month for flat in central London (Whitechapel). It is a slum. Mice/rats and mushrooms growing in the bathroom. Yuck. Everything else is expensive as well. It was recently (and in the past) named the most expensive city in Europe.
Very oppressive. Public transport is hideously expensive. If you live in London unless you want to spend money to get out...you are stuck. Luckily if you are doing IT you have a lot of money...Also there is a lot to do here, but it is honestly a pain in the ass to get around the city.
Money: London is full of dot.coms and web consultancies and tons of vacancies. Basic knowledge of any web technology will get you a job. I got my first job six months ago with a few months knowledge of Perl and a lot of balls. I was making £20/hr. I was meant to write Perl/CGI/DBI scripts. I barely knew Perl. As they say here, I blagged it. 6 months and 4 contracts later I've learned a great deal and am now making the ridiculous sum of £50/hr. I see job adverts all the time for £60+ outside of London. For me this is a lot, maybe its not for you Silicon-Valley-startup-share-option-millionares.
Alas, immigration laws are stringent. Unless you get a company to sponser you for a visa or do the student program I did you can't work here. Once you get the visa, you can ONLY work for the company that hired you. They are relaxing the laws because they finally realized that their economy will suffer if they don't fill the vacancies but as of now its very difficult to work in the UK.