Who has the trademark on iPorncast? That's where the money's going to be made.
Re:mirror - Who modded this Informative???
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analysis of worldwide Penis-to-Penis (P2P) traffic
I would hazard a guess that whomever modded this Informative +1 didn't read it closely enough. You were suckered!
Why P2P is not like the printing press
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Printing presses are large, expensive, hard to hide, and easy to suppress. This is why they have such high Constitutional protections. Their problem is that whomever anc afford and control the press controls the news. For The People this is a double-edged sword.
OTOH, P2P is small, cheap, everywhere, and hard to suppress. While it cannot merit the need for such heavy handed protection yet, it disseminates information broadly and uncontrollably. For The People this is often a good thing!
All the court struck down was the FCC making adherence to such flags mandatory in consumer electronic equipment. The court ruled that the FCC's mandate from Congress did not give them this authority -- yet!
This "protection" seems a little too harsh to me. Why should copyright holders care if a show is stored on your TiVo? I can see them adding a flag to disable the feature of copying the shows to your own PC, and in effect the internet.
You clearly don't understand copyright holders. If they could, they'd charge you for each time you view their program!
When movies were shown in theaters, you had to buy a ticket anew for each viewing. (I won't tell you how many tickets I bought to the original Star Wars, but George Lucas is a rich man as a result.)
The first pre-recorded movies cost in the $80 range 20 years ago (make that equivalent to $150) now, because of the argument that you could view them until the tape wore out. Finally someone realized that lower markups on greater volumes = higher profits overall. But while the technology was to force a pay-per-view existed in a few thousand theaters, it still wasn't feasible in tens of millions of homes.
Technology marches forward. Napster now rents you music on a monthly subscription. Quit paying and all that music disappears no matter how much you paid them along the way. The content providers see the light at the end of the tunnel of true pay-per-use.
Of course, the next step on that road means you can't be saving recordings you've made for free and having unlimited viewing opportunities for them afterwards. That's the step you are seeing here for the first time in the mass market.
And this is a Big Deal because this is not a simple do-not-record flag. With it's expiration date it has become a vast expansion into limiting how and what you can timeshift. They have already put in place the framework to limit your viewing to a specific time. If you accept this, then how much harder is it to say you are limited to not only the specific short period of time, but also a limited number of viewings during that time? How does it feel to know that a person with a simple Betamax in 1977 had more freedom to timeshift and share recordings than you do with the latest TiVo?
That's why they care, and that's why they hope this one step at a time will keep your outrage at their admittedly harsh measures and denial of Fair Use low enough that eventually they'll get everything they want. And then look at how much you start paying them!
Anything is livable with if you put up with it long enough. Apple's high prices for hardware. Tivo's forced commercials and removal of 30 second skip.
Even this will become livable with if you accept it instead of fighting it now. Don't think this is the last change TiVo plans to make to your personally owned box.
I think it is time to tell customer to tell tivo, screw you and send it to the list of failed companies with great ideas, who just could not execute the idea well.
That time has long since arrived. You haven't acted before -- so why now? Has everyone's ox been gored together this time?
Lest there have been any doubt before, TiVo clearly does not care about its customers.
TiVo website blame macrovision and even go so far as to say "Please do not contact TiVo Customer Support regarding copy protection related issues" is a total cop-out.
I think every TiVo owner should precisely be contacting Customer Support about this. Jam up the telephone lines. How else is the company every going to know how their customers truly feel.
Old saying: If you don't take care of the customer, someone else will.
update: I just wanted to reiterate that yes, this was the result of a mistake on the part of the station providing syndicated shows.
Don't consider this an update -- consider a warning! Your local stations already have this switch in place, and all they need to do is flip it now!
TiVo owners should be demanding refunds for the reduced functionality of this purchased device!
How would you like it if you took your car in for factory service and they downloaded an update to the car's computer that restricted your speeds to 55mph because of pressure from your state highway patrol?
Don't tell me that because there was some fine print in some d@mn license agreement that you've already agreed to this ahead of time. I sincerely doubt that the TiVo license agreement clearly states: We absoutely will reduce the functionality of your purchased and owned equipment in the near future without your consent to appease the broadcasting and content creation industries.
You bought the box for what it would do at the time of purchase, and have a right to continue to expect it to perform to at least those levels in the future!
What is Apple thinking? They've got fans so dedicated that they're hacking OS-X to run on Intel boxes a full year before any mainstream applications are likely to arrive, and all Apple can think about is how to stop and discourage them.
I'd just like one edition that everyone ran, and that everything that runs on Windows will run on this. I can't believe you can make enough extra money to justfy making so many versions at different price points otherwise.
My other crazy wish is to ditch the different x86 processors families and just focus on making the best one as cheaply as possible. How much more does all that Celeron nonsense cost Intel anyway?
but have no problem with calling you anti-American if you point out that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.
Saddam supports terrorism with funding to terrorists and payoffs to suicide bombers families.
Terrorism is a worldwide problem and support to terrorism in general does support the continuation of terrorism even when there is not a clear and direct link to any specific terrorist act.
Saddam, by his financial and other support (known terrorists were sheltered in Iraq) to terrorism in general fosters a climate that allows for more terrorism -- not less.
In short, Saddam has been part of the problem, and not part of the cure, and the world as a whole is better off without him even if he has yet to attack your own local neighborhood.
This is exactly the kind of "free speech" liberals want in this country. Granted, racism is patently wrong, morally and ethically. However, here in the U.S. you're labelled racist if you even do honest debate on racial issues.
Whomever labeled this as flamebait either doesn't understand the issue, moderates at random (the poster is correct in their insight),
or has just had their own political ox royally gored.
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When Photoshop has a native way to create and save Windows .ICO (icon) files and better WMF support, it will be more useful to me.
You need a spel checker.
Tomorrow: The return of the Look & Feel Lawsuit.
Stay tuned.
Only zealots should be complaining over this - especially since you can still use the Classic GIMP Interface if you wish.
Who has the trademark on iPorncast? That's where the money's going to be made.
I would hazard a guess that whomever modded this Informative +1 didn't read it closely enough. You were suckered!
OTOH, P2P is small, cheap, everywhere, and hard to suppress. While it cannot merit the need for such heavy handed protection yet, it disseminates information broadly and uncontrollably. For The People this is often a good thing!
Or maybe it was there and I just missed its sub-pixel width on my high resolution monitor.
Or less.
Sounds like more states need anti-SLAPP laws.
All the court struck down was the FCC making adherence to such flags mandatory in consumer electronic equipment. The court ruled that the FCC's mandate from Congress did not give them this authority -- yet!
You clearly don't understand copyright holders. If they could, they'd charge you for each time you view their program!
When movies were shown in theaters, you had to buy a ticket anew for each viewing. (I won't tell you how many tickets I bought to the original Star Wars, but George Lucas is a rich man as a result.)
The first pre-recorded movies cost in the $80 range 20 years ago (make that equivalent to $150) now, because of the argument that you could view them until the tape wore out. Finally someone realized that lower markups on greater volumes = higher profits overall. But while the technology was to force a pay-per-view existed in a few thousand theaters, it still wasn't feasible in tens of millions of homes.
Technology marches forward. Napster now rents you music on a monthly subscription. Quit paying and all that music disappears no matter how much you paid them along the way. The content providers see the light at the end of the tunnel of true pay-per-use.
Of course, the next step on that road means you can't be saving recordings you've made for free and having unlimited viewing opportunities for them afterwards. That's the step you are seeing here for the first time in the mass market.
And this is a Big Deal because this is not a simple do-not-record flag. With it's expiration date it has become a vast expansion into limiting how and what you can timeshift. They have already put in place the framework to limit your viewing to a specific time. If you accept this, then how much harder is it to say you are limited to not only the specific short period of time, but also a limited number of viewings during that time? How does it feel to know that a person with a simple Betamax in 1977 had more freedom to timeshift and share recordings than you do with the latest TiVo?
That's why they care, and that's why they hope this one step at a time will keep your outrage at their admittedly harsh measures and denial of Fair Use low enough that eventually they'll get everything they want. And then look at how much you start paying them!
Funny you're saying that, since I'm getting mine this afternoon. :^(
Anything is livable with if you put up with it long enough. Apple's high prices for hardware. Tivo's forced commercials and removal of 30 second skip.
Even this will become livable with if you accept it instead of fighting it now. Don't think this is the last change TiVo plans to make to your personally owned box.
I think it is time to tell customer to tell tivo, screw you and send it to the list of failed companies with great ideas, who just could not execute the idea well.
That time has long since arrived. You haven't acted before -- so why now? Has everyone's ox been gored together this time?
You call that consumer friendly? That was the first hole in the dike of very unfriendly -- to the consuer, that is.
TiVo website blame macrovision and even go so far as to say "Please do not contact TiVo Customer Support regarding copy protection related issues" is a total cop-out.
I think every TiVo owner should precisely be contacting Customer Support about this. Jam up the telephone lines. How else is the company every going to know how their customers truly feel.
Old saying: If you don't take care of the customer, someone else will.
update: I just wanted to reiterate that yes, this was the result of a mistake on the part of the station providing syndicated shows.
Don't consider this an update -- consider a warning! Your local stations already have this switch in place, and all they need to do is flip it now!
How would you like it if you took your car in for factory service and they downloaded an update to the car's computer that restricted your speeds to 55mph because of pressure from your state highway patrol?
Don't tell me that because there was some fine print in some d@mn license agreement that you've already agreed to this ahead of time. I sincerely doubt that the TiVo license agreement clearly states: We absoutely will reduce the functionality of your purchased and owned equipment in the near future without your consent to appease the broadcasting and content creation industries.
You bought the box for what it would do at the time of purchase, and have a right to continue to expect it to perform to at least those levels in the future!
What is Apple thinking? They've got fans so dedicated that they're hacking OS-X to run on Intel boxes a full year before any mainstream applications are likely to arrive, and all Apple can think about is how to stop and discourage them.
My other crazy wish is to ditch the different x86 processors families and just focus on making the best one as cheaply as possible. How much more does all that Celeron nonsense cost Intel anyway?
How many people share a powerline? More than share my cable loop? How much capacity per subscriber?
Nothing to stop them from Embrace...Extend...Extinguish either.
First time offenders can be fined up to S$5,000, or jailed up to three years, or both.
So the bail is twice the fine. Interesting. Guess they really want to ensure that the fine gets paid.
Saddam supports terrorism with funding to terrorists and payoffs to suicide bombers families.
Terrorism is a worldwide problem and support to terrorism in general does support the continuation of terrorism even when there is not a clear and direct link to any specific terrorist act.
Saddam, by his financial and other support (known terrorists were sheltered in Iraq) to terrorism in general fosters a climate that allows for more terrorism -- not less.
In short, Saddam has been part of the problem, and not part of the cure, and the world as a whole is better off without him even if he has yet to attack your own local neighborhood.
Whomever labeled this as flamebait either doesn't understand the issue, moderates at random (the poster is correct in their insight),
or has just had their own political ox royally gored.
This is either FLAMEBAIT -1
or INSIGHTFUL SARCASM +1.