So Nvidia has lied about the extent of the problem and Charlie Demerjian over at The Inquirer has been right about the full extent of this all along. By now none of this should be coming as a surprise to anybody actually paying attention.
What we need for fraud-resistant voting and fraud-resistant registration is a national, if not world-wide identity certificate that we can present at the polling booth or interface with our computers for registrations, age checks, and online purchases. Get over the fact that proving who you are is going to result in the downfall of freedom as you know it and accept the fact that this identity card/document will remain under your personal control on when to present it (when you need to positively identify yourself) and when you don't (sorry Officer, but I left it at home because I'm not required by law to carry it at all times). Do you really want some snot-nosed college kid who hasn't paid a dime of taxes in his entire life undoing your vote and dozens of your neighbor's votes because he registered 73 times and now intends to vote for every one of those registrations -- and thinks he's doing a great thing by it?!
Fair elections is the very foundation of a democratic society and everything that preserve One (Wo)Man One Vote Only(!) is a step in the only right direction. It's a shame that voter ID laws only exist in a couple states and look who cries out against them every time. (Clue: people who benefit by massive voter fraud.)
This can be worked out folks and we'll be better for it, whether in actually fair elections, or the decrease in spam and other crapware that captchas and other methods use to try and authenticate users to prevent. Anonymity in all circumstances Is Not a Right. (Neither is Health Care a "Right" as one candidate has very incorrectly proclaimed. Rights are delinated in the Constitution for the United States, and other governing documents in other countries, and free national Health Care is not on that list.) If you have an over the top determination to preserve your anonymity then there are simply some places you cannot go (e.g. legally cross an international boarder) and some things you cannot do (e.g. fly on an airline these days). Once we get over it and realize that a person needs to be able to prove who they are, and that other people and institutions are not out of line in demanding to know who they're dealing with so that they can make the informed decision on whether or not to continue dealing with that person then a lot of the problems, spam, identity theft, terrorism (which thrives on anonymity) will be much reduced to the full benefit of the majority of us who don't actively profit from preying on our fellow humans.
There are already solar cells (albeit expensive ones) that are rated at 40% efficiency. Going on the low end of this how can you improve 40% by even 100X and not have perpetual motion? Heck, you think we had a Global Warming problem before, imagine how hot things are going to get once we start generating 4000% of all received solar energy.
I do so very rarely as I am not much of an audiophile at all.
Real Audiophiles don't download crappy MP3s.
I end up deleting the toon or movie because its crap and I don't enjoy it. Why keep something I didn't like on my system?
The content industry wants you to PAY FIRST before discovering that it's crap that you wouldn't ever want to keep or watch again. No free samples here.
Now, if the New York Times did an analysis and came up with the same information, and published it, that would actually be news.
Aside from mentioning that The National Enquirer broke both the John Edwards affair story and the Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy stories and was ridiculed for both why the mainstream media tried to spike them (both turned out true), just what constituted trusted media today -- an old name, or results?
Remember that the NYT also thinks that Barrack would make the best president.
You're losing sales. That's pretty valuable to somebody trying to make a living off of it.
You make the fallacy of equating every pirated instance to a lost sale. Many songs are copied that would never be bought otherwise, and the same applies to movies and software. People would simply go without at the price demanded for a legal sale, or find a cheaper alternative (listen less, FOSS, etc.). So to say that sales are lost to piracy is no more valid than flogging the figures of $200B and 750,000 jobs.
The computer humor in the original Bloom County ("Our newest model, with everything the previous model had, but now with tint control") was leading edge!
I'm sure he through it was a scathingly brilliant political idea when he first came up with it. This may well have been after a couple beers too many. The stupid part was actually going ahead and doing it afterwords. The really stupid part was crowing about it on the Internet after feeling that going through a proxy would protect you. Extreme cleverness will be punished every time.
This is my question too. I don't have mod points today so my only way to indicate how significant I find this is to post a follow-up.
My version of this question and Blizzard's insane distortion of copyright law into something completely unrecognizable would not have been framed nearly as politely as the parent has done.
Use to it was flush all your toilets at once. Now it looks like everyone insert your BluRay discs at once and make the studio pay for not just putting the content on the disc in the first place.
As long as it is fermented horse piss, I believe the stipulations are: made from grain/cereal and fermentation, and horse piss could cover both of those.
For English how about:
Freedom == free-as-in-speech
No Charge == free-as-in-beer
As long as it is fermented horse piss, I believe the stipulations are: made from grain/cereal and fermentation, and horse piss could cover both of those.
Nice general observation that doesn't seem to really connect well to this particular matter at hand.
In the Microsoft-centric worldview there are no other operating systems. Yeah, shove OS-X or Linux in their faces and they'll ruefully admit to the obvious truth and promise corrections as soon as they get approval and work their way through the system.
Expect Microsoft to try this, get caught, hang their heads, and try a few more times until Version 3 mostly gets it right.
I hope Apple and AT&T get so ripped to shreds over this that nobody else will ever try this monopoly shit again out of fear that it could happen to them too!
Can this be appealed at all? Obviously innocent people are going to be thrown under the RIAA bus. When so much damage can be done by a subpoena, and many important factors aren't being considered, this can't be left to just the discretion of one clueless judge.
I'm surprised that the inflation rate is so low for what had to be cutting edge technology of the era. Considering that a modern music CD that costs literal pennies to press sells (or attempts to sell, considering recent sales figures) for up to twice that price I wonder what figure was used for the amount of inflation over the last century.
The fact that you can rip it to some other medium, or put a DVD image on a DVD and play that on a computer is something the creators of CSS did not think of.
Which shouldn't be allowed to be made everybody else's problem.
the CSS keys are stored in a part of the disk that is not writeable on DVD-R media (unless you buy very expensive 'authoring' DVDs).
Just where do these keys exist that are readable from pressed discs, but not writable on blank recordable discs? Sounds like the kind of thing fixable by a mod chip.
This is hardly the first time - even the first time this week - that Canada hasn't gone kooky about common sense. Their government seems to want to sell out to all kinds of special interests from the Muslims to the Olympics. I figure that the Canadians must love this because they keep putting these people back into office while proclaiming their superiority to their nearest southern neighbor.
CSS encryption was broken so long ago by now that a lot of people don't even remember non-crackable movie DVDs. At best it's a low tripwire rather than an insurmountable barrier.
The content industry contends that Real's product, like Kaleidoscope's before them, removes even the tripwire for people who are too stupid to know how to Google. They further contend that there's this "delicate balance" of DRM that allows the studios to release their "incredibly valuable" content to the consumers in standard digital form and still sleep at night. Without keeping this nebulous veil that the works are protected against copying the studios would not release any movies to DVD any longer.
IT'S A LIE!
Studios make half their profits from any movie off of DVD sales. They can't afford to give them up. Blockbuster rentals didn't destroy them. Netflix hasn't destroyed them. deCSS hasn't destroyed them, and neither will Real. In short:
THE STUDIOS AREN'T GOING TO QUIT SELLING DVDs BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO!
So much for the big scary stories that your DVD player is about to become a paperweight. Ain't going to happen. Yeah they'll make a bit less than extracting every last penny, but they're not going to pull DVD sales because there is yet another hole in the armor of DRM.
In fact, DRM never was about "copy protection". Make a bit-by-bit copy of any movie DVD with all the DRM intact and the copy plays just like the original.
CSS DRM DOES NOT PREVENT EXACT COPIES FROM BEING MADE! IT ISN'T COPY PROTECTION!
Are we clear on that now? All DRM does is limit your ability on where and how you can play your lawfully purchased content. The content provider would like to sell you one copy to play on your television, then another full price copy to play on your computer, and then another full price copy to play on your game console, your game handheld, your portable DVD player... They'd love to sell you the same content over and over and over again (think vinyl, cassette, CD, iTunes).
The problem is that people now have more choices than ever (HDTV, PC, Gameboy, iPod) all at the same time and they want to Buy-Once-Play-Everywhere. Furthermore they don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to do this. And every moderate to wealthy household has a powerful engine in their own personal computer(s) capable of making all this happen. The movie industry's dream of pay-per-each-viewing, pay-per-device is a lovely dream not likely to ever be realized. Try that and there will be a revolution that will truly put them in their place.
So don't buy into the farce that only DRM makes it possible for us to have DVD movies. PROFITS are what make it possible for us to have DVD movies and those profits are still there. Enough people buy legal DVDs to keep the system running, and are likely to continue to do so.
So quit lying to us about the necessity of DRM, or how Real can't be allowed to do what is already being done. Try to make our lives simplier, not more complex, and quit trying to pick our pockets every moment. Times are hard enough right now as it is, and I don't see movie star and studio executive salaries declining as fast as my own yet.
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So Nvidia has lied about the extent of the problem and Charlie Demerjian over at The Inquirer has been right about the full extent of this all along. By now none of this should be coming as a surprise to anybody actually paying attention.
or Skynet!
(Of course if Skynet can give us intelligent self-willed robots like Cameron, that might not be such a bad thing.)
What we need for fraud-resistant voting and fraud-resistant registration is a national, if not world-wide identity certificate that we can present at the polling booth or interface with our computers for registrations, age checks, and online purchases. Get over the fact that proving who you are is going to result in the downfall of freedom as you know it and accept the fact that this identity card/document will remain under your personal control on when to present it (when you need to positively identify yourself) and when you don't (sorry Officer, but I left it at home because I'm not required by law to carry it at all times). Do you really want some snot-nosed college kid who hasn't paid a dime of taxes in his entire life undoing your vote and dozens of your neighbor's votes because he registered 73 times and now intends to vote for every one of those registrations -- and thinks he's doing a great thing by it?!
Fair elections is the very foundation of a democratic society and everything that preserve One (Wo)Man One Vote Only(!) is a step in the only right direction. It's a shame that voter ID laws only exist in a couple states and look who cries out against them every time. (Clue: people who benefit by massive voter fraud.)
This can be worked out folks and we'll be better for it, whether in actually fair elections, or the decrease in spam and other crapware that captchas and other methods use to try and authenticate users to prevent. Anonymity in all circumstances Is Not a Right. (Neither is Health Care a "Right" as one candidate has very incorrectly proclaimed. Rights are delinated in the Constitution for the United States, and other governing documents in other countries, and free national Health Care is not on that list.) If you have an over the top determination to preserve your anonymity then there are simply some places you cannot go (e.g. legally cross an international boarder) and some things you cannot do (e.g. fly on an airline these days). Once we get over it and realize that a person needs to be able to prove who they are, and that other people and institutions are not out of line in demanding to know who they're dealing with so that they can make the informed decision on whether or not to continue dealing with that person then a lot of the problems, spam, identity theft, terrorism (which thrives on anonymity) will be much reduced to the full benefit of the majority of us who don't actively profit from preying on our fellow humans.
So much for telling the students to turn their cell phones off in class.
There are already solar cells (albeit expensive ones) that are rated at 40% efficiency. Going on the low end of this how can you improve 40% by even 100X and not have perpetual motion? Heck, you think we had a Global Warming problem before, imagine how hot things are going to get once we start generating 4000% of all received solar energy.
Real Audiophiles don't download crappy MP3s.
The content industry wants you to PAY FIRST before discovering that it's crap that you wouldn't ever want to keep or watch again. No free samples here.
Aside from mentioning that The National Enquirer broke both the John Edwards affair story and the Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy stories and was ridiculed for both why the mainstream media tried to spike them (both turned out true), just what constituted trusted media today -- an old name, or results?
Remember that the NYT also thinks that Barrack would make the best president.
You make the fallacy of equating every pirated instance to a lost sale. Many songs are copied that would never be bought otherwise, and the same applies to movies and software. People would simply go without at the price demanded for a legal sale, or find a cheaper alternative (listen less, FOSS, etc.). So to say that sales are lost to piracy is no more valid than flogging the figures of $200B and 750,000 jobs.
The computer humor in the original Bloom County ("Our newest model, with everything the previous model had, but now with tint control") was leading edge!
I'm sure he through it was a scathingly brilliant political idea when he first came up with it. This may well have been after a couple beers too many. The stupid part was actually going ahead and doing it afterwords. The really stupid part was crowing about it on the Internet after feeling that going through a proxy would protect you. Extreme cleverness will be punished every time.
Does this prevent Real from selling the product in other countries? If so, how?
This is my question too. I don't have mod points today so my only way to indicate how significant I find this is to post a follow-up.
My version of this question and Blizzard's insane distortion of copyright law into something completely unrecognizable would not have been framed nearly as politely as the parent has done.
Use to it was flush all your toilets at once. Now it looks like everyone insert your BluRay discs at once and make the studio pay for not just putting the content on the disc in the first place.
For English how about:
Freedom == free-as-in-speech
No Charge == free-as-in-beer
Nice general observation that doesn't seem to really connect well to this particular matter at hand.
And you're surprised by this...why?
In the Microsoft-centric worldview there are no other operating systems. Yeah, shove OS-X or Linux in their faces and they'll ruefully admit to the obvious truth and promise corrections as soon as they get approval and work their way through the system.
Expect Microsoft to try this, get caught, hang their heads, and try a few more times until Version 3 mostly gets it right.
I hope Apple and AT&T get so ripped to shreds over this that nobody else will ever try this monopoly shit again out of fear that it could happen to them too!
Can this be appealed at all? Obviously innocent people are going to be thrown under the RIAA bus. When so much damage can be done by a subpoena, and many important factors aren't being considered, this can't be left to just the discretion of one clueless judge.
I'm rooting for the Turk. Keep him happy winning chess tournaments and maybe he won't get all discourage and turn into Skynet instead.
Finally figured that one out, did you Al?
I'm surprised that the inflation rate is so low for what had to be cutting edge technology of the era. Considering that a modern music CD that costs literal pennies to press sells (or attempts to sell, considering recent sales figures) for up to twice that price I wonder what figure was used for the amount of inflation over the last century.
That was Robbie the Robot's (Forbidden Planet) recipe for "The Good Stuff." Simple ethanol plus fusel oil.
Which shouldn't be allowed to be made everybody else's problem.
Just where do these keys exist that are readable from pressed discs, but not writable on blank recordable discs? Sounds like the kind of thing fixable by a mod chip.
This is hardly the first time - even the first time this week - that Canada hasn't gone kooky about common sense. Their government seems to want to sell out to all kinds of special interests from the Muslims to the Olympics. I figure that the Canadians must love this because they keep putting these people back into office while proclaiming their superiority to their nearest southern neighbor.
This Emperor truly has no clothes. Here's why...
CSS encryption was broken so long ago by now that a lot of people don't even remember non-crackable movie DVDs. At best it's a low tripwire rather than an insurmountable barrier.
The content industry contends that Real's product, like Kaleidoscope's before them, removes even the tripwire for people who are too stupid to know how to Google. They further contend that there's this "delicate balance" of DRM that allows the studios to release their "incredibly valuable" content to the consumers in standard digital form and still sleep at night. Without keeping this nebulous veil that the works are protected against copying the studios would not release any movies to DVD any longer.
IT'S A LIE!
Studios make half their profits from any movie off of DVD sales. They can't afford to give them up. Blockbuster rentals didn't destroy them. Netflix hasn't destroyed them. deCSS hasn't destroyed them, and neither will Real. In short:
THE STUDIOS AREN'T GOING TO QUIT SELLING DVDs BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO!
So much for the big scary stories that your DVD player is about to become a paperweight. Ain't going to happen. Yeah they'll make a bit less than extracting every last penny, but they're not going to pull DVD sales because there is yet another hole in the armor of DRM.
In fact, DRM never was about "copy protection". Make a bit-by-bit copy of any movie DVD with all the DRM intact and the copy plays just like the original.
CSS DRM DOES NOT PREVENT EXACT COPIES FROM BEING MADE! IT ISN'T COPY PROTECTION!
Are we clear on that now? All DRM does is limit your ability on where and how you can play your lawfully purchased content. The content provider would like to sell you one copy to play on your television, then another full price copy to play on your computer, and then another full price copy to play on your game console, your game handheld, your portable DVD player... They'd love to sell you the same content over and over and over again (think vinyl, cassette, CD, iTunes).
The problem is that people now have more choices than ever (HDTV, PC, Gameboy, iPod) all at the same time and they want to Buy-Once-Play-Everywhere. Furthermore they don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to do this. And every moderate to wealthy household has a powerful engine in their own personal computer(s) capable of making all this happen. The movie industry's dream of pay-per-each-viewing, pay-per-device is a lovely dream not likely to ever be realized. Try that and there will be a revolution that will truly put them in their place.
So don't buy into the farce that only DRM makes it possible for us to have DVD movies. PROFITS are what make it possible for us to have DVD movies and those profits are still there. Enough people buy legal DVDs to keep the system running, and are likely to continue to do so.
So quit lying to us about the necessity of DRM, or how Real can't be allowed to do what is already being done. Try to make our lives simplier, not more complex, and quit trying to pick our pockets every moment. Times are hard enough right now as it is, and I don't see movie star and studio executive salaries declining as fast as my own yet.