...sometimes the last few seconds of the episodes is chopped off. It's something to do with episodes that trail with a few seconds of audio, but no video. Is this true?
Sometimes they trim dialog that goes into the credits. Sometimes they go back and do extra video to cover that section for the DVD release.
I am guessing MS word is faster on its native Windows. But the point is, even in the 21st century here, typesetting programs are still slow.
Arggh! Word is a Word Processing application. It is NOT a typesetting program!
Word is centered around getting you the info in the doc, it doesn't care much about how it was displayed on the originator's computer. Fair enough, that works when you're just worried about the info. If you're at the point where you care about design, Word fails it. By design. (You should have the info in some other program at that point.)
Sorry, but that sort of confusion makes my life hell (but also keeps me employed.)
Mildly popular. They've been around for a long time, so their business model must be sound. They aim a lot of marketing towards K-12 education, which makes sense given the cost and durability of their products.
Oh please. You want an easy solution. Setup a website where users can create an account, provide contact information and then search the web and/or P2P networks to report instances of copyright violation.
The irony is, this would be easy to do if copyright was still "opt-in", as it was for the first two hundred years. As it stands now, there's no easy way to determine what is or isn't copyrighted. This was due to the content industry, which wanted to save themselves a few bucks on the "burden" of establishing copyright. Now they find that determining copyright is a burden they want to push off onto everyone else.
If **AA's IP was as valuable as they say, and if they were losing as much money to piracy as they claim, it would make business sense to police it themselves. Heck, they'd be at a competitive advantage because they have resources to do this that the smaller guys don't. The fact that they find this burdensome is telling.
People will do it for free! And it'll be better than the commercial crap everybody hates but downloads anyway, because it'll be done only with pure motivation!
All those video blogs of people picking their nose while discussing the latest developments in their crusade against disease-free personal areas will provide our entertainment.
Viacom doesn't want to get into the buisness of tracking down users individually.
And that's exactly what this is all about. They're shoveling against the tide. They won the right to have the premptive say in what is or is not a copyright violation, but belatedly realized that it's a hell of a lot of work (ironic, since it actually mirrors the "opt-in" provision of all earlier copyright laws). Now they're trying to outsource that job to content providers, even ones that comply with their DMCA notices.
.... but Word has to paginate the umteen pages to figure out what is the current page
Well, that just underscores the ultimate problem. Word is not a layout program. They've acutally mad the correct decisions for inter-office communication (don't fuss over fonts, et al., just put up the info in as close a format as you can.) It was never intended to accurately convey layout information. The problem is that the PHBs don't realize that the 124 page report that accounting sent them is actually 126 pages on his machine. Fair enough, why should that be a big deal? Word's POV is that it's not--until he's dealing with actual printers and he can't understand why the booklet his niece spent so much time on doesn't look the same as it does on his machine (not noticing that it doesn't look the same as it does on HER machine.)
Remember back when desktop publishing software like Word came out...
OH DEAR GODS! Word is not desktop publishing software! Please, please, please understand that.
Do Not spend your time "formatting" a doc in Word. It will look different on the next computer that opens it, depending on the fonts installed, etc. This is actually a Good Thing (tm) when all you want to do is shove information at people and not have them fussing that they don't have the same fonts or what not. But for the love of all things Holy (and Pre-Press' sanity) Do Not send a Word doc to a Printer (or worse, any other Office format.)
*Whew* Sorry, I think I went a little crazy there...
Why don't these service providers have to figure out a business model that abides by the law?
They HAVE one. If providers are asked to take something down, they usually do it in short order (too short, IMHO, they don't have much room to say "Hey, that's parody/commentary/other fair use") The problem from the *AA's POV is that it's a pain in the ass to police. What they are doing, judging by TFA, is pushing THEIR responsibilites onto service providers. Which is especially silly, since they're going to use exatly the same resources to monitor if the service providers are doing their job for them.
I've seen them remove illegal content, but sometimes it's on their servers for a long while...
Most services will take it down pretty quick, once asked. The problem from the *AA perspective is that it's a bitch to find all these things. They're hoping to push that task onto the service providers, and it sounds like it's working in this case.
The obvious problem is that the task is no less onerous for the service. The other obvious problem is that it winds up squelching fair use rights. Myspace is already blocking obvious parodies, etc, that use copyrighted content, almost certainly due to their own legal difficulties.
The founded had to pay 1.2M francs (~200k Euros) for the same sort of thing, claiming the Germans' occupation "hadn't been so inhumane". (I don't agree with this lack of freedom of speech in France, but they're kind of a nasty country anyway, with cops wearing masks so they can't be identfied in court and the like.)
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Other music stores will be selling EMI's songs in mp3 format soon...
Which ones? AFAIK, iTunes is the only one selling the songs outright (vs. subscription services.)
Sometimes they trim dialog that goes into the credits. Sometimes they go back and do extra video to cover that section for the DVD release.
I am guessing MS word is faster on its native Windows. But the point is, even in the 21st century here, typesetting programs are still slow.
Arggh! Word is a Word Processing application. It is NOT a typesetting program!
Word is centered around getting you the info in the doc, it doesn't care much about how it was displayed on the originator's computer. Fair enough, that works when you're just worried about the info. If you're at the point where you care about design, Word fails it. By design. (You should have the info in some other program at that point.)
Sorry, but that sort of confusion makes my life hell (but also keeps me employed.)
Do you have any idea how popular it is?
Mildly popular. They've been around for a long time, so their business model must be sound. They aim a lot of marketing towards K-12 education, which makes sense given the cost and durability of their products.
Does anyone nowadays make a small computer with a decent sized keyboard and without a big flippy screen?
Take a look at AlphaSmart's portable computers. The Neo goes for $250 and is roughly equivalent to a Model 100.
Oh, yeah, that really describes the democrats, ok. No doubt about it.
Which one of those have Dems not done? GP is right, be worried either way.
Oh please. You want an easy solution. Setup a website where users can create an account, provide contact information and then search the web and/or P2P networks to report instances of copyright violation.
The irony is, this would be easy to do if copyright was still "opt-in", as it was for the first two hundred years. As it stands now, there's no easy way to determine what is or isn't copyrighted. This was due to the content industry, which wanted to save themselves a few bucks on the "burden" of establishing copyright. Now they find that determining copyright is a burden they want to push off onto everyone else. If **AA's IP was as valuable as they say, and if they were losing as much money to piracy as they claim, it would make business sense to police it themselves. Heck, they'd be at a competitive advantage because they have resources to do this that the smaller guys don't. The fact that they find this burdensome is telling.
People often use "they" incorrectly as stop gap.
I couldn't agree with thou more.
People will do it for free! And it'll be better than the commercial crap everybody hates but downloads anyway, because it'll be done only with pure motivation!
It's already available:
All those video blogs of people picking their nose while discussing the latest developments in their crusade against disease-free personal areas will provide our entertainment.
You can find that stuff too.
Viacom doesn't want to get into the buisness of tracking down users individually.
And that's exactly what this is all about. They're shoveling against the tide. They won the right to have the premptive say in what is or is not a copyright violation, but belatedly realized that it's a hell of a lot of work (ironic, since it actually mirrors the "opt-in" provision of all earlier copyright laws). Now they're trying to outsource that job to content providers, even ones that comply with their DMCA notices.
Why no mod points?! Why?!
That's it exactly. This is the same kind of moronic reasoning people use to "prove" that Jane Austen was a lesbian communist.
That sound you just heard, the one right over your head? It was not an F-22 returning to base.
.... but Word has to paginate the umteen pages to figure out what is the current page
Well, that just underscores the ultimate problem. Word is not a layout program. They've acutally mad the correct decisions for inter-office communication (don't fuss over fonts, et al., just put up the info in as close a format as you can.) It was never intended to accurately convey layout information. The problem is that the PHBs don't realize that the 124 page report that accounting sent them is actually 126 pages on his machine. Fair enough, why should that be a big deal? Word's POV is that it's not--until he's dealing with actual printers and he can't understand why the booklet his niece spent so much time on doesn't look the same as it does on his machine (not noticing that it doesn't look the same as it does on HER machine.)
OK, I'll stop. I could go on all day...
Remember back when desktop publishing software like Word came out ...
OH DEAR GODS! Word is not desktop publishing software! Please, please, please understand that.
Do Not spend your time "formatting" a doc in Word. It will look different on the next computer that opens it, depending on the fonts installed, etc. This is actually a Good Thing (tm) when all you want to do is shove information at people and not have them fussing that they don't have the same fonts or what not. But for the love of all things Holy (and Pre-Press' sanity) Do Not send a Word doc to a Printer (or worse, any other Office format.)
*Whew* Sorry, I think I went a little crazy there...
You just got zuned!
I smell a meme...
Wow. Insightful and Informative. Mods, take note of my parent (who is also my child.)
Why don't these service providers have to figure out a business model that abides by the law?
They HAVE one. If providers are asked to take something down, they usually do it in short order (too short, IMHO, they don't have much room to say "Hey, that's parody/commentary/other fair use") The problem from the *AA's POV is that it's a pain in the ass to police. What they are doing, judging by TFA, is pushing THEIR responsibilites onto service providers. Which is especially silly, since they're going to use exatly the same resources to monitor if the service providers are doing their job for them.
Run by artists?
I've seen them remove illegal content, but sometimes it's on their servers for a long while...
Most services will take it down pretty quick, once asked. The problem from the *AA perspective is that it's a bitch to find all these things. They're hoping to push that task onto the service providers, and it sounds like it's working in this case.
The obvious problem is that the task is no less onerous for the service. The other obvious problem is that it winds up squelching fair use rights. Myspace is already blocking obvious parodies, etc, that use copyrighted content, almost certainly due to their own legal difficulties.
You do realize Jay-Z is just a bit of a nerd himself, don't you? Take a listen to "Kingdom Come" whilst perusing the comic series of the same name.
And good luck.
The founded had to pay 1.2M francs (~200k Euros) for the same sort of thing, claiming the Germans' occupation "hadn't been so inhumane". (I don't agree with this lack of freedom of speech in France, but they're kind of a nasty country anyway, with cops wearing masks so they can't be identfied in court and the like.)
Souds like he may have been on to something...
Who will watch the watchers of what the watchers watch?
Is it something you can buy? Did you get it for free, without approval of the people selling it, and not as a gift? Then it's stealing.
No, it's copying. That's why it's covered by copyright law. If you steal something, you deprive the owner of it. If you copy something, you don't.
I'm not saying it's right, necessarily, but it is different.