ODRL is a XML based rights expression language. So it will allow you to express a license of rights that could be considered Orwellian.
It could also be used in many positive and creative ways (an exercise left for the reader).
But it is not an access control technology (DRM) in of itself.
There is another XML based rights expression language being pushed by DRM vendor ContentGuard called XrML - which they own but 'freely' licence.
The real question is: Can a rights expression language express unregulated uses?
What should the defacto position on which an instance of expressed rights (in ORML or XrML) be?
Can a rights expression language express that the content is no longer covered by copyright in the EU?
Larry Lessig's Free Culture discusses the unregulated side of this issue.
1/ James Blaylock - P K Dick Award winner - wonderful fantasy, often based on the West Coast, he manages to create wonder out of ordinary human experience by his unique way of describing the world.
Philip K Dick described his work as "A magical world, magically presented...having journeyed there you will not wish to leave, nor ever to forget."
2/ Lucius Shepard - Nebula Award winner writes a mix of SF, fantasy and horror. Green Eyes and Life During Wartime are my favourites.
3/ Rudy Rucker - fiction and nonfiction. The XXXware series are a good fun read. Check 'Mind Tools' and the 4th Dimension for some math mind fuck.
3 authors that are IMHO hugely under appreciated:
1/ James Blaylock - P K Dick Award winner - wonderful fantasy, often based on the West Coast, he manages to create wonder out of ordinary human experience by his unique way of describing the world.
Philip K Dick described his work as "A magical world, magically presented...having journeyed there you will not wish to leave, nor ever to forget."
2/ Lucius Shepard - Nebula Award winner writes a mix of SF, fantasy and horror. Green Eyes and Life During Wartime are my favourites.
3/ Rudy Rucker - fiction and nonfiction. The XXXware series are a good fun read. Check 'Mind Tools' and the 4th Dimension for some math mind fuck....and China Mieville is one to watch...
as others have commented the tech is useless without the savvy. nz could compete because we had savvy - however much of that savvy has been bought by the billionaire boys.
some people in nz are pushing back on that - Blackheart
others like Greenpeace are pushing back on the sponsorship of the French boat.
me...i'm just sick of auckland's gyms being full of yank jocks hogging all the gear...all that money why can't they build themselves dedicated gyms...
I saw two of these at the mega Field Days show last year in NZ. From memory one was US manufactured and the other Swiss or German. In addition to the point made about human contact being a 'good thing' for the monitoring of the cows heath two things struck me about these.
1/ They were bloody expensive, especially once you converted from US$ or DM or SF to the pacific peso aka NZ$.
2/ They were very slow, watching the robot locate the teats was painfully glacial.
It 'may' be economic for farmers with small herds in countries where they recieve massive state subsidies but......
I'm intrigued as to how it does this. What signals in the US have EPG information encoded in them? What formats? How does this work with terrestrial analog signals?
With Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), the Euro and Rest of Non-N.American world this information is encoded as System Information (SI).
So if you only wanted to watch digital satellite there is a route for Tivo to acquire the schedule.
I guess the same would be true with DirecTV?
However aren't Tivo selling a subscription service for the guide?
Freedom in where you acquire your EPG information is from me where the issue is with these PVRs. I want to be able to select a particular guide that has a POV that I like. Imagine a cross between a EPG and a weblog.
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It could also be used in many positive and creative ways (an exercise left for the reader).
But it is not an access control technology (DRM) in of itself.
There is another XML based rights expression language being pushed by DRM vendor ContentGuard called XrML - which they own but 'freely' licence.
The real question is: Can a rights expression language express unregulated uses?
What should the defacto position on which an instance of expressed rights (in ORML or XrML) be?
Can a rights expression language express that the content is no longer covered by copyright in the EU?
Larry Lessig's Free Culture discusses the unregulated side of this issue.
3 authors that are IMHO hugely under appreciated:
1/ James Blaylock - P K Dick Award winner - wonderful fantasy, often based on the West Coast, he manages to create wonder out of ordinary human experience by his unique way of describing the world.
Philip K Dick described his work as "A magical world, magically presented...having journeyed there you will not wish to leave, nor ever to forget."
2/ Lucius Shepard - Nebula Award winner writes a mix of SF, fantasy and horror. Green Eyes and Life During Wartime are my favourites.
3/ Rudy Rucker - fiction and nonfiction. The XXXware series are a good fun read. Check 'Mind Tools' and the 4th Dimension for some math mind fuck.
3 authors that are IMHO hugely under appreciated: 1/ James Blaylock - P K Dick Award winner - wonderful fantasy, often based on the West Coast, he manages to create wonder out of ordinary human experience by his unique way of describing the world. Philip K Dick described his work as "A magical world, magically presented...having journeyed there you will not wish to leave, nor ever to forget." 2/ Lucius Shepard - Nebula Award winner writes a mix of SF, fantasy and horror. Green Eyes and Life During Wartime are my favourites. 3/ Rudy Rucker - fiction and nonfiction. The XXXware series are a good fun read. Check 'Mind Tools' and the 4th Dimension for some math mind fuck. ...and China Mieville is one to watch...
as others have commented the tech is useless without the savvy. nz could compete because we had savvy - however much of that savvy has been bought by the billionaire boys.
some people in nz are pushing back on that - Blackheart
others like Greenpeace are pushing back on the sponsorship of the French boat.
me...i'm just sick of auckland's gyms being full of yank jocks hogging all the gear...all that money why can't they build themselves dedicated gyms...
I saw two of these at the mega Field Days show last year in NZ. From memory one was US manufactured and the other Swiss or German. In addition to the point made about human contact being a 'good thing' for the monitoring of the cows heath two things struck me about these.
1/ They were bloody expensive, especially once you converted from US$ or DM or SF to the pacific peso aka NZ$.
2/ They were very slow, watching the robot locate the teats was painfully glacial.
It 'may' be economic for farmers with small herds in countries where they recieve massive state subsidies but......
"The Tivo gets its guide data off the air"
I'm intrigued as to how it does this. What signals in the US have EPG information encoded in them? What formats? How does this work with terrestrial analog signals?
With Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), the Euro and Rest of Non-N.American world this information is encoded as System Information (SI).
So if you only wanted to watch digital satellite there is a route for Tivo to acquire the schedule.
I guess the same would be true with DirecTV?
However aren't Tivo selling a subscription service for the guide?
Freedom in where you acquire your EPG information is from me where the issue is with these PVRs. I want to be able to select a particular guide that has a POV that I like. Imagine a cross between a EPG and a weblog.