And QuickTime movies can also contain links that can automatically inform remote sites when a movie is played. Do you really want someone else being able to monitor how often you watch your downloaded porn?
No Congressperson wants to be on record as voting to take away TV.
That's why they'll call it the Protection of Open and Free Television Act or some other Orwellian name and attach it to some other feel-good or must-pass legislation.
Note that this assumes that the tracking device is "easily" removed should it later be "proven" you didn't commit the crime.
And if its not, don't think they won't continue to track you even after you die. After all, they have to make sure you don't rise from your grave to commit reverse necrophilia.
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when you can opt out of the monthy fee, i'm in.
Two of my subscribed TiVos have no monthly fees, though the cost for you to get that has gone up to $299 (I only had to pay $199, and got the lifetime service transferred to two Series2 units through a limited time offer).
Another of my TiVos runs without monthly service (actually has never been subscribed). Most Series1 standalone units can record without guide data, which you can program to record by time and channel like a VCR.
There are also new units that come with free TiVo Basic service. They are typically the units with DVD recording ability.
(And with all this, I still want to build a MythTV box for recording HD and managing my DVD collection.)
However broadcast distribution OTA of programs is not "commerical" - after all, did you pay for it?
No, the advertisers paid for me.
And I have never been under any obligation to pay the advertisers in any way for the programs I watch. I don't even have to pay them attention.
And now I'm legally empowered to present television in a derivative form that excludes commercials! (At least so long as a tangible copy isn't made.) TiVo should be releasing their version of ReplayTV's commercial skip feature any day now.
Indeed, people have been watching edited-for-television movies like Predator for years, and I'm sure there are some that have watched it that have never seen the theatrical release and thus don't know what that Predator's face looks like under his faceplate, or that he's able to speak (well, imitate) English at all.
It's one of the more bizarre edits for television I've seen. It makes the final fight scene a bit incomprehensible.
Apparently it was done so it could run in a 2 hr. timeslot with 40 minutes (or whatever) of commercials as the corresponding content of Predator 2 is intact.
And forfeiture and destruction of all copies as well as of all equipment used to make them on top of that three-year sentence.
Why? Because there may be latent images inside that hardware, so to destroy all copies, one must destroy the evil technology tainted with it too?
So if you're to risk a three-year sentence, better also use cheap-ass equipment, because you ain't gettin' it back.
(I can't wait until the first person to undergo successful reconstructive brain surgery gets his implants seized and destroyed for trying to enter a movie theater.)
Why does everyone always fall back to 127.0.0.1 when trying to mess with people?
Because when someone falls for the canonical 127.0.0.1 it's far more satisfying.
However, your point should be taken by the entertainment industry and have their fake IPs in movies and on TV be in network 127 rather than have one octet be greater than 255 (usu. in excess of 300) or having five-field addresses.
127 as the new 555.
Unless there's also a network defined to be universally invalid.
But noone can force them to sell the DVD's with frence voice-over/subtitles....
I'm sure they'll find a way to make that 1994 Toubon law apply, or pass a new law to extend it from covering just advertising of goods and services to the actual goods and services being provided to be in French.
Speaking of the Toubon law, what was the legal result of that suit against Georgia Tech Lorraine? I can only see that their website offers a French translation and is working on a German one.
It's only misleading if you don't assume it has to attach to the Mac somehow. It doesn't claim to be a Bluetooth or WiFi network-attached hard drive. Also, one of the USB ports is a USB B port, so that one could only be used one way: to attach to the computer.
But then they could have designed a proprietary harness port and a special cable with a connector for that port on one end and USB and Firewire on the other if you'd preferred. It would raise the price though.
But someone's going to have to get one, open it up, and see if it is possible to swap in normal internal drives and what type of drive it uses, e.g. serial or parallel ATA, desktop or laptop.
Sorry, but I am in the US. I just find myself buying things more often from Amazon UK. I've had no luck finding the radio show on CD in the US, and I've bought several DVD titles that weren't available in the US. (It annoys me that they won't ship toys to the US.)
But I think DNA was having some fun with the words. Possibly it was also a nod to the 5 books of the series still being called a trilogy, so the fourth and fifth phases of the radio series break with the traditional terms.
The Bill is still in the Senate ( S.167 ) So we should all write to our Senators and let them know that we support this bill
I think you should read the rest of the bill first before you do that. It also contains the titles referenced in the story Congress Declares War on File Leakers.
Perhaps we can build this into something like MythTV, where persons can author a marker file which mythTV will download when you insert the DVD.
True, this could be used to find the portions of the movie they don't want you to watch in Utah. (I'm more interested in having markers for inserting additional material in DVDs.)
But I don't think some of the other parts of this bill (e.g. the "ART Act") are a good tradeoff for getting ClearPlay out from under their lawsuit. Don't sell out the rest of us by creating a three to ten year prison sentence for attempted file sharing because ClearPlay isn't confident they'll get a judgement in their favor.
(Yes, this story is a dupe with a different spin.)
Starting out by retconning the entire Secondary Phase as a hallucination by Zaphod wasn't a good start, but I still preordered the Quandary Phase on CD at amazon.co.uk over a month ago for £11.06 ($20.93).
Hmm, good thing I took another look now. My order seems to be for ISBN 0563529644 which is out of stock and not being produced, whearas they are taking preorders for it under ISBN 056350496X for £12.99 ($24.58). I'm doubting I'll get my lower price now. And Amazon.co.uk has been a little bait-and-switchy on their prices, too.
Just to note, the evil portion is Title I of the act with the title, "`Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005' or the `ART Act'." An unfortunate use of the plural possessive "Artists'" that makes it look like they're putting scare-quotes around "Artists" suggesting a wink that artists aren't the ones that are going to benefit from this. And somehow they managed to lose the P.
Title II, the "Family Movie Act of 2005", is the good portion, but I'd rather this not be signed with Title I attached. I'd rather see a favorable judgement than this. It is more a settlement between the parties where the rest of society is enjoined from fair use.
What's going to happen when the first person with artificial eyes, ears, and memory augmentation enters a movie theater? Not only will such a person be imprisoned, but have those very eyes, ears, and memory banks forfeited and destroyed.
I don't know enough about the affected laws to know whether:
Title III A
National Film Preservation Act of 2005
Title III B
National Film Preservation Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2005, or
Title IV
Preservation of Orphan Works Act are good or evil alterations to those laws. Do any of them provide for the preservation of works only shown in theaters, such as the first special editions of the Star Wars Trilogy (IV-VI)? Because anyone daring to preserve such works now is going to risk heavy penalties while their creators enjoy a perpetual copyright. (Oh, right: evil Title I's Section 102 (c) lets government agents be authorized to tape in theaters and thus get immunity to this act, though more likely it is so that they can still tape theatergoers who engage in illegal activities in theaters while the movie is playing, typically sexual and/or drug related.)
It would also seem this law is open enough to hand down the movie prerelease penalties to people who attempt to offer television show episodes for download that have not been released on fixed media.
Also the layman's "put... in a shared folder" is actually codified as "by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public". Which could make (wired) LAN-sharing not subject to the greater penalties. Not that there aren't lesser penalties to be handed.
(Notice that "accessible" is the only criteria, not "intended to be accessible". If your wireless encryption isn't up to snuff, you're still on the hook. Consider all the ways the government can legally and secretly trespass.)
IANAL. I am also not being paranoid, only exhaustive.
I picked mine up at Amazon.com for $478.79. Though it is my second as the first was DOA (and $523.99). (It has gone back up to $549.99 now.)
The Dazzle* had given me problems before with distorted sound. I also tried ADS Tech's Pyro A/V Link but it had too many problems to be useable: it silently dropped large groups of frames; it had to be used as an uncontrolled device otherwise it couldn't capture more than 90 seconds of video at a time; being uncontrolled required FCP to beachball for long periods of time after the capture (assinging timecode data?); and it inverted the color in the middle of a capture and again while sitting idle.
I have one like that. A Cyberhome-brand player that died from non-use.
I've put a replacement drive in it, but haven't tested it yet because I've been thinking about replacing the drive with a removable hard drive bay to be used with hard drives formatted to look like very high capacity DVDs. I could have entire TV series stored on a single drive.
But then there's that MythTV system I have yet to build beckoning me.
That is the route I've been going. I've been using the Canopus ADVC-300 (ever since my Dazzle* Hollywood DV-Bridge went crazy) to convert the S-Video out of the TiVo to a DV stream. Edit with Final Cut Pro, master with DVD Studio Pro, burn with Toast.
Though I do have a PC and will give SonicDVD's trial a go. Of course, there's still a hole in their security. If I can burn them to a consumer DVD, then I can rerip it from the DVD in the same quality as it was burned, and no DeCSSing necessary so no DMCA worries. Then it's just a matter of getting SonicDVD to burn to a file instead of a real DVD and I don't end up making coasters.
If the TiVo extraction and SonicDVD retains the line21 closed captioning data, all the better since my analog video capture throws that data out. And I could parse the line21 data directly and create subtitles in an automated fashion; I wouldn't have to capture again with open captions with which to master subtitles manually.
Meanwhile, I'm looking to get a hard drive back into my other PC and building a MythTV box, not just for recording TV but also for serving my DVD library. (If you think having TiVo is like running your own network, wait to you see what I plan to do with MythTV!)
If the Internet does not constitute 'public communication,' what possibly can?
Any law that seeks to legally establish something contrary to fact should be unconstitutional in some way, be it Internet content not being "public communictions", greyhounds not being "dogs" (in Kansas), or evidence of a file being on a public file server being equivalent to evidence of it being copied 1000 times instantaneously at a minimum (or whatever is the minimum to elevate copyright infringement to felony status, eliminating part of the state's burden of proof and rendering moot any evidence to the contrary).
If they want to exclude Internet communication from the category of FEC-regulated speech, they should be able to do it without redefining it completely out of the speech category, otherwise they lay the groundwork to exclude Internet communciation from all Amendment I protections.
I run a Blue & White G3 upgraded with a G4 processor and run versions of Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio Pro modified to run on this AGP-less platform. I'd run them on the G4 Cube instead if the Cube wasn't 100 MHz slower and I felt confident in my Firewire enclosures to not suddenly eat all my data. (I've installed a drive bay vertically in one of the B&W's drive bays to allow more internal hard drive storage and an extra ATA card for larger volume support.)
You know I'm drooling over getting a new machine. And if FCPHD will support Xgrid, I'll have an extra five-seat license for Tiger to squeeze out a little more power out of those other two and a PowerMac 7500/300G3 w/XPostFacto if updated for Tiger. (I don't get rid of my old machines.)
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The second should be to declassify archive files as 'safe' (with the exception of disk images), because it makes it easy to write files in this way.
Wasn't there another exploit in Panther that involved the auto-mounting of disk images in Safari?
And QuickTime movies can also contain links that can automatically inform remote sites when a movie is played. Do you really want someone else being able to monitor how often you watch your downloaded porn?
Security of my papers includes the right to not have to show ID to an agent of the state.
Then expect not to own your own ID. They will instead be owned by the state and only entrusted to you, thereby presentable on demand without warrant.
No Congressperson wants to be on record as voting to take away TV.
That's why they'll call it the Protection of Open and Free Television Act or some other Orwellian name and attach it to some other feel-good or must-pass legislation.
Note that this assumes that the tracking device is "easily" removed should it later be "proven" you didn't commit the crime.
And if its not, don't think they won't continue to track you even after you die. After all, they have to make sure you don't rise from your grave to commit reverse necrophilia.
when you can opt out of the monthy fee, i'm in.
Two of my subscribed TiVos have no monthly fees, though the cost for you to get that has gone up to $299 (I only had to pay $199, and got the lifetime service transferred to two Series2 units through a limited time offer).
Another of my TiVos runs without monthly service (actually has never been subscribed). Most Series1 standalone units can record without guide data, which you can program to record by time and channel like a VCR.
There are also new units that come with free TiVo Basic service. They are typically the units with DVD recording ability.
(And with all this, I still want to build a MythTV box for recording HD and managing my DVD collection.)
Wow, what an ending! Who would have thought Han Solo was Luke Skywalker's half-brother.
However broadcast distribution OTA of programs is not "commerical" - after all, did you pay for it?
No, the advertisers paid for me.
And I have never been under any obligation to pay the advertisers in any way for the programs I watch. I don't even have to pay them attention.
And now I'm legally empowered to present television in a derivative form that excludes commercials! (At least so long as a tangible copy isn't made.) TiVo should be releasing their version of ReplayTV's commercial skip feature any day now.
Indeed, people have been watching edited-for-television movies like Predator for years, and I'm sure there are some that have watched it that have never seen the theatrical release and thus don't know what that Predator's face looks like under his faceplate, or that he's able to speak (well, imitate) English at all.
It's one of the more bizarre edits for television I've seen. It makes the final fight scene a bit incomprehensible.
Apparently it was done so it could run in a 2 hr. timeslot with 40 minutes (or whatever) of commercials as the corresponding content of Predator 2 is intact.
And forfeiture and destruction of all copies as well as of all equipment used to make them on top of that three-year sentence.
Why? Because there may be latent images inside that hardware, so to destroy all copies, one must destroy the evil technology tainted with it too?
So if you're to risk a three-year sentence, better also use cheap-ass equipment, because you ain't gettin' it back.
(I can't wait until the first person to undergo successful reconstructive brain surgery gets his implants seized and destroyed for trying to enter a movie theater.)
the thing that separates human-written code from computer-generated code is that our stuff is readable to future programmers
Wouldn't that depend on who the future programmers are: men or machines?
Why does everyone always fall back to 127.0.0.1 when trying to mess with people?
Because when someone falls for the canonical 127.0.0.1 it's far more satisfying.
However, your point should be taken by the entertainment industry and have their fake IPs in movies and on TV be in network 127 rather than have one octet be greater than 255 (usu. in excess of 300) or having five-field addresses.
127 as the new 555.
Unless there's also a network defined to be universally invalid.
But noone can force them to sell the DVD's with frence voice-over/subtitles....
I'm sure they'll find a way to make that 1994 Toubon law apply, or pass a new law to extend it from covering just advertising of goods and services to the actual goods and services being provided to be in French.
Speaking of the Toubon law, what was the legal result of that suit against Georgia Tech Lorraine? I can only see that their website offers a French translation and is working on a German one.
It's only misleading if you don't assume it has to attach to the Mac somehow. It doesn't claim to be a Bluetooth or WiFi network-attached hard drive. Also, one of the USB ports is a USB B port, so that one could only be used one way: to attach to the computer.
But then they could have designed a proprietary harness port and a special cable with a connector for that port on one end and USB and Firewire on the other if you'd preferred. It would raise the price though.
I like how its under-the-computer design resembles Mac hard drives of old.
But someone's going to have to get one, open it up, and see if it is possible to swap in normal internal drives and what type of drive it uses, e.g. serial or parallel ATA, desktop or laptop.
Sorry, but I am in the US. I just find myself buying things more often from Amazon UK. I've had no luck finding the radio show on CD in the US, and I've bought several DVD titles that weren't available in the US. (It annoys me that they won't ship toys to the US.)
But I think DNA was having some fun with the words. Possibly it was also a nod to the 5 books of the series still being called a trilogy, so the fourth and fifth phases of the radio series break with the traditional terms.
The Bill is still in the Senate ( S.167 ) So we should all write to our Senators and let them know that we support this bill
I think you should read the rest of the bill first before you do that. It also contains the titles referenced in the story Congress Declares War on File Leakers.
Perhaps we can build this into something like MythTV, where persons can author a marker file which mythTV will download when you insert the DVD.
True, this could be used to find the portions of the movie they don't want you to watch in Utah. (I'm more interested in having markers for inserting additional material in DVDs.)
But I don't think some of the other parts of this bill (e.g. the "ART Act") are a good tradeoff for getting ClearPlay out from under their lawsuit. Don't sell out the rest of us by creating a three to ten year prison sentence for attempted file sharing because ClearPlay isn't confident they'll get a judgement in their favor.
(Yes, this story is a dupe with a different spin.)
Starting out by retconning the entire Secondary Phase as a hallucination by Zaphod wasn't a good start, but I still preordered the Quandary Phase on CD at amazon.co.uk over a month ago for £11.06 ($20.93).
Hmm, good thing I took another look now. My order seems to be for ISBN 0563529644 which is out of stock and not being produced, whearas they are taking preorders for it under ISBN 056350496X for £12.99 ($24.58). I'm doubting I'll get my lower price now. And Amazon.co.uk has been a little bait-and-switchy on their prices, too.
Just to note, the evil portion is Title I of the act with the title, "`Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005' or the `ART Act'." An unfortunate use of the plural possessive "Artists'" that makes it look like they're putting scare-quotes around "Artists" suggesting a wink that artists aren't the ones that are going to benefit from this. And somehow they managed to lose the P.
Title II, the "Family Movie Act of 2005", is the good portion, but I'd rather this not be signed with Title I attached. I'd rather see a favorable judgement than this. It is more a settlement between the parties where the rest of society is enjoined from fair use.
What's going to happen when the first person with artificial eyes, ears, and memory augmentation enters a movie theater? Not only will such a person be imprisoned, but have those very eyes, ears, and memory banks forfeited and destroyed.
I don't know enough about the affected laws to know whether: Title III A National Film Preservation Act of 2005 Title III B National Film Preservation Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2005, or Title IV Preservation of Orphan Works Act are good or evil alterations to those laws. Do any of them provide for the preservation of works only shown in theaters, such as the first special editions of the Star Wars Trilogy (IV-VI)? Because anyone daring to preserve such works now is going to risk heavy penalties while their creators enjoy a perpetual copyright. (Oh, right: evil Title I's Section 102 (c) lets government agents be authorized to tape in theaters and thus get immunity to this act, though more likely it is so that they can still tape theatergoers who engage in illegal activities in theaters while the movie is playing, typically sexual and/or drug related.)
It would also seem this law is open enough to hand down the movie prerelease penalties to people who attempt to offer television show episodes for download that have not been released on fixed media.
Also the layman's "put... in a shared folder" is actually codified as "by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public". Which could make (wired) LAN-sharing not subject to the greater penalties. Not that there aren't lesser penalties to be handed.
(Notice that "accessible" is the only criteria, not "intended to be accessible". If your wireless encryption isn't up to snuff, you're still on the hook. Consider all the ways the government can legally and secretly trespass.)
IANAL. I am also not being paranoid, only exhaustive.
I picked mine up at Amazon.com for $478.79. Though it is my second as the first was DOA (and $523.99). (It has gone back up to $549.99 now.)
The Dazzle* had given me problems before with distorted sound. I also tried ADS Tech's Pyro A/V Link but it had too many problems to be useable: it silently dropped large groups of frames; it had to be used as an uncontrolled device otherwise it couldn't capture more than 90 seconds of video at a time; being uncontrolled required FCP to beachball for long periods of time after the capture (assinging timecode data?); and it inverted the color in the middle of a capture and again while sitting idle.
I could have gotten by with the ADVC-110, but the 300 had features I couldn't pass up.
Actually, the timing is not coincidental because they are not happening at the same time: Tiger releases on April 29.
But it is also not a coincidence in that the timing is not accidental but rather deliberate.
I have one like that. A Cyberhome-brand player that died from non-use.
I've put a replacement drive in it, but haven't tested it yet because I've been thinking about replacing the drive with a removable hard drive bay to be used with hard drives formatted to look like very high capacity DVDs. I could have entire TV series stored on a single drive.
But then there's that MythTV system I have yet to build beckoning me.
That is the route I've been going. I've been using the Canopus ADVC-300 (ever since my Dazzle* Hollywood DV-Bridge went crazy) to convert the S-Video out of the TiVo to a DV stream. Edit with Final Cut Pro, master with DVD Studio Pro, burn with Toast.
Though I do have a PC and will give SonicDVD's trial a go. Of course, there's still a hole in their security. If I can burn them to a consumer DVD, then I can rerip it from the DVD in the same quality as it was burned, and no DeCSSing necessary so no DMCA worries. Then it's just a matter of getting SonicDVD to burn to a file instead of a real DVD and I don't end up making coasters.
If the TiVo extraction and SonicDVD retains the line21 closed captioning data, all the better since my analog video capture throws that data out. And I could parse the line21 data directly and create subtitles in an automated fashion; I wouldn't have to capture again with open captions with which to master subtitles manually.
Meanwhile, I'm looking to get a hard drive back into my other PC and building a MythTV box, not just for recording TV but also for serving my DVD library. (If you think having TiVo is like running your own network, wait to you see what I plan to do with MythTV!)
If the Internet does not constitute 'public communication,' what possibly can?
Any law that seeks to legally establish something contrary to fact should be unconstitutional in some way, be it Internet content not being "public communictions", greyhounds not being "dogs" (in Kansas), or evidence of a file being on a public file server being equivalent to evidence of it being copied 1000 times instantaneously at a minimum (or whatever is the minimum to elevate copyright infringement to felony status, eliminating part of the state's burden of proof and rendering moot any evidence to the contrary).
If they want to exclude Internet communication from the category of FEC-regulated speech, they should be able to do it without redefining it completely out of the speech category, otherwise they lay the groundwork to exclude Internet communciation from all Amendment I protections.
I run a Blue & White G3 upgraded with a G4 processor and run versions of Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio Pro modified to run on this AGP-less platform. I'd run them on the G4 Cube instead if the Cube wasn't 100 MHz slower and I felt confident in my Firewire enclosures to not suddenly eat all my data. (I've installed a drive bay vertically in one of the B&W's drive bays to allow more internal hard drive storage and an extra ATA card for larger volume support.)
You know I'm drooling over getting a new machine. And if FCPHD will support Xgrid, I'll have an extra five-seat license for Tiger to squeeze out a little more power out of those other two and a PowerMac 7500/300G3 w/XPostFacto if updated for Tiger. (I don't get rid of my old machines.)
Also, many people don't know this but the radio scripts diverge pretty far from the books, with entire planets and escapades not present in the texts.
And then came the Tertiary Phase which, from my listening, seems to have effectively retconned the whole Secondary Phase as a hallucination by Zaphod.