I installed OpenOffice.org's suite yesterday, and the installer did everything for me. It was weird -- I'd become so used to./configure && make && su -c 'make install', but all I did for OOo was run this setup script (actually, I did double-click on its icon, and then Nautilus asked me if I wanted to run in), which popped up a nice pretty full screen thing with a progress meter. Sorta felt like WinXP again. (Not really sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...it was just weird.)
> > Why are concert recordings illegal? Is it like taping a movie at the theater?
> Yes.
No.
The artist performing the concert can choose to allow or disallow recording the concert, just as the creator of a movie can choose to allow/disallow bootlegs. Many artists (FurthurNet has a list of 900+) have specifically chosen to allow the recording and distribution of their concerts.
Despite the fact that American copyright law is a bit overzealous and grants full copyright to the creators of applicable media automatically, creators can choose to override that copyright in any way they see fit.
They do allow you to legally record a concert, assuming you have permission. The same applies for eMusic's keydrive distribution -- they can't record and distribute the concert if they don't first have permission. The use of instantly making a copy of the live show available on keydrives isn't inherently legal either, since both assume that the performing artist has allowed the recording of the show. A list of artists participating in this eMusic thing is a list of performers/copyright holders allowing eMusic's distribution method.
My point was that being able to legally record a show is not a novel concept despite the tone of the post (as previous posters have pointed out, the Dead had allowed it for decades, and recently Phish and Bela Fleck are too)...I blame my half-hearted attempt to get a relevant FP for the lack of clarity.
(That, and FurthurNet is free-in-the-beer-sense...mmm, beer...)
Oh yeah, I forget to mention how much it costs to download a full setlist or two off of FurtherNet: a big fat $0. These recordings are often high-quality,.ogg or.flac.
Compare that to buying the keydrive ($20) and then paying to get the songs ($10).
Finally, favorite quote from TFA:
"[Jennifer] Charles [participating musician] called the new technology 'a beautiful thing.' 'I'm very excited to be a part of this incredible and sexy technology,' she said between songs. 'It makes us feel very James Bond. You can have your little pens -- wow, beam me up Scotty.' "
Before I sit around and watch the comments pile up, there have been "devices" available for years that allow you to record a concert legally -- they're called tape recorders. These days, many serious hobbyist tapers are moving to a digital-only setup to cut down on loss of audio quality. (Wish I could give you model numbers or something, but that's what Google's for folks...)
Now, the "instant" bit of this is what's actually interesting. 'Course, you're dependent upon the venue for all this, and we know how much us slashdotters like being dependent upon stuff that doesn't smell like open-source/community-owned...
To get around the sticky problem of storing people's private keys, I think it'd be handy if Gmail just took care of the encrypting side of things, and let people decrypt things themselves. (Especially if they allow POP access, as some mail clients have GPG plugins and such.) If Gmail just stored public keys and organized them in a keyring for you, when you sent something to a user whose public key they have, they could encrypt it before sending it on its merry way.
As for not being able to stick ads in the way with encrypted email -- well, I'd bet the amount of encrypted email Gmail gets will be vastly overshadowed by plaintext mail, and it wouldn't really cut into profits. Or perhaps the software that analyzes mail and matches up ads could be tailored to recognize GPG-encrypted messages, and display ads for security programs?
"...Mac OS X...got it right. You download the DMG, it mounts as a folder, you copy the "program" (really a folder that the OS makes look like a file) to your Applications directory. Done."
The Zero Install system does this same make-the-directory-containing-the-program-look-lik e-the-program-itself thing, aiming to be a program repository and easy method of installation/uninstallation in one go. It's like OSX's folder-mounting plus apt-get plus a nice big cache of available programs all in one.
You can get this behavior from Firefox by going to about:config and changing "browser.turbo.enabled" to "true". It will load normally the first time, but after you close it parts of the browser will stay in memory, so the next time you open it will be much quicker.
Installing some themes and extensions can prevent Firefox from starting if they've been written for an old release. Then you've got to delete your ~/.phoenix and re-customize it all over again...
"on W2K/XP they might never actually see the fruits of their labour"
That is, unless you've got something Windows considers faulty hardware. Before switching to Linux-only, I used to get a BSOD (not the BSOD, though) about once a week in XP Pro. Something about a lost connection with the hard drive...but it hasn't happened once in Linux.
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Just another step in making Unreal Tournament a reality, ma'am.
Actually, I can answer my own question. According to this story from the Korea Herald, Red Flag will contributing knowledge, if not helping with the development:
"At ['a meeting of government officials and industry figures in Beijing on Saturday'], Chinese software company Red Flag Linux and its Japanese partner Miracle Linux presented the results of their joint efforts in developing 'Asianux,' software designed as a compatible open-source standard for Asia. Korean companies Hancom, Wow Linux and others also exchanged their knowledge with the overseas counterparts."
"Gmail includes a sophisticated spam filter that we're continuing to improve. The Report Spam link in Gmail is a way for users to help with this effort. It removes spam from the inbox and sends valuable data to the Gmail team working on spam blocking." [link]
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Yep. Pink Floyd released an album or two in quadrophonic sound.
If memory/common sense serves, it failed because no one had four speakers hooked up to their record players.
Yep. They can also invite two friends to sign up, too.
I installed OpenOffice.org's suite yesterday, and the installer did everything for me. It was weird -- I'd become so used to ./configure && make && su -c 'make install', but all I did for OOo was run this setup script (actually, I did double-click on its icon, and then Nautilus asked me if I wanted to run in), which popped up a nice pretty full screen thing with a progress meter. Sorta felt like WinXP again. (Not really sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...it was just weird.)
Actually, the name of the bill is the USA PATRIOT Act:
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No.
The artist performing the concert can choose to allow or disallow recording the concert, just as the creator of a movie can choose to allow/disallow bootlegs. Many artists (FurthurNet has a list of 900+) have specifically chosen to allow the recording and distribution of their concerts.
Despite the fact that American copyright law is a bit overzealous and grants full copyright to the creators of applicable media automatically, creators can choose to override that copyright in any way they see fit.
You might be interested in this -- a list of 900+ artists whose live music is available for free, usually in OGG/SHN/FLAC format, over networks like FurthurNet.
They do allow you to legally record a concert, assuming you have permission. The same applies for eMusic's keydrive distribution -- they can't record and distribute the concert if they don't first have permission. The use of instantly making a copy of the live show available on keydrives isn't inherently legal either, since both assume that the performing artist has allowed the recording of the show. A list of artists participating in this eMusic thing is a list of performers/copyright holders allowing eMusic's distribution method.
My point was that being able to legally record a show is not a novel concept despite the tone of the post (as previous posters have pointed out, the Dead had allowed it for decades, and recently Phish and Bela Fleck are too)...I blame my half-hearted attempt to get a relevant FP for the lack of clarity.
(That, and FurthurNet is free-in-the-beer-sense...mmm, beer...)
Oh yeah, I forget to mention how much it costs to download a full setlist or two off of FurtherNet: a big fat $0. These recordings are often high-quality, .ogg or .flac.
Compare that to buying the keydrive ($20) and then paying to get the songs ($10).
Finally, favorite quote from TFA:
...hippie crack much?
(Sit back and moderate? Comment? What's a slashdotter to do...)
With all the DCMA/DRM/copyright FUD being thrown from monkey to monkey these days, it seems that some of us forget that recording a concert is not inherently illegal. There are many, many artists who encourage the taping and distributing of their live shows -- here's a list of more than 900 of them. Furthermore, there's even a P2P client dedicated to sharing 100%-legal music. That's right folks, the RIAA doesn't have anything to do with this.
Before I sit around and watch the comments pile up, there have been "devices" available for years that allow you to record a concert legally -- they're called tape recorders. These days, many serious hobbyist tapers are moving to a digital-only setup to cut down on loss of audio quality. (Wish I could give you model numbers or something, but that's what Google's for folks...)
Now, the "instant" bit of this is what's actually interesting. 'Course, you're dependent upon the venue for all this, and we know how much us slashdotters like being dependent upon stuff that doesn't smell like open-source/community-owned...
That's a good idea.
To get around the sticky problem of storing people's private keys, I think it'd be handy if Gmail just took care of the encrypting side of things, and let people decrypt things themselves. (Especially if they allow POP access, as some mail clients have GPG plugins and such.) If Gmail just stored public keys and organized them in a keyring for you, when you sent something to a user whose public key they have, they could encrypt it before sending it on its merry way.
As for not being able to stick ads in the way with encrypted email -- well, I'd bet the amount of encrypted email Gmail gets will be vastly overshadowed by plaintext mail, and it wouldn't really cut into profits. Or perhaps the software that analyzes mail and matches up ads could be tailored to recognize GPG-encrypted messages, and display ads for security programs?
After visiting Google-Watch for the first time today, I'd put money down that the webmaster behind that site is making a fortune in tin foil stocks.
The Zero Install system does this same make-the-directory-containing-the-program-look-lik e-the-program-itself thing, aiming to be a program repository and easy method of installation/uninstallation in one go. It's like OSX's folder-mounting plus apt-get plus a nice big cache of available programs all in one.
Hmm...
Real geeks who dislike the RIAA and/or want to stick it to The Man use Mute, a free and anonymous filesharing program.
This looks like a job for Jabber...
And support the Furthur network, dedicated to trading legal live music!
You can get this behavior from Firefox by going to about:config and changing "browser.turbo.enabled" to "true". It will load normally the first time, but after you close it parts of the browser will stay in memory, so the next time you open it will be much quicker.
Installing some themes and extensions can prevent Firefox from starting if they've been written for an old release. Then you've got to delete your ~/.phoenix and re-customize it all over again...
That is, unless you've got something Windows considers faulty hardware. Before switching to Linux-only, I used to get a BSOD (not the BSOD, though) about once a week in XP Pro. Something about a lost connection with the hard drive...but it hasn't happened once in Linux.
Just another step in making Unreal Tournament a reality, ma'am.
Actually, I can answer my own question. According to this story from the Korea Herald, Red Flag will contributing knowledge, if not helping with the development:
My only question..."Asianux"??
I wonder how this will fare for Red Flag Linux (English)? Nothing like a government-sponsored monopoly to cut into profits...
They're doing something like that.
The service's page isn't very informative... Here's the page in its entirety:
Bah. I wanted to read more.
I hope not. Slashdot is one of my only connection with English-speeking nerds as I'm in China teaching English at the moment.