Re:Friendly local vs friendly global
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RFID Tags For The Rich
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Anyone else reminded of Minority Report? Substitute RFID tags for Retinal Scanners, and your there. That's where we are heading folks...
I have no problem with a store doing this when I give permission. I also have no problem with RFID tags IN THE STORE. It's when they stay on after I leave with my purchase, open for anyone to read, that I have a problem.
When reached for comment, Comcast Vice President of Public Relations, Craven Dick had this to say:
"Well with three users on Mars, even a 6th grader could figure out one of them is going to be amoung the high bandwidth users. We told NASA to either cut back or encourage the EU to send more probes. Comcast would be delighted to provide service to further EU Space Agency probes."
"The orbiter then uses its more-powerful antenna to send as many as one million bits of data per second back to Earth. While fairly fast for an attenuated radio connection, that's only about a tenth of the speed of a cable-modem connection for the average home-computer user."
Unless they are using Commcast, such high bandwidth usage would violate the vauge acceptable use policy, putting the rover in the top 10% of Mars bandwidth users.
Ah, maybe that's what happened. NASA ignored the first warning letter, and got cut off.
"It's happened with DNA, fingerprints, computer cracking..."
That's the problem. DNA I won't argue with, but do you know how bad fingerprint evidence is? The number of points required for a match varies from 9 (US) to over 28 (AU I think). Fingerprints are far from what I would consider objective scientific evidence.
Some would say Lie Detectors are "Scientific Evidence" as well. Go do a google search on the truth about lie detectors. The rely on a tricking the user into beliveing it can read them. It can easily be defeated with a tack in the shoe or controling/timing breathing rates with the questions and paying attention to the Control Questions.
A lot of my family was/is in law enforcement. It's about getting the bad guy, and sometimes that goes a little too far. I don't want digital photos manipulated to show what the computer user thinks is there. You could make it into just about anything.
Please say the arival city: "MCI" Did you say, Miami . . Florida? "NO" Please say the arival city: "Kansas City" Did you say, Stolkholm, Sweeden? "God Damit NO!" 0,#,0,* Please say the arival city: "KANSAS CITY" Did you say, Miami . . Florida? "FFFFUUUUCCCCKKK YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT, FUCK YOU, I'LL MISS MY GOD DAM FLIGHT I'M ALRADY LATE FOR" click.
That's where I think your completely wrong. I'm actually surprised more of the/. crowd doesn't agree with the following viewpoint:
Software flaws exist PERIOD. They always have and always will. What would you rather have:
1. A small group of 100 or so people (Govenrment, individuals, organized crime, etc) with the ability to log into your machine, do whatever they want to with it (Set up a kiddie porn ring, steal your identity, etc.)
2. A virus that exploits the flaw, disrupts computer networks forcing people to patch the flaw. (Many still don't, as Code Red is alive and well)
I'm all for #2. The flaws exist. Without viruses, then people would NOT patch there systems. When somebody relases a virus, they are saying, hey there's a problem here that needs immediate attention or just about anyone can take over your computer. These guys should be rewarded not punished. IMO they are performing a service letting everyone know of a flaw they discovered, and providing incentive to correct the flaw.
As computers become a bigger part of our everyday life, they are trusted more and more. I would be a lot more concerned in a world with no viruses, and computers that are generally considered "Secure." That puts the power to ruin someones life in the hands of a few.
"This action appears to be an extraordinary waste of time, money and resources going over legal ground that has been well and truly covered in the US and Dutch Courts over the past 18 months," said Sharman Networks in a statement. "This is a knee-jerk reaction by the recording industry to discredit Sharman Networks and the Kazaa software, following a number of recent court decisions around the world that have ruled against the entertainment industry's agenda to stamp out peer-to-peer technology."
NUF SAID. You may now go back to your normally scheduled downloads. . .
No, because the clothes with tags and approprate reference data tie locations to individuals. Look at the case that recently struck down parts of the patriot act. 3 people were threatened with 15 years in Jail for supporting an orginization that was on the BS terror lists.
That is a perfect example of abuse of power. If the government could track where you are, what meeting you attend, what groups you belong to, who you associate with, You don't have any privacy. That gives them the ability to easily (through a computer profiling program) identify you, and threaten you with whatever they want to. I don't want some idiot like John Aschroft desiding this kind of stuff for me.
Think about this, your a clothing company, you put in the RFID tags for inventory management, or because Walmart says so.
Then one day somebody says, hey I'll pay you $10K if you tell me what ID's are in what color/style jeans.
Same company sets up sensors in the mall, and presto, you know what style of clothes kids are wearing. How valuable would that realtime information be to clothing manufacturers/fashion designers? Why would clothing manufacturers want consumers to be able to remove the tags? There making 100K just selling the tagging info! If customers remove the tags, they loose the revenue stream.
Obviously this is just one example, that could be duplicated in a number of different ways. I'm just trying to point out how it could start, and very quickly evolve into a tracking system for every individual in the World (One day).
The question you HAVE to ask is, "If the British had this technology when the Americas were British colonies, would there be an America or would the British have found out and put a stop to the revolt?" If that answer is ever no, then this technology should be defeated. This country was founded on basic rights, and privacy is definately one of them.
It's easy to say "Ah, it's no big deal." It's a lot harder to get a law passed 10 years from now outlawing such a mainstream technology.
Re:Only a problem if you never change clothes
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The Trouble with RFID
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· Score: 4, Informative
Maybe now, but think down the road a few years. You have an RFID tag in your jacket, shoes, pants, cellphone, carkeys, and wallet. You walk by a sensor, and it ties all thoes things together.
Sure, you change clothes, but what about your phone? What happens when you wear the same pair of shoes with different clotes? The data warehouse ties that serial number in with your profile and builds a profile of all the items you own. There's not an easy way to eacape that.
I work in datawarehousing. We have a system that processes about a billion transactions a day. Each record is far mor complex than than a simple RFID and station ID. We also tie multiple records together into transactions. The scenaro above could be very real.
"This ad shows how everything has changed," says Mitch Bainwol, RIAA chairman. "Legal downloading is great because fans are supporting the future of creative work in America."
"RIAA has filed 914 lawsuits since it began cracking down in September, including 532 this week."
Mitch, if things have changed, why are you still filing lawsuits? The truth is as long as a product's price is artificially inflated, there will be a black market for that product. You guys never learn, you were celebrating after shutting down napster, but what happened? 5 more popped up in it's place. Shutdown Kazaa, what's going to happen? People will move to tools like soulseek and newsgroups.
If you simply provided a high quality product at a fair price over the internet, then piracy would be reduced to 10% of what it is today. Instead you provide low quality audio recordings with what you call Digital Rights Managemet (Consumers should call this what it is, Digital Restrictions Management, because who's rights is it managing?), at the same price you charge for a physical product.
I hope you don't learn your lesson. I hope more and more artists will see the light, and manage there own distribution chanels with the internet. The world would be a better place without the RIAA. Music survived before you, and it will live on after you're gone. Good riddens!
Yes color copiers have been around for years. When Xerox first came out with one, it somehow managed to exactly duplicate the "Top Secret ink formula" used in the old $20 bills. They were forced to alter this color to a different shade. (My old college professor was a Xerox manager)
Also, anyone know why we have new bills comming out? The US sold a printing machine to IRAN years ago, who in the 90's started using it to print US currency. This currency was getting passed the scanners the Federal Reserve branches use to check incomming money. The "SuperNotes" as they are called, could not be detected as conterfit.
This would keep some stupid kids from printing up currency and getting into a lot of trouble.
You would consider the fact that a product which enabled fair use, which consnumers loved was sued into bankruptcy/submission a problem?
Not only that, but the declaritory ruling the EFF was seeking would have clarifyied the entertainment industry's right to do this again. Since it was dismissed, they are free to sue the next one and do this again. Yea, I agree, no harm done here. !?!
1. Hollywood firms equate skipping commercials to stealing TV
2. Sue Sonic Blue into Bankrupcy
3. Sonic Blue is forced to sell of the business unit
4. New company disables the features
5. Hollywood drops suit so they can use the same tatic against the next firm that dares give consumers fair use rights over content they have paid for.
6..... (Any Manufactures in China want to step up? )
"This image highlights streaks or tails of loose debris in the martian soil, which reveal the direction of prevailing winds. The picture was taken by the rover's panoramic camera. "
So we can analyze rock to look for signs of microbiological life on the planet, but to see if the wind's blowing we're using the sophisticated dirt behind the rocks measurement?
Let's do some math. 30,000,000 invested with an anual return of 5-10% is 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 dollars a year, every year for as long as you live. You can live fairly well on 100-300K per month. He could have retired, lived off that money, and worked on Linux whenever he wanted.
What did he do? Bought a house an a few cars, since he can always depend on his work as an engineer to support himself. What an idiot. No wonder he gave linux away.:) (Go ahead, mod me down now...)
Think about this for a minute. Everyone agrees the current telecom inter-carrier payment system is a mess and needs an overhaul. However, IM is a perfect example of what would happen witout such systems in place.
We would have a bunch of independent companies refusing to talk to each other, forcing you buy thier phones (remember thoes days?), and not completeing calls between different companies. I'm a Trillian user, but I side with the IM provides on this one.
We need a good reliable, easy to use, open source, P2P IM network, then we can do away with all the nonsense.
Copy protection - One more reason for me to find a perfectly functional copy on the Internet.
boycott-riaa.com reported on this several months ago.
However, I just though of something. What if I could select an ISP in Canada? My traffic would all look like it originates from there, and the DMCA subpenas would be useless against a canadian owned IP. Any comments on the technical aspects? It would definately be worth an extra 10 bucks if I could find some way to do it.
"Basically, it means listeners can't get that tune out of their heads - they probably downloaded it after hearing it only once - and radio stations ought to put the track in heavy rotation."
and
' "I threw it into my call-outs, and it was reactive, so we made it a subpower," a song that plays 40 to 50 times a week. '
And the labels just can't figure out why fewer and fewer people listen to radio? For every "Hit" there are 5-10 independents out there with mucic that is just as good. Where is this music? Well the inde's can't cough up $10K-1M to pay the radio stations to play thier songs. (Yea, songs really are not commercials for the album!)
"Allison built a program that sent anyone sharing a Toad song an invitation to join Phillips' mailing list, and they decided that if it looked promising they would start a business. "The opt-in rate was 20 percent!" says Zack's father, Tom. "A good opt-in rate is usually 2 or 3 percent." "
Humm, artists connecting directly with their fans? That means they could get rid of us! How am I going to pay for my new SL500? We must crush P2P! It's about control people, not piracy. The real pirates are stamping cd's and selling them around the world.
"File-sharing is notoriously difficult to monitor, especially since the IP addresses used to track it don't always map to individuals. Jay Samit, former digital media chief of EMI (he recently announced he was leaving to take a position at Sony), says he's skeptical of any reresearch based on IP addresses."
Well, is that an major label executive saying tracking a user by IP doesn't always work? Malfunction - Please report to the RIAA HQ for reprogramming.
"Because AOL works with dynamic IP addresses, Samit notes, the location of its users can't be determined. (The company says that AOL subscribers account for only 15 percent of its information and that it includes them in its national, but not local, data.)"
Humm, so the labels know that AOL customers are sharing lots of music, yet I'm not aware of a single AOL user hit with a subpena. Also, ISP's should switch to some kind of nationwide DHCP service. That combined witht the Boston rulings could keep the RIAA from filling its subpena in the right court. The ISP doesn't have to tell them where the subscriber is under current law. They could just keep saying, nope, wrong district court, try again. nope, not there, try again. Considering they are targeting users in the NE, that could be why AOL was left out. Somebody get this idea to Verizon!
BigChampagne - You don't track me.
Copyprotected CDs - One more reason for me to find a perfectly functional copy on the Internet.
I agree with your post except for this assumption:
What the record companies need to do is embrace the new technology, and get rid of the dead meat that can't follow the times (i.e. RIAA).
The RIAA is not an independednt orginization. It's directly controlled by the big five. The board of directors is made up of executives from the record labels. Check www.boycott-riaa.com for details. They are directly approving the RIAA's actions. They are the idiots who can't see the forest from the trees.
Copy Protection - One more reason for me to find a fully functional copy on the internet.
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Anyone else reminded of Minority Report? Substitute RFID tags for Retinal Scanners, and your there. That's where we are heading folks...
I have no problem with a store doing this when I give permission. I also have no problem with RFID tags IN THE STORE. It's when they stay on after I leave with my purchase, open for anyone to read, that I have a problem.
Anyone know why the SCO links don't work? :)
When reached for comment, Comcast Vice President of Public Relations, Craven Dick had this to say:
"Well with three users on Mars, even a 6th grader could figure out one of them is going to be amoung the high bandwidth users. We told NASA to either cut back or encourage the EU to send more probes. Comcast would be delighted to provide service to further EU Space Agency probes."
"The orbiter then uses its more-powerful antenna to send as many as one million bits of data per second back to Earth. While fairly fast for an attenuated radio connection, that's only about a tenth of the speed of a cable-modem connection for the average home-computer user." Unless they are using Commcast, such high bandwidth usage would violate the vauge acceptable use policy, putting the rover in the top 10% of Mars bandwidth users. Ah, maybe that's what happened. NASA ignored the first warning letter, and got cut off.
"It's happened with DNA, fingerprints, computer cracking..."
That's the problem. DNA I won't argue with, but do you know how bad fingerprint evidence is? The number of points required for a match varies from 9 (US) to over 28 (AU I think). Fingerprints are far from what I would consider objective scientific evidence.
Some would say Lie Detectors are "Scientific Evidence" as well. Go do a google search on the truth about lie detectors. The rely on a tricking the user into beliveing it can read them. It can easily be defeated with a tack in the shoe or controling/timing breathing rates with the questions and paying attention to the Control Questions.
A lot of my family was/is in law enforcement. It's about getting the bad guy, and sometimes that goes a little too far. I don't want digital photos manipulated to show what the computer user thinks is there. You could make it into just about anything.
OK, I'm going to ask you a few questions . . .
Please say the arival city:
"MCI"
Did you say, Miami . . Florida?
"NO"
Please say the arival city:
"Kansas City"
Did you say, Stolkholm, Sweeden?
"God Damit NO!" 0,#,0,*
Please say the arival city:
"KANSAS CITY"
Did you say, Miami . . Florida?
"FFFFUUUUCCCCKKK YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT, FUCK YOU, I'LL MISS MY GOD DAM FLIGHT I'M ALRADY LATE FOR" click.
p.s. Background noise affects voice recognition.
That's where I think your completely wrong. I'm actually surprised more of the /. crowd doesn't agree with the following viewpoint:
Software flaws exist PERIOD. They always have and always will. What would you rather have:
1. A small group of 100 or so people (Govenrment, individuals, organized crime, etc) with the ability to log into your machine, do whatever they want to with it (Set up a kiddie porn ring, steal your identity, etc.)
2. A virus that exploits the flaw, disrupts computer networks forcing people to patch the flaw. (Many still don't, as Code Red is alive and well)
I'm all for #2. The flaws exist. Without viruses, then people would NOT patch there systems. When somebody relases a virus, they are saying, hey there's a problem here that needs immediate attention or just about anyone can take over your computer. These guys should be rewarded not punished. IMO they are performing a service letting everyone know of a flaw they discovered, and providing incentive to correct the flaw.
As computers become a bigger part of our everyday life, they are trusted more and more. I would be a lot more concerned in a world with no viruses, and computers that are generally considered "Secure." That puts the power to ruin someones life in the hands of a few.
"This action appears to be an extraordinary waste of time, money and resources going over legal ground that has been well and truly covered in the US and Dutch Courts over the past 18 months," said Sharman Networks in a statement. "This is a knee-jerk reaction by the recording industry to discredit Sharman Networks and the Kazaa software, following a number of recent court decisions around the world that have ruled against the entertainment industry's agenda to stamp out peer-to-peer technology."
NUF SAID. You may now go back to your normally scheduled downloads. . .
No, because the clothes with tags and approprate reference data tie locations to individuals. Look at the case that recently struck down parts of the patriot act. 3 people were threatened with 15 years in Jail for supporting an orginization that was on the BS terror lists. That is a perfect example of abuse of power. If the government could track where you are, what meeting you attend, what groups you belong to, who you associate with, You don't have any privacy. That gives them the ability to easily (through a computer profiling program) identify you, and threaten you with whatever they want to. I don't want some idiot like John Aschroft desiding this kind of stuff for me.
Think about this, your a clothing company, you put in the RFID tags for inventory management, or because Walmart says so.
Then one day somebody says, hey I'll pay you $10K if you tell me what ID's are in what color/style jeans.
Same company sets up sensors in the mall, and presto, you know what style of clothes kids are wearing. How valuable would that realtime information be to clothing manufacturers/fashion designers? Why would clothing manufacturers want consumers to be able to remove the tags? There making 100K just selling the tagging info! If customers remove the tags, they loose the revenue stream.
Obviously this is just one example, that could be duplicated in a number of different ways. I'm just trying to point out how it could start, and very quickly evolve into a tracking system for every individual in the World (One day).
The question you HAVE to ask is, "If the British had this technology when the Americas were British colonies, would there be an America or would the British have found out and put a stop to the revolt?" If that answer is ever no, then this technology should be defeated. This country was founded on basic rights, and privacy is definately one of them.
It's easy to say "Ah, it's no big deal." It's a lot harder to get a law passed 10 years from now outlawing such a mainstream technology.
Maybe now, but think down the road a few years. You have an RFID tag in your jacket, shoes, pants, cellphone, carkeys, and wallet. You walk by a sensor, and it ties all thoes things together.
Sure, you change clothes, but what about your phone? What happens when you wear the same pair of shoes with different clotes? The data warehouse ties that serial number in with your profile and builds a profile of all the items you own. There's not an easy way to eacape that.
I work in datawarehousing. We have a system that processes about a billion transactions a day. Each record is far mor complex than than a simple RFID and station ID. We also tie multiple records together into transactions. The scenaro above could be very real.
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50-Cent would have been lucky to get just that 50 cents out of the $15.
Why do you think he's always promoting G-Unit? Wearing G-Unit shirts etc? Because they are not locked into a draconian contract.
Just like the Jacka$$ guys wearing CKY shirts. They make lots of money off there side projects, and there's no MTV to take a cut.
I can't wait for the day when whe have P2P TV stations, radio, etc...
"This ad shows how everything has changed," says Mitch Bainwol, RIAA chairman. "Legal downloading is great because fans are supporting the future of creative work in America."
"RIAA has filed 914 lawsuits since it began cracking down in September, including 532 this week."
Mitch, if things have changed, why are you still filing lawsuits? The truth is as long as a product's price is artificially inflated, there will be a black market for that product. You guys never learn, you were celebrating after shutting down napster, but what happened? 5 more popped up in it's place. Shutdown Kazaa, what's going to happen? People will move to tools like soulseek and newsgroups.
If you simply provided a high quality product at a fair price over the internet, then piracy would be reduced to 10% of what it is today. Instead you provide low quality audio recordings with what you call Digital Rights Managemet (Consumers should call this what it is, Digital Restrictions Management, because who's rights is it managing?), at the same price you charge for a physical product.
I hope you don't learn your lesson. I hope more and more artists will see the light, and manage there own distribution chanels with the internet. The world would be a better place without the RIAA. Music survived before you, and it will live on after you're gone. Good riddens!
Yes color copiers have been around for years. When Xerox first came out with one, it somehow managed to exactly duplicate the "Top Secret ink formula" used in the old $20 bills. They were forced to alter this color to a different shade. (My old college professor was a Xerox manager)
Also, anyone know why we have new bills comming out? The US sold a printing machine to IRAN years ago, who in the 90's started using it to print US currency. This currency was getting passed the scanners the Federal Reserve branches use to check incomming money. The "SuperNotes" as they are called, could not be detected as conterfit.
This would keep some stupid kids from printing up currency and getting into a lot of trouble.
Magnetoplasmadynamic was actually a word? And why didn't Piccard ever use it?
VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse magnetoplasmadynamic Rocket)- And I though telecom had too many acrynoms.
You would consider the fact that a product which enabled fair use, which consnumers loved was sued into bankruptcy/submission a problem?
Not only that, but the declaritory ruling the EFF was seeking would have clarifyied the entertainment industry's right to do this again. Since it was dismissed, they are free to sue the next one and do this again. Yea, I agree, no harm done here. !?!
1. Hollywood firms equate skipping commercials to stealing TV 2. Sue Sonic Blue into Bankrupcy 3. Sonic Blue is forced to sell of the business unit 4. New company disables the features 5. Hollywood drops suit so they can use the same tatic against the next firm that dares give consumers fair use rights over content they have paid for. 6. .... (Any Manufactures in China want to step up? )
"This image highlights streaks or tails of loose debris in the martian soil, which reveal the direction of prevailing winds. The picture was taken by the rover's panoramic camera. "
So we can analyze rock to look for signs of microbiological life on the planet, but to see if the wind's blowing we're using the sophisticated dirt behind the rocks measurement?
Let's do some math. 30,000,000 invested with an anual return of 5-10% is 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 dollars a year, every year for as long as you live. You can live fairly well on 100-300K per month. He could have retired, lived off that money, and worked on Linux whenever he wanted.
:) (Go ahead, mod me down now...)
What did he do? Bought a house an a few cars, since he can always depend on his work as an engineer to support himself. What an idiot. No wonder he gave linux away.
Think about this for a minute. Everyone agrees the current telecom inter-carrier payment system is a mess and needs an overhaul. However, IM is a perfect example of what would happen witout such systems in place.
We would have a bunch of independent companies refusing to talk to each other, forcing you buy thier phones (remember thoes days?), and not completeing calls between different companies. I'm a Trillian user, but I side with the IM provides on this one.
We need a good reliable, easy to use, open source, P2P IM network, then we can do away with all the nonsense.
Copy protection - One more reason for me to find a perfectly functional copy on the Internet.
boycott-riaa.com reported on this several months ago. However, I just though of something. What if I could select an ISP in Canada? My traffic would all look like it originates from there, and the DMCA subpenas would be useless against a canadian owned IP. Any comments on the technical aspects? It would definately be worth an extra 10 bucks if I could find some way to do it.
"Basically, it means listeners can't get that tune out of their heads - they probably downloaded it after hearing it only once - and radio stations ought to put the track in heavy rotation."
and
' "I threw it into my call-outs, and it was reactive, so we made it a subpower," a song that plays 40 to 50 times a week. '
And the labels just can't figure out why fewer and fewer people listen to radio? For every "Hit" there are 5-10 independents out there with mucic that is just as good. Where is this music? Well the inde's can't cough up $10K-1M to pay the radio stations to play thier songs. (Yea, songs really are not commercials for the album!)
"Allison built a program that sent anyone sharing a Toad song an invitation to join Phillips' mailing list, and they decided that if it looked promising they would start a business. "The opt-in rate was 20 percent!" says Zack's father, Tom. "A good opt-in rate is usually 2 or 3 percent." "
Humm, artists connecting directly with their fans? That means they could get rid of us! How am I going to pay for my new SL500? We must crush P2P! It's about control people, not piracy. The real pirates are stamping cd's and selling them around the world.
"File-sharing is notoriously difficult to monitor, especially since the IP addresses used to track it don't always map to individuals. Jay Samit, former digital media chief of EMI (he recently announced he was leaving to take a position at Sony), says he's skeptical of any reresearch based on IP addresses."
Well, is that an major label executive saying tracking a user by IP doesn't always work? Malfunction - Please report to the RIAA HQ for reprogramming.
"Because AOL works with dynamic IP addresses, Samit notes, the location of its users can't be determined. (The company says that AOL subscribers account for only 15 percent of its information and that it includes them in its national, but not local, data.)"
Humm, so the labels know that AOL customers are sharing lots of music, yet I'm not aware of a single AOL user hit with a subpena. Also, ISP's should switch to some kind of nationwide DHCP service. That combined witht the Boston rulings could keep the RIAA from filling its subpena in the right court. The ISP doesn't have to tell them where the subscriber is under current law. They could just keep saying, nope, wrong district court, try again. nope, not there, try again. Considering they are targeting users in the NE, that could be why AOL was left out. Somebody get this idea to Verizon!
BigChampagne - You don't track me.
Copyprotected CDs - One more reason for me to find a perfectly functional copy on the Internet.
I agree with your post except for this assumption: What the record companies need to do is embrace the new technology, and get rid of the dead meat that can't follow the times (i.e. RIAA). The RIAA is not an independednt orginization. It's directly controlled by the big five. The board of directors is made up of executives from the record labels. Check www.boycott-riaa.com for details. They are directly approving the RIAA's actions. They are the idiots who can't see the forest from the trees. Copy Protection - One more reason for me to find a fully functional copy on the internet.
1. The congressional hearings the EFF have asked for will re-evaluate the subpena provisions of the DMCA.
2. When I joined the EFF, I told them the RIAA/MPAA is the reason why.
Running the underground rail road to free slaves at the time was illegal, but that didn't make it wrong.
Copy-protection on CDs: One more reason for me to find a fully functional copy on the Internet.