Dude, before you assume this or that, please at least read the US analogue site's issues page: Issues. </p> <p>As you can clearly see, the US Pirate Party is not advocating abolition of copyright, they're advocating shortened copyright - 14 to 28 years - and repeal of the DMCA. Now, I can't read swedish, but I assume that their stance is similarly reasonable in context of Swede law.</p>
That's 'Out of your way'? Granted, it's not in the start menu, but it IS a global command from the command line. I mean, if you're programming, you expect a little system navigation, right? Hell, get 'em used to it early, I say.
Using the CScript interpreter (comes with windows): while(true) WScript.echo("Big Tits");
Which is technically one line of code, even though it contains five different fundamentals of the language (looping, boolean values, Object indirection, function calls, string values).
If the question is "Why are there no line languages", then the question is fallacious. They're all line languages. Some of them have non-line editors, but they're all line languages.
I like CScript for this purpose for a couple of reasons: --It's insanely powerful, so far as Javascript goes. --The separation of abilities by objects (fso, WScript, etc) makes it easy to poke around to see what you can do in a particular --javascript environment, so you end up with a tigher curve when moving to, say, ActiveScript. --It's complex enough to be useful, but simple enough to learn in your spare time (much like PHP, but without the extra download). --With a good instructor, it's an excellent primer in object oriented programming. --It doesn't teach bad habits like BASIC did (ie: GOTO and spaghetti code) --You can't break your computer with it (remember all the shit you could do with Peek and Poke? I lost a system disk that way.) --Ok, well, you can, but it's a pain in the butt (using FSO and WScript.Shell...)
DRM has no legitimacy in a world where a Better Idea (tm) exists. For example, why not steganographically embed the buyers encrypted information in each and every downloded file? If found in the wild, the buyer would be culpable. Meanwhile, he can format shift as much as he feels is necessary.
So, yeah. elimination of DRM *IS* the answer. Just no one at Apple or in the content industry seems to be asking the question.
"The sort of "active" protest over DRM that is represented by tools to strip the DRM merely confirms that the market for the music exists and offers no reason for the music companies to move away from DRM. A better protest would be to boycott the entire DRM scheme altogether and only seek music from outlets that provide it free of DRM."
Ok. *goes to bittorrent for his music from now on* Well, that's saving me money.
Actually, iTunes DRM, while serving to pacify the RIAA, is in fact a mechanism to lock its users into using iPods - a far more desirable goal for Apple.
Nah. I think you're the moron for adhering to anything that restricts fair and honest use of something you've paid for. Me? TOS or not, if I'm gonna use iTunes (which I started doing since QTFairUse6 came out), I'm going to do it freely.
Hey, fucker. I don't own an iPod. I like to listen to music and watch video on my Dell Axim (w/ 2G SD card). Does that mean I'm not allowed to use iTunes?
Yeah. Thought so. How about thinking for a second before speaking.
Nah. Just register that this time, they knew what the appropriate code looked like, and found it relatively easy to find in the new binaries:
Find the AAC stream decoding function using a subset of the old one as the 'signature bytes'. Do this many times with different sig sets until you find something that more or less consistently matches up.
Look for references to it in other functions that also appear to be stream-decoding. There shouldn't be too many, and one of them must be the FairPlay decryptor.
Hook into the new address you've found, and start dumping.
QED. And, no, I'm not saying "I wish I'd done that". I havent (though, I was in the process of...). Even if I had, I live in the states, so redistribution is a no-no.
The inherent problem with 'doing everything in hardware' is that people won't buy the hardware. If you get a message from iTunes that 'You need to buy XXX hardware device to play this file', are you likely to buy that product, or are you likely to look elsewhere?
"But they'll be including it in PCs!"
Bullshit. That locks out owners of older PCs from content - something neither Apple nor the recording studios want. They want to be able to charge you. So? Even if they do start including it, it'll be in software.
And let me tell you: convincing a computer that a piece of working hardware doesn't exist is a simple task. In windows it's brain-dead easy (hardware manager, disable). In linux it's harder, but not to worry: you won't ever have to worry about it in linux.
In my mind, the best DRM would be transparent, and wouldn't affect copying at all. It would be a DCT-resistant (ie: lasts through transcoding) steganography embedded into the PCM data that would require serious damage to the content to remove. The secret text would be an encrypted set of data representing the name and address of the buyer. Meanwhile, the file would play on any device that could handle MP3s (or, preferably, OGGs).
I'm actually working on something like this. Label me a traitor or a big brother or whatever, but if it gets copy-restriction out of the way, I'm happy about it.
When content shows up in the wild, the Copyright Mohofas could decrypt the secrettext (using their private key), sue the original distributor (as it should be), and keep a scaled down version of their existing business model (they need a diet anyway).
I signed up for Vongo a couple of weeks ago. Downloaded a movie or two. Being a geek with toys, I figured, "ok, I'll download a movie and play it on my PSP".
No dice. WMV with DRM (PlaysForSure? Riiight...), and my PSP isn't a suported player.
So, hunting around, I came across 'FairUse4WM' - which failed to work.
I called up Vongo and canecelled my account. The very nice girl asked me the reason, and I responded, "Your service uses DRM, and I'm just not cool with that." When she asked me to expand, I said, "Well, I wanted to play a movie on my PSP, and there was no way to do it. I'm not saying 'Get it to work on a PSP', I'm saying, 'get it to work on anything I might own that can play digital video'"
Dunno, but if I were a programmer at Apple, I'd have just combined the decryption and decoding functions. They're only separated because iTunes needs to be able to decode AAC by itself as well. If they wanted to, they could just have the m4p player completely separate from the m4a player, replicating the necessary code. Of course, that would lead to a world of headaches in code maintenance.
I mean, technically, it's infringement, but I've also got a DVR. Last week, my bro deleted something I wanted to watch, so I hopped on BT and grabbed a copy, grumbling the whole time about the disregard recieved from siblings.
I'm not sure how this is a privacy issue. Without authorization (ie: just continuously querying the area for BT devs), all you get out of a BT dev is its vendor/model. It's not even vaguely personally identifiable.
Besides, you're using BT; you shouldn't if you're a privacy-minded human, anyway. Or any data radio technology, for that matter. Encrypted or not, you're still yelling something out into the ether.
As for technology raping your goddamned privacy, may I suggest learning how a new technology works and how to secure yourself before opting into it? So many people just dive blindly in. Then they're all surprised when someone steals their identity. To them, I say, "Heh. Serves you right. Learn to use it before using it, and this shit won't happen. In short, RTFM, dipshit."
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Wow.
Dude, before you assume this or that, please at least read the US analogue site's issues page: Issues. </p>
<p>As you can clearly see, the US Pirate Party is not advocating abolition of copyright, they're advocating shortened copyright - 14 to 28 years - and repeal of the DMCA. Now, I can't read swedish, but I assume that their stance is similarly reasonable in context of Swede law.</p>
*poke*
That's how an 'EM Pulse' works. You pop the marble in one side, and the disturbance in the other marbles causes a marble to pop out the other.
"as long as you're not multiplexing data on a given waveguide what advantage does this give?"
The ability to multiplex data on any given waveguide (ie: boost bandwidth per lead)
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*typity tapity some JavaScript*
[File] [Save As...] "myscript.js"
[Start] [Run] "cmd" <Enter>
"cscript myscript.js" <Enter>
That's 'Out of your way'? Granted, it's not in the start menu, but it IS a global command from the command line. I mean, if you're programming, you expect a little system navigation, right? Hell, get 'em used to it early, I say.
Meh. I'd prefer to use the Python based Fair Use tool found referenced in this article.
"make Scrabble as a Java Applett!"
Hm.
It would be more easily done in AJAX, sans XML (unless you want score recording or multiplayer).
Using the CScript interpreter (comes with windows):
while(true) WScript.echo("Big Tits");
Which is technically one line of code, even though it contains five different fundamentals of the language (looping, boolean values, Object indirection, function calls, string values).
If the question is "Why are there no line languages", then the question is fallacious. They're all line languages. Some of them have non-line editors, but they're all line languages.
I like CScript for this purpose for a couple of reasons:
--It's insanely powerful, so far as Javascript goes.
--The separation of abilities by objects (fso, WScript, etc) makes it easy to poke around to see what you can do in a particular --javascript environment, so you end up with a tigher curve when moving to, say, ActiveScript.
--It's complex enough to be useful, but simple enough to learn in your spare time (much like PHP, but without the extra download).
--With a good instructor, it's an excellent primer in object oriented programming.
--It doesn't teach bad habits like BASIC did (ie: GOTO and spaghetti code)
--You can't break your computer with it (remember all the shit you could do with Peek and Poke? I lost a system disk that way.)
--Ok, well, you can, but it's a pain in the butt (using FSO and WScript.Shell...)
"You don't ever have to visit the iTunes store to use your iPod"
Ok, that's sussed. So what do I have to do to use iTunes with my Dell Axim?
Funny thing: no matter how much of a computer geek I am, I can't seem to grasp these new fangled car-computers.
Wow. I got trolled for that? What's slashdot coming to? Very strange moderation.
Eh. Mods: it's all in good fun, I assure you.
DRM has no legitimacy in a world where a Better Idea (tm) exists. For example, why not steganographically embed the buyers encrypted information in each and every downloded file? If found in the wild, the buyer would be culpable. Meanwhile, he can format shift as much as he feels is necessary.
So, yeah. elimination of DRM *IS* the answer. Just no one at Apple or in the content industry seems to be asking the question.
"The sort of "active" protest over DRM that is represented by tools to strip the DRM merely confirms that the market for the music exists and offers no reason for the music companies to move away from DRM. A better protest would be to boycott the entire DRM scheme altogether and only seek music from outlets that provide it free of DRM."
Ok. *goes to bittorrent for his music from now on* Well, that's saving me money.
Here's a little exercise for you.
Grab any MP3.
Grab LAME.
run 'lame --decode my.mp3 my.wav'
now, run 'lame -b 320 -m s my.wav my-gen1.mp3'
Rinse, repeat.
After two generations, what do you notice that's different about the 4th or 5th generation file?
There's a reason it's called 'lossy' compression. And no, you don't keep losing the same bits.
Actually, iTunes DRM, while serving to pacify the RIAA, is in fact a mechanism to lock its users into using iPods - a far more desirable goal for Apple.
Nah. I think you're the moron for adhering to anything that restricts fair and honest use of something you've paid for. Me? TOS or not, if I'm gonna use iTunes (which I started doing since QTFairUse6 came out), I'm going to do it freely.
Hey, fucker. I don't own an iPod. I like to listen to music and watch video on my Dell Axim (w/ 2G SD card). Does that mean I'm not allowed to use iTunes?
Yeah. Thought so. How about thinking for a second before speaking.
So you're saying DRM is important because it keeps honest people honest.
Yeah, I buy that. I'm going to go sell a product that keeps left-handed people left-handed.
Nah. Just register that this time, they knew what the appropriate code looked like, and found it relatively easy to find in the new binaries:
Find the AAC stream decoding function using a subset of the old one as the 'signature bytes'. Do this many times with different sig sets until you find something that more or less consistently matches up.
Look for references to it in other functions that also appear to be stream-decoding. There shouldn't be too many, and one of them must be the FairPlay decryptor.
Hook into the new address you've found, and start dumping.
QED. And, no, I'm not saying "I wish I'd done that". I havent (though, I was in the process of...). Even if I had, I live in the states, so redistribution is a no-no.
Really?
They tried that. It was called 'CSS', on DVDs.
And you know what happened? Someone broke it.
The inherent problem with 'doing everything in hardware' is that people won't buy the hardware. If you get a message from iTunes that 'You need to buy XXX hardware device to play this file', are you likely to buy that product, or are you likely to look elsewhere?
"But they'll be including it in PCs!"
Bullshit. That locks out owners of older PCs from content - something neither Apple nor the recording studios want. They want to be able to charge you. So? Even if they do start including it, it'll be in software.
And let me tell you: convincing a computer that a piece of working hardware doesn't exist is a simple task. In windows it's brain-dead easy (hardware manager, disable). In linux it's harder, but not to worry: you won't ever have to worry about it in linux.
In my mind, the best DRM would be transparent, and wouldn't affect copying at all. It would be a DCT-resistant (ie: lasts through transcoding) steganography embedded into the PCM data that would require serious damage to the content to remove. The secret text would be an encrypted set of data representing the name and address of the buyer. Meanwhile, the file would play on any device that could handle MP3s (or, preferably, OGGs).
I'm actually working on something like this. Label me a traitor or a big brother or whatever, but if it gets copy-restriction out of the way, I'm happy about it.
When content shows up in the wild, the Copyright Mohofas could decrypt the secrettext (using their private key), sue the original distributor (as it should be), and keep a scaled down version of their existing business model (they need a diet anyway).
Actually, this is relevant.
I signed up for Vongo a couple of weeks ago. Downloaded a movie or two. Being a geek with toys, I figured, "ok, I'll download a movie and play it on my PSP".
No dice. WMV with DRM (PlaysForSure? Riiight...), and my PSP isn't a suported player.
So, hunting around, I came across 'FairUse4WM' - which failed to work.
I called up Vongo and canecelled my account. The very nice girl asked me the reason, and I responded, "Your service uses DRM, and I'm just not cool with that." When she asked me to expand, I said, "Well, I wanted to play a movie on my PSP, and there was no way to do it. I'm not saying 'Get it to work on a PSP', I'm saying, 'get it to work on anything I might own that can play digital video'"
The fun thing about that is that only one person really needs to go through the hassle. After that, the rest of humanity has it easy.
Dunno, but if I were a programmer at Apple, I'd have just combined the decryption and decoding functions. They're only separated because iTunes needs to be able to decode AAC by itself as well. If they wanted to, they could just have the m4p player completely separate from the m4a player, replicating the necessary code. Of course, that would lead to a world of headaches in code maintenance.
No, no, it's 'Wahhh' like this *holds hands to head*
I'm actually kinda fine with that.
I mean, technically, it's infringement, but I've also got a DVR. Last week, my bro deleted something I wanted to watch, so I hopped on BT and grabbed a copy, grumbling the whole time about the disregard recieved from siblings.
I'm not sure how this is a privacy issue. Without authorization (ie: just continuously querying the area for BT devs), all you get out of a BT dev is its vendor/model. It's not even vaguely personally identifiable.
Besides, you're using BT; you shouldn't if you're a privacy-minded human, anyway. Or any data radio technology, for that matter. Encrypted or not, you're still yelling something out into the ether.
As for technology raping your goddamned privacy, may I suggest learning how a new technology works and how to secure yourself before opting into it? So many people just dive blindly in. Then they're all surprised when someone steals their identity. To them, I say, "Heh. Serves you right. Learn to use it before using it, and this shit won't happen. In short, RTFM, dipshit."