Wow, that is kind of scary, and thrilling at the same time. I better go pee now.
I can't imagine the cost of the hard drives. There's no way they're using cheap ass 300GB Maxtors, of course. Expanding at 30TB a month!! I wonder if the US government would be allowed to subpoena them for information they want, whenever they want. In the act against terrorism of course.
Sure, that's true. But does that deter copying? All it does it drive them to Kazaa to download it from the 20% of us that are clue-full.
All it deters is the average joe ripping it to their hard drive. (Which by the way is legal). Anyone willing to download it from kazaa, probably will anyway. Thus whether or not they could rip it themselves, seem moot.
People are always complaining how these movies "suck", and getting worse. No, you're just getting older, and no longer think pulling your finger is quite so funny.
Look at cash being raked in on stupid movies like Dude where's my car, etc. If they *really* sucked, it would have tanked. But there is this mass of people going to see these inane movies. I am sure the demographic overlaps the people watching Jerry Springer.
I don't think you understand. In Iowa City, 2 months of the year, they sent out warnings that pregnant women, and children shouldn't drink the tap water.
Iowa City's tap water usually has a brown tint, and is always barely beneath the government's warning for iron percentages.
We'll still be able to hack away on our (ever increasingly) obsolete computers.
Also, take a look at the 8-bit computer enthusiasts. These guys know every inch of their 8-bit computers, and can make them sing. You can probably build one from scratch from common chip parts. The 80886? (err...i'm drunk) Assembly is out there forever, and we can always program on that.
My point is, that even though our dual 3 GHz machines will become obsolete by the time your prediction comes true, we can always hobble along on our own computers. What it takes engineers at Intel to make today, they'll be teaching high schoolers in 20 years. (see 8-bit paragraph above)
Due to saving money for a house, I have been hobbling along on my 400mhz AMD computer since I built it in '98. Can't play the new games on it, but I can still rip & encode [my] CD's and DVD movies on it. Just what the RIAA and MPAA wouldn't want me to do today.
All I'm saying is that your prediction of comptuer armageddon isn't going to happen so quickly or overnight. Blu-ray discs are coming out 'real-soon-now' for the last 2 years. Your 3 years? 5 years? is probably more like 8 years, 10 years. Scared of the BIOS market being stolen by M$? I envision Open-BIOS becoming a reality. Chip burners are becoming cheaper and more common. We can make our own. Or know someone that does. Also marketplace ca$h is what's going to drive all this. China/Malaysia pirate capital of the world will be the last place that moves to DRM. They'll continue to fill the market with non-DRM bios because there WILL be a market for that for a while. Thus add another 2-3 years to your armaggedon date.
Wow, I thought I was the only one.
My 5 hours a night tinkering with _fill_in_the_blank_ is long gone. Now I stick with writing programs on the weekends when my wife isn't busy with my balls in the mason jar in the freezer.
However, I agree completely. I'm completely willing, and capable, to break down and spend the time to do it if I'm forced to. Yesterday it's DRM 64-bit MS CPU's. Today is't MS Bios! We can all live with it until its DRM routers world wide. We'll have to break out the short wave radio to stay in touch.
There's software out there that specifically does this./. article not too long ago mentioning that M$ might want to use this. It's hard to implement though, considering how hard it already is to meet deadlines.
Their intention is no secret. It's to get 'moms and dads talking to their kids about copyright infringement at the dinner tables', as the RIAA has been quoted as saying in many articles.
Even when they were settling for $17,000+ earlier this year, that's not profit. Don't forget that they're claiming to lose a billion dollars a year or more in piracy. You think millions of dollars mean anything to their bottom line?
They want to scare people into going straight. They want sales to go back up. They want P2P to die, so that they can control the real monopoly: Distribution. That's why a boycott is the only real solution when dealing with corporations that have enough money to buy their own legislation.
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Yes, you're a dumbass.
I can't imagine the cost of the hard drives. There's no way they're using cheap ass 300GB Maxtors, of course. Expanding at 30TB a month!! I wonder if the US government would be allowed to subpoena them for information they want, whenever they want. In the act against terrorism of course.
If having 700 different salt & pepper dishes is 'ok', why not every episode of the Simpsons?
(5.44 Gigbits is not 5.44 GB)
I knew that, but couldn't resist joining in the iowa city water story....
Yea, I love that one!! certainly stores do that too.
All it deters is the average joe ripping it to their hard drive. (Which by the way is legal). Anyone willing to download it from kazaa, probably will anyway. Thus whether or not they could rip it themselves, seem moot.
Yea, Fast & The Furious is so 2001!
LOL. Where do you think all the cartoon & tv show rips come from? VHS.
People are always complaining how these movies "suck", and getting worse. No, you're just getting older, and no longer think pulling your finger is quite so funny.
Look at cash being raked in on stupid movies like Dude where's my car, etc. If they *really* sucked, it would have tanked. But there is this mass of people going to see these inane movies. I am sure the demographic overlaps the people watching Jerry Springer.
Saturday Night live had a good skit on LaShanda at the movie theater this weekend.
Iowa City's tap water usually has a brown tint, and is always barely beneath the government's warning for iron percentages.
Instead of the 128 bit Xing Encoder that you speak of.
We'll still be able to hack away on our (ever increasingly) obsolete computers.
Also, take a look at the 8-bit computer enthusiasts. These guys know every inch of their 8-bit computers, and can make them sing. You can probably build one from scratch from common chip parts. The 80886? (err...i'm drunk) Assembly is out there forever, and we can always program on that.
My point is, that even though our dual 3 GHz machines will become obsolete by the time your prediction comes true, we can always hobble along on our own computers. What it takes engineers at Intel to make today, they'll be teaching high schoolers in 20 years. (see 8-bit paragraph above)
Due to saving money for a house, I have been hobbling along on my 400mhz AMD computer since I built it in '98. Can't play the new games on it, but I can still rip & encode [my] CD's and DVD movies on it. Just what the RIAA and MPAA wouldn't want me to do today.
All I'm saying is that your prediction of comptuer armageddon isn't going to happen so quickly or overnight. Blu-ray discs are coming out 'real-soon-now' for the last 2 years. Your 3 years? 5 years? is probably more like 8 years, 10 years. Scared of the BIOS market being stolen by M$? I envision Open-BIOS becoming a reality. Chip burners are becoming cheaper and more common. We can make our own. Or know someone that does. Also marketplace ca$h is what's going to drive all this. China/Malaysia pirate capital of the world will be the last place that moves to DRM. They'll continue to fill the market with non-DRM bios because there WILL be a market for that for a while. Thus add another 2-3 years to your armaggedon date.
My 5 hours a night tinkering with _fill_in_the_blank_ is long gone. Now I stick with writing programs on the weekends when my wife isn't busy with my balls in the mason jar in the freezer.
However, I agree completely. I'm completely willing, and capable, to break down and spend the time to do it if I'm forced to. Yesterday it's DRM 64-bit MS CPU's. Today is't MS Bios! We can all live with it until its DRM routers world wide. We'll have to break out the short wave radio to stay in touch.
A shame you posted anonymously.
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Except for the DRM....
A real moment of glory would be if you had been the author of Waste. But instead you get mentioned. Woo.
You're a fucking moron. You and your other accounts.
There's software out there that specifically does this. /. article not too long ago mentioning that M$ might want to use this. It's hard to implement though, considering how hard it already is to meet deadlines.
Of course they win court cases. They've already paved the way with previously purchased legislation.
I'm not a doctore either, but I stayed at a Howard Johnson last night!
Even when they were settling for $17,000+ earlier this year, that's not profit. Don't forget that they're claiming to lose a billion dollars a year or more in piracy. You think millions of dollars mean anything to their bottom line?
They want to scare people into going straight. They want sales to go back up. They want P2P to die, so that they can control the real monopoly: Distribution. That's why a boycott is the only real solution when dealing with corporations that have enough money to buy their own legislation.
Wrong. Most indies are still distributed by the Majors, and/or have also been forced to 'agree' with the decision.
LOL. You obviously missed the point. By a lot.