Perhaps these corporations should only be allowed to possess limited copyrights that only extend to the first production of the work in question, with all rights thereafter reverting to the artists who created the works
Already can be done - licensing. Artists aren't obliged to sign their copyrights away - they can instead let somebody license the work from them with whatever restrictions they feel fit to place upon it.
The problem is, historically, the cost is distribution. To make any money from your copyrighted work you need to distribute it, distributing it means going to the big media companies and they'll only distribute if you hand over the copyright, not license it from you.
The internet, computers, podcasts, YouTube and the like are moving the distribution cost lower and lower. Hopefully we'll get to a point soon where artists realise they aren't beholden to some of the current companies to get their works out and make a reasonable sum of money from it.
I think you're think of DES with the distributed.net challenge. IIRC there is an RSA challenge, but the one you mention is DES. 40bit RSA is very weak. 512bit RSA is within the realms of possibility of being cracked by a well financed Government - 1024 bits or more are really what you want to be using with RSA.
RSA gets it security because factoring numbers is "hard". However, with RSA an attack based on factoring is still much simpler than trying the brute force 'Try All The Keys' approach, hence the need for a much larger to key to guarantee security.
It'll be interesting here in the UK to see how much of a success this is here with the proliferation of Digital TV services, most of which aren't directly compatible with one another.
It seems unlikely to me that Sky, Telewest or whoever else are going to open up there Digital feeds to a third party when they could do TiVo like stuff themselves.
NTL are said to be already planning new set-top boxes with Hard Drives in which sound pretty TiVo like to me. What with the main Cable Companies (NTL and Telewest) already looking at true Video on Demand for films _and_ TV programs, and Sky looking at doing the same thing over ADSL I can see there being quite a bit of resistance to TiVo from the companies here.
I've got a Motorola L7089 which comes with an in-built modem which is accessed through its IR-Port. Means you don't have to outlay any money on a connecting cable or PCMCIA card. I havn't actually tried this under Linux but I have had it working on a laptop under Win98 and a Psion handheld. It does seem to have a fairly complete AT command set and it is a proper modem (not a WinModem). Providing you can set up the IRDa port as a serial port under Linux you shouldn't have any problems (Sorry, I havn't got a laptop with Linux on it)
Its better than nothing as it allows motherboard manufacturers to use commonly available components. Just because they are not electrically compatible does not mean they are not physically compatible. This leads to more mass-production and lower prices - better than nothing.
The article states that Intel plan to migrate from Socket 370 to Socket 423 in the future. Of course, you're still not gonna be electrically compatible, but its better than nothing.
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Perhaps these corporations should only be allowed to possess limited copyrights that only extend to the first production of the work in question, with all rights thereafter reverting to the artists who created the works
Already can be done - licensing. Artists aren't obliged to sign their copyrights away - they can instead let somebody license the work from them with whatever restrictions they feel fit to place upon it.
The problem is, historically, the cost is distribution. To make any money from your copyrighted work you need to distribute it, distributing it means going to the big media companies and they'll only distribute if you hand over the copyright, not license it from you.
The internet, computers, podcasts, YouTube and the like are moving the distribution cost lower and lower. Hopefully we'll get to a point soon where artists realise they aren't beholden to some of the current companies to get their works out and make a reasonable sum of money from it.
I think you're think of DES with the distributed.net challenge. IIRC there is an RSA challenge, but the one you mention is DES. 40bit RSA is very weak. 512bit RSA is within the realms of possibility of being cracked by a well financed Government - 1024 bits or more are really what you want to be using with RSA.
RSA gets it security because factoring numbers is "hard". However, with RSA an attack based on factoring is still much simpler than trying the brute force 'Try All The Keys' approach, hence the need for a much larger to key to guarantee security.
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It'll be interesting here in the UK to see how much of a success this is here with the proliferation of Digital TV services, most of which aren't directly compatible with one another.
It seems unlikely to me that Sky, Telewest or whoever else are going to open up there Digital feeds to a third party when they could do TiVo like stuff themselves.
NTL are said to be already planning new set-top boxes with Hard Drives in which sound pretty TiVo like to me. What with the main Cable Companies (NTL and Telewest) already looking at true Video on Demand for films _and_ TV programs, and Sky looking at doing the same thing over ADSL I can see there being quite a bit of resistance to TiVo from the companies here.
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I've got a Motorola L7089 which comes with an in-built modem which is accessed through its IR-Port. Means you don't have to outlay any money on a connecting cable or PCMCIA card. I havn't actually tried this under Linux but I have had it working on a laptop under Win98 and a Psion handheld. It does seem to have a fairly complete AT command set and it is a proper modem (not a WinModem). Providing you can set up the IRDa port as a serial port under Linux you shouldn't have any problems (Sorry, I havn't got a laptop with Linux on it)
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Its better than nothing as it allows motherboard manufacturers to use commonly available components. Just because they are not electrically compatible does not mean they are not physically compatible. This leads to more mass-production and lower prices - better than nothing.
The article states that Intel plan to migrate from Socket 370 to Socket 423 in the future. Of course, you're still not gonna be electrically compatible, but its better than nothing.
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