I agree for the most part, but in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam stays amazingly true to the novel. The reason this works so well is because the book text is in first person so it can be converted almost exactly into the overdubbed naration. It sort of falls apart near the end when a lot of scenes get cut out and compressed into random memories left over after the drug binge, but that makes sense to me because the movie would have been too long and drawn out otherwise.
Unfortunately, organizations such as the EFF don't have the clout or the resources that the corps do.
And that's why they need all the support they can get! If you have any interest in this issue, please seriously consider donating to the EFF. Just think how much it would help if a fraction of slashdot readers donated $10 or $20. Of course when I donate to organizations like this I often wonder if the money gets squandered, but what's $10 in the grand scheme of things?
For example, the DMCA makes it a felony to circumvent a copy protection device. And, similarly, the NET act makes it a felony to share copyrighted materials via a service like Kazaa with a possible 5 year prison term.
Great... now our prisons will be filled with people who commited no "crime" other than smoking marijuana or sharing some copyrighted file. Nice use of tax dollars.
According to a post on this weblog (search for "ES5" on that page to find the relevant post), it seems like ES5 may also have a keylogger and some DRM software. How ironic that would be, for a company that claims to offer risk-free P2P to actually be collecting information about illegal filesharers and perhaps selling it to the RIAA/MPAA.
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I agree for the most part, but in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam stays amazingly true to the novel. The reason this works so well is because the book text is in first person so it can be converted almost exactly into the overdubbed naration. It sort of falls apart near the end when a lot of scenes get cut out and compressed into random memories left over after the drug binge, but that makes sense to me because the movie would have been too long and drawn out otherwise.
I bet this technology is on par with bow-lingual, and probably about as useful...
What are you in for?
According to a post on this weblog (search for "ES5" on that page to find the relevant post), it seems like ES5 may also have a keylogger and some DRM software. How ironic that would be, for a company that claims to offer risk-free P2P to actually be collecting information about illegal filesharers and perhaps selling it to the RIAA/MPAA.