But the Human Race could go out far more easily - most people live withing a few km of the earth's surface which by volume is a rather tiny part of the earth.
A kiler event needs only to happen to this volume.
Even an asteroid the size of mars would leave a chunk of rock of the right size, but nobody would be living there.
Re:This is nice - but what about other DRM systems
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Nonononono!!
ASFRecorder only rips the stream from the server - if it's DRM'd it's still encrypted and it won't work if you don't have the license. Similarly Streambox ripper only captures the file - it doesn't remove the encryption.
So I'm wondering when an ASF ripper will appear which - given a valid performance key - extracts the media into some unprotected format. And I'm not just talking audio - but video too.
This is nice - but what about other DRM systems
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I'm amazed that nobody has published code to break the DRM (or at least capture unencoded data) on other established formats like Liquid Audio, Blue Matter (basically Real Audio) and everyone's Favourite - Windows Media.
OK there's the little issue of the DMCA which would make such things illegal in the US.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the SDMI breaks came from Microsoft to help promote their DRM server based technology.
The Digital Media Association has been working on getting all sorts of laws changed for a long time - this is exactly the sort fo thing they would like to do so I wouldn't be surpised if ultimately this turned out th be their idea.
I see a few people suggestin ghte mp3.com hired some lobbyinst to get this bill, but somehow I think DiMA is more likely to be responsible.
And you know what?
mp3.com aren't a member of this digital media lobbying group, so they probably had nothing to do with it. I'm not sure if this is because mp3.com don't want to be a member of an association dedicated to the legal side of things... or whether DiMA just won't let a company like mp3.com join for fear of damaging it's reputation - note that their memebers (www.digimedia.org/members/index.cfm) don't include other controvesial companies like Napster.
So my guess is that they are probably the ones which may ultimately save mp3.com (ironic since the my.mp3.com concept was stolen from DiMA members....)
Musicbank.com whole business model right now depends on this kind of legislation - because, lets face it - there's no way they could become profitable with the current record deals.
Myplay.com of course are the innovators on the whole online storage (beating mp3.com by 6 months). I guess that if this kind of legislation goes through this makes them even more legal in the eyes of the Music Industry.
Personally.... mp3.com can go the way pof the dodo for all I care - I've never liked them.
The difference is that myplay only provided the space for people to store mp3's which they extracted on their own. The copyright violation takes place during the distribution and unauthorisded ripping.
The share feature is like a radio station, your playlist sequencing has to comply with the radio rules i.e. you can't legally put up the whole of dark side of the moon or some similar album.
Oh.... and myplay is usable over netscape on linux - my.mp3.com kept crashing on me.....
Any lawyer could have told them that what they were up to was illegal before they did the R&D - betting your company's existance on beating a legal challenge is not good business practice.
mp3.com knew the risks...
Of course they did get all the free PR - something that legal systems like myplay.com seem to be3 missing out on. So much so that I keep seeing posts on/. about how innovative my.mp3.com was despite all their technology having been depolyed months before my.mp3.com by myplay.com.
Every piece of music has two copyright holders - the big record labels have settled out of court... but the publishers still haven't made any legal moves yet..
My guess is mp3.com will have to move away from mp3s.
Not only did they launch their service 3 months after myplay.com, but it's been offline for a while... The only advantage they have is their name and all the PR - but that might be enough to get them more customers..... Maybe myplay isn't on slashdot all the time because they're not doing anything to get sued over.
Now... If only myplay will support vorbis alongside mp3 and windows media....
This of course sucks because that search had those nice 'Upload to Myplay' buttons which allowed you to fill up your locker without having to download the files first..
I remember seeing an exhibition of old video games at the museum of the moving image in london. They explained that they had seen so much in the way of old movies which had been lost because nobody had taken care of them that they had made a deecision to start collecting and archiving video games also.
It's a shame the museum itself has closed down - I hope the collection is still maintained though.
Could these be considerds an abuse of the copyright? They are some of the most absurd things i;ve evenr encoutnered - we have to write a rules checker at myplay.com
For example.... it is specified that internet broadcasters cannot 'play a piece of music at a time requested by a user or within one hour of receving such a request' - this leads me to a cunning plan.
If everyone on/. requests all the tracks they don't like - e.g. everythign by the backstreet boys and britney spears. And spams every mail address at internet stations with these requests then they *won't* be able to play any of these. Leaving their broadcasting time free for good music like 'The Who' or this Fine selection of dance music which I've put together.
Plus there's the album sequencing rules which can tend to stifle creativity.... all this ends up doing is forcing people to change the names in their advertised playlists and no longer giving the real artists credit..
But if you want real proof the these rules are a load of bollocks - go on napster and search for 'Essential Mix' - you'll probably get a load of radio shows recorded from good old FM radio. Why bother recording from low quality, encrypted streams when it's jst as easy to get someone in the UK to record it for you....
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But the Human Race could go out far more easily - most people live withing a few km of the earth's surface which by volume is a rather tiny part of the earth.
A kiler event needs only to happen to this volume.
Even an asteroid the size of mars would leave a chunk of rock of the right size, but nobody would be living there.
Nonononono!!
ASFRecorder only rips the stream from the server - if it's DRM'd it's still encrypted and it won't work if you don't have the license. Similarly Streambox ripper only captures the file - it doesn't remove the encryption.
So I'm wondering when an ASF ripper will appear which - given a valid performance key - extracts the media into some unprotected format. And I'm not just talking audio - but video too.
I'm amazed that nobody has published code to break the DRM (or at least capture unencoded data) on other established formats like Liquid Audio, Blue Matter (basically Real Audio) and everyone's Favourite - Windows Media.
OK there's the little issue of the DMCA which would make such things illegal in the US.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the SDMI breaks came from Microsoft to help promote their DRM server based technology.
Web Server Market Share
IIS 20%
Apache 60%
Hacked Web Server Market Share
IIS 60%
Apache 30%
Which implies that systems running IIS are 6 times more likely to be hacked
(Source - netcraft + attrition.org)
Brilliant, fantastic, amazing idea, I bet mp3.com has it's legal people on this right now.
;-)
the only problem is that they didn't invent the idea - like everything on their site they copied it from another 'innovative' site.
Stilll prior art doesn't seem to have stopped the patent office in the past - so maybe there's still hope for tecyhnology plagiarists like mp3.com
The Digital Media Association has been working on getting all sorts of laws changed for a long time - this is exactly the sort fo thing they would like to do so I wouldn't be surpised if ultimately this turned out th be their idea.
I see a few people suggestin ghte mp3.com hired some lobbyinst to get this bill, but somehow I think DiMA is more likely to be responsible.
And you know what?
mp3.com aren't a member of this digital media lobbying group, so they probably had nothing to do with it. I'm not sure if this is because mp3.com don't want to be a member of an association dedicated to the legal side of things... or whether DiMA just won't let a company like mp3.com join for fear of damaging it's reputation - note that their memebers (www.digimedia.org/members/index.cfm) don't include other controvesial companies like Napster.
So my guess is that they are probably the ones which may ultimately save mp3.com (ironic since the my.mp3.com concept was stolen from DiMA members....)
Is Owned by Myplay.com
Other Companies did it before mp3.com.
I mean mp3.com even copied their catchphrase from myplay.com
Musicbank.com whole business model right now depends on this kind of legislation - because, lets face it - there's no way they could become profitable with the current record deals.
Myplay.com of course are the innovators on the whole online storage (beating mp3.com by 6 months). I guess that if this kind of legislation goes through this makes them even more legal in the eyes of the Music Industry.
Personally.... mp3.com can go the way pof the dodo for all I care - I've never liked them.
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The difference is that myplay only provided the space for people to store mp3's which they extracted on their own. The copyright violation takes place during the distribution and unauthorisded ripping.
;-)
The share feature is like a radio station, your playlist sequencing has to comply with the radio rules i.e. you can't legally put up the whole of dark side of the moon or some similar album.
Oh.... and myplay is usable over netscape on linux - my.mp3.com kept crashing on me.....
Hey... they even use icecast - so I'm happy
Any lawyer could have told them that what they were up to was illegal before they did the R&D - betting your company's existance on beating a legal challenge is not good business practice.
/. about how innovative my.mp3.com was despite all their technology having been depolyed months before my.mp3.com by myplay.com.
mp3.com knew the risks...
Of course they did get all the free PR - something that legal systems like myplay.com seem to be3 missing out on. So much so that I keep seeing posts on
give credit where credit is due....
It runs linux better than it runs windows, and it has a screeen which is bigger than most monitors can display...
Shame I still need to reboot into windows to watch DVD's legally.
Any Slashdotters out there know how I can hack my Torisan 6x dvd drive to go Multi region?
Hasn't myplay.com trademarked the term 'digital music locker'?
Unlike mp3.com you store material you can store anything you want - rather than what mp3.com has licensed.....
I wonder how much disk storage myplay could buy with the huinderds of millions that mp3.com is spending on licensing?
Every piece of music has two copyright holders - the big record labels have settled out of court... but the publishers still haven't made any legal moves yet..
My guess is mp3.com will have to move away from mp3s.
Now... If only myplay will support vorbis alongside mp3 and windows media....
(Oh - and go and listen to my Downtemp/L eftfield Selection on myplay....)
Just what sort of bad luck is that.
Probably after pressure from the RIAA...
This of course sucks because that search had those nice 'Upload to Myplay' buttons which allowed you to fill up your locker without having to download the files first..
Oh well.
I remember seeing an exhibition of old video games at the museum of the moving image in london. They explained that they had seen so much in the way of old movies which had been lost because nobody had taken care of them that they had made a deecision to start collecting and archiving video games also.
It's a shame the museum itself has closed down - I hope the collection is still maintained though.
At least that's what I heard?
And is she a woman yet? Last i looked she was a little girl ;-)
Anyway - you can use this same technique to request everyone except britney spears and force a radio station to go all britney
Ok... maybe some rock fans may think that 'Sandstorm' is just noise and drum machines...
But this record got a distrubter in teh UK and it managed to get to number 2 after it was found on a music sharing service...
Of course - the record industry don';t like club culture - they can't control what records will be huge.
For example.... it is specified that internet broadcasters cannot 'play a piece of music at a time requested by a user or within one hour of receving such a request' - this leads me to a cunning plan.
If everyone on /. requests all the tracks they don't like - e.g. everythign by the backstreet boys and britney spears. And spams every mail address at internet stations with these requests then they *won't* be able to play any of these. Leaving their broadcasting time free for good music like 'The Who' or this Fine selection of dance music which I've put together.
Plus there's the album sequencing rules which can tend to stifle creativity.... all this ends up doing is forcing people to change the names in their advertised playlists and no longer giving the real artists credit..
But if you want real proof the these rules are a load of bollocks - go on napster and search for 'Essential Mix' - you'll probably get a load of radio shows recorded from good old FM radio. Why bother recording from low quality, encrypted streams when it's jst as easy to get someone in the UK to record it for you....