Actually, that's very likely exactly the case. Comcast would LOVE it if everyone who was burning 250GB a month on their cheapest data plan would take their business elsewhere.
The DNC list is worthless, because the telemarketing lobby convinced the lawmakers to include loopholes for "non-profits" and for "prior business relationships." The former means I keep getting calls from people who want me to vote for them for whatever reason, and the latter is so ill-defined that pretty much anyone can call me and weasel their way out of any penalty.
(Plus, there are still tons of people out there who just call you anyhow, knowing that it's such a pain to track them down that they'll get away with it.)
No, it's an indicator that the cable companies have been completely and totally incompetent with regard to implementing the CableCard standard. (At least, in the United States.) Mainly because they don't want to (they make a fortune renting you that cable box; why would they want to provide an alternative that removes that from the equation?) and nobody (and by "nobody" I mean "this incompetent corrupt government") is making them.
I bought a Tivo HD last weekend. It took no less than SIX CableCards PLUS a visit from the cable guy to find two that worked.
CableCard is a GREAT idea, that was completely neutered by an FCC on the take.
To this, I say: it's your own damn fault for buying it.
Me, I took one look and said "Yeah, call me when the real trilogy comes out, instead of George Lucas's wank fantasy." And lookie here, it's gonna, so NOW they will get my money.
I agree entirely. My comment was directed more at the irony of a college picking a music service with obscure artists, what with the "What? People have heard of it? We can't play THAT!" mentality that most college radio stations seem to have.
...clearly they asked the folks at the student radio stations what the kids listen to these days./worked in college radio//has NEVER met a student radio DJ who wasn't a HUGE music snob
The sense I get (based only on the couple articles I've read...can't wait to get home and see if my Tivo is one of the ones with the software upgrade yet) is that the Media Access Code is input into the Tivo Desktop software when you install it, and used to talk to the Tivo to make sure that it is in fact your machine that is downloading the program. Once it gets there, it's prolly pretty much straight MPEG-2 video, and you should be able to do what you like with it, although I will further suspect that the program will be watermarked with said MAC as well, and that the Tivo folks will be checking around online to see if people are posting these watermarked programs, and promptly revoking the TTG rights of people whose watermarks they find online.(Which means, if you burn something to CD for a buddy, great. Make sure he's not the kind of dick who will turn around and post it.)
(Said watermarks will prolly be removable within the week, but at least Tivo made the effort.)
Which, personally, works well for me. Tivo is allowing me to download and archive my own programs, without restricting how many times or on what devices I can use the program on, while putting mechanisms in place to discourage the easy posting of Tivo'd programs online, which should make the networks less likely to invoke the transfer protection Tivo pretty much had to include to get this to happen. I'm fine with that.
There will still be ways to get shows online, and Tivo (well, legal Tivo, they can't do much about the hax0red units) won't be associated with them. That's good for Tivo, and good for Tivo's users who want them to continue to exist.
The advantage to this method is, once the bomb explodes, it will leave behind a huge black hole of suck which can act as a defense mechanism, drawing any future Earth-threatening objects into it.
But they're not.
What better way to kill P2P then to have the data pool flooded with crappy stream-ripped versions of songs? I, for one, would get really tired of having to download the same track 5 times to find one that was ripped properly from the CD, instead of stream-ripped or badly edited. It's already hugely in the RIAA's favor that any idiot can rip something badly anymore, but it washes in that the average listener doesn't have a discerning enough ear to notice it.
...I hadn't bought a DVD burner yet. That's just an awesome idea, and so long as these front-writable CD's are still usable in the current generation of drives, I can see them getting adapted as a standard pretty quickly and simply absorbed into the costs of the media development. So DVD media prices might drop a LITTLE slower...
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Actually, that's very likely exactly the case. Comcast would LOVE it if everyone who was burning 250GB a month on their cheapest data plan would take their business elsewhere.
The DNC list is worthless, because the telemarketing lobby convinced the lawmakers to include loopholes for "non-profits" and for "prior business relationships." The former means I keep getting calls from people who want me to vote for them for whatever reason, and the latter is so ill-defined that pretty much anyone can call me and weasel their way out of any penalty. (Plus, there are still tons of people out there who just call you anyhow, knowing that it's such a pain to track them down that they'll get away with it.)
No, it's an indicator that the cable companies have been completely and totally incompetent with regard to implementing the CableCard standard. (At least, in the United States.) Mainly because they don't want to (they make a fortune renting you that cable box; why would they want to provide an alternative that removes that from the equation?) and nobody (and by "nobody" I mean "this incompetent corrupt government") is making them. I bought a Tivo HD last weekend. It took no less than SIX CableCards PLUS a visit from the cable guy to find two that worked. CableCard is a GREAT idea, that was completely neutered by an FCC on the take.
To this, I say: it's your own damn fault for buying it. Me, I took one look and said "Yeah, call me when the real trilogy comes out, instead of George Lucas's wank fantasy." And lookie here, it's gonna, so NOW they will get my money.
You clearly have never played SimGolf.
I agree entirely. My comment was directed more at the irony of a college picking a music service with obscure artists, what with the "What? People have heard of it? We can't play THAT!" mentality that most college radio stations seem to have.
...clearly they asked the folks at the student radio stations what the kids listen to these days. /worked in college radio //has NEVER met a student radio DJ who wasn't a HUGE music snob
The sense I get (based only on the couple articles I've read...can't wait to get home and see if my Tivo is one of the ones with the software upgrade yet) is that the Media Access Code is input into the Tivo Desktop software when you install it, and used to talk to the Tivo to make sure that it is in fact your machine that is downloading the program. Once it gets there, it's prolly pretty much straight MPEG-2 video, and you should be able to do what you like with it, although I will further suspect that the program will be watermarked with said MAC as well, and that the Tivo folks will be checking around online to see if people are posting these watermarked programs, and promptly revoking the TTG rights of people whose watermarks they find online.(Which means, if you burn something to CD for a buddy, great. Make sure he's not the kind of dick who will turn around and post it.) (Said watermarks will prolly be removable within the week, but at least Tivo made the effort.) Which, personally, works well for me. Tivo is allowing me to download and archive my own programs, without restricting how many times or on what devices I can use the program on, while putting mechanisms in place to discourage the easy posting of Tivo'd programs online, which should make the networks less likely to invoke the transfer protection Tivo pretty much had to include to get this to happen. I'm fine with that. There will still be ways to get shows online, and Tivo (well, legal Tivo, they can't do much about the hax0red units) won't be associated with them. That's good for Tivo, and good for Tivo's users who want them to continue to exist.
The advantage to this method is, once the bomb explodes, it will leave behind a huge black hole of suck which can act as a defense mechanism, drawing any future Earth-threatening objects into it.
But they're not. What better way to kill P2P then to have the data pool flooded with crappy stream-ripped versions of songs? I, for one, would get really tired of having to download the same track 5 times to find one that was ripped properly from the CD, instead of stream-ripped or badly edited. It's already hugely in the RIAA's favor that any idiot can rip something badly anymore, but it washes in that the average listener doesn't have a discerning enough ear to notice it.
"An in-depth look at how favorite characters came to be."
Do you suppose Lucas is egotistical enough to dedicate so much as twelve seconds of this to Jar Jar Binks?
...I hadn't bought a DVD burner yet. That's just an awesome idea, and so long as these front-writable CD's are still usable in the current generation of drives, I can see them getting adapted as a standard pretty quickly and simply absorbed into the costs of the media development. So DVD media prices might drop a LITTLE slower...