Have you ever tried to erase a floppy with a magnet? I have tried on several occasions and it is harder than you might think.
to "Randomize" the magnetic "markings" on the disk, you need a Degausser. (Gauss being the pioneering physicist on the subject of magnatism.
A Degausser is an electromagnet that creates a magnetic field that is constantly changing. that is what you need to "Randomize" the magnetic alignment of the particles on the disk in order to erase it entirely.
For the record, I took a full, height, five-and-a-quarter hard drive apart, (I think it was on the order of 1 GB) and there were two extremely strong magnets in the head actuator mechanism. they were so strong that you couldn't pull them apart, you had to slide them, so they were kind of offset and twist them.
I still use them to re-magnitize screwdrivers and bits
A smart phone like one of the Handspring, (Now Palm One) Treo's plus SMS. Handing one of those out to every deaf person in the states would have to cost less than allowing this fraud to continue.
for some odd reason, I feel compelled to add that there are 4 GB Compact Flash cards that are purely Flash memory, and that there is soon going to be an 8GB CF card out soon, (at a cost of $4000)
Actually My iPod, (20GB 3rd. Gen) is less than 2.5 inches across, and is roughly the same size as a laptop hard drive as a whole.
that is why there are MP3 players that have larger dimensions and have 60 GB hard drives. 80 GB ones will be availible as soon as a larger drive is availible for use in the high-end laptops.
the Platter diamater of the iPod drive is 1.8 inches, and is more like the size of a PC-card hard drive.
or at least it doesn't cost them much, and Why was North and South America excluded?
(I will bow to any proof that MS gives away licenses to American Non-Profit Orgs.)
I can see excluding Asia, Because much of that part of the world doesn't respect Copyrights, but still.
Is it just because MS is unable to establish the MS tax in the EU or something?--computers ship with OEM licenses that must be transferred along with ownership of the computer...
I was just brainstorming about how this could be dealt with.
My first thought is, Access to the Internet based relay should be a members-only thing, where members are given a chance to register a username and password when they buy the TTY machine.
A self serve method could involve entering the serial number of your TTY unit.
clearly there needs to be some verification that people using the service are from the US.
you are confusing "Physical property" with "Intellectual Property"
Anything you can touch with your hands, is Physical Property. There can only be one of "Actual piece of physical property, (Replicas on the other hand are a different can of worms)
Intellectiual property you cannot touch. You can touch a CD, but you cannot touch the music that is stored in the CD.
you cannot touch speech. and therefore, the contents of a manuscript are intellectual property.
when you buy a CD, a Book, or a VHS or DVD Movie, you are primarily paying for the Intellectual property it contains. Small runs of Glass Mastered audio CD's cost as little as USD 1.00 per disk, in runs of 1000 with printed inserts and shrink-wrapping. CD's are not $1.00 or even $5.00 (allowing for a couple of markups) because the value is not just the piece of plastic. it's the music it contains
I'm just curious, How many of those computers are in the same room?
I personally have four computers,
One laptop,
One Desktop,
Two Windows 2000 servers.
The desktop and the servers are within 4 feet of each other, there's no need to have all 3 of them authorized for iTMS...
I'm not saying you don't have a legitimate beef, but do you really use all four of those home computers, on a regular basis for an extended period of time?
Having read "This Business of Music" Revised and expanded 8th edition By Krasilovski and Shemel, I feel I am qualified to set the record straight on copyright law.
As the Law stands, (or stood at the time of the book's publising) all people involved in the creation of a work, be it a book, speech, Musical score, or recording, or Video content such as TV and Film, have equal rights as anyone else invloved in the production.
In the case of the band I am with, I have equal rights to the copyright and any royalties, even though I am not a "Musician" (I am the Recording engineer, and I insure that levels are good, and without my contribution the recordings would sound lousy.)
If, on the other hand, I was working at a professional studio, all clients (Bands and individual artists) would sign a contrack that establishes the studio as a contractor on a "Work for Hire" basis, and therefore, by default hold no power over the copyright, except anything explicitly spelled out in the contract. A common clause of this nature gives all employees of the studio who work directly for the band, (All the people in the control room) the right to use excerpts of the band's songs as a Demo Reel, or in promoting the studio as a whole.
the point of the above was that "Record Labels" make musicians who are "Signed" give up full copyright control over their existing body of work, to the "Label"
Lastly, Failure to take action against a known infringer is tantamount, according to the letter of the law, to willfully allowing the work to fall into the public domain.
The ultimate point is this:
The Judicial system needs to work out who holds the trump card.
The Users: In other words "Fair Use is the trump that overrides all else"
The DMCA: DMCA makes it illegal to break the DRM, and that is the end of it.
Apple: The iTMS EULA is the trump and everything, even fair use must be carried out in accordance with the EULA and its DRM protections
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Consider for a moment the earth's magnetic field.
Need I say more?
to "Randomize" the magnetic "markings" on the disk, you need a Degausser. (Gauss being the pioneering physicist on the subject of magnatism.
A Degausser is an electromagnet that creates a magnetic field that is constantly changing. that is what you need to "Randomize" the magnetic alignment of the particles on the disk in order to erase it entirely.
For the record, I took a full, height, five-and-a-quarter hard drive apart, (I think it was on the order of 1 GB) and there were two extremely strong magnets in the head actuator mechanism. they were so strong that you couldn't pull them apart, you had to slide them, so they were kind of offset and twist them.
I still use them to re-magnitize screwdrivers and bits
A smart phone like one of the Handspring, (Now Palm One) Treo's plus SMS. Handing one of those out to every deaf person in the states would have to cost less than allowing this fraud to continue.
for some odd reason, I feel compelled to add that there are 4 GB Compact Flash cards that are purely Flash memory, and that there is soon going to be an 8GB CF card out soon, (at a cost of $4000)
that is why there are MP3 players that have larger dimensions and have 60 GB hard drives. 80 GB ones will be availible as soon as a larger drive is availible for use in the high-end laptops.
the Platter diamater of the iPod drive is 1.8 inches, and is more like the size of a PC-card hard drive.
It has been my experience that Mcafee 9 will detect and remove spyware, link to McAfee
(I will bow to any proof that MS gives away licenses to American Non-Profit Orgs.)
I can see excluding Asia, Because much of that part of the world doesn't respect Copyrights, but still.
Is it just because MS is unable to establish the MS tax in the EU or something?--computers ship with OEM licenses that must be transferred along with ownership of the computer...
The major difference is that when the Nigerian scammer calls directly on a voice line, they must pay the overseas phone bill, speak fluent English.
My first thought is, Access to the Internet based relay should be a members-only thing, where members are given a chance to register a username and password when they buy the TTY machine.
A self serve method could involve entering the serial number of your TTY unit.
clearly there needs to be some verification that people using the service are from the US.
Anything you can touch with your hands, is Physical Property. There can only be one of "Actual piece of physical property, (Replicas on the other hand are a different can of worms)
Intellectiual property you cannot touch. You can touch a CD, but you cannot touch the music that is stored in the CD.
you cannot touch speech. and therefore, the contents of a manuscript are intellectual property.
when you buy a CD, a Book, or a VHS or DVD Movie, you are primarily paying for the Intellectual property it contains. Small runs of Glass Mastered audio CD's cost as little as USD 1.00 per disk, in runs of 1000 with printed inserts and shrink-wrapping. CD's are not $1.00 or even $5.00 (allowing for a couple of markups) because the value is not just the piece of plastic. it's the music it contains
Well the Mega-Media companies want to claim that DMCA trumps Fair use, and the precedent-setting case will be MPAA Vs. 3-2-1 Studios
I'm just curious, How many of those computers are in the same room? I personally have four computers, One laptop, One Desktop, Two Windows 2000 servers. The desktop and the servers are within 4 feet of each other, there's no need to have all 3 of them authorized for iTMS... I'm not saying you don't have a legitimate beef, but do you really use all four of those home computers, on a regular basis for an extended period of time?
Had no clue I HAD to use HTML tags to create line breaks...
Having read "This Business of Music" Revised and expanded 8th edition By Krasilovski and Shemel, I feel I am qualified to set the record straight on copyright law. As the Law stands, (or stood at the time of the book's publising) all people involved in the creation of a work, be it a book, speech, Musical score, or recording, or Video content such as TV and Film, have equal rights as anyone else invloved in the production. In the case of the band I am with, I have equal rights to the copyright and any royalties, even though I am not a "Musician" (I am the Recording engineer, and I insure that levels are good, and without my contribution the recordings would sound lousy.) If, on the other hand, I was working at a professional studio, all clients (Bands and individual artists) would sign a contrack that establishes the studio as a contractor on a "Work for Hire" basis, and therefore, by default hold no power over the copyright, except anything explicitly spelled out in the contract. A common clause of this nature gives all employees of the studio who work directly for the band, (All the people in the control room) the right to use excerpts of the band's songs as a Demo Reel, or in promoting the studio as a whole. the point of the above was that "Record Labels" make musicians who are "Signed" give up full copyright control over their existing body of work, to the "Label" Lastly, Failure to take action against a known infringer is tantamount, according to the letter of the law, to willfully allowing the work to fall into the public domain. The ultimate point is this: The Judicial system needs to work out who holds the trump card. The Users: In other words "Fair Use is the trump that overrides all else" The DMCA: DMCA makes it illegal to break the DRM, and that is the end of it. Apple: The iTMS EULA is the trump and everything, even fair use must be carried out in accordance with the EULA and its DRM protections