I too thought this violation smelled peticularly nice, like the smell of old boardgames mixed with curry. Oh wait... flagrant... erm... forget I said anything...
1. Piracy will still exist, just obfuscated and encrypted more.
2. ISPs will be more expensive, as Internet service providers will have to relay the costs of scanning all the packets onto their customers.
So basically, this has failed before it has even begun as far as I'm concerned. As per usual for this government, it doesn't benefit the population in any way.
Wasn't the idea behind the Wii to *stop* this from happening? Seems like a stupid time to say such a thing just after games like Brain Training for the DS and the intuitive Wii console have been released.
I always figured the name was suggesting it gave you a birdseye view over the internet, or like looking at a city from a mountain top. Nice way to describe an internet search engine really.
Maybe if this probe can zoom in on the areas where the moon landings took place, and can show the moon rover for example, it'll stop the conspiracy theorists?
At least you guys in the US realise it's happening. Here in the UK people are oblivious and always think the cameras are helping us where in fact we've simply ended up in a country where many public spaces simply aren't private anymore.
www.qooqle.jp has been around for ages as a Youtube/Google Video downloading site oddly enough. Perhaps they created a wormhole and read your future post? Then again your post didn't exist until somebody read it.
I installed Ubuntu 7.04 the other day and saw no such warning when starting Totem. I do however have to download all the codecs myself, which means it's pretty useless out the box unless you have everything in WAV or OGG. I mean it could have at least supported FLAC!
Apparently Linux Mint is supposed to be have codecs pre-installed, and I've heard it called Ubuntu with "batteries included" but I've yet to try it.
I downloaded it directly off visualvendetta.com a few days ago, and thats no a warez site or anything. I get the impression Moore just cares about getting the word out rather than making money.
You say information is like school. Thats an interesting point, think of all the good teachers you remember. They somehow managed to provide the information in an entertaining and enthusiastic way. It's insulting to people to say they need simply entertainment, what people need is solid information provided in a way that is engrossing and good to read or watch.
Indeed. I think the problem is people end up voting labour (as opposed to say Lib Dem) is because they're scared the conservatives will get in, and believe they are worse, and people vote conservative because they think that they're the only alternative to labour.
So we're locked into this government until there's either some serious competition from Lib Dem, or the blanace tips towards Conservative (which I don't think would be a vast improvement personally considering they rarely oppose the stuff labour wants to bring in in parliament, sometimes things only get through on Conservative votes too).
I'm sick of disposable music, and the record companies treating people like idiots. This at least shows to me that people DO care about DRM in my opinion.
Right now we have 4 record companies (after the recent merger of Sony and BMG) so I can only see things getting more stale and more controlling. This perhaps shows the start of a possible revolution, one can only hope!
Or will it mean film studios can stop movies from being copied when traveling on the internet? They don't get copied during transmission, they get copied/drm-cracked after the other person has recieved it;)
Last I heard the RIAA weren't some governement agency or anything like the police, just an organization. Why are AOL happily handing over IP addresses when surely there is no legal obligation?
Indeed. It also blocks ".pif". However it does a shockingly bad job of it. If you're in a multi-chat with several people, typing ".pif" will cause the "Network Error" message to come up and kick everyone out the chat. So you can effectively kill a multi-chat whenever you want =)
Here's an idea.... rather than say capturing from one laserdisc master, how about they collect 50 or so laserdiscs, capture all of them and then maybe some of the data lost in the analog process could be interpolated from all the copies to produce a clearer picture? I don't know how well that'd work.
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I too thought this violation smelled peticularly nice, like the smell of old boardgames mixed with curry. Oh wait... flagrant... erm... forget I said anything...
Go to http://www.nationmaster.com/ . I use it often to convince people about the problems we have in the UK =p
It'd be cool to see it given to fund OSS projects or something like that.
All good things...
1. Piracy will still exist, just obfuscated and encrypted more.
2. ISPs will be more expensive, as Internet service providers will have to relay the costs of scanning all the packets onto their customers.
So basically, this has failed before it has even begun as far as I'm concerned. As per usual for this government, it doesn't benefit the population in any way.
Wasn't the idea behind the Wii to *stop* this from happening? Seems like a stupid time to say such a thing just after games like Brain Training for the DS and the intuitive Wii console have been released.
I always figured the name was suggesting it gave you a birdseye view over the internet, or like looking at a city from a mountain top. Nice way to describe an internet search engine really.
Firstly CCTV everywhere, then ID Cards and now we're even creating Human hybrids like Hitler's human-dog experiments!
Maybe if this probe can zoom in on the areas where the moon landings took place, and can show the moon rover for example, it'll stop the conspiracy theorists?
At least you guys in the US realise it's happening. Here in the UK people are oblivious and always think the cameras are helping us where in fact we've simply ended up in a country where many public spaces simply aren't private anymore.
http://www.open.ac.uk/
They've been going for years, starting with TV programmes and courses done through the post, to today where they do a lot of internet based stuff.
10 PRINT "This year is the year for linux on the desktop" 20 WAIT 1 YEAR 30 GOTO 10
www.qooqle.jp has been around for ages as a Youtube/Google Video downloading site oddly enough. Perhaps they created a wormhole and read your future post? Then again your post didn't exist until somebody read it.
And now I need to go and lie down.
The possibility of the company going out of business is regularly cited as a reason against DRM, because it leaves your purchases worthless.
This is an example of it happening in reality.
People are going to have to either waste CD-R's or loose quality by reencoding them to another lossy format... really abismal.
I installed Ubuntu 7.04 the other day and saw no such warning when starting Totem. I do however have to download all the codecs myself, which means it's pretty useless out the box unless you have everything in WAV or OGG. I mean it could have at least supported FLAC!
Apparently Linux Mint is supposed to be have codecs pre-installed, and I've heard it called Ubuntu with "batteries included" but I've yet to try it.
I downloaded it directly off visualvendetta.com a few days ago, and thats no a warez site or anything. I get the impression Moore just cares about getting the word out rather than making money.
You say information is like school. Thats an interesting point, think of all the good teachers you remember. They somehow managed to provide the information in an entertaining and enthusiastic way. It's insulting to people to say they need simply entertainment, what people need is solid information provided in a way that is engrossing and good to read or watch.
Indeed. I think the problem is people end up voting labour (as opposed to say Lib Dem) is because they're scared the conservatives will get in, and believe they are worse, and people vote conservative because they think that they're the only alternative to labour.
So we're locked into this government until there's either some serious competition from Lib Dem, or the blanace tips towards Conservative (which I don't think would be a vast improvement personally considering they rarely oppose the stuff labour wants to bring in in parliament, sometimes things only get through on Conservative votes too).
The bottom line with this I believe is it's simply a way for councils to make more money. Currently they simply don't get enough money from the government, so they turn to unreasonably fining people. We've heard about people being fined over scraps of paper, councillors wanting to survey peoples homes to try and charge more council tax, and more similar stories. The councils are just getting desperate for money and it's horrible to watch.
http://www.glowingbridge.org/
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I'm sick of disposable music, and the record companies treating people like idiots. This at least shows to me that people DO care about DRM in my opinion.
Right now we have 4 record companies (after the recent merger of Sony and BMG) so I can only see things getting more stale and more controlling. This perhaps shows the start of a possible revolution, one can only hope!
Or will it mean film studios can stop movies from being copied when traveling on the internet? ;)
They don't get copied during transmission, they get copied/drm-cracked after the other person has recieved it
To get a list of IP addresses in the first place?
Last I heard the RIAA weren't some governement agency or anything like the police, just an organization. Why are AOL happily handing over IP addresses when surely there is no legal obligation?
Indeed. It also blocks ".pif". However it does a shockingly bad job of it. If you're in a multi-chat with several people, typing ".pif" will cause the "Network Error" message to come up and kick everyone out the chat. So you can effectively kill a multi-chat whenever you want =)
Here's an idea.... rather than say capturing from one laserdisc master, how about they collect 50 or so laserdiscs, capture all of them and then maybe some of the data lost in the analog process could be interpolated from all the copies to produce a clearer picture? I don't know how well that'd work.