Even if they managed to get the fingerprinting to work, it is dead easy to circumvent.
Instead of splitting a torrent they way it is done today, just put
every N bytes in the first block etc.
Another approach can be to just encrypt each transmission from a peer
to another peer with a key unique for that particular connection. XOR
will work just fine. (Unless they extract the key of course, but that
will require more sophisticated sniffing software).
Imagine the sheer amount of data that has to be processed...
Nothing will change for me if this law gets passed. I'll just ignore it, and I predict that other people will too.
Slightly off-topic, this has probably been said a lot but I'll say it again. The music industry needs to rethink their marketing strategies. I'll use myself as an example here. I don't listen to radio at all, I don't watch much TV (and when I do, it's not the channels that run ads for artists). When I buy music I don't just pick something from the "top 20" list. I download MP3s and put them into iTunes. Then I just listen to songs that haven't been played before. If there is a song I like I just give it a 4 or 5 star rating and maybe I listen to the album. If it doesn't suck I may buy it from amazon or play.com. Sometimes I drop by a music store in town and browse through the sections with music I'm interested in to see if I can find some gems (if the store doesn't sort by genre I just leave).
After I started listening music this way, my CD purchases has increased from maybe 5 a year to about one per week.
The difference between me and the "ideal" consumer (from an industry standpoint) is that I'm in total control. I get exposed to stuff I know I might like. (Before emusic changed their policy, I browsed different sections and got the top rated stuff just to check it out).
In one of SQ games (can't remember which), you got to an space station mall with a computer game store (or something like that), with such great titles as "Sim Sim - The Simulator Simulator" and "It came for dessert" (if I remember correctly).
Under the slashdot story which points to a Linus Torvalds interview there is an advertisement for Windows 2003 server and it's telling me that it's 17% cheaper to run!
Yeah, but Windows is much more expensive when it's not running.
He made it quite clear that he does in fact want a BSD style license, IOW the right to distribute binaries (and source, if he so wishes).
He writes that he wants a "BSD style" lisence. However, I'm not sure that is what he wants. (Because his offer doesn't make much sense to me if he wants the code with full BSD (style) lisence).
When people buy commercial 3rd party libraries, they do that because it is cheaper to buy the 3rd party library than to develop everything themselves. I'm pretty sure Qt/Win32 is worth more than the ~$2000 or something you have to pay for a single Enterprise lisence.
(I assume the guy who posted on the linux kernel list didn't mean that those who paid $50 K for a snapshot get the rights to distribute the source with a "BSD style" lisence).
The GPS side is the one that matters - it seems that Garmin GPS that I have provides a choice of protocols to use over the serial cable, but insists on using their proprietary protocol over the USB cable.
Well, they have at least made the protocol specs available.
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Even if they managed to get the fingerprinting to work, it is dead easy to circumvent.
Instead of splitting a torrent they way it is done today, just put every N bytes in the first block etc.
Another approach can be to just encrypt each transmission from a peer to another peer with a key unique for that particular connection. XOR will work just fine. (Unless they extract the key of course, but that will require more sophisticated sniffing software).
Imagine the sheer amount of data that has to be processed...
eh...
Nothing will change for me if this law gets passed. I'll just ignore it, and I predict that other people will too.
Slightly off-topic, this has probably been said a lot but I'll say it again. The music industry needs to rethink their marketing strategies. I'll use myself as an example here. I don't listen to radio at all, I don't watch much TV (and when I do, it's not the channels that run ads for artists). When I buy music I don't just pick something from the "top 20" list. I download MP3s and put them into iTunes. Then I just listen to songs that haven't been played before. If there is a song I like I just give it a 4 or 5 star rating and maybe I listen to the album. If it doesn't suck I may buy it from amazon or play.com. Sometimes I drop by a music store in town and browse through the sections with music I'm interested in to see if I can find some gems (if the store doesn't sort by genre I just leave).
After I started listening music this way, my CD purchases has increased from maybe 5 a year to about one per week.
The difference between me and the "ideal" consumer (from an industry standpoint) is that I'm in total control. I get exposed to stuff I know I might like. (Before emusic changed their policy, I browsed different sections and got the top rated stuff just to check it out).
Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beierhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Heh, I've actually bought a couple of cds after listening to songs in Burnout 3.
I see you haven't use the search function on the intranet portal thingy where I work.
She's a wookie?
Dynamically allocating memory is usually a big no-no in real time systems.
In one of SQ games (can't remember which), you got to an space station mall with a computer game store (or something like that), with such great titles as "Sim Sim - The Simulator Simulator" and "It came for dessert" (if I remember correctly).
Unfortunately, it has already been done.
RTFA. It plays Ogg Vorbis, so you'll get about 2 seconds of music with the same quality as the 1,5 second MP3.
Neither can most C compilers.
Yeah, but Windows is much more expensive when it's not running.
When people buy commercial 3rd party libraries, they do that because it is cheaper to buy the 3rd party library than to develop everything themselves. I'm pretty sure Qt/Win32 is worth more than the ~$2000 or something you have to pay for a single Enterprise lisence.
(I assume the guy who posted on the linux kernel list didn't mean that those who paid $50 K for a snapshot get the rights to distribute the source with a "BSD style" lisence).
Well, they have at least made the protocol specs available.
NASA: Rotate 10 degrees
E0-1: I'm sorry Houston, I'm afraid I can't do that.
...and throw in cold fusion, anti-gravity, faster than light travel and a perpetuum mobile while you're at it.
Yes, most of the music I've got on my iPod is "pirated" mp3s. However, lets look a little bit closer.
Number of CDs I bought per year before I got an iPod: ~2-4
Number of CDs bought so far in 2004: ~15
15 may not be a huge amount, but it's more than 4. So what if 95% of my mp3s are not paid for, I spend more money on music now than two years ago.
...or maybe he just means 54 billion bytes.
...or maybe your eyes are just tired of watching TV 16-18 hours every day in 9 months?
I'm just waiting for the first press release with a slight typing error on the first letter.