In fact your bottle probably says that it should not be refilled without agreement by the licence holder of the brand. This of cource is to avoid restaurants from filling Evian bottles with tap water, but I pretty sure this lexmark ruling could lead it to apply to personal refills too.
I'm talking MD, Vid8, atrac3... etc...
We all know Sony will do what Sony wants, it will try to market their own standard by selling it at a cost twice the competing technology and they will sell it because it looks better.
In the end only a handful of you acquaintances will have the Sony brand standards in their home and they will be fairly happy with it until they figure out that no-one else's media plays on their crap.
We've all seen it before. I for one am going to ignore it this time
It seems to me that the mental image of "being able to record and store all programs for a month" is really a space indicator rather than the actual capability of capturing TV from all channels at the same time.
Surely they are also limited by the capture cards hardware limitations that allow only one or two channels to be captured at the same time. And I haven't even started to wonder about the amount op CPU and disk speed needed to compress and write to disk 20 or 30 channels of video at the same time.
I for one am not taking this "promise" very literally.
It's like claiming an I-pod can store all speech by your entire family for a month, but without providing the actual possibility of recording the audio.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this just means that now they will actually need to start defending themselves and try to prove that they didn't actively promote the use of their product for illegal acts.
The sad part is that without the protection of procecution they will now need to start spending big bucks to defend themselves in court. Which sadly often just means that the first one to go bust loses.
"I'm not saying that I think that "bullet makers" should be held responsible for the actions of a select few of their customers"
Maybee you are... I mean It's all about how you're advertising right? If FN would start advertising that their new bullets now are a must have because they penetrate police-vests, I'm pretty sure thay would be having legale throuble very soon indead.
I can dig it... So what you are saying is that pirated versions of the movie are not a problem, because movie goers go for the experience rather than the movie itself, and that the difference in quality makes a fan want to see the best ie. the cinema.
Then we are in agreement. Piracy is not a problem.
This boils down to this perfect point: Internet piracy has a quality assurance effect on music, film and now also TV.
I've had that impression for years. If you like what you download, sales will rise wheater it is downloaded or not. But if it's crap, noone will come to see or hear it.
The way I see it, RIAA and MPAA are protecting only their model of selling crap for profit.
Producers, labels and artists making genuine quality aren't a fraction as nervous about it all.
"people that spend over $1000 on camera equipment tend to not be ignorant consumers."
But the do tend to be more interested in getting quality pictures, rather than a boycot called by pimplyfaced slashdotters for reasons photographers really don't care about.
If I can't even get my brother to drop NIKON bacause of their use of the MOV video fromat, then I tend to be pessimistic.
Those of us that don't use dialups actually don't care that we are spending that much time in our webmail.
In fact I uninstalled evolution on my machine, and removed thunderbird from my wifes and now we only use the gmail web interface.
Who cares about pop3 when they have a webmail GUI that's better than any client I've ever used.
And you know what else? POP3 was perfect for downloading texts that took seconds to download and minutes to read. With all the powerpoint-joke-E.Card-chainletter crap out there POP3 is just a way to spend minutes downloading crap you will delete in seconds. So what's the point.
Tell the VP that the fast that he saves all his internet passwords in his browser, replicates all his confidential data to his palm-pilot, tapes his passwords to the inside of his laptop, gives full access to all data to his managers, is a far greater security risk than a non-renamed administrator account on a small print server.
They don't have to be on the same page. In fact I prefer if they aren't!
Every player is free to choose their own opinion on the matter and governments and lawmakers that seem cater to the "entertainment industry" as a whole should understand that it simply doesn't exist. Laws should be made by the merits of the case and not by the opinions of industries.
People and companies alike have the right to be considered as individual entities. The perception of groups by groups is part of the problem and never the solution.
RIAA is free to go after infringers, but they just aren't doing a very good job doing it in an acceptable way. Suing 10-year-old kids and deceased webmasters isn't really a boost for their credibility. I don't mind RIAA defending their commercial rights, but I do object to them treading on personal liberties while doing so.
Besides there is a difference in defending the obligation to share and deffending the right to restrict.
Better than they used to be that is. I don't get irritating spam anymore.
Using my gmail a rarely get any spam anymore.
I'm justwondering how many spam email needs to be deleted before read until spammer just give up and go back to stuffing snail-mail-boxes.
Couldn't the guy who wrote the screenplay to "Brainstorm" (the movie from 1983) claim prior art?
I know we are only supposed to be agains IP patents and not mechanical patents (although I'm not sure which one this is), but call me crazy, I feel any patent without a working prototype should be denied.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably NOT.
In fact your bottle probably says that it should not be refilled without agreement by the licence holder of the brand. This of cource is to avoid restaurants from filling Evian bottles with tap water, but I pretty sure this lexmark ruling could lead it to apply to personal refills too.
I'm talking MD, Vid8, atrac3... etc... We all know Sony will do what Sony wants, it will try to market their own standard by selling it at a cost twice the competing technology and they will sell it because it looks better. In the end only a handful of you acquaintances will have the Sony brand standards in their home and they will be fairly happy with it until they figure out that no-one else's media plays on their crap. We've all seen it before. I for one am going to ignore it this time
It seems to me that the mental image of "being able to record and store all programs for a month" is really a space indicator rather than the actual capability of capturing TV from all channels at the same time.
Surely they are also limited by the capture cards hardware limitations that allow only one or two channels to be captured at the same time. And I haven't even started to wonder about the amount op CPU and disk speed needed to compress and write to disk 20 or 30 channels of video at the same time.
I for one am not taking this "promise" very literally.
It's like claiming an I-pod can store all speech by your entire family for a month, but without providing the actual possibility of recording the audio.
Let's see... Bad movies, and they stop every 5 minutes or so for a couple of minutes.... Sound a bit like TV doesn't it?
Grokster didn't acually lose anything right?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this just means that now they will actually need to start defending themselves and try to prove that they didn't actively promote the use of their product for illegal acts.
The sad part is that without the protection of procecution they will now need to start spending big bucks to defend themselves in court. Which sadly often just means that the first one to go bust loses.
And MPAA and RIAA have prety deep pockets.
"I'm not saying that I think that "bullet makers" should be held responsible for the actions of a select few of their customers"
Maybee you are... I mean It's all about how you're advertising right? If FN would start advertising that their new bullets now are a must have because they penetrate police-vests, I'm pretty sure thay would be having legale throuble very soon indead.
Partcipant of the study agreeing to get spam... Is this not obviously a contradiction in terms?
Just keep it up scumbags...
The more idiots abuse the system in such obvious ways, the more people will realize the error of its ways.
Why doesn't the guy move the project to Denmark or somewhere they don't have that damn DMCA.
Easy... If they do, you retaliate and sue em. NEXT
Great!
I can dig it... So what you are saying is that pirated versions of the movie are not a problem, because movie goers go for the experience rather than the movie itself, and that the difference in quality makes a fan want to see the best ie. the cinema.
Then we are in agreement. Piracy is not a problem.
Now lets make MPAA see it our way, will we?
This boils down to this perfect point: Internet piracy has a quality assurance effect on music, film and now also TV.
I've had that impression for years. If you like what you download, sales will rise wheater it is downloaded or not. But if it's crap, noone will come to see or hear it.
The way I see it, RIAA and MPAA are protecting only their model of selling crap for profit.
Producers, labels and artists making genuine quality aren't a fraction as nervous about it all.
Standards are overrated
"people that spend over $1000 on camera equipment tend to not be ignorant consumers."
But the do tend to be more interested in getting quality pictures, rather than a boycot called by pimplyfaced slashdotters for reasons photographers really don't care about.
If I can't even get my brother to drop NIKON bacause of their use of the MOV video fromat, then I tend to be pessimistic.
Welcome to the world of DSL!
Those of us that don't use dialups actually don't care that we are spending that much time in our webmail.
In fact I uninstalled evolution on my machine, and removed thunderbird from my wifes and now we only use the gmail web interface.
Who cares about pop3 when they have a webmail GUI that's better than any client I've ever used.
And you know what else? POP3 was perfect for downloading texts that took seconds to download and minutes to read. With all the powerpoint-joke-E.Card-chainletter crap out there POP3 is just a way to spend minutes downloading crap you will delete in seconds. So what's the point.
Tell the VP that the fast that he saves all his internet passwords in his browser, replicates all his confidential data to his palm-pilot, tapes his passwords to the inside of his laptop, gives full access to all data to his managers, is a far greater security risk than a non-renamed administrator account on a small print server.
That should shut him up for a couple of weeks.
They don't have to be on the same page. In fact I prefer if they aren't!
Every player is free to choose their own opinion on the matter and governments and lawmakers that seem cater to the "entertainment industry" as a whole should understand that it simply doesn't exist. Laws should be made by the merits of the case and not by the opinions of industries.
People and companies alike have the right to be considered as individual entities. The perception of groups by groups is part of the problem and never the solution.
RIAA is free to go after infringers, but they just aren't doing a very good job doing it in an acceptable way. Suing 10-year-old kids and deceased webmasters isn't really a boost for their credibility. I don't mind RIAA defending their commercial rights, but I do object to them treading on personal liberties while doing so.
Besides there is a difference in defending the obligation to share and deffending the right to restrict.
Reality TV = TV Spam.
Its cheap, and if you broadcast enough of it someone is bound to watch.
Better than they used to be that is. I don't get irritating spam anymore.
Using my gmail a rarely get any spam anymore.
I'm justwondering how many spam email needs to be deleted before read until spammer just give up and go back to stuffing snail-mail-boxes.
LOL... Keep the pil... I like this reality.
I don't think "thoughts" is the right word here, but inventions, sure, if you actually invented something that works! Where is the prototype?
Actually I think it's spelled:"+hev/ R ju5+ +0 S2p1d"
Couldn't the guy who wrote the screenplay to "Brainstorm" (the movie from 1983) claim prior art?
I know we are only supposed to be agains IP patents and not mechanical patents (although I'm not sure which one this is), but call me crazy, I feel any patent without a working prototype should be denied.
P.S. For more info on Brainstorm: http://imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
Then what's your insight into the Tet-offensive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive