This is what your citizens get when you allow congress to pass the Homeland Security Act. Your country is screwed. Welcome to the new United States of Facist America.
Is this the beginning of a "NAZI Germany-like United States?
How many laws have been enacted since 9/11 that enable the US government to do "what ever they want" in the name of protecting the "citizens" of the U.S.A. What laws protect the regular "joe six pack" and "sally house coat" rather then treat them like criminals? (None, even the right to bear arms is under consideration of being removed from the constitution)
Is it cheaper to protect the huge companies rather than the consumer? (Its more profitable for the companies)
Is copyright law really more important than the Homeless? Is this new Government Agency part of the HLS apparatus? (The homeless don't count as they have no money)
What party is enacting this Law and why should you vote for them? (if another 9/11 happens forget about ever voting again)
I think the US government needs a "regime change" that stands up for you rather than on you.
I'd be scared of living in the US (Britain, fuggeditaboutit) these days.... but you got a great fall line up to keep you entertained anyways!
Technology may not have the limits, but people's patience does. A stuttery video and large download time would suck, especially after waiting 3 ro 4 days just to watch a movie and finding out that the silly thing won't play back smoothly and has taken up a sizable chunk of space that could be used for porn or games (yeah that's it.....games). I personally hate wasting my time on stuff that barely runs on my computer, ie "SC Double agent". i have to upgrade my machine just to play that game at an acceptable rate and resolution. Now if that was a video file that I downloaded......delete. I wouldn't wnat to watch a DVD res movie, especially if i thought that it was a HD quality and wasted my bandwidth and time downloading. Who cares if better codecs are invented and tech gets faster, any compression simply defeats the idea of watching HD in full resolution and awesome sound for free. Peoples patience and lack of having a machine to play back such files would be a "speedbump" in piracy, it would certainly stop casual copying.
Do you have the time to download 200+ file size?
This won't stop pirating, but slow it down. Having a High bitrate will just piss people off when they can't watch it smoothly and compressing it down defeats the prupose of HD. Everything that has to do with tech, is either small for ease of transportation or distrubution, so make distrubution un unwieldy and cumbersome and archival purposes a real pain the a$$, make todays limitations on hardware and transfer rates the copy protection. Just a thought.
Studios have put millions of $'s into this, and it is broken, the real protection is in file size. Imagine a 200+ gig movie, uncompressed with full DTS EX and DDHD, commentary and everything else that you could want. Now imagine trying to download that movie over the course of a few weeks or months, if your ISP allows that kind of transfer. The data rate should be high that modern computers stutter and playback is jerky. Compressing it down to a managable size would be defeating the idea of watching HD. This would suffice for today and maybe even a few years. Protection is in "an unmanagable file size" and "data transfer rate", for now.
If you can hear IT, see IT, IT can be duplicated. IT can be cracked. 1000 engineers work on a DRM "scheme", 100 million hackers crack it. DRM is a waste of money for the providers and a pain in the a$$ for law biding music/movie lovers. Itunes music can be copied, burn and rip, thats all, no protection.
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This is what your citizens get when you allow congress to pass the Homeland Security Act. Your country is screwed. Welcome to the new United States of Facist America.
It's about frickin' time!!!!!
Yay!! Hooray for corn!!!
Is this the beginning of a "NAZI Germany-like United States? How many laws have been enacted since 9/11 that enable the US government to do "what ever they want" in the name of protecting the "citizens" of the U.S.A. What laws protect the regular "joe six pack" and "sally house coat" rather then treat them like criminals? (None, even the right to bear arms is under consideration of being removed from the constitution) Is it cheaper to protect the huge companies rather than the consumer? (Its more profitable for the companies) Is copyright law really more important than the Homeless? Is this new Government Agency part of the HLS apparatus? (The homeless don't count as they have no money) What party is enacting this Law and why should you vote for them? (if another 9/11 happens forget about ever voting again) I think the US government needs a "regime change" that stands up for you rather than on you. I'd be scared of living in the US (Britain, fuggeditaboutit) these days.... but you got a great fall line up to keep you entertained anyways!
Technology may not have the limits, but people's patience does. A stuttery video and large download time would suck, especially after waiting 3 ro 4 days just to watch a movie and finding out that the silly thing won't play back smoothly and has taken up a sizable chunk of space that could be used for porn or games (yeah that's it.....games). I personally hate wasting my time on stuff that barely runs on my computer, ie "SC Double agent". i have to upgrade my machine just to play that game at an acceptable rate and resolution. Now if that was a video file that I downloaded......delete. I wouldn't wnat to watch a DVD res movie, especially if i thought that it was a HD quality and wasted my bandwidth and time downloading. Who cares if better codecs are invented and tech gets faster, any compression simply defeats the idea of watching HD in full resolution and awesome sound for free. Peoples patience and lack of having a machine to play back such files would be a "speedbump" in piracy, it would certainly stop casual copying.
It doesn't have to be better, just a space and memory and bandwidth hog. Video Bloat!!!! I just coined a new term.
Do you have the time to download 200+ file size? This won't stop pirating, but slow it down. Having a High bitrate will just piss people off when they can't watch it smoothly and compressing it down defeats the prupose of HD. Everything that has to do with tech, is either small for ease of transportation or distrubution, so make distrubution un unwieldy and cumbersome and archival purposes a real pain the a$$, make todays limitations on hardware and transfer rates the copy protection. Just a thought.
Studios have put millions of $'s into this, and it is broken, the real protection is in file size. Imagine a 200+ gig movie, uncompressed with full DTS EX and DDHD, commentary and everything else that you could want. Now imagine trying to download that movie over the course of a few weeks or months, if your ISP allows that kind of transfer. The data rate should be high that modern computers stutter and playback is jerky. Compressing it down to a managable size would be defeating the idea of watching HD. This would suffice for today and maybe even a few years. Protection is in "an unmanagable file size" and "data transfer rate", for now.
Control, it's not just a button on your keyboard but your future master.
If you can hear IT, see IT, IT can be duplicated. IT can be cracked. 1000 engineers work on a DRM "scheme", 100 million hackers crack it. DRM is a waste of money for the providers and a pain in the a$$ for law biding music/movie lovers. Itunes music can be copied, burn and rip, thats all, no protection.