The key here is to eliminate the role of the recording industry execs. In the digital age, the only real service they provide is marketing, and if you're already interested in paying money for someone's music, then those marketing services don't really add any value to the product you're paying for.
I disagree. I think that if the "recording industry" has a chance of survival, it needs to convert to pure marketing. Along the way it needs to convert to becoming a service where their customer is the artist - not the end-user. That means abandoning their weakening grip on distribution where the value they provide is solely the result of the artificial scarcity they create in controlling distribution channels.
As a music buyer, I need marketing even for bands that I know about. I need to be informed in a timely fashion when they have new music or are on tour or do things like spin-off projects and collobrations. I would really like to be able to subscribe to the equivalent of an RSS feed for each artist that I already like (and that's not limited to musicians either - it can just as easily apply to writers, directors, actors, even painters and artists that work in less digital mediums like say fireworks crews).
What I don't need is hype - which I'm sure is the last thing those marketing execs will ever be able to let go of. And to be honest - a lot of the hoi polloi DO need hype - in the same way that the majority of the population are content to be lead rather than think independently for themselves in terms of politics or even the way they live their lives (go to college, get a job, get married, raise a family, die - the great american dream).
It is certainly possible to detect the reflection of the laser off a nearby object, like say, another mosquito.
That's the way the lidar detector in my car works - if the cops illuminates a car in front of me, I've got a chance of detecting a reflection and slowing down down before he points his laser at my car.
In the United States, since 1991, the date of Grand Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc., music samples need to be cleared by the copyright holder.
And, despite all that, the big labels are massive hypocrites when it comes to following their own rules - as the story of the Amen Break so clearly demonstrates.
People usually add some music/lyrics of their own over sampled sounds, too. Does the book have layered text on top of each page?;)
The book certainly is certainly telling a new story so yes, metaphorically every page is layered with original creative work on top of the 'sampled' text.
The point isn't what role he's played, it's the responsibility others have (not in the role they played, but their present lack of action as a branch of the government) that are seemingly being ignored.
Just because the other kids are jumping off the bridge doesn't mean he should too.
It was in his roll as a congressman that he caved on wiretapping. He signed off on a bill that attempted to legalize what had been happening. He could, at the very least, have done nothing. But he actively supported the bill after earlier comments saying that the practice needed to be halted - not just given official blessing by congress.
If I spend countless hours listening to music and discovering new artists without the ability to export my playlists in some open format (just the metadata, not the songs themselves), I'd get totally pissed if I can't access them any more.
"Low Barrier to Exit" - a great phrase I read in Scott McNealy's recent farewell. Its a concept that Google seems to get with all their efforts to make sure you can get your data out of their various services and apparently Spotify doesn't.
Obama's agenda is all about claiming high ideals while brokering backroom deals to do whatever the fuck he wants to anyway.
He certainly disappointed on the wiretapping issue - caving even before being elected. But from what I'm seeing its more of a case of being pushed back from his ideals.
For example - the whole healthcare thing - he tried to do it 100% out in the open, tried to let congress do it while he was hands-off even. But after 6 months of pretty much nothing he really had no choice but to start trying to go the backroom way. And don't confuse me for a supporter - I think nationalized healthcare is the wrong way to go - the current system is fucked because of partial socialization - we need to go the other way and eliminate the health 'insurance' industry completely - return to real insurance (catastrophic coverage only, no HMOs, etc). But the way its played out seems as plain as day to me.
I do have problems when you start defining "warm fuzzy feelings" as spirituality because spirituality is not a feeling.
Lol. YOU just defined it as a feeling yourself - "you realize he is there and strive to live differently as a result?" You can disclaim that as a feeling all you want, but "realizing" something that is intangible is pretty much by definition nothing more than a feeling.
As if Chinese nationals feel free to speak frankly and honestly about such things in public.
Hell, the chinese government doesn't even allow pollsters to ask direct questions about such things. But they can get away with asking oblique questions to infer the opinions of the polled and that's precisely what's been done.
Read the Pew Center's 2008 report yourself and try to come up with an argument that is a little bit less glib.
Because, as China has shown, censoring communication is the fastest and easiest way to built trust. Go Iran!
I perceive you are trying to be sarcastic, but it seems to be the truth. Sure, china has alienated as small number of discontents. But the general consensus among the population seems to be that China's censorship is a good thing. Kind of like a truly friendly big brother (a phrase itself laden with much more positive overtones in China than in the west).
Great, now just go tell YouTube, Vimeo, etc. to convert all their terabytes (probably exabytes) of H.264 content into Theora.
I doubt that it is exabytes. Youtube only recently started doing higher-quality videos in h264, most everything else was some other format, probably h263.
I'm sure they wouldn't mind double the work and storage requirements.
While h264 is somewhat more efficient than ogg theora, it ain't 2x more efficient.
he specifically said that man *does* affect the climate.
Technically true, but in essence false. He made that statement as a hand-wave-job and then went on to minimize it to the point of meaninglessness when he said, "much of the effect is from outside forces outside of human control, in particular, the Sun."
Then even goes so far as to footnote his point with a claim that maybe the earth isn't even getting warmer after all which is almost certainly an allusion to the people who start measurements in 1998 and say "look all the years since 1998 have been a cooling trend" - which is pure cherry-picking.
if you're going to refute someone, stick to refuting things they actually said.
If you are going to defend someone, pay attention the nuances.
How else does one explain global warming / cooling periods in the past long before modern civilization?
Are you seriously trying to use the "climates change through the natural course of events therefor man's activities can not change the climate" argument?
Or more immediate, how come, according to some reports, Mars may getting warmer!
Wow. Mars is getting warmer and there are no men on Mars. Ergo, the full extent of global warming on Earth has nothing to do with man.
Apparently you really are that naive. And then you whine about getting modded down - have you ever considered that you aren't being modded down for heresy but rather just for failing logic 101?
meaning that this technology is only effective against people who don't think they are doing anything wrong!
Which perfectly suits the needs of 'law enforcement' - we've got a long history of them going after the defenseless and ignorant - like civil forfeiture laws where the property is charged with a crime (literally, lawsuits are titled like US vs One Jeep Wrangler I think being non-sentient qualifies as being 100% defenseless) or even the child porn laws where they go after kids for sexting pictures of themselves rather than hunt down the people who actually abuse kids in the manufacturing of child porn.
The reason for this is because people who don't pay ANY taxes (now about 50% of the population)
Baloney. Almost all states have sales tax - at least on non-food items. The group of people who only buy food, or who live in a non-sales-tax state and don't pay income tax is probably a lot closer to 5% than 50%.
Uh, no. The whole reason 'DRM' came into being was to disconnect software from the media and be 'allowed' to make copies under the terms of the publisher.
By that definition CSS is not DRM because ain't no disconnecting going on there and in fact no ability for the publisher to "shut your copy down" either.
You aren't going to find many buyers for that definition.
DRM is simply any attempt to control access to digital content.
It's not because you all have mastered the meaning of it.
You can't even get YOUR changing definitions to stay coherent, don't even try to play the insult game to relieve your cognitive dissonance.
"The term generally doesn't refer to other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the file or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles"
Circumventing CD-checks require modifying either the program file - usually to NOP out the check - or the 'device' that being the CD drive and replacing it with a virtual cd-drive.
No, they're not. Besides their existence pre-dating the term,
If that were a reasonable criteria the phrase "intellectual property" would not include copyrights or patents.
checking for a physical 'key' is not the same as altering your machine to limit how many times you use/copy it.
Who says "altering your machine" is a requirement? CSS doesn't "alter" the DVD player. These new schemes on music CDs don't 'alter' the CD player - they just put bad sectors in inconvenient places on the disc.
There is no 'rights management' going on here.
Of course there is - the right to play a copy of your game without having the physical media present.
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The key here is to eliminate the role of the recording industry execs. In the digital age, the only real service they provide is marketing, and if you're already interested in paying money for someone's music, then those marketing services don't really add any value to the product you're paying for.
I disagree. I think that if the "recording industry" has a chance of survival, it needs to convert to pure marketing. Along the way it needs to convert to becoming a service where their customer is the artist - not the end-user. That means abandoning their weakening grip on distribution where the value they provide is solely the result of the artificial scarcity they create in controlling distribution channels.
As a music buyer, I need marketing even for bands that I know about. I need to be informed in a timely fashion when they have new music or are on tour or do things like spin-off projects and collobrations. I would really like to be able to subscribe to the equivalent of an RSS feed for each artist that I already like (and that's not limited to musicians either - it can just as easily apply to writers, directors, actors, even painters and artists that work in less digital mediums like say fireworks crews).
What I don't need is hype - which I'm sure is the last thing those marketing execs will ever be able to let go of. And to be honest - a lot of the hoi polloi DO need hype - in the same way that the majority of the population are content to be lead rather than think independently for themselves in terms of politics or even the way they live their lives (go to college, get a job, get married, raise a family, die - the great american dream).
It is certainly possible to detect the reflection of the laser off a nearby object, like say, another mosquito.
That's the way the lidar detector in my car works - if the cops illuminates a car in front of me, I've got a chance of detecting a reflection and slowing down down before he points his laser at my car.
In the United States, since 1991, the date of Grand Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc., music samples need to be cleared by the copyright holder.
Anyone else read that as "Grand Uptight Music" ?
Certainly the follow-on cases like Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films have been devastating to the creative freedom of unaffiliated artists.
And, despite all that, the big labels are massive hypocrites when it comes to following their own rules - as the story of the Amen Break so clearly demonstrates.
People usually add some music/lyrics of their own over sampled sounds, too. Does the book have layered text on top of each page? ;)
The book certainly is certainly telling a new story so yes, metaphorically every page is layered with original creative work on top of the 'sampled' text.
The point isn't what role he's played, it's the responsibility others have (not in the role they played, but their present lack of action as a branch of the government) that are seemingly being ignored.
Just because the other kids are jumping off the bridge doesn't mean he should too.
It was in his roll as a congressman that he caved on wiretapping. He signed off on a bill that attempted to legalize what had been happening.
He could, at the very least, have done nothing. But he actively supported the bill after earlier comments saying that the practice needed to be halted - not just given official blessing by congress.
If I spend countless hours listening to music and discovering new artists without the ability to export my playlists in some open format (just the metadata, not the songs themselves), I'd get totally pissed if I can't access them any more.
"Low Barrier to Exit" - a great phrase I read in Scott McNealy's recent farewell. Its a concept that Google seems to get with all their efforts to make sure you can get your data out of their various services and apparently Spotify doesn't.
Obama's agenda is all about claiming high ideals while brokering backroom deals to do whatever the fuck he wants to anyway.
He certainly disappointed on the wiretapping issue - caving even before being elected.
But from what I'm seeing its more of a case of being pushed back from his ideals.
For example - the whole healthcare thing - he tried to do it 100% out in the open, tried to let congress do it while he was hands-off even. But after 6 months of pretty much nothing he really had no choice but to start trying to go the backroom way. And don't confuse me for a supporter - I think nationalized healthcare is the wrong way to go - the current system is fucked because of partial socialization - we need to go the other way and eliminate the health 'insurance' industry completely - return to real insurance (catastrophic coverage only, no HMOs, etc). But the way its played out seems as plain as day to me.
I do have problems when you start defining "warm fuzzy feelings" as spirituality because spirituality is not a feeling.
Lol. YOU just defined it as a feeling yourself - "you realize he is there and strive to live differently as a result?"
You can disclaim that as a feeling all you want, but "realizing" something that is intangible is pretty much by definition nothing more than a feeling.
As if Chinese nationals feel free to speak frankly and honestly about such things in public.
Hell, the chinese government doesn't even allow pollsters to ask direct questions about such things.
But they can get away with asking oblique questions to infer the opinions of the polled and that's precisely what's been done.
Read the Pew Center's 2008 report yourself and try to come up with an argument that is a little bit less glib.
Because, as China has shown, censoring communication is the fastest and easiest way to built trust. Go Iran!
I perceive you are trying to be sarcastic, but it seems to be the truth.
Sure, china has alienated as small number of discontents. But the general consensus among the population seems to be that China's censorship is a good thing.
Kind of like a truly friendly big brother (a phrase itself laden with much more positive overtones in China than in the west).
No one has ever offered a store on phones before,
Or, more generally, even just a teeny-tiny bit of opening up a platform that has been nearly universally 'closed' proved to be very popular.
Just think how much more popular it would be with users if it was fully opened up.
But if it's even as efficient and you need to store it twice (once in each of the two formats)... then, yeah, that's double.
Why store it twice? Ogg theora decoders are available for all the plaforms where flash is available, and more.
Great, now just go tell YouTube, Vimeo, etc. to convert all their terabytes (probably exabytes) of H.264 content into Theora.
I doubt that it is exabytes. Youtube only recently started doing higher-quality videos in h264, most everything else was some other format, probably h263.
I'm sure they wouldn't mind double the work and storage requirements.
While h264 is somewhat more efficient than ogg theora, it ain't 2x more efficient.
he specifically said that man *does* affect the climate.
Technically true, but in essence false. He made that statement as a hand-wave-job and then went on to minimize it to the point of meaninglessness when he said, "much of the effect is from outside forces outside of human control, in particular, the Sun."
Then even goes so far as to footnote his point with a claim that maybe the earth isn't even getting warmer after all which is almost certainly an allusion to the people who start measurements in 1998 and say "look all the years since 1998 have been a cooling trend" - which is pure cherry-picking.
if you're going to refute someone, stick to refuting things they actually said.
If you are going to defend someone, pay attention the nuances.
How else does one explain global warming / cooling periods in the past long before modern civilization?
Are you seriously trying to use the "climates change through the natural course of events therefor man's activities can not change the climate" argument?
Or more immediate, how come, according to some reports, Mars may getting warmer!
Wow. Mars is getting warmer and there are no men on Mars. Ergo, the full extent of global warming on Earth has nothing to do with man.
Apparently you really are that naive. And then you whine about getting modded down - have you ever considered that you aren't being modded down for heresy but rather just for failing logic 101?
Don't forget "illegal aliens" boogeyman - for all the ID tracking crap and the suspicion-less stops up to 50 miles from any border.
meaning that this technology is only effective against people who don't think they are doing anything wrong!
Which perfectly suits the needs of 'law enforcement' - we've got a long history of them going after the defenseless and ignorant - like civil forfeiture laws where the property is charged with a crime (literally, lawsuits are titled like US vs One Jeep Wrangler I think being non-sentient qualifies as being 100% defenseless) or even the child porn laws where they go after kids for sexting pictures of themselves rather than hunt down the people who actually abuse kids in the manufacturing of child porn.
A smart phone with a vibrate mode as good as a sybian would destroy the iphone's marketshare over night.
The reason for this is because people who don't pay ANY taxes (now about 50% of the population)
Baloney. Almost all states have sales tax - at least on non-food items.
The group of people who only buy food, or who live in a non-sales-tax state and don't pay income tax is probably a lot closer to 5% than 50%.
(vaguely remembered numbers: 5-10% in most cases)
More like 1% - that's what is for MMR - or in this case one-quarter of one student in that classroom of 25. Not anything remotely like all of them.
people who vaccinated their children run a much huger risk of having their children still come down with the disease thanks to the retards.
"Much huger" ?? No matter how much you try to scare-monger the numbers, it ain't going to be higher than the percentage of failed immunizations.
Uh, no. The whole reason 'DRM' came into being was to disconnect software from the media and be 'allowed' to make copies under the terms of the publisher.
By that definition CSS is not DRM because ain't no disconnecting going on there and in fact no ability for the publisher to "shut your copy down" either.
You aren't going to find many buyers for that definition.
DRM is simply any attempt to control access to digital content.
It's not because you all have mastered the meaning of it.
You can't even get YOUR changing definitions to stay coherent, don't even try to play the insult game to relieve your cognitive dissonance.
"The term generally doesn't refer to other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the file or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles"
Circumventing CD-checks require modifying either the program file - usually to NOP out the check - or the 'device' that being the CD drive and replacing it with a virtual cd-drive.
DRM has been synonymous with copy protection so long that people don't understand the nuance of the terms anymore.
Copy protection is simply subset of DRM. Nothing more complicated than that.
No, they're not. Besides their existence pre-dating the term,
If that were a reasonable criteria the phrase "intellectual property" would not include copyrights or patents.
checking for a physical 'key' is not the same as altering your machine to limit how many times you use/copy it.
Who says "altering your machine" is a requirement? CSS doesn't "alter" the DVD player. These new schemes on music CDs don't 'alter' the CD player - they just put bad sectors in inconvenient places on the disc.
There is no 'rights management' going on here.
Of course there is - the right to play a copy of your game without having the physical media present.