They both know it's bullshit, but saying it like this is a way of masking the bullshit and selling it to the masses. It's a script that veils the truth enough that the majority of people wont notice that the RIAA/MPAA is buying legislature. Just saying downloading music didn't work. Sueing people didn't work. So now they have to move to the big guns. "Everytime a movie gets copied or sold on the corner illegally, Al Qaeda kills a baby!" Let's just hope the public realizes it's bullshit.
I sorta think of it like guitar playing: Yeah you'll get an innovator like Jimi Hendrix occasionally, but for most people, without the lessons, they wont accomplish much or they'll eventually learn the basics, but it'll take them much longer than they needed.
Maybe it's because we're working later in life and abstaining from retirement longer so the younger generation has to wait a while longer to get their shots in their fields. There's also probably a lot more a student has to learn than they did 100 years ago before they can even start working on groundbreaking projects.
They just simply see a future where it is easier to make HQ rips from broadcast than it is from cable/satellite.
and I simply see a future where they refuse to embrace the technology that can work as well for them as it does for us. A future where they continue to persecute all of their own customers and cling to an antiquated business model, even when they're trying to update, they still wanna hang onto their old methods. They could use the internet to expand their base, and prosper, but they don't instead they try to add more restrictions to MY home entertainment devices and take away MY fair use rights. They make ridiculous amounts of money and still whine. When TV shows hit the air they've already made their money in advertisments (as already stated elsewhere in these comments) and I doubt that internet copies of their shows do anything less than generate more interest in those shows, thus bringing in more viewers to watch new episodes. If they wanna take their ball and go home fine, someone with a newer, better ball will show up soon enough.
If you read the counter argument posted here it shows that the flag can be bypassed by simply ignoring it, the stream isn't even decrypted, it's the home electronics that we own that will do the policing for us. So they'll give rise to the beast that is mythTV since it'll become more popular in the underground for decrypting this broadcast flag should it ever get approved. Hell it might not even break the DMCA since the stream isn't encrypted. (although I'm sure they'll find a way to make it illegal)
The irony, of course, is that modern cable and satellite delivery systems already have imbedded technical means that maintain the value of digital programming by preventing its redistribution over digital networks. The broadcast flag extends that same protection in the estimated 15 percent of American households that do not subscribe to cable or satellite services but rely instead on over-the-air broadcast television.
So let me get this straight. They're paranoid that a big pirating ring is going to be started by the 15 percent of homes that don't even have cable? Movies are old once they hit broadcast, the television shows are usually ripped by people with HDTV, and sports games become pretty useless to watch immediately after they've been played. But yet they're in an uproar over not being able to show "movies, television shows or even baseball games on free television". I doubt the movie makers are even rushing to get these movies on broadcast TV, once they do that, the value of the DVD sales goes down. I'm tired of this chicken little act. The sky is not falling, and that 15% is not your worry when it comes to protecting broadcast television.
I like this idea of this for talk shows, such as when Stern gets to Sirius instead of having to be up at dawn to listen to the show, I can just wait until I normally wake up or even just listen at work or whenever. What I do wonder is if there will be an extra charge. Would I have to pay iTunes money or would a Sirius subscription be enough for me to get it for free, cause a lot could hinge on that factor. I also wonder if they'll remove commercials from the broadcasts (not all channels are commercial free, just like all cable channels aren't commercial free), but commercial free would be a big plus as well.
How long until a "lost" section of the koran shows up where they demand that all muslims wear lead based "religious garments"? You know, to protect the soul from being destroyed by these vile ungodly x-rays. It was written.
Like I said I don't fully endorse what they're doing, and one of the reasons why is because it can spiral out of hand. But I can understand the intent and I can appreciate standing up for the average consumer who doesn't know that they are getting taken advantage of, there is some sort of neighborhood justice there. It's not good, but I don't think it's bad either, I'd say it falls in a favorable area of gray and as long as it stays there, I can live with that.
and meanwhile, while all of this time is passing waiting for arrests and trials, they fraudulent websites are robbing people who don't know any better. I don't fully endorse the defacing the sites but it's something and it works quicker than waiting for the justice system to catch up. It's not a resolution, but it is a deterent, not to mention if the justice righted the wrongs and we were already "done with the matter" the vigilantes wouldn't have fake sites to deface.
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Dammit, I can't type. It Should've been "SINCE Jasper T. Jowls left over 'creative differences'".
So it'll be a bunch of pasty people playing MAME boxes?
Will they bring back the Chuck E. Cheese band? It just hasn't been the same is Jasper T. Jowls left over "creative differences".
Canibalism. They wont ring that up on their silly machines.
They both know it's bullshit, but saying it like this is a way of masking the bullshit and selling it to the masses. It's a script that veils the truth enough that the majority of people wont notice that the RIAA/MPAA is buying legislature. Just saying downloading music didn't work. Sueing people didn't work. So now they have to move to the big guns. "Everytime a movie gets copied or sold on the corner illegally, Al Qaeda kills a baby!" Let's just hope the public realizes it's bullshit.
I sorta think of it like guitar playing: Yeah you'll get an innovator like Jimi Hendrix occasionally, but for most people, without the lessons, they wont accomplish much or they'll eventually learn the basics, but it'll take them much longer than they needed.
Maybe it's because we're working later in life and abstaining from retirement longer so the younger generation has to wait a while longer to get their shots in their fields. There's also probably a lot more a student has to learn than they did 100 years ago before they can even start working on groundbreaking projects.
Maybe these folks aren't so crazy after all!
Frabernackle
Which basically means beyond bullshit.
"Did you see the frabernackle the MPAA is trying to pull with this broadcast flag proposal?"
Then again, me and my friends say a lot of dumb things.
True. But, this is a minor subsection, and it's also something that's been done with Tivos and VCRs for years.
They just simply see a future where it is easier to make HQ rips from broadcast than it is from cable/satellite.
and I simply see a future where they refuse to embrace the technology that can work as well for them as it does for us. A future where they continue to persecute all of their own customers and cling to an antiquated business model, even when they're trying to update, they still wanna hang onto their old methods. They could use the internet to expand their base, and prosper, but they don't instead they try to add more restrictions to MY home entertainment devices and take away MY fair use rights. They make ridiculous amounts of money and still whine. When TV shows hit the air they've already made their money in advertisments (as already stated elsewhere in these comments) and I doubt that internet copies of their shows do anything less than generate more interest in those shows, thus bringing in more viewers to watch new episodes. If they wanna take their ball and go home fine, someone with a newer, better ball will show up soon enough.
If you read the counter argument posted here it shows that the flag can be bypassed by simply ignoring it, the stream isn't even decrypted, it's the home electronics that we own that will do the policing for us. So they'll give rise to the beast that is mythTV since it'll become more popular in the underground for decrypting this broadcast flag should it ever get approved. Hell it might not even break the DMCA since the stream isn't encrypted. (although I'm sure they'll find a way to make it illegal)
The irony, of course, is that modern cable and satellite delivery systems already have imbedded technical means that maintain the value of digital programming by preventing its redistribution over digital networks. The broadcast flag extends that same protection in the estimated 15 percent of American households that do not subscribe to cable or satellite services but rely instead on over-the-air broadcast television.
So let me get this straight. They're paranoid that a big pirating ring is going to be started by the 15 percent of homes that don't even have cable? Movies are old once they hit broadcast, the television shows are usually ripped by people with HDTV, and sports games become pretty useless to watch immediately after they've been played. But yet they're in an uproar over not being able to show "movies, television shows or even baseball games on free television". I doubt the movie makers are even rushing to get these movies on broadcast TV, once they do that, the value of the DVD sales goes down. I'm tired of this chicken little act. The sky is not falling, and that 15% is not your worry when it comes to protecting broadcast television.
I like this idea of this for talk shows, such as when Stern gets to Sirius instead of having to be up at dawn to listen to the show, I can just wait until I normally wake up or even just listen at work or whenever. What I do wonder is if there will be an extra charge. Would I have to pay iTunes money or would a Sirius subscription be enough for me to get it for free, cause a lot could hinge on that factor. I also wonder if they'll remove commercials from the broadcasts (not all channels are commercial free, just like all cable channels aren't commercial free), but commercial free would be a big plus as well.
Ok, you go ahead first, we'll meet you there.
naturally!
Then the ivory-billed woodpecker thought to also be extinct ate it.
How long until a "lost" section of the koran shows up where they demand that all muslims wear lead based "religious garments"? You know, to protect the soul from being destroyed by these vile ungodly x-rays. It was written.
1. Where do I apply
2. How do I get put in charge of the 'Hot Chick' section
and oh yeah, something about "my rights are being taken away and freedom is dyin...blah blah blah"
Like I said I don't fully endorse what they're doing, and one of the reasons why is because it can spiral out of hand. But I can understand the intent and I can appreciate standing up for the average consumer who doesn't know that they are getting taken advantage of, there is some sort of neighborhood justice there. It's not good, but I don't think it's bad either, I'd say it falls in a favorable area of gray and as long as it stays there, I can live with that.
By the way, most comic book heroes are known as vigilantes
Well most comic book heroes have great powers, or amazing tools and weapons and um...oh yeah...They Don't Exist!
and meanwhile, while all of this time is passing waiting for arrests and trials, they fraudulent websites are robbing people who don't know any better. I don't fully endorse the defacing the sites but it's something and it works quicker than waiting for the justice system to catch up. It's not a resolution, but it is a deterent, not to mention if the justice righted the wrongs and we were already "done with the matter" the vigilantes wouldn't have fake sites to deface.
12. Ignore everything you read on Slashdot!
sorry I thought we were getting philsophical.
If a .png of a tree falls in IE does it make a sound?