JPL employees are not federal employees. Rather they are employees of Caltech which is contracted by NASA to run JPL. The federal government owns all of the equipment and facilities, but Caltech is in charge of the personnel.
I guess we'll have to wait till the first consumer players come out, and hopefully DVD jon or another savior to the fair use terms of copyright, comes along. Maybe the companies should let him test it before they come out with it to the public. The insane amount of encryption being placed on this sort of media is not going to make a large impact. Personally, I do not have a need for HD dvds. Regular DVD's are high enough quality. Consumers cannot keep taking the back seat on things like these, we have rights too and we ultimately control the markets in which these companies thrive. We need to quit buying their products, and launch boycotts of the companies who produce these encryption schemes. I can only hope some sort of class action lawsuit will ensue for the companies who implement this technology in their dvd players and in their dvd content.
for i can't use any of the tracks from itunes on my linux box to start. not to mention my sony shockwave player. so thats at least two things that i've restricted from using something that i paid for.
been out for a while a tool named irevolt does all of this automatically giving you unprotected m4a files. its a bit ridiculous that you pay for music and you don't the ability to use it on any of your devices just ones demeeded by apple as "worthy". its a lot of marketing schemes in my opinion.
I often use knoppix to transfer data when i upgrade to a knew hard drive, since i have all my ide channels full i unplug my operating system hard drive, hook up the new data drive and copy the files from the old data drive to the new, works like a charm
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JPL employees are not federal employees. Rather they are employees of Caltech which is contracted by NASA to run JPL. The federal government owns all of the equipment and facilities, but Caltech is in charge of the personnel.
Does anyone have a clue what this I2P techonology is and how the azureus plugin incorporates it into bittorrent. Thanks.
I guess we'll have to wait till the first consumer players come out, and hopefully DVD jon or another savior to the fair use terms of copyright, comes along. Maybe the companies should let him test it before they come out with it to the public. The insane amount of encryption being placed on this sort of media is not going to make a large impact. Personally, I do not have a need for HD dvds. Regular DVD's are high enough quality. Consumers cannot keep taking the back seat on things like these, we have rights too and we ultimately control the markets in which these companies thrive. We need to quit buying their products, and launch boycotts of the companies who produce these encryption schemes. I can only hope some sort of class action lawsuit will ensue for the companies who implement this technology in their dvd players and in their dvd content.
for i can't use any of the tracks from itunes on my linux box to start. not to mention my sony shockwave player. so thats at least two things that i've restricted from using something that i paid for.
been out for a while a tool named irevolt does all of this automatically giving you unprotected m4a files. its a bit ridiculous that you pay for music and you don't the ability to use it on any of your devices just ones demeeded by apple as "worthy". its a lot of marketing schemes in my opinion.
I often use knoppix to transfer data when i upgrade to a knew hard drive, since i have all my ide channels full i unplug my operating system hard drive, hook up the new data drive and copy the files from the old data drive to the new, works like a charm