Then why, when I play my hi-fi so loud my neighbour bangs on the wall, am I not guilty of copyright infringement by making my loud music available to be recorded by my neighbour?
That's not a directly equivalent example, but it seems copyrighted materials are regularly 'made available' by individuals in the course of their everyday life, yet the onus would be on another person to actively 'copy' those materials before copyright violation occurred.
If I leave my audio CD collection in my front garden, passers-by could conceivably remove, losslessly duplicate and replace them. If I lend my ipod to a friend, they can copy my mp3s. Being fined for either of these activies would clearly be preposterous, yet are these examples fundementally different to 'making available' on kazaa?
Very true, especially China which has shown it is able to take US intellectual property and successfully commercially exploit it, despite American disapproval.
If the US restriced commercial access to satellite imagary, China would step in to fill the void in the same way it has in the pharmaceutrical market, software markets etc.
...and how can data be recovered from a flash HD if it fails or is overwritten? Is there a flash-ram equivalent to scanning tunnelling electron microscopy data recovery?
Would a flash HD laptop be the ideal solution for the paranoid? Would this be a way of running an operating system without leaving any unwanted traces of previous activity without needing to boot from a live CD or scrubbing the HD with darius boot and nuke?
but the most commonly needed nuggets are buried in its necessarily exhaustive contents as
but the most commonly needed nuggets are buried in its necessarily exhaustive comments because it's the comments section of the MySQL online manual where the real explanations of functions can be found.
It's a shame somebody can't gather together the most essential comments and publish those in a book.
And the 8 cores don't help much with any stage of the 3-D animation process except rendering, which is usually done with mental ray for maya on cheap linux boxes.
Damned expensive to run a render farm using 8-core macs!
I'd love to own your spy's fake 'legend' identity but it's tricky to build an alter-ego when the register is linked to fingerprints, iris scans, facial scans and, if one is ever arrested without charge, DNA.
As a UK citizen I know I should feel alarmed by all this, but the level of identity paranoia exuded by our government seems like the bubble before a stock market crash. They dream of a 'perfect fishing expeditition' system, but using brute computing power to find out what your citizens are doing is the same wrong-headed thinking that uses an army to pacify the country you've just invaded.
Taking a picture of a house isn't stealing a house, but that's not what file sharers do.
Effectively they are copying your artistic house pictures, which you are selling for money, and giving them away for free. Why then would someone pay you for your house picture, when they can get it from the guy giving it away.
Therefore The Pirate Bay are letting people know where the free versions of your house pictures are.
And negotiating this refund system means playing the call centres at their own game. They script their calls with platitudes, and the customer has to script their calls with phrases like "I see that you're trying your best, but that you're not able to do anything else for me. Would it be possible for you to transfer me to someone else" to socially engineer their way onto the phone line of someone with refund-giving authority.
Agreed, Premier has its deficiencies. But the lower-end Avids have some fairly restrictive workflow impositions because of the highly stratified nature of Avid's offering (Avid expects all projects to be onlined on a Symphony Nitris, or at least MC Adrenaline, and cripples the rest of its offline product line in various ways).
Premier on Windows at least has a reason for its existance: it provides an alternative to Avid's proprietory hardware, codecs, Avid 'qualified' computers and Avid storage. So for VFX video professionals (after effects, combustion etc) for whom editing is secondary, Premier (plus third party video hardware/storage that they're already using with VFX apps) is a cheap way to edit footage without going down the expensive proprietory full-blown Avid route.
But on the Mac, FCP is already a 'third party hardware' type solution. It's designed to be used with Decklinks, Aja Konas and third-party storage. And unlike Avid, FCP is both Apple's low and high end solution. So on the Mac platform, Premier doesn't offer an alternative to a proprietory system. That's why it looks less attractive for professional purposes.
Around the height of doubleclick (2000-2001), 'targetted', 'interactive', 'rich-media' ads were more about enabling advertisers to sell space to companies jaded with the failure of the animated gif to capture the public's attention.
Savvy marketeres know the near-impossibility of influencing consumers with these types of adverts. Microsoft's targetting is to help media sales teams shift ad space rather than achieve real results.
Children invariably find creative ways of evading their parents wishes, and are generally more technologically clued-up than their parents.
Just as children nowadays 'learn' the vital ability to super-multitask by managing to watch TV, do homework, play video games and sms/email friends simultaneously, perhaps GPS cellphone tracking prepares them for adulthood in a world where knowing how to evade 24/7 surveillance could be a useful life-skill.
If such a law came into effect, what would constitute possession?
Would a computer owner who had previously stored such images on their computer be required to delete them? Or securely delete them (multiple overwrites)? Or scrub their entire hard-drive with Darius Boot and Nuke? Thermite? etc.
I'm always interested to hear the UK goverment tell its citizens that possession of data on computers will be made 'illegal' from a fixed date onwards. The same woolly legal thinking applied to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which criminalizes the possession of data that the owner encrypted but is unable to decrypt when demanded to do so by the police.
You can obtain meaningful PIE/PIF/jitter (etc) error information using certain plextor drives which in include error scanning modes (e.g. the 716a) and software such as plextools professional or PXSCAN/PXVIEW.
Alexander Noe's site also includes error readings from the main brands of DVD+R/-R (including TY) for comparison to your own discs.
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It is certainly going to court. The boy is appearing in Crown Court on 25th October 2007.
Then why, when I play my hi-fi so loud my neighbour bangs on the wall, am I not guilty of copyright infringement by making my loud music available to be recorded by my neighbour?
That's not a directly equivalent example, but it seems copyrighted materials are regularly 'made available' by individuals in the course of their everyday life, yet the onus would be on another person to actively 'copy' those materials before copyright violation occurred.
If I leave my audio CD collection in my front garden, passers-by could conceivably remove, losslessly duplicate and replace them. If I lend my ipod to a friend, they can copy my mp3s. Being fined for either of these activies would clearly be preposterous, yet are these examples fundementally different to 'making available' on kazaa?
...that's falling with style!
it looks more like orac!
Very true, especially China which has shown it is able to take US intellectual property and successfully commercially exploit it, despite American disapproval.
If the US restriced commercial access to satellite imagary, China would step in to fill the void in the same way it has in the pharmaceutrical market, software markets etc.
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...and how can data be recovered from a flash HD if it fails or is overwritten? Is there a flash-ram equivalent to scanning tunnelling electron microscopy data recovery?
Would a flash HD laptop be the ideal solution for the paranoid? Would this be a way of running an operating system without leaving any unwanted traces of previous activity without needing to boot from a live CD or scrubbing the HD with darius boot and nuke?
but the most commonly needed nuggets are buried in its necessarily exhaustive contents as
but the most commonly needed nuggets are buried in its necessarily exhaustive comments because it's the comments section of the MySQL online manual where the real explanations of functions can be found.
It's a shame somebody can't gather together the most essential comments and publish those in a book.
And that's when you're allowed to protest in the UK.
(Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 prevents protest or demonstration within 1km of parliament)
And the 8 cores don't help much with any stage of the 3-D animation process except rendering, which is usually done with mental ray for maya on cheap linux boxes.
Damned expensive to run a render farm using 8-core macs!
I'd love to own your spy's fake 'legend' identity but it's tricky to build an alter-ego when the register is linked to fingerprints, iris scans, facial scans and, if one is ever arrested without charge, DNA.
As a UK citizen I know I should feel alarmed by all this, but the level of identity paranoia exuded by our government seems like the bubble before a stock market crash. They dream of a 'perfect fishing expeditition' system, but using brute computing power to find out what your citizens are doing is the same wrong-headed thinking that uses an army to pacify the country you've just invaded.
Tons? I'd have thought you'd have upgraded to tonnes by now!
W. Herbert Horner was testifying in Amero's defense , not for the prosecution.
Hopefully Amero's defense attorney will use someone more capable for the appeal. Maybe time for a Slashdot expert to get in touch?
Taking a picture of a house isn't stealing a house, but that's not what file sharers do.
Effectively they are copying your artistic house pictures, which you are selling for money, and giving them away for free. Why then would someone pay you for your house picture, when they can get it from the guy giving it away.
Therefore The Pirate Bay are letting people know where the free versions of your house pictures are.
And negotiating this refund system means playing the call centres at their own game. They script their calls with platitudes, and the customer has to script their calls with phrases like "I see that you're trying your best, but that you're not able to do anything else for me. Would it be possible for you to transfer me to someone else" to socially engineer their way onto the phone line of someone with refund-giving authority.
Agreed, Premier has its deficiencies. But the lower-end Avids have some fairly restrictive workflow impositions because of the highly stratified nature of Avid's offering (Avid expects all projects to be onlined on a Symphony Nitris, or at least MC Adrenaline, and cripples the rest of its offline product line in various ways).
Premier on Windows at least has a reason for its existance: it provides an alternative to Avid's proprietory hardware, codecs, Avid 'qualified' computers and Avid storage. So for VFX video professionals (after effects, combustion etc) for whom editing is secondary, Premier (plus third party video hardware/storage that they're already using with VFX apps) is a cheap way to edit footage without going down the expensive proprietory full-blown Avid route.
But on the Mac, FCP is already a 'third party hardware' type solution. It's designed to be used with Decklinks, Aja Konas and third-party storage. And unlike Avid, FCP is both Apple's low and high end solution. So on the Mac platform, Premier doesn't offer an alternative to a proprietory system. That's why it looks less attractive for professional purposes.
Around the height of doubleclick (2000-2001), 'targetted', 'interactive', 'rich-media' ads were more about enabling advertisers to sell space to companies jaded with the failure of the animated gif to capture the public's attention.
Savvy marketeres know the near-impossibility of influencing consumers with these types of adverts. Microsoft's targetting is to help media sales teams shift ad space rather than achieve real results.
they're using a central key repository of small yellow sticky pieces of paper.
Children invariably find creative ways of evading their parents wishes, and are generally more technologically clued-up than their parents.
Just as children nowadays 'learn' the vital ability to super-multitask by managing to watch TV, do homework, play video games and sms/email friends simultaneously, perhaps GPS cellphone tracking prepares them for adulthood in a world where knowing how to evade 24/7 surveillance could be a useful life-skill.
/. needs a 'TMI' tag
Correct. And this story arrives on the day that Tony Blair is interviewed by police for two hours about cash for honours.
If such a law came into effect, what would constitute possession?
Would a computer owner who had previously stored such images on their computer be required to delete them? Or securely delete them (multiple overwrites)? Or scrub their entire hard-drive with Darius Boot and Nuke? Thermite? etc.
I'm always interested to hear the UK goverment tell its citizens that possession of data on computers will be made 'illegal' from a fixed date onwards. The same woolly legal thinking applied to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which criminalizes the possession of data that the owner encrypted but is unable to decrypt when demanded to do so by the police.
You can obtain meaningful PIE/PIF/jitter (etc) error information using certain plextor drives which in include error scanning modes (e.g. the 716a) and software such as plextools professional or PXSCAN/PXVIEW.
Alexander Noe's site also includes error readings from the main brands of DVD+R/-R (including TY) for comparison to your own discs.
(since 1st Jan 2006 UK Police have had the power to arrest you and take a sample of your DNA)
As with any other academic research, teach them 'if you want the truth, compare the lies'.