Forgive me if this is raised in TFA... but the brand that youtube now has is very important. If I want to see a video of some viral incident, or a TV trailer or clip, I turn to youtube, because I'm familiar with it. I've only just about heard of some of the others, never mind used them. Surely we saw the same effect in the search engine market... everyone knows that Google isn't necessarily the best, but I still go there first and only go somewhere else if I get no joy. The same will happen with youtube - just what can its competitiors offer that beats youtube? Easily accessible video at a good speed and with a big audience (to both see your footage and to upload their own interesting clips) is what it's for, and that's what they do well. Why go anywhere else? And naturally, the last thing I want is the fragmenting of the market, with different comaparable audiences at all sites, since then I'd have to search multiple sites instead of one.
DRM, trusted devices, no online without the 'right' software... This is why I hope that the future of hardware for people like me actually lies in equipment bought in bulk and stored by enterprising figures with deep pockets, back in what became known as the 'golden era' of computer hardware (2000-2020) - nowadays running free software perfectly adequately and hooked up to community Wi-Max networks permitting mass communication without having to connect to that dirty DRMed network where you're not allowed on without some trusted, signed, serial-number-bearing, completely pwned network stack, you know, that big network they used to call "Internet".
Please, I'd be surprised to find out that 17556639 is anyone other than a bored 15-year-old kid looking for some racy photos. I mean, "poop"? "Steak & cheese"?
Is everyone who visits rotten.com or ogrish also planning to kill their wife?
And if you take away TV input (DVB or whatever) and add in torrents, it can be even easier to set up. I built a perfectly fine "media" PC with a mini-ITX VIA EPIA 1Ghz board. No horsepower needed to decode MPEG4.
Get this and your ssh brute force attack worries will be over. They're only popular because ssh tends not to block repeated attempts by default, and many other avenues have been closed to the crackers. So make sure you block this particular route.
My Firefox rarely crashes. Your computer is broken. Also, since a few versions ago, most extensions changed to be enabled by default when the browser is upgraded. I suggest you upgrade.:)
Most actors get paid royalties if their work is aired again, or released on DVD. So why is it different for the Backstreet Boys? Is it just because you don't like their schtick?
So, nothing really happened as a result of this fuss. No fine, but a threat of a fine in the future... well, isn't that what occurs anyway? No fine now indicates nothing was wrong. Ah, but hold on...
"the Company shall not misrepresent a video game's ratings or content descriptors and that the Company shall implement a system to ensure that all game content is reviewed in connection with submissions to ratings authorities."
Oh, so once again, that's exactly what happens anyway. All that brouhaha for this? Might I suggest that certain persons in the US are over-sensitive? I bet you wish it was more like Europe.
One wonders how the BPI would calculate how much data someone has uploaded, without checking ISP logs. I'm sure that in this case, they are going after those with lots of modern music available to share.
True, but with PPV, you've generally decided, "right, I have 2 hours spare, what's there to watch". I can't see many doing the same with this model, since you'll have to wait at least 2 hours for the thing to download. Or are they aiming at the ubergeek with SDSL?
Anyway, I usually watch a movie a day. If the monthly subscription is cheaper than a cable, or DirectTV pay-per-view or even renting a movie each day, it would be fine by me to only "own" a movie for 24hs.
But, stuff happens. Sometimes you can't finish watching the film, because something cropped up. If you own the DVD, you can go back at any time. Even if you rent from a shop, you can watch it the next night. Sure, you might incur a small fine, but at least the media doesn't magically disappear.
AFAIK they go after those who have a lot of files available to share, not necessarily those who upload a lot of data. Open up emule, browse to a user, view shared files, if > 1000, book him.
Think MS is going to let you use MP3's right on there?
Of course, the default anti-MS response would be 'no', but they'd be pretty bloody stupid not to do so. There'd be a phalanx of angry customers otherwise. If they make it clear there's no MP3, who would buy it? Unless it's aimed purely at my mother.
Lesson #2: Don't use stupid password expiration periods, which force users to come up with new yet easy-to-remember (=> crackable) passwords.
I agree. Complex passwords need never be changed, certainly no more than once a year, as long as other measures are in place to detect any password-stealing actions like those described in the artice.
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Haha, as if AOL users would be savvy enough to use the NOT operator. You had me going up to that point!
Forgive me if this is raised in TFA... but the brand that youtube now has is very important. If I want to see a video of some viral incident, or a TV trailer or clip, I turn to youtube, because I'm familiar with it. I've only just about heard of some of the others, never mind used them. Surely we saw the same effect in the search engine market... everyone knows that Google isn't necessarily the best, but I still go there first and only go somewhere else if I get no joy. The same will happen with youtube - just what can its competitiors offer that beats youtube? Easily accessible video at a good speed and with a big audience (to both see your footage and to upload their own interesting clips) is what it's for, and that's what they do well. Why go anywhere else? And naturally, the last thing I want is the fragmenting of the market, with different comaparable audiences at all sites, since then I'd have to search multiple sites instead of one.
Excuse me, I never browse the net without my pants on.
Yes, I have one of these, it's called a... "Hammock"
DRM, trusted devices, no online without the 'right' software... This is why I hope that the future of hardware for people like me actually lies in equipment bought in bulk and stored by enterprising figures with deep pockets, back in what became known as the 'golden era' of computer hardware (2000-2020) - nowadays running free software perfectly adequately and hooked up to community Wi-Max networks permitting mass communication without having to connect to that dirty DRMed network where you're not allowed on without some trusted, signed, serial-number-bearing, completely pwned network stack, you know, that big network they used to call "Internet".
Please, I'd be surprised to find out that 17556639 is anyone other than a bored 15-year-old kid looking for some racy photos. I mean, "poop"? "Steak & cheese"? Is everyone who visits rotten.com or ogrish also planning to kill their wife?
And if you take away TV input (DVB or whatever) and add in torrents, it can be even easier to set up. I built a perfectly fine "media" PC with a mini-ITX VIA EPIA 1Ghz board. No horsepower needed to decode MPEG4.
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/
Get this and your ssh brute force attack worries will be over. They're only popular because ssh tends not to block repeated attempts by default, and many other avenues have been closed to the crackers. So make sure you block this particular route.
Welcome to "blue-sky thinking", aka any old crap I can spout to fill up a column on a slow news day.
If they had the technology 100 years ago, they'd be doing it. Perhaps more people would be doing it.
My Firefox rarely crashes. Your computer is broken. Also, since a few versions ago, most extensions changed to be enabled by default when the browser is upgraded. I suggest you upgrade. :)
What's this, a new footy game? OK, soccer.
Most actors get paid royalties if their work is aired again, or released on DVD. So why is it different for the Backstreet Boys? Is it just because you don't like their schtick?
So, nothing really happened as a result of this fuss. No fine, but a threat of a fine in the future... well, isn't that what occurs anyway? No fine now indicates nothing was wrong. Ah, but hold on...
"the Company shall not misrepresent a video game's ratings or content descriptors and that the Company shall implement a system to ensure that all game content is reviewed in connection with submissions to ratings authorities."
Oh, so once again, that's exactly what happens anyway. All that brouhaha for this? Might I suggest that certain persons in the US are over-sensitive? I bet you wish it was more like Europe.
Sound? On the moon? You really haven't thought this through, have you?
One wonders how the BPI would calculate how much data someone has uploaded, without checking ISP logs. I'm sure that in this case, they are going after those with lots of modern music available to share.
True, but with PPV, you've generally decided, "right, I have 2 hours spare, what's there to watch". I can't see many doing the same with this model, since you'll have to wait at least 2 hours for the thing to download. Or are they aiming at the ubergeek with SDSL?
Anyway, I usually watch a movie a day. If the monthly subscription is cheaper than a cable, or DirectTV pay-per-view or even renting a movie each day, it would be fine by me to only "own" a movie for 24hs.
But, stuff happens. Sometimes you can't finish watching the film, because something cropped up. If you own the DVD, you can go back at any time. Even if you rent from a shop, you can watch it the next night. Sure, you might incur a small fine, but at least the media doesn't magically disappear.
AFAIK they go after those who have a lot of files available to share, not necessarily those who upload a lot of data. Open up emule, browse to a user, view shared files, if > 1000, book him.
Are you sure she's not just too scared to ask, in case she gets her head bitten off again? (winky)