It appears that the affiliates are now in the position that physical music stores now find themselves in.
By creating a new market for the product, this could lead to decreased revenue for the affiliates through less eyes watching the advertisements on the station, leading to a dilution in value of the station and its affiliate agreements. Of course there will always be a market for free-to-air, but I can see some affiliates wanting a piece of the action.
Sounds like a great idea. I can see myself flying to work one day in one of these babies. I can also see myself getting arrested when I land for violating airspace.
I believe most of the "training" for these foreign judges will involve special items such as:
* How to discreetly obtain brown paper bags full of cash from record companies. * How one might use their position to obtain larger brown paper bags. * How to use, ahem, "contributions" to improve your lifestyle without being detected. * How to overcome areas such as "legislation" and "due process" to punish intellectual property violaters.
What laws would those be and how exactly do they relate to Bush?
Easy. The Free Trade Agreement importing the DMCA word for word on breaking copy protection schemes with further amendments to copyright law in Australia. The Bush administration pushed it on Australia as a necessary part of the package.
We didn't have much of a chance to finish our review before the new copyright provisions were shoved down our throats.
I would also like to remind you of the world wide blacklist on countries by the US that do not have "sufficiently strong" copyright laws and the pressure on them to conform to more US style type legislation. China is especially marked as a priority target.
This is not a private body of copyright holders putting out this potential foreign relation disaster, this is the US Government! Who takes responsibility for the Federal US government again?
And thats not even half the time the story has been posted. It does the rounds on slashdot quite regularly. It should be added to slashot posting spam filters or something. Great work of fiction, isn't it?
Its a pity that the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement was introduced which imported the US's DMCA.
It meant that to do what you just mentioned to copy protected software is to be illegal. Considering that most software is copy protected, I don't see how you could enact those provisions anymore.
The ultimate betrayal. First Lokitorrent collects donations for a legal defense fund, then rolls over for the MPAA and contributes all the logs to them for downloaders. His idiocy costs the community even today.
I must admit, its enough to scare people using current sites away if they think they are getting logged for later.
Anyway, I hope all the other sites keep NO logs after this event.
It seems that copyright law has no provision for enabling something to be available for free. Its either public domain / exploitable or tied up in for-profit copyright.
The software is free, but you have to pay to use it. What a strange world we live in.
"This is a welcome move by many after Telstra was accused of taking advantage of its network against competitors."
Telstra has been accused of taking advantage of its competitors when the first one appeared! Funny how owning and running the infrastructure AND being able to decide on the price to access the infrastructure makes people squeamish.
And may I also add that this plan has been discussed for so many years I look at the news article and still don't believe it. Lets see what Telstra's "Dirty Tricks" department has to combat this one.
Its about protecting the word "Linux" and won't infringe on the activities you discuss.
Look carefully at the article- "It is your legal responsibility to obtain a licence from the Linux Mark Institute before you are allowed to use the word 'Linux' as part of your product or service name or brand," Mr Malcolm wrote to companies.
So if you use the word "Linux" in the name of your company, trading name, the name of your products or services, then you need to relinquish the name or submit to a license fee. You could perhaps offer the "Open Source PC" rather than the "Linux PC".
If they don't protect the trademark, they lose rights to protect the name. That means that anyone could come along and use that name however they want. I could start a magazine called "Linux Chicks" and take raunchy photos of nerdy girls and Linus wouldn't be able to stop me.
Those two points you bring up are certainly worthwhile dicussing. I don't mind political propaganda, but the child porn I certainly dislike.
The problem is that the more a society makes something illegal, you end up throwing it into the black market of items you need to sift through to get what you want. Scientology docs, the latest movies and games, child porn, exposes on political leaders all end up in the same pile, ie Freenet. If people want something, they have to go through the other muck to get it. This creates a growing black market of information and computer files which will grow as more things are outlawed or deemed too sensitive for the public.
Freenet was one of the most frustrating programs I have ever used. If those terrorists can get it going and use it, then they have only one redeeming feature in my eyes.
Music Industry Profit Model for new distribution methods.
Step 1 - Ignore. Step 2 - Start noticing people like this new method and prefer it over the current model. Step 3 - Sue everyone out of fear. Step 4 - Start encountering resistance. Step 5 - Start realising that it could work. Step 6 - Devise new models using the new method. Step 7 - Push it out into the mainstream and realise larger profits than before.
Its been that way for centuries (eg piano rolls, cassettes, etc). Thank goodness we finally got to Step 7 for music downloads now.
Now to wait and see how p2p services eventuate. I think we are somewhere between Step 3 and 5 so far.
My old school went the laptop way. I remember hearing about some interesting things there -
1. It was the virus capital of Australia. There were more viruses there than anywhere else and some students actually tried infecting as many computers as possible.
2. The laptops were all insured. When a student wanted a brand new laptop (usually every year), they would hurl it from somewhere high. Insurance costs blew out.
3. The games, movies and music being swapped around were massive in scale. The music and movie industry would have been horrified to see it.
"Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
Such an attitude will lead to "dumb" games that provide about 20 minutes of fun and 3 hours of boring monotony. Running, shooting and getting scared is all that Doom 3 is. There are no advances on enemy positions, creeping around and no freedom on how to accomplish a task. There is no character development or storyline twists and turns. There was no room for a game player to develop their own story in the game, which is where the magic of modern gaming lies.
System Shock 2 is a great example of an FPS that has a lot of gameplay factors that places like Id should emulate.
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My father said RPGs were a waste but boy did they help me out for my future career in accounting.
Working in groups.
Laws attempting to reflect reality or define it.
Mathematical calculations which made sense.
Brainstorming.
I couldn't think of anything better.
It appears that the affiliates are now in the position that physical music stores now find themselves in.
By creating a new market for the product, this could lead to decreased revenue for the affiliates through less eyes watching the advertisements on the station, leading to a dilution in value of the station and its affiliate agreements. Of course there will always be a market for free-to-air, but I can see some affiliates wanting a piece of the action.
Sounds like a great idea. I can see myself flying to work one day in one of these babies. I can also see myself getting arrested when I land for violating airspace.
Can you play Battlefield 2 on a mobile phone? No?
Can you type out long reports on a mobile phone quickly? No?
Can you lodge a tax return on a mobile phone? No?
There's more to a PC then just browsing the internet fool.
I believe most of the "training" for these foreign judges will involve special items such as:
* How to discreetly obtain brown paper bags full of cash from record companies.
* How one might use their position to obtain larger brown paper bags.
* How to use, ahem, "contributions" to improve your lifestyle without being detected.
* How to overcome areas such as "legislation" and "due process" to punish intellectual property violaters.
What laws would those be and how exactly do they relate to Bush?
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Easy. The Free Trade Agreement importing the DMCA word for word on breaking copy protection schemes with further amendments to copyright law in Australia. The Bush administration pushed it on Australia as a necessary part of the package.
http://www.themusic.com.au/im_m/archive/2005/0506
Australia was looking at amending copyright law when the FTA came along. Have a look at this page -
http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/securitylawHome.nsf/
We didn't have much of a chance to finish our review before the new copyright provisions were shoved down our throats.
I would also like to remind you of the world wide blacklist on countries by the US that do not have "sufficiently strong" copyright laws and the pressure on them to conform to more US style type legislation. China is especially marked as a priority target.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/04/us_intell
This is not a private body of copyright holders putting out this potential foreign relation disaster, this is the US Government! Who takes responsibility for the Federal US government again?
The first time this story was posted, I thought, "This guy needs to see a counsellor."
f aces+ruin.+CD+sales+have+dropped+through+the+floor .%22&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-22,GGLD :en&filter=0
The second time I saw this story, I thought, "Umm, you already said that."
The third time I wondered what the hell is going on. Then I tried a google search and looky what I found.
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22My+business+
And thats not even half the time the story has been posted. It does the rounds on slashdot quite regularly. It should be added to slashot posting spam filters or something. Great work of fiction, isn't it?
Its a pity that the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement was introduced which imported the US's DMCA.
It meant that to do what you just mentioned to copy protected software is to be illegal. Considering that most software is copy protected, I don't see how you could enact those provisions anymore.
He has to kill his competition because they can't buy them out anymore (anti trust anyone?)
For those thinking Emule is more secure than bittorrent, please check out this article about spy servers -
http://www.p2pcore.com/stories/238.php
Bittorrent suits usually involve only one file. These spy servers can see all your shares if you log onto them.
To me, Emule is like Bittorrent with seeds and leechers, only much larger, slower and has a lot more stuff.
I got a flu from some guy at work yesterday and Slashdot ignored my story submission about it. Not much difference really, is it?
The ultimate betrayal. First Lokitorrent collects donations for a legal defense fund, then rolls over for the MPAA and contributes all the logs to them for downloaders. His idiocy costs the community even today. I must admit, its enough to scare people using current sites away if they think they are getting logged for later. Anyway, I hope all the other sites keep NO logs after this event.
It seems that copyright law has no provision for enabling something to be available for free. Its either public domain / exploitable or tied up in for-profit copyright.
The software is free, but you have to pay to use it. What a strange world we live in.
"This is a welcome move by many after Telstra was accused of taking advantage of its network against competitors."
Telstra has been accused of taking advantage of its competitors when the first one appeared! Funny how owning and running the infrastructure AND being able to decide on the price to access the infrastructure makes people squeamish.
And may I also add that this plan has been discussed for so many years I look at the news article and still don't believe it. Lets see what Telstra's "Dirty Tricks" department has to combat this one.
Its about protecting the word "Linux" and won't infringe on the activities you discuss.
Look carefully at the article-
"It is your legal responsibility to obtain a licence from the Linux Mark Institute before you are allowed to use the word 'Linux' as part of your product or service name or brand," Mr Malcolm wrote to companies.
So if you use the word "Linux" in the name of your company, trading name, the name of your products or services, then you need to relinquish the name or submit to a license fee. You could perhaps offer the "Open Source PC" rather than the "Linux PC".
If they don't protect the trademark, they lose rights to protect the name. That means that anyone could come along and use that name however they want. I could start a magazine called "Linux Chicks" and take raunchy photos of nerdy girls and Linus wouldn't be able to stop me.
Us Avatars can't let slip that axiom. It took me months of dedicated U4 playing to get that far.
I can think of something worse than sequels. Games based on movies. Remember Enter the Matrix and Catwoman?
I think sequels have a much better market than those types of games.
I just pooped my pants.
Sorry, that piece of information just wanted to get out. I figured the path of least resistance was a slashdot post.
Those two points you bring up are certainly worthwhile dicussing. I don't mind political propaganda, but the child porn I certainly dislike.
The problem is that the more a society makes something illegal, you end up throwing it into the black market of items you need to sift through to get what you want. Scientology docs, the latest movies and games, child porn, exposes on political leaders all end up in the same pile, ie Freenet. If people want something, they have to go through the other muck to get it. This creates a growing black market of information and computer files which will grow as more things are outlawed or deemed too sensitive for the public.
Freenet was one of the most frustrating programs I have ever used. If those terrorists can get it going and use it, then they have only one redeeming feature in my eyes.
Perhaps a better term would be "Counting the people on the internet"? That weighing stuff is for things with, well, MASS.
If you like AllofMp3, you'll probably be interested in the latest attempt by the music industry to sue people who link to it.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/61571
Come to think of it, they are probably going to sue you since you linked to it as well.
Music Industry Profit Model for new distribution methods.
Step 1 - Ignore.
Step 2 - Start noticing people like this new method and prefer it over the current model.
Step 3 - Sue everyone out of fear.
Step 4 - Start encountering resistance.
Step 5 - Start realising that it could work.
Step 6 - Devise new models using the new method.
Step 7 - Push it out into the mainstream and realise larger profits than before.
Its been that way for centuries (eg piano rolls, cassettes, etc). Thank goodness we finally got to Step 7 for music downloads now.
Now to wait and see how p2p services eventuate. I think we are somewhere between Step 3 and 5 so far.
Of course it won't be released as an e-book ... thats the book pirate scanner group's job.
My old school went the laptop way. I remember hearing about some interesting things there - 1. It was the virus capital of Australia. There were more viruses there than anywhere else and some students actually tried infecting as many computers as possible. 2. The laptops were all insured. When a student wanted a brand new laptop (usually every year), they would hurl it from somewhere high. Insurance costs blew out. 3. The games, movies and music being swapped around were massive in scale. The music and movie industry would have been horrified to see it.
Let's not forget this John Carmack gem -
"Story in a game is like story in a porn
movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not
that important."
Such an attitude will lead to "dumb" games that provide about 20 minutes of fun and 3 hours of boring monotony. Running, shooting and getting scared is all that Doom 3 is. There are no advances on enemy positions, creeping around and no freedom on how to accomplish a task. There is no character development or storyline twists and turns. There was no room for a game player to develop their own story in the game, which is where the magic of modern gaming lies.
System Shock 2 is a great example of an FPS that has a lot of gameplay factors that places like Id should emulate.