Actually, it only makes sense. DRM etc won't stop downloading so the companies may as well get something. This is all cool provided two things: the first is that the artists actually get the cash, and the second is that this set of numbers is only a start position for negotiations. Properly done, this can be quite a decent solution for all involved.
And yes, then you can continue to download guilt free.
The universe is ending, get to the beer store before it closes! Actually, this theory may be in fact true, however it falls under the category of one that can never be proven fully because the universe has to end to really find out if the models were correct. You can tweak models. Reality is a little different. Sounds like a good experiment for the new satellite, or at the very least, a good source of grant money for the researchers.
As we all know flash based hard drives are coming to PC's (the Mac is a PC too), I don't think this is a big surprise and is probably the way all small devices that have mini-drives are going to go once the cost is wrestled down. Phones for sure will go this way too. It seems like a logical evolution, not a wild new thing.
As anyone who has taken a long car trip with others will tell you, close quarters plus extended periods leads to trouble. On a space flight, I imagine it is hard to pull over for a beer and to stetch your legs.
The psych screening process should have catch such tendencies, but the last time the woman in this case was screened (I hope they do check-ups after the first screening) she may have been fine.
However, I wouldn't just get wound up because this case has a sex component (boy, Americans get wound up over sex)... a fight could breakout between two guys over say... da Bears or some other stupid thing like, "for a goddamned year Harv, I've watched your toenails float all over the bridge when you trim them... now you pay!"
They need to give some thought to recreation on long trips through space.
I did read TFA, the guy basically painted a target on hit back and capered around to see if they would get him. Dumb, but maybe he was bored that day. I also well understand that they have a right to protect their copyrights, as do most slashdot users.
You miss the point of what I was getting at. That is, that from the springboard of Napster (and torrents for movies), the studios (both music and movie) and their respective umbrella organizations have blamed the internet and specifically file-sharing as the cause of the beating their profits have taken. They have made colossal blunders in going after people (such as suing computerless grandmothers and dead people) and falsified statistics to support their case. My point was that the cases are built on a false premise which has been beaten to death on these forums. That premise is that each download would have resulted in a sale. It isn't so! The fact that all these rockers with walkers concert tours (Rolling stones etc) have done so well, is more of an indictment of what they are producing these days than file-sharing. It isn't all geezers at those shows. My son's mp3 player that is full of stuff I listened to as a kid. He and his friends have no time for the stuff the studios are pumping out. There is a reason Jobs wants the Beatles on iTunes.
The movie industry is not any better. They seem genuinely surprised people stayed away from Bewitched, Dukes of Hazard et al. Yet, they keep putting that stuff out. There is a reason that is supposed to be the year of the indie film at the Oscars.
Ultimately, they seem to be afraid to honestly evaluate why their new products aren't selling. Instead, the hunt for a scapegoat goes on. Is stealing wrong? - Yes. Is painting a target on yourself and capering around dumb? - Yes. Is ignoring that your products are largely irrelevant suicidal for an industry? - Yes, but don't tell them that. They aren't listening.
The title of my post was simply an acknowledgement of the tactics they are following.
Is coming back into vogue? It never left, the media companies have based a lot of their cases on it. Mostly they make money from the cases where their target simply doesn't have the cash to fight back. Thing is, they want to blame the net for their problems, well, it's true to an extent. Before the net and widespread cable TV, videos and DVD's, they had very little competition. Those were the glory days. Now they unfortunately for them, they are creatively bankrupt as a result of flooding the market with so much crap that a lot of people are going back to 60's, 70's and 80's music. Therefore, a lot of sales of new music suffers and kids are listening to ACDC and Led Zeppelin again.
Ditto for movies, only this time the industry is rehashing old TV shows, old movies and dusting off hackneyed plots that wouldn't see the light of day when they made fewer movies. Kind of like you see what happens to sports leagues with uncontrolled expansion. The more you try to produce in such endeavours, the closer you move to mediocrity.
So their sales suffer. It must be the web's fault. Like an old has-been blaming the new kid on the block, they whine and complain, and in this case lobby. Next, they will be demanding a tithe if you own a computer.
After all, the problem couldn't be with their product.
This will just lead to even more of those insufferable powerpoints being mailed around. You know, the ones with someone's favourite tune and pictures of kittens, puppies, babies etc...
You have to understand corporate math. That math says that if you made 15 million in profit in year one, and 10 million in year 2, then you have taken a 5 million loss in that second year. That thinking convolutes all kinds of statistics.
Which, regardless of operating system, is the interface unit located between the chair and keyboard. That interface can bring the most secure system to its knees.
E-commerce... If you go back 10 years on the net, it was a wild and wooly place where people exchanged ideas, and software etc for nothing... or next to nothing (remember the comments that open source was communistic). Somewhere along the line more people started piling on the bandwagon leaving behind AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe et al and the business folk noticed. This lead to the.com boom and eventual bust and then, napster... which led to the first attempts at DRM. Now, everybody with a server wants to make a buck, and to protect that, one of the items in the toolbox is DRM. There are others, but if the intent for the studios is to deliver content to your computer and on to your TV, they want everybody and anybody involved to lock down the system to protect them from you and all your criminal buddies. Vista DRM is bad... sure so is Apple's DRM. Remember the claim that only pirates use linux...
The MPAA knows the claim is bogus... like the RIAA lobbying to try to alter Canada's copyright provisions to suit them, this is just trying to sow seeds to try to get the copyright laws changed to suit the MPAA. Seriously, anyone who does download movies knows the camcorder rips are the worst of the lot... it's the studio prints that are desireable... and where do those come from?... It's all just PR (or propaganda if you will) designed to try to further their aims... and to borrow a line from another topic... this ploy is not intelligently designed...
You want to know why ticket sales are down... Ask yourself this...What is the last movies that you just had to see?
Really, what do you expect exxon et al to say, do... look at the tobacco lobbies and their efforts to discredit studies and such that say cigarettes are not addictive using their own lobby-funded studies.
In the rest of the world, and I would say most of the US, global warming is not controversial. Do wing nuts prop up their people to go on camera and say "it ain't happening". Sure, but so did the tobacco people. Most thinking people can see past this type of stuff and not get swept up in the propaganda wars. Unfortunately many do get suckered in by it. They have a lot of cash to throw at ads and lobbying these days due to the price of oil, and they want to keep that cash flowing.
Like the addictive tobacco controversy... this one is dying. Expect to see more thrashing from the lobbies as it goes down for the count.
This is just filler for BBC's tech page. There is no real detail given on any of the operating systems other than, "it's cool, I like it". Before anyone says they should've said this and should've said that, this is aimed at people who know squat about computers, less about OS's and will likely read this article on page 5 of their newspaper. It was probably tossed on the desk of some rookie rerporter at five minutes to quitting time.
In other predictions... people will still be downloading music and movies... the RIAA will still be crying... most TV shows will still be craps and the most secure version of windows yet will be just around the corner
The lobby is pissing money down a rat hole. The government is in a minority position and will likely fall in the next few months. Considering that the conservatives have steadily dropped in the polls, they are not likely to be around to put such legislation into effect.
I imagine in the meantime, they have bigger fish to fry (like trying to survive), than to worry about a politically unpopular move to satisfy record company executives.
Does some CEO grabbing obscene bonuses (deserved or not) fuel social unrest? Historically, the answer is yes, but only if the bulk of the population is suffering. Then such things become flashpoints, ie "let them eat cake". However, that is not really the case for the bulk of the US population. Most people have plenty to eat, have their gadgets etc... Are there poor in the US? Yes, but there are poor everywhere, and not all necessarily the result of oppression.
People with full bellies are likely to be pissed off at excesses, but not to the point of rioting in the streets.
Brasil has huge problems with social inequality far beyond what is happening in the US.
But sometimes people miss stories. Now, if it is a dupe of a dupe, then that's something else (it does happen).
It should be no surprise the copy protection is broken. For every team of programmers coming up with this stuff, there are 40 million teenagers in basements hacking it. Law of averages says someone will stumble on to something. The crack is not very good right now. So what? Someone else will refine it. The chain gun was once a flintlock.
If the associated groups were smart, they would do away with the protections and just factor in the cost of losses into the end product.
You are better off buying a good set of speakers and a good sound card. Especially in gaming, the aural experience will make the game more entertaining and the card will take a load off your cpu which will buy a few FPS's. This smacks of the physics cards and we know where that market went. So the top gamers will see a benefit. So what? The fact that they are in that category means they wax the rest of us regularly. How will this make that more enjoyable.
If nothing else, when it comes to enjoying the game, it sounds like the money is better spent on a good single malt to sip on during.
All it takes is a commitment to disconnect and to stick to it. I go to a cabin on a lake about 4 hours out of town. I go on weekends, and regularly take two two week vacations. I have electricity and plumbing there, but no net connection or cell service. The phone number there, I only give to family for emergencies.
When I go there, I finish my work before I go, and leave it at work. As far as work is concerned, there is no phone there. I ain't telling. As well, when they ask how they can get a hold of me, I give them directions that will take them to the lake shore with instructions to bring a boat.
So store bought computers are dull. So what. Real geeks build their own. I haven't had a beige PC in a long time, and none of them are gaudy overlit pieces of crap. I will take my brushed aluminum wavemaster over any other design, apple's or anyone else's. Thing is people can put a PC in anything. I saw one that had a PC in the belly of a department store mannequin.
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Actually, it only makes sense. DRM etc won't stop downloading so the companies may as well get something. This is all cool provided two things: the first is that the artists actually get the cash, and the second is that this set of numbers is only a start position for negotiations. Properly done, this can be quite a decent solution for all involved.
And yes, then you can continue to download guilt free.
The universe is ending, get to the beer store before it closes! Actually, this theory may be in fact true, however it falls under the category of one that can never be proven fully because the universe has to end to really find out if the models were correct. You can tweak models. Reality is a little different. Sounds like a good experiment for the new satellite, or at the very least, a good source of grant money for the researchers.
As we all know flash based hard drives are coming to PC's (the Mac is a PC too), I don't think this is a big surprise and is probably the way all small devices that have mini-drives are going to go once the cost is wrestled down. Phones for sure will go this way too. It seems like a logical evolution, not a wild new thing.
As anyone who has taken a long car trip with others will tell you, close quarters plus extended periods leads to trouble. On a space flight, I imagine it is hard to pull over for a beer and to stetch your legs.
The psych screening process should have catch such tendencies, but the last time the woman in this case was screened (I hope they do check-ups after the first screening) she may have been fine.
However, I wouldn't just get wound up because this case has a sex component (boy, Americans get wound up over sex)... a fight could breakout between two guys over say... da Bears or some other stupid thing like, "for a goddamned year Harv, I've watched your toenails float all over the bridge when you trim them... now you pay!"
They need to give some thought to recreation on long trips through space.
I did read TFA, the guy basically painted a target on hit back and capered around to see if they would get him. Dumb, but maybe he was bored that day. I also well understand that they have a right to protect their copyrights, as do most slashdot users.
You miss the point of what I was getting at. That is, that from the springboard of Napster (and torrents for movies), the studios (both music and movie) and their respective umbrella organizations have blamed the internet and specifically file-sharing as the cause of the beating their profits have taken. They have made colossal blunders in going after people (such as suing computerless grandmothers and dead people) and falsified statistics to support their case. My point was that the cases are built on a false premise which has been beaten to death on these forums. That premise is that each download would have resulted in a sale. It isn't so! The fact that all these rockers with walkers concert tours (Rolling stones etc) have done so well, is more of an indictment of what they are producing these days than file-sharing. It isn't all geezers at those shows. My son's mp3 player that is full of stuff I listened to as a kid. He and his friends have no time for the stuff the studios are pumping out. There is a reason Jobs wants the Beatles on iTunes.
The movie industry is not any better. They seem genuinely surprised people stayed away from Bewitched, Dukes of Hazard et al. Yet, they keep putting that stuff out. There is a reason that is supposed to be the year of the indie film at the Oscars.
Ultimately, they seem to be afraid to honestly evaluate why their new products aren't selling. Instead, the hunt for a scapegoat goes on. Is stealing wrong? - Yes. Is painting a target on yourself and capering around dumb? - Yes. Is ignoring that your products are largely irrelevant suicidal for an industry? - Yes, but don't tell them that. They aren't listening.
The title of my post was simply an acknowledgement of the tactics they are following.
Is coming back into vogue? It never left, the media companies have based a lot of their cases on it. Mostly they make money from the cases where their target simply doesn't have the cash to fight back. Thing is, they want to blame the net for their problems, well, it's true to an extent. Before the net and widespread cable TV, videos and DVD's, they had very little competition. Those were the glory days. Now they unfortunately for them, they are creatively bankrupt as a result of flooding the market with so much crap that a lot of people are going back to 60's, 70's and 80's music. Therefore, a lot of sales of new music suffers and kids are listening to ACDC and Led Zeppelin again.
Ditto for movies, only this time the industry is rehashing old TV shows, old movies and dusting off hackneyed plots that wouldn't see the light of day when they made fewer movies. Kind of like you see what happens to sports leagues with uncontrolled expansion. The more you try to produce in such endeavours, the closer you move to mediocrity.
So their sales suffer. It must be the web's fault. Like an old has-been blaming the new kid on the block, they whine and complain, and in this case lobby. Next, they will be demanding a tithe if you own a computer.
After all, the problem couldn't be with their product.
This will just lead to even more of those insufferable powerpoints being mailed around. You know, the ones with someone's favourite tune and pictures of kittens, puppies, babies etc...
You have to understand corporate math. That math says that if you made 15 million in profit in year one, and 10 million in year 2, then you have taken a 5 million loss in that second year. That thinking convolutes all kinds of statistics.
Which, regardless of operating system, is the interface unit located between the chair and keyboard. That interface can bring the most secure system to its knees.
E-commerce... If you go back 10 years on the net, it was a wild and wooly place where people exchanged ideas, and software etc for nothing... or next to nothing (remember the comments that open source was communistic). Somewhere along the line more people started piling on the bandwagon leaving behind AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe et al and the business folk noticed. This lead to the .com boom and eventual bust and then, napster... which led to the first attempts at DRM. Now, everybody with a server wants to make a buck, and to protect that, one of the items in the toolbox is DRM. There are others, but if the intent for the studios is to deliver content to your computer and on to your TV, they want everybody and anybody involved to lock down the system to protect them from you and all your criminal buddies. Vista DRM is bad... sure so is Apple's DRM. Remember the claim that only pirates use linux...
The MPAA knows the claim is bogus... like the RIAA lobbying to try to alter Canada's copyright provisions to suit them, this is just trying to sow seeds to try to get the copyright laws changed to suit the MPAA. Seriously, anyone who does download movies knows the camcorder rips are the worst of the lot... it's the studio prints that are desireable... and where do those come from?... It's all just PR (or propaganda if you will) designed to try to further their aims... and to borrow a line from another topic... this ploy is not intelligently designed...
You want to know why ticket sales are down... Ask yourself this...What is the last movies that you just had to see?
Really, what do you expect exxon et al to say, do... look at the tobacco lobbies and their efforts to discredit studies and such that say cigarettes are not addictive using their own lobby-funded studies. In the rest of the world, and I would say most of the US, global warming is not controversial. Do wing nuts prop up their people to go on camera and say "it ain't happening". Sure, but so did the tobacco people. Most thinking people can see past this type of stuff and not get swept up in the propaganda wars. Unfortunately many do get suckered in by it. They have a lot of cash to throw at ads and lobbying these days due to the price of oil, and they want to keep that cash flowing. Like the addictive tobacco controversy... this one is dying. Expect to see more thrashing from the lobbies as it goes down for the count.
This is just filler for BBC's tech page. There is no real detail given on any of the operating systems other than, "it's cool, I like it". Before anyone says they should've said this and should've said that, this is aimed at people who know squat about computers, less about OS's and will likely read this article on page 5 of their newspaper. It was probably tossed on the desk of some rookie rerporter at five minutes to quitting time.
In other predictions... people will still be downloading music and movies... the RIAA will still be crying... most TV shows will still be craps and the most secure version of windows yet will be just around the corner
The lobby is pissing money down a rat hole. The government is in a minority position and will likely fall in the next few months. Considering that the conservatives have steadily dropped in the polls, they are not likely to be around to put such legislation into effect.
I imagine in the meantime, they have bigger fish to fry (like trying to survive), than to worry about a politically unpopular move to satisfy record company executives.
With the high price tag and the lack of games, not too many people are going to be burned by buying now.
Have you seen my SO?!
Does some CEO grabbing obscene bonuses (deserved or not) fuel social unrest? Historically, the answer is yes, but only if the bulk of the population is suffering. Then such things become flashpoints, ie "let them eat cake". However, that is not really the case for the bulk of the US population. Most people have plenty to eat, have their gadgets etc... Are there poor in the US? Yes, but there are poor everywhere, and not all necessarily the result of oppression. People with full bellies are likely to be pissed off at excesses, but not to the point of rioting in the streets. Brasil has huge problems with social inequality far beyond what is happening in the US.
But sometimes people miss stories. Now, if it is a dupe of a dupe, then that's something else (it does happen). It should be no surprise the copy protection is broken. For every team of programmers coming up with this stuff, there are 40 million teenagers in basements hacking it. Law of averages says someone will stumble on to something. The crack is not very good right now. So what? Someone else will refine it. The chain gun was once a flintlock. If the associated groups were smart, they would do away with the protections and just factor in the cost of losses into the end product.
Everybody does this, or is trying too. News would be a simple,100 per cent effective way of defeating it's use.
If the PS3 dies the crib death it deserves
China will provide the piracy, and the rest will combat it.
You are better off buying a good set of speakers and a good sound card. Especially in gaming, the aural experience will make the game more entertaining and the card will take a load off your cpu which will buy a few FPS's. This smacks of the physics cards and we know where that market went. So the top gamers will see a benefit. So what? The fact that they are in that category means they wax the rest of us regularly. How will this make that more enjoyable.
If nothing else, when it comes to enjoying the game, it sounds like the money is better spent on a good single malt to sip on during.
All it takes is a commitment to disconnect and to stick to it. I go to a cabin on a lake about 4 hours out of town. I go on weekends, and regularly take two two week vacations. I have electricity and plumbing there, but no net connection or cell service. The phone number there, I only give to family for emergencies.
When I go there, I finish my work before I go, and leave it at work. As far as work is concerned, there is no phone there. I ain't telling. As well, when they ask how they can get a hold of me, I give them directions that will take them to the lake shore with instructions to bring a boat.
That does the job.
So store bought computers are dull. So what. Real geeks build their own. I haven't had a beige PC in a long time, and none of them are gaudy overlit pieces of crap. I will take my brushed aluminum wavemaster over any other design, apple's or anyone else's. Thing is people can put a PC in anything. I saw one that had a PC in the belly of a department store mannequin.