I doubt that anyone can get data off something subjected to government standard wipes, nevermind heated above the curie temperature. Are you sure you're not talking out your ass?
However, a non-crippled DRM, that can do almost everything pirated music can do, can work well. [...] $10 or $15 a month for music is reasonable, and if you get decent rights to go with it (any MP3 player, all your computers, etc.), it sounds like a great deal.
Do you want a unicorn burger and rainbows with that?
Seriously. What you're asking for is 'non crippled DRM' that isn't DRM at all.
You're quite correct. The people who buy computers are the ones who already use and like them - and they're not going to buy some crazy thing that doesn't use folders and icons and windows. To throw away everything that your users understand and like to use is to go out of business.
For the average joe, this is probably exactly what they would like to do- make copies of their expensive discs. People will feel better about taking their DVDs along with them on a bus ride, to a friend's, or on a plane (well, I guess that last one doesn't apply anymore). If it breaks, they can just take it the "master" to a kiosk and make another copy.
No, no, no, and no. You can't copy a disk with this. This is to allow kiosks to sell a wider range of media.
And, granted, this won't allow you to rip the DVD to your hard drive to put on portable media or watch from your PC, but a far smaller percentage of consumers are interested in this than just having a regular copy for normal use or in case the first goes belly-up.
Amazing that you say that. It also does NOT (repeat, NOT) allow you to burn cake and cookies in your DVD player. Shocking, really.
I agree - DRM makes me cringe. If like good old CDs because they work on almost everything, are easily ripped to my computer so I don't have to swap the discs in and out all the time, and have great sound quality.
What has induced me to buy CDs recently:
A record label putting a few sample mp3s for each album on their site. For free. I liked one track, so I figured I'd like the others.
A record label putting a few sample mp3s for each album on their site. For free. I liked one track, so I figured I'd like the others.
A record label putting a few sample mp3s for each album on their site. For free. I liked one track, so I figured I'd like the others.
Now a few words on DRM and commercial media. When has it ever worked? It just makes the paying customers suffer while the pirates get a better experience with the product they didn't pay for. Do you see the FBI copyright warning at the beginning of a bootleg DVD rip? Do you have trouble playing said rip on your Linux box? Are you forced to sit through menus and legal warnings rather than just play the damn media when and how you want to? No, you don't and you aren't.
Too bad 99% of the public doesn't cringe. I'm glad the future will still have DVD Jon and people like him.
Without Slashdot, I wouldn't have just joined puzzle pirates and spent an hour playing random little puzzles that I don't know on my Linux box. I'm impressed with this company.
I know that fonts sizes are easily adjusted in most web browsers, but what about images? Do any popular web browsers offer an option to scale all images a certain amount? Without this feature, the future of very small dot pitches on LCDs looks dim.
Are you really asking for Non-proprietary hardware? That's extremely uncommon, even for non computer-related hardware. Ever noticed how everything says 'patent pending' on it?
Of course, you probably only care about the software interface being open, not the design of the hardware. Carry on.
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I doubt that anyone can get data off something subjected to government standard wipes, nevermind heated above the curie temperature. Are you sure you're not talking out your ass?
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Help page motherfucker, do you read it?
Because people are interested in porn.
Duh.
You sir, are a humor genius.
Seriously. What you're asking for is 'non crippled DRM' that isn't DRM at all.
You're quite correct. The people who buy computers are the ones who already use and like them - and they're not going to buy some crazy thing that doesn't use folders and icons and windows. To throw away everything that your users understand and like to use is to go out of business.
Get off my lawn, you damn kids.
The US government can infringe any patent - they just have to pay you when they do it. I guess Amazon is going to take over the world now. Oh well.
Can you say Reichstag fire?
For the average joe, this is probably exactly what they would like to do- make copies of their expensive discs. People will feel better about taking their DVDs along with them on a bus ride, to a friend's, or on a plane (well, I guess that last one doesn't apply anymore). If it breaks, they can just take it the "master" to a kiosk and make another copy.
No, no, no, and no. You can't copy a disk with this. This is to allow kiosks to sell a wider range of media.
And, granted, this won't allow you to rip the DVD to your hard drive to put on portable media or watch from your PC, but a far smaller percentage of consumers are interested in this than just having a regular copy for normal use or in case the first goes belly-up.
Amazing that you say that. It also does NOT (repeat, NOT) allow you to burn cake and cookies in your DVD player. Shocking, really.
This isn't fark.
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What has induced me to buy CDs recently:
- A record label putting a few sample mp3s for each album on their site. For free. I liked one track, so I figured I'd like the others.
- A record label putting a few sample mp3s for each album on their site. For free. I liked one track, so I figured I'd like the others.
- A record label putting a few sample mp3s for each album on their site. For free. I liked one track, so I figured I'd like the others.
Now a few words on DRM and commercial media. When has it ever worked? It just makes the paying customers suffer while the pirates get a better experience with the product they didn't pay for. Do you see the FBI copyright warning at the beginning of a bootleg DVD rip? Do you have trouble playing said rip on your Linux box? Are you forced to sit through menus and legal warnings rather than just play the damn media when and how you want to? No, you don't and you aren't.Too bad 99% of the public doesn't cringe. I'm glad the future will still have DVD Jon and people like him.
That's what I was going to ask. This didn't sound like something the father of the web would say.
Since part of the point is to save power, yes.
Oh, you were just making a pointless joke to get modded up. Carry on.
Without Slashdot, I wouldn't have just joined puzzle pirates and spent an hour playing random little puzzles that I don't know on my Linux box. I'm impressed with this company.
As usual, a student project fails. Too bad it had to be someone else's fault - it's much less acceptable that way.
McAfee actually DOES block IRC.
If Microsoft can claim a larger user-base due to bundling, why can't we?
Great idea. Let's burn coal to power our cars instead of oil.
Huge improvement, sir. Or at least it is if we have clean coal power.
Not if it's nitrogen. Not to mention the fact that this is a tiny leak in a very large space.
If it's hydrazine, tasting it to find out is a very very bad idea.
I know that fonts sizes are easily adjusted in most web browsers, but what about images? Do any popular web browsers offer an option to scale all images a certain amount? Without this feature, the future of very small dot pitches on LCDs looks dim.
- Public domain content (maybe?)
- Torrents
I think it's pretty clear cut.Are you really asking for Non-proprietary hardware? That's extremely uncommon, even for non computer-related hardware. Ever noticed how everything says 'patent pending' on it?
Of course, you probably only care about the software interface being open, not the design of the hardware. Carry on.
For everyone who isn't aware, it's called cleanroom software engineering, and it does a good job of avoiding copyright issues with code.