Just to be technically correct...Ogg is a container format not a codec. Ogg is most often associated with the Vorbis lossy codec, but FLAC was originally written as the Ogg lossless format, hence why the reference FLAC encoder has an option to save as "Ogg FLAC". Vorbis or Ogg Vorbis is the more correct usage for clarity.
Why make it so complicated?? They were unencrypted, just make a copy of the damn things, an no one is the wiser.
No one is the wiser unless/until it becomes known that the data was stolen. In that case, it could be quite useful to have an obvious scapegoat to divert suspicion.
As for Hanlon's Razor, I have my own corollary: "When people blindly trust Hanlon's Razor, stupidity becomes the perfect cover for malice."
Personally, I don't think it's so much that the media is controlled by the government, but rather that both the media and government are largely controlled by the same interests.
One market-based solution to "estimated sales" problem...copyright auctions.
Let's say you allow one unqualified copyright term of 14 years.
At the end of that term, the work now becomes eligible for copyright extension. At this point, the copyright office offers public notice that the copyright for Work X is up for extension. An auction is then held, and anyone *except* the current copyright holder can bid for the rights to Work X, thus setting the value of the copyright to whatever the bidders think it is worth over the extension term.
After the bidding sets the price, the current copyright holder has one of three options: 1) they can pay *half* of the bid to the copyright office, and keep the rights for the extension term; 2) allow the bidder to purchase the extension right for the full bid price, of which half goes to the copyright office and half to the copyright holder; or 3) allow the work to go into the public domain. If there are no bidders, allow the copyright holder to purchase the extension for some flat fee.
That was how I read it as well.. From the citizen's perspective, this reads: "In exchange for taking some of your public domain rights, we'll take some of your free speech rights, too!"
Down the Jersey Shore (no "at" in the local usage), you can visit from 15 miles inland, and locals will still deride you as a benny. Canada might as well be Bangladesh to them.
However, what you missed is that 9/11--which killed more than Oklahoma City, Pearl Harbor, and Iraq (to date) combined--was the trigger for Bush's fanatical delusions (which in turn led to the 3000+ soldiers dying in Iraq).
Better check your math....
9/11 official death toll: 2,793
vs.
Pearl Harbor death toll: 2,403
OKC death toll: 168
Iraq death toll to date: 3,466 (US military), 276 (other coalition military), 917 (contractors), 102 (journalists), 39 (media support workers), 88 (aid workers)
Even without counting Iraqi deaths (estimates run from 68,000 up to 655,000), you are off by more than half.
The submitter typed "build" instead of "built," resulting in an annoying distraction in an otherwise concise description of the story.
For whatever it's worth, I submitted a story a few weeks back about author Mark Helprin's argument for perpetual copyright, and even though I am certain that I spelled his name correctly in my submission, the summary had it misspelled "Halprin". And yes, the summary notes that several readers submitted the same story, but most of the summary used my exact wording, yet they still spelled the name wrong.
My point being...sometimes the errors come from the *editors* and not from the submitter.
FWIW, I know a couple who have an internet bookselling business. They started in the used book business years ago, pre-Web, selling rare and collectible books. The main way they procured a lot of their books were through estate sales, and usually ended up with large amounts of books that were of no value to them.
When the Web came around, they started doing a bit of business in the collectible books, but they soon found that there was a far larger market for the "garbage" books at $3-5 a book, and they since set up a warehouse with a bar code system and soon that became the primary focus of their business. They still sell rare books but more out of passion than for the money.
They own a Lamborghini Countach, so I assume they're doing pretty good at it. Just an anecdote, I know, but a counterpoint to the argument that no one wants the "garbage" books.
Retroactive laws are prohibited in the US by the constitution, IIRC.
Not when it comes to copyright law, unfortunately. The Suckers of Satan's Cock...I mean...US Supreme Court upheld retroactive copyright extension as constitutional in Eldred v. Ashcroft.
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Just to be technically correct...Ogg is a container format not a codec. Ogg is most often associated with the Vorbis lossy codec, but FLAC was originally written as the Ogg lossless format, hence why the reference FLAC encoder has an option to save as "Ogg FLAC". Vorbis or Ogg Vorbis is the more correct usage for clarity.
It must be this gun club.
Is that the guy who starred in such classic TV shows as Little Cave in the Desert and Highway to 72 Virgins?
Shouldn't that be "Lawyer, lawyer, pants in foyer?"
No one is the wiser unless/until it becomes known that the data was stolen. In that case, it could be quite useful to have an obvious scapegoat to divert suspicion.
As for Hanlon's Razor, I have my own corollary: "When people blindly trust Hanlon's Razor, stupidity becomes the perfect cover for malice."
Aha! Thanks for the link.
Ernie Ball, the guitar string guy? I don't get the connection.
Personally, I don't think it's so much that the media is controlled by the government, but rather that both the media and government are largely controlled by the same interests.
There's a name for this...the No True Scotsman fallacy.
Oh, you have Comcast too?
One market-based solution to "estimated sales" problem...copyright auctions.
Let's say you allow one unqualified copyright term of 14 years.
At the end of that term, the work now becomes eligible for copyright extension. At this point, the copyright office offers public notice that the copyright for Work X is up for extension. An auction is then held, and anyone *except* the current copyright holder can bid for the rights to Work X, thus setting the value of the copyright to whatever the bidders think it is worth over the extension term.
After the bidding sets the price, the current copyright holder has one of three options: 1) they can pay *half* of the bid to the copyright office, and keep the rights for the extension term; 2) allow the bidder to purchase the extension right for the full bid price, of which half goes to the copyright office and half to the copyright holder; or 3) allow the work to go into the public domain. If there are no bidders, allow the copyright holder to purchase the extension for some flat fee.
Coming soon...Microsoft Cloud...taking vaporware to new, stratospheric heights!!
That was how I read it as well.. From the citizen's perspective, this reads: "In exchange for taking some of your public domain rights, we'll take some of your free speech rights, too!"
No, that's the predecessor to Apple's next killer device...the iPhuckMyself.
I think he meant "all true Scotsmen"...I mean "Slashdotters".
I was similarly baffled by that. A 96 year old ruling getting struck down is a "slownewsday"?
Down the Jersey Shore (no "at" in the local usage), you can visit from 15 miles inland, and locals will still deride you as a benny. Canada might as well be Bangladesh to them.
Better check your math....
9/11 official death toll: 2,793
vs.
Pearl Harbor death toll: 2,403
OKC death toll: 168
Iraq death toll to date: 3,466 (US military), 276 (other coalition military), 917 (contractors), 102 (journalists), 39 (media support workers), 88 (aid workers)
Even without counting Iraqi deaths (estimates run from 68,000 up to 655,000), you are off by more than half.
Hey, if weren't for the tyranny of the gravity Nazis, we'd be able to fly under our own power.
Just another case of consensus science destroying our dreams and hating our freedoms.
You know, my grandpappy always warned me about the the dangers of believing anything to be faplace to be olse.
Up until now, though, I had always assumed he was just shit-faced drunk. Now I see the light!
For whatever it's worth, I submitted a story a few weeks back about author Mark Helprin's argument for perpetual copyright, and even though I am certain that I spelled his name correctly in my submission, the summary had it misspelled "Halprin". And yes, the summary notes that several readers submitted the same story, but most of the summary used my exact wording, yet they still spelled the name wrong.
My point being...sometimes the errors come from the *editors* and not from the submitter.
More appropriate Homer Simpson quote:
"...and here I am, using my legs like a sucker!"
FWIW, I know a couple who have an internet bookselling business. They started in the used book business years ago, pre-Web, selling rare and collectible books. The main way they procured a lot of their books were through estate sales, and usually ended up with large amounts of books that were of no value to them.
When the Web came around, they started doing a bit of business in the collectible books, but they soon found that there was a far larger market for the "garbage" books at $3-5 a book, and they since set up a warehouse with a bar code system and soon that became the primary focus of their business. They still sell rare books but more out of passion than for the money.
They own a Lamborghini Countach, so I assume they're doing pretty good at it. Just an anecdote, I know, but a counterpoint to the argument that no one wants the "garbage" books.
Not when it comes to copyright law, unfortunately. The Suckers of Satan's Cock...I mean...US Supreme Court upheld retroactive copyright extension as constitutional in Eldred v. Ashcroft.
Imagine someone with a lisp coding LISP via speech recognition...
"cwothe pawenthethith, cwothe pawenthethith, cwothe pawenthethith, cwothe pawenthethith, cwothe pawenthethith, ...."
(My apologies for any insensitivity to those with speech impediments.)