The BBC iPlayer is a Youtube-style service. It contains every in-house and second-party programme broadcast in the last week, and selected shows older than that; mainly previous episodes of series that are ongoing. This is distributed in two ways: the first is a flash video player, modelled on youtube, that shows the videos low-res in a browser window. The second is a via a kontiki P2P system, which allows users to download DVD quality DRMed videos onto their (currently Windows, Mac soon, Linux almost certainly never) computer. The BBC also do multicast via several ISPs, but this is almost completely unpublicised, and apart from news, nigh-on content free.
To be honest, I would rather fuck the little guy over if it kept the big guys playing fair. The vast majority of patents are filed by major multinational companies, and if they are forced to actually compete, it will surely work out for the best.
But you are right, in that any system that relies on mountains of paperwork isn't ideal.
We have a fly-by-night organisation, suing at least eight major companies, with a patent that is clearly a joke. Our legal system works as much by precedent as by legislation. When the NYT, CNet and Google fight this as hard as they are going to, this will set that precedent, and it will set it hard. It will make it that bit harder for frivolous patents to ever reach court, and might, just might, prompt a re-evaluation of the entire system.
I am hoping that the iPhone does have hidden capabilities to move beyond AT&Ts Edge network to 3G wireless data. Certainly the European units have this capability, else they won't sell well.
No. Firstly, 2.5G phones still sell perfectly well here in Europe. The smartphone market is, truth be told quite small, and is defined by most people as "able to do email".
Secondly, 3G is hardware. A software update couldn't give it. If you think apple have 3G hardware lying dormant in a million or so UK iPhones, waiting for... something, to make them activate it, that is just wishful thinking. Jobs is right, the battery as it is just can't handle 3G. It dies too soon anyway.
But leaving the legality of the wipe aside, the only two DoD-approved methods of wiping are degaussing and physical destruction. And its hard to argue that either of those happened accidentally. I believe the conversation would go like this: MAFIAA: You're a hacker. OP: Nuh-uh, someone used my free wireless to do it! Judge: OK, well lets just check your logs... Oh. These have been wiped. With a claw hammer. Destruction of evidence, court finds defendant guilty by default.
Just a quick correction, in America you do have the right to do the first two. They fall under fair use, and if anyone tries to tell you different, shoot em.
In Britain, we have no legal fair use (actually, I think we are allowed excerpts for the purposes of criticism, and that's it), and so your entire list is illegal over here.
From the bottom up, then:
I was modded funny because, in the course of making a serious point, I happened to, ahem, *accidentally* quote Team America: Word Police.
The case of Jammie Thomas is indeed horrible (as is her name. Jammie? What the fuck?), and I think it shows exactly why the RIAA deserve to be boycotted to hell.
BUT, the point the grandparent was making is that there is a difference between noble protest, and what TorrentSpy are (were?) doing. They were a company, making money from the large scale piracy of other people's labour.
Analogy time!
Scrumping is a very British word meaning to steal apples, and only apples.
If I scrump a few apples, and am arrested for it and find £100 000, I think we are agreed that I have been fucked over.
But if AppleSpy steal an entire orchard's worth of apples, print adverts on them and then give them away, then they are fuckers.
Analogy over!
Yeah, I prefer the ones who have already made up their mind in advance. This. Sure, it's possible to take it too far, but it's far better than the alternative.
I've been saying for a while, phishing is a far bigger problem than spamming.
The attach rate is a lot higher, because people think they are responding to a genuine email from Bank of America, the rewards are orders of magnitude higher, because you can take all their money, while the costs are just a bit higher. Sure, its slightly illegal, but to be honest, that clearly has no effect.
See, I get what you are saying.
It is true, TorrentSpy are dicks. Criminal dicks
But the thing is, given the level of assholery I think the **AAs are capable of, I still manage to side with the criminals.
Because we need dicks to fuck asses.
Otherwise, we're gonna be covered in shit.
Not to shit on your parade or anything, but I think that defense has been tried and failed.
Um.
Also, even if it hasn't, you'd better hope they don't link that post to you.
Think!
IANAL, but I believe that it is actually the former.
Destruction of evidence is a crime in and of itself, of course, so there will be penalties just for that. But it can also lead to the defendant being found guilty by default as well.
In other words, don't be surprised if TorrentSpy gets royally hosed.
HandBrake... doesn't have any way on its own to handle CSS decryption... you need an external program/driver/library for that
If that's the case, why does the default install of Handbrake on Mac OS X rip all my CSS-ed DVDs? I'm intrigued now...
RTFA.
This is confiscation in the same manner as it is applied in when property is confiscated for drug offences.
The police take your stuff, auction it off, and then you go to trial.
If there is no such thing as a perfect game, when why the hell are you scoring out of 100? It's not just PC Gamer that thinks this way--most publications, even those who do give out "perfect" scores, do so begrudgingly. It's as if the developer has somehow cheated and broken their system.
The movie reviewers solved this problem a long time ago. That's why most adopted a simpler rating system in which a 4-star movie didn't imply "perfection" but supreme excellence. In most cases, games are penalized through being divided by a sum that they can never possibly reach. What does that make a 94 or a 9.5 then...is that our mortal interpretation of perfection? Is that the closest we can fly to the sun before our wings melt and we're doomed to playing Spongebob Squarepants XVI for eternity?
But even more so, what does this scoring system say to developers? What are they aiming for when they hand over that review disc? Because essentially, they're taking a test with 5 points docked for signing their name.
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The BBC iPlayer is a Youtube-style service. It contains every in-house and second-party programme broadcast in the last week, and selected shows older than that; mainly previous episodes of series that are ongoing.
This is distributed in two ways: the first is a flash video player, modelled on youtube, that shows the videos low-res in a browser window. The second is a via a kontiki P2P system, which allows users to download DVD quality DRMed videos onto their (currently Windows, Mac soon, Linux almost certainly never) computer.
The BBC also do multicast via several ISPs, but this is almost completely unpublicised, and apart from news, nigh-on content free.
Fixed that for you.
My passport disagrees with you. I am a British Citizen, no bones about it.
To be honest, I would rather fuck the little guy over if it kept the big guys playing fair. The vast majority of patents are filed by major multinational companies, and if they are forced to actually compete, it will surely work out for the best. But you are right, in that any system that relies on mountains of paperwork isn't ideal.
We have a fly-by-night organisation, suing at least eight major companies, with a patent that is clearly a joke.
Our legal system works as much by precedent as by legislation.
When the NYT, CNet and Google fight this as hard as they are going to, this will set that precedent, and it will set it hard. It will make it that bit harder for frivolous patents to ever reach court, and might, just might, prompt a re-evaluation of the entire system.
No. Firstly, 2.5G phones still sell perfectly well here in Europe. The smartphone market is, truth be told quite small, and is defined by most people as "able to do email". Secondly, 3G is hardware. A software update couldn't give it. If you think apple have 3G hardware lying dormant in a million or so UK iPhones, waiting for... something, to make them activate it, that is just wishful thinking. Jobs is right, the battery as it is just can't handle 3G. It dies too soon anyway.
Nice argument - bad example.
The Little Mermaid is Danish
I'm sick and tired of all this anti-microsoft FUD. We all know the format would be called wbv.
But leaving the legality of the wipe aside, the only two DoD-approved methods of wiping are degaussing and physical destruction. And its hard to argue that either of those happened accidentally. I believe the conversation would go like this:
MAFIAA: You're a hacker.
OP: Nuh-uh, someone used my free wireless to do it!
Judge: OK, well lets just check your logs... Oh. These have been wiped. With a claw hammer. Destruction of evidence, court finds defendant guilty by default.
Or something.
Just a quick correction, in America you do have the right to do the first two. They fall under fair use, and if anyone tries to tell you different, shoot em.
In Britain, we have no legal fair use (actually, I think we are allowed excerpts for the purposes of criticism, and that's it), and so your entire list is illegal over here.
Yep.
It's hard being me.
There we go.
From the bottom up, then:
I was modded funny because, in the course of making a serious point, I happened to, ahem, *accidentally* quote Team America: Word Police.
The case of Jammie Thomas is indeed horrible (as is her name. Jammie? What the fuck?), and I think it shows exactly why the RIAA deserve to be boycotted to hell.
BUT, the point the grandparent was making is that there is a difference between noble protest, and what TorrentSpy are (were?) doing. They were a company, making money from the large scale piracy of other people's labour.
Analogy time!
Scrumping is a very British word meaning to steal apples, and only apples.
If I scrump a few apples, and am arrested for it and find £100 000, I think we are agreed that I have been fucked over.
But if AppleSpy steal an entire orchard's worth of apples, print adverts on them and then give them away, then they are fuckers.
Analogy over!
Yeah, I prefer the ones who have already made up their mind in advance. This. Sure, it's possible to take it too far, but it's far better than the alternative.
To be honest, if you had lawyers of the same caliber as Bush, you could basically do anything. Those dicks are good
I've been saying for a while, phishing is a far bigger problem than spamming. The attach rate is a lot higher, because people think they are responding to a genuine email from Bank of America, the rewards are orders of magnitude higher, because you can take all their money, while the costs are just a bit higher. Sure, its slightly illegal, but to be honest, that clearly has no effect.
See, I get what you are saying.
It is true, TorrentSpy are dicks. Criminal dicks
But the thing is, given the level of assholery I think the **AAs are capable of, I still manage to side with the criminals.
Because we need dicks to fuck asses.
Otherwise, we're gonna be covered in shit.
Not to shit on your parade or anything, but I think that defense has been tried and failed.
Um.
Also, even if it hasn't, you'd better hope they don't link that post to you.
Think!
IANAL, but I believe that it is actually the former.
Destruction of evidence is a crime in and of itself, of course, so there will be penalties just for that. But it can also lead to the defendant being found guilty by default as well.
In other words, don't be surprised if TorrentSpy gets royally hosed.
If that's the case, why does the default install of Handbrake on Mac OS X rip all my CSS-ed DVDs? I'm intrigued now...
And in 2003 the anti-war crowd were saying we shouldn't go to Iraq. That wouldn't make it any less of a loss if we are still there in 2013.
RTFA. This is confiscation in the same manner as it is applied in when property is confiscated for drug offences. The police take your stuff, auction it off, and then you go to trial.
Don't I feel stupid... But I like to think my point still stands.
As a Politics major, let me just say, America has some serious problems to sort out before it can even think of instituting direct democracy.