It's bloatware alright, The memory foot print in my box is > 174Meg (according to GTOP) That cuts into your swapfile when you only have 64Meg of real memory. I don't know how people with older boxes cope with it.
Remember that the DMCA is a US law, which contrary to popular belief within the US, doesn't apply anywhere else. The DeCSS code was written in Norway, so how can a US law be used against it?
I have an old 486SX laptop that I use as a terminal to my main Linux box over an ethernet link. It runs mulinux using kernel 2.0something and drives a PCMCIA ethernet card with no problems (well it did until my 12 month old son dropped it on the floor, but that's another story.)
There should be PCMCIA support in 2.2 kernels, unless it's a winmodem (i think most laptop modems are?), which isn't suported by anything except Windows AFAIK.
The flyer is great, but unfortunately the US constitution has little relevence here in the UK. Is there an international version? (Did anyone think of that?) After all. The guy whjo started all of this lives in Norway. The law in the USA is of little relevance to him.
Freely available wireless communication has been around since the 1920s. It's called amateur radio. In some places it's the only means of communication available.
There is another reason for the regional lockouts. The big movie companies have exclusive rights deals with distribution companies for distributing their films in a given country. Since these distributors have a monopoly in their own region, they can charge whatever they want to.
IF someone were to independently (and perfectly legally)import movies from another region (perhaps one where the retail prices are lower) they would cut into the distributors profits.
This is exactly the same as the way video games, cars and many other things are sold world wide.
The manufacturers put a lot of energy into preserving their official distribution channels by persuing these "grey market" importers. I had a friend in Australia who used to sell privately imported video games at much lower prices than Sega sold them for. Sega eventually shut him down by threatening to sue. He may well have had a case, but once again he didn't have the funds to push the issue and lost out to the corporates.
Regional lockouts don't just stop piracy, they protect the distributor's monopolies and are therefore a bad thing (IMHO).
In Australia there is a company called Oatley Electronics who sometimes stock very low cost Peltier devices. They have all sorts of other stuff like lasers and night viewers bought from military surplus, bankrupt stock, obsolete equipment auctions etc.
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If you really did know about this, you would have used the correct units
Yeah, I know...
It's bloatware alright, The memory foot print in my box is > 174Meg (according to GTOP)
That cuts into your swapfile when you only have 64Meg of real memory. I don't know how people with older boxes cope with it.
Remember that the DMCA is a US law, which contrary to popular belief within the US, doesn't apply anywhere else. The DeCSS code was written in Norway, so how can a US law be used against it?
I have an old 486SX laptop that I use as a terminal to my main Linux box over an ethernet link. It runs mulinux using kernel 2.0something and drives a PCMCIA ethernet card with no problems (well it did until my 12 month old son dropped it on the floor, but that's another story.)
There should be PCMCIA support in 2.2 kernels, unless it's a winmodem (i think most laptop modems are?), which isn't suported by anything except Windows AFAIK.
The flyer is great, but unfortunately the US constitution has little relevence here in the UK. Is there an international version? (Did anyone think of that?) After all. The guy whjo started all of this lives in Norway. The law in the USA is of little relevance to him.
If you don't want to be tracked, switch off the phone, that way they can only track the clueless.
Freely available wireless communication has been around since the 1920s. It's called amateur radio. In some places it's the only means of communication available.
What's needed here is a new version of the spam poisoner "Sugarplum" that sends garbage info to anyone who scans your ports from an ASIO domain.
That'll fix 'em!
There is another reason for the regional lockouts. The big movie companies have exclusive rights deals with distribution companies for distributing their films in a given country. Since these distributors have a monopoly in their own region, they can charge whatever they want to.
IF someone were to independently (and perfectly legally)import movies from another region (perhaps one where the retail prices are lower) they would cut into the distributors profits.
This is exactly the same as the way video games, cars and many other things are sold world wide.
The manufacturers put a lot of energy into preserving their official distribution channels by persuing these "grey market" importers. I had a friend in Australia who used to sell privately imported video games at much lower prices than Sega sold them for. Sega eventually shut him down by threatening to sue. He may well have had a case, but once again he didn't have the funds to push the issue and lost out to the corporates.
Regional lockouts don't just stop piracy, they protect the distributor's monopolies and are therefore a bad thing (IMHO).
In Australia there is a company called Oatley Electronics who sometimes stock very low cost Peltier devices. They have all sorts of other stuff like lasers and night viewers bought from military surplus, bankrupt stock, obsolete equipment auctions etc.
I think they will export stuff.
Check them out
This gets done in Europe for lots of cars built in the last few years. It's called RDS