The BBC is state subsisdised they never have real adverts (Tho the TV sometimes has space fillers... "What's on next week", etc)
It helps keep the adverts in check on other channels (TV and Radio) to a small extent because it lets people feel how the world would be without adverts. That way the more abnoxious the ads get the more people switch to the BBC.
Patents are related and try to solve the same sort of problem in a different area; patents were designed for 'thingys' that you make with lathes, drills and saws. The 'thingy' in question would have no other description than 'a better way of doing that' ie: it's non-obvious.
I did gloss over part of the math behind copyrights in that $X isn't constant with the number of items or the sizes of the companies of Alice and Mallory. Alice has to spend a lot of cash to get a few copies, (eg someone sits with a photocopier) or she borrows Mallory's big expensive machine to make a moderate number of copies for the cost of owning that machine for a few minutes (+Profit of course). Before copyright Mallory would then run off lots more copies and flood Alice's market at the price he charged Alice.
The inital cost $I obviously does factor in this but it's much more of a hidden cost (except for the big machine) in terms of 'desk-hours' and 'practice-hours' that a creative person can be enticed into doing rather than wasting them behind a McD counter; this is the reason that copyright is considered a good thing.
The music industry have now got themselves into the state where the cost to copy INCLUDING the costs in owning the machine that does the copying are practically zero. The only costs they have are the overheads, the marketing and new business departments. 'Quiet' rooms are easy to find and reasonable recording rig can be got with a small loan or by tapping a rich uncle. Even CD stamping machines are cheap enough that a big shop can afford one and thats before you go near CDRs and MP3s, those come for free with the recording rig.
So the RIAA no longer have control over the only, expensive, route to copy music. The creative person or thier fans can copy it for themselves this put the artists back into the 'services and specials' mode where the artist creates something just for you.
What some people don't seem to realise is that music has now moved out of the realm where copyright works. Copyright is a state sponsered monopoly designed to aid small companies when competing against larger companies.
The basic premise is that it costs $X to create a copy of an item, this item can then be sold for $X+P, however, Alice with her little company only has $Y available so she can make Y/X of these items to sell to Bob and friends. Alice's problem is that the demand is much larger than this so before copyright Mallory (the owner of the big company) could throw cash in a pot and make lots of profit selling to Carol and Dave before Alice can even get an appointment with Ivan at the bank. Copyright allows Alice some time to slowly build up her company so she can sell to Carol and Dave.
If $X (the cost to copy) is very small or zero this breaks down completely. Take a tasty example, hamburgers, copyright could be considered to apply here there are all sorts of differences, special sauces and so on but the cost to copy (ie make another hamburger) is tiny so instead of trying to rip each other off the hamburger companies just try to make their product different then redefine this difference as 'better'. So Alice can easily join this market, she can talk to Ivan before anyone know what she wants to do and probably even has an advantage against the 'big boys' because she can change faster. Often Mallory will even welcome her because she is the 'honorable competittion' that keeps the monopolies department quiet.
Both the music and the computer industries have spent considerable amounts to develop ways to reduce the cost to copy and they have been tremendously successful. Now they have to change their businesses to work in the environment they have created. Many individual companies are succeeding (IBM!) other are getting trampled (SCO!) but committees are (eg RIAA) are very slow.
OTOH it would appear that the book industry were very happy with the status quo, they have treated books on disk with distain claiming that a book in the hand it better than a light on the screen. They go for tradition and the advantages that paper has; they may sink but the lifeboats are ready in the forms of demand printing, ebooks, custom books and so on until then appealing to the snob in people is working for them.
The RIAA have driven themselves over a cliff and are now trying to legislate the law of gravity out of existance but they need to transform, if they don't they will splat. And I do not want to see them take any company that is as good at making tech toys as SONY with them.
No, it isn't possible without the ISP putting themselves out of business.
1) Every bittorrent client can choose a port number; many at random. The 'Tracker' (if needed) is often just another website.
2) If ISPs decide to do content filtering on bittorrent (ie id the bit patterns in the data flow.) on a large basis version N+1 will use encryption.
3) If you want to use encryption now all you have to do is install OpenVPN; in some modes it's even impossible to prove that the connection is using OpenVPN let alone deciding what's being carried in the OpenVPN channel.
4) A great deal of the data transfered using bittorrent is NOT illegal or copyright violations. Linux and BSD CDs are the obvious ones; there's that Finnish parody movie; and that's just off the top of my head. I know there are many others.
I've had one of these for just under two months now; It's a beast of a machine! Two Gb of memory 200Gb of disk (raid 0, 1 or jbod), reliable Wifi, brilliant screen and the best builtin speakers I've come across in a portable.
But it seems to weigh a TON; or it did at first and has a battery life of just barely over an hour. Despite the power requirements it feels quite quiet because it's fans tend to blast the hot air out for only a few seconds before going back to normal office 'silence'.
This machine seems to be a classic Clevo design just like the last three machines I've bought from them (through distributors of course). They've all been heavy (tho this is the heaviest!), they've had huge screens (tho this is the biggest!) and the previous ones were very reliable.
1) (200Mhz) Died 'cause it got rained on. 2) (750Mhz) Still going strong, no battery, little sis has it. 3) (2.4Ghz) Glide pad got gouged. I wonder how much it'll cost to get it repaired?
So far this one is living upto it's ancestors only time will tell if it will continue to.
It's XP Home and there's a 2TB USB drive connected to the back of the portable (Like a LACIE disk). The AC power's plugged in too. But I don't expect the C: drive is the windows drive.
I could almost do this picture myself, but I only have a 1TB drive.
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Only legally, while it's in theroy possible to get out of paying it's a lot of work proving it when "the man" comes knocking.
The BBC is state subsisdised they never have real adverts (Tho the TV sometimes has space fillers... "What's on next week", etc)
It helps keep the adverts in check on other channels (TV and Radio) to a small extent because it lets people feel how the world would be without adverts. That way the more abnoxious the ads get the more people switch to the BBC.
Patents are related and try to solve the same sort of problem in a different area; patents were designed for 'thingys' that you make with lathes, drills and saws. The 'thingy' in question would have no other description than 'a better way of doing that' ie: it's non-obvious.
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I did gloss over part of the math behind copyrights in that $X isn't constant with the number of items or the sizes of the companies of Alice and Mallory. Alice has to spend a lot of cash to get a few copies, (eg someone sits with a photocopier) or she borrows Mallory's big expensive machine to make a moderate number of copies for the cost of owning that machine for a few minutes (+Profit of course). Before copyright Mallory would then run off lots more copies and flood Alice's market at the price he charged Alice.
The inital cost $I obviously does factor in this but it's much more of a hidden cost (except for the big machine) in terms of 'desk-hours' and 'practice-hours' that a creative person can be enticed into doing rather than wasting them behind a McD counter; this is the reason that copyright is considered a good thing.
The music industry have now got themselves into the state where the cost to copy INCLUDING the costs in owning the machine that does the copying are practically zero. The only costs they have are the overheads, the marketing and new business departments. 'Quiet' rooms are easy to find and reasonable recording rig can be got with a small loan or by tapping a rich uncle. Even CD stamping machines are cheap enough that a big shop can afford one and thats before you go near CDRs and MP3s, those come for free with the recording rig.
So the RIAA no longer have control over the only, expensive, route to copy music. The creative person or thier fans can copy it for themselves this put the artists back into the 'services and specials' mode where the artist creates something just for you.
All RIAA have left is their own skills
What some people don't seem to realise is that music has now moved out of
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the realm where copyright works. Copyright is a state sponsered monopoly
designed to aid small companies when competing against larger companies.
The basic premise is that it costs $X to create a copy of an item, this
item can then be sold for $X+P, however, Alice with her little company
only has $Y available so she can make Y/X of these items to sell to Bob
and friends. Alice's problem is that the demand is much larger than this
so before copyright Mallory (the owner of the big company) could throw
cash in a pot and make lots of profit selling to Carol and Dave before
Alice can even get an appointment with Ivan at the bank. Copyright allows
Alice some time to slowly build up her company so she can sell to Carol
and Dave.
If $X (the cost to copy) is very small or zero this breaks down
completely. Take a tasty example, hamburgers, copyright could be
considered to apply here there are all sorts of differences, special
sauces and so on but the cost to copy (ie make another hamburger) is
tiny so instead of trying to rip each other off the hamburger companies
just try to make their product different then redefine this difference
as 'better'. So Alice can easily join this market, she can talk to Ivan
before anyone know what she wants to do and probably even has an advantage
against the 'big boys' because she can change faster. Often Mallory will
even welcome her because she is the 'honorable competittion' that keeps
the monopolies department quiet.
Both the music and the computer industries have spent considerable
amounts to develop ways to reduce the cost to copy and they have been
tremendously successful. Now they have to change their businesses to
work in the environment they have created. Many individual companies are
succeeding (IBM!) other are getting trampled (SCO!) but committees are
(eg RIAA) are very slow.
OTOH it would appear that the book industry were very happy with the
status quo, they have treated books on disk with distain claiming that
a book in the hand it better than a light on the screen. They go for
tradition and the advantages that paper has; they may sink but the
lifeboats are ready in the forms of demand printing, ebooks, custom books
and so on until then appealing to the snob in people is working for them.
The RIAA have driven themselves over a cliff and are now trying to
legislate the law of gravity out of existance but they need to transform,
if they don't they will splat. And I do not want to see them take any
company that is as good at making tech toys as SONY with them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_in_crypto
> Even the "innocent" looking commands
/etc/passwd /etc/passwd /etc/passwd /etc/passwd
Innocent!
chown me
chmod 666
mv cp_passwd
cp cp_passwd
Yea Right! Innocent!
No, it isn't possible without the ISP putting themselves out of business.
1) Every bittorrent client can choose a port number; many at random. The 'Tracker' (if needed) is often just another website.
2) If ISPs decide to do content filtering on bittorrent (ie id the bit patterns in the data flow.) on a large basis version N+1 will use encryption.
3) If you want to use encryption now all you have to do is install OpenVPN; in some modes it's even impossible to prove that the connection is using OpenVPN let alone deciding what's being carried in the OpenVPN channel.
4) A great deal of the data transfered using bittorrent is NOT illegal or copyright violations. Linux and BSD CDs are the obvious ones; there's that Finnish parody movie; and that's just off the top of my head. I know there are many others.
I've had one of these for just under two months now; It's a beast of a machine!
... my other computer is a Toshiba R100 ...
Two Gb of memory 200Gb of disk (raid 0, 1 or jbod), reliable Wifi, brilliant screen and the best builtin speakers I've come across in a portable.
But it seems to weigh a TON; or it did at first and has a battery life of just barely over an hour. Despite the power requirements it feels quite quiet because it's fans tend to blast the hot air out for only a few seconds before going back to normal office 'silence'.
This machine seems to be a classic Clevo design just like the last three machines I've bought from them (through distributors of course). They've all been heavy (tho this is the heaviest!), they've had huge screens (tho this is the biggest!) and the previous ones were very reliable.
1) (200Mhz) Died 'cause it got rained on.
2) (750Mhz) Still going strong, no battery, little sis has it.
3) (2.4Ghz) Glide pad got gouged. I wonder how much it'll cost to get it repaired?
So far this one is living upto it's ancestors only time will tell if it will continue to.
Still
It's XP Home and there's a 2TB USB drive connected to the back of the portable (Like a LACIE disk). The AC power's plugged in too. But I don't expect the C: drive is the windows drive. I could almost do this picture myself, but I only have a 1TB drive.