Current DRM is mostly useful for locking the consumers into one single vendor for their mp3 players. It might give the record companies some benefit in the long run, as customers would have to buy their music a second time if they buy a new mp3 player, but it certainly eats into their profits right now.
Isn't there already a law that limits how much political speech can happen leading up to an election and who can say it?
Yes. This law, if I understand it correctly, would have placed the same limits on bloggers paid directly for what they say, making more than $100k a year, as for meat space lobbyists. Apparently, you can currently spend as much money on astroturfers as you want, without having to tell anyone that these are paid lobbyists.
Considering that they shot down one of their own satellites, perhaps the US could shoot down one of their own satellites. From a European perspective this would be the funniest escalation of hostilities since Freedom Fries.
In fact, Sweden has already banned research into gender differences in mental characteristics.
Apparently, an official on the regional level has decided not to give grant money for a book unless an interview with a feminist is removed. The feminist in question states that men's brains work differently and offers as proof the difference between mens and womens service station bathrooms.
ANDREW THOMAS: Well, in...initially, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children uh, came into contact with the Phoenix police department. They...as a result of that tip, and evidence uh, linking that computer to a yahoo web site were able to work with our office, obtain search warrants. And uh, they went in and uh, conducted that uh, uh...that investigation.
ANDREW THOMAS: They then spoke to the uh...the juvenile who made uh, certain admissions. Uh, while he denied accessing adult uh, pornography, he did admit to being a part of uh, accessing uh, adult pornography and... (OFF-MIKE)
Yeah, that scenario is probably worth some added revenue as well.
Still that barrier doesn't build up as much as the barrier for shifting to new hardware. For example, I have around 200 LPs I no longer have a player for. If a friend wanted a copy of one, I would probably go through the trouble of copying it to CD at his house, but format shifting them all is too much work.
DRM is meant to prevent interoperability, raise barriers for entry to markets and force "upgrades" of your media when playback devices are upgraded.
Just look at iTunes; you can burn the music to CDs and rip to mp3. This is no copy protection - only a mild barrier to make it more likely that the average customer does _not_ buy another brand of mp3 player.
As others have pointed out, the article headline is misleading. Hollywood won't admit any such thing.
Ok, you gain four years of lifespan, but learning a language takes about five years of your life, full time. I, for example, speak three languages and graduated from high school at 28.
This stuff gets so mindboggligly far from normal materials, a non-expert like me has absolutely no chance of understanding what this could be used for. One of the links mentioned exploring quantum phenomena that would otherwise be impossible to experiment with - would that be the main use for this, um, stuff?
Replying to an unrelated post to get this higher up.
Here's the site. Nothing but placeholder text for now. The page says "Later tonight (Sunday, 14th January 2007) (well, before Monday morning anyway)" and Finland is at GMT+2.
Having a white on black display is such a big step down for the average "know nothing about computers" user that I don't think that would ever get a big enough market. If a laptop can be in, say 10 hours / 24 use while being charged once a day, I don't think a move to 24 hours charge would be a big enough step for most users to justify the "ugly" display.
If the OLPC idea of charging your laptop with muscle power catches on, things might look different.
the DRM will continue to deter casual copying to some extent, but will continue to be impotent in preventing anyone determined to make a copy and willing to spend a little time on the 'net to find out how (or download a pre-ripped version).
This is the problem for consumers, and the cash cow for the media companies. Casual copying is fully fucking legal! Consumers have bought the media and have the right to make copies for personal use. That means they can watch their movies on whatever device they choose and store their movies on whatever hardware they wish. Legally protected DRM means that the majority of consumers will be unable to make copies, leading to vendor lock-in (iTunes), lack of free player software (cost of licensing the DRM), having to buy several copies (viewing your media both on your computer and your DVD player and in your car etc.)
Yes, this was a problem until 1954 when the CGS system was abandoned. I'm surprised no one told you to stop converting between the two, but this post will save you from another century of problems.
Actually, legislators are politicians. In the US system, a law passed by legislators isn't really much more than an agreement by a majority of elected politicians until it has been tested in court.
To use a software development analogy, what comes out of development and testing may look nothing like the original specs, if these were made by business people rather than software experts.
I don't have an HD TV, nor do I really have intent to get one in the next year. Same goes for the HD players.
I have a monitor, Windows XP and PirateBay bookmarked. There is no service on the market that can get me content of better quality or more conveniently or with better standards compliance.
As long as studios treat me like a video copying pirate, why should I give them more money?
I would like to give them money, but they have already chosen how to treat me.
Here, actually seems more interesting than TFA (This is Slashdot; I didn't read TFA). To quote:
I work within the political system of the European Union to ensure that the development and use of free software is not hampered by new legislation. The best known example of a legislative project I worked on is the "Software Patents Directive".
I've tried to find something about whether this tells us something new about the properties of dark matter, but so far no luck. Anyone have a link to something more informative?
Well, at least it's compatible with application x if it says in the standard an application has to render something like application x without specifying how...
I don't think the job description is a very apt comparison. Perhaps if it said "Must drink beer like my old college roommate, Guillaume Portes" without saying how he drank beer. To be a bit more exact, all your examples are of the same Fallacy of Definition in that they use an example as the sole defining trait. One of the examples on Wikipedia is "Chutzpah is killing your parents and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you are an orphan.". Should ISO accept that as the definition of Chutzpah?
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No. Your brain anticipates the imminent arrival of karma which, according to my sources caused salivation even before you clicked the "submit" button.
Current DRM is mostly useful for locking the consumers into one single vendor for their mp3 players. It might give the record companies some benefit in the long run, as customers would have to buy their music a second time if they buy a new mp3 player, but it certainly eats into their profits right now.
The GPL covers distribution. No distribution = do whatever you want with the code.
That used to be the idea with copyright as well. It's almost scary how many nowadays think it's a license defining how you can use what you bought.
Isn't there already a law that limits how much political speech can happen leading up to an election and who can say it?
Yes. This law, if I understand it correctly, would have placed the same limits on bloggers paid directly for what they say, making more than $100k a year, as for meat space lobbyists. Apparently, you can currently spend as much money on astroturfers as you want, without having to tell anyone that these are paid lobbyists.
Btw, the Democrats will doom us all. Ka-ching!
Considering that they shot down one of their own satellites, perhaps the US could shoot down one of their own satellites. From a European perspective this would be the funniest escalation of hostilities since Freedom Fries.
In fact, Sweden has already banned research into gender differences in mental characteristics.
Apparently, an official on the regional level has decided not to give grant money for a book unless an interview with a feminist is removed. The feminist in question states that men's brains work differently and offers as proof the difference between mens and womens service station bathrooms.
"banned research" indeed.
ANDREW THOMAS: Well, in...initially, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children uh, came into contact with the Phoenix police department. They...as a result of that tip, and evidence uh, linking that computer to a yahoo web site were able to work with our office, obtain search warrants. And uh, they went in and uh, conducted that uh, uh...that investigation.
ANDREW THOMAS: They then spoke to the uh...the juvenile who made uh, certain admissions. Uh, while he denied accessing adult uh, pornography, he did admit to being a part of uh, accessing uh, adult pornography and... (OFF-MIKE)
Yeah, that scenario is probably worth some added revenue as well.
Still that barrier doesn't build up as much as the barrier for shifting to new hardware. For example, I have around 200 LPs I no longer have a player for. If a friend wanted a copy of one, I would probably go through the trouble of copying it to CD at his house, but format shifting them all is too much work.
Those are metric millions.
It's hard to feel like McGyver after reading that...
DRM is meant to prevent interoperability, raise barriers for entry to markets and force "upgrades" of your media when playback devices are upgraded.
Just look at iTunes; you can burn the music to CDs and rip to mp3. This is no copy protection - only a mild barrier to make it more likely that the average customer does _not_ buy another brand of mp3 player.
As others have pointed out, the article headline is misleading. Hollywood won't admit any such thing.
Ok, you gain four years of lifespan, but learning a language takes about five years of your life, full time. I, for example, speak three languages and graduated from high school at 28.
This stuff gets so mindboggligly far from normal materials, a non-expert like me has absolutely no chance of understanding what this could be used for. One of the links mentioned exploring quantum phenomena that would otherwise be impossible to experiment with - would that be the main use for this, um, stuff?
Replying to an unrelated post to get this higher up.
Here's the site. Nothing but placeholder text for now. The page says "Later tonight (Sunday, 14th January 2007) (well, before Monday morning anyway)" and Finland is at GMT+2.
Having a white on black display is such a big step down for the average "know nothing about computers" user that I don't think that would ever get a big enough market. If a laptop can be in, say 10 hours / 24 use while being charged once a day, I don't think a move to 24 hours charge would be a big enough step for most users to justify the "ugly" display.
If the OLPC idea of charging your laptop with muscle power catches on, things might look different.
Bullshit. If I pirate something, I don't buy it and get no DRM. If I buy it and then copy it, it's not piracy.
the DRM will continue to deter casual copying to some extent, but will continue to be impotent in preventing anyone determined to make a copy and willing to spend a little time on the 'net to find out how (or download a pre-ripped version).
This is the problem for consumers, and the cash cow for the media companies. Casual copying is fully fucking legal! Consumers have bought the media and have the right to make copies for personal use. That means they can watch their movies on whatever device they choose and store their movies on whatever hardware they wish. Legally protected DRM means that the majority of consumers will be unable to make copies, leading to vendor lock-in (iTunes), lack of free player software (cost of licensing the DRM), having to buy several copies (viewing your media both on your computer and your DVD player and in your car etc.)
For a real example of how countries differ in this regard, click here or here. Obviously, NOT safe for work.
Yes, this was a problem until 1954 when the CGS system was abandoned. I'm surprised no one told you to stop converting between the two, but this post will save you from another century of problems.
Hope this helps.
Actually, legislators are politicians. In the US system, a law passed by legislators isn't really much more than an agreement by a majority of elected politicians until it has been tested in court.
To use a software development analogy, what comes out of development and testing may look nothing like the original specs, if these were made by business people rather than software experts.
Apparently, because of all the music downloading, no other song sold a single copy. It finally happened. Pirates killed the music industry.
I don't have an HD TV, nor do I really have intent to get one in the next year. Same goes for the HD players.
I have a monitor, Windows XP and PirateBay bookmarked. There is no service on the market that can get me content of better quality or more conveniently or with better standards compliance.
As long as studios treat me like a video copying pirate, why should I give them more money?
I would like to give them money, but they have already chosen how to treat me.
Here, actually seems more interesting than TFA (This is Slashdot; I didn't read TFA). To quote:
I work within the political system of the European Union to ensure that the development and use of free software is not hampered by new legislation. The best known example of a legislative project I worked on is the "Software Patents Directive".
Here.
I've tried to find something about whether this tells us something new about the properties of dark matter, but so far no luck. Anyone have a link to something more informative?
Well, at least it's compatible with application x if it says in the standard an application has to render something like application x without specifying how...
I don't think the job description is a very apt comparison. Perhaps if it said "Must drink beer like my old college roommate, Guillaume Portes" without saying how he drank beer. To be a bit more exact, all your examples are of the same Fallacy of Definition in that they use an example as the sole defining trait. One of the examples on Wikipedia is "Chutzpah is killing your parents and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you are an orphan.". Should ISO accept that as the definition of Chutzpah?