The reason is a politically sound one. These copyright laws provide massive, "old man friendly" SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) suit hooks.
It was done with napster, closing that forum, it's done with websites far and wide right now with the dmca (false notices), it's being done with youtube despite the fact that 90% of what I see on or from youtube has nothing to do with copyrighted material.
The centralized media is systematically stamping out any avenues for public participation they themselves do not own, and politicians, tired of being caught in their lies and torn a new one, are helping them.
Welcome to the new era. It is doubtful, given that politicians have been sold on the biggest dot-bomb lie of "selling bits" like physical goods, that updates to anti-slapp laws will come in time to save the internet. It will be reduced to TV 2.0, and geeks will be designing something else, and saying "i'll be damned if i'm going to mention this anywhere near a government or corporate entity"
did you even read the summary? No one has been able to duplicate his work. ever. while it is interesting and someone should study the work for other possible effects overall it has been a massive failure.
and?
I don't see how "i couldn't replicate it" turns into "scientific misconduct".
I agree with GP on this, something smells fishy here.
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All distros must REQUIRE a graphic sudo dialogue system (a-la osx) in order to distribute a file manager.
File managers are there to manage files, and not just on your own user space. There is nothing more annoying than having to drop to shell level and type furiously to do something which on mac can be done with a few drags and drops.
Most people don't even know how to do that, and all they see is "operation not permitted". Think about that for a minute... Because there is no option to authenticate (out of the box), joe user is put through the same scenario with his files that you get put through when some company surprises you with a DRM scheme.
Without releasing any information what soever, the g8 has fat tracked this abomination.
Oh surprise surprise, I give up. I simply refuse to respect US law anymore. I'll speed whenever the hell I want, steal whatever the hell I want, and if asked, i'll tell them where the fuck to stick it.
Part of the reason usenet is still around today is because ISP's were major contributors to the hosting at the time the content industry challenged their existence. This set a court precedent of usenet as a neutral intermediary protected by the DMCA safe harbor provision.
Unfortunately, the RIAA is trying to kill off the independent providers under the MGM V Grokster decision, which, contrary to what these self important USSC justices might think, did fully and completely overturn betamax and threaten the one good portion of the DMCA (see: Viacom V Youtube)
It is your right as a free person to risk your own life yes, but you have no right whatsoever to risk the lives of anyone else without their express permission to do so.
Because in doing so you take away their rights and freedom to decide for themselves and thus you are no better than any other tyrant.
Bullshit.
People have a choice of not using cars, there are bikes, or planes, or horses, or feet. They know the risks they take when they go on the road.
Let's replace traffic related deaths with something else to illustrate the absurdity shall we?
hundreds of thousands die from pollution related causes every year. Let's bring the whole damn economy to a grinding halt because we want our precious "security".
"People who trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security"
Agreed. While some people fret about modern society approaching the dystopia of 1984, I think it's scary that technology has moved to the point where government could easily do even more to hold citizens down. Orwell didn't foresee electronic tracking devices that could follow you wherever you go. In the book, the protagonist got a break from the telescreen for a few hours by walking down to a remote place. Now, even this means of privacy isn't guaranteed.
42,642 people died in 2006 in the USA from vehicle crashes. If requiring a GPS in every vehicle would help reduce this number, and also protect citizens from the occasional police harassment, why not? And for those not fond of the government knowing so much about them, do like I do - ride a bicycle to work! Of course, maybe GPSing bicycles is the future too...
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Jefferson
This is the price of freedom, and it does not necessarily mean wars or protests.
One part of being free means people the means and opportunity to place themselves and others in mortal danger, and at times may accidentally do so.
P.S., I also think child safety/toy safety laws need to be toned down considerably too. Maybe then our kids wouldn't live under this delusion of immortality.
But it's true, most people don't understand even generally how the internet works.
There is a generalized stigma surrounding the exploration and understanding of technology, and the people intelligent enough to push past it and actually learn and understand what they are talking about are shunned and even demonized in mainstream culture.
The most intelligent among us are not listened to because we present a threat to pretty much everyone's personal agendas. Knowledge has a nasty tendency to destroy the generalizations used as the foundation for bigotry and intolerance, like this massive campaign against the internet for instance.
Gutman's entire setup consists of him making a hypothesis about how he thinks the DRM _might_ be implemented in Vista based on some very early documents about the systems. He then goes on to assume that his blue-sky hypothesis are correct, and makes further (second order) predictions on how the system might be affected by his hypothetical implementations.
None of this is based on any sort of scientific method, like, you know, TESTING your hypothesis. It's all just speculation built on speculation.
There is nothing pie in the sky about what he is saying, he doesn't hypothesize about how. He goes through the requirements microsoft puts out, quoting their own god damn certification literature, and explains exactly what they mean to system stability.
Anyone running Vista on a machine can see in about 30 seconds how full of crap Gutman is, based on the machine's behavior.
Yeah, i'm sure the many many people who had crashing video drivers because of the orwellian maze microsoft is forcing video hardware manufacturers to navigate were so very happy.
I'm sure all those people who can't use SPDIF or half the other advanced functions on their sound cards because the companies involved either didn't want to go through the expense microsoft's new requirements imposed, or were simply UNABLE to comply with them are happy... oh wait, they have to get hacks, and there have been stories on slashdot about it.
Way to one-sidedly misrepresent wholesale privacy violation as innocent altruism.
Apparently the telecom domestic spying scandal has not reached your part of the world?
In these times, companies have as much or more assets and power available to them than many of the world's nations, and allowing the wholesale gathering of information on individuals by private firms under the red herring of "private property" will lead to the exact same kind of oppression as allowing the government to do it under the red herring of "national security".
There are other ways to better serve me without having to identify me personally. Inventory tracking has been done successfully at the branch level for a century in its current form, and if they don't carry something, speaking to a manager will often get results.
There is a difference between profiting from advertising, and profiteering from spying on me and selling that data to telemarketers, government agencies, and other shady organizations.
to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM.
What a fat, steaming load.
Vista is "wrapped" in drm. It is invasive and puts performance and stability hits even on tasks completely unrelated to "protected content". Further, even though they are blowing smoke, many vendors will claim you can't downgrade to xp because vista is "embedded in the hardware" should you call them up for help (this happened to several friends of mine dumb enough to wander into this tar pit of a platform).
Apple is based on an OSS kernel, has amazing responsiveness in all native apps, and many linux apps can be directly installed.
This is the reason I use apple. It has all the advantages linux offers to users with none of the disadvantages. The best of oss, and the best of proprietary, with the option of ignoring as much of the proprietary realm as you want, even to the degree of dual booting or exclusively running ubuntu should you so desire.
I can't find it because of all the marketing fud on google ("buy apple x, get apple bent"), but a while ago there was a story detailing how 60% of laptops sold at U penn were apple.
I say they've already been back in the "main stream" for a while.
You do realize that the HD in HD Radio doesn't stand for high definition, right? (I think it means hybrid digital, but according to wikipedia, it doesn't mean anything.)
ah, so it's like the "HD Vision" sunglasses then : )
Indeed it sounds quite convoluted, but doctorow makes the exact same point in his famous talk exposing 'selling bits' as a dot-bomb fallacy.
Right now both sides of this issue have their own means of attacking at will, but none by which to defend. This means wide-spread p2p use, and wide-spread "extortion via litigation" campaigns against batches of 500 does at a time.
what if this kind of code makes it into every piece of space equipment, and then by some fluke we are faced with the possibility of breaking a robotic wrist to deflect a space rock off an earth intercept course.
They should at least have a little clippy pop up and say "it looks like you want to break my robotic arm, are you sure you want to do that?" "are you absolutely sure?"
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The reason is a politically sound one. These copyright laws provide massive, "old man friendly" SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) suit hooks.
It was done with napster, closing that forum, it's done with websites far and wide right now with the dmca (false notices), it's being done with youtube despite the fact that 90% of what I see on or from youtube has nothing to do with copyrighted material.
The centralized media is systematically stamping out any avenues for public participation they themselves do not own, and politicians, tired of being caught in their lies and torn a new one, are helping them.
Welcome to the new era. It is doubtful, given that politicians have been sold on the biggest dot-bomb lie of "selling bits" like physical goods, that updates to anti-slapp laws will come in time to save the internet. It will be reduced to TV 2.0, and geeks will be designing something else, and saying "i'll be damned if i'm going to mention this anywhere near a government or corporate entity"
So let me reverse the question with the above: Why is it that you feel people are entitled to luxury?
and let's take that exact same question, and apply it to the decadent lifestyles of the record execs and mega-stars shall we?
Let's add a new question:
"Why is it that you feel corporations are "entitled" to profit?"
only 10%?
I replaced all the bulbs in my house with CFL, and I like my lights bright.
75 watt bulbs were replaced with 25 watt.. .
that's a cut in electricity use of 66% with CFL's.
did you even read the summary? No one has been able to duplicate his work. ever. while it is interesting and someone should study the work for other possible effects overall it has been a massive failure.
and?
I don't see how "i couldn't replicate it" turns into "scientific misconduct".
I agree with GP on this, something smells fishy here.
All distros must REQUIRE a graphic sudo dialogue system (a-la osx) in order to distribute a file manager.
File managers are there to manage files, and not just on your own user space. There is nothing more annoying than having to drop to shell level and type furiously to do something which on mac can be done with a few drags and drops.
Most people don't even know how to do that, and all they see is "operation not permitted".
Think about that for a minute... Because there is no option to authenticate (out of the box), joe user is put through the same scenario with his files that you get put through when some company surprises you with a DRM scheme.
Without releasing any information what soever, the g8 has fat tracked this abomination.
Oh surprise surprise, I give up. I simply refuse to respect US law anymore. I'll speed whenever the hell I want, steal whatever the hell I want, and if asked, i'll tell them where the fuck to stick it.
But can I watch the pile of h.264 matroska files I have on my xbox 360?
Mmm hm, that's what I thought.
The xbox 360's "media capabilities" would be laughable if they weren't an utter insult to anyone who has used xbmc on the original xbox.
Part of the reason usenet is still around today is because ISP's were major contributors to the hosting at the time the content industry challenged their existence. This set a court precedent of usenet as a neutral intermediary protected by the DMCA safe harbor provision.
Unfortunately, the RIAA is trying to kill off the independent providers under the MGM V Grokster decision, which, contrary to what these self important USSC justices might think, did fully and completely overturn betamax and threaten the one good portion of the DMCA (see: Viacom V Youtube)
It is your right as a free person to risk your own life yes, but you have no right whatsoever to risk the lives of anyone else without their express permission to do so.
Because in doing so you take away their rights and freedom to decide for themselves and thus you are no better than any other tyrant.
Bullshit.
People have a choice of not using cars, there are bikes, or planes, or horses, or feet. They know the risks they take when they go on the road.
Let's replace traffic related deaths with something else to illustrate the absurdity shall we?
hundreds of thousands die from pollution related causes every year. Let's bring the whole damn economy to a grinding halt because we want our precious "security".
"People who trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security"
Agreed. While some people fret about modern society approaching the dystopia of 1984 , I think it's scary that technology has moved to the point where government could easily do even more to hold citizens down. Orwell didn't foresee electronic tracking devices that could follow you wherever you go. In the book, the protagonist got a break from the telescreen for a few hours by walking down to a remote place. Now, even this means of privacy isn't guaranteed.
42,642 people died in 2006 in the USA from vehicle crashes. If requiring a GPS in every vehicle would help reduce this number, and also protect citizens from the occasional police harassment, why not? And for those not fond of the government knowing so much about them, do like I do - ride a bicycle to work! Of course, maybe GPSing bicycles is the future too...
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Jefferson
This is the price of freedom, and it does not necessarily mean wars or protests.
One part of being free means people the means and opportunity to place themselves and others in mortal danger, and at times may accidentally do so.
P.S., I also think child safety/toy safety laws need to be toned down considerably too. Maybe then our kids wouldn't live under this delusion of immortality.
But it's true, most people don't understand even generally how the internet works.
There is a generalized stigma surrounding the exploration and understanding of technology, and the people intelligent enough to push past it and actually learn and understand what they are talking about are shunned and even demonized in mainstream culture.
The most intelligent among us are not listened to because we present a threat to pretty much everyone's personal agendas. Knowledge has a nasty tendency to destroy the generalizations used as the foundation for bigotry and intolerance, like this massive campaign against the internet for instance.
It's time for the net neutrality people to sue them.
I've sent in complaints to the EFF and ACLU, I suggest you do the same.
Gutman's entire setup consists of him making a hypothesis about how he thinks the DRM _might_ be implemented in Vista based on some very early documents about the systems. He then goes on to assume that his blue-sky hypothesis are correct, and makes further (second order) predictions on how the system might be affected by his hypothetical implementations.
None of this is based on any sort of scientific method, like, you know, TESTING your hypothesis. It's all just speculation built on speculation.
There is nothing pie in the sky about what he is saying, he doesn't hypothesize about how. He goes through the requirements microsoft puts out, quoting their own god damn certification literature, and explains exactly what they mean to system stability.
Anyone running Vista on a machine can see in about 30 seconds how full of crap Gutman is, based on the machine's behavior.
Yeah, i'm sure the many many people who had crashing video drivers because of the orwellian maze microsoft is forcing video hardware manufacturers to navigate were so very happy.
I'm sure all those people who can't use SPDIF or half the other advanced functions on their sound cards because the companies involved either didn't want to go through the expense microsoft's new requirements imposed, or were simply UNABLE to comply with them are happy... oh wait, they have to get hacks, and there have been stories on slashdot about it.
When I read his article he had god damn screen shots linked in.
blogs.zdnet is full of crap. they don't talk about peter gutman, whose article most of the others offering alaysis use as a source.
he actually has worked with vista, examined the certification literature, and attended meetings in which microsoft execs pushed the rationale.
Way to one-sidedly misrepresent wholesale privacy violation as innocent altruism.
Apparently the telecom domestic spying scandal has not reached your part of the world?
In these times, companies have as much or more assets and power available to them than many of the world's nations, and allowing the wholesale gathering of information on individuals by private firms under the red herring of "private property" will lead to the exact same kind of oppression as allowing the government to do it under the red herring of "national security".
There are other ways to better serve me without having to identify me personally. Inventory tracking has been done successfully at the branch level for a century in its current form, and if they don't carry something, speaking to a manager will often get results.
There is a difference between profiting from advertising, and profiteering from spying on me and selling that data to telemarketers, government agencies, and other shady organizations.
oh forget it, my head is throbbing and I apparently can't read.
to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM.
What a fat, steaming load.
Vista is "wrapped" in drm. It is invasive and puts performance and stability hits even on tasks completely unrelated to "protected content". Further, even though they are blowing smoke, many vendors will claim you can't downgrade to xp because vista is "embedded in the hardware" should you call them up for help (this happened to several friends of mine dumb enough to wander into this tar pit of a platform).
Apple is based on an OSS kernel, has amazing responsiveness in all native apps, and many linux apps can be directly installed.
This is the reason I use apple. It has all the advantages linux offers to users with none of the disadvantages. The best of oss, and the best of proprietary, with the option of ignoring as much of the proprietary realm as you want, even to the degree of dual booting or exclusively running ubuntu should you so desire.
I can't find it because of all the marketing fud on google ("buy apple x, get apple bent"), but a while ago there was a story detailing how 60% of laptops sold at U penn were apple.
I say they've already been back in the "main stream" for a while.
Ok, and peter gutman, whose writeup he linked to, actually did touch vista.
He has thoroughly documented it, including screenshots of the DRM wrapper using 20% of the cpu to play unprotected media.
"Tilt bits" are activated by pretty much anything, and those relentlessly buggy vista drivers were that way because of the orwellian drm requirements.
Read the peter gutman writeup he links to in his article.
I know you've probably been beaten over the head with this, but I ask that you fully and thoughtfully read this article.
Thank you.
You do realize that the HD in HD Radio doesn't stand for high definition, right? (I think it means hybrid digital, but according to wikipedia, it doesn't mean anything.)
ah, so it's like the "HD Vision" sunglasses then : )
Indeed it sounds quite convoluted, but doctorow makes the exact same point in his famous talk exposing 'selling bits' as a dot-bomb fallacy.
Right now both sides of this issue have their own means of attacking at will, but none by which to defend. This means wide-spread p2p use, and wide-spread "extortion via litigation" campaigns against batches of 500 does at a time.
what if this kind of code makes it into every piece of space equipment, and then by some fluke we are faced with the possibility of breaking a robotic wrist to deflect a space rock off an earth intercept course.
They should at least have a little clippy pop up and say "it looks like you want to break my robotic arm, are you sure you want to do that?" "are you absolutely sure?"
...will begin to tackle the problem of IP law stifling innovations in media?
Somehow I'm not holding my breath.
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