I think it's even more simple than that... everyone's greedy and copyright law is completely broken.
the IP industry wants it both ways and only when it supports larger corporations rather than individuals...
contrast this with the recent wikipedia issue of the UKs national portrait gallery claiming copyright on photos taken of portraits that are in the public domain
okay, so i didn't read it yet, but i'll jump the gun and assume that they haven't considered making ethanol from hemp (cannabis). fuel per unit area of farm land goes way up from both corn and sugar cane and could really help put alternative fuels on the map.
but we can't do that cause of the children (or something)
Some kegs use nitrogen which creates much smaller bubbles and a thicker richer (tastier) head. Other kegs use a mix of N2 and CO2 (with lots more N2 than CO2 in many cases).
I'm actually not a fan of beers that just use CO2 in their kegs as they can taste very sharp and are harder to drink IMO.
Seriously. Emulators for PS2 will be great by the time PS4 comes out.
Top that off with the fact thta copy protection circumvention is permissible under US law for video games as long as the device on which it is intended to be read/playedback is no longer available or supported.
people get this confused a lot -- HDCP is currently required in all HD-DVD and Blu-ray content sold by major studios.
content played over a digital connection currently requires HDCP hardware on both the player and display side or it will not play -- this is as true today on XP as it is on Vista.
Currently, HDCP protected video (all HD and BD movies at this point) are capable of playback over an analog connection -- i.e. component video. This is the work around -- those with out HDCP computers or TVs can play HD and BD movies if they do not use their HDMI or DVI connections.
the article you linked at Ars is referring to the ICT which is seperate and in addition to the digital HDCP requirements. ICT (which may or may not ever be enabled) would simply exist to down scale content or eliminate playback of content played over an analog connection. This forces everyone to use HDCP hardware in the future if it is enabled.
the situation is much more grave than even most informed people seem to understand (as evidenced by these comments).
The clause will not work to prevent military use due to the inclusion of the statement: "...nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
There are inherent conflicts in this idea. What happens when the harming of one person is required to prevent harm to another? The answer is (among other things) a license violation no matter what action/inaction is taken.
Unfortunately, Asimov's "laws" don't actually work in a practical sense. I guess not enough people actually study this stuff in college.
If the military installs the software and attempts to use it (becomes a lincensee), it violates the license if it doesn't use the software to prevent harm to all people. This allows (and requires) the use of the software for defensive purposes. But where does defense end? It seems our government already has trouble drawing these kinds of lines to the satisfaction of the population.
The license then contradicts itself enough to the point where it would be easy to make a case that this clause causes every licensee to violate the license. I'm not sure what happens legally in this case, but I am positive that this version of the GPL would not hold up in court when attempting to restrict the usage of software for military purposes.
Restricting military use is an interesting idea that certainly has its applications. This implementation falls utterly on its face.
omg, that's the most awesome thing in the world. but what you really have to ask is, does it mean each song copied per person? like if you and i both record the same song does that count as 2 infractions?
cause if it does, that brings the potential total to a whopping:
$156,000,000,000,000,000.00
I'm pretty sure this is beyond the total value of everything either on or in the earth. 156 quadrillion USD... now that's a shitload of money.
Everyone burn your cassette recorders and cd writers!!! No radio in teh country should be allowed to do this illegal timeshifting nonsense!!! Recordings of our recordings are piracy, theft, and treason!!!/end sarcasm
The reaction of the RIAA and MPAA to technology should be in the mode of adaptation. The business model of these industries was founded on the difficulty of end users to effectively make use of their fair rights provided for by copyright law. No one treats books like the RIAA and MPAA treat music and movies, yet the publishing industry still does well. We are even seeing online publishing become more and more profitable (as the industry is adapting to the times).
The RIAA and MPAA only exisit because it used to be difficult to create the media used to distribute copyrighted works of music or film. They dumped money into media creation and distribution and rightfully got a good chunk of the pie when consumers purchased their products. But creation and distribution of any type of copyrighted work is no longer a factor. The RIAA and MPAA serve no real purpose anymore.
They are afraid and are kicking and screaming their way to bank. Why? because they have so much money for lobbyists and lawyers.
Bastards.
I've got to stop or there will be pages and pages of text about how screwed up the recording industry is./me out
Killing Origin Systems was the beginning of the end of my respect for them.
Now they've evloved into more of a video game sweat shop than anything else. The games they publish that are still good are designed and written by third partys.
Reading this article really hightens my sense of loss for one of the great companies of my generation.
I end up babbling like an idiot to my wife every morning when I wake up. She thinks I'm just lazy in the mornings, but now I've got an excuse to hide behind:-)
I'm sorry, but didn't anyone else ever end up buying an album for just that one "must have" song?
I know it would have been a rare thing for me to buy an album if I had always had such easy access to purchasing the one or two songs I wanted by an artist.
But then again, when have these counts ever been fair or accurate? They will always be biased towards the recording industry (aka against the consumer). Aside from the fact that the industry doesn't want to adapt the the changing landscape of its business, there much of a problem. If the RIAA wanted to play fair and sell people what they wanted the way they wanted it, we wouldn't be in this mess at all. But now we've got companies wasting money on copy protection and DRM and crap that doesn't stop the real pirates out there.
The step up from Civ 2 to Civ 3 was quite large graphically, but graphics are still not the selling point behind the series. I'm sure Civ 4 will be another step up in graphical detail, but how much power is available to modders who want to exploit the more beautiful side of world domination? Does the SDK provide tools that allow quick and easy integration of art, vertex and fragment shader assets into the game?
I suppose I really want to know just how powerful and extensible the graphics engine and tools are.
Holy shit fuckers!! Is this my second first post evar 2ice in the same day?! That'd be cool! cause my gf broke up with me last week and I need to get laid... this is a good second;)
Is this really all PCs, or is there a way around this in Linux (cause there prolly is)... Anyway, Don't know if anyone cares, or has mentioned it yet... Thought I'd throw it out there...
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I think it's even more simple than that ... everyone's greedy and copyright law is completely broken.
the IP industry wants it both ways and only when it supports larger corporations rather than individuals ...
contrast this with the recent wikipedia issue of the UKs national portrait gallery claiming copyright on photos taken of portraits that are in the public domain
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1239244/UKs-National-Portrait-Gallery-Threatens-To-Sue-Wikipedia-User
the real issue is that copyright law protects the entity with the largest legal budget.
okay, so i didn't read it yet, but i'll jump the gun and assume that they haven't considered making ethanol from hemp (cannabis). fuel per unit area of farm land goes way up from both corn and sugar cane and could really help put alternative fuels on the map.
but we can't do that cause of the children (or something)
Some kegs use nitrogen which creates much smaller bubbles and a thicker richer (tastier) head. Other kegs use a mix of N2 and CO2 (with lots more N2 than CO2 in many cases).
I'm actually not a fan of beers that just use CO2 in their kegs as they can taste very sharp and are harder to drink IMO.
Shadowrun is not DX10. It's just restricted to only run on Vista.
this is a faulty assumption ... I'll leave the "virtually" out to simplify the statements, but here you go ...
...
... material clearer than glass but not quite as clear as air.
to say something "reflects no light" does not mean it "absorbs all light"
you are leaving out transmission of light. If a material does not reflect light, it either absorbs or transmits all the rest of the light.
which is actually what this article is talking about
this was quite an errant post as it is both a dupe and factually flawed.
Emulators ---
Seriously. Emulators for PS2 will be great by the time PS4 comes out.
Top that off with the fact thta copy protection circumvention is permissible under US law for video games as long as the device on which it is intended to be read/playedback is no longer available or supported.
i've tested a couple TVs and they work with both hddvd and bluray players as well as computers using the latest nvidia and ati video cards.
... which is either a good or a bad thing depending on your perspective.
hdcp protection "works"
people get this confused a lot -- HDCP is currently required in all HD-DVD and Blu-ray content sold by major studios.
content played over a digital connection currently requires HDCP hardware on both the player and display side or it will not play -- this is as true today on XP as it is on Vista.
Currently, HDCP protected video (all HD and BD movies at this point) are capable of playback over an analog connection -- i.e. component video. This is the work around -- those with out HDCP computers or TVs can play HD and BD movies if they do not use their HDMI or DVI connections.
the article you linked at Ars is referring to the ICT which is seperate and in addition to the digital HDCP requirements. ICT (which may or may not ever be enabled) would simply exist to down scale content or eliminate playback of content played over an analog connection. This forces everyone to use HDCP hardware in the future if it is enabled.
the situation is much more grave than even most informed people seem to understand (as evidenced by these comments).
The clause will not work to prevent military use due to the inclusion of the statement: "...nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
There are inherent conflicts in this idea. What happens when the harming of one person is required to prevent harm to another? The answer is (among other things) a license violation no matter what action/inaction is taken.
Unfortunately, Asimov's "laws" don't actually work in a practical sense. I guess not enough people actually study this stuff in college.
If the military installs the software and attempts to use it (becomes a lincensee), it violates the license if it doesn't use the software to prevent harm to all people. This allows (and requires) the use of the software for defensive purposes. But where does defense end? It seems our government already has trouble drawing these kinds of lines to the satisfaction of the population.
The license then contradicts itself enough to the point where it would be easy to make a case that this clause causes every licensee to violate the license. I'm not sure what happens legally in this case, but I am positive that this version of the GPL would not hold up in court when attempting to restrict the usage of software for military purposes.
Restricting military use is an interesting idea that certainly has its applications. This implementation falls utterly on its face.
Which is, of course, completely and utterly anti-competitive in this case.
my number's lower than your number! loser!
j/k.
trolling is almost more slashdot than slashdot is slashdot. thats just how its been for the past 6 or so years.
i never thought i could sit back and say that i truly have respect for courtney love.
... wrong. its like the dark side just saved the life of bambi or something.
it feels
omg, that's the most awesome thing in the world. but what you really have to ask is, does it mean each song copied per person? like if you and i both record the same song does that count as 2 infractions?
... now that's a shitload of money.
cause if it does, that brings the potential total to a whopping:
$156,000,000,000,000,000.00
I'm pretty sure this is beyond the total value of everything either on or in the earth. 156 quadrillion USD
Everyone burn your cassette recorders and cd writers!!! No radio in teh country should be allowed to do this illegal timeshifting nonsense!!! Recordings of our recordings are piracy, theft, and treason!!! /end sarcasm
/me out
The reaction of the RIAA and MPAA to technology should be in the mode of adaptation. The business model of these industries was founded on the difficulty of end users to effectively make use of their fair rights provided for by copyright law. No one treats books like the RIAA and MPAA treat music and movies, yet the publishing industry still does well. We are even seeing online publishing become more and more profitable (as the industry is adapting to the times).
The RIAA and MPAA only exisit because it used to be difficult to create the media used to distribute copyrighted works of music or film. They dumped money into media creation and distribution and rightfully got a good chunk of the pie when consumers purchased their products. But creation and distribution of any type of copyrighted work is no longer a factor. The RIAA and MPAA serve no real purpose anymore.
They are afraid and are kicking and screaming their way to bank. Why? because they have so much money for lobbyists and lawyers.
Bastards.
I've got to stop or there will be pages and pages of text about how screwed up the recording industry is.
Killing Origin Systems was the beginning of the end of my respect for them.
Now they've evloved into more of a video game sweat shop than anything else. The games they publish that are still good are designed and written by third partys.
Reading this article really hightens my sense of loss for one of the great companies of my generation.
I end up babbling like an idiot to my wife every morning when I wake up. She thinks I'm just lazy in the mornings, but now I've got an excuse to hide behind :-)
I'm sorry, but didn't anyone else ever end up buying an album for just that one "must have" song?
I know it would have been a rare thing for me to buy an album if I had always had such easy access to purchasing the one or two songs I wanted by an artist.
But then again, when have these counts ever been fair or accurate? They will always be biased towards the recording industry (aka against the consumer). Aside from the fact that the industry doesn't want to adapt the the changing landscape of its business, there much of a problem. If the RIAA wanted to play fair and sell people what they wanted the way they wanted it, we wouldn't be in this mess at all. But now we've got companies wasting money on copy protection and DRM and crap that doesn't stop the real pirates out there.
I exhausted from all this crap.
The step up from Civ 2 to Civ 3 was quite large graphically, but graphics are still not the selling point behind the series. I'm sure Civ 4 will be another step up in graphical detail, but how much power is available to modders who want to exploit the more beautiful side of world domination? Does the SDK provide tools that allow quick and easy integration of art, vertex and fragment shader assets into the game?
I suppose I really want to know just how powerful and extensible the graphics engine and tools are.
... the 2600 case will probably never be won... but how many of the general populace even know what decss is?
its all about the information... the people need to know, or we'll always lose...
Come on, where are the real men who design their own TTL to run an LCD screen? We need AMD to do this?
;)
Seriously though, that is pretty cool... always good to see AMD expanding
jdW
Holy shit fuckers!! Is this my second first post evar 2ice in the same day?! That'd be cool! cause my gf broke up with me last week and I need to get laid... this is a good second ;)
jdW
ok, sorry, and I know I'll get modded down, but I've been on /. for *years* and this is my FIRST FIRST POST !!! YAYAYAYAY... anyway, I'm out...
jdW
please?
HAAHAA!! That's great
;-)
... I vote that we keep the origional (and only) DMC car rather than going exotic... if you can find one that isn't rusted solid
farrari is a good second choice though...
jdW
Is this really all PCs, or is there a way around this in Linux (cause there prolly is)... Anyway, Don't know if anyone cares, or has mentioned it yet... Thought I'd throw it out there...
jdW