You make it sound like nobody would pay if it was available for free. You might be right for some people, but I would. I'm sure there are enough people out there who would do the same.
There doesn't have to be a legal means or anything to prevent people from copying, just a moral one.
I'd risk a buck on the next Bourne movie, and I bet enough people would join me that it wouldn't be all that hard to put it together
Thats how movies should be financed.
Let the film companies raise the money for them by getting it from customers... giving money gives you the right to own that movie on whatever formats you choose. If the film does well, it shouldn't be hard to raise more for a sequel but if they make it a pile of crap they wont earn as much next time. It encourages studios to make good movies, not just churn out whatever remake/special effects shite they think will earn them the most.
Fund Bourne Film 4.. 10 million shares @ $10 each... all the profit gets split between the shareholders (with a percentage being held to help raise money for Bourne 5?)
If they're just checking hashes you could change the R,G, or B of a random pixel by 1 and change the has.. or even just add random text to the EXIF data.
IMHO, microsoft's behavior in the last few years is to be commended
Yeah, they behaved so well during the whole OOXML/ODF stuff.
they are worlds away from where they were 10 years ago.
One half-assed attempt at a good deed (that isnt actually good in any real way as they're only providing OpenID not accepting it from others) doesn't erase decades of screwing people over.
But the most interesting thing is this: Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2. This game used to have Starforce on it. Wouldn't it be great if it sold more now than before the DRM was removed? Seriously, check the game out, the level of destruction and interaction is almost crazy.
I bought this game recently. Its now also available to download off the codemasters website (1400Mb).
We have Offoce 2000 at work. Does Office 2007 do anything Office 2003 doesn't? Or even anything Office 2000 doesn't? What makes it worth the extra Five hundred dollars per license????
Nothing.... yet
In a few years Microsoft will be offering the new way to pay for windows... instead of a huge up-front cost, you simply pay a small fee per month. You'll get premium beta software, first rate non-existant support and top class bug fixes once a month. But without paying upto $800 for your MS tax. The new licenses will require payment of the Microsoft Rent to retain full functionality. If you stop paying, you'll find office no longer saves files, Windows no longer plays video files or games and internet access is limited to microsoft.com & it's partners. You'll automatically download the latest versions which will add more bloat and get slower and slower requiring more and more hardware upgrades (which helps the whole hardware industry). The best bit is that even if you don't upgrade, you'll still have to pay your MS Rent so they still win. Get their latest crap or not, it makes no difference if they're still getting their money.
BT is too busy selling everyone's personal info and browsing habits to notice that in a few years their customers wont be able to do anything on t'internet because of a lack of IPv6.
It'll give them a good excuse to jack up prices because their 21CN (21st Century Network) is about as efficient as 1st century roman plumbing and is unable to handle current traffic let alone allow for any growth.
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Fanboism apart, they haven't crossed the proton streams yet. The event that can generate the strangelets and the black hole.
Yeah but they'll have to cross the streams if StayPuft attacks.
Drug traffickers are generally fully aware of what they're carrying and its legality. The illegal stuff being transported is also usually the only/primary material. The idea of a common carrier is that they are transporting so much stuff that it would be reasonably impossible to inspect every package.
Yes BluRay is cheaper than flash drives but flash is far more useful.
With a flash drive you could plug it into your PC/media box and save a list of films you'd like to see. The device stores your movie preferences, membership info, rental history and whatever else is needed. You go to Blockbuster and pop it into their machine. It tells you what films are available and lets you choose which you want without the problem of all the copies being out. It fills the rest of the device with trailers you might like and possibly other free content.
You go home, insert the flash drive into your player and enjoy.
The games industry is becoming more and more like Hollywood. They think pretty pictures, famous names & loud noise will make up for a lack of story. Games were more playable on the 8-bit computers & consoles than on today's supercomputers/superconsoles. Yeah the graphics were shitty at times but you still got more immersed in the game than you do these days. Its hard to get too involved in an 'interactive movie' with a few decisions/actions.
Because they're hoping one or two might actually end up buying Vista.
The Vista Drake Equation
N = R x fp x ne x fi x fe x L
where
N is the number of Vista sales
R is the number of reported WGA unlicensed XP install hits.
fp if the fraction of those that care about a black screen & bit of text
ne is the number of users with PCs that can actually run Vista
fi is the fraction of XP users who dont have the brains to use Ubuntu
fe is the fraction of XP users who dont use a tool to kill the WGA app
L is the fraction of XP users too lazy to get Windows Update to skip the WGA app
S - Number of sales X - Number of illegal XP copies
because users are used to the lock icon and may not understand the concept that confidentiality and authentication are 2 separate protperties, so how do we design a GUI which does not mislead him.
How about 2 icons?
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"The year of linux on the desktop".. "The next search engine to beat google".. "Windows is dead".. "Usenet is dead"..
It seems like more and more people are making more and more outrageous predictions & claims.
I guess with all the noise out there people need a way for their blog to stand out.
If they're wrong its a case of "oh well, maybe next year" but if they're right they'll claim they're prophetic or something and use it to get more advertizing/readers/whatever... and yet nothing changes, the internet goes on.
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Yeah and it'll be like every PC FPS with a flash light (HL2/F.E.A.R etc) where it lasts 30 seconds at a time.
After researchers tested the stash it seemed seemed like 2700 years had passed. In reality it was only 42 minutes.
Thats true unless your opponent has similar kinds of finances... which most victims of RIAA lawsuits dont have.
Stewardess Porn is still the longest wank material you can google with your left hand
Nah, its off filming the sequel to Snakes on a Plane... Spiders on the Shuttle
You make it sound like nobody would pay if it was available for free. You might be right for some people, but I would.
I'm sure there are enough people out there who would do the same.
There doesn't have to be a legal means or anything to prevent people from copying, just a moral one.
I'd risk a buck on the next Bourne movie, and I bet enough people would join me that it wouldn't be all that hard to put it together
Thats how movies should be financed.
Let the film companies raise the money for them by getting it from customers... giving money gives you the right to own that movie on whatever formats you choose.
If the film does well, it shouldn't be hard to raise more for a sequel but if they make it a pile of crap they wont earn as much next time.
It encourages studios to make good movies, not just churn out whatever remake/special effects shite they think will earn them the most.
Fund Bourne Film 4.. 10 million shares @ $10 each... all the profit gets split between the shareholders (with a percentage being held to help raise money for Bourne 5?)
"warning labels telling you not to dry your pet in it"
Damn, I just tried to dry someone else's pet in it.. If only they'd warned me.. i'm gonna sue.
There was a slashdot story a few weeks back about a company claiming to be able to detect images inside encrypted drives.. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/17/2043248/
If they're just checking hashes you could change the R,G, or B of a random pixel by 1 and change the has.. or even just add random text to the EXIF data.
As others have pointed out, it was passcodes on the USB stick not 12 million people's records.
However, you can now get 64Gb USB sticks, which should be enough to hold that many records.
(It also comes with TrueCrypt)
IMHO, microsoft's behavior in the last few years is to be commended
Yeah, they behaved so well during the whole OOXML/ODF stuff.
they are worlds away from where they were 10 years ago.
One half-assed attempt at a good deed (that isnt actually good in any real way as they're only providing OpenID not accepting it from others) doesn't erase decades of screwing people over.
But the most interesting thing is this: Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2. This game used to have Starforce on it. Wouldn't it be great if it sold more now than before the DRM was removed? Seriously, check the game out, the level of destruction and interaction is almost crazy.
I bought this game recently. Its now also available to download off the codemasters website (1400Mb).
We have Offoce 2000 at work. Does Office 2007 do anything Office 2003 doesn't? Or even anything Office 2000 doesn't? What makes it worth the extra Five hundred dollars per license????
Nothing.... yet
In a few years Microsoft will be offering the new way to pay for windows... instead of a huge up-front cost, you simply pay a small fee per month. You'll get premium beta software, first rate non-existant support and top class bug fixes once a month. But without paying upto $800 for your MS tax. The new licenses will require payment of the Microsoft Rent to retain full functionality. If you stop paying, you'll find office no longer saves files, Windows no longer plays video files or games and internet access is limited to microsoft.com & it's partners.
You'll automatically download the latest versions which will add more bloat and get slower and slower requiring more and more hardware upgrades (which helps the whole hardware industry).
The best bit is that even if you don't upgrade, you'll still have to pay your MS Rent so they still win. Get their latest crap or not, it makes no difference if they're still getting their money.
BT is too busy selling everyone's personal info and browsing habits to notice that in a few years their customers wont be able to do anything on t'internet because of a lack of IPv6.
It'll give them a good excuse to jack up prices because their 21CN (21st Century Network) is about as efficient as 1st century roman plumbing and is unable to handle current traffic let alone allow for any growth.
Fanboism apart, they haven't crossed the proton streams yet. The event that can generate the strangelets and the black hole.
Yeah but they'll have to cross the streams if StayPuft attacks.
Yes, the entire collective of employees at Microsoft have a combined experience of a little over 20 years.
Drug traffickers are generally fully aware of what they're carrying and its legality. The illegal stuff being transported is also usually the only/primary material. The idea of a common carrier is that they are transporting so much stuff that it would be reasonably impossible to inspect every package.
Yes BluRay is cheaper than flash drives but flash is far more useful.
With a flash drive you could plug it into your PC/media box and save a list of films you'd like to see.
The device stores your movie preferences, membership info, rental history and whatever else is needed.
You go to Blockbuster and pop it into their machine.
It tells you what films are available and lets you choose which you want without the problem of all the copies being out.
It fills the rest of the device with trailers you might like and possibly other free content.
You go home, insert the flash drive into your player and enjoy.
Yeah, couldn't they just do it as 5 pictures?
The games industry is becoming more and more like Hollywood. They think pretty pictures, famous names & loud noise will make up for a lack of story.
Games were more playable on the 8-bit computers & consoles than on today's supercomputers/superconsoles. Yeah the graphics were shitty at times but you still got more immersed in the game than you do these days. Its hard to get too involved in an 'interactive movie' with a few decisions/actions.
Its hardly 'value add' when they're asking £23 more for the version with the movie on it.
Because they're hoping one or two might actually end up buying Vista.
The Vista Drake Equation
N = R x fp x ne x fi x fe x L
where
N is the number of Vista sales
R is the number of reported WGA unlicensed XP install hits.
fp if the fraction of those that care about a black screen & bit of text
ne is the number of users with PCs that can actually run Vista
fi is the fraction of XP users who dont have the brains to use Ubuntu
fe is the fraction of XP users who dont use a tool to kill the WGA app
L is the fraction of XP users too lazy to get Windows Update to skip the WGA app
S - Number of sales
X - Number of illegal XP copies
because users are used to the lock icon and may not understand the concept that confidentiality and authentication are 2 separate protperties, so how do we design a GUI which does not mislead him.
How about 2 icons?
"The year of linux on the desktop"..
"The next search engine to beat google"..
"Windows is dead"..
"Usenet is dead"..
It seems like more and more people are making more and more outrageous predictions & claims.
I guess with all the noise out there people need a way for their blog to stand out.
If they're wrong its a case of "oh well, maybe next year" but if they're right they'll claim they're prophetic or something and use it to get more advertizing/readers/whatever... and yet nothing changes, the internet goes on.
Hold on.. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1316257 OMG!! the internet is gonna end.
Be is/was owned by O2. Not heard anything about ownership changing hands.