If buying anything from these stupid companies present the sales assistant with an liability disclaimer and ask them to sign it on behalf of the company. The disclaimer would say something like, "The customer is allowed to discuss the cost and quality of the purchased product with anybody they see fit."
If they refuse ask for the manager, if the manager refuses, leave the store.
We as customers are forced to agree to all kinds of legal stuff, why shouldn't the stores?
Nobody finds reading an online magazine convienient. People will spend $300 a year on buying a daily newspaper and throwing it away. People will not buy a $300 subscription to an online magazine, no matter how good, because it doesn't feel like a good deal.
This will all be fixed when, if, we get a decent cyberbook with a high quality A5 screen, low cost and open h/w and s/w architecture and the ability to store web magazines locally for offline reading away from a network connection.
The court case would be fun:-) Who would get to be called Bill Wyman in the transcripts...
Fortunately in the UK _anybody_ can trade under their own name, even if it's the same as some other well known name so long as they do not attempt to act in a fraudulant manner.
Unfortunately, companies with lots of money will just drag the legal process out for month after month in the hope that the small guy runs out of money first.
There is a good argument that in david v. goliath court cases that a maximum expendature be imposed by the court before the case starts, to prevent misuse by the very rich.
There comes a time when you have to cut your losses. HURD is a project that has gone seriously wrong. Mach development ENDED in 1994 (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ma ch/public/www/status.html)
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with microkernels or message passing (assuming you use zero-copy mechanisms and avoid contect switches) and they do provide excellent discipline to the design process.
When storage density reaches about 60 Gbits/sqin you can store the all the data for a single pixal for a 90min movie within the area occupied by the pixal.
Once that's possible you can create dedicated movie "books".
No legit ISP (or broadband supplier) is every going to allow the RIAA appointed crackers to use their service to smash random computers on a whim. a/ It would violate the usual terms and conditions of all ISPs and b/ any hosting ISP would rapidly be isolated from the internet when everybody else firewalled it's packets to/dev/null.
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(the code may be fine - but it's an answer to the wrong question.)
In a world where 40GB discs are the smallest available you have to wonder why we continue to use the old filesystem ideas. For ordinary home use a filesystem that remembered it's entire change history and only deleted stuff when the disk was full. A kind of RCS filesystem where you could roll back the state of a file, directory or entire filesystem should be possible.
Some apps would have to be modified to perform differently so they did not consume the entire space in trivial file changes.
For the audio/visual editors it probably would not be useful but for SOHO and home systems it would be ideal.
Someone should write "Parodies For Dummies" setting out the legal protection for parodies in various countries. Then everybody would have some knowledge to protect them from legal insanity.
To protect their "valuable" property all Whiley need ask is for there to be an obvious statement on the parody pointing to the terminally humorless that IT'S A JOKE YOU DUMMY.
(Is anyone else seeing off topic postings in this area?)
Your mission, Jim, should you chose to accept it, is to review a CD by Pearl Jam. If your or any of your IM force be killed or captured the RIAA will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck Jim.
The review CDs will self-destruct in five seconds...
Recently I tried to upgrade my laptop to RH7.2 (from 5.?) I don't use Gnome or KDE so tried to do a custom install omitting all those components (essentially all I wanted was the kernel and related utilities upgraded as I have limited disk space.)
It was impossible, no matter what I did, the installation program ALWAYS included gnome and a lot of dependencies that brought the install size to 250M larger than the hard drive.
So RH has "enhanced" it's way off my laptop as soon as I find a suitable replacement distribution.
The WWW was supposed to allow "targetted" adverts and failed to deliver. Either that or I'm a prime target for dubious loans from a bank I've never heard of on a different continent...
Targetting ads is about as much a science as basing government policy on "focus" groups.
When unisys (whatever happened to them) tried to enforce it's patent over GIF compression, PNG (a better format all together) was designed and implemented in a few months.
A GPLable 3d graphics library may be more difficult but is worth doing.
Sometimes free gifts are just too expensive to accept.
I'd be happy to pay 1 cent per page to read Salon, IF AND ONLY IF I could pay as I read by some mechanism. There's no way I'd pay up front.
The Internet needs a micropayment model - without it small services will die because people are just not prepared to take risks with credit cards and subscriptions to totally unknown and physically remote organisations.
As macrovision does nothing to prevent large scale commercial copying it's of limited use in protecting profits. It does however degrade the signal and can cause problems on older or some current designs of video and TV -- this does result in a larger than normal number of returns to the shop; returns cost everyone in the supply chain time and money. It's even possible that when you add up all the numbers macrovision costs more than it saves.
I can't help but notice that even after a film has been broadcast on TV many times, video and DVD copies continue to be available in the shops often at very low prices. These must still be profitable which tends to indicate that all new video and DVD prices are artificially high at the moment.
While you can go to the store and choose between two boxes, one that can record/replay anything and one that can't (and assuming all else being equal) the box with the copy prevention will stay on the shelf.
You can already see this with DVD players. Nobody need buy a region restricted player any more. Almost all DVD players can either be configured by the supplier or the owner to play any region disk and the makers are unlikely to end this any time soon (nobody wants to end up with warehouses full of DVD players with the wrong region set...)
No audio watermark scheme has ever succeeded. I remember schemes for record, tape and CDs and none of them survive. What are the odds this one would?
Remember, the one audio recording format that RIAA did manage to enforce copy restrictions on, DAT, is dead.
The limited play CD is dead.
People may not understand the legal technicalities and will just return equipment to the shop if it doesn't record what they want to record. If that happens to much the shops will just stop stocking the hardware.
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So, to fix this particular little problem needs a hardware replacement "upgrade" :-(
do you really want to commit everything to a nice simple, searchable, disc that can be used as evidence against you?
If buying anything from these stupid companies present the sales assistant with an liability disclaimer and ask them to sign it on behalf of the company. The disclaimer would say something like, "The customer is allowed to discuss the cost and quality of the purchased product with anybody they see fit."
If they refuse ask for the manager, if the manager refuses, leave the store.
We as customers are forced to agree to all kinds of legal stuff, why shouldn't the stores?
Nobody finds reading an online magazine convienient. People will spend $300 a year on buying a daily newspaper and throwing it away. People will not buy a $300 subscription to an online magazine, no matter how good, because it doesn't feel like a good deal.
This will all be fixed when, if, we get a decent cyberbook with a high quality A5 screen, low cost and open h/w and s/w architecture and the ability to store web magazines locally for offline reading away from a network connection.
Suppose M$ one day feels the need for more revenue and those pesky customers are just not buying new stuff like they used to.
What's to stop M$ using the box ids to disable network connectivity until the victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomer upgrades to the latest software release?
If the media companies get their way with .gov web sites without a murmor of protest they WILL go for the public libraries next.
How can a monopoly make a cent these days if people can read books for FREE?!?
(And what about those 2nd hand book stores, they have to go too.)
The court case would be fun :-) Who would get to be called Bill Wyman in the transcripts...
Fortunately in the UK _anybody_ can trade under their own name, even if it's the same as some other well known name so long as they do not attempt to act in a fraudulant manner.
Unfortunately, companies with lots of money will just drag the legal process out for month after month in the hope that the small guy runs out of money first.
There is a good argument that in david v. goliath court cases that a maximum expendature be imposed by the court before the case starts, to prevent misuse by the very rich.
BTW, I'm not really Bill Wyman.
There comes a time when you have to cut your losses. HURD is a project that has gone seriously wrong. Mach development ENDED in 1994 (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ma ch/public/www/status.html)
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with microkernels or message passing (assuming you use zero-copy mechanisms and avoid contect switches) and they do provide excellent discipline to the design process.
When storage density reaches about 60 Gbits/sqin
you can store the all the data for a single pixal for a 90min movie within the area occupied by the pixal.
Once that's possible you can create dedicated movie "books".
No legit ISP (or broadband supplier) is every going to allow the RIAA appointed crackers to use their service to smash random computers on a whim. a/ It would violate the usual terms and conditions of all ISPs and b/ any hosting ISP would rapidly be isolated from the internet when everybody else firewalled it's packets to /dev/null.
(the code may be fine - but it's an answer to the wrong question.)
In a world where 40GB discs are the smallest available you have to wonder why we continue to use the old filesystem ideas. For ordinary home use a filesystem that remembered it's entire change history and only deleted stuff when the disk was full. A kind of RCS filesystem where you could roll back the state of a file, directory or entire filesystem should be possible.
Some apps would have to be modified to perform differently so they did not consume the entire space in trivial file changes.
For the audio/visual editors it probably would not be useful but for SOHO and home systems it would be ideal.
Someone should write "Parodies For Dummies" setting out the legal protection for parodies in various countries. Then everybody would have some knowledge to protect them from legal insanity.
To protect their "valuable" property all Whiley need ask is for there to be an obvious statement on the parody pointing to the terminally humorless that IT'S A JOKE YOU DUMMY.
(Is anyone else seeing off topic postings in this area?)
Your mission, Jim, should you chose to accept it, is to review a CD by Pearl Jam. If your or any of your IM force be killed or captured the RIAA will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck Jim.
The review CDs will self-destruct in five seconds...
Recently I tried to upgrade my laptop to RH7.2 (from 5.?) I don't use Gnome or KDE so tried to do a custom install omitting all those components (essentially all I wanted was the kernel and related utilities upgraded as I have limited disk space.)
It was impossible, no matter what I did, the installation program ALWAYS included gnome and a lot of dependencies that brought the install size to 250M larger than the hard drive.
So RH has "enhanced" it's way off my laptop as soon as I find a suitable replacement distribution.
Simple. To ban the public ownership of recording devices. This is the only logical policy that meets their stated objectives.
There is no reason why the music industry should continue to exist if they can't convince their customers to pay for the product.
It's not as if music will disappear -- live performances and real fans will still exist.
The WWW was supposed to allow "targetted" adverts and failed to deliver. Either that or I'm a prime target for dubious loans from a bank I've never heard of on a different continent...
Targetting ads is about as much a science as basing government policy on "focus" groups.
if we only license the contents of cds and dvds why do all the adverts tell us that "Now YOU can buy MiB on DVD or VHS"
Shouldn't they really say, "Now you can buy a DVD or VHS tape containing a licenced copy of MiB"
This is either misleading advertising or an explicit admission that you defacto own a non-excusive copy of the film?
When unisys (whatever happened to them) tried to enforce it's patent over GIF compression, PNG (a better format all together) was designed and implemented in a few months.
A GPLable 3d graphics library may be more difficult but is worth doing.
Sometimes free gifts are just too expensive to accept.
Will it record TV while playing a game?
Probably not.
Pointless.
By the time any Palladium h/w is available there will be close to 2 billion PCs already installed.
How on earth will MS pursuade people to replace all these machines?
I'd be happy to pay 1 cent per page to read Salon, IF AND ONLY IF I could pay as I read by some mechanism. There's no way I'd pay up front.
The Internet needs a micropayment model - without it small services will die because people are just not prepared to take risks with credit cards and subscriptions to totally unknown and physically remote organisations.
A spreadsheet "runs", a word macro "runs" and both have been known to hold virii in the past.
So what can MS mean by only allowing authorised programs?
I can't help but notice that even after a film has been broadcast on TV many times, video and DVD copies continue to be available in the shops often at very low prices. These must still be profitable which tends to indicate that all new video and DVD prices are artificially high at the moment.
...because it had such a copy prevention flag.
While you can go to the store and choose between two boxes, one that can record/replay anything and one that can't (and assuming all else being equal) the box with the copy prevention will stay on the shelf.
You can already see this with DVD players. Nobody need buy a region restricted player any more. Almost all DVD players can either be configured by the supplier or the owner to play any region disk and the makers are unlikely to end this any time soon (nobody wants to end up with warehouses full of DVD players with the wrong region set...)
No audio watermark scheme has ever succeeded. I remember schemes for record, tape and CDs and none of them survive. What are the odds this one would?
Remember, the one audio recording format that RIAA did manage to enforce copy restrictions on, DAT, is dead.
The limited play CD is dead.
People may not understand the legal technicalities
and will just return equipment to the shop if it doesn't record what they want to record. If that happens to much the shops will just stop stocking the hardware.