Basically, ICANN is saying, "It's not our job to suspend domain registrations; it's the registrar's job. We just coordinate registrars."
Okay, I think I sort of get it now.
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E360 electronically submitted a proposed order to the court for its review which, if signed, would call for Tucows (Spamhaus' Registrar) and/or ICANN to suspend or place a client hold on www.spamhaus.org.
Even if ICANN were properly brought before the court in this matter, which ICANN has not been, ICANN cannot comply with any order requiring it to suspend or place a client hold on Spamhaus.org or any specific domain name because ICANN does not have either the ability or the authority to do so. Only the Internet registrar with whom the registrant has a contractual relationship - and in certain instances the Internet registry - can suspend an individual domain name.
So E360 wanted to get a "client hold" on the domain name, but ICANN refused, saying they don't have the authority to do so.
For example the makers of lost have used channels like this to maintain interest between seasons. Has this hurt lost viewing figures?
Funny you should mention that. I actually saw a large ad for Lost on torrentspy.com. That blew me away. They must recognize they have a good opportunity to pick up additional viewers from it.
...you can take the popularity and success of the format to realize how you can do what they do even better and still profit, either by streaming it yourself for free, or selling downloads.
Similarly, the pilot for Heroes was leaked on BitTorrent* prior to airing, and now each Heroes episode makes the top ten TV Shows on iTMS every week. This week, 2 episodes are within the top ten.
*I didn't download the pilot, instead I bought it from iTMS, but noticed it had hundreds of seeders.
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The truth is what Google is doing now is transferring the wealth out of the hands of rights holders into Google.
Less than half of the popular videos when I just checked were from TV. Of those that were, 3/4 of them were news clips or Jon Stewart/Colbert Report. Even then, it is short clips.
What this quote is missing is that the majority of the content on YouTube is produced by the "You" in YouTube. That's what the new phenomenon of these video sites is really about. People producing and distributing their own content.
In fact, I wish people would just stop posting copyrighted videos. There's BitTorrent and a wide variety of other means to share that, if that's your thing. Why bother using YouTube for it, when you know that already having a popular video is enough to get it seeded?
I've bought 0 movies from Amazon and iTMS, but I've spent over $80. For TV episodes and music videos it provides value to me to be able to download them, because they're either not available in that quality otherwise, or you'd have to buy a whole DVD compliation anyway for $15 when you only wanted part of it. Also, shows are sometimes available within a couple days of "first run."
I'm torn between liking that they're releasing more shows in HQ because of iTMS/Unbox and hoping they don't decide *not* to release the DVD compilations because they already released the download of it.
I can't see why I'd buy a movie from either service though and wait a few hours with DSL, when I could just rent it from Netflix and have it in 2 days for much cheaper (~$1).
You think you could get her to watch a full movie on a computer screen? Hell no. Unless it was a media center PC, she has no interest in it, since it's too much work just to watch a movie. This is the difference in consumer that I think Target/Wal-mart fail to see, and what they don't understand when they complain about digital download services.
You're right, for now.
But the Unbox movies play on Xbox360 and the iTMS ones will play on iTV. It remains to be seen how quickly a box (other than a DVD player) connected to the TV for movies/episodes will work, but it will be a factor at some point.
...because they are getting MUCH less (1.4G of movie versus 18G of movie
DVDs are at maximum 8.5 GB. Most "Main Title" files on a DVD are on average 5-6 GB. Older DVDs or flip-disc WS/FS format DVDs may be less than 4.7 GB total for a single format. Your point still remains, but 18 GB is not accurate.
Can you say the same for any file on a hard disk, DRM'd or not? My oldest DVDs have outlasted something like five or six failed hard drives at this point, and I was a relatively late adopter of DVD.
As far as reliability/backups, digital files are actually a bit better than DVD. You can freely (without any decryption required) burn them to as many DVDs as you want (still encrypted). You can fit at least a couple per DVD because they use newer compression than MPEG-2.
It still leaves the issues of: - Will the licensing company be around? - Will you destroy your license store somehow? - Will you have a modern player that still supports the encryption in the future?
But reliability/backups is not really a concern, unless you assume your hard drive will last forever and don't bother to burn anything.
DRM makes sure you can only watch the movies on your PC, postage stamp size, without pausing, no more than 3 times a month, only the week before a full moon.
I know you were kidding, but FYI you can watch the Unbox movies on an Xbox360 + TV.
1) A commercial product from IBM. It costs $500 up front, not cheap but you can afford it as a small firm. IBM guarantees to support it for at least 5 years.
2) An OSS product that does just as good a job. No charge, however there's just a single guy that works on it, nobody else has really shown an interest. You don't have any programmers on staff.
3) A company that produces, maintains, and supports an OSS product. You buy a contract of support and development time from them, and if their company disappears, you find another company to continue supporting it.
And all along I thought the right was supposed to be anti-intellectual...
The moderation system, however, consists really of choir preachers - people mod up what they want to hear and mod down what they don't. That's all it comes down to.
You complain that a few trolls responded unintelligently to your posts, while the silent majority modded you up fairly? You got to say what you wanted to say, and even got to have people read it, even though it disagrees with the popular opinion of this site. What more do you want?
It's like Republicans saying that the media has a liberal bias, even though Bush gets a pass on many of his wrong doings, without a word in the mainstream press, while Clinton went through years of investigations that turned up far less. Your party controls all branches of government, the mainstream media gives you all the time to speak your political agenda you want, without any hard questions, and you still complain about a liberal bias.
Both this site and the press give you plenty of time to push your conservative agenda.
First off, Apple has changed thier policy, and will not allow you at least one redownload of content after a catastrophe. It amazes me that people assume this function is there in the first place.
OK, where is it then? Do you have to click "Buy" again?
Nothing new here, remember being in college when it was cool to like a band until other people did...then they were sell outs regardless of whether the music changed or not.
I feel that way about Myspace too, and I'm in my twenties. It was cool when I joined and there were about 3 million. Then it got worse when they let the damn kids in. Then worse when my ex-gf joined a year later. Now my whole freakin town is on there. So many people I never wanted to see again. I never check my messages anymore, and I'm considering deleting my profile, or at least making it private.
And strangely enough, in my free time while administering some fairly sizable gaming forums, I've actually had to ban users with hostmasks indicating they were using government internet connections. I even went to the trouble of tracking down the name of one individual and contacting their boss about their behavior.
I just recently setup a celebrity photo site, kinda like wireimage.com. I was surprised to see that one of my most frequent visitors was browsing from nasa.gov.
It further says that any application of an act of Congress (including that 1978 law) to shift Constitutional responsibilities from one branch (e.g. the President) to another (e.g. the Courts) is automatically void, and that the President has an independent responsibility to honor the Constitution, even if the Congress and the Courts disagree.
Yes, the responsibility to uphold the Consitution, including the Fourth Amendment.
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Okay, I think I sort of get it now.
FTFA:
So E360 wanted to get a "client hold" on the domain name, but ICANN refused, saying they don't have the authority to do so.
Can somebody explain that in English please?
Funny you should mention that. I actually saw a large ad for Lost on torrentspy.com. That blew me away. They must recognize they have a good opportunity to pick up additional viewers from it.
Yeah, Eureka gave away their Pilot for free for a while on iTunes. It was one of the most popular downloads, and it turns out that the show's premiere on TV was "the highest-rated series telecast in SCI FI Channel history."
Similarly, the pilot for Heroes was leaked on BitTorrent* prior to airing, and now each Heroes episode makes the top ten TV Shows on iTMS every week. This week, 2 episodes are within the top ten.
*I didn't download the pilot, instead I bought it from iTMS, but noticed it had hundreds of seeders.
Less than half of the popular videos when I just checked were from TV. Of those that were, 3/4 of them were news clips or Jon Stewart/Colbert Report. Even then, it is short clips.
What this quote is missing is that the majority of the content on YouTube is produced by the "You" in YouTube. That's what the new phenomenon of these video sites is really about. People producing and distributing their own content.
In fact, I wish people would just stop posting copyrighted videos. There's BitTorrent and a wide variety of other means to share that, if that's your thing. Why bother using YouTube for it, when you know that already having a popular video is enough to get it seeded?
I've bought 0 movies from Amazon and iTMS, but I've spent over $80. For TV episodes and music videos it provides value to me to be able to download them, because they're either not available in that quality otherwise, or you'd have to buy a whole DVD compliation anyway for $15 when you only wanted part of it. Also, shows are sometimes available within a couple days of "first run."
I'm torn between liking that they're releasing more shows in HQ because of iTMS/Unbox and hoping they don't decide *not* to release the DVD compilations because they already released the download of it.
I can't see why I'd buy a movie from either service though and wait a few hours with DSL, when I could just rent it from Netflix and have it in 2 days for much cheaper (~$1).
You're right, for now.
But the Unbox movies play on Xbox360 and the iTMS ones will play on iTV. It remains to be seen how quickly a box (other than a DVD player) connected to the TV for movies/episodes will work, but it will be a factor at some point.
DVDs are at maximum 8.5 GB. Most "Main Title" files on a DVD are on average 5-6 GB. Older DVDs or flip-disc WS/FS format DVDs may be less than 4.7 GB total for a single format. Your point still remains, but 18 GB is not accurate.
As far as reliability/backups, digital files are actually a bit better than DVD. You can freely (without any decryption required) burn them to as many DVDs as you want (still encrypted). You can fit at least a couple per DVD because they use newer compression than MPEG-2.
It still leaves the issues of:
- Will the licensing company be around?
- Will you destroy your license store somehow?
- Will you have a modern player that still supports the encryption in the future?
But reliability/backups is not really a concern, unless you assume your hard drive will last forever and don't bother to burn anything.
I know you were kidding, but FYI you can watch the Unbox movies on an Xbox360 + TV.
Correction: Burning to CD and reripping/encoding for whole albums is faster than realtime, but still longer than ripping a DVD.
3) A company that produces, maintains, and supports an OSS product. You buy a contract of support and development time from them, and if their company disappears, you find another company to continue supporting it.
Sounds like something Intel would come up with.
Can I convince you to show up and post that every time a story is submitted about death/murder? ;-)
What does any of that have to do with my post?
Wow, you've trolled a lot in this article.
Yeah. Neither one has anything to do with this story.
Microsoft should really ship with all IP addresses except update.microsoft.com redirected to localhost, until you complete all critical updates.
It will never happen, but it should.
Nice trick there, buddy. But there was no ad hominem.
You complain that a few trolls responded unintelligently to your posts, while the silent majority modded you up fairly? You got to say what you wanted to say, and even got to have people read it, even though it disagrees with the popular opinion of this site. What more do you want?
It's like Republicans saying that the media has a liberal bias, even though Bush gets a pass on many of his wrong doings, without a word in the mainstream press, while Clinton went through years of investigations that turned up far less. Your party controls all branches of government, the mainstream media gives you all the time to speak your political agenda you want, without any hard questions, and you still complain about a liberal bias.
Both this site and the press give you plenty of time to push your conservative agenda.
OK, where is it then? Do you have to click "Buy" again?
They don't make it obvious.
I feel that way about Myspace too, and I'm in my twenties. It was cool when I joined and there were about 3 million. Then it got worse when they let the damn kids in. Then worse when my ex-gf joined a year later. Now my whole freakin town is on there. So many people I never wanted to see again. I never check my messages anymore, and I'm considering deleting my profile, or at least making it private.
I just recently setup a celebrity photo site, kinda like wireimage.com. I was surprised to see that one of my most frequent visitors was browsing from nasa.gov.
If you hadn't posted AC, you would have canceled it.
Yes, the responsibility to uphold the Consitution, including the Fourth Amendment.
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