Wal-Mart? No, not their online service. Walking in and buying a season of a TV show on DVD. Play it in whatever computer you want, watch it on whatever TV you want. All completely legal. Not even "you can't rip this CD/DVD" illegal.
This article is completely wrong. This store actually uses standard Windows PlaysForSure DRM on all it's tracks. The friggin' PlaysForSure logo is on their homepage.
http://www.puretracks.com/
SystemDoctor2006 has made an appearance over the past few days, coming complete with pop-up windows to trap and then cause horrific damage to the computers of unaware users -- causing them to then rush out to purchase Microsoft Defender?
The implication from the article that Microsoft is trying to infect your system so you "buy" the free to download Microsoft Defender is ridiculous.
Regardless, this is a really stupid oversight on Microsoft's part. Reminds me of the p2plawsuits.com thing. Shouldn't a person knowledgeable about ads be approving these beforehand (at least in Microsoft's case)?
This isn't specific to iTunes at all. There are lots of players and applications that take advantage of CDDB. The first impression you get from the article is that Apple somehow managed to catch a fraud, while that isn't the truth at all.
Just a verification of the parent. I'm also red/green colorblind and while I can't see this I can tell the difference between red and green. It's colors that are only separated by shades of red or green that are a problem. Think white to pink or blue to purple.
There is such a thing as bad publicity. Bad publicity is only good publicity if it's getting an unknown name into the news. There isn't anyone reading this who hasn't heard much about that Microsoft-thing.
It's only $200 for a Xbox 360 HDDVD drive that can be connected to your computer to rip movies. I doubt many people will be ripping/downloading HD movies to burn copies. People interested likely already have HDTVs and it's relatively trivial to connect them up to a newer graphics card.
Sure you might have lost your job to outsourcing but why is it hard to believe that the money the company saves by firing you will be used to expand the companies operations? Eventually expansion involves hiring more local (US) workers. Companies that stay in business tend not to make irrational decisions. They have their best interests in mind which in turn means they have the US economies best interests in mind. Economy goes up, unemployment goes down. Not immediately but given time it happens.
So these guys have apparently patented the idea of an analog button doing anything on a display. Smells like patent trolls to me. I just want to know why these seemingly obvious patents keep getting given out.
United States Patent 6,347,997:
Devices for controlling imagery shown by a display, and including an analog sensor for creating a varying analog value according to varying depression applied by a finger of a human user to the analog sensor. In one preferred embodiment the analog sensor(s) includes a resilient dome cap for providing tactile feedback to the finger depressing the analog sensor. Circuitry within a housing is connected to the analog sensor for reading the varying analog value from the analog sensor and causing representative varying the imagery shown by the display. The devices can be individually structured as electronic game controllers/systems, telephones, pagers, electronic books, web browsers, global positioning receivers, ovens, coffee makers and personal digital assistants (PDA) to name a few.
DVDA (DVD Audio) has been around for a long time now. It hasn't caught on because it's a bad idea. It doesn't offer any discernable higher quality of sound and won't play in most existing setups. Warner's "new format" doesn't offer any incentive either. I'm rather suprised to see the owner of Criminal Records (one of Atlanta's best music stores) behind this. They still do a good business in CDs as far as I can tell and surely he'd have learned his lesson from the past.
On a related note. From the article:
the higher-quality, DVD-audio sound
The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem already shows that with the sampling rate on CDs the original signal can be reconstructed perfectly up to frequencies above human hearing. DVDA sounding superior is almost certainly a placebo effect.
Yes they do count downloading tracks you own as an illegal download. You have to remember that even if you did take the time to find the CD the RIAA would still count that as an illegal action. What I'd like to know is where those numbers came from as I don't know how they think they can get anywhere near an accurate estimate on something that.
But how long would it take to create a program that does it and syncs the audio as well? I'm sure there's a way to stream the images onto a single large file rather than dealing with compiling millions of saved images. Even if it does take a week to run on an average computer it only has to be done once before it gets spread around the net. And there will always be pirate groups that will do it regardless of the "time spent:money gained" ratio.
The real question is whether it'll prove to be less effort to replicate them this way or to find a more direct way around the encryption.
I haven't had any problems with the drivers but I didn't really like Creative Mediasource's resource management. I've got a big collection and it took a while for Mediasource to do any listings. I currently use Notmad Manager by Red Chair Software which uses the default Creative drivers.
Speaking of Creative drivers, I won't be buying another sound card from them after the nightmare that was trying to get their drivers and software set up for the Audigy 2 ZS.
The worst part of having my mouth operated on was the taste of burning flesh from the laser's cauterizing sticking around for days. This makes me wonder if something like this plasma needle could forego the one side effect that isn't easily averted with things like painkillers.
And I guess because nobody in the study went much over a.08 BAC that nobody ever does. In order to gain useful results the study can't have 0 accidents in both categories. It can be assumed that they set up situations in their simulation in which accidents are more likely than in ordinary driving. You're looking at results from a study with a relatively small sample size and trying to draw absolute conclusions about every driver in the world. Of course it's going to be skewed, that isn't how the results are meant to be examined.
Apple, who single-handedly ended our reliance on the music industry's easily scratched CDs 19/20 full of crappy songs and their accompanying players, is now being forced to share proprietary data that it uses to synergize two of its business products.
Single-handedly? Sure they did make mp3 players a lot more popular but shouldn't you be attributing this more to the people that developed mp3 or the people who made the original hard-drive based mp3 players? I don't think that they should be forced to share exactly how their software works. Not because of what they've done in the past but because if AAC or transcoding aren't good enough people can always do what I do and I just choose not to use iTunes.
I, for one, bought a Creative player two and a half years ago that is still running fine without a hitch. Do you know what I did with the $300 bucks I didn't spend every year to year and a half on a new iPod? Bought CDs and went to shows. And what exactly is stripped down about no-name mp3 players? I don't think I've seen another player that had less options than the iPod.
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Wal-Mart? No, not their online service. Walking in and buying a season of a TV show on DVD. Play it in whatever computer you want, watch it on whatever TV you want. All completely legal. Not even "you can't rip this CD/DVD" illegal.
This article is completely wrong. This store actually uses standard Windows PlaysForSure DRM on all it's tracks. The friggin' PlaysForSure logo is on their homepage. http://www.puretracks.com/
Windows Defender is supported by XP and is a free download. You don't need to buy Vista to get or use it.
Regardless, this is a really stupid oversight on Microsoft's part. Reminds me of the p2plawsuits.com thing. Shouldn't a person knowledgeable about ads be approving these beforehand (at least in Microsoft's case)?
This isn't specific to iTunes at all. There are lots of players and applications that take advantage of CDDB. The first impression you get from the article is that Apple somehow managed to catch a fraud, while that isn't the truth at all.
Perhaps the article might hold some clue? If you missed the link in the summary here it is again.
e ts-in-your-mp3-player.php
http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/02/personality-secr
Just a verification of the parent. I'm also red/green colorblind and while I can't see this I can tell the difference between red and green. It's colors that are only separated by shades of red or green that are a problem. Think white to pink or blue to purple.
There is such a thing as bad publicity. Bad publicity is only good publicity if it's getting an unknown name into the news. There isn't anyone reading this who hasn't heard much about that Microsoft-thing.
It's only $200 for a Xbox 360 HDDVD drive that can be connected to your computer to rip movies. I doubt many people will be ripping/downloading HD movies to burn copies. People interested likely already have HDTVs and it's relatively trivial to connect them up to a newer graphics card.
Sure you might have lost your job to outsourcing but why is it hard to believe that the money the company saves by firing you will be used to expand the companies operations? Eventually expansion involves hiring more local (US) workers. Companies that stay in business tend not to make irrational decisions. They have their best interests in mind which in turn means they have the US economies best interests in mind. Economy goes up, unemployment goes down. Not immediately but given time it happens.
I like the term Colborted.
United States Patent 6,347,997:
On a related note. From the article: The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem already shows that with the sampling rate on CDs the original signal can be reconstructed perfectly up to frequencies above human hearing. DVDA sounding superior is almost certainly a placebo effect.
Or it'll just get shifted into advertising budgets. Money spent on E3 was generally for the purpose of advertising anyway.
Yes they do count downloading tracks you own as an illegal download. You have to remember that even if you did take the time to find the CD the RIAA would still count that as an illegal action. What I'd like to know is where those numbers came from as I don't know how they think they can get anywhere near an accurate estimate on something that.
Close. Just remember that scientific theories and laws differ intrinsically. A theory doesn't become a law after enough time or validation.
Myth 1: Hypotheses Become Theories Which Become Laws
I'm just assuming that this app is designed for Windows. Windows does a lot better dealing with a single very large file than a ton of smaller ones.
But how long would it take to create a program that does it and syncs the audio as well? I'm sure there's a way to stream the images onto a single large file rather than dealing with compiling millions of saved images. Even if it does take a week to run on an average computer it only has to be done once before it gets spread around the net. And there will always be pirate groups that will do it regardless of the "time spent:money gained" ratio. The real question is whether it'll prove to be less effort to replicate them this way or to find a more direct way around the encryption.
I haven't had any problems with the drivers but I didn't really like Creative Mediasource's resource management. I've got a big collection and it took a while for Mediasource to do any listings. I currently use Notmad Manager by Red Chair Software which uses the default Creative drivers. Speaking of Creative drivers, I won't be buying another sound card from them after the nightmare that was trying to get their drivers and software set up for the Audigy 2 ZS.
The worst part of having my mouth operated on was the taste of burning flesh from the laser's cauterizing sticking around for days. This makes me wonder if something like this plasma needle could forego the one side effect that isn't easily averted with things like painkillers.
And I guess because nobody in the study went much over a .08 BAC that nobody ever does. In order to gain useful results the study can't have 0 accidents in both categories. It can be assumed that they set up situations in their simulation in which accidents are more likely than in ordinary driving. You're looking at results from a study with a relatively small sample size and trying to draw absolute conclusions about every driver in the world. Of course it's going to be skewed, that isn't how the results are meant to be examined.
Hands-free cell phones might not be as safe as you think.
I, for one, bought a Creative player two and a half years ago that is still running fine without a hitch. Do you know what I did with the $300 bucks I didn't spend every year to year and a half on a new iPod? Bought CDs and went to shows. And what exactly is stripped down about no-name mp3 players? I don't think I've seen another player that had less options than the iPod.
Have you never heard of tariffs? That is the essence of "gimping the better run foreign competitors" and is law in the US.