Let's face it, the only encryption we need is to XOR the first letter of each word and move it to the end of the word and add "ay" to it. No.. wait... they went broke too. Damn, thats 3 of them!
Even better for a linux newbie who just wants to learn; LinuxOne!
What? Don't tell me everybody has forgotten LinuxOne already. OK, there is the slight problem of actually FINDING LinuxOne, but hey! Isn't that part of your introduction to Linux?
Look at the educational advantages of LinuxOne:
1. Familiarize yourself with search engines trying to find it.
2. Experience first hand the agony of trying to maintain an abandoned distribution.
3. Enjoy the thrill of discovering it's really a copy of an old Red Hat distribution and you actually have support.
Oh, and 4. Learn to read stock IPO material carefully.
[snip] Windows isn't free. The PC manufacturer paid something for it and passed that cost, plus a markup, onto you. Granted, it's far less than what you'd pay in a store, but there is a real cost associated with it. [/snip]
The only copy of Win I've paid for in the last 2 years was because it was forced down my throat. I wanted the HP Pavilion that held it up, so I got Win with it.. no choice. It was on the machine for about an hour while I wrote down the info I needed to give to RH 6.2, which I bought retail at the same time. I've also bought RH 7.1, Debian, 3 other fringe distros and downloaded Freesco in the last 2 years, all for less than $20.
I wonder what my per-hour cost is for Linux and Win? About $30 per hour for Win98 and probably less than 1 cent per hour for Linux.
You got it right. In spite of what everybody would like to think, those kiddies will be the ones that bring linux into the mainstream; they'll grow up, get jobs and when THEY are the mainstream, they'll still prefer linux over Windoze.
In the 80's there was this annoying little high school punk that continually tried to break into my BBS. When I mocked his puny efforts, he put my voice line on autodial and rang it day in and day out. He even had it disconnected. Then he got my new unlisted number and went back to the autodial routine, and just for fun would go to the chat channels I used and pretend to be me. Today he is the very polite owner of my ISP, and I'm the one that responds to help requests on IRC with "Your MP3 software quit working? That's probably because your OS is DOG SHIT. Type 'format C:' and it will fix EVERYTHING."
This message was aged 10 full minutes before posting and it came out like this anyway.
OK, so I'm getting the idea how to start a DSL service - buy some black boxes with flashing LEDs (does Radio Shack still sell those 'Goofy Light' kits?) send them out as DSL modems, wait a month, go broke and wait 6 months till the customers throw the black box away... THEN tell the customers to send the modem back or send $500. That's about $495 profit. I like it!!!
Maybe not such a big difference - I looked up "engineer" in three different dictionaries once. All had similar definitions that engineering was the "ART of designing, operating and using machinery." Some parts of a game design may be more of a fine art, and some may be more of a practical art, but all who contributeare artists, choosing their own elements of style out of the infinite possibilities before them.
I guess that was a nice act of civil disobedience, but it posts a list of 130+ sites the MPAA can write nasty letters to, so get your code NOW, because the ones that aren't busted now sure will be tomorrow.
Don't turn your neighbors in to the Gestapo. Make it hard for them to make a bust!
1. Take your copies of DeCSS and css-auth, and dork up about 51% of the code so its no longer workable code.
2. Call it DeCSS and css-auth, tar & zip it and put it up for download.
3. Give it to your friends. Link to each other. Post it on every site and link exchange you can.
MAKE THEM PROVE IT.
Remember WW2? The allied planes dumped aluminum foil out of planes to confuse Nazi radar. Get some DeCSS foil in the air instead of shining spotlights on the good stuff.
One of my favorites is a piece of Tektronix video test equipment that uses vector graphics to display a variety of test signals. A certain set of keypresses will blank the normal display and send a Pacman across the screen chasing a power pill.
A FINE example that this is true was ABC News' story on DeCSS this week.
Yes, the story we waited to see on ABC last month about Jon and DeCSS - it was on... sort of.
The story was about piracy. There was no mention of any other issue, and Jon's presence was about 3 selected lines that, in the context of the story, left the viewer with the inference that he was just one more teen cracker.
ABC followed the CSS story with one about napster, also spun down the piracy line.
You can download the wav of both stories at http://www.galstar.com/~mctech/abcnews.wav
You might also take ABC up on their invitation to tell them what you think... after you read the linux advocacy page, or course.
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The Institute to Refute Bull Shit Research published a study of web usage on their private server at http://127.0.0.1. Professor E. L. Eet, director of the institute, said, "the Stanford study is just so much lame crap." <br> Professor Eet summarized some of the more salient findings of the IRBSR study. <br> People who used the web on an average of five or more hours per day had these characteristics in common; <br> Web users were 35% better informed due to the fact that their information came from a wide variety of primary sources instead of TV sound bytes relayed by a neighbor raking leaves. <br> Web users were 22% happier at work, having spent their copious free time viewing their friends' vacation JPGs rather than hearing a re-hash of last night's X-Files re-run at the company water cooler. <br> Web users enjoyed their vacation time 17% more because of detailed planning and advance reservation of flights, care rentals and hotels. Contributing factors included less stress from their mothers-in-law in the back seat due to map and routing software on their laptops which resulted in running out of gas 12% fewer times. <br> Web users had 9% more disposable income from money they saved by purchasing their car, their furniture and their Christmas presents at eBay. <br> Web users had 78% more friends than their unwired counterparts when the distinction of "just an online friend" was not excluded in the count. <br> Professor Eet asked those who read the Stanford studiy to remember, "A school's primary purpose is to pass the societal norms on to the next generation. The conventional wisdom is funded for new studies, and the conventional wisdom gets published so that we can slurp it up like it was the sweetest of truth. This is true whether it is social science or pure science. Try to prove the Big Bang never happened and you get zilch. Blurt out that 90% of the universe is made up of cosmic silly string and you're man of the year. Publish a study that says life is going to hell and you got tenure for life."
..and HDTV is based on MPEG-3. MPEG remains as the only real standard for compressed video. Take a tour through http://www.mpeg.org and you can see it has been a resilient enough set of standards to handle not only HDTV but web audio, DVD, tape recording and many other transmission and storage situations.
Their extensive site and links also mention MPEG-4 as the proposed standard for low-bandwidth transmission. They also have a lot of information and downloadable open source and free player software.
I am in charge of two RealPlayer streamers where I work, and they do look nice when they are not subject to heavy loads. However, I think these proprietary methods are doomed. They have a temporary advantage in quality, but the output is still 1/4 screen, drops frames and stalls when traffic increases. That may well be the future of low-bandwidth video, but its hard to believe it will create a long-term successful business.
As low bandwidth web video becomes more popular, other problems are going to become more visible. Today we are content to simply watch streaming video. Tomorrow we will want to record it, edit it and send it elsewhere, and increased artifacts due to incompatible compression techniques will raise their ugly head. The wide-spread use of MPEG coding at least gives a starting place to addressing those problems.
To others in this thread: MPEG-4 is NOT a Microsoft standard; it is ISO/IEC standard #14496, and I think its time for the OS community to start looking at it for delivery of web video. In the long run, its going to be the place to be.
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Hello, international friend.
I understand your pain and confusion. "Yeti@home" is a parody of the American desire (dare I say NEED) to make everyting do something at all times. It is a bit of an obsession with us, because we want to be #1 again, and to do so we must charge blindly and patriotically down every avenue that will let us overcome the lead cureently held by The Republic of Gates.
Perhaps if you visit these similar web sites, you will gain an understanding:
http://www.spaghetti@home - the client offered at this site steals unused time between microwave oven beeps to create a tasty pasta salad.
http://www.betty@home - in the black screen time between channel changes on your TV, searches a tape in your VCR for the famous lost Flintstones episodes.
http://www.confetti@home - like yeti@home, this client feeds video from Times Square in NYC to your computer, but this client uses the idle time during "Server Error 425" messages to scan for bits of paper left over from New Year's eve and directs Legos robots with brooms to clean them up.
http://gritty@home - this site is on every slashdotter's bookmark list; a heavily modified IRC client is scripted to search/. reader comments during the time between the user's refrigerator door opening and the time the light comes on to scan comments and adjust the threshold to a level that assures no comments with the words "hot grits" will be seen.
I hope this helps you, international friend. I tell you this in hopes it will increase world harmony and peace.
Umm, if I understand your post correctly, I think you are wrong.
I believe an analogy would be that since Apache is open source, nobody would get sued for posting copyrighted material on a web site.
If iCrave content was not reproduction of content that was already the property of somebody else, they would not be in court.
And just to take the opportunity to go off editorializing, why doesn't iCrave do exactly what I think you are suggesting; put alternative content on the web?
Popular opinion (not yours, nor necessarily any one/. individual) is that,
1. TV sucks and lacks content...
2. Streaming video opens the doors to quality video content...
3. So, we get streaming video, and what shows up? The same crap we didn't like anyway, TV broadcasts.
Get TV broadcast off the web and replace it with some real content... like, uh.. um... the hampsterdance.com channel.
Well put. Now, where are the moderator points I didn't use up last week?
Here's an example of how it works here in the US and you can see several details that are relevant to comments in this thread: (you folks in Canada and Oz can scroll on by)
WGN in Chicago is licensed by the FCC to provide service in the Chicago market. According to the "must-carry" provision of the Communications Act, the Chicago cable systems HAVE to carry WGN (without change or charge) if they are in a certain range of the signal, defined in millivolts received with a certain type of antenna. And, WGN wants to be on the Chicago cable systems. If they are not on, viewers have to buy a separate antenna and A/B switch to watch WGN, and most of us would just say 'screw it, I've got 30 other channels.'
WGN is also prohibited by the FCC from increasing transmission power or putting up a taller or better antenna so they can get their signal out farther.
WGN also licenses another company, United Video Satelitte Group, to send the WGN programming out on satellite to be re-sold by UVSG to cable systems. USVG owns the rights to the sat feed; they paid WGN for that right. USVG then sells the rights to carry WGN to local cable systems.
The WGN satellite program is a separate legal entity from WGN broadcast; UVSG can include cue tones to run local commericals and they also must cover any programming that WGN has that is already licensed by broadcasters in the local area, if the broadcast station protests the programming.
If the local station bought the exclusive local broadcast rights to say, "Slashdot World News," they have the license for that local market. Another broadcast station or cable system can't legally put that program on the air.
You quoted 2 of the 3 sections of DCMA that I quoted, and the part you _didn't_ quote was the part that has relevance to JJ and the DeCSS case; reverse engineering.
Reverse engineering for the purpose of ensuring DVD player compatibility is specifically allowed. So, although you personally might be in violation of DCMA for having the unmitigated gall to actually want to play a DVD you bought, a developer of a DVD player may not be.
From this, I suspect a major part of the defense could be that JJ was a developer and therefore exempt. Whether the court will perceive open source DVD player development as a bunch of kiddie scripters swapping warez or a as a new alternative to the Cathedral is anybody's guess.
Maybe you're right that if you personally break the encryption and then play your DVD on a linux box, you could be subject to arrest.
You didn't do that, did you? You did? You BASTARD!!!
QUOTE "The National Football League... is asking for more than $5 million in damages, was particularly focused on shutting down iCraveTV this weekend, when the Super Bowl championship game will be broadcast. " UNQUOTE
$5 million? Gee, that's a lot of damage. How does waiting for a new frame of the Super Bowl every 20 minutes while the phrase "Net Congestion, re-buffering" sits at the bottom of the screen translate into $5 million in damages?
There is a big difference: cable networks specifically program their satellite feed with cue tones or relay closures for the express purpose of providing a hole to play local commercials. Cable networks provide this for local systems and broadcast networks provide holes for their local broadcast affilliates. A local broadcast station never provides holes for the local cable company.
(Apples != oranges) && (framing != local insertions)
Signal 11 has only demonstrated the truth of what he says in his user bio; too many moderators support dogma and not enough support poster's rights to intelligently disagree with the crowd.
I don't fault Rob for this. Is he supposed to give an IQ test to everyone before bestowing a basket of 5 moderator points to them?
If you want this system to work better, be critical when you Meta-moderate. Personally, when I meta-mod, a post that was moderated as 'informative' better have some information in it, not just unsupported opinions or I ding it 'unfair.'
Use meta-moderation to weed out the worst of the moderators and moderation will be more meaningful.
I have to admit I have not run DeCSS (I'm not buying a DVD drive until I can run it under Debian) and depend on comments on/. and other sites to be accurate.
Neither am I a lawyer but it seems that DeCSS/css-auth exposes an unexpected contradiction in the DCMA.
DCMA 1201 says, "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." This is where the MPAA bases its lawsuits, and if DeCSS merely decprypts a movie, then it SEEMS to be a violation.
Ah, but a few paragraphs down, DCMA also says, "Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, _including_fair_use_, under this title." and I assume this means I can still make my own copies of material on DVD for my own use.
And then DCMA allows, " REVERSE ENGINEERING- (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs...[yadda yadda yadda]"
I give MoRE and everyone involved with open source DVD the benefit of the doubt that they are doing what the linux community has always done; reverse-engineering software to port a function to linux, and used the web to disseminate and develop the code. Maybe the courts won't agree; congress seems to have expected an electronics manufacturer to do the R-E in a locked lab rather than the wide-open environment of the web.
Everything I could say here has been said already on/. and other sites, except this:
If MoRE and the open source community develops a DVD player that, as an intermediate step, decrypts the movie before playing it and that opens the door to a piracy exploit.. tough luck for them.
They had the option of working with the open source community to develop a player that kept their encryption intact, but they chose to keep their 'secret' locked up tight... or at least so they thought.
Moral: Don't try to keep a genie in a bottle. It can't be done anymore.
Just because the interview was done today does not mean the story will be on today. They may actually be taking a little time to get their facts straight or they might have decided the stories they did run were of more interest to a general audience.
It could be on a later newscast, or even be sent out on the Daily Electronic Feed to affiliate stations and end up being shown on your local ABC newscast.
Doesn't ABC still do an 11pm version of the news? ( I wouldn't know... if it is, its on opposite The Simpsons)
Amen brothah! I was having trouble with my local ISP last week and decided to install AOL as a backup connection. It was like the apple in the Garden of Eden... right there under the coffee cup, and soooo tempting. And within mere minutes I was in deep doo-doo.
Did I click on some button that said to make AOL my default _anything_? Geez, I would never have done that on purpose. I already had enough of Exploder demanding to be my default browser over the years.
Like the guy says... "If you install AOL, you deserve the consequences."
I was a fool to even consider it. Fortunately, my system did not become any less stable, like some people. I was already running windoze so it couldn't get any worse.
Yes. ( No. I have a license to show them in my own area, but only here)
And you broadcast them for free?
Yes. (got one right)
And companies pay you to get ad time on the programs?
Yes. (that's two right)
And I can buy a television from ANYONE, and watch one of these programs?
Yes. (3 , you're on a roll!)
So, let's say you have a big enough transmitting antenna to reach 100,000 viewers, and I came to you with an antenna that lets you reach 10 million viewers. Would you pay me a lot for that antenna?
You bet. And my advertisers would pay me more in turn. (Um, no! The height of the antenna and how far it can send a signal are part of the station's license that limit the station to my local area. If I buy a better antenna, I have to reduce the power I put into it so that I still reach the same viewers)
A typical program producer pays his rent by selling his program in several cities under an exclusive agreement in each. The web threatens the producer and the station's exclusive agreement.
This is not to say I agree that webcasting is damaging to them; I think its free publicity. If I saw a good program on real player, I'd check to see if it was on TV and watch it there instead of 1/4 screen with motion artifacts. If it was on a Toronto station, I'd email my local station and tell them they ought to get it on the air in my town too.
I'd want to know how far the listener is from the "bleeding" FM station before I made that call.
It's hard to believe an FM engineer at a higher-powered station would let his gear get that far out of whack when his paycheck depends on the station NOT getting a big fat fine from the FCC.
If there was really a problem with out-of-band signals, the engineers at the stations being stepped on would be first in line to call the offending station, ask for it to be repaired or even help do the work.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the engineer has signal generators and a spec analyzer that cost more than a stack of Drake receivers too.
Most cable networks allow local cable companies to cover up their commercials at specific times with crappy local advertising. This is to make those national commercials, like the one featuring www.hampsterdance.com, look like high-quality stuff in comparison.
Seriously now - those are known in the cable biz as 'local avails' and make networks attractive to cable companies because the cable co. can bring in some advertising revenue from the local bait shops, who otherwise could not afford to be on TV.
The cable company is NOT allowed to cover up ads from the local broadcast TV stations, who have their own crappy ads for furniture stores and used cars.
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Let's face it, the only encryption we need is to XOR the first letter of each word and move it to the end of the word and add "ay" to it. No.. wait... they went broke too. Damn, thats 3 of them!
Even better for a linux newbie who just wants to learn; LinuxOne!
What? Don't tell me everybody has forgotten LinuxOne already. OK, there is the slight problem of actually FINDING LinuxOne, but hey! Isn't that part of your introduction to Linux?
Look at the educational advantages of LinuxOne:
1. Familiarize yourself with search engines trying to find it.
2. Experience first hand the agony of trying to maintain an abandoned distribution.
3. Enjoy the thrill of discovering it's really a copy of an old Red Hat distribution and you actually have support.
Oh, and 4. Learn to read stock IPO material carefully.
Which time zone? The one you're in. Its your computer that's going to tell you what time it is at 1:46:40
[snip] Windows isn't free. The PC manufacturer paid something for it and passed that cost, plus a markup, onto you. Granted, it's far less than what you'd pay in a store, but there is a real cost associated with it. [/snip]
The only copy of Win I've paid for in the last 2 years was because it was forced down my throat. I wanted the HP Pavilion that held it up, so I got Win with it.. no choice. It was on the machine for about an hour while I wrote down the info I needed to give to RH 6.2, which I bought retail at the same time. I've also bought RH 7.1, Debian, 3 other fringe distros and downloaded Freesco in the last 2 years, all for less than $20.
I wonder what my per-hour cost is for Linux and Win? About $30 per hour for Win98 and probably less than 1 cent per hour for Linux.
You got it right. In spite of what everybody would like to think, those kiddies will be the ones that bring linux into the mainstream; they'll grow up, get jobs and when THEY are the mainstream, they'll still prefer linux over Windoze.
In the 80's there was this annoying little high school punk that continually tried to break into my BBS. When I mocked his puny efforts, he put my voice line on autodial and rang it day in and day out. He even had it disconnected. Then he got my new unlisted number and went back to the autodial routine, and just for fun would go to the chat channels I used and pretend to be me. Today he is the very polite owner of my ISP, and I'm the one that responds to help requests on IRC with "Your MP3 software quit working? That's probably because your OS is DOG SHIT. Type 'format C:' and it will fix EVERYTHING."
This message was aged 10 full minutes before posting and it came out like this anyway.
OK, so I'm getting the idea how to start a DSL service - buy some black boxes with flashing LEDs (does Radio Shack still sell those 'Goofy Light' kits?) send them out as DSL modems, wait a month, go broke and wait 6 months till the customers throw the black box away... THEN tell the customers to send the modem back or send $500. That's about $495 profit. I like it!!!
Maybe not such a big difference - I looked up "engineer" in three different dictionaries once. All had similar definitions that engineering was the "ART of designing, operating and using machinery." Some parts of a game design may be more of a fine art, and some may be more of a practical art, but all who contributeare artists, choosing their own elements of style out of the infinite possibilities before them.
I guess that was a nice act of civil disobedience, but it posts a list of 130+ sites the MPAA can write nasty letters to, so get your code NOW, because the ones that aren't busted now sure will be tomorrow.
Don't turn your neighbors in to the Gestapo. Make it hard for them to make a bust!
1. Take your copies of DeCSS and css-auth, and dork up about 51% of the code so its no longer workable code.
2. Call it DeCSS and css-auth, tar & zip it and put it up for download.
3. Give it to your friends. Link to each other. Post it on every site and link exchange you can.
MAKE THEM PROVE IT.
Remember WW2? The allied planes dumped aluminum foil out of planes to confuse Nazi radar. Get some DeCSS foil in the air instead of shining spotlights on the good stuff.
One of my favorites is a piece of Tektronix video test equipment that uses vector graphics to display a variety of test signals. A certain set of keypresses will blank the normal display and send a Pacman across the screen chasing a power pill.
A FINE example that this is true was ABC News' story on DeCSS this week.
Yes, the story we waited to see on ABC last month about Jon and DeCSS - it was on... sort of.
The story was about piracy. There was no mention of any other issue, and Jon's presence was about 3 selected lines that, in the context of the story, left the viewer with the inference that he was just one more teen cracker.
ABC followed the CSS story with one about napster, also spun down the piracy line.
You can download the wav of both stories at http://www.galstar.com/~mctech/abcnews.wav
You might also take ABC up on their invitation to tell them what you think... after you read the linux advocacy page, or course.
The Institute to Refute Bull Shit Research published a study of web usage on their private server at http://127.0.0.1. Professor E. L. Eet, director of the institute, said, "the Stanford study is just so much lame crap."
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Professor Eet summarized some of the more salient findings of the IRBSR study.
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People who used the web on an average of five or more hours per day had these characteristics in common;
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Web users were 35% better informed due to the fact that their information came from a wide variety of primary sources instead of TV sound bytes relayed by a neighbor raking leaves.
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Web users were 22% happier at work, having spent their copious free time viewing their friends' vacation JPGs rather than hearing a re-hash of last night's X-Files re-run at the company water cooler.
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Web users enjoyed their vacation time 17% more because of detailed planning and advance reservation of flights, care rentals and hotels. Contributing factors included less stress from their mothers-in-law in the back seat due to map and routing software on their laptops which resulted in running out of gas 12% fewer times.
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Web users had 9% more disposable income from money they saved by purchasing their car, their furniture and their Christmas presents at eBay.
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Web users had 78% more friends than their unwired counterparts when the distinction of "just an online friend" was not excluded in the count.
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Professor Eet asked those who read the Stanford studiy to remember, "A school's primary purpose is to pass the societal norms on to the next generation. The conventional wisdom is funded for new studies, and the conventional wisdom gets published so that we can slurp it up like it was the sweetest of truth. This is true whether it is social science or pure science. Try to prove the Big Bang never happened and you get zilch. Blurt out that 90% of the universe is made up of cosmic silly string and you're man of the year. Publish a study that says life is going to hell and you got tenure for life."
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..and HDTV is based on MPEG-3. MPEG remains as the only real standard for compressed video. Take a tour through http://www.mpeg.org and you can see it has been a resilient enough set of standards to handle not only HDTV but web audio, DVD, tape recording and many other transmission and storage situations.
Their extensive site and links also mention MPEG-4 as the proposed standard for low-bandwidth transmission. They also have a lot of information and downloadable open source and free player software.
I am in charge of two RealPlayer streamers where I work, and they do look nice when they are not subject to heavy loads. However, I think these proprietary methods are doomed. They have a temporary advantage in quality, but the output is still 1/4 screen, drops frames and stalls when traffic increases. That may well be the future of low-bandwidth video, but its hard to believe it will create a long-term successful business.
As low bandwidth web video becomes more popular, other problems are going to become more visible. Today we are content to simply watch streaming video. Tomorrow we will want to record it, edit it and send it elsewhere, and increased artifacts due to incompatible compression techniques will raise their ugly head. The wide-spread use of MPEG coding at least gives a starting place to addressing those problems.
To others in this thread: MPEG-4 is NOT a Microsoft standard; it is ISO/IEC standard #14496, and I think its time for the OS community to start looking at it for delivery of web video. In the long run, its going to be the place to be.
Hello, international friend.
/. reader comments during the time between the user's refrigerator door opening and the time the light comes on to scan comments and adjust the threshold to a level that assures no comments with the words "hot grits" will be seen.
I understand your pain and confusion. "Yeti@home" is a parody of the American desire (dare I say NEED) to make everyting do something at all times. It is a bit of an obsession with us, because we want to be #1 again, and to do so we must charge blindly and patriotically down every avenue that will let us overcome the lead cureently held by The Republic of Gates.
Perhaps if you visit these similar web sites, you will gain an understanding:
http://www.spaghetti@home - the client offered at this site steals unused time between microwave oven beeps to create a tasty pasta salad.
http://www.betty@home - in the black screen time between channel changes on your TV, searches a tape in your VCR for the famous lost Flintstones episodes.
http://www.confetti@home - like yeti@home, this client feeds video from Times Square in NYC to your computer, but this client uses the idle time during "Server Error 425" messages to scan for bits of paper left over from New Year's eve and directs Legos robots with brooms to clean them up.
http://gritty@home - this site is on every slashdotter's bookmark list; a heavily modified IRC client is scripted to search
I hope this helps you, international friend. I tell you this in hopes it will increase world harmony and peace.
Umm, if I understand your post correctly, I think you are wrong.
/. individual) is that,
I believe an analogy would be that since Apache is open source, nobody would get sued for posting copyrighted material on a web site.
If iCrave content was not reproduction of content that was already the property of somebody else, they would not be in court.
And just to take the opportunity to go off editorializing, why doesn't iCrave do exactly what I think you are suggesting; put alternative content on the web?
Popular opinion (not yours, nor necessarily any one
1. TV sucks and lacks content...
2. Streaming video opens the doors to quality video content...
3. So, we get streaming video, and what shows up? The same crap we didn't like anyway, TV broadcasts.
Get TV broadcast off the web and replace it with some real content... like, uh.. um... the hampsterdance.com channel.
Well put. Now, where are the moderator points I didn't use up last week?
Here's an example of how it works here in the US and you can see several details that are relevant to comments in this thread: (you folks in Canada and Oz can scroll on by)
WGN in Chicago is licensed by the FCC to provide service in the Chicago market. According to the "must-carry" provision of the Communications Act, the Chicago cable systems HAVE to carry WGN (without change or charge) if they are in a certain range of the signal, defined in millivolts received with a certain type of antenna. And, WGN wants to be on the Chicago cable systems. If they are not on, viewers have to buy a separate antenna and A/B switch to watch WGN, and most of us would just say 'screw it, I've got 30 other channels.'
WGN is also prohibited by the FCC from increasing transmission power or putting up a taller or better antenna so they can get their signal out farther.
WGN also licenses another company, United Video Satelitte Group, to send the WGN programming out on satellite to be re-sold by UVSG to cable systems. USVG owns the rights to the sat feed; they paid WGN for that right. USVG then sells the rights to carry WGN to local cable systems.
The WGN satellite program is a separate legal entity from WGN broadcast; UVSG can include cue tones to run local commericals and they also must cover any programming that WGN has that is already licensed by broadcasters in the local area, if the broadcast station protests the programming.
If the local station bought the exclusive local broadcast rights to say, "Slashdot World News," they have the license for that local market. Another broadcast station or cable system can't legally put that program on the air.
(General disclaimer: IANAL)
You quoted 2 of the 3 sections of DCMA that I quoted, and the part you _didn't_ quote was the part that has relevance to JJ and the DeCSS case; reverse engineering.
Reverse engineering for the purpose of ensuring DVD player compatibility is specifically allowed. So, although you personally might be in violation of DCMA for having the unmitigated gall to actually want to play a DVD you bought, a developer of a DVD player may not be.
From this, I suspect a major part of the defense could be that JJ was a developer and therefore exempt. Whether the court will perceive open source DVD player development as a bunch of kiddie scripters swapping warez or a as a new alternative to the Cathedral is anybody's guess.
Maybe you're right that if you personally break the encryption and then play your DVD on a linux box, you could be subject to arrest.
You didn't do that, did you? You did? You BASTARD!!!
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"The National Football League... is asking for more than $5 million in damages, was particularly focused on shutting down iCraveTV this weekend, when the Super Bowl championship game will be broadcast. "
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$5 million? Gee, that's a lot of damage. How does waiting for a new frame of the Super Bowl every 20 minutes while the phrase "Net Congestion, re-buffering" sits at the bottom of the screen translate into $5 million in damages?
There is a big difference: cable networks specifically program their satellite feed with cue tones or relay closures for the express purpose of providing a hole to play local commercials. Cable networks provide this for local systems and broadcast networks provide holes for their local broadcast affilliates. A local broadcast station never provides holes for the local cable company.
(Apples != oranges) && (framing != local insertions)
Signal 11 has only demonstrated the truth of what he says in his user bio; too many moderators support dogma and not enough support poster's rights to intelligently disagree with the crowd.
I don't fault Rob for this. Is he supposed to give an IQ test to everyone before bestowing a basket of 5 moderator points to them?
If you want this system to work better, be critical when you Meta-moderate. Personally, when I meta-mod, a post that was moderated as 'informative' better have some information in it, not just unsupported opinions or I ding it 'unfair.'
Use meta-moderation to weed out the worst of the moderators and moderation will be more meaningful.
I have to admit I have not run DeCSS (I'm not buying a DVD drive until I can run it under Debian) and depend on comments on /. and other sites to be accurate.
/. and other sites, except this:
Neither am I a lawyer but it seems that DeCSS/css-auth exposes an unexpected contradiction in the DCMA.
DCMA 1201 says, "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." This is where the MPAA bases its lawsuits, and if DeCSS merely decprypts a movie, then it SEEMS to be a violation.
Ah, but a few paragraphs down, DCMA also says, "Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, _including_fair_use_, under this title." and I assume this means I can still make my own copies of material on DVD for my own use.
And then DCMA allows, " REVERSE ENGINEERING- (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs...[yadda yadda yadda]"
I give MoRE and everyone involved with open source DVD the benefit of the doubt that they are doing what the linux community has always done; reverse-engineering software to port a function to linux, and used the web to disseminate and develop the code. Maybe the courts won't agree; congress seems to have expected an electronics manufacturer to do the R-E in a locked lab rather than the wide-open environment of the web.
Everything I could say here has been said already on
If MoRE and the open source community develops a DVD player that, as an intermediate step, decrypts the movie before playing it and that opens the door to a piracy exploit.. tough luck for them.
They had the option of working with the open source community to develop a player that kept their encryption intact, but they chose to keep their 'secret' locked up tight... or at least so they thought.
Moral: Don't try to keep a genie in a bottle. It can't be done anymore.
Just because the interview was done today does not mean the story will be on today. They may actually be taking a little time to get their facts straight or they might have decided the stories they did run were of more interest to a general audience.
It could be on a later newscast, or even be sent out on the Daily Electronic Feed to affiliate stations and end up being shown on your local ABC newscast.
Doesn't ABC still do an 11pm version of the news? ( I wouldn't know... if it is, its on opposite The Simpsons)
Amen brothah! I was having trouble with my local ISP last week and decided to install AOL as a backup connection. It was like the apple in the Garden of Eden... right there under the coffee cup, and soooo tempting. And within mere minutes I was in deep doo-doo.
Did I click on some button that said to make AOL my default _anything_? Geez, I would never have done that on purpose. I already had enough of Exploder demanding to be my default browser over the years.
Like the guy says... "If you install AOL, you deserve the consequences."
I was a fool to even consider it. Fortunately, my system did not become any less stable, like some people. I was already running windoze so it couldn't get any worse.
I think you need to touch up your facts, Soc...
So you own these programs?
Yes. ( No. I have a license to show them in my own area, but only here)
And you broadcast them for free?
Yes. (got one right)
And companies pay you to get ad time on the programs?
Yes. (that's two right)
And I can buy a television from ANYONE, and watch one of these programs?
Yes. (3 , you're on a roll!)
So, let's say you have a big enough transmitting antenna to reach 100,000 viewers, and I came to you with an antenna that lets you reach 10 million viewers. Would you pay me a lot for that antenna?
You bet. And my advertisers would pay me more in turn. (Um, no! The height of the antenna and how far it can send a signal are part of the station's license that limit the station to my local area. If I buy a better antenna, I have to reduce the power I put into it so that I still reach the same viewers)
A typical program producer pays his rent by selling his program in several cities under an exclusive agreement in each. The web threatens the producer and the station's exclusive agreement.
This is not to say I agree that webcasting is damaging to them; I think its free publicity. If I saw a good program on real player, I'd check to see if it was on TV and watch it there instead of 1/4 screen with motion artifacts. If it was on a Toronto station, I'd email my local station and tell them they ought to get it on the air in my town too.
I'd want to know how far the listener is from the "bleeding" FM station before I made that call.
It's hard to believe an FM engineer at a higher-powered station would let his gear get that far out of whack when his paycheck depends on the station NOT getting a big fat fine from the FCC.
If there was really a problem with out-of-band signals, the engineers at the stations being stepped on would be first in line to call the offending station, ask for it to be repaired or even help do the work.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the engineer has signal generators and a spec analyzer that cost more than a stack of Drake receivers too.
Most cable networks allow local cable companies to cover up their commercials at specific times with crappy local advertising. This is to make those national commercials, like the one featuring www.hampsterdance.com, look like high-quality stuff in comparison.
Seriously now - those are known in the cable biz as 'local avails' and make networks attractive to cable companies because the cable co. can bring in some advertising revenue from the local bait shops, who otherwise could not afford to be on TV.
The cable company is NOT allowed to cover up ads from the local broadcast TV stations, who have their own crappy ads for furniture stores and used cars.