In the link to the 2002 article on DVD's, I've noticed the last comment left was about sticking a chip in your device to play your media. I can't help but notice, nobody (including myself, at the time, to be honest) thought about the device having enough storage to hold a lot of your media as well as play it. And that's where we are now: A smart "phone" is a media holder that also plays the media for you, records it as well, plus everything else it does.
The puppy was sleeping? Oh no! That means there's no way the puppy could have given consent to being photographed in that manner! So it's not just puppy porn, it's puppy sexual misconduct!
I predict this will happen on the next episode of "Last Week Tonight"
JOHN OLIVER: Welcome to Last Week Tonight and, first up, net neutrality, now destr.....
HBO: Sorry, you can't talk about that any more.
JOHN: But I have full editorial control over the content of this show!
HBO: Yes, on anything that won't upset our new owners, AT&T.
JOHN: Fine, I quit! Hello, YouTubers, and welcome to this exclusive web edition of Last Week Tonight!
HBO: Hang on, you can't do that. We own the trademark on "Last Week Tonight" so we must get your video taken down for violating our trademarks.
JOHN: Oh for fuck's sake! Fine! Welcome, YouTubers. to the official John Oliver channel, where I, John Oliver, can finally talk about whatever the fuck I want to talk about which, in this case, is net neutrality.
AT&T: We're just gonna slow down this YouTube thing to a crawl.....
What you are better off doing is finding an old working cassette deck and hook it up to your computer. Or if you're too lazy, send your cassettes to me as I have both a cassette deck (near top of the line Technics model from 1997) and an audio CD recorder, as well as a computer.
The ACLU amicus brief was purely a publicity stunt to remind people about freedom of speech. Unlike PETA with the monkey selfie, nobody has been harmed, they got the publicity they wanted, we got a good laugh and Bob can still eat shit! Actually I give the ACLU full kudos for using this case for the publicity.
"The UK government, amidst various forms of copyright insanity, at least realized that extending copyright durations on 50-year-old songs was pointless."
But that was 10 years ago. What's the situation now? Because I don't see an inundation of copyright-expired Beatles recordings that I had hoped for (not to mention heaps of 1950's music that I'm sick of buying CD's of only to find out they are full of "recordings by one or more of the original band")
Well, somewhat. Whilst we can swear our heads off on free to air television provided the appropriate timeslot and rating (HBO's "Deadwood" has been on free-to-air television here!) any streaming service is supposed to still classify it's content. And X-rated material (i.e. porn) is banned.
Of course, nobody seems to expect user generated content sites to be classified. So YouTube doesn't have to but Netflix (I believe) is supposed to. And as for porno being banned, well, there is no rule against watching porn, as long as you don't let someone under 18 see it, you're just not allowed to host/offer it here. Confused?
Awww, Hollywood, do you guys need an icepack for the big gigantic slap in the face you just got? Well I know you paid for the icepack already but that'll be another $5 to freeze it (which will convert the contents to a different format)
Look, saying hackers aren't all hooded kids in their parent's basement, then putting a picture like this with an ethical hacking course, is really probably not helping the cause!
Our one pay TV provider, Foxtel, broke off the sports channels into an optional extra package several years ago (after almost ten years of customer demand). Suffice to say when that option came in, we dumped the sports channels faster than you could say $15 per month extra.
Now they have the V8 Supercars races so I'm tempted but I only watch that every now and then when bored so it's not worth the now $25 per month extra.
So it's OK for Google to allow users to share files provided they remove infringing URLs when requested yet it's suddenly a criminal act when Dotcom does the same?
In America it is called "The Cloud" and it is legal but if it outside of America it is called a "file locker" and they are illegal. At least that is they way it seems to me.
Good point. I'd forgotten about SCMS, although I bought a CD recorder recently to make it easier to transfer any cassettes and records I want computerised. I'm used to recording to CD-RW then ripping it to edit in the computer, so no SCMS.
I'm always happy to record via analogue if I can't record in digital. It might "degrade" the sound quality but its by one generation (digital source to analogue signal to digital recording) so the quality loss for me is negligible.
But, yes, you're right. SCMS is the main reason most digital recording technologies of the 1990's never really took off before the PC based CD-R's, IMO.
If anybody is interested, my music library includes at least 10 albums that you can't buy on iTunes plus at least a dozen songs. And that is only "so far" as I've only ripped about 10% of my music collection.
And I can play it anywhere. I have my music on CD. And cassette. And some on my phone. I'm contemplating mini-discs. No need for 8-track, although it would be funny just to see people's face when I switch programmes and Radiohead start playing. Or Taylor Swift. I can't decide which would be more amusing. Maybe some Kanye West (yuck!)
As for physical media, I use a CD player, a cassette deck - yes, I said a cassette deck! - a record player - sorry, a turntable - and a hard disk drive in my computer. I buy what I like. If I don't know a song, YouTube usually fixes that. And if I like it, I buy it. Some things new, some things second hand.
The best part is, though: It is all mine and I choose what to do with it.
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JOHN OLIVER: Welcome to Last Week Tonight and, first up, net neutrality, now destr.....
HBO: Sorry, you can't talk about that any more.
JOHN: But I have full editorial control over the content of this show!
HBO: Yes, on anything that won't upset our new owners, AT&T.
JOHN: Fine, I quit! Hello, YouTubers, and welcome to this exclusive web edition of Last Week Tonight!
HBO: Hang on, you can't do that. We own the trademark on "Last Week Tonight" so we must get your video taken down for violating our trademarks.
JOHN: Oh for fuck's sake! Fine! Welcome, YouTubers. to the official John Oliver channel, where I, John Oliver, can finally talk about whatever the fuck I want to talk about which, in this case, is net neutrality.
AT&T: We're just gonna slow down this YouTube thing to a crawl.....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNgm8Cn-HpY
What you are better off doing is finding an old working cassette deck and hook it up to your computer. Or if you're too lazy, send your cassettes to me as I have both a cassette deck (near top of the line Technics model from 1997) and an audio CD recorder, as well as a computer.
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But that was 10 years ago. What's the situation now? Because I don't see an inundation of copyright-expired Beatles recordings that I had hoped for (not to mention heaps of 1950's music that I'm sick of buying CD's of only to find out they are full of "recordings by one or more of the original band")
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Australia. "The land down under" means backwards.
Of course, nobody seems to expect user generated content sites to be classified. So YouTube doesn't have to but Netflix (I believe) is supposed to. And as for porno being banned, well, there is no rule against watching porn, as long as you don't let someone under 18 see it, you're just not allowed to host/offer it here. Confused?
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Australia: Foxtel
Now they have the V8 Supercars races so I'm tempted but I only watch that every now and then when bored so it's not worth the now $25 per month extra.
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In America it is called "The Cloud" and it is legal but if it outside of America it is called a "file locker" and they are illegal. At least that is they way it seems to me.
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I'm always happy to record via analogue if I can't record in digital. It might "degrade" the sound quality but its by one generation (digital source to analogue signal to digital recording) so the quality loss for me is negligible.
But, yes, you're right. SCMS is the main reason most digital recording technologies of the 1990's never really took off before the PC based CD-R's, IMO.
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My Collection
And I can play it anywhere. I have my music on CD. And cassette. And some on my phone. I'm contemplating mini-discs. No need for 8-track, although it would be funny just to see people's face when I switch programmes and Radiohead start playing. Or Taylor Swift. I can't decide which would be more amusing. Maybe some Kanye West (yuck!)
As for physical media, I use a CD player, a cassette deck - yes, I said a cassette deck! - a record player - sorry, a turntable - and a hard disk drive in my computer. I buy what I like. If I don't know a song, YouTube usually fixes that. And if I like it, I buy it. Some things new, some things second hand.
The best part is, though: It is all mine and I choose what to do with it.
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