People here don't have to worry about how they are going to pay for getting sick, how they are going to ensure their kids get a decent education, or if someone in a country half way around the world is going to blow up my family because my government blew up his.
When you don't have these ever-present fears, its a lot easier to watch your government to ensure they don't strip you of all your freedoms.
I wonder, and you should too, if the labels had just shut the hell up when they realized trading music was starting to take off, would their business model would still be best? I mean, it really comes down to the advertising, and regardless of how much you reduce the cost of production and distribution, it all comes down to the amount of exposure. And if the labels hadn't gone bananas about Napster and file sharing, there wouldn't be a fistful of blogs promoting bands like Secret Cities being successful off of alternate business models.
Makes you wonder how much of the shift to alternate music business models is fueled by analysts talking about the shift to alternate business models.... remember, advertising is everything, and regardless of what you think of the ideas, blogs like Techdirt sure to advertise other ways of doing things.
The best part about this is that it cant scale. While it might be enough to beat even 2048 RSA in realtime (defeating CA based encryption), but encryption and decryption scale at different rates. the effort taken to encrypt something at 4096 bytes vs 2048 bytes is a little more than double, where the effort needed to decrypt it forcefully vs 2048 is ^2 (squared).
So while the rest of the computer industry move along with moores law doubling every 18 months, the NSA will have to exponentially increase their computing power every 18 months, which wont be possible without an incredible amount of money and time, and will eventually plain fizzle out.
See, the problem is that they need SOPA/PIPA in order to shutdown future widespread protests over bad bills. This is a catch 22 they are stuck in now and it sure seems to piss off the bureaucracy...
Theres no way they will be able to keep every single theme from the novels and short stories while at the same time totally adapting it to modern life. Good luck CBS, but you arent THAT good at copying.
Normally you're spot on with these things Mike, except that DNSSEC is an improvement to the CA infrastructure, not a repalcement. In fact, what makes a DNSSEC record secure is the fact that its digitally signed.
I work for a major research university, and as staff I dont even have to turn over anything I create while on the job, so I'm pretty sure we wont be trying anything like that with students... I think its less notable than you think Mike, and I think universities should get credit for that. Every private sector job I've had has wanted to own my work creations, but the public sector does not.
This is the point most people miss. Steam *IS* bullshit DRM, its just invisible to the User (which is why we dont consider it such), but it meets the technical 'requirements' for all the DRM out there.
Read the Trusted Computing memo from 2002 and realize that we owe the modern workings of the world to Gates. Without that memo (and MS changing total direction on the head of a dime) for the fact that ecommerce works, that email is relatively secure, and that intellectual property can exist at all on a computer.
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Ugh, even your interpretation of history is wrong. Both Jobs and Gates got the idea for a GUI from Xerox at similar times, but Jobs actually got the inner workings of the mouse for free, which Gates had to steal from Jobs. Also, MS started writing code for the Altair, and they didnt even start working with Apple until Jobs needed to license BASIC.
Zuckerberg was a psychology / comp sci student, specializing in social technology. The very notion that a couple of sports majors (sorry, law) came up with the idea for facebook is retarded. The only idea that was even theirs was exclusivity, which has been gone since late '06. Friendster and Hi5 were doing the Winklevoss idea back in '03 (minus the Harvard connection *wink wink*)
"I'm curious as to how exactly this would work. I think there are lots of companies that would love to sell games online. However, this could be really, really difficult to work in practice, and create some problems, depending on what the overall goals are. It would be nice, of course, if you could come up with a perfect system to sell games online, but getting people to pay without getting anything can often be much more difficult in practice than in theory."
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When you don't have these ever-present fears, its a lot easier to watch your government to ensure they don't strip you of all your freedoms.
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Thought experiment...
Makes you wonder how much of the shift to alternate music business models is fueled by analysts talking about the shift to alternate business models.... remember, advertising is everything, and regardless of what you think of the ideas, blogs like Techdirt sure to advertise other ways of doing things.
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So while the rest of the computer industry move along with moores law doubling every 18 months, the NSA will have to exponentially increase their computing power every 18 months, which wont be possible without an incredible amount of money and time, and will eventually plain fizzle out.
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"Why on EARTH does the US government have ANY say whatsoever about the contents of servers half way around the world??"
Your government is on a clear quest for world domination that would make Dr. Evil jealous.
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Re: Edison the pirate.
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History, its awesome.
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-- Everyone but Valve, 2002
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