The ddal with the labels was for shiny discs only.
For the rest we'll have to wait for Radiohead to comment which they haven't till now. (They could be WTFing along with a lot of other people and calling in lawyers and such.)
There's quite the debate going on at TorrentFreak about it.
The distinction between cordless phones and cells is that cell phones operate on as a public network in the same fashion as land lines.
Cordless phones operate on a private voice network and it's the responsibility of the network owner to encrypt signals while using public airways.
Ditto for WiFi.
In both cases you're using a low power radio station, folks, it's up to you, the owner of the transmitter and any network attached to it, voice, data or both to secure it.
"Frequency response of tape exceeds CD. CD rolls of at 16KHz where there is noticeable distorsion.
Even if tape record heards have cut offs as low as 10KHz for even cheap system, the sound distorsion in tape is less.."
C30. C60 or C90? Each one as different properties because the thickness of the tape decreases as the time increases.
As for frequency response, bull twaddle. There are two unrepairable factors on CD recordings that will cause roll off, hiss and other problems the first is the width of the tape the second is the slow recording speed. The slower the recording speed the less fidelity there is.
"Dolby B systems dont hont hiss." Maybe not but DolbyB plays some tricks to get rid of hiss that result in a cut off or depression of certain frequencies in the high end that further reduce fidelity.
Also, all tape deteriorates over time. It's just a fact of life considering how they're made and what they're made of.
And the more the tape is played the more deterioration of the signal there will be particularly on a cassette as you're running the tape across both record and playback heads with the resulting magnetic field nibbling away at the fidelity until both the high and low ends are, to use your phrase "eaten away".
No techology is ideal. Still most of the things you're complaining of are a result of poor mastering and poor manufacturing.
I have CDs that display all the flaws you complain of and CDs that have crystal clear sound across the audible range.
Incidentally no recorded sound is ORIGINAL as no studio recording performance is ORIGINAL in the sense that the band did it all in one take and the producer didn't fiddle with the sliders and knobs.
Closest you're gonna get is a live recording. Maybe.
The streets and buildings are public places, so you're displaying the sets in a public place easily visible by anyone around it.
The copyright on the resulting composition which will be seen when the movie is released doesn't exist until the composition exists. (Yes, movie companies routinely copyright rushes but that's another story.) If the pictures or videos aren't treading anywhere near the composition just how can anyone be infringing anything? Particularly as it's happening in public place?
If that chaos is performance art I'm the uncle of quite a few monkeys.
A tranformer tossing an inanimate object will be done in a studio complete with green screen and not outdoors, for one thing.
Outdoors are used for a number of purposes, not the least backgrounds, weather and the fact that the action itself is too big to be contained on an indoor set. (See above about transformer and green screen.)
Also, it's easier to do explosions outdoors and there's
less chance of wiping out a studio that way!
So I'm failing to see where the copyright on the finished movie is infringed by taking a quick video of some outdoor chaos (planned or not and most of it isn't) and tossing it on YouTube.
As for the idiocy of issuing take down notices; we are in complete agreement. :-)
I assume that you never heard the truism that the "shortest kept secrets are military ones" and that they're even shorter in areas of active conflict. Reality not some nationalist illusion.
I'm not about to excuse poor decision making by government and outright lying by the same on the fact that my country is fighting a war. Nor should I nor should I be expected to shield said government should I find the evidence.
Believe me, AC, it's not like the enemy doesn't already know. They do. Long before this leak, the insurgents, Taliban and others knew.
"few people seem to have a reasonable solution to the riddle of keeping art profitable yet distributing it for free. The answer often given to this problem is "It's not my job on how to keep artists employed".?""
This reflects a feeling of entitlement in the "I produce a song: therefore I deserve a profit" sense excused by it being art when we would laugh at the corner store owner who said the same thing.
Copyright does not guarantee a profit for the artist. Let's get that little lie out of the way first. All kinds of artists have copyright on all kinds of songs, photos, drawings, sculptures and so on haven't seen a dime for them. Why? Not downloading but the small fact that no one wants to buy what they have to sell. In that sense, copyright alone is immaterial.
There are many artists who have some (or a lot) of commercial success but don't see a dime due to the fees they pay out to agents, galleries, record companies, publishers and on and on. They have their copyright but not the dreamed off "house on the hill" complete with white piano.
And no, at the end of the day it's not my job to keep artist's employed any more than it's their job to keep me employed.
The artist's job, pure and simple, is to create something that I'm willing to pay for. Copyright won't enter in to my purchasing decision. It's do I want this.
If there's a middle man screwing me over, say EMI, then I'm likely to want to find a bazaar that leaves the middle man out. I'm sorry for the artist but they're also the one who made the decision to use EMI/Random House/Whoever who are more interested in screwing me over than they are in the artist who they're also screwing over.
Could it be that there's something in The Shawshank Redemption that people find compelling, resonating and important while they don't find the same with Alice?
I've noticed on "pirate sites" that it's also one of the most downloaded too.
Hmmmm, most downloaded, most sold, probably among the most rented.
Once upon a time there were theatres that were actually comfortable to sit in, that didn't charge an arm, leg and require a mortgage for bad popcorn and snacks, had ushers who took you too your seat politely and not like cranky prison guards, had full sized screens, played fewer ads and had sound systems that didn't distort silence.
Then came the multiplex. Yes, movies were once important social events. Then came the little airless boxes in "the multiplex".
Then came the internet.
Movies can be social events again in a big theatre. Just kill the f-ing multiplex, make the place interesting and comfortable again and people will come to see a good (hell, even average) movie cause once we see it we want to talk about it with other human beingṡ.
We're social critters, remember? Hell. Even put in a little bar or a little coffee shop.!
This is how the community usually does things, for which all of us can be thankful. GPL violations are, mostly, dealt with quietly though the license has held up sturdily in court.
And yes, both the GPL and CC licenses, along with most other open source licenses are a hack on an increasingly bad situation they are better than nothing at all.
Seeing as these communities thrive on a combination of cooperation and comptetitiveness this is how things have worked. That it hasn't blown apart in a cloud that would make Mythbusters envious is simply amazing.
Of course, this is how humans have done things for millenia certainly before the advent of things like copyright and patents.
Let's see now, all this over a $1200 chair that comes with a large collection of snake oil claims. The site owner objects to being called on this bans the guy reviewing the review and then sends a bogus DCMA takedown which reacts with a nervious nellie ISP shuttng the site down.
Up to now a pretty normal Techdirt story. Then the fun starts!
RevStu's stalking troll appears who might have added something though it's soon obvious that he has fewer functioning brain cells than TAM.
Somewhere I have no doubt Olin Coles has probably responded as an AC and one of his staff has shown up with a painfully tortured argument.
Of course, that this has managed to do it send me off to Benchmark Reviews where I'm greeted by an overly busy, 10 year old design (at best) poor even for that era where reviews read like sales pitches. Probably why I never heard of it till now. Certainly why I'll never consider it as a reference in future.
Streisand Effect anyone? :-)
Oh, and little baby troll. You can give up now. You're nothing but a crashing bore. I'm missing TAM already.
There's a couple of things going on here. The first is that the essential laziness of media is showing through when they blindly accept such tripe as fact. The second is that the more they cut back on reporters the more the first becomes evident.
Then there's the fact that for newpapers the Entertainment section isn't treated as hard news (i.e. requiring a modicum of fact checking etc.) because it's really a cash cow. Kind of like the "New Homes" sections. (For television think the entertainment segment which is treated the same.) This stuff is considered fluff and the entertainment industry knows and exploits this.
Reporters will tell you they don't believe a word of these reports but they plop it out there anyway because "who cares, it's only fluff and doesn't really affect anything". Having said that they then treat it with all the gravity that a break in at Ft. Knox or the Bank of England would get.
Then, of course, the same reporters and organizations wonder why they're about as well believed and trusted as politicians are and almost as loathed while the claim that they are vital to the proper functioning of a free society.
That last part is true though no one would know it any more as not offending advertisers or chasing them so closely they might as well stick their collective noses up the advertisers tail pipe. Particularly the entertainment industry's tail pipe. I guess it smells better.
As the article says the UK Central Government is about to release documents under a Creative Commons license so the fears of fees seem to be allayed, at least a bit.
In Canada the Crown Copyright lays with the Federal, Provincial and Territorial governments and the Queen's Printer in each jurisdiction.
AFAIK, no one has ever been hauled into court for redistributing all or part of an FOI request result in Canada, quoting from one or commenting directly on the content.
My understanding is that the Crown Copyright has historically been only for preservation, or at least that's been the excuse. I'm certainly not claiming that it hasn't been abused or never will be but if we follow the UK pattern it reduces the chances.
That said, copyright and patents are supposed to serve the same basic purposes they're supposed to serve in the United States.
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For the rest we'll have to wait for Radiohead to comment which they haven't till now. (They could be WTFing along with a lot of other people and calling in lawyers and such.)
There's quite the debate going on at TorrentFreak about it.
On the post: US 27th In Broadband Speeds? Slower Than Kyrgyzstan
Re: at least usa people dont live in canada
After all, you forgot that Rogers runs the country via the Tories :)
On the post: UK Gov't Review Says Google WiFi Sniffing Didn't Sniff Anything Significant
Re: Re: Re: WiFi Trolls
Cordless phones operate on a private voice network and it's the responsibility of the network owner to encrypt signals while using public airways.
Ditto for WiFi.
In both cases you're using a low power radio station, folks, it's up to you, the owner of the transmitter and any network attached to it, voice, data or both to secure it.
Got it? :)
On the post: Forget Vinyl, Now Cassette Tapes Are Making A Comeback?
Re: Why tape is better technology than CD
Even if tape record heards have cut offs as low as 10KHz for even cheap system, the sound distorsion in tape is less.."
C30. C60 or C90? Each one as different properties because the thickness of the tape decreases as the time increases.
As for frequency response, bull twaddle. There are two unrepairable factors on CD recordings that will cause roll off, hiss and other problems the first is the width of the tape the second is the slow recording speed. The slower the recording speed the less fidelity there is.
"Dolby B systems dont hont hiss." Maybe not but DolbyB plays some tricks to get rid of hiss that result in a cut off or depression of certain frequencies in the high end that further reduce fidelity.
Also, all tape deteriorates over time. It's just a fact of life considering how they're made and what they're made of.
And the more the tape is played the more deterioration of the signal there will be particularly on a cassette as you're running the tape across both record and playback heads with the resulting magnetic field nibbling away at the fidelity until both the high and low ends are, to use your phrase "eaten away".
No techology is ideal. Still most of the things you're complaining of are a result of poor mastering and poor manufacturing.
I have CDs that display all the flaws you complain of and CDs that have crystal clear sound across the audible range.
Incidentally no recorded sound is ORIGINAL as no studio recording performance is ORIGINAL in the sense that the band did it all in one take and the producer didn't fiddle with the sliders and knobs.
Closest you're gonna get is a live recording. Maybe.
On the post: Forget Vinyl, Now Cassette Tapes Are Making A Comeback?
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: ASCAP Boss Refuses To Debate Lessig; Claims That It's An Attempt To 'Silence' ASCAP
Re:
Mind you, I thought Hollywood Squares was scraping the bottom.
On the post: ASCAP Boss Refuses To Debate Lessig; Claims That It's An Attempt To 'Silence' ASCAP
Re: �Copyleft�
And yes, I'm sure he has absolutely no idea what it means.
On the post: Paramount Sends More Bogus DMCA Takedowns On Fans Filming Transformers 3 Shoot
Re:
The copyright on the resulting composition which will be seen when the movie is released doesn't exist until the composition exists. (Yes, movie companies routinely copyright rushes but that's another story.) If the pictures or videos aren't treading anywhere near the composition just how can anyone be infringing anything? Particularly as it's happening in public place?
Enquiring minds want to know!
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Re:
If that chaos is performance art I'm the uncle of quite a few monkeys.
A tranformer tossing an inanimate object will be done in a studio complete with green screen and not outdoors, for one thing.
Outdoors are used for a number of purposes, not the least backgrounds, weather and the fact that the action itself is too big to be contained on an indoor set. (See above about transformer and green screen.)
Also, it's easier to do explosions outdoors and there's
less chance of wiping out a studio that way!
So I'm failing to see where the copyright on the finished movie is infringed by taking a quick video of some outdoor chaos (planned or not and most of it isn't) and tossing it on YouTube.
As for the idiocy of issuing take down notices; we are in complete agreement. :-)
On the post: Wikileaks Afghan War Document Leak Again Raises Questions: Treason Or Whistleblowing?
Re:
Damn good thing that.
I assume that you never heard the truism that the "shortest kept secrets are military ones" and that they're even shorter in areas of active conflict. Reality not some nationalist illusion.
I'm not about to excuse poor decision making by government and outright lying by the same on the fact that my country is fighting a war. Nor should I nor should I be expected to shield said government should I find the evidence.
Believe me, AC, it's not like the enemy doesn't already know. They do. Long before this leak, the insurgents, Taliban and others knew.
On the post: Yes, People Can Comment On Content Business Models Without Having Produced Hit Content
Re:
This reflects a feeling of entitlement in the "I produce a song: therefore I deserve a profit" sense excused by it being art when we would laugh at the corner store owner who said the same thing.
Copyright does not guarantee a profit for the artist. Let's get that little lie out of the way first. All kinds of artists have copyright on all kinds of songs, photos, drawings, sculptures and so on haven't seen a dime for them. Why? Not downloading but the small fact that no one wants to buy what they have to sell. In that sense, copyright alone is immaterial.
There are many artists who have some (or a lot) of commercial success but don't see a dime due to the fees they pay out to agents, galleries, record companies, publishers and on and on. They have their copyright but not the dreamed off "house on the hill" complete with white piano.
And no, at the end of the day it's not my job to keep artist's employed any more than it's their job to keep me employed.
The artist's job, pure and simple, is to create something that I'm willing to pay for. Copyright won't enter in to my purchasing decision. It's do I want this.
If there's a middle man screwing me over, say EMI, then I'm likely to want to find a bazaar that leaves the middle man out. I'm sorry for the artist but they're also the one who made the decision to use EMI/Random House/Whoever who are more interested in screwing me over than they are in the artist who they're also screwing over.
On the post: Theater Owner Begs Hollywood Not To Give Consumers What They Want
Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, it kind of is devalued
I've noticed on "pirate sites" that it's also one of the most downloaded too.
Hmmmm, most downloaded, most sold, probably among the most rented.
Wonder what THAT says? :)
On the post: Theater Owner Begs Hollywood Not To Give Consumers What They Want
Re: Ahhh, the multiplex!
Then came the multiplex. Yes, movies were once important social events. Then came the little airless boxes in "the multiplex".
Then came the internet.
Movies can be social events again in a big theatre. Just kill the f-ing multiplex, make the place interesting and comfortable again and people will come to see a good (hell, even average) movie cause once we see it we want to talk about it with other human beingṡ.
We're social critters, remember? Hell. Even put in a little bar or a little coffee shop.!
On the post: Lawsuit Averted As WordPress and Thesis Settle Differences Over Themes And The GPL
Normal, thankfully.
And yes, both the GPL and CC licenses, along with most other open source licenses are a hack on an increasingly bad situation they are better than nothing at all.
Seeing as these communities thrive on a combination of cooperation and comptetitiveness this is how things have worked. That it hasn't blown apart in a cloud that would make Mythbusters envious is simply amazing.
Of course, this is how humans have done things for millenia certainly before the advent of things like copyright and patents.
On the post: Reviewer Caught Posting Marketing Material As A Review... Uses DMCA To Takedown Site Of Guy Who Exposed Him
Up to now a pretty normal Techdirt story. Then the fun starts!
RevStu's stalking troll appears who might have added something though it's soon obvious that he has fewer functioning brain cells than TAM.
Somewhere I have no doubt Olin Coles has probably responded as an AC and one of his staff has shown up with a painfully tortured argument.
Of course, that this has managed to do it send me off to Benchmark Reviews where I'm greeted by an overly busy, 10 year old design (at best) poor even for that era where reviews read like sales pitches. Probably why I never heard of it till now. Certainly why I'll never consider it as a reference in future.
Streisand Effect anyone? :-)
Oh, and little baby troll. You can give up now. You're nothing but a crashing bore. I'm missing TAM already.
On the post: Copyright Finally Getting Around To Destroying Player Piano Music... One Century Late
Re: 100 Years
On the post: Copyright Finally Getting Around To Destroying Player Piano Music... One Century Late
Re: Be careful what you wish for
On the post: Why Does The Press Still Blindly Believe 'Studies' Put Out By The Entertainment Industry?
The Laziness of the News Media
Then there's the fact that for newpapers the Entertainment section isn't treated as hard news (i.e. requiring a modicum of fact checking etc.) because it's really a cash cow. Kind of like the "New Homes" sections. (For television think the entertainment segment which is treated the same.) This stuff is considered fluff and the entertainment industry knows and exploits this.
Reporters will tell you they don't believe a word of these reports but they plop it out there anyway because "who cares, it's only fluff and doesn't really affect anything". Having said that they then treat it with all the gravity that a break in at Ft. Knox or the Bank of England would get.
Then, of course, the same reporters and organizations wonder why they're about as well believed and trusted as politicians are and almost as loathed while the claim that they are vital to the proper functioning of a free society.
That last part is true though no one would know it any more as not offending advertisers or chasing them so closely they might as well stick their collective noses up the advertisers tail pipe. Particularly the entertainment industry's tail pipe. I guess it smells better.
On the post: Crown Copyright Strikes Again: Documents Revealed Under Freedom Of Information Act Can Infringe On Copyright?
In Canada the Crown Copyright lays with the Federal, Provincial and Territorial governments and the Queen's Printer in each jurisdiction.
AFAIK, no one has ever been hauled into court for redistributing all or part of an FOI request result in Canada, quoting from one or commenting directly on the content.
My understanding is that the Crown Copyright has historically been only for preservation, or at least that's been the excuse. I'm certainly not claiming that it hasn't been abused or never will be but if we follow the UK pattern it reduces the chances.
That said, copyright and patents are supposed to serve the same basic purposes they're supposed to serve in the United States.
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Re: Re: Re:
Oh yeah, and, enlightened beings that we are we'll save the USA from itself by shoving ACTA down your throats!
/sarcasm off....I think
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