They manipulated a Time Magazine(i think) online poll to spell something out with the first letters of the names. See the previous ATT problems. Basicly it's a group of people where a few seem to have some skills and then a large amount of man hours to devote to "projects"
Not everyone downloads, Some of us just would like our media in a different format. In my case something that i can store on my PS3's harddrive so my kids are not getting into the DVDs and scratching them. I'm down to 4 dvd's that i can't rip. "Helen of Troy" crashes the firmware in my dvd drive. "The Dark Knight" has a bad table of contents, it plays if you use the menus but not if you try to play a "track". and my two Bluray movies, which I knew would be an issue when I bought them. So for those first two(maybe even the later two) I would feel justified in downloading a copy in a simmilar resolution to the copy that I have. ie, No bluray copy of "The Dark Knight". "The Dark Knight" has a thing to download a copy of the movie legally, but it requires windows media player 11, and windows XP or better. I'm not running that so I'm out of luck there.
As it stands I don't see movies in the theater. Last one i saw i think was 300, there might be one since then. I'm not opposed to buying DvD's i like owning the disk, how about providing a free and clear copy of the movie(maybe just dump CSS) and do not show me the "you wouldn't steal a car..." and let me skip the previews.(Disney DvDs are very bad for this) All in all give me what I want and then let the market decide the price and it will sell. I'd love Dvds that when inserted just started playing the feature.
I buy very very few DVDs these days, most are shipped to me in little red envelopes and shipped back in the same. So the rental market is a "lost potential sale" which you seem to be against. If I could get all of those streamed to me I'd probably stop getting the little plastic disks all together.
If DVDs were unavailable it would not change my theater viewing habits in the short term, or mid term how about in 12 years when i can leave the kids at home alone?
I would have bought one if it was basically a macbook air without the hinge and keyboard. It needed to be running OSX(yes i realize that the iPhone is running OSX, but i mean the full retail one for the rest of the computers). Also i looked at the tech specs page.
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
WTF?! Main profile level 3.1? you mean that I would now need to keep to copies of my DVD rips? a "High profile level 4.1" for my PS3(I think it will actually play the main profile level 4.0) and one for my iPad? The way it is I'd like to be ripping to h264 or theora with all the special features in a MKV, but alas the PS3 won't handle them. I'm betting the CPU isn't a full custom CPU, but an Arm cortex A9 with a hardware h246 decoder slapped on, with few if any tweaks.
Let me run whatever i want and i'll shell over $650 for this with 16GB of SSD. What I want is something to watch my dvd rips in my comfy chair while the kids are watching something, and have a terminal for SSH with X forwarding for access to my desktop, and have it have it's own web browser for reading techdirt/slashdot/penny arcade/etc. Bonus points for being sealed well enough to take to the kitchen to prop up as an electronic recipe card.
"While it sounds like it technically could be considered a form of DRM, I for one don't have a problem with it (as the updates sound like they will be at their discresion) - As long as, like Mike mentioned, there would be no way to void or alter your legally purchased file"
So what about in 6 years when the company hosting the auth server goes under? or they decide that they want to move to "MusicDNA2" and that all of the musicDNA files must be redownloaded in a 1 week window one at a time. Will i be able to load them on my phone/iPod/PMP/car/HTPC/etc? If it is just an MP3 file with some special info in the metadata section for their player to use/update, i'm in, but thats not what it sounds like it will be.
to be a bit picky about this: "a DVD player is a DVD player..."
Well except for that pesky CSS "encryption" that would need to be broken to send it across the internet. which last i knew was a violation of the Anti-circumvention bits in everyones favorite DMCA. So i'm sure they could stream some DVDs but i know first hand that "the dark knight" won't play correctly unless you use the position given to you by then menu system, and not in the ToC. The key server idea still does not get around the fact that they would need to decrypt a lot of these movies.
I want a tablet computer, not a tablet media player. a core2duo culv cpu, ION2 chipset and a resistive/capacitive(selectable) touchscreen. I want to be able to run my own open source apps on it with out the walled garden that is apples iPhone OS.
"As a consumer, this isn't my job. As a geek, I'll probably download the program and enjoy it the same way you did, but we're not the majority of internet users."
Even that won't necessarily match with what the ISP sent you, i'm pretty sure ntop won't account for things your router drops in it's firewall rules, or packets blasted at you.
I would be okay with metered access if the ISP let no packets i didn't want get to me. No MS network neighborhood, blaster worm, SSH brute-forcing, apache/IIS attacks, etc. All of that is downstream data to me, that all eats into my bandwidth that I am paying for, but did not request. The problem here is that if they straight up block port 22/80/bunch of other useful ports, I'll go looking for a new provider. How would they have a guess at what is valid traffic and what is not, with out using some sort of deep packet inspection. So I'll be looking to keep my un-metered connection until the issue of unrequested downstream traffic gets solved without DPI.
if they had a legitimate login to the system, no hacking. legit in this case being a source telling them their ID/password(assumming the source claimed that it was their auth), or the journalists own account on the system.
If the initial login was not legit(blank passwords and exposed UIDs not being counted here, especially if they were handed out at a demo. You have no excuse for letting demo accounts having full access) then yes it was a crime, but not because they viewed other data than the account contained, but because they gained access to the system in the first place.
IMO putting things on the internet without security/password is like putting a big "FREE STUFF, HAUL AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE" sign on it. no complaining that it then was viewed/copied/played with/etc.
During the internal tests of the software no one thought of trying to change the or even using greasemonkey to modify fields in the form. REPEAT AFTER ME "ALL USER SUBMITTED DATA SHOULD BE TREATED AS HOSTILE, UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE AND SANITIZED", that includes data that you sent them, no guarantee that it didn't have bits flipped while moving across the internet, or that someone in the middle isn't trying to play games. What amazes me more is that this was contracted out to a third party to be hosted on their hardware in their building with god only knows what physical security. WHat happens when you call a random extension at this place and then act confused and say you have this number as tech support for using the system, and that you are just trying to verify some data but it isn't showing up, and ask if they could try there? Also electronic access to computer systems is not the same as physical access to a card catalog, or warehouse of boxes with this info in it, the rules need to be different.
So then disable the embed links, Problem solved. You could also hash the video name and the user name together in the embed link. Then require a login to get an embed link. Find a site that you feel is misusing the link, just display a link back to hulu in place of the video. ohh well, if I could play it on my old school CRT (RF only) TV easily from my couch i'd be much more inclined to use it.
@ Yaniel
I'm not sure ereader/ebook will ever compleatly knock off books. I've seen books from 200 years ago that still have all the information in them. Yes they took some care to keep that long. Also until battery tech improves to the point where the kindle will last weeks, I'll keep my books. Actually a lot of my "analog" portable devices are still winning over the digital ones simple because of the batteries.
P.S. I would really like my flying car that runs on the fusion of garbage. GOGO Mr. Fusion.
I agree with you that there needs to be a middle ground found. The problem is that those with the rights don't seem to want to talk with me. Not only that but they would rather spend money that would normally be invested in R&D on lobbyist for even more control and longer and longer rights. Also I'm sure a lot of the disrespect is from not feeling respected by the IP holders. Buy a dvd recently? Did it have an unskippable vid about not stealing a hand bag, cell phone, and car? I have several that way, "WTF I JUST BOUGHT THE GD MOVIE! WTF ARE YOU SHOWING ME THIS!!" is what goes through my head every time. Also I have about 10 devices capable of playing videos (with audio), the current major holders feel that I should have to buy the content once per device.
A situation and a question; I have a few dvds that have been damaged, I own the whole package, case, cover art, etc (no i don't have a recept, these are ~7 years old). Now I have friends/family with that have the same content on dvds they own (one case was a different aspect ratio 4:3, mine was 16:9) How do you feel that I borrowed them, and ripped them, just like have have been doing for all of the dvds I own?
How about when I don't borrow a dvd, but I rip it into a more convenient storage format(h264+aac in a mpeg4 on a harddisk)? I'm doing this mainly because my kids are very hard on dvds(see above example), and I want to protect my investment/purchase.
I would argue all of the above falls into fair use, or it should. I bought the dvd, I should be free to do what i like with it in private(comercial activity excluded), as long as long as it all takes place in private
"One of them happened to be a musician and his answer was: "Well, I've been in financial crisis all of my life so it's just about time it happens to everyone else too" ;)"
I know that a large number of musicians are in that position. Those not being backed by a huge record contract and the RIAA/BREIN hype machine.
"tell me 1 'artits', just one! that is suffering because of the global recession?"
I think the above is aimed at those on the global top 100 pop charts. Yes, the real musicians that play gigs in bars and night clubs localy and get a very small cut of the cover charges are struggling, more so as less people go out and spend money like that. Find me a top 100 artist that has had to curtail spending in anyway due to the current recession, or an exec on BREIN/RIAA/MPAA that has had to do the same.
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As it stands I don't see movies in the theater. Last one i saw i think was 300, there might be one since then. I'm not opposed to buying DvD's i like owning the disk, how about providing a free and clear copy of the movie(maybe just dump CSS) and do not show me the "you wouldn't steal a car..." and let me skip the previews.(Disney DvDs are very bad for this) All in all give me what I want and then let the market decide the price and it will sell. I'd love Dvds that when inserted just started playing the feature.
I buy very very few DVDs these days, most are shipped to me in little red envelopes and shipped back in the same. So the rental market is a "lost potential sale" which you seem to be against. If I could get all of those streamed to me I'd probably stop getting the little plastic disks all together.
If DVDs were unavailable it would not change my theater viewing habits in the short term, or mid term how about in 12 years when i can leave the kids at home alone?
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would have bought one...
WTF?! Main profile level 3.1? you mean that I would now need to keep to copies of my DVD rips? a "High profile level 4.1" for my PS3(I think it will actually play the main profile level 4.0) and one for my iPad? The way it is I'd like to be ripping to h264 or theora with all the special features in a MKV, but alas the PS3 won't handle them. I'm betting the CPU isn't a full custom CPU, but an Arm cortex A9 with a hardware h246 decoder slapped on, with few if any tweaks.
Let me run whatever i want and i'll shell over $650 for this with 16GB of SSD. What I want is something to watch my dvd rips in my comfy chair while the kids are watching something, and have a terminal for SSH with X forwarding for access to my desktop, and have it have it's own web browser for reading techdirt/slashdot/penny arcade/etc. Bonus points for being sealed well enough to take to the kitchen to prop up as an electronic recipe card.
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So what about in 6 years when the company hosting the auth server goes under? or they decide that they want to move to "MusicDNA2" and that all of the musicDNA files must be redownloaded in a 1 week window one at a time. Will i be able to load them on my phone/iPod/PMP/car/HTPC/etc? If it is just an MP3 file with some special info in the metadata section for their player to use/update, i'm in, but thats not what it sounds like it will be.
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Well except for that pesky CSS "encryption" that would need to be broken to send it across the internet. which last i knew was a violation of the Anti-circumvention bits in everyones favorite DMCA. So i'm sure they could stream some DVDs but i know first hand that "the dark knight" won't play correctly unless you use the position given to you by then menu system, and not in the ToC. The key server idea still does not get around the fact that they would need to decrypt a lot of these movies.
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Even that won't necessarily match with what the ISP sent you, i'm pretty sure ntop won't account for things your router drops in it's firewall rules, or packets blasted at you.
I would be okay with metered access if the ISP let no packets i didn't want get to me. No MS network neighborhood, blaster worm, SSH brute-forcing, apache/IIS attacks, etc. All of that is downstream data to me, that all eats into my bandwidth that I am paying for, but did not request. The problem here is that if they straight up block port 22/80/bunch of other useful ports, I'll go looking for a new provider. How would they have a guess at what is valid traffic and what is not, with out using some sort of deep packet inspection. So I'll be looking to keep my un-metered connection until the issue of unrequested downstream traffic gets solved without DPI.
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My 0.02USD take it or leave it
if they had a legitimate login to the system, no hacking. legit in this case being a source telling them their ID/password(assumming the source claimed that it was their auth), or the journalists own account on the system.
If the initial login was not legit(blank passwords and exposed UIDs not being counted here, especially if they were handed out at a demo. You have no excuse for letting demo accounts having full access) then yes it was a crime, but not because they viewed other data than the account contained, but because they gained access to the system in the first place.
IMO putting things on the internet without security/password is like putting a big "FREE STUFF, HAUL AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE" sign on it. no complaining that it then was viewed/copied/played with/etc.
During the internal tests of the software no one thought of trying to change the or even using greasemonkey to modify fields in the form. REPEAT AFTER ME "ALL USER SUBMITTED DATA SHOULD BE TREATED AS HOSTILE, UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE AND SANITIZED", that includes data that you sent them, no guarantee that it didn't have bits flipped while moving across the internet, or that someone in the middle isn't trying to play games. What amazes me more is that this was contracted out to a third party to be hosted on their hardware in their building with god only knows what physical security. WHat happens when you call a random extension at this place and then act confused and say you have this number as tech support for using the system, and that you are just trying to verify some data but it isn't showing up, and ask if they could try there? Also electronic access to computer systems is not the same as physical access to a card catalog, or warehouse of boxes with this info in it, the rules need to be different.
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I'm not sure ereader/ebook will ever compleatly knock off books. I've seen books from 200 years ago that still have all the information in them. Yes they took some care to keep that long. Also until battery tech improves to the point where the kindle will last weeks, I'll keep my books. Actually a lot of my "analog" portable devices are still winning over the digital ones simple because of the batteries.
P.S. I would really like my flying car that runs on the fusion of garbage. GOGO Mr. Fusion.
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A situation and a question; I have a few dvds that have been damaged, I own the whole package, case, cover art, etc (no i don't have a recept, these are ~7 years old). Now I have friends/family with that have the same content on dvds they own (one case was a different aspect ratio 4:3, mine was 16:9) How do you feel that I borrowed them, and ripped them, just like have have been doing for all of the dvds I own?
How about when I don't borrow a dvd, but I rip it into a more convenient storage format(h264+aac in a mpeg4 on a harddisk)? I'm doing this mainly because my kids are very hard on dvds(see above example), and I want to protect my investment/purchase.
I would argue all of the above falls into fair use, or it should. I bought the dvd, I should be free to do what i like with it in private(comercial activity excluded), as long as long as it all takes place in private
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I know that a large number of musicians are in that position. Those not being backed by a huge record contract and the RIAA/BREIN hype machine.
"tell me 1 'artits', just one! that is suffering because of the global recession?"
I think the above is aimed at those on the global top 100 pop charts. Yes, the real musicians that play gigs in bars and night clubs localy and get a very small cut of the cover charges are struggling, more so as less people go out and spend money like that. Find me a top 100 artist that has had to curtail spending in anyway due to the current recession, or an exec on BREIN/RIAA/MPAA that has had to do the same.
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