Digital Music and Video files and the Internet have literally killed most of the careers of most of the professional artists who survive on royalties of music licensing. in case you have not guessed i am one of them.
sorry to hear that. maybe you should get a real job where you negotiate your rate up front.
A similar system could and should be adopted worldwide to protect the careers and families of recording artists and the millions of other people attached to the industry.
that boat has sailed my friend. the 80's are over and they're not coming back. you owe it to yourself and your family to move on to greener pastures, maybe something involving the internet?
Influenced is very different from "copied whole, including performance" as has happened here. The DJs are not performing music, they are performing mixing using other people's work... There is a huge (immense) difference between influences and replication.
oh, i get it. you don't understand electronic music, so it's infringement. good to know.
Re: The very point of fair use is that it's supposed to allow for creativity without permission. NO MIKE
using copyrighted material for something that is intended to make a profit. (like a new music mix), Does not fall under FAIR USE..
you have no clue how club DJ's work.
DJ's get paid for their club gigs. they get paid to spin in clubs who pay ASCAP and all those other compulsory licenses for playing music in public.
the music a DJ plays for profit IS licensed.
the mixes in soundcloud are samples of their work. i guess you could construe that as marketing, but only a small number of club DJ's actually sell their mixes.
it works both ways. a lot of american game shows get remade in the UK, and a lot of british reality TV gets remade in the US.
british shows tend to be smarter and more controversial by american standards, american shows are more stylized and have better production.
"all in the family" is a remake of a british show that i can't remember, but there were like 2 or 3 spinoffs from "all in the family" and 1 or 2 got remade in the UK.
never attribute to malice that which can also be explained by stupidity.
i think this is probably honest to god ignorance. i see the same reaction all the time when people haven't thought a security issue all the way through.
the problem with the industrial view of efficiency is that it takes a very narrow view when calculating costs.
distributed systems are inefficient systems: they're full of redundancy and move at the speed of their slowest node. they're also complex to build, difficult to update and hard to manage. distribution is pretty much the enemy of the economic and industrial idea of efficiency. it used to be generally accepted that a DNS change will take 24 hours or more for to fully replicate world wide, image waiting that long for a password change, or a copy of your bank statement.
distributed systems are the way of the future, but the way of the future needs a new way to look at costs. streamlined production, economy of scale, the 80/20 rule... pretty much every accepted business, engineering, and design principle will need to be revisited as the old centralized way of thinking and doing gives way to the distributed model.
that's how military intelligence works: low ranking enlisted members with the ability to change the outcome of a war.
intelligence systems are so complex that they can only be operated by trained specialists, so military leadership relies on prepared reports, not raw intelligence.
it's the collision of outdated hierarchical military thinking and modern warfare.
Wikileaks wasn't attacking the US. Anon was attacking various corporations worldwide as part of operation payback. Wikileaks became their latest cause.
wait... so there are different groups of cyber-hackers with different cyber-agendas? wikileaks and anonymous are acting independently, even though they both believe in computers?
mind = blown
so does that mean that mean that there are different muslim groups with different muslim agendas? that sadam hussein and al-qaeda acted independently, even though they both believe in islam?
it's about maximizing (in the minds of the pro-DRM crowd) the amount of payments that get made. Keep in mind that blocking a paid user is considered no loss to people who support DRM, since they received your money already. Free rides irks them to no end since they don't feel they were paid what they "are worth".
all true, but on the first day of marketing they tell you that it's cheaper and easier to keep a customer than it is to get a new one.
the problem with DRM is that that blocking legitimate customers creates incentive to not return. in extreme cases it's an incentive to pirate.
if you spend a dollar on something that makes your paying customers consider pirating, you haven't just wasted that dollar, you have invested it in your undoing. it's like you donated it to a competitor.
going beyond the carrot vs. the stick and into game theory, why would a customer come back and pay if they have been burned previously? especially given the fact that DRM doesn't actually prevent piracy, and may actually encourage it?
personally, i think a better approach would be to focus on the paying customer instead of the pirate. it's a safe allocation of resources, since those people have already paid you, and if you treat them well, they are likely to pay you again.
There's very little possibility that the DDOS on WikiLeaks was carried out by independent hacker groups. I mean, I don't see any motive for any hacker group to move against WikiLeaks, since it basically goes against their credo, and it simply doesn't hurt them.
there is a fair amount of division among the hackers i know over wikileaks. it goes back to the manning vs. lamo debate from a few months ago, which is mostly based on a natural division between hackers: the anarchy/political/humor motivated hackers and the "professional" types motivated primarily by money.
the hacker community is made up of a lot more than just kids from 4chan. the majority of the hackers i know are adult professionals that work in information security. the U.S. government and it's contractors make up a large portion of the infosec market, followed by the financial sector, both of whom have a beef with wikileaks and operation payback.
also, as hacks go, DDOS just isn't that hard to do. while it can be devastating, it's the "hamburger helper" of attacks. calling the perpetrators "hackers" is kind of insulting to every interpretation of the term, including the pejorative.
also, /b/tards are known for their trolling, it could very well be that the DDOS on wikileaks is just one group of trolls inciting butthurt from another group of trolls.
Money is just a storage device for labor. It's neither good nor evil.
money might be intended to serve that function, but it doesn't. money only works as a storage device when all labor is valued equally, you know, like karl marx did. it doesn't even accurately represent an investment of time since time isn't valued equally either.
also, there are revenues like rents and interest which involve no time or labor at all. i think these revenues actually devalue labor and time.
the truth is that that while an IP is not enough evidence, there is no cost effective AND legal way to obtain the proper evidence, so BPI will continue to pretend otherwise.
BPI wants, nay it NEEDS for an IP to be sufficient evidence because it's all the evidence they're going to be able to get without breaking the law or going broke conducting investigations.
this is why safe harbor provisions are such a bark up the ass for groups like this. the people they are going after are hard to find and aren't likely to have any money. it would be better in their opinion to just sue ISPs, since they're easier to find and are more likely to have money.
civil suits are supposed to be about justice, but they're really about getting paid. expensive proceedings against broke people are lousy ways to get paid.
policing the distribution of content is also an expensive process when done legally. this is why the MPAA's and the BPI's of the world would prefer to force ISP's and website operators to do the policing instead.
my servers run linux exclusively, and i usually dualboot my laptop between windows and linux (some wifi auth pages only work with I.E. plus a lot of mobile tethering apps are windows only) and keep windows on my gaming rig.
as i get deeper into hacking and reverse engineering, a lot of the reversing tools and documentation are windows only. i have always kept a development machine around, be it for school or other projects, and i have always dual booted it. in the last couple of years i have found myself booting it into windows more and more.
there's no opening of devices, you're simply attaching the pigtail and changing the antenna from an omni-directional to uni-directional and then to a parabolic. it's about using the parabolic shape of the dish, not the TV hardware or frequencies.
Re: Re: after being internet only, broadcast TV is weird
Ads are a waste of energy your TV could be making better use of. Such as watching video you want to see.
if given a choice between ads or no ads, everyone would choose to not have ads. but if there is no way around ads, why not make them at least interesting to watch?
if you bought the air time, why not have 10 variations on an ad, so you don't burn the viewer out.
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Re: thanks and no thanks!
sorry to hear that. maybe you should get a real job where you negotiate your rate up front.
A similar system could and should be adopted worldwide to protect the careers and families of recording artists and the millions of other people attached to the industry.
that boat has sailed my friend. the 80's are over and they're not coming back. you owe it to yourself and your family to move on to greener pastures, maybe something involving the internet?
On the post: Permission Culture And The Automated Diminishment Of Fair Use
Re: Re: Re:
oh, i get it. you don't understand electronic music, so it's infringement. good to know.
On the post: Permission Culture And The Automated Diminishment Of Fair Use
Re: The very point of fair use is that it's supposed to allow for creativity without permission. NO MIKE
you have no clue how club DJ's work.
DJ's get paid for their club gigs. they get paid to spin in clubs who pay ASCAP and all those other compulsory licenses for playing music in public.
the music a DJ plays for profit IS licensed.
the mixes in soundcloud are samples of their work. i guess you could construe that as marketing, but only a small number of club DJ's actually sell their mixes.
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Re: Re: NBC Universal - Nothing to see here...
it works both ways. a lot of american game shows get remade in the UK, and a lot of british reality TV gets remade in the US.
british shows tend to be smarter and more controversial by american standards, american shows are more stylized and have better production.
"all in the family" is a remake of a british show that i can't remember, but there were like 2 or 3 spinoffs from "all in the family" and 1 or 2 got remade in the UK.
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Re: Re: oh, and the best part
never attribute to malice that which can also be explained by stupidity.
i think this is probably honest to god ignorance. i see the same reaction all the time when people haven't thought a security issue all the way through.
On the post: Wikileaks, Intermediary Chokepoints And The Dissent Tax
a new way to calculate costs
distributed systems are inefficient systems: they're full of redundancy and move at the speed of their slowest node. they're also complex to build, difficult to update and hard to manage. distribution is pretty much the enemy of the economic and industrial idea of efficiency. it used to be generally accepted that a DNS change will take 24 hours or more for to fully replicate world wide, image waiting that long for a password change, or a copy of your bank statement.
distributed systems are the way of the future, but the way of the future needs a new way to look at costs. streamlined production, economy of scale, the 80/20 rule... pretty much every accepted business, engineering, and design principle will need to be revisited as the old centralized way of thinking and doing gives way to the distributed model.
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Re: Re:
that's how military intelligence works: low ranking enlisted members with the ability to change the outcome of a war.
intelligence systems are so complex that they can only be operated by trained specialists, so military leadership relies on prepared reports, not raw intelligence.
it's the collision of outdated hierarchical military thinking and modern warfare.
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Re: Re:
lollerskates.
take a number, they'll get you after vietnam and iraq.
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Re:
'due process' is more of that pinko bullshit that commies use to justify stealing our money just like 'privacy', 'free speech' or 'fair use'.
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Re: Re:
wait... so there are different groups of cyber-hackers with different cyber-agendas? wikileaks and anonymous are acting independently, even though they both believe in computers?
mind = blown
so does that mean that mean that there are different muslim groups with different muslim agendas? that sadam hussein and al-qaeda acted independently, even though they both believe in islam?
mind = blown++
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Re: Actually, all about money
all true, but on the first day of marketing they tell you that it's cheaper and easier to keep a customer than it is to get a new one.
the problem with DRM is that that blocking legitimate customers creates incentive to not return. in extreme cases it's an incentive to pirate.
if you spend a dollar on something that makes your paying customers consider pirating, you haven't just wasted that dollar, you have invested it in your undoing. it's like you donated it to a competitor.
going beyond the carrot vs. the stick and into game theory, why would a customer come back and pay if they have been burned previously? especially given the fact that DRM doesn't actually prevent piracy, and may actually encourage it?
personally, i think a better approach would be to focus on the paying customer instead of the pirate. it's a safe allocation of resources, since those people have already paid you, and if you treat them well, they are likely to pay you again.
On the post: Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are About Distributed & Open vs. Centralized & Closed
Re: Re: Re: Re:
there is a fair amount of division among the hackers i know over wikileaks. it goes back to the manning vs. lamo debate from a few months ago, which is mostly based on a natural division between hackers: the anarchy/political/humor motivated hackers and the "professional" types motivated primarily by money.
the hacker community is made up of a lot more than just kids from 4chan. the majority of the hackers i know are adult professionals that work in information security. the U.S. government and it's contractors make up a large portion of the infosec market, followed by the financial sector, both of whom have a beef with wikileaks and operation payback.
also, as hacks go, DDOS just isn't that hard to do. while it can be devastating, it's the "hamburger helper" of attacks. calling the perpetrators "hackers" is kind of insulting to every interpretation of the term, including the pejorative.
also, /b/tards are known for their trolling, it could very well be that the DDOS on wikileaks is just one group of trolls inciting butthurt from another group of trolls.
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i don't really pirate music anymore
i occasionally find new stuff, but for the most part it's indie and i get it for free legally.
it's to the point now that i have to find new music to steal.
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Re: Re:
money might be intended to serve that function, but it doesn't. money only works as a storage device when all labor is valued equally, you know, like karl marx did. it doesn't even accurately represent an investment of time since time isn't valued equally either.
also, there are revenues like rents and interest which involve no time or labor at all. i think these revenues actually devalue labor and time.
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Re: Fool me once
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Re: Damn the expense!
what john lennon did say about all this:
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
On the post: Challenging BPI's Claims That IP Addresses Alone Are Accepted By Courts As Proof Of Infringement
this is why they hate safe harbor provisions
BPI wants, nay it NEEDS for an IP to be sufficient evidence because it's all the evidence they're going to be able to get without breaking the law or going broke conducting investigations.
this is why safe harbor provisions are such a bark up the ass for groups like this. the people they are going after are hard to find and aren't likely to have any money. it would be better in their opinion to just sue ISPs, since they're easier to find and are more likely to have money.
civil suits are supposed to be about justice, but they're really about getting paid. expensive proceedings against broke people are lousy ways to get paid.
policing the distribution of content is also an expensive process when done legally. this is why the MPAA's and the BPI's of the world would prefer to force ISP's and website operators to do the policing instead.
On the post: Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Efforts: Millions Spent Driving People To Open Source Software
coming back to windows
as i get deeper into hacking and reverse engineering, a lot of the reversing tools and documentation are windows only. i have always kept a development machine around, be it for school or other projects, and i have always dual booted it. in the last couple of years i have found myself booting it into windows more and more.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: People are also pissed about...
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=802&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1& ;sa=1&q=satellite+tv+cantenna&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
there's no opening of devices, you're simply attaching the pigtail and changing the antenna from an omni-directional to uni-directional and then to a parabolic. it's about using the parabolic shape of the dish, not the TV hardware or frequencies.
the frequncy and wattage stay the same, the dbi may increase, or decrease depending on the design. most of these hacks just change the shape of the broadcast area, making it more linear in the case of the cantenna and more conical in the case of a parabolic antenna. people do similar things with woks, strainers, and fry baskets:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1280&bih=802&q=wok- fi+antenna&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
the FCC has better things to worry about than parabolic dish mashups, like folks who use firmware to change the frequencies the wifi card is broadcasting on:
http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-16/dc16-presentations/defcon-16-de_bouvette-farina.pdf
( frequency manipulation stuff is toward the end, parts of the 4ghz range are supposedly reserved for military applications.)
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Re: Re: after being internet only, broadcast TV is weird
if given a choice between ads or no ads, everyone would choose to not have ads. but if there is no way around ads, why not make them at least interesting to watch?
if you bought the air time, why not have 10 variations on an ad, so you don't burn the viewer out.
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