Yes, one logical person might think that, however the vast majority of people have NO common sense or logic and their belief process starts before their thinking process so they're already preconditioned to accept what they hear/read as fact. Humanity fail.
HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA, I was listening to Bob & Tom this morning and one of their guests invented a drinking game. Basically you just point at someone and say "YOU DRINK NOW!" haha...
On topic, Samsung makes good shit, imho. Cheap, halfway reliable (oh shit, is that defamation? strike that) stuff. Their products are excellent but after reading this nonsense I'm going to have to actively avoid purchasing Samsung Erectronics (oops, faux pa, not defamation!) and I do quite a bit of purchasing for my TV station. Sad. Makes me glad I live somewhere where speech is relatively free... \m/
that's when he issued his magickal "press release"?!?! Is this guy just totally delusional? I mean, seriously, wtf is going on in this guys brain? Under his logic, anything I pretend to buy is mine, right? SOOOO, I own Park Place and Boardwalk many times over... and apparently I have purchased them from myself, hahahaha...
Furthermore, it was OBVIOUSLY a reaction to TD's story here as his "press release" came out exactly 40 minutes AFTER the TD story, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
can we spell fail? Yep, that's right: H-A-N-S - good job class! \m/
... did watermarking become stealthy? I remember watermarking as something one did to paper, either obvious or otherwise, but still visible... It's altering the genuine product, NOTICEABLY, but not enough to cover information... It'd be damn near impossible to watermark a song's waveform without artifacts popping up somewhere, but also, if it was outside the audible range of frequencies, it wouldn't matter, subliminally speaking, I guess. hehe. besides, male-to-male, stereo, 3.5mm cable from speaker out to line in, press play, press record, viola... analog de-watermarking...
Thanks for that clarification, KnownHuman. I was thinking of aural watermarks similar to demo, pre-release tracks but maybe something inaudible. Besides, if there IS metadata attached to purchased mp3s, it couldn't be that hard to remove or edit it, right? They're just part of the ID3 tags, right? Also, what, then, if someone converts it to a WAV? wavs don't have metadata. Then right back into an mp3, no big... whatever... as long as there are intelligent humans and/or analog devices, NOTHING digital has a chance. There's always an easy way around everything digital... Don't much like this idea though. Incredible breach of privacy, imho.
soooo, basically ANYTHING that can record SOMETHING would fall under that law...
I mean, then Creative Labs would pretty much be in the shitter... oh wait, because I can hear then pretty much immediately play something on the guitar, does that make ME one of those devices.... is my existence illegal?!?! hahahaha, what a joke! ¡Viva España!
that's just idiocy on the part of the poster because they could simply email it or print and send it if they were worried about people stealing it. These companies are intentionally putting them out there with the HOPES of it getting downloaded, not just for one specific person.
if you will, a situation in which the downloader actually OWNS the files/songs/album/movie in question. What then? That SHOULD give him the right to download it, right? What then if that downloader was sent a letter? And wtf ever happened to mix tapes? I remember the day when I'd go dub off all my friends' tapes. Was THAT not illegal? Why did they make devices that did it? I dunno man, all this attempt at, essentially, making what everyone already used to do illegal is ridiculous.
I never really understood the whole banning cell phones in the car thing. Do you think that a crop-duster gives a shit about the cars beneath him? It's still just as much of a distraction (if not LESS of one) than a cell phone. Some people look at "ooh, shiny" things and just can't help it. Might as well ban car stereos, drive-thru EVERYTHINGs, transporting children, spousal arguments, THE SUN, bright lights, all sound everywhere, CBs, HAMs, etc, etc....
While we're at it, let's start handing out citations for talking during a movie because, after all, you're supposed to be concentrating on the movie and if some jackass is talking during it, it's distracting, right?
Re: DRM is not a recent invention
Re: "people in the Intel Community"
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"I would think that most people would recognize the statements in context, rather than automatically assuming they were true."
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On topic, Samsung makes good shit, imho. Cheap, halfway reliable (oh shit, is that defamation? strike that) stuff. Their products are excellent but after reading this nonsense I'm going to have to actively avoid purchasing Samsung Erectronics (oops, faux pa, not defamation!) and I do quite a bit of purchasing for my TV station. Sad. Makes me glad I live somewhere where speech is relatively free... \m/
April 28, 2010, 2:42 pm EDT
Furthermore, it was OBVIOUSLY a reaction to TD's story here as his "press release" came out exactly 40 minutes AFTER the TD story, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
can we spell fail? Yep, that's right: H-A-N-S - good job class! \m/
Since When...
Confused for a sec...
really?!?!
I mean, then Creative Labs would pretty much be in the shitter... oh wait, because I can hear then pretty much immediately play something on the guitar, does that make ME one of those devices.... is my existence illegal?!?! hahahaha, what a joke! ¡Viva España!
Re: Re: Re: Re: "Making available" no longer "theft"?
Different scenario.
ok, imagine....
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really?!?!
While we're at it, let's start handing out citations for talking during a movie because, after all, you're supposed to be concentrating on the movie and if some jackass is talking during it, it's distracting, right?
Bureaucracy is bull$#!T
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