| To: NicoV who wrote (218434) | 12/1/2006 3:33:55 PM | | From: pgerassi | | | | Dear NicoV:
I am against DRM because it goes too far. It isn't digital rights management, but access control. If I buy a movie, say on a DVD, I should have the rights to view that movie using any means I choose. If the movie later comes out with higher resolutions, I should automatically the right to have that for free or, at most, media costs. With downloads, there are no media costs. I have the right to move it onto any media I choose and can use any method to play it on whatever I want it played to. If I want, I should be able to skip past advertizing and any other part of the work and go straight to where I want. And if I want to sell the work to another, I should have to go through everything I have and delete or remove all copies of it or deliver them to the purchaser.
That is true DRM which not one of these implementations satisfies except the totally unlocked ones. Every implementation of DRM doesn't take into account the rights of the users, just the makers. No DRM should be allowed that over restricts usage. Any that do, should be ruled illegal and any things they protect should become public domain at once.
Pete
PS: It should be a requirement to hold a copyright to maintain pristine copies for when a work goes into the public domain, it is completely available. Once it does, the costs of keeping those copies will be borne by the public, usually in some government repositories at a minimum. |
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| To: mas_ who wrote (218483) | 12/1/2006 3:34:46 PM | | From: Rink | | | | Mas and DougSF, Enough.
You're trying to show the lack of credibility of the other in an overflow of posts with no hard data in it. Because of this (amount of posts with no hard data) it's now amounts to insulting OT. Hence I now ask you to stop doing this unless you show hard data in your post supporting your claim. This way the amount of posts go down, and the quality goes up.
Tx, Regards,
Rink |
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| To: gzubeck who wrote (218482) | 12/1/2006 3:37:46 PM | | From: NicoV | | | | My cable provider charges 173 euro per year (14 euro/month) for basic digital TV. I also can't stand watch all those commercials, so I took the subscription (see televisie.telenet.be for the movie channels and most of the optional channels for 29 euro/month. These channels are provided via regular DVB-C at up to 8mb/s MPEG2.
The video on demand is provided via a CableModem (which is also used for the interactive TV features, like taking part in TV quizes and tv-voting), but the bitrate is relatively low (I think 2 mb/s MPEG2), but it works. The bandwidth used for the video on demand is not charged, but they charge between 2 and 4 euro per program for most programs, or you can take a subscription if you watch a lot of video-on-demand. Newsprograms via video-on-demand are free.
HD should come next year.
BTW: We have a very good cable network. My current subscription is for a 20 mbit/s connection. |
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| To: Magrathea who wrote (218336) | 12/1/2006 3:42:41 PM | | From: Magrathea | | | | Huge volume in AMDXD 06 Dec 20.00 Puts.
44327 contracts on an open interest of 15636.
It will be interesting to see the change in Open Interest
tomorrow morning.
Open Interest is now 54096. Up 38460. 90% of the volume yesterday opened interest.
Which might mean 3.8 Million shares shorted yesterday and near future.
Will the slide stop at the strike price? The put writers got their clocks cleaned last month. [or so I thought]
-Magrathea |
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| From: justaview | 12/1/2006 3:43:30 PM | | | | | | | The day is shaping just peachy. All my short calls are falling all my long puts are rising and the TLT is kicking ass. |
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| To: NicoV who wrote (218480) | 12/1/2006 3:43:56 PM | | From: g_w_north | | | | <The concept of 'owning' music or video because you paid for the media (or the right to put it on your iPod in the case of Apple) is rapidly becoming obsolete. Music services like Rhapsody are the future>
It will take more time to change the mentality of the consumer with regards to music over video IMHO. I think it is easier for people to relate to 'borrowing' a video (how many times do you really need to see it?) as opposed to music which has always been free on the radio or physically owned if paid for. Music is a different beast and aside from one download service they all sound like garbage.
I'm interested in trying to figure out where AMD/ATI thinks this convergence is going. I can't see any of the major studios/media giants wanting anything to do with convergence products such as MCE. There is one company that legally licensed DVD/CD ripping onto a hard drive-based system and then they were sued(and that is one sweet product!). Go figure?
btw... my local cable company was one of the first in North America to lay fiber optics (over 13 years ago) but they are an independent operator and don't offer things I enjoy such as timeshifting and the amount of high-definition programming I get from my satellite provider. I want quality not quantity.
Ironically, with my PVRs the output signal is active on all of puts simultaneously and therefore (if so inclined) one could easily capture from component output while watching from the HDMI output on your monitor/television. |
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| To: pgerassi who wrote (218492) | 12/1/2006 3:56:49 PM | | From: NicoV | | | | So you're not against DRM per sé, just against the current implementations because they are to restrictive. That's good, you're one of those people who actually want to pay for the music and movies.
The trouble with no DRM is that with the current technology it's very easy and cheap to copy the programs. If everybody does that, there won't be enough income for the producers of those programs to keep making new programs.
If you think that's acceptable because these are faceless big corps, read this: charlespetzold.com |
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| From: BUGGI-WO | 12/1/2006 4:06:43 PM | | | | | | Distri Update
Just a small distri update. I said 1-2 weeks ago, that the
situation will get better and surprise, it got extremly
better. What I could see today in the channel. A64 - all bins
available - huge supply. X2 - all bins available - supply
is healthy, no gigantic supply in the low-end but its there.
Sempron - 3400/3600+ still short, the rest not the lightest
problem. To sum it up - supply got EXTREMLY better from
AMD. All local dealers who cry about no volumes speak bull-
shit.
BUGGI
disclaimer: 0 AMD, 0 Intel |
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