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Topic: CRAP Content Restriction, Annulment & Protection |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2006 12:05 pm |
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The original vision of the Internet was based on anarchy, where everybody would be free to share content and ideas with everbody else, free from restrictions and policing. The freedom is being eroded as fast as I can type this, one right at a time, by some governing body, regime, or mega corporation somewhere. The Sony DRM scandal hit a lot of people by surprise, including Mark Russinovich who uncovered it while testing a new version of his rootkit detector program (last October 31).
Since then there have been interoperability hassles for all kinds of media players, where the companies making the underlying technology want to keep their customers locked into only using their own devices, or software, to play media files. There is very little co-operation between the major players, because the monitary rewards are just too great to be ignored. Apple doesn't want iPod users to play their downloaded iTunes clips on any other company's media player, so they make it difficult to do so. This is a profit driven situation, with no happy ending in sight (right now).
Copyright owners are cashing in big these days on obscure patents that they have acquired by buying out other technology companies, then suing anybody they can find who has been using that technology, as in the RIM Blackberry case. Pretty soon there may be a showdown regarding the JPEG patent, which could affect about 90% of all the website owners and graphics software companies in the USA.
This protectionism mentality is just what the article in b0b's post calls it: CRAP.
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 27 Mar 2006 12:29 pm
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Thank goodness the Lemelson patent was invalidated. It was helped to be invalidated by a 1978 cover of Mad Magazine showing a full page bar code  [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 27 March 2006 at 12:29 PM.] |
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Michael Barone
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Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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Posted 28 Mar 2006 6:13 pm
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Maybe the underlying reason for all of this is to continually react to the habits of our young people. Recently, I was reminded that they can find a fix for specific DRM limitations that come up. For example, many have explained how they can use a popular CD burning program to compile & convert itunes to make a CD that plays anywhere.
IMHO, this is another phase of the battle discussed here, in which our young people are in control, as they always want to be, since file sharing started.
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2006 9:37 pm
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All you have to do is run the speaker output into the analog inputs of any recorder to bypass ANY audio "copy protection". I don't understand the big fixation about copy protecting the exact bits of the original. People who are listening to audio on their phones and MP3 players don't care about getting decent fidelity anyway.
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