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About fairuse
Journal of a High-Tech Cat is where I put long rambles:
http://duddits-fairuse.blogspot.com/
For short comments and contact with the world: http://twitter.com/fairuse
No longer writing assembly code and burning EPROM for stuff regular folks never buy. That life has been replaced with consumer rights issues; copy protection, copyright, DVD backup and helping folks understand the DMCA.
Have read:
Title 17 Circular 92 Chapter 1 (including Chapter 1 Endnotes)
Title 17 Circular 92 Chapter 12 (popular name; Section 1201(a)
DMCA read but resistance is futile is the best summary of that thing.
Machines:
I don't iPhone I Gphone.
Mac user, no Microsoft machine running currently - The coffee maker stand is win98 on a 20MB drive. The PDP-11/34 is unplugged but the excellent power conditioner (30amp max draw) is where iMac G4 and stuff gets juice.
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Then you have: China based manufacturer of licensed NFL gear
"Then you have: China based manufacturer of licensed NFL gear under cuts retail."
My ever so alert wife found the company that makes the gear you pay way too much for in my opinion. The ball park, official web site and "the blessed" retail prices are so insanely high I wonder why folks pay for the shirts. Well, the company setup a site with discounted "Real" NFL shirts they make for "xyz" team.
{ horn SFx } Feds now display the "we shut down evil counterfeiters". I just love it when the feds protect me from saving money legally.
I still need to photograph display.
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You don't see that purty [sic] picture cycling thru your subconsciousness
Advertisements on TV are not limited to hard breaks during your viewing. The large screen HDTV has real estate development a la suburban sprawl.
Every bit of the screen is 'Sponsored by' some brand. Bottom popups cover 1/3 of my TV when watching sports; 10 sec is a long time. Network self promotion? I won't go there. Top of the screen is reserved for more advertising in the guise of 'who is winning the game'.
That brings me to 4:3 side bars. In time that space will look like a bad layout in google ad space. I think the reason it is not done yet is due to fear of backlash; in time web site layout will come to TV screens.
Back to ad skipping: It is all about margins. The insurance lizard contracts x amount of time. The end result is we get to see it 4 times an hour. If insurance lizard knows the ad will be skipped it demands a better price; lower. And increase the cycle rate. This goes for Flo insurance, broken dick Rx, telecomm and all that snake oil advertising.
Mute buttons will be next.
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Money + Powers-That-Be = your idea is heresy
Galileo Galilei pushed on the force field of dogma until a deal was struck. Shut up, stay in your room and think about the damage your ideas and tools have done.
Something like that; if you abridged the whole mess. SSDD
Listen to Rockefeller Rant
Hon. John Rockefeller starts out fine but speech goes "off world" later.
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Multimedia
The scare everyone speech -- http://www.youtube.com/user/SenateCommercePress -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywfz0ZvNBfE
OMG we are all gonna die via cyber attack!
Re: But it won't fit into an Altoids tin
Oh? Some creative sheet metal work and it will. I am getting a Raspberry just to put it in an Altoids® tin.
really.
Good Advertising is Watchable.
I agree advertising is content. Seldom is there any thought put into making the advertisement interesting or intriguing. I like this. It is fun to watch.
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Drew, I do think of the children. They get a copy and the brand new disk goes into witness protection (kids will expend huge amounts of time looking for said disk. Yes, they killed the copy.)
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Drew, I do think of the children. They get a copy and the brand new disk goes into witness protection (kids will expend huge amounts of time looking for said disk. Yes, they killed the copy.)
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OMG, When did hip-hop turn pop!
I pinched the bridge of my nose & closed my eyes and listened, I should say suffered through, both songs. The 1st song (pink/yellow: plaintiff) is 4 minutes of noise. The 2nd song (black/yellow: defendant) is a bit better.
Both songs exhibit standard pop music "canned" elements in the lead in, refrain, rhythm, and beat. There is no infringement on "pink/yellow" by "black/yellow".
I usually don't listen to pop music (yes, I consider Hip-Hop to be pop) but I see how these two songs are an easy target for a lawsuit; little known song gets free advertising, deep pockets payoff, and of course the timeless - jealous strike at the popular song.
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Watch it.
Fourteen minutes well spent.
DarkWikipedia - iMac's Dictionary Action
I leave the iMac's dictionary open because it is so handy, it has; Wikipedia, Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, New Oxford Dictionary, and Apple Dictionary. Earlier in the day on January 18, 2012, I wondered how not-internet-browser utilities (app) handled Wikipedia gone dark. The answer in this case is quite well.
I typed in a few words and sure as hell the dictionary had no Wikipedia results. What started out as a quick look-see turned into an eleven minute video. At this time it has a silence audio track -- waiting on me or someone to fit a mashup to it. The video and a note about it is here.
http://hightechcat.posterous.com/darkwikipedia-if-sopa-is-made-law-it-would-hu
Watch the first 2:30 minutes and skip to 9:20 minute mark if in a hurry. You should notice Wikipedia has something to say even when it has gone dark.
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Flixster or is it Fixster
I am looking at the "Green Lantern" DVD package and there is nothing classy about it. Design; thin flimsy case, no real features just trailer trash, marketing speak and no permanent mark for Ultraviolet anywhere.
What did catch my eye is this sentence, "Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is not responsible for maintaining access to any website or its content.". The only other DVD package I have handy that has that piece of legalese is, "The Dark Night" which has a digital copy via wbdigitalcopy.com (expires Jun 9, 2009). Of course "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" (two disc special edition) has no website disclaimer because it has no digital copy. Warner is just putting on the fix.
Back in the Flixster insanity the three steps appear easy but as was said, are not. Warner may have been on the right track with wbdigitalcopy; four steps and no obvious registrations, just enter code and follow download directions. No doubt this system died because it was Windows only. The Flixster Ultraviolet system is going to die due to this rule: Lawyers design bad human interaction systems, especially the user interface procedures.
I knew the Flixster was worthless and after paging thru that contract post I think nobody in their right mind should use this service. Even when Warner is being up front about the service via Flixster instruction sheet, "Note: Neither Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. nor any affiliate is responsible for maintaining Ultraviolet service.". All the red flags I see are not going to keep me awake at night because the entire "Digital Copy" scheme is a scam.
Pray the innocent stay out of mystery databases like warz, p0rn and Flixster.
But the Protect IP guys will get their way
Since the folks who want Protect IP want to get their way at any cost they will just say this alternate is not legal and of no consequence. Nothing will change the rush to Protect IP. The law makers are going to have to find out the hard way Protect IP is going to break DNS.
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You get an insightful for this post. I am just a movie buff and have noticed how the movie theater has changed. Now I have a better idea of the root cause of the changes. Sad story.
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Made My "Laugh of the Day Headline"
The whoe situation sounds like a bad "Three Stooges" script from the paper shredder and the executives at Universal are running the production as is.
Yes there is an implied [sic] in this message.
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The sky is falling on the recording industry so ..
Comcast signed? Well, in the words of Gomer Pyle "sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise!".
Since the Recording Industry is losing ground to new technology and artists using modern internet techniques to sell music I am not surprised at this move to tax people. Furthermore, I think the EFF did not see this new agreement landing at this early date; We’re still working through the details of the actual agreement—more thoughts to come. Uh, Huh.
Seems everyone has a version of this agreement's story to tell. Here is Arstechnica's Headline: Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan complete with an image of menacing Star Wars Stormtroopers.
Should be an interesting enforcement headache for ISPs wanting to protect their Safe Harbor. OMG! A Category Minus One hurricane!
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Pay to Play
I was wondering how joining turntable worked:
Seems quite normal. Personally I decline Facebook logins if there is another way to login. Hope they revise this but I doubt it -- social is the game here.
If you want to play you have to pay. The question is how much do you pay? How far does your information travel? There is no TOS or Privacy Statement on either of these two pages. This may be an oversight while development goes on.
I Suggest adding policy statements so folks have some kind of informed consent even though it is apparent Facebook policy rules here, but that is not clearly stated.
Just an observation.
More Emperor's New Clothes
Seems like there is no end to this kind of thing. The knowledge and tools exist to allow anybody to capture and retransmit streaming. So instead of directing the existing law at criminals the emperor (deliberate no capitalization) stands naked showing off his new suit of underhandedness.
Common Sense is Not That Common
Every product and service I use is littered with legal text, stickers and bold notices of pending harm or death. It is long over due reading this happy ending; imagine the new warning against walking Google would have plastered everywhere.
Sorry you got hurt miss. Next time look twice before crossing a roadway.
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Take this for hurting my ears and brain.
Miss Black unplugged -- on ABC morning show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBzT2pv1Jc