Posts by Rob Stowell
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as a teacher how do you use and how do you want to use copy protected material from dvd for teaching.
I'd be interested to hear that, too. Do you want to be able to copy dvds and hand them out to students? Or is it simply making a back-up copy, or copying a dvd from a library, to use in class?
There are all sorts of new initiatives on the education front- e-cast for example.
But I don't understand where education sits with the Feb law changes- and I should, really. The copyright expert on our campus- and the law lecturers whom she asks for advice- are also vague on the new law's provisions for education.
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Yeah, it was an interesting article.
For all his multitude of sins, you can't accuse Rupert of not understanding the media business. I think he's right about 'free' being unsustainable, but wrong about paywalls/subscriptions being an option. Been done...
Micro-payments and strict copyright enforcement might just make it work, but.... but but but... (I was surprised to find a p2p feed of super 14 live, just when I wanted it. It's still there... Mr Murdoch?!)
People expect free. They like free. I know I do.
And the jury is still out on webvertising. Not enough money to go round is just one part of it. Niche audiences are by definition smaller, but potentially more lucrative.
Except it's easy to block internet ads. I don't, but, to be honest, I find them easy to ignore- except for the annoying ones, and who wants to reward them. I can't think of one I've ever clicked. I've certainly never bought anything that way.
I think that's because on the net, we're a much more "active" audience. If we want to buy something, you bet we can find it. And fast, and compare prices, and look second-hand, and find out how much it costs in New York...
Advertising has attempted to adapt- I'm sure there advertising games and short-films and undrempt of widgets being developed- but that's a risky and expensive strategy.
Spotify might just get by on advertising- but at the moment, even the giants, with a multitude of ears/eyeballs- like Spotify and Youtube- find it hard to turn a profit on that model. -
Champion work, thread-spinners, hobby-horse-riders, misanthropists, artists and musos, policy wonks, head-biters, thread-jackers, meta-physicians, doodlers, distractors, detractors, mind-f*ckers, headless chickens, abuse-mongers and joke-pushers.
100-odd pages and no closer to resolution! There is no end... -
many of them were insanely unco when it came to simple technical things
Glad you said it, not me! (And thanks for the kind words; I've enjoyed your take on this too. If you still worked for AV, I'd shout you a coffee!)
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Jake, I've got a little perspective on this, and yeah, perhaps the taping option isn't so silly (personally I didn't laugh or smirk: I thought it was pretty reasonable!) Tape has the benefit that it can be cued to a point, and played accurately from there.
Getting the same ability digitally is rather trickier. It's not helped by ripping a copy- that'll just have the same scene selection. You'd have to rip it, de-mux and re-author the thing with chapter marks at the points you want.
Try teaching lecturers to do that! -
This is aherm- topical.
Wonder how long it lasts. Fun for expats. -
FWIW I heard- (rumour-mill, thirdhand disclaimer) that the delburgoes got $400 for a song (last twist) used on a fairly big x-box or playstation game. I guess it's a few burgers, and a kind of bonus. But a piffling sum, if correct.
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Dear Dr David: there is a buzzing noise between my ears. It can't be my boss, because I cut his [redacted] and buried him in the [redacted] last week.
So I need to know if it's true that earwigs can tunnel into one's skull and lay eggs, which hatch into large blow-fly sounding things and fly around noisily at night.
I have tried fly-spray, but it tickled, and the cat threw up.
PS: Emma- much the best solvent is more of the same blood. It has to be fresh, and the same type. If this individual is unavailable (or unwilling) to clean up their mess, a near relative is your best bet. -
What's wrong with buying a copy?
Gawd, robbery- yer so 20th century. Get with the digital culture of abundance, mate!
Still, the "approved copying method" isn't so silly to non-digital-natives. I did just that off a data-projected dvd the other day, and the quality was fine.
And I work with a lot of teachers. Fine folks. Setting up a camera to point at the screen is more in the tech-can-do zone for most of them, than rip and burn.
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And here's Wired's rating of Obama on copyright:
Copyright: D
The president has brought at least five Recording Industry Association of America lawyers into the Justice Department, placing two of them in the number 2 and number 3 spots. Obama’s Justice Department has also weighed in on an RIAA file sharing lawsuit, supporting the Copyright Act’s civil damages of up to $150,000 per purloined music track. The Bush administration had taken the same position.Obama is also negotiating the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a global intellectual property treaty that got underway during the Bush administration. Obama declared the inner-workings of the treaty a national security issue, as did his predecessor, by refusing Freedom of Information Act requests to divulge any clear details of the measure.
Leaked documents published by WikiLeaks suggest the proposed act would require internet service providers to terminate repeat copyright scofflaws, criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and even interfere with the legitimate sale of brand-name pharmaceutical products.Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden says Obama is searching for the nation’s first copyright czar, a cabinet-level position created by Congress to be on par with the drug czar.
Others aren’t so sure of our grade. “It’s more Obama is cutting class than a particular grade,” says Fred von Lohmann, a copyright attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “I think the administration is facing more important priorities than copyright law right now. The economy is the most obvious issue right now. ”
It's hard to imagine our friendly Nats advocating more change.