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Re: Video Security Blanket

amonynous — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:53:53 -0000

I bet the public will have the same enthusiasm for HD DVDs that they have shown for hi-def audio formats -- DVD-A and SACD. Vinyl is outselling those formats these days in terms of units shipped. If the public cared about high resolution media, they wouldn't be buying tunes and videos from Apple.

Re: Peer-to-peer and Exponential Math

amonynous — Sat, 13 May 2006 11:37:34 -0000

The writings of Singleton and others of that ilk puzzle me. Have these people never witnessed peer-to-peer downloading? Have they never ripped a DRM'd CD? Sometimes it appears they are trying to analyse policy in a near-total vacuum of first-hand information about how the real world works.

I am very interested to see what their response to the intuitively obvious and observably true reality situation you have described. I think you've nailed them.

Re: Peer-to-peer and Exponential Math

amonynous — Sat, 13 May 2006 20:28:18 -0000

Tim, I confess I haven't used peer-to-peer for anything in years, so I can't tell you how well Kazaa or Gnutella or Limewire works. I know friends have no trouble getting television shows there. The video quality is pretty poor, that much I can say.

If, like Singleton, I wrote articles attempting to influence policy, I would certainly inform myself about it. If a person feels it is unethical to experiment with it, that person could still learn a lot by reading discussion forums populated by people who do. Or watching over someone's shoulder. There is no substitute for first-hand knowledge. Maybe that would open their eyes.