wessman
August 27th, 2002, 05:06 PM
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| Grubb for Congress. By Weblog. |
| from the have-wiki-will-travel dept. |
| posted by michael on Friday August 23, @18:30 (usa) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/219204 |
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An anonymous reader writes: "Wired is running a [0] story about a
(Libertarian) candidate for Congress in North Carolina whose platform
explicitly supports P2P file-sharing activity. She's running against one
of the big supporters of the [1]Berman P2P hacking bill." The weblog
community is all excited over her because she [2]drank the Kool-aid.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/219204
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54693,00.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/153209&tid=103
2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0112137/
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| Congressional Candidate Over P2P & DRM |
| from the political-support dept. |
| posted by Hemos on Friday August 23, @12:33 (censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/1633224 |
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Dark Nexus writes "[0]Wired is running an [1]article on a woman in North
Carolina who has chosen to run against Howard Coble, who has come out
against P2P networks. She said that she was sick of "individual rights
sacrificed for big corporate politics" and is campaigning for digital
rights to be preserved. A quote from her [2]weblog: "I have put myself in
the bullseye to stand up for our rights as free thinking citizens." It's
about time someone stood up and tried to run against one of Hollywood's
Congressmen on Hollywood's key issues." Update: 08/23 21:10 GMT by [3]M:
We're getting enough submissions of this story that we're probably going
to post it on the front page.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/1633224
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/
1. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54693,00.html
2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0112137/
3. mailto:michael@@slashdot.org
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| File Sharing and CD Sales, Again |
| from the dissection-and-vivisection dept. |
| posted by michael on Saturday August 24, @02:40 (music) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/0141201 |
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[0]Andrew Leonard writes "Stan Liebowitz, an economist [1]studying the
effects of file-trading on the music industry, says in an article in
Salon that new numbers have convinced him that the decline in CD sales
may be partially attributable to MP3 downloading. But he also argues that
the decline does not justify draconian new laws."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/24/0141201
Links:
0. mailto:aleonard@salon.com
1. http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/23/liebowitz_redux/index.html
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| Combined DVD Burners Coming Soon |
| from the so-many-standards-to-choose-from dept. |
| posted by michael on Sunday August 25, @19:07 (hardware) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/25/2137240 |
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MonMotha writes "Sony recently [0]announced plans to make a DVD burner
capable of supporting both the - (DVD-R and DVD-RW) as well as the +
(DVD+RW and DVD+R) standards for burnable DVD media. This move could spur
the adoption of DVD burners, which have been poor sellers so far, partly
due to the lack of a single standard for writable and rewritable media.
The drive will not support the older DVD-RAM due to it's plastic casing."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/25/2137240
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,104372,00.asp
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| ElcomSoft Back For More |
| from the never-say-die dept. |
| posted by michael on Saturday August 24, @05:42 (news) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/0143230 |
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graveyhead writes "Most everyone here should remember the [0]Dmitri
Skylarov fiasco last year. Apparently ElcomSoft, the company Dmitry works
for, is not intimidated by Adobe or the DMCA. [1]Wired is running this
[2]story that describes ElcomSoft's upcoming products, most of which
could be interpreted as a violation of the DMCA. What's particularly
interesting is that this announcement comes right at the beginning of
[3]the trial which is scheduled to begin on August 26."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/24/0143230
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/130226&tid=93
1. http://www.wired.com/
2. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54712,00.html
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/21/1951207&tid=153
Revolt in the Den: DVD Sends the VCR Packing to the Attic
Digital videodiscs and their players, which five years ago
were not much more than the toys of gadget-lust sufferers,
have now taken full wing as a true pop-culture phenomenon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/technology/26DVD.html?todaysheadlines
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| How Could TV Survive Without Commercials? |
| from the sounding-the-death-knell-of-broadcast-TV dept. |
| posted by Cliff on Sunday August 25, @16:20 (tv) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/1749231 |
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[0]Milo_Mindbender asks: "I'm sure many of the readers of this site know
the joy of skipping commercials using a TiVO, Replay or other form of PVR
box. I'm sure it has occurred to a lot of us that if someone produced a
schedule of commercial stop/start times the PVR could easily make all
commercials instantly vanish from a recording. While this would be really
cool, if it got really popular it would KILL all the local TV stations
and TV networks who depend on ads to survive. Sure, you could say it's
their fault for having an outdated business model, but there's a problem:
these sources are where A LOT of the content for your PVR comes from. If
they die, there's nothing for your PVR to record. My question for this
crowd is: 'If the commercials stopped tomorrow, what business models can
you come up with that would keep TV content flowing to your PVR?'"
This story continues at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/1749231
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/24/1749231
Links:
0. mailto:greg_corson@playstation.sony.com
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| Echostar DishPVR 721 GPL Software Released |
| from the make-it-open dept. |
| posted by Hemos on Saturday August 24, @11:02 (gnu) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/172218 |
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Faw writes "It was mentioned [0]before that Echostar was releasing a
Linux based PVR. It has been out for a month now, and the modifications
to the kernel and other software are [1]here. The cool thing is the site
is running on the same receiver. [2]Someone is already hacking it. Wonder
how long until the receiver get slashdotted."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/172218
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/29/2139250&tid=129
1. http://208.45.37.181/
2. http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=6558
:sw
| Grubb for Congress. By Weblog. |
| from the have-wiki-will-travel dept. |
| posted by michael on Friday August 23, @18:30 (usa) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/219204 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
An anonymous reader writes: "Wired is running a [0] story about a
(Libertarian) candidate for Congress in North Carolina whose platform
explicitly supports P2P file-sharing activity. She's running against one
of the big supporters of the [1]Berman P2P hacking bill." The weblog
community is all excited over her because she [2]drank the Kool-aid.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/219204
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54693,00.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/153209&tid=103
2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0112137/
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Congressional Candidate Over P2P & DRM |
| from the political-support dept. |
| posted by Hemos on Friday August 23, @12:33 (censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/1633224 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Dark Nexus writes "[0]Wired is running an [1]article on a woman in North
Carolina who has chosen to run against Howard Coble, who has come out
against P2P networks. She said that she was sick of "individual rights
sacrificed for big corporate politics" and is campaigning for digital
rights to be preserved. A quote from her [2]weblog: "I have put myself in
the bullseye to stand up for our rights as free thinking citizens." It's
about time someone stood up and tried to run against one of Hollywood's
Congressmen on Hollywood's key issues." Update: 08/23 21:10 GMT by [3]M:
We're getting enough submissions of this story that we're probably going
to post it on the front page.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/1633224
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/
1. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54693,00.html
2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0112137/
3. mailto:michael@@slashdot.org
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| File Sharing and CD Sales, Again |
| from the dissection-and-vivisection dept. |
| posted by michael on Saturday August 24, @02:40 (music) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/0141201 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Andrew Leonard writes "Stan Liebowitz, an economist [1]studying the
effects of file-trading on the music industry, says in an article in
Salon that new numbers have convinced him that the decline in CD sales
may be partially attributable to MP3 downloading. But he also argues that
the decline does not justify draconian new laws."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/24/0141201
Links:
0. mailto:aleonard@salon.com
1. http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/23/liebowitz_redux/index.html
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Combined DVD Burners Coming Soon |
| from the so-many-standards-to-choose-from dept. |
| posted by michael on Sunday August 25, @19:07 (hardware) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/25/2137240 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
MonMotha writes "Sony recently [0]announced plans to make a DVD burner
capable of supporting both the - (DVD-R and DVD-RW) as well as the +
(DVD+RW and DVD+R) standards for burnable DVD media. This move could spur
the adoption of DVD burners, which have been poor sellers so far, partly
due to the lack of a single standard for writable and rewritable media.
The drive will not support the older DVD-RAM due to it's plastic casing."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/25/2137240
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,104372,00.asp
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ElcomSoft Back For More |
| from the never-say-die dept. |
| posted by michael on Saturday August 24, @05:42 (news) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/0143230 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
graveyhead writes "Most everyone here should remember the [0]Dmitri
Skylarov fiasco last year. Apparently ElcomSoft, the company Dmitry works
for, is not intimidated by Adobe or the DMCA. [1]Wired is running this
[2]story that describes ElcomSoft's upcoming products, most of which
could be interpreted as a violation of the DMCA. What's particularly
interesting is that this announcement comes right at the beginning of
[3]the trial which is scheduled to begin on August 26."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/24/0143230
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/130226&tid=93
1. http://www.wired.com/
2. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54712,00.html
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/21/1951207&tid=153
Revolt in the Den: DVD Sends the VCR Packing to the Attic
Digital videodiscs and their players, which five years ago
were not much more than the toys of gadget-lust sufferers,
have now taken full wing as a true pop-culture phenomenon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/technology/26DVD.html?todaysheadlines
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| How Could TV Survive Without Commercials? |
| from the sounding-the-death-knell-of-broadcast-TV dept. |
| posted by Cliff on Sunday August 25, @16:20 (tv) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/1749231 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Milo_Mindbender asks: "I'm sure many of the readers of this site know
the joy of skipping commercials using a TiVO, Replay or other form of PVR
box. I'm sure it has occurred to a lot of us that if someone produced a
schedule of commercial stop/start times the PVR could easily make all
commercials instantly vanish from a recording. While this would be really
cool, if it got really popular it would KILL all the local TV stations
and TV networks who depend on ads to survive. Sure, you could say it's
their fault for having an outdated business model, but there's a problem:
these sources are where A LOT of the content for your PVR comes from. If
they die, there's nothing for your PVR to record. My question for this
crowd is: 'If the commercials stopped tomorrow, what business models can
you come up with that would keep TV content flowing to your PVR?'"
This story continues at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/1749231
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/24/1749231
Links:
0. mailto:greg_corson@playstation.sony.com
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Echostar DishPVR 721 GPL Software Released |
| from the make-it-open dept. |
| posted by Hemos on Saturday August 24, @11:02 (gnu) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/172218 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Faw writes "It was mentioned [0]before that Echostar was releasing a
Linux based PVR. It has been out for a month now, and the modifications
to the kernel and other software are [1]here. The cool thing is the site
is running on the same receiver. [2]Someone is already hacking it. Wonder
how long until the receiver get slashdotted."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=02/08/23/172218
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/29/2139250&tid=129
1. http://208.45.37.181/
2. http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=6558
:sw