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- t3soro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+79A congressman figured out how to use an iPod? Buried as inaccurate.
- CaptMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+52Umm, the music might be public domain, but I'm pretty sure the performance is still copyrighted.
- adml_shake, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22Until Congress gets a wallet full of money they won't care.
- austintexasguy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Yeah, I REALLY REALLY hate that the cable companies are switching to SDV because it means my shiny Series 3 Tivo isn't going to work when they switch all the channels. Nothing like flushing $500 down the drain. :/
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24And the music on John Dingell's ipod is classical . . . that's public domain. Maybe he should listen to Metallica so he knows what it feels like to deal with companies who treat you like a criminal just for being a customer.
- econofast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14@stubear:
The RIAA has repeated claimed that what you are doing is a violation of your terms of service. I have yet to see this brought to court, and it does seem that they have recently begun to back away from this claim. However, the RIAA does, in fact, view you as a criminal. Welcome aboard.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060215-6190.html - rebopper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15VHS may make a huge comeback.
- teaguehopkins, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13@adml_shake (#6631827)
Unless it means that their own Tivos stop working... - marillion, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Not only that, but the recording of the music is under the full purview of RIAA.
- GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Captmonkey is right, guys. For example, Beethoven may have written and composed the piece, but the London Philharmonic Orchestra played the music during the recording. The performance put on by the Phhilharmonic is what's copyrighted, not the piece itself.
- zaren, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Hey - back off of my man Dingell, he's hip to the new style.
[ Yes, I gave you a + for the funny. :) ]
I've had cause to communicate with him on several issues, as he's one of my elected officials, and he seems to be really up to speed with current trends and technologies. He's a lot more "with it" than you'd expect for someone that's been in office for 50 years. - moofer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I have two series 3's, each with two cable cards. I have two other devices that take them as well, bringing my grand total to 6. So help me, if the cable companies do anything to screw with my setup, I'm a gonner - that will be the last straw. I'll be buying the shows I like from iTunes, and/or on DVD when they're available. Screw them and their advertisers. Never before have I ever seen an industry to anti-consumer. Don't these ***** realize that if they drive their customers away, they'll have nothing?
- pinnacle71, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4In the satellite vs. cable war (add fiber in there, I guess), I'd love to see them do battle with the freedom to ditch the set-top box. I want an HTPC in my rack.
- skaface69, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Hopefully this means that i can stop getting anally raped by comcast, and start getting raped by someone else.
- SocialPoison, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@bsiviglia9
Lack of Censorship is not the same as democracy. It's really not even close. Lack of censorship is freedom... sure.
Think of it this way:
You paint a picture on a wall that is graphically violent. The town gets together and has a vote, and decides 12,004 to 1 that the painting offensive and should be removed. The next day you discover your heartfelt piece on the futility of war has been painted over by a copy of that damn "dogs playing poker" picture.
You have been censored by democracy. - zgilliam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@bubba9999
Mark Cuban was speaking of the future of broadband. My boss just returned from Japan and he said that 100mbit residential connections are becoming the norm. I believe Mr. Cuban was making the point that you can't just legislate solutions to current problems (i.e. last mile providers at 1.5mbit), but you have to look at the future as well and bandwidth speeds are on the rise - they definitely are not going down or staying stagnant. - The_Wallbanger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You're right. The future is broadband access. We no longer need 3 pipes into the home (phone line, cable line, internet access) everything can be condensed to broadband access. Cable providers are scared of losing their neighborhood monopoly. Nothing is more threatening to providers than a consumer discovering that they only need to buy internet access and use Skype for phone and Joost for TV.
- bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2How can Gootube advance democracy when the public cannot prevent Google from censoring their videos?
- Dustin00, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The future is the internet.
Canceled cable 2.5 years ago, they're still in denial that I left.
Now back to World of Warcraft and my exercise bike! - bubba9999, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What the hell is Mark Cuban talking about? Our area only has 2 lanes available - 1 from the telephone company, and 1 from cable. And a lack of neutrality means that sites on both will be throttled in the future and you have your choice of using throttled access from your choice of 2 companies or live without high speed access.
Where's this 1000 lane utopia where he lives? - Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0On the other hand, there's volumes of classical recordings that have been put in the public domain by the performers. I could sit down at the piano right now and knock a few out.
- Drakensteel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I do agree with the advances democracy thing. Its a place where anyone can post a vid about whatever and discuss it with other people.
Heck, Digg advances democracy as well. Though Youtube is probably more widespread. - geekee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Exactly. A company like Joost will fail miserably if they can't guarantee quality of service. They'll get steam rolled by the last mile provider, which will use their private network to deliver the video without hiccups. Net neutrality will kill competition in video over the internet for anything serious (i.e. not youtube 1 minute videos, but r4eal tv shows and movies)
- perfectboy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0it's too big sole
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2The future is on-demand video. Every show ever made at your finger tips. DVRs are just an enhancement on the VCR and will go obsolete in not too many years. Net neutrality regulation will just make sure you can only get a decent on-demand video from from the owner of the last mile until bandwidth gets large enough it doesn't matter.
- Drakensteel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Yea, my dads about to cancel his dish b/c he only watchs it occasionally, and here recently half the channels wont show up.
WoW FTW - Error601, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Free speech on the other hand is a key part of democracy but people often confuse free speech with protecting every utterance. Lack of free speech would be the government banning specific subjects. The common one in the past have always been banning religion and criticism of government officials.
- luken7, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Congressman using an iPod? video or it didn't happen....
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2They don't have to worry about that for a long time to come if net neutrality hits. They can keep shoving down tons of channels with priority access because it's their pipes, but you won't be able to buy priority bandwidth to someone else because the government says that's unfair.
- ReptileKing234, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4come on now - we all know what really happens at Congress meetings:
Prostitutes and the big old 'spin the wheel to see what the people care about' - stubear, on 10/11/2007, -20/+5I listen to Metallica all the time and I don't feel like a criminal. Perhaps that's because I purchased all the CDs of theirs that I own and ripped the music myself. I'm so sick and tired of all you asshats crying for digital music downloads. Buy the ***** CD and rip it yourself to whatever format you want and whatever bit rate you want. And don't whine about $20 CDs because if that's what you paid for them then quit going to the big box stores. I haven't paid more than $13 for a CD ever; except for the box sets I bought recently and a couple Syd Barrett imports I bought like 15 years ago.
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