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| DATE | 2004-06-06 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Old New I just want to get in the archives
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Your commenting on something writing in 2000
Ruben
On 2004.06.06 06:19 Contrarian wrote:
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> There's one or two questions after the quotes.
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> > it's is controlled by a monopoly of Media Giants, or that the
> > libraries in the the world are going to locked up for the privileged few
>
> I fear this also
>
> > Rap Music, (which I hate) started in the basements of ghetto minorities,
> > on the street. Without the ability to tape Rap music, and distribute it
> > on cassette, which was the Rap media of choice in it's formative years
> > of the early 1980's, it would have never seen the light of day.
>
> true
>
> > When theaters of the near future abandon traditional film, which is
> > probably long overdue, for digital media, how is independent film makers
> > going to MAKE films that people can see without projectors. If you
> > don't have a legally acquired encryption key
>
> A serious matter.
>
>
> > civilized history is the development of the Printing Press, putting
> > inexpensive books in the hands of millions
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> Rather slowly by our standards. Many countries had "censor" offices,
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>
> > and the Internet, which
> > makes worldwide publishing and communication inexpensive and
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> I'd say greatest advance since printing.
>
> > I have been one stupid dude over that last few years. I've watched
> > technology after technology destroyed over the last decade by the wishes
> > of media giants
>
> Examples? I'm not arguing, I wonder what you have seen that I have
> not.
>
> > current status quo, as it is being presented to the public by large
> > corporations, and the press, is actually a HINDRANCE to innovation and
> > freedom of thought.
>
> > The Internet was an Accident of the Government
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> and academia, and it was not really thought to be significant.
>
> > hundred people using a technology -email invented over 3 decades ago and
> > which came into the public mainstream only 2 years ago in a major way.
>
> 2 years? I'd say 6 to 8.
>
> > Digital media has had to live with CDRW which is inferior to the Digital
> > audiotape killed as a consumer product in the mid eighties. And the
> > only computer system which can assure that people a free to innovate new
> > products and software, is being threatened to it's core by the DMCA.
>
> Yes.
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> > All Intel has to do (and this is not to pick on Intel which I believe is
> > one of the better companies out their in terms of fairness), is to put
> > an encryption around the Bios of a computer which permits only licensed
> > OS's to run on it, and anything like a future Linux is dead before it
> > begins.
>
> Yes.
>
> > http://linuxtoday.com/stories/16556.html
> >
> > "What CSS lets the consortium do is determine who will make players, and
> > on what terms, and who will provide content. If you can neither enccrypt
> > or decrypt the bit stream, you are locked out of both markets.
>
> Yes.
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