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Well at least we didn't close down. Half a buck is better than a quarter.
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Wow, what happened to the rest of the posts ?
Indian project? I just hope we get something more than beads for payment........hehehehehe
This is way OT: Has anyone read DaVinci's Code? I think that there is MoS in there somewhere........
great book........thanks whom ever brought it up in passing here
Who cares other than you about the semantics? Go yell someplace else..............sheeshhhhhhhhh
Fred, step outside and get some fresh air. Have the house checked for Carbon Monoxide.
Anyone else getting inundated with infected emails? Good thing my ISP has them quarentined (or however it's spelled)
Didn't he drive a car off of a bridge near Martha's Vineyard?
NOTHING BUT NET
By Alex Salkever
Big Music's Worst Move Yet
The RIAA's newest legal assault on file swappers is pushing them to encrypted networks, where the damage could become catastrophic
The music file-swapping masses got a fresh jolt of fear on Jan. 21 when the Recording Industry Association of America filed 532 lawsuits against alleged copyright infringers for downloading or sharing pirated tunes on the Internet. The suits made good on the RIAA's promise in December not to skip a beat in its legal war against music piracy.
That promise came after a U.S. appeals court in Washington, D.C., in December found that a federal law the RIAA used to force Internet service providers to cough up the identities of alleged file swappers is unconstitutional. The court ruled, essentially, that the provision violated due process.
In response, the RIAA shifted its attack to a more cumbersome form of lawsuits. In these so-called John Doe suits, RIAA lawyers file against an Internet protocol address (an ID that every computer connected to the Net has) that they believe is attached to a computer engaged in illegal file trading. Should the court deem the suit worthy of consideration, then the ISP used by that computer to access the Net could be forced to reveal the subscriber's identity.
LOST WAR. This is more time-consuming and costly than the procedure the Appeals Court shut down, which allowed any copyright holder to demand the identity of an ISP's customers without any proof of wrongdoing or any sort of due process. Even in the John Doe suits, it's not clear how much support the RIAA will get from ISPs already furious with it for earlier tactics that spooked subscribers and resulted in suits against clearly innocent parties.
One has to admit: The RIAA sure is tenacious in pursuing its strategy. What it doesn't seem to realize, though, is that it has already lost the war (see BW Online, 1/16/04, "Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?"). The recording industry's hardball tactics have fueled a technological shift that'll make it nearly impossible to pursue file swappers in the future.
How so? The culture of fear and loathing that the RIAA has created is starting to put encryption on the must-have list of every Joe and Jane Internet user. The results will be wide-ranging and will pose a threat to the movie industry, the software industry, and just about any other industry involved with the creation and sale of intellectual property.
TREADING LIGHTLY. The often-made argument that RIAA pressure would push file swappers to adopt more and more drastic means of evasion has been borne out over time. First came Napster, a system of centralized servers envisioned by Sean Fanning. U.S. courts easily identified it as an enabler of copyright infringement due to the manner in which Napster's servers willingly facilitated illegal music file trading.
The next generation of file-swapping setups eliminated central servers and built peer-to-peer networks that directly connected file sharers to each other. These networks have proven far more impervious to lawsuits. The companies that make the software used to build these networks have had some success in arguing that they only build the tools and play no direct role in copyright violations that occur on these networks -- which could just as easily be used for legitimate purposes such as sharing personal photos, computer files, and other forms of noncopyrighted content.
Reluctant to toss the baby out with the bathwater, courts have tread lightly since file swapping is a new technology that could provide a useful service to society in the future as a venue for sharing and even selling information.
OBVIOUS FINGERPRINTS. That forced the RIAA and other copyright holders to go after the weak link in the chain: individual users. It did so with great gusto in the spring of 2003, unleashing a torrent of lawsuits and a fearsome public relations campaign.
This offensive against file swappers, however, hinged on a simple fact. The current generation of decentralized file-swapping networks makes little or no effort to mask the digital fingerprints of individual users. Researchers working for the RIAA can easily log onto the networks, download pirated songs, and note the IP addresses of particularly egregious file sharers. The RIAA defines those as anyone offering 800 or so songs for download.
By ripping off the thin veil of anonymity and hitting hundreds of users for thousands of dollars per case in settlement costs, the RIAA has inspired the most tangible fear yet seen among Web users -- something neither credit-card thieves, nor hackers, nor even the U.S. government has managed to inspire.
"DIAPHANOUS AT BEST." No one wants to open their mailbox and see a letter from the RIAA. Parents of school-age children live in terror of just such a letter and the potential costs to their family. In truth, however, the likelihood of the average user getting nailed remains very small, largely because the RIAA can't individually sue the millions of less prolific file swappers.
But media coverage of the suits has unleashed a frightening specter of the corporate Big Brother reaching out and swatting ordinary Net users. "The RIAA's successful extraction of user identity from Internet service providers makes it vividly clear that the veil of privacy enjoyed by the average Internet user is diaphanous at best, and that the obstacles to piercing that veil are much much lower than for, say, allowing the police to search your home or read your (physical) mail," writes cyber pundit Clay Shirky in an article entitled "The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed").
This atmosphere has now led to a new reality where encryption becomes expected and pervasive. While encrypted P2P file-sharing networks remain less polished and less popular than the unencrypted variety, the masses will inevitably switch to those protected networks if the RIAA continues to sue.
CODE CRACKERS. Then it'll have a lot of trouble because lawyers won't be enough. The industry group will need cryptographers and security experts to break the protocols used for cloaking the traffic in order to merely determine whether a song traveling on the Blubster, FreeNet, BitTorrent, or Earth Station 5 P2P network is pirated or an amateur recording with no copyright restrictions.
The RIAA will have to become a lot more like the code-cracking National Security Agency in an escalating cat-and-mouse game with programmers who write encrypted file-sharing network software. Establishing a viable code-cracking operation to tackle a wide variety of alleged offenders would require huge cash outlays and serious talent. The only successful nongovernment efforts to do this type of work to date have relied on giant networks of PCs linked together or clever researchers who find specific but relatively-easy-to-patch holes in encryption software. Building such a capability would cost the record labels many millions.
Beyond music, the RIAA's aggressive tactics have already contributed to a changed security landscape, where encryption is becoming more accessible to everyone. Apple Computer (AAPL ) has built a drag-and-drop system where anything stored in the home folder can be easily guarded by potent 128-bit encryption.
STRONGER CURTAIN. Of course, this isn't a direct reaction to RIAA tactics. But Apple famously brags that it adds features its users ask for. And one can only imagine that at least some of the Apple users who asked for this capability had the RIAA in mind. And Skype, the free P2P Internet telephony network built by the former founders of KaZaA, has provisions for strong encryption. Perhaps most ominous to creators of copyrighted content, the shift to encrypted P2P networks will allow not only continued trading of pirated music but also of pirated software and movies.
Should Microsoft (MSFT ), Intel (INTC ), and others succeed in building a generation of computers with copyright controls built into the core operating system or onto the chips, then encryption will hardly help a pirate when an MP3 won't launch without a valid digital certificate. That scenario, however, remains highly unlikely as the complications of accurately categorizing and reading each individuals' copyrighted content, from old CDs to iTunes purchased online, is daunting at the least.
In the end, large chunks of computing and the Internet will go behind a much stronger curtain of anonymity, and the pirates will remain untouchable underground -- thanks to the RIAA's misguided legal missiles.
Man, you are one angry person. Do all of your posts have to be so vile? You must have really gotten burned at sometime. Life goes on, get over it.
I'm on it............
Must you always be so condescending?
Good job......keep it up
Sheesh, pretty dull.....where is everyone today?
Just a little tongue in cheek........
What's a Quote Machine and where can I get one? I'm always looking for good quotes.............
No, but that should bring it back into conversation. IMHO
Thanks for the article. Very interesting........I think I'll get one of those air scooters. Then I can fly to the SHM in style.
Hey did anyone hear back on the emails sent to JOJO yesterday? Just curious as to what the response was.......
Hey we might reach the 2 million share plateau today......Just too bad that there appears to be more sellers than buyers.
Intel is working with Intel? I should hope they are, otherwise they would appear to have the same management e.Digital has.......
maybe a dash? or a sprinkle?
On a different note......LU is doing quite nicely today up over 12% not bad for those that purchased when it was below a buck. :-}
Maybe we're in Intel.........NEW DOT, NEW DOT, NEW DOT
Intel Announces Name of Next-Generation Audio Specification
Thursday January 8, 2:31 pm ET
Intel High Definition Audio Brings CE-Quality Audio to the PC
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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2004-- (NOTE TO EDITORS: High Definition Audio will be demonstrated at CES during a speech by Intel Corporation President and COO Paul Otellini, 10:30 a.m. Jan. 8 at Las Vegas Convention Center, N250. Another demo will be shown at the Intel Booth, LVCC #7145.)
New audio technology, new name.
Intel Corporation's next-generation audio specification,
previously codenamed "Azalia," has a new moniker: "Intel(R) High
Definition Audio."
High Definition Audio brings CE-quality audio to the PC. It is
designed to implement a range of audio, modem and communications
functionalities in PCs, handhelds and consumer electronics (CE)
devices. The name High Definition Audio is meant to reflect the
marriage of advanced audio capabilities in PCs and consumer
electronics.
Developed by Intel with broad support from PC and CE
manufacturers, codec vendors, software providers and other industry
players, High Definition Audio is built on a flexible, dynamic,
cost-effective and stable architecture with headroom for future
expansion.
"The PC is a versatile platform for digital media and is playing
an increasingly large role in DVD-Audio, streaming music services and
home theater applications" said Intel's Kevin Corbett, vice president
of the Desktop Platforms Group and director of marketing and strategic
planning.
High Definition Audio will not only provide an enriched playback
experience but is intended to deliver a better-quality input for voice
and communication applications. The enablement of higher-quality audio
is attributed in part to an upgraded architecture and increased
bandwidth that allows for 192 kHz, 32-bit, multi-channel audio and
support for evolving high-quality audio formats. Other means are
increased support for multi-channel array microphones for higher
quality input, dynamically allocated bandwidth and audio device
configuration flexibility.
"High Definition Audio elevates PC audio to an authentic home
theater surround sound experience that opens up a whole new world of
PC entertainment possibilities," said Greg Rodehau, Dolby's director
of PC technology marketing. "We are delighted Intel has chosen to
demonstrate the multichannel audio capabilities of High Definition
Audio using Dolby's newest innovation, Dolby Pro Logic IIx*
technology, which delivers the most natural, seamless and immersing
7.1 surround listening experience from any native 2-channel source."
The High Definition Audio specification is currently at the Rev.
0.9 level. Intel expects to release the final specification by midyear
under royalty-free license terms. The technology will also be featured
with the "Grantsdale" chipset scheduled for release in the first half
of 2004.
High Definition Audio architecture is designed on the same
cost-sensitive principles as AC'97 and will allow for an improved
audio usage and stability level for onboard PC audio devices.
Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, is also a leading
manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products.
Additional information about Intel is available at
www.intel.com/pressroom.
Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation
or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contact:
Intel Corporation
David A. Dickstein, 916-356-2211
Let us know the results and reply. Soon
It doesn't show the belt clip or the headphones..I'm trying to dig those up.
Alright Pre..........you be quick
perhaps she hasn't gone to bed yet. Still trying to convert her bonus into mega bucks.
Everything is in the eye of the beholder and you forgot to put the IMO in, as it is just your opinion....... ;-}
OT, but RP still works there
Patriot Scientific Files Lawsuit against Matsushita
Wednesday January 7, 12:20 pm ET
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patriot Scientific Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: PTSC - News) announced today that the company has filed a lawsuit against Matsushita to protect patent rights contained in Patent No. 5,809,336, "High Performance Microprocessor Having Variable Speed System Clock." The lawsuit was filed with U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey -- Case Number 2:03 CV 06210.
Jeff Wallin, president and CEO of PTSC, said, "The complaint against Matsushita expands the filings to protect Patriot Scientific patent rights to five companies with lawsuits filed against Sony on December 23, 2003 and Fujitsu, Toshiba and NEC on December 24th. These initial filings are seeking damages in excess of several hundred million dollars."
Patriot's patents describe the principal means used by the microprocessor industry to increase the internal operating speed of modern microprocessors. Patriot's patent portfolio encompasses the fundamental workings of well over $18 billion dollars worth of microprocessors sold in the United States last year. From the time the patents were issued, the company estimates that over $150 billion dollars worth of microprocessors have made use of Patriot's technology.
Many products developed and manufactured by Matsushita are marketed under the Panasonic brand.
An investment profile on Patriot Scientific may be found at www.hawkassociates.com/patriot/profile.htm.
About Patriot Scientific
Patriot Scientific is an intellectual property company developing and marketing innovative and proprietary semiconductor technologies into the fast- growing hand held wireless and smart card markets. The company's portfolio of patents encompasses what is believed to be fundamental microprocessor technology and includes additional patents pending to protect its technology and architecture. For more information please visit Patriot Scientific online at www.ptsc.com
For investor relations information contact Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall, Hawk Associates, at (305) 852-2383. Email: info@hawkassociates.com For Patriot Scientific information contact Lowell Giffhorn at (858) 674-5018. Detailed information about Patriot Scientific can be found on the website www.ptsc.com. Copies of Patriot Scientific press releases, current price quotes, stock charts and other valuable information for investors may be found on the website www.hawkassociates.com.
Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this news release looking forward in time involve risks and uncertainties, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions, trends in the products markets, variations in the company's cash flow, market acceptance risks, technical development risks, seasonality and other risk factors detailed in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Well even if the news is "old" to some here, at least it is on the wire and not being sent as a Shareholder alert. So that may be driving the price and volume up.......to the unsuspecting anyway.
So has there been any effect to the price because of these PR's?
wow, bid and ask tightened up 59-595....of course mine is 20 minutes behind
Actually, you click it on to buy and it takes you right back. That is the old website, you'd think they'd shut it down.
And, if you click on any of the other parts, such as investor relations is says the page cannot be found...... That page must be left in "Lost in Space" land...Will Rogers, Will Rogers
MH, you should have taken you winnings from Sunday's game and invested in e.diggie. You'd now have enough for a big cup of coffee.......
Cliff aren't you in for the CES run up? You should be pumping the heck out of it now!
Kinda quiet around here today..........I know it's cold, hard to type with mittens on...........bitter cold windchills today. -25 to 30 brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It looks like this thing is going up........How can that be?
no, I was thinking about a good company such as CNLG.....the master's of the reverse splits........