Just a couple more quick thoughts before they slip out of my brain--
--If resolution is such a connoisseurial thing, why not allow iPods to record mp3s at the bit rate of your choosing? I just don't like the dedicated nature of the hardware. If I was a hacker I'd hack'em wide open, use'em for everything the hardware allowed me to do.
--It's not true that corporations leave you alone as long as you don't sell. A small case in point: Eric Fensler's hilarious remixes of GI Joe videos, totally free downloads enjoyed by millions on the Net, led to a cease and desist letter from Hasbro's lawyers. Fensler had to move them off his own site, presumably to a server that could take the heat from the Man. Copyright is becoming an egregiously overused weapon to stifle anything a company doesn't like. U2 could easily have suggested a pittance settlement, early on in the game, since Negativland clearly wasn't in their market or their league. In the interview, the Edge makes like he was powerless to stop the corporate juggernaut. The punishment vastly outweighed the "crime."
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--If resolution is such a connoisseurial thing, why not allow iPods to record mp3s at the bit rate of your choosing? I just don't like the dedicated nature of the hardware. If I was a hacker I'd hack'em wide open, use'em for everything the hardware allowed me to do.
--It's not true that corporations leave you alone as long as you don't sell. A small case in point: Eric Fensler's hilarious remixes of GI Joe videos, totally free downloads enjoyed by millions on the Net, led to a cease and desist letter from Hasbro's lawyers. Fensler had to move them off his own site, presumably to a server that could take the heat from the Man. Copyright is becoming an egregiously overused weapon to stifle anything a company doesn't like. U2 could easily have suggested a pittance settlement, early on in the game, since Negativland clearly wasn't in their market or their league. In the interview, the Edge makes like he was powerless to stop the corporate juggernaut. The punishment vastly outweighed the "crime."
- tom moody 9-12-2005 8:53 pm