- Adobe rolls out online Photoshop. Will it be useful?
- AMD X3-8000 Three core being promoted.
- Comcast trying to make users happy.
- I read a letter regarding P2P and how it is ruining the business.
- The first European is 1.5 million years old.
- This is the third day about the ice shelf collapsing. Geez, get off the story.
- Gartner clarifies its 3G Apple story. It may not be true.
- Microsoft may have nobody lined up for the Yahoo board as promised.
- MySQL still on the same track.
- Cyber-Squatters on the run.
Right click here and select ‘Save Link As…’ to download the mp3 file.
Great, bad Photoshopped pictures will continue to proliferate.
er, poorly Photoshopped. I couldn’t see what I was saying, I had my tongue over my eye teeth.
Wow, what a let down. Yawn. Adobe could do a lot better
What a piece of steaming poop. Adobe fell down on this one.
Nice how Photoshop CS3 starts faster than Photoshop Express. Hmmm did a black hole just appear on my desk?
Bandwidth: In Canada, Shaw (shaw.ca) limit home customers to 60 GB per month. It’s in the contract. They won’t LAPD you if you go over, but if you do a month with 100 GB, you get a phone call, and the message is that if you do it again, you’ll have to pay for it, at rather unattractive rates. They’ve been doing this, or something like it, for over 6 years. You can track your bandwidth usage at their website (except that the tracking service is down about 25% of the time, especially near the end of a month).
ISPs need to stop bandwidth shaping. Mine (Sympatico) does a direct (from a web site) download at 1.5Mb/sec. But, hook it to ANY torrent and it drops to 0.3Mb/sec. Horse Hockey!!!
Your ISP buddy mentions the analogy of advertising an $7.95 “all you can eat buffet” where the average consumed is 2 lbs. and then restaurateur gets all bent out of shape (read, broke) when average consumption goes to 50 lbs.
Solution. Stop advertising “all you can eat” !!! Advertise what you can supply at a competitive/profitable rate. If that’s $7.95 for 3 lbs., then so be it.
Further, there needs to be a law against ISPs from even glancing at the packets flowing through their networks (unless a judge-signed warrant for a legal “tap” is in place).
Consider this … You’re talking to your buddy on the telephone while your new “Rock Band” cd playing on the stereo. You say, “listen to this great song” and you point the phone at the speaker. Do you expect the phone company to degrade your phone service (at the paid behest of the RIAA) because you are now “broadcasting” ???
No, I didn’t so…
Of course, the vast majority of people using torrent networks are (illegally in some parts of the world … not all) sharing music and movies. But, the fully legal distribution of large loads (linux ISOs for example) gets caught up in the shaping game. It just ain’t right !!!
Technically, the movies and songs being shared are not what was pressed onto the DVD or CD that you can buy at the store. They are (lossy) compressed representations.
True, the .iso file made from a commercial application’s or a game’s installation CD(s) is a full and complete copy. That’s not the same as a lossy 128Kb MP3 or DIVX compressed movie that typifies a torrent download.
Further, a torrent seeder has never, repeat, never, shared a movie or song. What’s being “shared” is a very small fraction (block) of the file. There is no way that any one seeder could (or would) send, in it’s entirety, a file/movie/song to any where. At the same time, no torrent client could ever receive an entire file from a single source point.
From “HowStuffWorks”
BitTorrent is a protocol that offloads some of the file tracking work to a central server (called a tracker). No, this is not the file’s source !
It uses a principal called tit-for-tat. This means that in order to receive (blocks or parts of a) file, you have to give them. This solves the problem of leeching — one of developer Bram Cohen’s primary goals. With BitTorrent, the more (blocks or parts of a) file you share with others, the faster your downloads are. Finally, to make better use of available Internet bandwidth (the pipeline for data transmission), BitTorrent downloads different pieces of the file you want simultaneously from multiple computers.
Bottom line …
A) The movie I’m “sharing” is not even close to what you’re selling.
and
B) I’m only sharing tiny fractions of it.
So, when outfits like BayTSP send you an infringement notice (via your ISP) you can tell them to “take a long walk on a short pier”.
Maybe.
While this isn’t “rocket surgery”, for some reason this stuff goes way over the heads of the law and lawyers alike.
Via con Dios,
/T.
Photoshop Express usage terms:
“Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.”
In other words: post your photo and we can do whatever we want with it.
Dear John,
We would appreciate it if you didn’t make any more derogatory remarks about P2P.
Thanks
@ #9 Joeey B …
I deserved that … made me laugh too, thanks.
I encourage/support an open and frank discussion on the topic, though.
Perhaps the entire recorded entertainment industry’s distribution system will get dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Best,
/T.