On 11/02/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Desert Island Discs ... Why no podcast?
Estate of Roy Plumley owns the rights to the format, and isn't keen on
on demand...
Wow. How curious.
Rights to the format means what, exactely?
I can imagine Desert Island Discs might be a
On 10/02/07, Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your machine will do what you tell it to. It's just that there are
secrets you can't access.
So if you tell it to access those secrets, and it won't, how is it
doing what you tell it to, again?
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On 11/02/07, George Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rights to the format means what, exactely?
some (random ish) links
Maybe this is a bit of a Rorschach effect, but these all seem to prop
up my view that 'format rights' is hand waving.
Hi Tom!
On 12/02/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the honest answer is we don't know
Thanks for explaining this clearly!
What about new works though? Such as those currently podcast? :-)
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On 06/02/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We also know that the BBC has content that they own
100% of the copyright.
This is, apparently, not the case at all for the majority of existing records.
However, moving forward, I see no reason why the BBC cannot be clear
that it is
On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And yet it's still used...
Doesn't that say something?
It says that record execs are stupid, but we all knew that already.
I was going more for a it might be broken by some, but
On 31/01/07, Colin Moorcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It establishes a desirable goal - platform agnosticism - without
constraining how that is achieved.
It is also complete obliviousness to reality.
In fact, Steve Job's first blog post at
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ is
On 08/02/07, Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And yet it's still used...
Doesn't that say something?
It says that record execs are stupid, but we all knew that
On 08/02/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going more for a it might be broken by some,
but it's good enough for 'purpose'. And what is that purpose, exactely? The purpose of
being good enough to satisfy the people that own the rights to the content
Satisfy the rights
On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It will be interesting in a few years time once a few MP3 players
have died, and people have had chance to lose their entire music
collection in spectacular fashion due to hard disk failures and so on.
This will only be a problem for people
On 04/02/07, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this not a step in the right direction?
http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/
The CA strongly suggested that the BBC might provide leadership in the
Free Culture community.
However, I recently saw IFTV's http://blip.tv/file/138568 (IFTV
On 05/02/07, David Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.bleep.com do FLAC
FLAC is Free Lossless Audio Compression, a great free software audio format.
To be clear, I am not against people charging money for distributing
music; I am against people distributing music in proprietary
On 02/02/07, J.P.Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What might be a fair price in, say, Russia, might be
ridiculously cheap here and unbearaby expensive in Vietnam.
Current example: www.allofmp3.com is a licensed mp3 downloads business
- licensed in Russia - that is ridiculously cheap compared to
On 02/02/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surely the whole point of DVD regions is that it was a non-legal way of
implementing the ability to restrict international free trade.
That's right, and this is summarised in the memorable phrase, code is law :-)
And it's the same with
On 01/02/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
offer very little on demand, or use DRM - Tom L, the other week.
Would you prefer DRMed content on Linux, or just the current video
offerings? I'd like all of it in a 'free' format right now please isn't
possible, at least not right now.
Hi Richard!
On 02/02/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it was a mistake on my part that I hit reply and the previous email
didn't end up on the list. Apologies.
I hope you'll post it on list, and I'll post my reply :-)
As I said at the beginning, it will be interesting to
Hi Richard!
On 01/02/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Technically speaking, I wonder whether others have thought about self
destructive files?
...
I will be very interested if such a management system already exists.
Certain they do.
Unfortunately, that they work is total
On 31/01/07, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/30/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Metaphors that compare digital data to physical objects are almost
always confusion.
Agreed.
:-)
Stealing is stealing, copying is copying. Stealing is not copying.
Not agreed
On 31/01/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Trust has also asked the executive to adopt a platform-agnostic approach
to the iPlayer. ... for example Apple Macs
What about GNU+Linux users, who are reputedly a larger userbase than
OS X users? :-)
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On 29/01/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I forwarded my reply to an old friend, Miles Metcalfe
More interesting comments from Miles:
Never in the history of creative product
have rights holders contemplated or been allowed to get away with
restrictions against the affordances
On 30/01/07, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/29/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29/01/07, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In most cases, the broadcaster has negotiated limited rights
The distributor's limited rights have been extended in the opposite
On 29/01/07, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In most cases, the broadcaster has negotiated limited
The distributor's limited rights have been extended in the opposite
direction to where distribution technology has taken us.
rights in a limited time-frame and a limited territory to
On 25/01/07, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you think those of us who aren't content should complain more?
I complain sometimes but mostly the reaction from people here is
sorry - it is like it is - get over it
I don't see any point complaining given that.
Given hdkeys.com
On 20/01/07, Jonathan Chetwynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 20 Jan 2007, at 16:59, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 08/01/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if you had one question for Lawrence Lessig, what would you ask
him??? [3]
If he's so big into all this free stuff, how come he uses
On 08/01/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if you had one question for Lawrence Lessig, what would you ask him??? [3]
If he's so big into all this free stuff, how come he uses a Mac? ;-)
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Hi Nic!
I'm glad to see that Ian is recommending Free Software and that you
took the time to check it out - Thanks, and cheers Ian :-)
On 17/12/06, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When is auntie going to be publishing feeds so I can see the headlines
from the beeb in
.
For Flash in particular, the GNU Project's Flash Player, Gnash, willbe able to
play all Flash videos on its next release in the spring, Ijust heard:
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Hi
On 04/12/06, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for some reason Flash brings the zealots out in force. ;-)
I'm not sure why you are calling me a 'zealot'. Did I say something
unreasonable?
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On 05/12/06, Neil Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is hope
http://osflash.org/
This is very, very interesting. Because Flash blurs the distinctionbetween code
and data, I wonder if it is inconsisent to object toproprietary Flash player
software, yet accept proprietary Flash'content'
On 05/12/06, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know why it seems to be Flash in particular that brings this
out in folk.
I can tell you that it is no different on the continent either - I
spent a very entertaining meeting here in Austria the other week
facing exactly the same The
On 05/12/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It wasn't till I met Aral Balkan and Niqui Merret at BarCampLondon
that I started to accept that my views of Flash were very
much old fashioned.
The professional is the man who stays put
- The Medium is the Massage, McLuhan, 1969
;p
Flash
On 05/12/06, Luke Dicken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I swear to god if I have to zap that
damned mosquito one more time to make my PC stop making stupid insect
noises...
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/
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On 05/12/06, Luke Dicken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wrote a long thing in reply to this, but it all boils down to : access
to people's software is a privilege not a right. Sorry. But there you
go.
Please post it - I can't really make sense of this :-)
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On 05/12/06, Luke Dicken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And this would be where the zealotry comes in.
Why are you calling me a zealot?
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On 05/12/06, Laurence Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's time you lot stop all these. If you want to continue these
rants, do it privately to yourselves, and not to the list. Your rants
contribute no knowledge. Please stop.
You can ignore my emails? :-)
In general, I think the
On 04/12/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://blip.tv/file/get/Cubicgarden-interviewWithTristanNitotPresidentOfMozillaEurope758.MP4
Sorry to be lame, but how did you arrive at that URL? What did I miss? :-)
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On 04/12/06, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I ask why you
don't want to use Flash?
Certainly - I'm glad you asked, and am happy to explain why :-)
Have you heard of Free Software? I expect you have heard of OpenSource
software. While the end results are the same, the
On 04/12/06, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, it is not complete to a level that meets my needs
(Although it will play almost everything, it can crash my webbrowser
even more than the Adobe Flash player can, and I *HATE* it when my
browser crashes :-)
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