Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/27 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 10:14 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray would be immunity against EMP. Even then, I have

Re: CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux)

2013-07-05 Thread vordoo
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CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux)

2013-07-03 Thread vordoo
On 2013-06-27 10:14, Nadav Har'El wrote: I also ripped all the "legally-bought" CDs and DVDs I had at home (almost a 1000 of them, altogether) and now all of it is on the hard disk as well. I should be doing that too. Will appropriate CLI software

Re: CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux)

2013-07-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/3 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2013-06-27 10:14, Nadav Har'El wrote: I also ripped all the legally-bought CDs and DVDs I had at home (almost a 1000 of them, altogether) and now all of it is on the hard disk as well. I should be doing that too. Will appropriate CLI software

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: So the only reason to buy a Blu-Ray drive would be to view Blu-Ray movies and TV series (such as Dr. Who). Or look those up in bittorrent ;-) Are there any legal means, available to oxymoron_alertfrayer Israelis

Re: CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux)

2013-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013, vordoo wrote about CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux): type=cite I also ripped all the legally-bought CDs and DVDs I had at home (almost a 1000 of them, altogether) and now all of it is on the hard disk as well.br I should be doing that too

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il writes: Time shifting is legal fair use, as determined in the famous Betamax court case (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting). So if you pay for cable TV, you're free to record anything, and watch it any time later on any device. OK, let's

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: Eh, I think that the problem is copying/sharing. You can record a 10 year old Dr. Who but you cannot give out copies of the recording to others. Even if they have had cable TV for 20 yars and *could* have recorded Dr. Who

Re: CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux)

2013-07-03 Thread Antony Gelberg
. :) On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Wed, Jul 03, 2013, vordoo wrote about CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux): type=cite I also ripped all the legally-bought CDs and DVDs I had at home (almost a 1000 of them, altogether

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/3 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: On Wed, Jul 03, 2013, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: Eh, I think that the problem is copying/sharing. You can record a 10 year old Dr. Who but you cannot give out copies of the recording to others. Even if they have had cable

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:06:40PM +0300, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: I *don't* know if this is the case in Israel, I do know that jewish law does *not* recognize copyright and downloading is *not* considered theft, it is however definitely a moral question, which has lots of factors that go into

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/3 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il: On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:06:40PM +0300, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: I *don't* know if this is the case in Israel, I do know that jewish law does *not* recognize copyright and downloading is *not* considered theft, it is however definitely a moral

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:47:39 +0300 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2013/6/27 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: Does anyone know where to buy (or how to make) a Faraday cage suitable for protecting a hard disk against EMP from an A-bomb exploding at distance of say 10Km? (The use

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 27/06/13 11:01, Omer Zak wrote: Does anyone know where to buy (or how to make) a Faraday cage suitable for protecting a hard disk against EMP from an A-bomb exploding at distance of say 10Km? This info is from memory, so verify or trust at your own risk. The US military once activated an

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-30 Thread Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin
On Jun 27, 2013 11:48 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2013/6/27 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 10:14 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: So the only reason to buy a Blu-Ray drive would be to view

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-30 Thread Roman Ovseitsev
: Blu-Ray and Linux: So the only reason to buy a Blu-Ray drive would be to view Blu-Ray movies and TV series (such as Dr. Who). Or look those up in bittorrent ;-) Are there any legal means, available to oxymoron_alertfrayer Israelis/oxymoron_alert, who wish to buy such content

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: Thanks to all those who replied (both in private and to this mailing list) to my Blu-Ray questions. Turns out that for storing 1TB data, Blu-Ray is not cheaper than an Until a few years ago, I had hundreds of DVDs laying

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 10:14 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray would be immunity against EMP. Even then, I have Have you considered a second

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/27 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 10:14 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray would be immunity against EMP. Even then, I have

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-12 Thread Omer Zak
Thanks to all those who replied (both in private and to this mailing list) to my Blu-Ray questions. Turns out that for storing 1TB data, Blu-Ray is not cheaper than an external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray would be immunity against EMP. Even then, I

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/12 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: Thanks to all those who replied (both in private and to this mailing list) to my Blu-Ray questions. Turns out that for storing 1TB data, Blu-Ray is not cheaper than an external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray

Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-09 Thread Omer Zak
I am contemplating buying a Blu-Ray drive for connecting to a PC running Linux, and am currently clueless about the availability of desirable features at reasonable price and about Linux support. So if any of you has experience with Blu-Ray under Linux, please share with us your experiences. 1

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/9 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I am contemplating buying a Blu-Ray drive for connecting to a PC running Linux, and am currently clueless about the availability of desirable features at reasonable price and about Linux support. So if any of you has experience with Blu-Ray under Linux