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Court Ruling Shuts Down Australian Cloud TV Recorders 46

Posted by Soulskill
from the shut-down-down-under dept.
joshgnosis writes "In the wake of an Australian Federal Court ruling last month that free-to-air TV recording app Optus TV Now was infringing on the copyright of some of the country's biggest sports broadcasts, two other services — Beem and MyTVR have also been forced to suspend their services. Beem lashed out at the ruling, telling customers that their rights had been 'diminished' by the judgment and rights owners were 'scared' of cloud-based TV recording services in the same way they once were of VCRs."

Comment: Re:Duh. (Score 3, Insightful) 456

by iONiUM (#40028943) Attached to: Online Loneliness At Google+

Yea, that's great. Glad to see your opinion on here, and where you implied that "everyone" else feels the same way you do.

Except, it seems the majority of humans do use Facebook, but not G+. So it's not their aversion of social networks that's stopping them from using G+, but rather something else.

I wish the mods would stop up-voting anti-social-network posts. I know it's trendy on /. to post that stuff, but it's repetitive, and it offers no real insight on as to why G+ did not pick up, and Facebook remains champion.

Comment: The time is not spent on development (Score 4, Insightful) 402

by iONiUM (#39665507) Attached to: Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound

Rest assured, from the technical side they could do it very quickly, as you outlined.

The problem is more than likely in market research. Bringing people in, asking them to listen to 50 varieties of car noises and judging them, to find just the "right" one that is pleasant, audible, but not overpowering, and most importantly better than any competitors.

Just like software development for consumers, often it's the UX/UI that is very time consuming and nit-picky, not the actual software itself.

Piracy

Attempt to sue Canadians over Hurt Locker abandoned->

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iONiUM
iONiUM writes "From the article, 'A landmark attempt to sue Canadians over file-sharing of copyrighted material appears to have been abandoned, with court records showing the lawsuit has been dropped.'.
While no reason is stated, perhaps production companies finally realize suing their customers is not a good way to make money. Or, Canada is just awesome."

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Comment: Re:Astronomers are so funny (Score 1) 302

by iONiUM (#39493145) Attached to: 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered

IANAA, but I did take a few astrophysics classes in University. Unfortunately this was years ago, so I don't remember it very well.

What I do remember is to determine whether a planet was alone, and its size and shape, the orbital path was generally used. My professor was actually the one who discovered a few planets orbiting a star by the way the star shifted in position over time.

As for composition, that is generally done spectroscopically. This is just looking at the wavelengths of the light in different spectrum's, as elements produce different wavelengths. From this it's fairly easy to determine composition, though I can't be more detailed than that because I honestly don't remember anything other than "I did it", and if I did it, it can't have been too hard.

When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb

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