2013-02-22, 05:10 | Link #6801 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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In most cases, you are committing a copyright infringement of some sort (even if it was broadcast on cable, you don't have a subscription - if it was broadcast on free television, you still didn't watch the advertisements).
However, whether it really matters or not to the producers practically depends on if they think they lost money or not. So far *most* anime producers don't really care about overseas infringements because people who watch fansubs either were never going to buy anyway (leechers) or they will later buy the series when R1 distributor licenses it anyway, kind of a "don't ask don't tell". Now that services like CrunchyRoll and Funimation netcast series, it has gotten more complicated. For example, I subscribe to Crunchyroll but I grab fansubs anyway because I think it is stupid and wasteful to restream an episode several times. When the DVDs come out, they've corrected broadcast flaws, added extended footage or bonus episodes - often I end up buying the DVDs anyway. I simply refuse to buy DVD/Bluray without having seen a broadcast version of the product. The moral of the story is that it is a murky swamp of "right" and "wrong" - you just have to wade through and figure out what is moral for you and what kind of risks those entail.
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2013-02-22, 05:20 | Link #6802 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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If there is an attempt to copy, modify and edit, it is considered a breach of copyright and it is an offence. Although you may have to pay remedies, the producers aren't stupid, as what Vexx have said, they do know how to run businesses. They do not care about these kind of small stuff because they know litigation is expensive and that money can be better used to create something else to sell. Still, be careful if you are going to do this - against better financed opponents there isn't much of a way you can win.
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2013-02-22, 09:19 | Link #6803 | |||||
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When I say "free", I meant "free to me". Of course it's not really free but viewers are not paying.
What is this "TV license fee"? Is it something that viewers pay? Where I live all I pay for is the TV, a TV box and an optional cable box but I know for late night anime it's different and the studios don't get funding from networks to run their anime. The anime is essentially a long advertisement so the studio pays the network to run it. So I am seeing the entire ad and sponsors in TV ripped fansubs I think? Quote:
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If I never saw the movie I wouldn't want to own it at all. But if it was for a series I already like then I'll just blind buy (I am doing that for the Madoka movies when they come out on BD because I missed them). Quote:
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It is illegal anyway. Well this puts me in a rut. But I'm glad for Crunchyroll, I only watch them whenever I can even though their subs are bad occassionally (I watch very few unlicensed anime a year so its really easy to just trust Crunchy). Then I buy discs if they ever come out where I am, but I'm going to buy the R2 releases someday (since I think BDs from Japan will work on American player?). Yesss that is the word! Okay so imgur does that Last edited by Kudryavka; 2013-02-22 at 09:32. |
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2013-02-22, 11:55 | Link #6804 |
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 35
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In most countries (including Japan), it is required that you pay an annual Television License if you own a TV. Your country may not require it though. I'm pretty sure there's no TV License in the USA, for instance.
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2013-02-22, 15:36 | Link #6806 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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I was watching R2B, a Korean movie before I came out to work.
During the scene where the MC is being rescued by the 707th SMB, the commandoes are all wearing berets instead of helmets. I know it is unrealistic, going into a high-risk special operation without helmets. However, it feels so, out of place when they wear ceremonial berets instead of jungle hats. Does the Korean cinema place more emphasis on image than reality?
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2013-02-23, 04:52 | Link #6808 |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
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I guess their equal entropy stems from them being all common words and not just random strings of various length.
Ie a common word is an atomic entity here, like a letter, or a number and their total amount is limited. He may have counted all common words and determined that picking from one of them (in all lower case) is the entropy equivalent of an 11 bit number. That means he's made the assumption that there are only about 2^11 = 2048 common (english) words. I dunno if that is correct. Maybe he only counted 'common' words with a certain length... You go check. |
2013-02-23, 12:45 | Link #6809 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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Getting to your question specifically, based on his numbers of blocks it looks like the assumption is that most words are 5-6 characters in length. Aside from not knowing exactly what the words is, there is uncertainty in not knowing whether it's five or six characters in length... 5+6 = 11? And then there are four words, so 4x11=44. Maybe...
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2013-02-23, 16:32 | Link #6810 |
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Entropy in information science is basicly the amount of variation a message can possibly contain, that means it's uncertainty.
Say you have a 2 bit number. Then it could hold 2^2 different meanings: 00,01,10,11 So the entropy here is 2 bits (the entropy equaivalent of a 2 bit number). Characters are not bits. For ecample ASCII uses 8 bits to code a single character. You could code all small letters into 5 bits though. With 26 possible letters, a random sequence of letters of length 6 would have 26^6 possibilities. That is hugely more than 6 bits of entropy. And it is also much more than 11 bits. He uses only 44 bits, because he assumes that an attacker knows that a) he's using only common english words, not random sequences b) he's using exactly 4 of them and it is STILL reasonably safe. This is because the obvious rebuttal to this comic would be "but dictionary attacks will crack it in no time". He's getting ahead of that by assuming such an attack and still coming out with a good security. Last edited by Dhomochevsky; 2013-02-23 at 16:49. |
2013-02-24, 22:59 | Link #6811 | |
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Location: Australia
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Google around a bit, 2^11 is a bit more than 2000. And most kid starts school knowing 500-5000 words, so i guess it has a point
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2013-02-24, 23:17 | Link #6812 |
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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Anyone seen or have this?
Anyone have this?
I recently been going through online stores to look anime items to buy, and I saw this. "16GB USB Flash Drive USB 2.0 Memory GUILTY CROWN Anime Comic Game Credit Card Size " Is it just a USB drive? or something else? Because it has the game in the title.
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2013-02-25, 08:35 | Link #6818 |
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Location: Monterrey N.L. Mexico
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Several posts have been moved to the job hunting thread.
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2013-02-26, 12:00 | Link #6820 | |
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I remember that Dark Angels are really into banners for example. That and togas. |
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