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So my friend LMB sort of challenged me to start blogging again while I'm out of work this fall. I've tried several self-imposed challenges of the "write every day" type, even starting a new blog on Word Press instead of Blogger, hoping a new interface would kickstart me. Nothing has stuck, and this might not either, but here we go in any case.
Yes, out of work. I finished up a super fun Figaro at Opera North in mid-August, and between then and early December I have no work. Well, I have a one-night concert event - a fund-raiser for Gotham Chamber Opera at La Poisson Rouge - but that's it. Scary! Thankfully, because of my past work at the Met as a weekly soloist, I actually qualify for unemployment! How many freelancers can say that? I am grateful and not at all ashamed. :)
It's a tough time in the business. I think it's safe to say that most of my friends are in similar situations. Smaller opera companies (the ones that aren't top tier like the Met, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.) seem to have shrunk their seasons to fit in the period from January to May, rather than filling the full school-year type season. Not sure why nobody want to do fall operas, but those jobs were few and far between. It's a bit of an ego blow that I didn't get one of them, but when I look around at my fellow "starving artists," I know I'm in good company. But what do we do in these months??
All of my work this season is in NYC, aside from a short jaunt to Dallas for a Messiah (with B!). I'm thinking about taking on some voice and elementar piano students here at home. I would love to put on a recital somewhere, but that pays exactly zero dollars and requires tons of prep time that I need to be spending on my winter and spring gigs. (Lucia! In Hong Kong!! Yay! Over Christmas!!! Boo.) So, we'll see.
In non-singing (or, should I say, non-no-singing?) news, I am quickly becoming a Pinterest addict. I have already implemented several ideas I've picked up there, and I am constantly looking at ways to improve or enhance our home and our lives. Great recipes, fun activity idea for B3, tons of organization and decorating tips. Love it! It has inspired me to pick up my needlework again, working again on a huge project I started in January 2001. My mind is full of fun gifts ideas for friends and family, and I can't wait for Christmas.
** In typical representation of the way I'm operating these days, I started this post on October 1. Ah, well... So much for a 31-day challenge! But, at least I'm writing again, and hopefully I'll find something interesting to say...


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Merry DRM-masDecember 18, 2006
HBO recently produced a fantastic series of historical fiction called Rome, the first season of which is currently out on DVD. I grabbed a box off the shelf with the intention of buying it as a present, and nearly choked on the $90 CDN price tag for 12 episodes. But hey, it's Christmas, and what better time of year to over-spend on a loved one?
Then I made a nasty little discovery. On the back of the box, down in small type at the bottom, was a little logo and notification I had never seen before. It read, "This DVD is copy protected and may be played only on licensed devices."
This warning must have come about in the past year or two as my older DVDs are all free of it, but it's now on just about everything else in the store that I looked at to compare. And it set off all sorts of warning bells in my head. I asked the retail clerk — and then his manager — what the store policy would be if the DVDs were unplayable in whatever device the intended recipient had (which I would not know in advance). Would the store take them back opened?
Of course not, due to "copyright issues". I suppose that's in place if I were to copy the discs and then return them; isn't it interesting that the studios' confidence in their copyright-protection mechanism doesn't allow a change in that policy?
I then asked, since the only way to determine whether the DVDs are playable would be buying and opening them, and if it turns out they aren't, would I have ended up buying a completely useless $90 Christmas present? Yes, they agreed, that was about the size of it.
I realize that many people happily buy DVDs without giving the issue a second thought, and that in all likelihood this set would have worked on just about anything the intended recipient has today, since I doubt they possess any sort of DVD-writing device. What about in 2 years from now though… will that continue to be true? Is DRM so far off the general public's radar that people are really spending this kind of money on entertainment that may very well not be useable in a few years' time?
The escalating arms race between content providers and their customers leads me to seriously doubt the longevity of any sort of media that actively breaks compatibility today. And at $90, I'm not willing to find out. I shelved the set, walked out, and bought the intended recipient a DRM-free set of Henckels. I suspect we'll have a much merrier Christmas for it.
Reader Comments
I can't help but think that all of these companies are setting themselves up for failure with all the DRM stuff.
Pirating is wrong.. True.. But with these new DRM schemes they are scaring away customers..
I have had my own issues with DRM and it makes me not want to touch anything with it.. So suddenly they have lost a customer, and it doesn't stop the pirating..
I really think the whole DRM thing is going the wrong way..
You are correct that it is ironic that the stores won't accept returns of DRM protected DVDs. The only logical conclusion is that there are contractural agreements between the content producers and retailers to not allow them to resell opened or returned merchandise.
So it appears that the content producers stopped trusting consumers a long time ago by not allowing returns, and now trusts them even less by imposing DRM restrictions. I guess they also have a low opinion of our intelligence by assuming we'll gleefully spend money on content that will be unplayable and useless in a short time.
"The only logical conclusion is that there are contractural agreements between the content producers and retailers to not allow them to resell opened or returned merchandise."
Yeah, I really don't blame the store here; they've likely been told to do it one way, and the industry has then gone on to change the rules of the game without ever telling them to stop. And, given the current trajectory, likely never will.
"I guess they also have a low opinion of our intelligence by assuming we'll gleefully spend money on content that will be unplayable and useless in a short time."
Exactly. I was going to spend $90, the profit margin had to have been generous. The only way to send the message back is with my wallet.
Of course, they'll just blame piracy.
I have been traveling overseas and there are great knock-offs of that series already out. Seems like there copy protection doesn't work as well as they would like.
Yes, it is much easier to download movie then buy it. I am not talkin g about price here. I have one DVD at home, which doesn't play. It was present from my wife and it was spoiled mood for everyone at the birthday party. I will not buy aby DVD any more, unless they are free of all this BS.
Excuse my ignorance. What are the devices that can play these DVDs?
Are these Blu-Ray?
I am pretty sure that you will not be able to play 'em in your laptop or desktop?
It's just lame.
Dave, I ran into this same issue a little over a year ago when it came to Sony's copy protected CDs. I had to seriously question their DRM policies - http://www.reinspire.net/blog/2005/11/05/sony_drm/ - and came out with a lot of "ill-will" towards Sony. The question I kept coming back to though was this: is DRM really good for anyone?
Why not make the discs cheap enough to buy in the first place? I really think some of the drm schemes for movies aren't just to protect against consumers from pirating the movie but to keep some of their best clients in business—rental stores. Think about how much business Blockbuster (for example) gives Hollywood studios by purchasing all those new releases for store shelves ("guaranteed in stock!"). I'm sure they get a discount but it's a moot point—from a consumer's standpoint, why buy the disc (for $19) when you can rent essentially the same version (and subsequently copy it) for $3?
"Excuse my ignorance. What are the devices that can play these DVDs? Are these Blu-Ray?"
No, this is not Blu-Ray I'm talking about, but your regular old every day DVDs.
I'd imagine the average read-only DVD drive would play these, and perhaps drives within electronics like an XBox or something, provided there was no write capacity. It seems like everyone I talked to was confident these wouldn't play in a DVD writer, so playing them in a Mac would likely be out.
The fact I have to speculate like this is really the point here. Will it play? Won't it play? I'm the one out of pocket if it doesn't, since I have no hope of getting a refund.
This is exactly why I refuse to upgrade from DVD to DVD-HD/Blu-Ray: DRM, and nothing else. I'll have to keep an eye out for that warning on future purchase; thanks for the heads-up, Dave.
I actually had a problem playing one such disc on an older DVD player I owned earlier this year. After returning to the store to complain that the movie did not play in my DVD player I was treated like a criminal as both the employee and manager accused me of wanting to return an item I apparently 'copied'. Explaining I wanted to exchange, not return the DVD did no good as they proceeded to march me over to the TV/Video department and play the disc in one of their new players. I was quite teed-off after that and proceeded to make a rather loud scene in the middle of the store calling these two employees idiots who knew nothing about electronics. I actually went back home, grabbed my player and ten discs I already owned went back to the store went straight to the TV department, hooked up my old player to a new Plasma and began yelling at the employees again until they backed off and allowed me to exchange the disc. Of course by then I told them I wasn't interested in another copy since they proved to me that the disc had a manufacturing problem and besides I didn't feel like a respected customer at that point.
I walked out with my $12.99 in pocket and lost about three hours of my life. Any other product and it would have been a quick trip to the return counter and back to my place with an exchange, but with DVDs or CDs you considered guilty until proven innocent. BTW I don't shop at that store anymore.
I really consider DRM to be stupid. It never curbs piracy. The more they DRM things the more piracy seems to be a viable solution in my opinion. Sooner or later it'll be much better to download a movie than buy it. I have a rather extensive DVD library. I believe that a DVD is worth the money if it is playable. I don't rip DVDs even though I know how. I play DVDs on my Mac using Front Row. I would be quite angry if a DVD I bought didn't work on my Mac. The first season box set of Rome does play on my Mac, though. Most of the copy protection lately seems to be gearing towards region free DVD players, recorders, and drives. One of my DVD burner drives on my Mac is region free, but the other isn't. The Rome ones play in both actually, so I don't really know what devices the discs wouldn't play in.
Music is another story. If a song isn't offered on iTunes it's the old piracy game for me. If they won't cater to the public and provide their music on iTunes they don't need nor do they deserve my money. I make exceptions for Japanese music, but I do wish they did offer more of it.
Sony had this ridiculous copy protection on Japanese music CDs a while back where it would say in big bold lettering on the shrink wrap around the jewel case that the CD wouldn't play on a Macintosh while you would need special software to be able to play the CD on your Windows PC. I popped a disc in, opened up iTunes and ripped it without any trouble whatsoever. OS X treated the disc as a partitioned disc with the copy protection BS on one partition and the music on the other. I about laughed my off. I never saw copy protection that easy to crack.
In the end these entertainment companies are shooting themselves in the foot.
Sounds like you made the best choice possible Dave. The only way to show the movie industry that this is unacceptable (in a manner they'll actually listen to) is with our pocketbooks. If they see that DRM'd movies don't sell as well as traditional DVDs, they'll have no choice but to make changes.
Though as I write this I just thought that what they'll probably do is blame the lack of sales on piracy, and then use that to enact even stricter legistation to outlaw 'fair use' completely.
Hi Dave,
I wonder if it would help if you made a point of informing the store you didn't buy it *because* of DRM and the fear that it won't play.
Walk up to the counter with the DVD, let them know, and leave it at the counter. If enough people did this it could send a message that DRM is affecting their sales.
Else (as Josh Johnson said) they will just blame it on piracy, or the content wasn't popular enough.
I am sick of being accused a "pirate" – my shelves of DVDs, CDs and Laserdiscs (remember them?) say otherwise.
It really just shows how old fashioned and narrow minded to record and movie industry is.
At these times where more and more companies try to improve communication with customers, be innovative and better at fulfilling customers needs, the record / movie industry goes the opposite way in an attempt to protect themselves from the evolution. Where they should have just tried to come up with better solutions they're just annoying and frightening consumers who are actually willing to pay. And it's not like it's ever been a problem to copy a cd or dvd.
Why don't they try to give me at great experience with their products since I'm a paying customer - the kind of consumers they should focus on.
How are you supposed to know what a "licensed device" is? The warning label is rather vague, and gives no indication of which devices may be incompatible.
I recently bought a PC based around the Media Center edition of Windows. I use the HDTV as a monitor, and I've got a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The idea was to ditch my standalone DVD player and use the device in the PC. I intended to add a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive (depending on the outcome of that little format war) to the PC to extend the capabilities of the system. Having a "media center" that could do everything was supposed to be the Next Big Thing.
DRM makes it likely that there will be an increasing percentage of DVDs that simply will not play on my preferred system. I'm starting to get worried about the DVDs I'll be renting with my online Blockbuster account too. When I start getting one of the HD disc formats, I may run into serious stumbling blocks if the PC drive is not one of these "licensed devices".
It is inconceivable to me that this state of affairs can continue for much longer. The internet has spectacularly demonstrated the advantages and value of interoperability and compatibility, and the "general public" now expects this behavior in technology. When sufficient numbers of the public are inconvenienced by DRM measures, I am confident there will be some sort of backlash.
Like many others here I am avid lover of music and films and have quite an extensive cd and dvd collection by now as I believe in the value of the product, I can do what ever I want with it, my collection is so extensive that I spent nearly a year (not solidly of course, I do have a job, lol) ripping my music collection to mp3 and I'm at bursting point storage wise, so would dearly love to purchase more electronically, however with DRM on music as it is in most cases I would have to re-rip via CD the downloaded file to remove any protection just so I can play it on my phone, laptop, car stereo or whereever I choose then throw away the cd (yay, great one for the environment!) at the moment I use only eMusic as that is the only place that doesn't require me to install anything or do anything else to listen to my music the way I want, so if a track isn't available on there where should I find it ? ?
I won't and will never pay money for anything that contains DRM!
As far as I can tell - as checking my DVD collection, I turn out to have two discs with this same logo on it - there is no new DRM associated with it - just plain old broken CSS, same as always. (One of the two discs has one of those broken autorun windows installers for some kind of videoplayer that'll hijack your system or somesuch, but I've seen the same on discs without the logo, and the other disc with the logo doesn't have that.)
So the only thing "new" is the logo to make consumers aware of the CSS "protection".
Every DVD I purchase is immediately copied onto my harddisk, and then goes in storage as backup, (same as with CDs, except without transcoding, as I don't think there's anything lossless for movies to convert to), and these two discs copied over just as easily as anything else.
Of course, that doesn't change your central point a single bit. DRM is so very much the wrong thing to do for these companies, and making customers have to think about it is so going to cost them…
I didn't start buying DVDs until last year (seriously, before that I only owned VHS videos, and basically didn't buy movies at all) as only then did I gain enough confidence that between VLC and large harddisks I would _always_ be able to watch _my_ movies if I'd buy them on DVD.
I will not buy anything with effective DRM. I will never buy anything which comes with product activation. (*sobs for missed Photoshop upgrades since 7*) I will not buy anything that used to be open and then had DRM bolted on like those crippled discs with rootkits and whatnot.
And anytime I _don't_ buy something like that, the money goes into the mental jar of money reserved to buy an extra CD from an independent artist at the next concert I attend. I've been growing my music collection quite a bit with that policy… :)
my policy (in my head) about this and anything else in life is to give respect at first, then if you get pissed off because the other person is stupid, you don't have to give any respect.
so in this situation, if you looked at your dvd-player and there's no glaring sticker or something saying it'll play drm, and if you scan the manufacturer's site for drm notices, and you don't get any answers, you're free to _borrow_ what you want to watch by other means.
The only way I would accept DRM is if the music and movie industries had a completely on-demand content delivery system. And I'm talking small FRACTIONS of pennies per song for that. Not some bloated number the music and movie industries would likely come up with.
I think everybody would win in that situation. Artists get paid for how much their music actually gets used, so if they make throw-away songs that won't be listened to in a year, that's exactly the compensation they will get. You could listen to whatever songs and watch whatever movies you want when you want, and format no longer matters. When the new-fangled-3D-technology versions of all our favorite movies come out, or the new high-high-high-def versions of our favorite music comes out, you get the upgrades on everything you watch or listen to automatically without having to re-buy it all.
How I long for the days where hard formats are obsolete! Of course, as slow as fiber is propagating in the US, I'm not holding my breath. And I don't trust the movie or music industries to come up with fair pricing schemes in such a system either. *sigh*
Interesting post and comments.
For a vaguely related "customers are treated as criminals" rant, worth seeing Andy Budd's recent post on Adobe - http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2006/12/adobe/index.php
Question to those stateside, Canada etc - do you have any stores that openly allow trial of, say, CDs which you can return if it's not to your liking? Over here (UK), FOPP have a "suck it and see" policy - full money back if you get a CD home and decide it sucks (don't know if it extends to DVDs) and I think other stores do it too.
An additional question: don't you have any statutory rights on your side of the pond?
Here in Ireland (and presumably it's the same case in the UK) stores are legally obliged to give a refund or a replacement if a product isn't fit for its purpose, under the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act. A good example would be a non-Red Book standard CD, many of which don't play in car stereos: unless the packaging explicitly states that it isn't a 'real' CD, then you can return it no bother.
And even at that, most retailers are happy to allow returns on products that may have been bad choices, unwanted gifts, etc within 2 or 3 weeks, provided they're in a re-sellable condition and you have the receipt.
I used to work at a large chain music/DVD retailer, and we did this all the time, didn't even think about it. Sure, we had a few people try to take advantage of the goodwill system, but they're a lot fewer than you might imagine.
Not sure about that, but I think it only means that the DVD is CSS protected. And this have been the case since I ever got my DVD player back in 1999, and probably before. It is part of the DVD standard.
My merry DRM-mas.
So far I've had 1 "CD" and 2 "DVDs" that have been cursed by the Dark Lords of DRM.
The CD was a holiday mix new for the season. It wouldn't play in my Sister's car stereo (Stock OEM, big 3 auto) even though many other's played fine. We returned it for a new one because it didn't work (it did look a little flaky) and the second copy also failed… not just flaky, but the player spit it right back out!
I the last month I've gotten 2 DVDs from the rental store with DRM as well. Again, the player didn't even try… it just spit them out. I exchanged the DVD for another at the rental store in case it was a bum disc. It wasn't. The joke is that this is a Phillips DVD recorder… it's made for RWs, so it takes a really messed up disc to reject it without trying to play it. (it's even funnier because it's PHILLIPS! Joke left to the reader)
In all the cases I've had the clerks were courteous enough to exchange the item as "defective"… it's fun to know better than them! On a side note, perhaps that is the way to get back. Stores like WalMart have "no-hassle" policies. As long as you are following their policy of "exchange only" they'll keep doing it and racking up return product for the co.
The biggest Joke of them all!!! All the discs played PERFECTLY under Ubuntu on my Lite-On everything burner! I actually ripped the CD and re-burned it for my sister and the copy worked great in her car. She has a shiny Christmas coaster to hang from the mirror now. The 2 DVDs I ripped to watch later in iTunes… oh the irony!!!
It's all a joke. The wide-scale DVD copiers have shrink-wrap machines to re-wrap the DVDs in order to return them. I once used Saran Wrap and a hair dryer to re-seal a boxed set of DVDs that I opened before realizing it was a season I already owned. (Oops!)
haha shrinkwrap… that reminds me years ago when I worked at an office supply store we had one guy come in and he wanted to shrinkwrap a dvd because the online store he bought it from wouldn't take it back because it was opened. (He claimed it didn't have shrinkwrap on it to begin with.) I said "let me check with my manager" to make sure it was OK… not only because it was a grey area legally but I wanted to see the look on his face—was a porn DVD (like "crazy college girls get naked" or whatever… it was really cheesy.) We had a good laugh over that one… you just know he "watched" it (and maybe copied it) and wanted to return it. I had a hard time keeping a straight face bringing it shrinkwrapped back out to him..
"The escalating arms race between content poviders and their customers…"
That should read "The escalating arms race between content providers and the pirates…". Customers are just getting caught in the crossfire.
Canada really doesn't have consumer protection laws?
Over here in EU-land if you buy something and it's not fit for purpose, then it's broken and you get a refund. Cast-iron legal guarantee, and there's no doubt at all that a DVD which doesn't play in your DVD player is covered. That it's opened wouldn't matter at all.
Perhaps that's why I've never seen one of those stickers.
"It seems like everyone I talked to was confident these wouldn't play in a DVD writer, so playing them in a Mac would likely be out."
I know of a certain program (DVD43) for Windows that will disable DRM protection and one can then play these on a DVD-combo drive on the PC. I'm sure something is out there for Macs/Linux too … my head will burst if I find out otherwise.
On a different note, nice redesign here :).
Could you return the goods as unfit for purpose? If you can't play them then technically they don't perform the function they were intended for. Probably not I suspect.
On DRM in DVDs, I know there are system available that will mean the disc can only be played on a specific piece of hardware. That's what worries me for future releases.
The people this hurts won't be the criminals or the tech-savvy, they'll find a way around any DRM very quickly, it's ordinary people it cripples.
An example of this can be found in the region system. My parents lived in the US for a bit and bought a load of region 1 DVDs, now back in the UK they either have to buy a cheap DVD player that'll play multi-region discs (because the studios have told the big guns not to do it, so they all created spin-off companies for multi-region products). Me, I ripped the movies, stripped the region coding and burnt them back onto DVD. We own them, we should be able to watch them on whatever we want.
"I wonder if it would help if you made a point of informing the store you didn't buy it *because* of DRM and the fear that it won't play."
Yes, I did. Tilting at windmills, since I doubt many people care enough to do it. But I certainly did.
"The wide-scale DVD copiers have shrink-wrap machines to re-wrap the DVDs in order to return them."
Of course they do, which makes this policy all the more unsavoury.
"I know of a certain program (DVD43) for Windows that will disable DRM protection…"
Yes, were this something I personally received, there would be ways around it. I could install software, I could BitTorrent a copy, etc. I know all about those, I don't need advice on how to do it. This was a gift for someone else, remember. Someone who doesn't need the headache.
"Canada really doesn't have consumer protection laws?"
Yes, it's possible that with the right legal ammunition, my country's laws will convince the low-level retail clerks that they should indeed contravene store policy and accept an opened item in return.
That's an uphill battle I care not to attempt; it's clearly not a common practice over here, otherwise store policy would have accounted for this occurence.
It was just easier to not buy it.
I had a similar issue with the Matrix DVD.
Is it fair to even call these things DVD's?
Yup, this stuff is bad. It makes me sad that I'm being bullied by the big guys for stealing music or films. Evidently they can't possibly know that I have a bookcase devoted to my media, or that I spend 75% of what's left of my income on music (it has now and then come before food on my priority list). But it more than annoys me that I, for some reason, won't always be able to actually own what I pay for. Let alone play!
What can save us souls well-meaning?
Thanks for the tip on this one, I'm keeping an eye out on my purchases. More and more they just keep losing that portion of disposable income I set aside for my music and movies.
Dave: "The escalating arms race between content providers and their customers leads me to seriously doubt the longevity of any sort of media that actively breaks compatibility today."
This is why I still get a kick of collecting and playing used/thrift store LPs after all these years. In fact it is the only music format I find it worth spending money on these days. So much for the so-called digital technology "progress". Me, I'll just keep staring at how the big media companies dig their own graves trying to stop what cannot be stopped.
Meanwhile… DRM? What's that, I ask? :D
Interestingly the doubts are coming from the other side too - Bill Gates has just said DRM isn't working:
On a bit of a tangent, have you seen the new microsoft.com home page? At first glance it appears to be built with web standards. (HTML 4 Transitional isn't exactly a lofty goal, but they're nearly there.)
The frustrating thing about this is that it's built on SharePoint 2007. I'm trying to build a SharePoint 2007 site at the moment and out-of-the-box the HTML is as horrendous as ever. They must have gone to a lot of effort to get microsoft.com as good as it is, but why couldn't they put that effort into the base product instead and save a lot of developers a lot of time?
Actually, it would illegal in EU to sell the CD which is not playable and then not accept the return.
As a shop owner, you have to accept the CD for exchange or money return if it isn't working (basically, it is supposed to be broken under current laws).
I dare say this little logo has backfired for HBO.
DVD's have always been copy protected. CSS is the only form of encryption (DRM if you will) on DVD's. They can't introduce a new forms of encryption because no players will understand it.
There is no way it can detect if your DVD drive is a writer, unless you are using your disc in a computer and the disc autoplays and installs some software. But I've never heard of this with DVD's and after Sony's rootkit I don't think any company would attempt it for a while yet.
If that disc carries the official DVD logo you can be assured it will play an any device that also carries an official DVD logo. Both the disc and drive have to conform to the DVD standards.
You'll notice most CD's these days don't carry the Compact Disc logo anymore because they don't conform to the standards. Although, even the ones that do conform don't carry the CD logo anymore so consumers can't tell which are copy protected.
The industry continually amazes me with their insistence that it's a good idea to punish paying customers.
Here in the Netherlands you can return a product if it doesn't work properly (e.g. not playing in your DVD-player). Most store personnel will tell you it's their policy not to take back products, but by law you have the right to do so. It's a matter of… convincing the personnel to give you the service you've got the right to.
My personal opinion is that DRM is so absolutely wrong. If you buy something, you have the right to do everything you want with it except copyright infringement. DRM makes you unable to make backups or rip songs for your iPod. On the other hand, cracking protection is forbidden by law. You'd say it's a conspiracy and the government's in it…
"I then asked, since the only way to determine whether the DVDs are playable would be buying and opening them, and if it turns out they aren't, would I have ended up buying a completely useless $90 Christmas present? Yes, they agreed, that was about the size of it."
I would argue that you've actually hit two separate problems. The first is obviously the copy protection that you are legally prohibited from circumventing (in some countries, anyway) even if the protection prevents you from actually using what you bought.
The second problem is the store you're buying from.
The correct answer to your question was "yes, we will take it back if you say the disc is defective (because we value your business)."
If a store doesn't answer the question you asked that way they deserve to lose your business to a competitor, and if you have the energy I'd recommend a letter to an executive of the company (I'm assuming this happened at a large chain) explaining why you can no longer purchase merchandise from the store.
I would give my opinion on how to deal with the DVDs in question, but you did the right thing =)
Hmmm – I honestly don't remember the last time I bought an "actual" DVD – partly because I don't have much time for TV – and partly because the only thing I ever do watch is my iPod.
I don't mind paying $2.00 an episode for TV Shows from iTunes – or even $12 bucks for a movie. But I do mind wasting hard earned money on DVD's that will not play due to DRM. The story that Sean told above, illustrates perfectly "The Road Ahead". I refuse to be called a criminal because something I purchased is worthless to me.
And like Simon, I worry about future DVD rentals. I'm a member of Netflix and Blockbuster On-line, and would hate to find that EVEN my video rentals do not play.
Which makes options like Vongo.com seem more and more appealing every day. Or better yet – we all go on strike and watch nothing but YouTube. LOL
Interesting point. I certainly do not defend DRM, but have accepted it as a necessary evil to protect the non-computer-savvy masses from completely exploiting digital media (I think savvy users will always find a way around DRM).
Therefore, it's not the "This DVD is copy protected" part I have a real problem with, it's the "may be played only on licensed devices." I wonder what they mean by 'licensed devices'.
We've seen people get cornered in other digital media genres. For one, I am a iTunes/iPod person for music. Some are MS Reader / .Doc people for eBooks. When content and devices are not interoperable, we're sometimes forced to choose a company or format. I wonder if we'll soon only be able to play that Rome DVD on DVD players made by HBO.
Wow, lots of half-truths and misinformation here.
To answer your question, Dave, the little "copy protected" warning could mean any number of things.
1. In the beginning (of DVDs) there was CSS – the Content Scramble System, not Cascading Style Sheets ;) – which was famously cracked many years ago by "DVD Jon". CSS is technically optional (for example, Jason Scott's BBS Documentary doesn't use it) but virtually every commercial DVD uses it.
It is possible that the warning you saw referred to CSS protection and nothing more.
2. Also since the beginning, DVDs have had the option of embedding a region code in the DVD disc. Different regions of the world were assigned different codes, and every DVD player manufacturer had to sign an agreement with the DVD Consortium stating that they would only play DVD discs of a certain region. And the manufacturers had to play by the Consortium's rules, because the Consortium was the only one who could give out the decryption keys that would allow the player to decrypt the CSS encryption used on commercial DVDs.
Despite these agreements, in some regions of the world (i.e. everywhere but the United States), there was a growing market for "multi-region" DVD players which would play DVDs from anywhere, i.e. a DVD player in the UK (region 2) which could play DVDs from the US (region 1). (Many were region-locked by default but had secret codes that could enable the extra functionality.) To counteract this trend, Columbia Tristar and Warner Home Video attempted a new scheme called "region code enhancement" (RCE). An RCE-protected DVD disc contains executable code that asks the DVD player what regions it supports, and refuses to play the disc if it didn't like the answer. All DVDs can contain executable code which is executed by the DVD player – that's how menus and other features work. But this code tried to outwit the "multi-region" DVD players in order to enforce in software the region encoding scheme that the players refused to support in hardware. There were various improvements to RCE over the years, as multi-region players adapted to older techniques.
It is possible that the warning you saw referred to RCE protection. "Multi-region" DVD players – even ones made by legitimate mainstream manufacturers – have been called "unlicensed" or "unapproved" devices by studios still trying to divide the global marketplace into distinct regions.
3. Eventually the multi-region DVD players got so smart that they were software-indistinguishable from region-locked players, and the studios gave up and focused on a new threat: DVD ripping programs. As I mentioned earlier, DVDs contain executable code that tells the player what to do next – go to this menu, set this register, jump to this track or chapter, etc. That means that in the normal course of playing a DVD, there could be tracks (or individual chapters within a track) that you would never reach. Even if you tried to reach them (by using navigation buttons for "next track" or "next chapter" or whatever), those are really just commands to the DVD player and they can be overridden by code on the DVD disc that tells the DVD player to do something else. So the disc could have a bogus track or a damaged sector, and on a regular (*cough* "approved" *cough*) DVD player you would never even notice.
But DVD ripping progams don't execute code; they blindly read every byte off the disc and decrypt it. So Sony introduced ARccOS protection, where consisted of placing intentionally bad sectors in parts of the DVD disc and then programming the disc to never go there during the normal course of playing it. Of course, DVD ripping programs were quickly updated to read the DVD directory structure to determine which tracks and sectors were never actually used, and if they found a bad sector in one of those tracks they simply skipped over it without complaining.
It is possible that the warning you saw referred to ARccOS protection (Sony licenses it to various other studios). Despite reports of it being discontinued, it is still being used on some new DVDs, to this day. ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is a quite recent example.)
4. In 2005, Macrovision introduced yet another protection scheme called RipGuard. I have not been able to find a whole lot of technical details about how it works, except that they essentially reverse-engineered several DVD ripping programs and created a protection scheme that exploited as-yet-unknown bugs in those programs. They also claim to be able to "update" the protection for new discs as bugs are fixed in the ripper programs. (Later in 2005, Macrovision actually bought the IP for DVD Decrypter, which was at the time the most popular program for Windows, and updated RipGuard so DVD Decrypter wouldn't work.) So basically, "RipGuard" is just a generic catch-all term for "here's all the ways we've found to fuck with you so far, but be sure to ask again tomorrow."
It is possible that the warning you saw referred to RipGuard protection.
As you correctly pointed out, without buying the discs and opening the package, there is no way to be sure which protection scheme (or combination of protection schemes!) are present, and therefore whether the discs would work in your gift recipient's DVD player.
Ironically, every modern DVD ripping program can easily auto-detect and auto-bypass all of these protection schemes, and then re-author the disc onto ultra-cheap recordable media with no protection whatsoever. If you wanted to ensure a smooth Christmas morning (and didn't mind breaking several federal laws), you should buy the discs and re-author them unprotected, and keep the originals in a drawer. As I said in my first blog post ever, "the only long-term effect of copy protection is to ensure that those who defeat it are immortalized."
I recently got a copy of Peepshow, a UK channel 4 DVD, that had the standard copy protected stuff on the back. I ignored it, and then found out it wouldn't play on my iBook G4 in the DVD player. VLC and then Instant Handbrake promptly sorted that out though. So currently the only full season of a TV show that I have on my computer is a copy protected one.
Since I doubt anyone will be able to top the sheer usefulness and relevance of Mark's comment, consider this thread closed. Thanks all.
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it's so neat that you like golden ghost. i dont know anybody who knows of her or likes her. it is sad she has been inactive for a long time. and a house show! cool. i saw her at a very small show here, and i really regret not saying hi...
hey!!! how did you see "present" ??? I really want to see it!!!
I liked the one with the spoken word. That stuff always gets me :) Let's be friends!
Your album is really really good! You should make a thread. Really am enjoying this :)
we should be friends! It's easier to talk...because I never really go on townhall anymore.
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For a chiropractic education, accreditation is of vital importance to its reliability. Accreditation grants students confidence in their education so that they may have self-assurance in the chiropractic program; that it met and/or exceeded standards set by alternative medicine professionals and governing bodies. In addition, it gives assurance that the education is considered to be of value by chiropractic businesses and professionals.
The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) is the only accrediting body accepted by the U.S. Secretary of Education for the accreditation of chiropractic education programs. The CCE evaluates the effectiveness of educational institutions programs in addition to their mission statement, program objectives, and program results.
Along with the CCE, there are six regional accrediting bodies in the U.S.:
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After 23 years as the owner of her own practice, dentist Ann Mayeda has sold her business but will continue to practice there for the foreseeable future.
The new owner, dentist Adam Cramer, also purchased Courthouse Square Dental Clinic earlier this year and operates that practice as well. It is now called Advanced Dental Care of Vashon. There he and dentist James Cunnington offer routine dental services and specialty care that previously was not available on Vashon, Cramer said, such as root canals, dental implants and wisdom teeth extraction. At Mayeda's office, the staff, care and services will remain the same.
"From the patients' perspective, not much is going to change," she said.
She noted she is pleased she can now refer people to on-Island providers for services they previously had to travel to Seattle for.
"I think it will be better for my patients because we're offering more now," she said. "I am happy they have a choice."
Mayeda listed her office for sale earlier this year and thought that it might take a year to sell it, she said. Only 10 days later she learned Cramer was interested.
"I was shocked myself," she said.
Relinquishing ownership will allow her to focus on dental care itself and leave the administrative work that comes with running a practice to others, she said. The name of her practice will change down the road, she noted, to reflect the change of ownership.
Cramer noted the Courthouse Square office is a preferred provider for most insurance companies, and Mayeda said her office may begin to accept additional insurance plans as well.
For more information on Advanced Dental Care of Vashon and the providers, see www.dentalcareofvashon.com.


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looking for the pinout of the 15 pin connector on the back of the radio. I need the pin for the Ignition Sense was turned on in programming and can not power up the radio.
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The schematic diagram in the manual doesn't show the pin numbers. The pins are labled TXD1, RXD1, AUX5, DEO, DI, ALT, 5V, E, AUX1, AUX3, AUX4, AUX2 DTMFIO, TXD0, RXD0. If you start at the middle pin, should be pin 8, it is ground. The AUX lines are configured in the programming software.
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text: Multabs tries to account for line broadening by absorption by multiple discrete components rather than by turbulence or bulk flow. This model is essentially identical to warmabs in that it uses the warm absorber spectrum generated by warmabs, but initially assuming that the lines are broadened only by thermal gas motions. It then replicates these lines a fixed number of times and spreads the components over a given velocity width. The input parameters include the same parameters as warmabs: ionization parameter, column, and abundances. These control the properties of the individual absorbing components, in the same way as for warmabs. In addition, the user specifies the velocity spread of the components, still called vturb, and the covering fraction, cfrac. This covering fraction can be interpreted as a covering fraction in velocity space. The number of discrete components is given by cfrac*vturb/vtherm, where vturb is input by the user and vtherm is the thermal line width which is determined by the equilibrium temperature (calculated by xstar). The optical depth of each component is divided by the number of components, so that the total optical depth summed over the components is independent of their number. The number of components cannot be less than 1. If it is 1 then the component will be placed at the redshifted energy of the line. If it is greater than 1, then the components will be spaced uniformly in velocity from -vturb to +vturb relative to the rest energy of the line. There is no restriction on the value of cfrac, so it is possible to set cfrac to some large number and thereby fill a uniform trough in velocity with the line.


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ITHACA, N.Y. – The Yale men's fencing team finished
up the first day of the Ivy League Championships with a 2-2 record.
Today's dual meets were part of the first half of
competition, hosted by Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. As the only team to
fence against four opponents, the Yale had a full schedule, fencing
against Columbia, Harvard, Pennsylvania and Princeton. The Bulldogs
came away with wins against Columbia and Pennsylvania, while losing
two heartbreakers against Harvard and Princeton.
At last year's Ivy Championships, Yale finished tied for fourth place with a 1-4 record. The Bulldogs' sole victory came against Harvard in the first day of competition, and they finished behind Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton, tied with Harvard and Brown.
This year, Yale brought an improved team and serious title aspirations to the Ivy Championships. In line with these aspirations, the Bulldogs kicked off the day at 11 a.m. with a decisive 18-9 victory against Columbia. Leading the way, as expected, was the Yale foil squad. Junior Nathaniel Botwinick, senior John Gurrieri, and freshman Jonathan Holbrook posted a 9-0 record, allowing only three touches scored against them overall.
Last season, Columbia defeated the Bulldogs 17-10 while compiling a 4-1 record to finished second in the league.
"Beating Columbia was a great start to the day," said captain Andrew Holbrook. "The foil team led the way, as the other squads worked hard for every bout."
Columbia was ranked eighth in the February 18th USFCA National Coaches Poll. Of the Bulldogs' other three opponents on the day, Princeton was ranked fourth, Harvard was ranked sixth, and Pennsylvania was ranked seventh. Yale had been ranked ninth in the previous poll, but fell out of the top ten this time around.
Following the victory against Columbia, the Bulldogs fenced a tough match against Harvard, losing by a final score of 16-11. The foil squad won five of nine and the saber squad won four of nine to keep it close. However, the Harvard epee squad proved too strong, winning seven of nine from Yale for the victory. However, the match was even closer than the overall score indicates, as the Bulldogs lost five bouts by a one-touch margin.
"Losing to Harvard was a disappointment," said Holbrook. "It was frustrating to lose so many bouts by only a touch, but we definitely used it to focus better in the next round."
In the third round, the Bulldogs faced off against Pennsylvania, who had defeated them 22-5 en route to an Ivy League title last year. This year, Yale took the match by a final score of 17-10.
"Beating Penn was a great feeling," said Holbrook, "especially after last year's loss. The team came out strong and this was a great job from every squad."
Earlier in the day, during round one of the competition, no. 7 Pennsylvania had beaten no. 6 Harvard by a score of 15-12. Yale's strong win over Penn in round three made the earlier loss to Harvard even tougher.
The Bulldogs finished their long day of competition against no. 4 Princeton. In the most evenly split match of the day, the Elis lost a heartbreaker by a final score of 14-13. The saber squad came through in a big way for Yale, winning seven of nine bouts. Freshman Colin Mills was particularly impressive, winning all three of his bouts. The powerful Princeton epee squad made up the difference by winning seven of their nine bouts. Princeton then slipped by Yale's strong foil squad, winning five of nine bouts. Though sophomore Shiv Kachru put together an impressive 3-0 record in the match, the Elis were not able to take advantage. Particularly difficult to swallow was the fact that Botwinick turned in a great performance but lost two bouts by just one touch.
"Against Princeton, we traded bouts until the very end," said Holbrook. "We put forth a phenomenal effort and the saber team really stepped up for a 7-2 bout score. The team as a whole did everything it could, but came up short. It was a definite disappointment, however there are few times when you can say a team did everything possible and this is one of them."
Yale definitely left everything on the fencing strip, and came away with a 2-2 record. Though the Bulldogs felt like they could have done a bit better, they are in a decent position going into next weekend's competition. During the second half of the Ivy Championships, Yale has only Brown to fence.
"Are we disappointed in the day's final outcome?" asked Holbrook. "Definitely. However, this team has come a phenomenal way since last season. We are all proud of our performance and looking forward to fencing Brown next weekend. The Ivy League is not over yet and we are going to come out strong and prove ourselves in our final Ivy League meet."
Yale will fence Brown in the second and final day of Ivy competition on Sunday, Feb. 28 in Philadelphia, P.A.
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FRESNO, Calif. – Olam Americas, Inc., along with its two subsidiaries, has settled a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $140,000 and other relief, the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that a jobseeker was denied an executive assistant position at Olam's Fresno, Calif., facility due to her pregnancy. Olam Americas, Inc. is a leading supplier and processor of agricultural products and food ingredients.
According to the federal agency, a female applicant was initially offered the executive assistant position at Olam in December 2010. However, within a very short period of time after disclosing that she was pregnant, Olam rescinded its offer of employment to her and promptly selected an alternate, non-pregnant candidate, the EEOC said.
Pregnancy discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The EEOC filed suit against Olam in September 2011 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (EEOC v. Olam America, Inc., Olam West Coast d/b/a Olam Spices and Vegetables, and Olam Tomato Processors, Inc., Case No. 11-cv-01548-LJO -DLB) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Olam and the EEOC ultimately entered into a three-year consent decree, effectively settling the lawsuit. Aside from the monetary relief for the rejected applicant, Olam agreed to designate an equal employment opportunity (EEO) official to develop procedures for handling sex discrimination complaints; ensure adequate handling of discrimination complaints; hold management and human resources staff accountable for failure to comply with such policies; and provide annual EEO training to all employees at six manufacturing plants in central and northern California, along with more specialized training for managers and human resources staff. The EEOC will monitor compliance with the decree.
"Employers should hire and retain the best qualified job applicants, irrespective of one's gender or pregnancy," said Anna Y. Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, which includes Fresno in its jurisdiction. "We commend Olam for working together with the EEOC to resolve this matter and we appreciate Olam's efforts toward ensuring equal employment opportunities for all."
Melissa Barrios, director of the EEOC's Fresno Local Office, added, "The EEOC is charged with ensuring that women who become pregnant are not subjected to unfair stereotypes in the workplace. We will continue to work together with employers here in our area to achieve that goal."
According to its website, Olam Americas, Inc. employs about 3,600 workers throughout the U.S. Its parent company, Olam International, Inc., operates an integrated supply chain for 20 agricultural products in 64 countries, servicing 10,000 customers globally.
The EEOC is the federal agency that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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- JEM is now packaged with WTP for 1.5.4 as it is in WTP 2.0
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- Bug lists (WST,JST,JSF)
- Invalid Targeted Defects <1.5.4 (0)
- 1.5.x Untargeted Blockers/Criticals (~0)
- 1.5.x Untriaged Bugs (~12)
- 1.5.x Resolved, Unverified (~64)
- 1.5.x Verified, Not closed (~0)
- 1.5.4 Bugs for WTP PMC review and approval (~1)
- 1.5.4 Hot Bug Requests (~0)
- 1.5.4 Hot Bugs (~1)
- 1.5.4 Blockers, Criticals (~1)
- 1.5.4 Remaining Targeted Bugs (~19)
- 1.5.4 Total Bugs Fixed (~49)
- Remaining Europa Timeline
March 2007 - June 2007 Platform +1 WTP M7 - RC0 May 04 May 11 May 18 RCn... Europa Jun 29 Jun 29 Jun 29
- Europa To Do's
- Ensure all plugin manifests have execution environments specified - David to open bugzilla, each component needs to do this for RC0. This is about half done. Stay tuned for more info.
- Move WS bundles to orbit - Goal is end of next week.
- Use signed plugin jars - This is not a requirement anymore, but we will still investigate.
- Component Leads - Take a look at the new New WTP 2.0 Plan document published by Raghu and make any updates for your component. The purpose is to have a good clear picture of what we achieved and what we wanted to acheive but deferred.
- Europa Testing
- Components should start setting up Europa update site test environments where they run smoke tests with many projects other than WTP installed, like Mylar, BIRT, etc and make sure WTP function still works.
- April 6th - May 18th, WTP RC0
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Function and Compatibility Tests
Defect Verifications
Mustfix defects
Defect Verifications
Mustfix defects
Defect Verifications
Status Call
Thumbs Up Test
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- Build Status
- Please smoke test and update wiki to declare RCO I Build.
- JUnits?
- Component Leads: please update the exception section of WTP_2.0_Ramp_down_Plan_for_Europa with the relevant info and bugzilla numbers for exceptions to M6 feature complete.
- Access Rules and new Build Page - see Tweaking the Access Rules for WTP
- Action 1 = For any violation, open a bug to request API or fix code to not use internal discouraged access
- Action 2 = If you do have a clean plugin of API violations/discourage access, switch prereq ranges wide so you can react to small version number changes without issue.
- Action 3 = To be able to develop with discouraged access enabled, we need to update plugin's .classpath rules. Should we turn off defaults to expose all warnings to get a quicker resolution?
- Copyright Tools - Let's plan to run the eclipse copyright tool to ensure all files have a proper copyright before we declare RC0.
- Amy - There are two versions of the tool, regular and advanced. The regular only works with the IBM copyright, so if you want to use a different copyright you need to use advanced. It did a good job of ignoring files which already had copyrights.
- Bug Lists
- Bugzilla Enhancements Targeted for 2.0 RC0 (~34)
- All Remaining 2.0 Targeted Enhancements (~43)
- 2.0 Invalid Targeted Defects <RC0 (~0)
- 2.0 Hot Bug Requests (~0)
- 2.0 Hot Bugs (~0)
- 2.0 Remaining Targeted RC0 Defects (~148)
- 2.0 Total JST, WST, JSF Bugs Fixed (~378)
- 2.0 JPA Total Bugs Fixed (~62)
- 2.0 Targeted Bugs (Graph)
- All Remaining 2.0 Targeted Bugs (~226)
Performance Tests
- Known Issues
- Switch the 2.0 performance tests baseline to be the latest 1.5.x
- The XSD and WSDL tests are not running. Adding them causes the suite to hang. Needs investigation.
- The baseline test needs to be rerun each week to eliminate false "hiccups" in performance.
- Action Items
- Improve the UI readability and cohesiveness of the output result pages
- Assign component lead ownership to the specific test suites
- Improve the actual tests. Why do some take so long? Why do some results fluctuate? Why do some have 160% performance degradations? Are the tests even still valid?
- Allow committers to reliably and efficiently run perfomance suites in the workspace before checking in code
- Add JSF and JPA performance JUnits
Bug Backlogs
- All Untriaged WTP Bugs (Graph)
- All Untriaged WTP Bugs (~97)
- All WTP Verified, Not Closed Bugs (Graph)
- All WTP Verified, Not Closed Bugs (0)
- All WTP Resolved, Unverified Bugs (Graph)
- All WTP Resolved, Unverified Bugs (360)
- All WTP Defect Backlog (Graph)
- All WTP Defect Backlog (2915)
- All Resolved, Remind or Later (Graph)
- All Resolved, Remind or Later (~60)
- All Open WTP Bugs with Patches Attached (Graph)
- All Open WTP Bugs with Patches Attached (~182)
- All API Requests (9)
Working Groups
- Java EE 5
- JEE5 Test Scenarios
- When opening related defects, add "JEE5-UC" in the Status Whiteboard
- Axis2
- Kathy?
- Website
- Bob F?
Other business?
Teams Status and Focus for Coming Week
Server Component Team
Datatools (RDB, 1.5.x only)
XML/JSP Component Team
Web Services Component Team
Java EE Component Team
Dali JPA
- Investigating improving usage scans and test coverage reports
- Running Performance and API tests
- Stay tuned for a suggested generic WTP project level compiler setting to add to every project
- This Week's Smoke Test Results
- Build Declaration Process Refined - See WTP Build Process and Procedures
- Reminder:
- Information about process for milestone bugzilla line item planning has been added to the WTP Bugs, Workflow, and Conventions document.
- PMC Candidate Review Request Checklist - See the updated PMC Review document with attention to the "How To Prepare a PMC Defect Candidate" section
- WTP 2.0 Ramp down plan - Please note the early API freeze and shutdown dates.
- Adopter Migration Information for WTP 2.0 - Please add any details for your component.
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Adrianne wrote:I totally agree, however, does your dogs poop have a strange (all-be-it faint) chemical smell?? Denis thinks I'm nuts but it makes me gag and none of the other feeds bother me. I think we're going to try their Turkey variety next (I always keep kibble on hand to use here and there) and see if it's just the salmon that bothers me.
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Cobb Superior Court ADR Program Information
Counties Served: Cobb County
Courts Served: Superior Court
Director: Linda McClain
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Many courts in Georgia require parties to mediate before trial. The administration of this process varies considerable among the courts. This information is intended to help parties, attorneys and neutrals navigate court-connected ADR procedures.
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Typically, when a case is referred to a court-connected alternative dispute resolution program, a "Notice of Referral to Mediation/ADR" is issued to the parties which gives the parties 10-13 days to select their ADR process (typically mediation) and select their mediator. If the parties can't agree or don't respond in time, the administering agency will assign a mediator and schedule a mediation session. While court programs cannot order parties to settle, they frequently order parties to mediate.
Responding to Notice of ADR
Many Georgia court programs maintain lists of neutrals it has approved for civil mediation, domestic relations mediation, case evaluation and/or arbitration. Parties can select a neutral approved by the court program, have a neutral appointed to their case or use a mediator who is not on the court program list.
It is important that the parties inform the ADR Office of their neutral selection and arrangements for dispute resolution. Any mediation or case evaluation conducted to satisfy a Notice of ADR Referral should be conducted in accordance with applicable mediation guidelines. Regardless of where the mediation takes place, a Mediation Report Form should be completed by the Mediator and submitted to the ADR Office so they can verify compliance with the Notice of ADR Referral.
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There are two main circumstances where parties may wish to "opt out" of court-connected mediation.
First, the parties may wish to mediate with someone who is not on program's approved list. Some jurisdictions allow parties to utilize any state-approved mediators while other programs guard their lists carefully. It is important to follow the program's rules, including the required time and manner of notifying the court about mediation.
Second, if the parties do not communicate their mediator selection and arrangements in the time provided, a mediator may be assigned to their case. If that occurs, the parties may be required to file a "Consent Order" to proceed with their chosen, rather than assigned, mediator.
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Parties may mediate privately at any time. Many parties mediate voluntarily or in anticipation of a court order to do so. Our research suggests that mediated settlement rates do not increase with the longer litigation continues.
While parties are free to mediate privately on their own terms, we do suggest that parties who are mediating cases pending in court follow mediation guidelines that would be applicable and have their mediator prepare a Mediation Report if mediation does not result in full settlement. Generally, parties are not required to mediate a case that has already been mediated. In any particular case, however, a judge would have the discretion to order parties to mediate more than once.
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Administration of court-connected ADR programs varies considerably throughout Georgia.
In some courts, including U.S. District Courts in Georgia and many state courts, judges may order the parties to mediate but leave the specific arrangements to the parties themselves. In some areas, courts may refer parties to a private, non-profit mediation center. Some courts operate their own mediation programs with mediation sessions being conducted by paid employees. Some courts pay mediators to allow parties to mediate for free; other courts require parties to pay the mediators while still other courts use volunteer mediators. Some programs seem primarily concerned that a good faith effort to resolve the dispute take place, while others have rules establishing a list of approved mediators, fixing the date, time, location, forms used and how the mediation is conducted.
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Cobb Superior Court ADR Program
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DeKalb County Superior Court Dispute Resolution Center
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Fulton County Superior Court Office of ADR
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Gwinnett County ADR Program
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Southern Judicial Circuit ADR Program
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I didn't get to hear much of it on my way home from work but when I got in my car, Tim Naehring was railing about how guys aren't playing the game "The Right Way" when they get up to the majors and he said that the front office is not happy about it. Tim and DanO feel that the pitching in the low minors is starting to bear fruit. A caller asked them if they were going to stick with the "take 1 strike" and the tandem rotation in the low minors. DanO said the "take 1 strike" thing is misunderstood and it is not always like that. They just want the young hitters to develop patience at the plate and that's one of the ways they do that. They like the tandem system because they believe it helps prevent injuries and if a pitcher can't make it through his required innings without going over the pitch count then that pitcher needs to work on his command. They are high on Miguel Perez and said he picked about 15 guys off 1st this year. They aren't going to rush him and feel his bat will come around. They are also high on Denorfia and like his plate approach and believe he'll get a 2nd and 3rd look at the major league level.


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out-of-the-box support for storing primitive types. -- /PrimitiveTypes
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completing the Pevayler based PB implementation. -- /PrevaylerBroker
clear separation of API and SPI parts. In the ATM we this already, having it in the other layers as well ease the maintenance process, as OJB developers we'll immediately see which parts can be changed without changing parts of the API. /ApiSpiSeparation
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Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest," is a mystery.
Planted around 1930, the trees managed to grow for seven to 10 years before getting held down, in what is understood to have been human mechanical intervention.
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Dr. David M. Wardlaw will begin a five-year term as vice-president (academic) on Aug. 1, 2011.
Memorial University has named Dr. David M. Wardlaw as its new vice-president (academic) and pro-vice chancellor. Dr. Wardlaw's appointment was approved by the Board of Regents on Jan. 25, and he will begin a five-year term in the role on Aug. 1, 2011.
Dr. Wardlaw is a professor of chemistry and currently the dean of science at the University of Western Ontario. He has a B.Sc. and a PhD from the University of Toronto, and served as department head of chemistry at Queen's University from 2002-06 before joining the University of Western Ontario.
He brings tremendous experience in academic administration, a strong background in science and science promotion, together with a commitment to student learning initiatives and community engagement. Under his leadership, the Faculty of Science at Western was ranked first among large, research-intensive Canadian universities in the October 2010 Globe and Mail Report Card student survey.
"Dr. Wardlaw will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to Memorial University," said Dr. Gary Kachanoski, Memorial's president and vice-chancellor, and chair of the search committee. "The search committee was very impressed with his leadership abilities and commitment to advancing excellence in teaching and scholarship and also by his dedication to students and involvement in the wider community.
"One of my first priorities has been to fill key senior positions and I believe that Dr. Wardlaw's blend of experience and interests represents a tremendous opportunity for the university and the province," Dr. Kachanoski added.
At Memorial University the vice-president (academic) and pro-vice-chancellor is a member of the Board of Regents and has primary responsibility for academic matters, ultimately being responsible for the programs of some 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students across a wide range of disciplines.
The position reports directly to the president and works in close collaboration with the other vice-presidents, deans, directors and other members of the senior management team of the university.
Dr. Wardlaw was selected following an intensive search by a committee that represented the university and the community. In addition to his appointment as vice-president (academic) and pro vice-chancellor, Dr. Wardlaw will also become a member of Memorial's Department of Chemistry.
The university is in the final stages of a search for a vice-president (Grenfell Campus), also a member of the university's senior leadership team.
Biographical notes
Dr. David Wardlaw is the dean of science and professor of chemistry at the University of Western Ontario. He was born and raised in southern Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto where he obtained a B.Sc. in 1976 (chemical physics) and a PhD in 1982 (theoretical chemistry). He was a NSERC postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 1982-84. In 1984, he was awarded a NSERC university research fellowship and accepted a position at Queen's University as an assistant professor. Dr. Wardlaw was promoted to associate professor in 1989 and to professor in 1994. He served as head of chemistry at Queen's from 2002-06. In July 2006 he was appointed to a five-year term as dean of science at the University of Western Ontario. He has held short-term visiting scientist positions at the Argonne National Laboratories in Chicago, at Emory University in Atlanta and at the National Research Council in Ottawa.
During his academic career, Dr. Wardlaw has made significant contributions in research, teaching and academic leadership. His areas of research specialization are chemical physics, chemical reaction dynamics and computational chemistry and he has published more than 60 refereed articles in these areas. He also has a track-record of initiatives and achievement in improving the teaching and learning environment at universities, with a focus on improving the student learning experience. As an academic leader, he has been recognized for his balanced approach to the development of both the teaching and research missions of the academy. Dr. Wardlaw is also committed to engaging K-12 students in project-based science. In this regard, he has been associated with Youth Science Canada (YSC) since 1999, serving as the YSC National judge-in-chief for the Canada-Wide Science Fairs from 2004-10, and has served as chair of the Board of Youth Science Ontario from 2005-11.


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A lawsuit has been filed against California's Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board challenging the lack of condom use among pornography performers. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) charges that pornography sets that allow barebacking -- unprotected anal, oral or vaginal sex -- expose workers to hazardous work conditions: in this case, the exchange of bodily fluids that may contain HIV or other STDs.
AHF is also confronting Florida's growing adult-film industry, which includes productions featuring people of color. In January the group filed a "sanitary nuisance" complaint with the state's health department for the lack of condom usage on many sets.
Most heterosexual, and an increasing number of gay, adult-film companies opt not to use condoms, with some saying that safer sex doesn't fit viewers' fantasies. But with African Americans accounting for 49 percent of all HIV/AIDS infections despite making up only 13 percent of the U.S. population, and HIV rates among Black gay and bisexual men approaching 50 percent, the implications of unprotected sex in pornography for Black communities cannot be ignored. Some experts even believe that the media, including porn, cause viewers to engage in riskier behavior.
Is Sex Safe on the Set?
In 1998, after a porn actor tested HIV-positive, former sex worker Sharon Mitchell founded the Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare Foundation to provide HIV testing to help decrease performers' HIV-infection risk. But while actors now take a mandatory HIV test every 30 days, any performer infected off-set within that time frame can still spread the virus to other performers. Mitchell has tried to convince pornography companies to make condom use mandatory, to no avail.
In 2004, African American adult-film star Darren James tested positive and unknowingly infected three actresses. After a media maelstrom in which his identity and status were revealed to friends and family who hadn't known of his work, James attempted suicide, survived and later became an activist, advocating condom usage among adult performers while they are on the job. Twenty-two performers are reported to have tested positive since James, including an unidentified female performer, who tested positive for HIV last year. A state advisory committee is now exploring mandatory on-screen condom use.
In gay pornography, unprotected sex -- once stigmatized in the post-AIDS era -- is now a growing phenomenon. Websites blatantly market bareback scenes among Black men, and on several on-demand websites, bareback pornography is often rated most watched. With the highest HIV rates occurring among gay and bisexual men, the risk associated with unprotected sex is great. Until recently, gay-porn companies typically mandated condoms for anal sex, since many of the performers are HIV-positive.
Non-HIV STD infections have also been an issue. According to a 2007 article in the PLoS (Public Library of Science) Medicine Journal, between January 2003 and March 2005, approximately 976 performers were found to be infected with 1,153 STDs, including chlamydia and gonorrhea. And according to a 2009 ABC News report, L.A.-county officials have counted more than 3,600 cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea among performers since 2004.
Spreading the Love?
Does watching pornography in which performers do not use condoms affect the sex practices of its viewers? There's little data on the effect of pornography on its audience's individual practices, but many health practitioners believe that media play a large role in encouraging high-risk behavior.
For UCLA professor Gail E. Wyatt, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, sex therapist and author of the book No More Clueless Sex, the problem is the nature of adult films overall.
"Pornography reinforces risky behaviors, so whether the person is using a condom or not is picking one small detail out of generally exploitative, high-risk behavior," Dr. Wyatt says. She notes that viewers can watch movies depicting extreme, often violent, sex acts that tear performers' rectal, oral and/or vaginal tissues, thereby increasing the risk of HIV transmission. According to Dr. Wyatt, several years ago her research team tried to inform the clinics that handle testing for the adult-film industry that current testing standards didn't take into account what was happening with performers' sex lives off-set; however, no change was instituted.
"You don't know what [performers are] doing in their personal lives ... You have to insist on condom use in these movies," she says.
Dr. Wyatt points out that other avenues need to be created to provide more responsible, comprehensive and holistic representations of sex, particularly for young people. She calls for African Americans to follow the spirit of our ancestors in choosing a more responsible path, "to look at sex, to look at what we do individually ... to not promote disease transmission.
"We can't expect someone to come into the community to do that for us," she says. "It's our job."
Clarence A. Haynes is a New York-based book editor, writer and performance artist who focuses on cultural expressions of race, gender/sexuality and the erotic.


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Sunday, September 11, 2005
A thank you to my fallen 9/11 comrades
I was supposed to be in New York in Sept. 11th (read the story here). Two work friends, Danny and Richard, were planning to meet me that morning to talk about a business deal that they thought I could help on. But I messed up those plans by quitting my job, and thus canceling the trip to New York. Danny and Richard weren't so lucky - they were both killed.
As I sat and watched the horror on the TV, learning through e-mail about my fallen friends, I tried to console myself by thinking I didn't really know these guys THAT well. I just knew them from work. But that just seemed to make the 9/11 tragedy all the more senseless. Then the news channels kept telling me "how you should feel", compounding their message with endless repeats and replays from every angle. I couldn't take it any more. I had to get outside.
Outside, the media couldn't find me. Outside, I would be forced to reconcile on my own terms. At first, I ran angry. Then, I ran scared. But after 30 minutes, the rhythm of my steps helped me calm down. Each and every day after that, the trails would help me find my way. Soon my dog, Rocky, joined me and became a closer friend that I ever imagined a pet could. These days the trails are such a part of me, I'm not even sure where I end and where the trail begins.
To Danny and Richard, I thank you, and think of you often. Just thought I would let you know.
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I really enjoy your 9/11 comments keep up the good work and the running!!!ReplyDelete
Peace be to all the wounded and dead in 9/11
thanks for sharing. refreshing to hear about something good born on that day. just recently started visiting- will come back more often. cheers.ReplyDelete
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I think this is the only positive blog on 9/11 I saw today. Every end is a beginning. John GReplyDelete
I run high school track and cross country and running is all I think about. It's always cool to meet a fellow runner!ReplyDelete
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