In September 2012, the Internet Archive launched the TV News Search & Borrow service for searching U.S. national news programs.[131] The service is built on closed captioning transcripts and allows users to search and stream 30-second video clips. Upon launch, the service contained "350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C."[132] According to Kahle, the service was inspired by the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, a similar library of televised network news programs.[133] In contrast to Vanderbilt, which limits access to streaming video to individuals associated with subscribing colleges and universities, the TV News Search & Borrow allows open access to its streaming video clips. In 2013, the Archive received an additional donation of "approximately 40,000 well-organized tapes" from the estate of a Philadelphia woman, Marion Stokes. Stokes "had recorded more than 35 years of TV news in Philadelphia and Boston with her VHS and Betamax machines."[134]
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Quite simply, copyright never anticipated, and is not prepared to deal with, contemporary technology. It is, both in its assumptions and definitions, intended to deal with print media and the commercial infringement of same. It is simply not equipped to address an individual creating a digitally perfect avatar for individual use. Rather than look honestly at this we have chosen instead to adopt intellectual fictions and Band-Aid solutions that place software under patent law as ersatz "machines" and claims performance as a fixed original. The existing system for which Mr. Matthews cheerleads simply doesn't work, and no amount of social engineering or scolding is going to change that.
Computer programs are typically written in some form of computer programming "language." The "lowest"-level computer programming language is machine language, which is a binary language written in "bits" (BInary digiTS). Each bit is equal to one binary decision that is, to the designation of one of two possible and equally likely values, such as an "on"-"off" or "yes""no" choice. These binary decisions, the only kind that a typical computer can understand directly, are commonly represented by 0's and 1's. A sequence of eight bits (which allows 256 unique combinations of bits) is commonly called a "byte" ("by eight"), and 1024 bytes form a "kilobyte" (commonly referred to as "K," e.g., sixty-four kilobytes is "64K"). Machine language may also be represented in hexadecimal form, rather than in binary form, by the characters 0-9 and A-F, where "A" represents 10, "B" represents 11, and so on through "F," which represents "15." In hexadecimal machine language, only two rather than eight characters are required *44 to allow for 256 unique combinations (e.g., 37 instead of 00110111, each of which represents the 55th of 256 combinations; 7B instead of 01111011, each of which represents the 123rd of 256 combinations; EA instead of 11101010, each of which represents the 234th of 256 combinations). The computer is able to translate these hexadecimal instructions into binary form. Other versions of machine language are represented in decimal (0-9) and octal (0-7) form.
Unlike machine language, which is unique to each kind of CPU and which is executed directly by the computer, source code programming languages are universal to almost all computers. As a consequence, source code is executed indirectly. Thus, a program written in source code must be translated into the appropriate object code for execution in one type of computer, and into a different object code for execution in another type of computer. The translation can be effectuated by an "interpreter" program or by a "compiler" program. An "interpreter" program is a simultaneous translator that works in conjunction with the application program every time the application program is run, carrying out the instructions of the program one step at a time. In contrast, a "compiler" program translates the program once and for all nto machine language, after which the translated program can be executed directly by the CPU without the need for any further resort to the compiler. A distinctive "interpreter" or "compiler" program is available for each type of source code programming language and each type of CPU.
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