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SBC Refuses To Name File-Sharing Users
securitas writes "The New York Times reports that Internet provider SBC Communications has refused to identify computer users accused by the RIAA of file-sharing copyrighted material. SBC is the largest high-speed DSL provider with over 3 million subscribers. It continues to refuse a response to the 300 subpoenas served by the RIAA despite a ruling against Verizon earlier this year. 'We are going to challenge every single one of these that they file until we are told that our position is wrong as a matter of law,' said James D. Ellis, general counsel for SBC. He continues, '...We've got a long heritage in which we have always taken a harsh and hard rule on protecting the privacy of our customers' information.' Mirrors in Tuscaloosa and Lakeland."
Every so-called "computer geek" has no doubt had the pleasure of dealing with a user who is convinced that the entire Internet runs off of a central "Internet server". How many times have you heard "I can't get my email, the Internet server must be down!" (Okay, I'll avoid pointing out the sheepish look on the guy in the back who has uttered those words himself.) It's from this little piece of technical support lore that my friends and I have a running joke that I run the "Internet server" (for our group, of course) and every time it's unreachable for some reason or another, we tell each other, "the Internet server's down!"
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So what am I trying to get to? Well, as of 20:00 EDT time on Monday, September 15, 2003, there is now an "Internet server". Its name is sitefinder.verisign.com, currently found at the IP address of 64.94.110.11. Every request for an Internet domain name that doesn't exist, has expired, or is simply misspelled, will be answered with this magical site. What does this mean? Why is this bad? In order to answer these questions we have to first take a step back and examine the structure upon which the Internet is built, the Domain Name Service (DNS). Those of you with a working knowledge of DNS can nap through the next few paragraphs; you'll be interested in what VeriSign has broken with their stroke of genius, which I'll cover in a bit.
Read more...
http://www.haque.net/verisign_dns_rant.p
Original Slashdot.org story...
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0
Google news....
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&editi
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From the article: ... out of a few hundred spare CDs
Craig build a neutron modulator
Build your own fusion reactor out of old AOL CDs!
Harry.
Wow, you sir are an amazing troll. You actually spent the time writing this--and incorporating current news items, too! Bonus points! I wish every troll could be as cool as you!
The terrorists have won!
Will Slashdot please turn in they guy beneath my threshold that posted the goatsex ascii porn?
forces all of its users signing up for Yahoo! accounts to use their full email address as their Yahoo nick?
If you search for Kazaalite, it removes some results and then has a link to the DMCA complaint from Sherman networks that contains the exact list of sites that are supposed to be blocked. Basically, telling us which sites are good.
Of course, yahoo and altavista still return a pleanty of matches, including dangerous and misleading ones like this one.
Why would anyone want to use kazaa lite anyway when Limewire is open source and can be verified to not contain any spyware, hidden P2P networks or forced upgrades?
Did it take you this long to beat it?
Asshole, I still haven't beaten it.
Oh yeah, I've never played it, for that matter.
Hmm, maybe you're not an asshole.
Are you an asshole?
Like what I said? You might like my music