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Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers
Cryofan writes "Reuters is reporting that the Justice Dept. has
raided the homes of 5 people in several states for trading music on p2p networks. The traders were, however, not arrested. 'P2P does not stand for 'permission to pilfer,' Ashcroft said. The Reuters story says that the 5 'were people operating hubs in a file-sharing network based on Direct Connect software,' and who had provided between 'one and 100 gigabytes of material to trade, or up to 250,000 songs.' 'They are clearly directing and operating an enterprise which countenances illegal activity and makes as a condition of membership the willingness to make available material to be stolen,' said Ashcroft."
I thought it meant pleased 2 plunder!
100 GB, huh? Sounds pretty good. Link?
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
Isn't that what happens to people who wear fur?
"You know Myra, some people might think you're cute. But me, I think you're one very large baked potato."
Not now, we are only on YELLOW Alert.
Well sure, let's just ignore all the kids downloading music for free and go after people out to kill us. Now who sounds absolutely ridiculous?
...who has a friggin PENTABYTE??
Ah, the irony.
I have serious trouble filling a 10th of an iPod with music I can stand.
Its seriously sad that these people are just massing huge collections of crap to trade simply for the purpose of being "in the club" what a waste.
It if were all porn that would be unerstandable, but just music and movies? Come on people.
He who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise man. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
What a way with words he has! Between that and 'Let the Eagle Soar', I say we have a strong candidate for the next national poet!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Check earlier in the day and you'll find this lovely quote explaining everything, "...pentabytes are the new, arbitrary metric of the evil, satanic file-sharing people."
To be a little more technical, I think it's somewhere between a crap byte and a fuck byte, 500-1000 shit bytes, IIRC.
In fact, I have millions of them! Pentabyte = 5 bytes, right?
Only in USA. :-)
Which explains, of course, why your post makes no logical sense. You were obviously hurrying through it so that you could move to your next safe house before the Ashcroft thought police bashed in your door to arrest you for sedition.
And as soon as you get your transmitter set up again in another safe location, you'll transmit proof that the World Trade center attack was actually coordinated by George Bush, which is why all Republicans and religious conservatives didn't show up for work that day.
After that, you'll show us how this election is really just another smoke screen because Bush long ago made himself king and will ignore whatever election results there are. It was a deal he brokered with the Supreme court in a back room while the Republican congress ran interference for him by forcing Bill Clinton to have oral sex with their top Republican operative, Monica Lewinsky.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Ok guys lets see, we've got a methlab, 3 gangs, 2 car shops, a money printing racket oh and some kid named 1337m4st0r with 200,000 songs on kazaa, ok lets move it!
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How long do you think he spent in front of the mirror practicing that?
I should buy some cement.
I bet you would LOVE this shirt.
I am so glad that you are taking time off your busy schedule of raping the public's personal freedoms to further the cause of rapacious corporate greed while 14% of the nation lives under the poverty line.
Yours Truly
The RIAA and the MPAA
"the article claims that the five hubs each contained 40 petabytes (7200 Libraries of Congress) which at my count is about 160,000 250GB hard drives."
Ah, but you see the RIAA was involved, so what we're actually talking about here is the "equivalent" of 40 petabytes.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
lower the threat level to blue now?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
i dont think you can do that with 139,744 hdds, it would look a little odd
I had some unexpected visitors...something about p2p or something...I told them I wasn't interested.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
JUSTIN BAILEY
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...am I the only one that immediately thought of this?
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
our attorney general is confused about the difference between peta- and tera-
And also 'stealing' and 'transferring', 'interrogation' and 'torture', and 'his ass' from 'a hole in the ground'.
I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
Ah, but some of those drives were especially fast. Just divide your drives per node by the average RPM of a hard drive...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Nope, not at all. Metroid for the NES baby. I went to school with a Justin Bailey. He thought he was so cool cause NES "named a code after him". He was such a tool.
Pentabytes? Some of that satanic shit like Pentagrams and calico cats! Devil worship I tells ya! Thank the Lawaaaard for John Ashcroft!
How ya like dat?
If you have MP3s on your PC, fear! Jackbooted stormtroopers from Herr Ascroft's Ministry of Justice may come to your door. Here is actual footage of a raid!
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100 gigabytes of material to trade, or up to 250,000 songs
.95 of a song before charging me for the soundwidth."
Ah, I see Ashcroft is using the world famous iPod scale of data density, which will some day eclipse the byte as the standard metric measurement of all data lengths and capacities.
"Hey ted, I'm going to attach pictures of the baby to this email."
"How big are the files?"
"1.25 songs."
"That's a no go, man. My mail server only allows up to
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Somebody, wear that shirt out in public, I fucking dare you!
I'm sure they meant GigaBytes. But hey, it's not that big a mistake. They were only off by a factor of A MILLION. No big deal.
And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.
Yeah, cause they were all petaphiles
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
Now I have beer nose, and snorted beer all over my keyboard. Thanks.
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
"You're all a bunch of doctors!"
Oh, perhaps you meant hypocritical? ;-)
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
so that makes 1PetaByte 1024*$2,500 or about 2.56 MILLION bucks
:).
Actually I'd be willing to start for a measely 2 Million
This is Ashcroft. Don't you mean Terrorbyte?
A peeve of mine is the bits per second networking hardware uses, when most programs report in kibi-bytes per second.
These numbers are ether TOTALLY WRONG AND FASLEIFIED or they busted some kind of massively well funded organization?
Al Peta?
Maybe the hubs just fed out /dev/random and the feds confused the resulting output as Britney Spear's music....
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the part about law enforcement officers not being allowed to enter is funny. If I dealt drugs out of my house, do you think a big COPS GO AWAY sign would be legally binding? Whee!
And you usually actually find what it is you're looking for. ZING!
The fact that you get an answer at all automatically puts Google above the Government!
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