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New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like California will soon be requiring emails to share files. The story from SF Gate has a few details as Ahnold goes on his signing spree in Sacramento. 'Aiding the industry that helped him gain worldwide fame, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Tuesday aimed at discouraging online piracy by requiring anyone disseminating movies or music on the Internet to disclose their e-mail address.' Also he signed a bill to limit the sale of video games."
Well, if they sponsor it, it's gotta be good for the Governator and what's good for him is good for California. You got something to say about that, Girly-man?
the Motion Picture Association of America, which says it loses $3.5 billion annually to piracy
Hollywood accounting, ya gotta love it, babe.
Governor and video game star Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure aimed at curbing sales of violent video games to children. ..
Some of Schwarzenegger's movies were spun off into video games that bear the governor's likeness - although they are not among the most violent under the industry's ratings system.
Sure is helpful to have connections to those who determine what violent is. He might want to consider a ban on showing caskets of returning service personnel from Iraq, as that could upset impressionable television viewers.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I don't get it? Either he doesn't get it either or he wasn't paying attention while he was signing these bills. ...Anyone think he was busy pumping?
UID 1000000 is just around the corner.
its either billg@microsoft.com
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or
president@whitehouse.gov (or was it
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
ipiratemusic@hotmail.com
anonymimityismyfriend@hotmail.com
youcantfindme@hotmail.com
Need I continue?
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I've seen a lot more files from this user: illbeback@mailinator.com
So you have to provide an email address if you're "disseminating" movies/music/etc. What purpose does that serve other than to direct the MPAA straight to your door?
"I make people like me... WITH VIOLENCE!" - ATHF
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he signed a law that finally made necrophilia a crime in California. Who cares about file sharing...
When the casket is a 'rockin
Don't come a 'knockin
Monstar L
Right, *no* one will be able to distribute *anything* anonymously if they have to provide an EMAIL address...
After all, an EMAIL address is as solid an ID as a fingerprint!
Signed, arnoldschwarzeneggar245573@hotmail.com
I only share packets.
My email address? A real one, even? No problem! Get'cher red hot MP3s from your friendly local root@localhost! I might even reply to emails sent to that address, for a particularly appropriately-scoped definition of "localhost".
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
"i'll be back"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
What next? The lawmakers will require users to have an IP address to share files on the internet.
Us liberals are such idiots thinking that people should be able to do what they want. We just want to let people marry whomever they want, smoke whatever they want, say whatever they want. I'm glad that you have helped me find my way. Sincerely, Music Sharer - god@heaven.com
Email address used for file sharing?
* asdf@asdf.com
* schwartzenegger@california.gov
* sit@home.org
* eat@joes.com
* cowboyneal@slashdot.org
batshit crazy freaks
.50 cal ammo, which was also rejected on multiple occasions, until some nameless legislators decided to "ghost vote" (ie, vote somebody else's button in addition to their own).
You have NO idea. I walked into the local Fry's the other day, and found that pretty much everything in the store had a tag reading "Warning: Handling this product will expose you to lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, [etc]"
Holy crap! Was this Fry's once a firing range, and now contaminated with lead? Was everything they were selling made in some south-of-the-border factory that had a lead smelter under the roof? Were these items Chinese, and painted in lead-based paints?
Actually, it was none of the above. The notices were required because of lead content in the solder used in the cabling.
The legislators here have WAY too much time on their hands. Most of them are career politicians or career wannabees, and want to build up a "track record" of high-profile legislation (ie, crap that does nobody any good if you thought about it, but makes for a great photo op.) For example, this Yee fellow from San Francisco was slapped down multiple times - by his fellow legislators, and kept coming back by hollowing out other people's bills in order to put in his own ridiculous provisions. Then of course, there was the bill that banned
Fraud in an election would get both parties screaming about how people's rights were violated, but evidently it's ok if it's done on a regular basis by elected officials. Crazy doesn't even begin to describe the situation here...
if they can prove you did it, then it wasn't anonymous. If they can't, then you can't be found guilty. Who the hell thought up this law?
How come necrophilia was ever *legal* in California?
How did the terminator become governor?
Coming from the future, he knew the right key combination for your friendly Diebold vote counter?
You obviously haven't seen the attempts by the newspapers to prevent this illegal sharing of their copyright works to people who are not the original purchaser.
The Boston Globe, for example, has an advanced system for preventing you from giving your newspaper to someone else. They continue every damn article from the front page to some random other section of the paper, which you will never find unless you have the whole paper in its original order. It works way better than an EULA.
* Is this only for legal files haring? (I would assume so)
No. This applies to all forms of haring.
Give out as many email addresses as you wish to be (partially) responsible for.
Go ahead.
"What's the frequency Kenneth?"
I think that example@domain.com is going to be in BIG trouble over this one.
If your email address is with a non-US entity, the DoJ can go swivel.
s .helgrim.com email address, provided free here in Ireland, contact me through my site.
Therefore, if anybody wanst a prestigous yourname@the.prosecutor.has.herpes.and.a.leaky.as
I'd love to see a video from the courtroom as the charges are read...
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XML causes global warming.
Yeah, thats right, no email address here AND I am sharing a song.
Using klank3 encoding here is a pirated copy of a randomly selected Britney Spears song:
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The encoding is ingenious actually. I simply remove all the crap from the final stream, and use an ASCII code 46 sentinel for the end of the stream. My encoding scheme is one of the few methods that actually improves the sound quality.
I recently participated in a beta test of some of your email-tracking software. I forwarded it to ten of my friends, as requested, but have not as of yet received a check for the compensation that was promised for my participation. Is there something else I need to do to claim the money?
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County Jail? Room and board + three square meals a day AND I don't have to work for a year? Throw the book at me baby! Meetcha at the public library Andy Taylor!
Oregonians have always known that Californians are arrogant, crazy freaks. A whole shitload of the fuckers moved into our state in the '80's, proving beyond a doubt that all of our cherished stereotypes about Californians were not only accurate, but in fact understated. Fortunately the discovery that our dreary, rainy winters last about 9 months was good enough to drive many of them away.
One of my fervent hopes is that global warming will make the constant rain a year-round phenomenon, shaking loose the rest like fleas on a freshly-collared dog.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?