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January's Toast to Tech Evil
comforteagle writes "In this month's mocking toast To Evil! Danny O'Brien laments the holiday habit of trying to hide one's evilness from Father Christmas, but finds those evil tech companies can't help being who they are. 'I'm really hoping that in their next batch of cinema adverts, the MPAA addresses this, and shows a grumbling adware developer instead of a Hollywood set-painter. The piracy issue, it affects us all: the construction guy, the lighting guy. And me, the guy who installed all that crap on your mum's computer. And also an awful lot of Los Angeles-based cocaine dealers. Why doesn't anyone think of them?'"
Overpeer is a company known to be paid by the MPAA and RIAA member companies to upload corrupted files onto the networks.
Now it appears to be setting up a side-line, generating ad revenue by tricking gullible users to download its faux warez.
It's like calling the cops to tell them that you were robbed while buying drugs. Yeah it sucks that you got 0wn3d while downloading warez but who the hell are you going to complain to and have anything done about it?
If you tattle you both get in trouble. You might get in more trouble than they will. Sad but true. Remember who has the better lawyers and the political backing...
I stopped reading at "RIAA suing BitTorrent Trackers" [sic] ...
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Last I checked despite your opposition to a law you can't simply "ignore it" when it doesn't suit you. Otherwise I totally call dibs on everything in your home. Cuz like "property laws" don't appeal to me.
Yet another knee-jerk fodder-podder for
Fuck humanity!
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Perhaps have a Karma system for companies:
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Every time a positve or negative story appears add or subtract 1 point.
Then there is evidence to support the scoring and people can't click a company to oblivion.
Perhaps the board could automatically place a scoring behind a company name when it appears in a summary.
"Today it was announced by Evil corp (1pos, 113neg) everyone should pay them more."
copywrite infringement.
I dislike huge media companies as much as the next communist, but as somebody who pays for games, films and music rather than downloading them I get a warm feeling inside from the thought of someone downloading the lastest generic R&B album only to be owned by ads. Perfectly legitimate tactic in my opinion, and the joy the company seems to take in this persuit is a pleasure to behold.
However, the statement "turning illegitimate downloads into legitimate sales" strikes me as slightly odd. Surely any ad displayed in this way is unlikely to result in a sale since the dl jockey viewing it would be immensely pissed off. Not a very positive product image.
OSS wouldn't have fixed this, as I understand it. The 16 bit limit was a known and documented limitation of the system. There was even an upgrade path in place. It wasn't premature optimization - when written, saving those bits made a huge difference. They got bit by a combination of organizational inertia and bad luck more than anything.
Lockheed Martin not known for innovation? Perhaps you should google skunkworks.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.