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King Kong vs. Movie Pirates
Caoz writes "The New York Times is running an interesting article about movie piracy with Peter Jackson providing some comments. There a couple of comments that I thought were surprising. Like an executive admitting that file sharers are not the biggest threat to Hollywood. From the article: 'There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime.' Why are they suing bitorrent users then?"
Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a large subset of the bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular technology website Slashdot. They are a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. Slashdot trolling is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general. Some of these behaviours are usually considered to be more offensive or insightful than others. On Slashdot, many of these phenomena have become the object of parody.
Slashdot trolls can generally be divided into four categories: disruptive, offensive, deceptive, and idiosyncratic. Disruptive trolls are those which intend to disrupt the normal flow of things on Slashdot, either by decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio or by causing the pages to render incorrectly. Offensive trolls exist for the sole purpose of offending as many people as possible. The purpose of deceptive trolls is to trick people into either following a link or reading a comment which seems legitimate but is actually a troll. Idiosyncratic trolls are those which are specific to Slashdot and have elements of Slashdot culture and history in them creating, in effect, an inside joke.
Contents
* 1 Disruptive trolls
o 1.1 Crapflooding
o 1.2 Page widening/lengthening
* 2 Offensive trolls
o 2.1 Homosexuality and racism
o 2.2 Anti-semitism
o 2.3 Nationalistic insults
* 3 Deceptive trolls
o 3.1 Karma Whores
o 3.2 Comment Plagiarism
o 3.3 Article text alteration trolls
o 3.4 Web vendor referral trolls
o 3.5 Signature trolls
o 3.6 Movie spoiler
o 3.7 300 Dead in Sri Lanka Tsunami
* 4 Idiosyncratic trolls
o 4.1 First post
o 4.2 Netcraft confirms it
o 4.3 Stephen King is dead
o 4.4 First Obituary
o 4.5 Hot grits/Natalie Portman
o 4.6 Reigniting flamewars
* 5 Minor trolls
* 6 See also
Disruptive trolls
The purpose of disruptive trolls is to cause the pages of Slashdot to display in an undesirable way or to otherwise bring attention to themselves. The two major categories of disruptive trolls are crapflooding and page-widening.
Crapflooding
Crapflooding is the posting of many nonsensical or gratuitously offensive messages in order to disrupt the normal functioning of Slashdot and annoy its users and editors.
Later versions of the software behind the Slashdot website had an updated lameness filter to prevent posting of the same message more than once. However, crapflooders began avoiding this restriction by varying the content of the message after each post. Crapfloods can be performed manually with a dedicated user repeatedly clicking through the posting options each time, or automated by a piece of software. Automated crapfloods are -- not surprisingly -- larger, more effective and more frequent. The subject of crapflooded messages varies. Some examples include:
* Offtopic stories
* Pornographic/Homoerotic sex scenes with the names replaced with those of the slashdot editors or open source celebrities.
* Incoherent nonsense that contains the correct letter frequencies so the lameness filter recognises it as vaguely English.
* Offensive Base64 encoded images or text.
The original page widening posts were simple messages consisting of one long stream of characters with no spaces. This caused browsers to render a very wide page with horizontal scroll bars, making it nearly impossible to read the comments page. Slashdot began inserting spaces into any long run of characters to prevent this and so began the evolutionary battle between Slashcode and the page widening trolls. Newer and more inventive ways of causing page widening were dis
Because it's a civil matter and they're dealing with people who are violating their copyright.
They may not be making money from it, but that doesn't give them a free pass to ignore copyright.
That....would lead to a lot of lawsuits against the government over sexual harrasement. And this is no joke, brah.
Right, because crime syndicates occupy themselves so much with single-issue lobbying to national and international governmental bodies.
"Bollocks. If I were to take something from a shop, then the shop can't sell it to someone else, and thus can be said to have lost not only revenue but also an asset."
Okay, now do the one about "it's not piracy unless you're on a boat and have an eye patch."
"Identity theft," "theft of service," "stealing your thunder," "stolen kisses," et cetera: the imprecise nature of the English language must drive many Slashdotters up the wall. For the benefit of those same folks, I should explain that "up the wall" is a figure of speech and should not be interpreted literally.
Sitting in my day care, the art is decopainted.
Aren't the MPAA and RIAA both organized crime disguised as legitimate business ?
Or did I miss the part where it's "their right" to control the mainstream marketplace.
Only their movies can be shown , only their music can be played when it comes to the mainstream market ???
Why are "they" mainstream ?
Only the stupid would say "superior product".
Superior to what ?
They suck just as much as any talent out there..
Maybe sometimes even more.
It's because of their organized criminal behavior that has taken them this far.
They are the criminals.
Here's a solution to avoid being sued... move to Canada!
:)
In Canada, a federal court judge ruled that it would be a violation of existing privacy laws for any organization to harass ISP's for account information linked to IP address's.
It seems like you Americans are losing more and more of your privacy and personal freedoms (all in the name of fighting invisible terrorizing threat to your country) I guess the land of the free has just moved north
I don't really see how an individual using bit torrent can even be classified as a distributer of copyrighted material... i know this may sound like splitting hairs, but they way bittorrent works is that a file is split into thousands of chunks like a puzzle and everyone in the network simply trades those pieces around till you have a full set and can assemble the pieces... a single individual downloading from a torrent RARELY distributes an entire version of what they are downloading... infact, often you may upload the same chuck of data over and over again... but that chuck of data can hardly be classifed as the whole thing... it would be like telling someone to try to make out the picture from one piece of a puzzle... the picture is copyrighted. So because you gave one piece to your buddy, you need to pay the MPAA 6 thousand dollers.