"copyright infringement occurred as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet...iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and [is] not responsible for BitTorrent system."
The important part is what isn't said. The ruling didn't say that there was no obligation to police a certain part of the net for copyright violations, just that the ISP wasn't responsible for BitTorrent and thus wasn't obligated to police that part of the net.
i would also add that blaming on bittorrent isn't a true statement either. bittorrent is the plumbing, not an illegal technology.
The result of this proceeding will disappoint the applicants. The evidence establishes that copyright infringement of the applicants’ films is occurring on a large scale, and I infer that such infringements are occurring worldwide. However, such fact does not necessitate or compel, and can never necessitate or compel, a finding of authorisation, merely because it is felt that ‘something must be done’ to stop the infringements. An ISP such as iiNet provides a legitimate communication facility which is neither intended nor designed to infringe copyright. It is only by means of the application of the BitTorrent system that copyright infringements are enabled, although it must be recognised that the BitTorrent system can be used for legitimate purposes as well. iiNet is not responsible if an iiNet user chooses to make use of that system to bring about copyright infringement.
This is only a problem if you're not capable of fully and completely supporting the systems that you are installing, and if that is the case you should not be installing them at all.
If debian disappeared tomorrow, i could still grab upstream sources, and patch/compile new versions and keep the machine in a fit state, then there's no blame to be had.
Commercial support contracts are security blankets for admin's that are under-skilled or worse totally incompetent. There are exceptions but a RHEL server running a mail/db/web/xen/radius/etc server is not one of them.
There also could (will) be business cases where it's just considered a good safety net to have, but its certainly not a requirement for information infrastructure to function reliably and successfully, and there are more real-world examples of it than I can even conceive.
It requires some knowledge of Unix type operating systems and proxies.
It can run on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris, (officially there are probably contributed builds for other operating systems.
Then again there's always education and supervision. You can't fix human & sociological problems with technological tools, it's like trying to fix a broken sink pipe with a car jack and a rubber mallet.
I think you're probably for getting a whole subcategory of users.
Laptops users, one of the best laptops i've laid hands on the Thinkpad T22 had an S3 graphics card in it. (it could have been even better if they had chosen a s decent gfx card).
This is a name for a machine, not a service/function.
We give the server it's self an arbitary name and then create cnames for the services that point to the physical machine's alias that currently provides that service.
These tools are no doubt going to be very useful to everyone that uses p2p software for _any_ purpose.
The flipside is that as an administrator of a workplace network i can also use these tools to ascertain whether or not the traffic managment and qos i've put in place on the corporate network is working.
It doesn't really matter so much on this particular network as p2p protocols are blocked (infact every outgoing port is blocked from the internal lan, some https sites are whitelisted, and all non-ssl web access is proxied.
But it will allow me to ensure the qos for our voip trunks is effective.
QFA:
The EU released a statement Friday stating, "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
It does reduce competition between browsers in the market, because a consumer doesn't need to choose a browse, and when they don't microsoft wins by default. (2 sweetest words in the English language?:-) )
It doesn't quite so much undermine innovation, there _is_ still an active, functioning market, and while theres a functioning market innovation will continue. Previous to say Firefox v1 there wasn't much competition at all, they are guilty of that, but punishing them retrospectively is counter-productive for the EU and internet users in general.
If i were in microsoft position, i would be doing this:
Make IE be truly uninstallable. Disintegrate it with windows explorer.
Create and application that is distributed with windows that gives the user a choice of browsers and automatically downloads and installs thier selection from the relevant (ssl secured) website
Put IE at the top of said list, you're still giving people a choice but, your avg pc user will just click the first one.
Either way, it'll be interesting to see what comes if the EU does happen to order MS to separate IE from windows.
I fully agree with you about how terrible norton antivirus is, but i've never not been able to turn off the mail scanner ( and i when i was forced to use it, i did).
Now i use imap and either thunderbird or mutt, i like mutt more.
Slashdot Mirror
*Clears throat*
http://xkcd.com/610/
That is all.
The important part is what isn't said. The ruling didn't say that there was no obligation to police a certain part of the net for copyright violations, just that the ISP wasn't responsible for BitTorrent and thus wasn't obligated to police that part of the net.
i would also add that blaming on bittorrent isn't a true statement either. bittorrent is the plumbing, not an illegal technology.
The result of this proceeding will disappoint the applicants. The evidence establishes that copyright infringement of the applicants’ films is occurring on a large scale, and I infer that such infringements are occurring worldwide. However, such fact does not necessitate or compel, and can never necessitate or compel, a finding of authorisation, merely because it is felt that ‘something must be done’ to stop the infringements. An ISP such as iiNet provides a legitimate communication facility which is neither intended nor designed to infringe copyright. It is only by means of the application of the BitTorrent system that copyright infringements are enabled, although it must be recognised that the BitTorrent system can be used for legitimate purposes as well. iiNet is not responsible if an iiNet user chooses to make use of that system to bring about copyright infringement.
I can't beleive i'm the first person to think of/post this, but:
In space, nobody can hear you stream.
There's a picture of his helmet and a red bull promotional video at popsci: http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/article/2010-01/120000-foot-jump-daredevil-space-diver-become-first-human-break-sound-barrier-free-fall
Did anyone else jump to the same conclusion or have i been gaming too much? Now i might RTFA. :o
I do have mod points, but unfortunately I can't find the +1 Pwned modifier. :)
That good sir, depends on how much money you have. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF04a/12169-304612-82176-82176-82176.html
On the end of the extension cord you dangle from your third floor window, duh!
Even better would be a motorised reel, you could make it from Lego technic or harvested bits from an elcheapo rc helicopter.
This is only a problem if you're not capable of fully and completely supporting the systems that you are installing, and if that is the case you should not be installing them at all.
If debian disappeared tomorrow, i could still grab upstream sources, and patch/compile new versions and keep the machine in a fit state, then there's no blame to be had.
Commercial support contracts are security blankets for admin's that are under-skilled or worse totally incompetent. There are exceptions but a RHEL server running a mail/db/web/xen/radius/etc server is not one of them.
There also could (will) be business cases where it's just considered a good safety net to have, but its certainly not a requirement for information infrastructure to function reliably and successfully, and there are more real-world examples of it than I can even conceive.
No need for software just use either http://www.opendns.com/
Or if you want more control, setup a PC as a gateway with:
http://dansguardian.org/
It requires some knowledge of Unix type operating systems and proxies.
It can run on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris, (officially there are probably contributed builds for other operating systems.
Then again there's always education and supervision. You can't fix human & sociological problems with technological tools, it's like trying to fix a broken sink pipe with a car jack and a rubber mallet.
I think you're probably for getting a whole subcategory of users.
Laptops users, one of the best laptops i've laid hands on the Thinkpad T22 had an S3 graphics card in it. (it could have been even better if they had chosen a s decent gfx card).
Am i the only one who read the title and simply assumed they were moving thier security camera operation on to a ZoneMinder?
This aregument has some flaws.
This is a name for a machine, not a service/function.
We give the server it's self an arbitary name and then create cnames for the services that point to the physical machine's alias that currently provides that service.
That way if the person isn't sure they have
These tools are no doubt going to be very useful to everyone that uses p2p software for _any_ purpose.
The flipside is that as an administrator of a workplace network i can also use these tools to ascertain whether or not the traffic managment and qos i've put in place on the corporate network is working.
It doesn't really matter so much on this particular network as p2p protocols are blocked (infact every outgoing port is blocked from the internal lan, some https sites are whitelisted, and all non-ssl web access is proxied.
But it will allow me to ensure the qos for our voip trunks is effective.
Ok, who voted for the beammeupscotty tag?
I can't think of a worse place to be beamed, than 'up scotty'.
Either way, it'll be interesting to see what comes if the EU does happen to order MS to separate IE from windows.
Finally i can have suspend support for the sis 650 in my travelmate (yeah its acer crap but i couldn't argue with free).
I fully agree with you about how terrible norton antivirus is, but i've never not been able to turn off the mail scanner ( and i when i was forced to use it, i did).
Now i use imap and either thunderbird or mutt, i like mutt more.