Well they are going to use TPB like it or not, that is pretty much the whole point of the defense in the trial - no one knows what tracker a torrent originated at, tpb just tracks them.
I think you're a little confused about how it works. The tracker doesn't need to know where the *torrent file* came from to track them.
TPB won't be tracking these downloads at all, unless someone redistributes edited or newly created.torret files pointing to TPB's tracker. But that won't obviously won't apply to anyone who downloads the torrent files from NRK directly.
The GP didn't mention anything about Apple. You just made the assumption that his questions were based on what Apple has done. But Microsoft has an equally long, if not longer, history of forcing DRM (in some cases, even more restrictive DRM) upon its users. Both Apple and Microsoft are equally guilty when it comes to using DRM and both should be strongly criticised for it.
If the argument is that putting a site up that points at known torrents is a crime, doesn't every media outlet in the world carrying this story run the risk of some culpability by promoting it?
That seems to be a non-sequitur. How does simply reporting on this court case relate to promoting piracy?
Using AdBlock in Firefox, or Opera's built-in Content Blocker, or equivalent, ads are blocked based on URL pattern matching. For example, a URL for an ad image or script that matches the pattern "*/ads/*" will be blocked. Such filter lists often include filters that block scripts for advertising companies like Google Adsense or Doubleclick.
This works because, in practice, a lot of sites use similar patterns for their URLs, and there are filter lists that have been created to catch the most common.
NoScript works for blocking ads because a lot of ads depend on the use of JavaScript to be added to the page. By preventing JS from running, the ads are blocked as a result. However, the downside of using this is that some sites depend on JS for their basic functionality, and if you need to enable script for a particular site, this will no longer block any ads from that site. But usually, in these cases, filtering catches those anyway.
It is possible for sites to get past both of those, which is why they're not 100% effective. If a site is using an image for an ad that isn't blocked by the filter list, and doesn't depend on JS for the ad being shown, then neither of those techniques will work. But they do still work in the majority of cases.
Actually, I prefer the Australian dominated sports, cause I'm Australian. But being in Norway, not being interested in most of the events they broadcast here, in a language I don't understand at an inconvenient time, I found it easier to stream the events I wanted to watch, when I wanted them from the NBC in the USA, and channel 7 in Australia. (I had to use SSH tunnelling and a VPN, respectively, to bypass the IP-based regional restrictions though).
There was only one event I really had to watch live on TV: Grant Hackett's final Olympic 1500m freestyle, for which I had to get up at around 04:00 in the morning. For that, I put up with the Norwegian commentary.
Of course. You read it aloud, record it and then process it through a speech-recognizing software, and - bingo! Encryption broken.
Wow, that's a rather complicated method of doing what's been possible with OCR for years. I'm sure, if they could, they'd find a way to prevent that too.
But seriously, this is not the first time text to speech has been the target of copyright protection. Adobe ebooks have a feature specifically designed to disable text to speech. Bypassing this restriction violates anti-circumvention laws, like the DMCA.
But, AIUI, USA laws permit 3rd parties to make accessible versions of books, either audio or braille, without permission from the book's copyright owner. So unless the Authors Guild is claiming DRM cicumvention, they don't have a case.
Because Silverlight is just Microsoft's attempt to take over the web with more proprietary garbage. There's already too much Flash on the web, and I reluctantly have to have that installed. I don't want to see Silverlight become anywhere near as popular. Besides, so far, the only sites I've come across using it are either owned by or affiliated with Microsoft, which makes having it largely unnecessary.
Last time I installed Silverlight on my Mac was to stream the Beijing Olympics from NBC, and that was only because I was stuck in a foreign country where it wasn't broadcast in English. I uninstalled it pretty soon after.
So the bar for me to install Silverlight again is pretty high, and a crappy 30 second Microsoft ad just doesn't cut it.
It's unfortunate that operating systems still report base 2 sizes using the base 10 notation. Data transmission and storage capacities and measured using base 10 units.
One solution would be for OS vendors to report all file sizes in base 10. But the change in numbers would be more confusing for users than simply changing the unit to base 2 (i.e. KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, etc.). Hard drive manufacturers should then just list both sizes, as in: 2TB (1.81 TiB)
Patents should last the amount of time it takes to bring a product to market. That's a year, maybe two or three. Not fifteen or twenty.
I agree. But given that it can take 2 years, or more in some cases, for patents to be granted, the whole process is a waste of time. The advantage of having a patent system is so that techniques are revealed rather than kept as trade secrets. But that advantage is largely lost by having an excessive term. The trick is finding the right balance between what is patentable, how long the patenting process takes an how long the patent lasts.
I've been saving my pocket money for this, and I was so close to having enough! I only need another $19,996,142 to reach my $20 million dollar goal, but unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll reach that amount before the end of the year.
Of course you can download an alternative browser without having another browser to do it.
> ftp -A ftp.ussg.iu.edu ftp> cd pub/opera/win/963/en ftp> binary ftp> hash ftp> get Opera_963_en_Setup.exe 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for Opera_963_en_Setup.exe (5619080 byte s). ### 226 File send OK. ftp: 5619080 bytes received in 112.06Seconds 50.14Kbytes/sec. ftp> quit
Although this too will fail once the EU decides that Microsoft's inclusion of an FTP client is anti-competitive and asks for it to be removed too.
In the Airport pane, under the "Wireless" tab, click the "Wireless Options..." button at the bottom. To set a specific channel, hold the Option key when you open the Channel dropdown.
I have an Airport Extreme too, but luckily most of my computers support the 5GHz range. The only problem I discovered when setting it up was that it defaulted to the 2.4GHz band, and to get optimal performance, I had to set the following:
Radio Mode: 802.11n only (5GHz) Enabled the "Use wide channels" option Specified a specific channel, rather than leaving it on Auto.
I also have an Airport Express for running an 802.11g network, with that connected to the Extreme via ethernet and configured to use bridge mode. I use that for things like my iPhone or visitors that don't support 802.11n.
Mix together some nitrous gas, some oxygen, some carbon, some steam and a bunch of lightning, and what do you get? Organic molecules, just like the ones we're built from!
Have you actuall
Well, the experiment shouldn't include free oxygen (O2) since that came after life had already formed on earth. But, yes, it's well known that given the right chemicals and conditions, organic compounds can form, and it's hypothesised that this can lead to life. But my point was that the whole process of Abiogenesis is a lot more complicated than the strawman put forth that "people came from lighting and mud"
Well, the opposite end of the spectrum is people who think they are 'rational' because they believe (without proof) that people came from lightning and mud...:)
Ha! That sounds a lot like the kind of strawman arguments commonly thrown around by creationists and is a poor attempt at attacking Evolution and Abiogenesis. Of course, no rational person believes that "people came from lightning and mud".
In the mean time, the vulnerability has been revealed to those who run the Storm botnet and I bet they're already working to deploy a patch that'll make it inneffective.
One of my Visa debit card comes complete with a picture ID on the back, which is quite convenient. I'm currently living and working in Norway and I believe all Norwegian banks do the same, though I could be wrong.
Once DRM free songs were available to me in my area, I haven't pirated a single song that was available to buy and in some cases, even replaced my previously pirated copies with legally purchased copies. In fact, the vast majority of my music library now consists of legal downloads or rips from CDs I own.
While there may be some price plans that allow for free incoming calls or free incoming text messages, the majority of US price plans charge airtime for incoming calls and charge the same for incoming text messages as outgoing - currently 20 cents per message.
WTF? Does that mean the US telcos are double dipping?!
In Australia, depending on the plan, text messages generally cost around 10 to 20 cents to send. The receiver never pays to receive an ordinary call or sms. (There are exeptions for premium rate services though).
From my experience, the format and reinstall approach is the quick and easy way to deal with a machine that has become filled with lots of junky software that's no longer used, infected with mallicious software, and, in general, has things that just randomly don't work.
However, given proper maintenance, a decent anti-virus program, regular defragging, and not letting anyone use IE or Outlook at all, it's entirely possible to keep an XP machine running well for a few years.
But personally, I'd recommend getting a Mac. They're so much easier to use and maintain than Windows. I switched about a year ago and haven't looked back. Prior to that, I tried various Linux distros, including Ubuntu, but always ended up giving up and reverting to Windows.
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Well they are going to use TPB like it or not, that is pretty much the whole point of the defense in the trial - no one knows what tracker a torrent originated at, tpb just tracks them.
I think you're a little confused about how it works. The tracker doesn't need to know where the *torrent file* came from to track them.
TPB won't be tracking these downloads at all, unless someone redistributes edited or newly created .torret files pointing to TPB's tracker. But that won't obviously won't apply to anyone who downloads the torrent files from NRK directly.
The GP didn't mention anything about Apple. You just made the assumption that his questions were based on what Apple has done. But Microsoft has an equally long, if not longer, history of forcing DRM (in some cases, even more restrictive DRM) upon its users. Both Apple and Microsoft are equally guilty when it comes to using DRM and both should be strongly criticised for it.
If the argument is that putting a site up that points at known torrents is a crime, doesn't every media outlet in the world carrying this story run the risk of some culpability by promoting it?
That seems to be a non-sequitur. How does simply reporting on this court case relate to promoting piracy?
Using AdBlock in Firefox, or Opera's built-in Content Blocker, or equivalent, ads are blocked based on URL pattern matching. For example, a URL for an ad image or script that matches the pattern "*/ads/*" will be blocked. Such filter lists often include filters that block scripts for advertising companies like Google Adsense or Doubleclick.
This works because, in practice, a lot of sites use similar patterns for their URLs, and there are filter lists that have been created to catch the most common.
NoScript works for blocking ads because a lot of ads depend on the use of JavaScript to be added to the page. By preventing JS from running, the ads are blocked as a result. However, the downside of using this is that some sites depend on JS for their basic functionality, and if you need to enable script for a particular site, this will no longer block any ads from that site. But usually, in these cases, filtering catches those anyway.
It is possible for sites to get past both of those, which is why they're not 100% effective. If a site is using an image for an ad that isn't blocked by the filter list, and doesn't depend on JS for the ad being shown, then neither of those techniques will work. But they do still work in the majority of cases.
Actually, I prefer the Australian dominated sports, cause I'm Australian. But being in Norway, not being interested in most of the events they broadcast here, in a language I don't understand at an inconvenient time, I found it easier to stream the events I wanted to watch, when I wanted them from the NBC in the USA, and channel 7 in Australia. (I had to use SSH tunnelling and a VPN, respectively, to bypass the IP-based regional restrictions though).
There was only one event I really had to watch live on TV: Grant Hackett's final Olympic 1500m freestyle, for which I had to get up at around 04:00 in the morning. For that, I put up with the Norwegian commentary.
Of course. You read it aloud, record it and then process it through a speech-recognizing software, and - bingo! Encryption broken.
Wow, that's a rather complicated method of doing what's been possible with OCR for years. I'm sure, if they could, they'd find a way to prevent that too.
But seriously, this is not the first time text to speech has been the target of copyright protection. Adobe ebooks have a feature specifically designed to disable text to speech. Bypassing this restriction violates anti-circumvention laws, like the DMCA.
But, AIUI, USA laws permit 3rd parties to make accessible versions of books, either audio or braille, without permission from the book's copyright owner. So unless the Authors Guild is claiming DRM cicumvention, they don't have a case.
Because Silverlight is just Microsoft's attempt to take over the web with more proprietary garbage. There's already too much Flash on the web, and I reluctantly have to have that installed. I don't want to see Silverlight become anywhere near as popular. Besides, so far, the only sites I've come across using it are either owned by or affiliated with Microsoft, which makes having it largely unnecessary.
Last time I installed Silverlight on my Mac was to stream the Beijing Olympics from NBC, and that was only because I was stuck in a foreign country where it wasn't broadcast in English. I uninstalled it pretty soon after.
So the bar for me to install Silverlight again is pretty high, and a crappy 30 second Microsoft ad just doesn't cut it.
Anyway, I found a copy on YouTube, so I can continue to avoid Silverlight a little longer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtilWL4mnhI
It's unfortunate that operating systems still report base 2 sizes using the base 10 notation. Data transmission and storage capacities and measured using base 10 units.
One solution would be for OS vendors to report all file sizes in base 10. But the change in numbers would be more confusing for users than simply changing the unit to base 2 (i.e. KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, etc.). Hard drive manufacturers should then just list both sizes, as in: 2TB (1.81 TiB)
Patents should last the amount of time it takes to bring a product to market. That's a year, maybe two or three. Not fifteen or twenty.
I agree. But given that it can take 2 years, or more in some cases, for patents to be granted, the whole process is a waste of time. The advantage of having a patent system is so that techniques are revealed rather than kept as trade secrets. But that advantage is largely lost by having an excessive term. The trick is finding the right balance between what is patentable, how long the patenting process takes an how long the patent lasts.
Whereever I've seen CCTVs in use, there's usually been signage around pointing it out. But maybe they don't do that in all countries.
Well, maybe I'm way off but to me it came across mostly like this:
"We're doing this mainly so we can put a little checkmark in the box for 'includes MP3 download service'
If only they realised that "MP3" in "MP3 download service" doesn't mean the same thing as DRM-infected WMA.
I've been saving my pocket money for this, and I was so close to having enough! I only need another $19,996,142 to reach my $20 million dollar goal, but unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll reach that amount before the end of the year.
Of course you can download an alternative browser without having another browser to do it.
> ftp -A ftp.ussg.iu.edu
ftp> cd pub/opera/win/963/en
ftp> binary
ftp> hash
ftp> get Opera_963_en_Setup.exe
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for Opera_963_en_Setup.exe (5619080 byte
s).
###
226 File send OK.
ftp: 5619080 bytes received in 112.06Seconds 50.14Kbytes/sec.
ftp> quit
Although this too will fail once the EU decides that Microsoft's inclusion of an FTP client is anti-competitive and asks for it to be removed too.
Wow, they put the prize money up! Last time we discussed that here, the prize was a whopping $40.
In the Airport pane, under the "Wireless" tab, click the "Wireless Options..." button at the bottom. To set a specific channel, hold the Option key when you open the Channel dropdown.
I have an Airport Extreme too, but luckily most of my computers support the 5GHz range. The only problem I discovered when setting it up was that it defaulted to the 2.4GHz band, and to get optimal performance, I had to set the following:
Radio Mode: 802.11n only (5GHz)
Enabled the "Use wide channels" option
Specified a specific channel, rather than leaving it on Auto.
I also have an Airport Express for running an 802.11g network, with that connected to the Extreme via ethernet and configured to use bridge mode. I use that for things like my iPhone or visitors that don't support 802.11n.
Sure we believe that
What? That people came from mud?
Have you ever TRIED it?
Mix together some nitrous gas, some oxygen, some carbon, some steam and a bunch of lightning, and what do you get? Organic molecules, just like the ones we're built from!
Have you actuall
Well, the experiment shouldn't include free oxygen (O2) since that came after life had already formed on earth. But, yes, it's well known that given the right chemicals and conditions, organic compounds can form, and it's hypothesised that this can lead to life. But my point was that the whole process of Abiogenesis is a lot more complicated than the strawman put forth that "people came from lighting and mud"
Well, the opposite end of the spectrum is people who think they are 'rational' because they believe (without proof) that people came from lightning and mud... :)
Ha! That sounds a lot like the kind of strawman arguments commonly thrown around by creationists and is a poor attempt at attacking Evolution and Abiogenesis. Of course, no rational person believes that "people came from lightning and mud".
In the mean time, the vulnerability has been revealed to those who run the Storm botnet and I bet they're already working to deploy a patch that'll make it inneffective.
TFA mentioned the use of the recall feature that is only supported by Exchange servers and Outlook.
One of my Visa debit card comes complete with a picture ID on the back, which is quite convenient. I'm currently living and working in Norway and I believe all Norwegian banks do the same, though I could be wrong.
Once DRM free songs were available to me in my area, I haven't pirated a single song that was available to buy and in some cases, even replaced my previously pirated copies with legally purchased copies. In fact, the vast majority of my music library now consists of legal downloads or rips from CDs I own.
While there may be some price plans that allow for free incoming calls or free incoming text messages, the majority of US price plans charge airtime for incoming calls and charge the same for incoming text messages as outgoing - currently 20 cents per message.
WTF? Does that mean the US telcos are double dipping?!
In Australia, depending on the plan, text messages generally cost around 10 to 20 cents to send. The receiver never pays to receive an ordinary call or sms. (There are exeptions for premium rate services though).
From my experience, the format and reinstall approach is the quick and easy way to deal with a machine that has become filled with lots of junky software that's no longer used, infected with mallicious software, and, in general, has things that just randomly don't work.
However, given proper maintenance, a decent anti-virus program, regular defragging, and not letting anyone use IE or Outlook at all, it's entirely possible to keep an XP machine running well for a few years.
But personally, I'd recommend getting a Mac. They're so much easier to use and maintain than Windows. I switched about a year ago and haven't looked back. Prior to that, I tried various Linux distros, including Ubuntu, but always ended up giving up and reverting to Windows.