What I want to know is. What happens when the RIAA goes after someone who has a job?
I'm lead to believe that if you do not turn up to court it is an automatic win for the plaintiff.
I would NEVER turn up to a court room because I work during the hours that the courts are open, so my understanding is that I would not have the right to a fair trial.
I have never in all my time working with computers EVER seen an encrypted email. I have also cannot name a single corporation that uses encryption for email.
Encrypted email just doesn't happen, when I can't even get people to use secure voice communications what chance do I have with email?
I agree encryption needs to be more widely adopted even as a "Just in case" measure but the problem is getting people educated in its use.
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That's the problem, I could not expect my employer to pay me for an undisclosed amount of time until the RIAA decide to back out.
So it's either,
1. Don't work, Don't pay the mortgage, declare bankruptcy.
2. Don't go to court, pay whatever the RIAA asked for, declare bankruptcy.
The RIAA can just ask me for money and it seems I have no choice but to hand it over.
What I want to know is.
What happens when the RIAA goes after someone who has a job?
I'm lead to believe that if you do not turn up to court it is an automatic win for the plaintiff.
I would NEVER turn up to a court room because I work during the hours that the courts are open, so my understanding is that I would not have the right to a fair trial.
Go have a beer or something.
Waaaaaay ahead of ya.
It would only be useful if teenagrs knew how to spell.
You forget the United States is owned and operated by media companies.
The smog in China could be a tourist attraction itself. I have shown people photos just so they can see the smog engulfing the city skyline.
No where in the world have I seen smog like China, it is a unique sight.
Well I'm using Vista.
Do teenagers buy CDs?
Even if they were to announce that for every song stolen, they would kill a puppy in a country where there are no animal cruelty laws,
We just have to take sides with PETA who have nut jobs to kill an RIAA executive for every puppy killed.
How many stories do we see of government laptops being stolen?
I doubt encryption is used in governmnet email, even if it is the keys are on the unencrypted laptops that keep getting stolen.
A postcard is like an "ATTN: [username]" post on usenet.
A Letter is like an email.
An encoded letter is like an encrypted email.
I totally agree its bullshit like this that makes me consider relocation of my servers to more friendly soil.
I have never in all my time working with computers EVER seen an encrypted email. I have also cannot name a single corporation that uses encryption for email.
Encrypted email just doesn't happen, when I can't even get people to use secure voice communications what chance do I have with email?
I agree encryption needs to be more widely adopted even as a "Just in case" measure but the problem is getting people educated in its use.
The point of security is to keep people out. Not make it easyer.
I have a password on my email.
Do you encrypt all paperwork inside your house?
Exactly. How is unencrypted email different to a postcard?
The only similarity between the two is they are both sent in plain text.
Email is private, reading someones email is the same as opening their snail mail.
Do you consider it ok to read someone else's postcard, or how about that letter sitting on your co workers desk?
I hope your not a sys admin.
China won't stoop as low as the U.S.
What do you expect is going to happen when you use an electronic system?
Americans clearly don't care about their votes or they wouldn't trust others to pass it on for them.
Blue-ray has plenty of honest, actual merit;
Don't forget the crippling DRM.
Why?
Media Sentry will teach China about legal asshattery and in exchange China will teach them about firewalls.
But the Olympics is still an utter pile of shit that needs to be exterminated.
I really can't understand that piracy is any real issue at all.
It is for pirates because now the MPAA have allot of garbage to clog our trackers with.
I really wish the Olympics were pay-per-view only then I couldn't accidently swich onto it.
But people have to want the game.