I think this method could very easily be used to create an almost spam-proof email client.
The idea is to have a buddy list in your email client, which is a list of all the people authorized to send you email. If one of those people sends you an email you simply get it.
If someone not on your list sends you an email, the mail client automagically sends them a reply explaining that they need to pass a test. That test could be one with a scrambled text image or whatever. Once they pass the test (replying to the email with the right answer) the email client tells you that a new buddy sent you an email, and if you want to permanently add them to your list.
The list could also contain wildcards to use when you expect to get an automated email (like a bill from a credit card company) but you don't know the exact email ahead of time.
It sounds like a good idea to me, I was wondering if anyone could think of reasons why this wouldn't work
I think the answer is to create a P2P program which combines some of the good qualities from a few other sources:
- It has to be completely distributed, no server, nothing the RIAA can
sue, or shutdown. - It should create a data-base from the songs on a users hard drive
and figure out which songs belong in which albums, and which albums
belong to which artists. - It should allow users to search and download full albums based on
that distributed data-base. - It should save many statistics, like: what songs users download, in
relation to the songs on their drive, and keep track of the fact
they deleted a song. - Once you have that, you can create search pages that let you find
songs that other people, with the same taste in music as yourself,
like, and than download the whole album.
I think something like this will be sue proof since if it's open sourced there's really no one to go after. And will allow music lovers to sever the connection from corporate radio and T.V. stations, and finally be able to find music just because someone else really loves it. No more boy bands, no more Brittney, no more American Idol. True musical freedom.
I developed my site with Mozilla on Linux, and it was a pain in the ass to find a Windows box and test it with IE. If IE held only 10% of the browser market I wouldn't have bothered supporting it AT ALL.
Unfotunatlly I'm using some libraries that my company created, which makes them proprietary and copy-writed. I'm currantly working on severing that dependency. So, once it's all my code I can release it.
I'm currently running a server from home using a cable modem. The cable company filters out port 80 but you can just have you domain name supplier forward your domain to an IP:Port. That way you basically have T1 speed at home.
The sad truth is that the artist are the ones who can really change things in the music industry. The main reason is that they ARE the music industry, they create the music. The problem is that they are too use to using the record companies to sell their music. I think that we was music fans and consumers need to explain to the artists that they need to find a new way of selling their music. They are not going to do this if the current method is generating $13B a year. They are, however, going to rethink things if sales drop let's say %90. Then they will have no choice but to come up with an alternative. Not to mention the RIAA won't have any more money to pay high-waged lawyers to harass companies ushering in the new era.
The important thing to remember is that artists will always make art and art fans will always adore it. Anything else is just packaging, it is replaceable, and will be replaced.
How is breaking into my computer going to help the RIAA know which MP3s were legally ripped, from CDs I own, and which were illegally downloaded?
Unless we assume that all MP3 making is illegal, I bet some RIAA executives are wetting their beds fantasizing about that.
We will firewall Napster at source we will block it at your cable
company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at
your Internet-service provider. We will firewall it at your PC. We
will create a force, that will go from house to house breaking PCs
that have Napster installed on them. We will call this force the "Sony
Storm-troopers" or in short the S.S.
I have a very simple question, do DVDCA really think that there is any way for them to make this disappear? even if they will win their case, which I seriously doubt they will. That piece of code is out there and thats that. The only thing that is really left for them to do is ride the wave. Make all their software free. And by that encourage sales of DVD media. But, I guess that's to much to expect from a bunch of pencil necks who cant see past their own tie. well I guess they'll get what they deserve.
Slashdot Mirror
I think this method could very easily be used to create an almost spam-proof email client.
The idea is to have a buddy list in your email client, which is a list of all the people authorized to send you email. If one of those people sends you an email you simply get it.
If someone not on your list sends you an email, the mail client automagically sends them a reply explaining that they need to pass a test. That test could be one with a scrambled text image or whatever. Once they pass the test (replying to the email with the right answer) the email client tells you that a new buddy sent you an email, and if you want to permanently add them to your list.
The list could also contain wildcards to use when you expect to get an automated email (like a bill from a credit card company) but you don't know the exact email ahead of time.
It sounds like a good idea to me, I was wondering if anyone could think of reasons why this wouldn't work
I think the answer is to create a P2P program which combines some of
the good qualities from a few other sources:
- It has to be completely distributed, no server, nothing the RIAA can
sue, or shutdown.
- It should create a data-base from the songs on a users hard drive
and figure out which songs belong in which albums, and which albums
belong to which artists.
- It should allow users to search and download full albums based on
that distributed data-base.
- It should save many statistics, like: what songs users download, in
relation to the songs on their drive, and keep track of the fact
they deleted a song.
- Once you have that, you can create search pages that let you find
songs that other people, with the same taste in music as yourself,
like, and than download the whole album.
I think something like this will be sue proof since if it's open
sourced there's really no one to go after. And will allow music
lovers to sever the connection from corporate radio and
T.V. stations, and finally be able to find music just because someone
else really loves it. No more boy bands, no more Brittney, no more
American Idol. True musical freedom.
They are just going to stick a banner on the bottom
or top of the screen. I've already seen some
stations do it. Try skipping that with TIVO.
The HTML interface makes it easy to add more useful features. Like like I did in http://www.a-g-g.com.
I developed my site with Mozilla on Linux, and it was a pain in the ass to find a Windows box and test it with IE. If IE held only 10% of the browser market I wouldn't have bothered supporting it AT ALL.
Well, thank you.
Unfotunatlly I'm using some libraries that my company created, which makes them proprietary and copy-writed. I'm currantly working on severing that dependency. So, once it's all my code I can release it.
I'm currently running a server from home using a cable modem. The cable company filters out port 80 but you can just have you domain name supplier forward your domain to an IP:Port. That way you basically have T1 speed at home.
things in the music industry. The main reason is that they ARE the
music industry, they create the music. The problem is that they are
too use to using the record companies to sell their music. I think
that we was music fans and consumers need to explain to the artists
that they need to find a new way of selling their music. They are not
going to do this if the current method is generating $13B a year.
They are, however, going to rethink things if sales drop let's say
%90. Then they will have no choice but to come up with an
alternative. Not to mention the RIAA won't have any more money to pay
high-waged lawyers to harass companies ushering in the new era.
The important thing to remember is that artists will always make art
and art fans will always adore it. Anything else is just packaging,
it is replaceable, and will be replaced.
I allways thought that once you GPL a roduct you can't sell the same product with a commercial license. Is that true?
How is breaking into my computer going to help the RIAA know which MP3s were legally ripped, from CDs I own, and which were illegally downloaded?
Unless we assume that all MP3 making is illegal, I bet some RIAA executives are wetting their beds fantasizing about that.
We will firewall Napster at source we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your Internet-service provider. We will firewall it at your PC. We will create a force, that will go from house to house breaking PCs that have Napster installed on them. We will call this force the "Sony Storm-troopers" or in short the S.S.
emacs, RedHat 6.2, 4.31
I have a very simple question, do DVDCA really think that there is any way for them to make this disappear? even if they will win their case, which I seriously doubt they will. That piece of code is out there and thats that. The only thing that is really left for them to do is ride the wave. Make all their software free. And by that encourage sales of DVD media. But, I guess that's to much to expect from a bunch of pencil necks who cant see past their own tie. well I guess they'll get what they deserve.