The BSD software Microsoft uses (or used, not sure but I think they removed a lot of it progressively with XP and Vista) still carries Berkeley/University of California copyright notices (run strings on it if you don't believe me). Try again.
Your article is from 2001. Try something more recent than win98 for yourself.
Actually,/. has quite a vocal crowd which is rabidly against the GPL, the FSF, GNU, etc. This tendency as increased over the years and it's easily noticable.
It's called Astroturf. No one in the free or open software worlds is forcing anyone to do anything. The "fights" seen are waged by Steve Barkto types and a few who fall for it. They also like to stink the place up with harassment. Genuine discusion runs along the lines of friendly advocacy. Organizations like TrollTech have done dual licensing of their own code for a long time without exploding, so really everyone gets along just fine. Putting all of your own work under the GPL and only using GPL'd work is no real restriction, because you can find all the code you need. You can get fancier if you want, no one but M$ cares.
The whole thread is FUD. Free and Open software licenses are simpler and have lower costs than any commercial license. Problems with licenses only happen where there are restrictions and commercial licenses will always have more of those and you will always have to renew them and keep records and every vendor has their own and so on and so forth. Free software is a breath of fresh air next to that.
Why does everyone love the GPL? By forcing users of the code to obey...
One reason people love the GPL is that it has no use conditions, only distribution. The core ethic is that users are free to use the code for any purpose and to share the same with their neighbors.
BSD for me- it's basically public domain (the best solution IMO) but it strokes my ego by making sure my name is included in the code:)
The GPL will preserve your copyright notice too, unless you turn that copyright over to the FSF or other organization. Do you know anyone outside of Redmond that actually strips copyright notices from their source code?
The person wishing to make and distribute phonorecords of a nondramatic musical work may negotiate directly with the copyright owner or his or her agent.
That does not negate SoundExchange fees, and that's the beef artists have. According to them, SE collects fees anyway.
If that's true, you can't have a free internet radio station and everyone continues to play the RIAA game. Only a few very large, commercial internet players will be able to afford the SE fees. The RIAA takes it's slice either way and rules the roots. Artists are, once again, forced to beg and plead with the RIAA for promotion they could otherwise provide for themselves. All of the restrictions of the analog world and more would be rammed down everyone's throat.
SoundExchange was selected by the Copyright Royalty Board as the default arbiter for royalties paid under the compulsory licensing scheme. There is *nothing* stopping an artist from selecting a different arbiter, and registering it with the CRB, at which point any compulsory licensing fees will be handled by that group.
That would be wonderful, but I'm afraid that it's not true. Everything I've read tells me that SoundExchange is the only game in town... forever.
Any artist, *any one*, can register with SoundExchange, in order to receive their share of the royalties, and they can do so *for free*. Further, internet radio stations don't become "members" with SE. They simply pay their compulsory fees to them.
What if you don't want fees to be collected? The growing scandal is that SE collects those fees anyway. To receive a portion of those fees back, you have to join them and agree that they have earned their "share" of your work. What this means is that the artist really has no choice in their representation.
The problem is that the CRB has been hijacked by industry interests... 'course, that's just business as usual in Washington, so I fail to see how that's surprising.
It's strange that you can say that after denying all of the particulars. I agree that the CRB needs a spine.
IEEE Spectrum had a recent article that had MUCH better information than Wikipedia
If you think there's some actual information missing, please add it. Please don't add the Spectrum's BS about how skilled the attackers were and how rare the event.
If you read the article though, you get to the conclusion:
The compromised could be caused by:
An exploit unknown to the public. [or]
A user accessing this server from an already compromised host. The attacker could then sniff the the password.
I'll give you two guesses at which one of these methods were used by the script kiddie who's mistakes are so well spelled out in the rest of the write up.
One of my biggest fans, a person who hangs on every word of every post I write, gives me great credit:
Because, of course, a comparison between Windows and Linux written by you would be entirely unbiased and would take in the merits and demerits of each equally.
Well yes, it would be better and that's the scandal. I might include a metric like "freedom" along with cost, UI friction and other drier material, but even there I can make direct comparisons. The GPL does not restrict user actions, M$'s EULA often does. The GPL does not demand user data access to insure nothing violates copyright, the Windoze EULA does. I can also admit that Windoze users have an easier time getting non free video codecs and list them by name. My complaint is that M$ has not compared apples to apples, which is shocking for such a large company. M$ has studied free software for ten years, they have whole labs devoted to it and they should be able to do much better but won't. How can anyone take M$ seriously when they continue to act so unprofessionally?
An unbiased observer can only conclude that M$ is not competitive, or has not put enough effort into that silly page. Given the great amount of effort M$ has put into free software and the Vista dissaster, the conclusion tips toward M$'s inability to compete.
Tell me good sir why it is important if the monitoring software was easy to bypass? All that needs to happen for the criminal to go back to jail is proof they bypassed it
No, you first. Tell me why we need software on this man's computer when it's so easy to monitor him at the ISP level. Your objection was that it's too expensive to develop monitoring software for gnu/linux, as if it did not already exist. I say that it's too expensive to develop the software for any platform. His conviction alone should tell you that you don't need it. It's an expensive but useless show of force.
I don't have to justify doing nothing, you have to justify the way you would spend my money.
SoundExchange, while being a subsidiary of the RIAA is still authorized to collect all compulsory royalties due whether or not they are due to RIAA members.
That seems to be the size of it. Locking out competition, rather than finding and promoting excellence is what the RIAA member companies are all about.
SoundExchange has no idea how to create a viable business model. The money is not in charging the broadcasters, rather its in free promotion coupled with aggressive web marketing. They should cut a deal with broadcasters that offers free music in exchange for relevant ads and links to store fronts were a listener can purchase the music.
You are kidding?
SoundExchange has been given monopoly status. Everyone has to pay fees to them, and this tiny concession is meaningless when you consider the big picture: they get to pick and chose who runs internet "radio" stations. They can block all but RIAA members and force membership. As soon as they are sure of control, all the concessions will be undone and prices will be hiked up to terrestrial broadcast levels. Kiss variety, choice and artistic freedom goodbye.
It's a license to extend their little analog empire into the future. They are going to keep limiting who the "winners" are. A small number of acts will continue to be "pushed" as you put it, at the exclusion of all others. Bands that want to give their music away and advertise in the way you think would be best for them are not going to be able to do it. They are going to have to crawl on their knees and "prove" themselves in some "target" market, just like they do now, before internet radio stations will "risk" playing them. Without the odious fees the old industry is going to impose, the costs of running a web broadcast are very low, there are no risks and everyone is free to give their music away.
There is absolutely no justification for this. There is no scarce public resource involved and therefore no reason to regulate the internet. Your rights have been sold and the RIAA is going to keep raking in the cash at everyone else's expense.
You are right about this being little more than FUD that M$ should be embarrassed of. If you are looking for normal metrics like cost, manhours, click counts, and other apples to apples data, you won't find it there. If those clowns had any real advantages to offer, they could make a simple chart. The page looks like it was made by a freshly minted MBA on crack. Can they do anything professionally?
No they can't. It would be easy enough for them to compare their costs with Google's published costs to make their point. The problem is that reality is not as they would like it.
this may have been a fairly reasonable comparison.
From which they based their "Get the Facts" FUD assault? There were plenty of reasonable Windoze to free software studies but none of them had anything to do with M$.
I'm glad my taxdollars aren't paying to port the software to every asshat's pet OS on the planet.
Let's just skip the software development alltogether, shall we? I don't pay taxes so someone can write useless and easily bypassed "monitoring" software for the least secure OS in existence. That kind of thing would be little more than a sham and corporate welfare. ISP's already have everything the judge needs and the judge should know it - that's how the victim was caught.
By `indirect' I mean things like not being able to get a good job, being shunned/tormented/killed by people merely because you're a registered sex offender, etc.
Who, outside a big dumb company is going to shun someone for having shared a movie? The punishment is harsh because it does not represent community outrage, it represents the will of the movie industry. There are a bunch of trolls spewing bullshit about what a bad man this guy is, but how many copyright warriors are really out there?
he thinks changing Operating System needs more of a life restructuring. Perhaps, this sentence will give him the perfect opportunity to finally find a life outside of his linux box.
It's going to be easier for him to avoid the internet all together for the five month period than to try to make Winblows understand all of his bookmarks, contacts and other goodies. His complaint is that it's already going to be hard for him to get work but depriving him of the tools of his trade will make it impossible.
I think he should make the most of his new found infamy and make a blog like "Supersize me," the movie where an ultra healthy vegetarian ruins his health in a month by eating McDonald's. I can see it now: not just Windoze, but only the biggest and baddest crap M$ autopushes and sells! Nothing else, he can't leave the start menu or install any thing but M$ software. After just a few weeks his computer is bloated and he's getting sick of the single screen interface. He can do interviews with M$ Freaks, who somehow survive using nothing but Win3.1. Other people can monitor the health of his computer and network activity and be amazed at how bad things really are. When it's all over, we can hear about his ruined credit record and other horrors.
I think you need to add the non free universe to that install. sudu vi/etc/apt/sources.list and remove the # marks. Sooner or later, the evil tracking software will find you. It's redundant if you have a cell phone or ISP.
You can buy a computer that came with ME and actually worked. It's not like Vista has better device support yet. My mom ran ME for six years, but Dell has been unable to wrangle Vista.
yeah, and no research more advanced than finger-painting
Do you really think the entire economy will stop and that no one will be interested in better ways of doing things? No singing and dancing either? Things will still get done because people want things done. Recently, "IP" has done more harm to research than good.
There's a carrier strike force named "Absolute Genius"? There's nothing new about gunboat diplomacy and it ultimately ends the same way.
in 1972 and 1973 they managed to persuade the House of Saudi to denominate oil in US dollars so everyone had to buy dollars to buy oil. Perhaps you'll start to understand the close relationship between the US and Saudi now.... "A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states."
Roll Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. Britian's own will never be slaves!
You would think people could learn from the mistakes of others.
The flaw - to enslave others you have to enslave yourself. It starts when you believe that slavery is OK. When you do that, your neighbors across the street don't look much different than someone further away. Slavery requires force. Force requires sacrifice. Your neighbor is the sacrifice and you are made of the same material.
Ah, the vaunted service industry. Look up working hours and you will see that people in those industries get worked to death for very low pay, especially in those islands.
You might have pointed to the equally hyped "information economy" where we supposedly think things up and own the ideas but that too is bullshit. That one flunked because our big dumb companies offshored their research too. Trying to keep other people from doing things with what they invent and know is currently flunking. Trying to back it up with embargo and military force will fail as our economy and technical prowess do.
Some people have gotten very rich exploiting Chinese slave labor, but they have screwed the rest of us and their children to do it. A nation that does not make things of value to others will soon be poor. A nation that trades with enslaved people is soon enslaved.
The US still has food as an export, but that depends on petroleum. Unless that dependency is solved, we can be squeezed out of that last apparent advantage.
We've let greedy companies take us for a ride, but others places have not been as ridden. We've got third rate broadband and second rate cable, despite having invented the internet and being the headquarters of the major content providers. On second thought, the suck you feel is because we have those headquarters.
Federal Judge Resigns From Spy Court, Three More 'Deeply Upset'... The Bush administration's decision to sometimes bypass the secretive U.S. court that governs terrorism wiretaps could threaten cases against terror suspects that rely on evidence uncovered during the disputed eavesdropping... unprecedented resignation from the government's spy court by U.S. District Judge James Robertson as an indicator of the judiciary's unease over domestic wiretaps ordered without warrants under a highly classified domestic spying program...
"This was definitely a statement of protest," agreed Scott Silliman, a former Air Force attorney and Duke University law professor. "It is unusual because it signifies that at least one member of the court believes that the president has exceeded his legal authority."
In this case, the "Dead Americans" flag should be thrown in the face of those who support abuse of process. When you abuse the legal system for political and economic advantage, you debase the system and impede it's function. The further from rule of law you get, the less justice you will see. A corrupt system is an expensive farce.
You are lost in specifics of legitimate business and have missed evidence of political abuse of process. The ties between corporate and government intelligence allow routine, unreasonable search. Government agents are also being used for political purposes though illegal wiretaping and other programs. You might have noticed the screening portion of Bush "crowd control", where political opposition is excluded from public events. Detailed records are being kept for innocent Americans, and we have dipped so low as to spy on our own churches. These unAmerican practices were expressly outlawed in the wake of Watergate and other scandals. The president who signed those laws, claims they are being broken. This is a waste of your money and it will be used against you in business. Ultimately, this kind of abuse is all about economic advantage.
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The BSD software Microsoft uses (or used, not sure but I think they removed a lot of it progressively with XP and Vista) still carries Berkeley/University of California copyright notices (run strings on it if you don't believe me). Try again.
Your article is from 2001. Try something more recent than win98 for yourself.
Actually, /. has quite a vocal crowd which is rabidly against the GPL, the FSF, GNU, etc. This tendency as increased over the years and it's easily noticable.
It's called Astroturf. No one in the free or open software worlds is forcing anyone to do anything. The "fights" seen are waged by Steve Barkto types and a few who fall for it. They also like to stink the place up with harassment. Genuine discusion runs along the lines of friendly advocacy. Organizations like TrollTech have done dual licensing of their own code for a long time without exploding, so really everyone gets along just fine. Putting all of your own work under the GPL and only using GPL'd work is no real restriction, because you can find all the code you need. You can get fancier if you want, no one but M$ cares.
The whole thread is FUD. Free and Open software licenses are simpler and have lower costs than any commercial license. Problems with licenses only happen where there are restrictions and commercial licenses will always have more of those and you will always have to renew them and keep records and every vendor has their own and so on and so forth. Free software is a breath of fresh air next to that.
Why does everyone love the GPL? By forcing users of the code to obey...
One reason people love the GPL is that it has no use conditions, only distribution. The core ethic is that users are free to use the code for any purpose and to share the same with their neighbors.
BSD for me- it's basically public domain (the best solution IMO) but it strokes my ego by making sure my name is included in the code :)
The GPL will preserve your copyright notice too, unless you turn that copyright over to the FSF or other organization. Do you know anyone outside of Redmond that actually strips copyright notices from their source code?
The person wishing to make and distribute phonorecords of a nondramatic musical work may negotiate directly with the copyright owner or his or her agent.
That does not negate SoundExchange fees, and that's the beef artists have. According to them, SE collects fees anyway.
If that's true, you can't have a free internet radio station and everyone continues to play the RIAA game. Only a few very large, commercial internet players will be able to afford the SE fees. The RIAA takes it's slice either way and rules the roots. Artists are, once again, forced to beg and plead with the RIAA for promotion they could otherwise provide for themselves. All of the restrictions of the analog world and more would be rammed down everyone's throat.
Did you write this little AC troll thread, dedazo? Your obsession with me is flattering for me but sad for you.
In any case, I never mind injecting a little sense and truth.
SoundExchange was selected by the Copyright Royalty Board as the default arbiter for royalties paid under the compulsory licensing scheme. There is *nothing* stopping an artist from selecting a different arbiter, and registering it with the CRB, at which point any compulsory licensing fees will be handled by that group.
That would be wonderful, but I'm afraid that it's not true. Everything I've read tells me that SoundExchange is the only game in town ... forever.
Any artist, *any one*, can register with SoundExchange, in order to receive their share of the royalties, and they can do so *for free*. Further, internet radio stations don't become "members" with SE. They simply pay their compulsory fees to them.
What if you don't want fees to be collected? The growing scandal is that SE collects those fees anyway. To receive a portion of those fees back, you have to join them and agree that they have earned their "share" of your work. What this means is that the artist really has no choice in their representation.
The problem is that the CRB has been hijacked by industry interests... 'course, that's just business as usual in Washington, so I fail to see how that's surprising.
It's strange that you can say that after denying all of the particulars. I agree that the CRB needs a spine.
IEEE Spectrum had a recent article that had MUCH better information than Wikipedia
If you think there's some actual information missing, please add it. Please don't add the Spectrum's BS about how skilled the attackers were and how rare the event.
If you read the article though, you get to the conclusion:
The compromised could be caused by: An exploit unknown to the public. [or] A user accessing this server from an already compromised host. The attacker could then sniff the the password.
I'll give you two guesses at which one of these methods were used by the script kiddie who's mistakes are so well spelled out in the rest of the write up.
Security is only as strong as your weakest link. If you use an OS with a one in four chance of compromise, you have a one in four chance of giving away all of your passwords.
One of my biggest fans, a person who hangs on every word of every post I write, gives me great credit:
Because, of course, a comparison between Windows and Linux written by you would be entirely unbiased and would take in the merits and demerits of each equally.
Well yes, it would be better and that's the scandal. I might include a metric like "freedom" along with cost, UI friction and other drier material, but even there I can make direct comparisons. The GPL does not restrict user actions, M$'s EULA often does. The GPL does not demand user data access to insure nothing violates copyright, the Windoze EULA does. I can also admit that Windoze users have an easier time getting non free video codecs and list them by name. My complaint is that M$ has not compared apples to apples, which is shocking for such a large company. M$ has studied free software for ten years, they have whole labs devoted to it and they should be able to do much better but won't. How can anyone take M$ seriously when they continue to act so unprofessionally?
An unbiased observer can only conclude that M$ is not competitive, or has not put enough effort into that silly page. Given the great amount of effort M$ has put into free software and the Vista dissaster, the conclusion tips toward M$'s inability to compete.
Tell me good sir why it is important if the monitoring software was easy to bypass? All that needs to happen for the criminal to go back to jail is proof they bypassed it
No, you first. Tell me why we need software on this man's computer when it's so easy to monitor him at the ISP level. Your objection was that it's too expensive to develop monitoring software for gnu/linux, as if it did not already exist. I say that it's too expensive to develop the software for any platform. His conviction alone should tell you that you don't need it. It's an expensive but useless show of force.
I don't have to justify doing nothing, you have to justify the way you would spend my money.
SoundExchange, while being a subsidiary of the RIAA is still authorized to collect all compulsory royalties due whether or not they are due to RIAA members.
That seems to be the size of it. Locking out competition, rather than finding and promoting excellence is what the RIAA member companies are all about.
SoundExchange has no idea how to create a viable business model. The money is not in charging the broadcasters, rather its in free promotion coupled with aggressive web marketing. They should cut a deal with broadcasters that offers free music in exchange for relevant ads and links to store fronts were a listener can purchase the music.
You are kidding?
SoundExchange has been given monopoly status. Everyone has to pay fees to them, and this tiny concession is meaningless when you consider the big picture: they get to pick and chose who runs internet "radio" stations. They can block all but RIAA members and force membership. As soon as they are sure of control, all the concessions will be undone and prices will be hiked up to terrestrial broadcast levels. Kiss variety, choice and artistic freedom goodbye.
It's a license to extend their little analog empire into the future. They are going to keep limiting who the "winners" are. A small number of acts will continue to be "pushed" as you put it, at the exclusion of all others. Bands that want to give their music away and advertise in the way you think would be best for them are not going to be able to do it. They are going to have to crawl on their knees and "prove" themselves in some "target" market, just like they do now, before internet radio stations will "risk" playing them. Without the odious fees the old industry is going to impose, the costs of running a web broadcast are very low, there are no risks and everyone is free to give their music away.
There is absolutely no justification for this. There is no scarce public resource involved and therefore no reason to regulate the internet. Your rights have been sold and the RIAA is going to keep raking in the cash at everyone else's expense.
Thanks for the link to that utterly useless page.
You are right about this being little more than FUD that M$ should be embarrassed of. If you are looking for normal metrics like cost, manhours, click counts, and other apples to apples data, you won't find it there. If those clowns had any real advantages to offer, they could make a simple chart. The page looks like it was made by a freshly minted MBA on crack. Can they do anything professionally?
No they can't. It would be easy enough for them to compare their costs with Google's published costs to make their point. The problem is that reality is not as they would like it.
this may have been a fairly reasonable comparison.
From which they based their "Get the Facts" FUD assault? There were plenty of reasonable Windoze to free software studies but none of them had anything to do with M$.
I'm glad my taxdollars aren't paying to port the software to every asshat's pet OS on the planet.
Let's just skip the software development alltogether, shall we? I don't pay taxes so someone can write useless and easily bypassed "monitoring" software for the least secure OS in existence. That kind of thing would be little more than a sham and corporate welfare. ISP's already have everything the judge needs and the judge should know it - that's how the victim was caught.
By `indirect' I mean things like not being able to get a good job, being shunned/tormented/killed by people merely because you're a registered sex offender, etc.
Who, outside a big dumb company is going to shun someone for having shared a movie? The punishment is harsh because it does not represent community outrage, it represents the will of the movie industry. There are a bunch of trolls spewing bullshit about what a bad man this guy is, but how many copyright warriors are really out there?
he thinks changing Operating System needs more of a life restructuring. Perhaps, this sentence will give him the perfect opportunity to finally find a life outside of his linux box.
It's going to be easier for him to avoid the internet all together for the five month period than to try to make Winblows understand all of his bookmarks, contacts and other goodies. His complaint is that it's already going to be hard for him to get work but depriving him of the tools of his trade will make it impossible.
I think he should make the most of his new found infamy and make a blog like "Supersize me," the movie where an ultra healthy vegetarian ruins his health in a month by eating McDonald's. I can see it now: not just Windoze, but only the biggest and baddest crap M$ autopushes and sells! Nothing else, he can't leave the start menu or install any thing but M$ software. After just a few weeks his computer is bloated and he's getting sick of the single screen interface. He can do interviews with M$ Freaks, who somehow survive using nothing but Win3.1. Other people can monitor the health of his computer and network activity and be amazed at how bad things really are. When it's all over, we can hear about his ruined credit record and other horrors.
I think you need to add the non free universe to that install. sudu vi /etc/apt/sources.list and remove the # marks. Sooner or later, the evil tracking software will find you. It's redundant if you have a cell phone or ISP.
You can buy a computer that came with ME and actually worked. It's not like Vista has better device support yet. My mom ran ME for six years, but Dell has been unable to wrangle Vista.
yeah, and no research more advanced than finger-painting
Do you really think the entire economy will stop and that no one will be interested in better ways of doing things? No singing and dancing either? Things will still get done because people want things done. Recently, "IP" has done more harm to research than good.
There's a carrier strike force named "Absolute Genius"? There's nothing new about gunboat diplomacy and it ultimately ends the same way.
in 1972 and 1973 they managed to persuade the House of Saudi to denominate oil in US dollars so everyone had to buy dollars to buy oil. Perhaps you'll start to understand the close relationship between the US and Saudi now. ... "A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states."
Roll Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. Britian's own will never be slaves!
You would think people could learn from the mistakes of others.
The flaw - to enslave others you have to enslave yourself. It starts when you believe that slavery is OK. When you do that, your neighbors across the street don't look much different than someone further away. Slavery requires force. Force requires sacrifice. Your neighbor is the sacrifice and you are made of the same material.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Second_Lif e, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayman_Islands. Youll note they all get by very nicely in financial services and tourism.
Ah, the vaunted service industry. Look up working hours and you will see that people in those industries get worked to death for very low pay, especially in those islands.
You might have pointed to the equally hyped "information economy" where we supposedly think things up and own the ideas but that too is bullshit. That one flunked because our big dumb companies offshored their research too. Trying to keep other people from doing things with what they invent and know is currently flunking. Trying to back it up with embargo and military force will fail as our economy and technical prowess do.
Some people have gotten very rich exploiting Chinese slave labor, but they have screwed the rest of us and their children to do it. A nation that does not make things of value to others will soon be poor. A nation that trades with enslaved people is soon enslaved.
The US still has food as an export, but that depends on petroleum. Unless that dependency is solved, we can be squeezed out of that last apparent advantage.
We've let greedy companies take us for a ride, but others places have not been as ridden. We've got third rate broadband and second rate cable, despite having invented the internet and being the headquarters of the major content providers. On second thought, the suck you feel is because we have those headquarters.
Members of the FISA think Bush has done more harm than good.
In this case, the "Dead Americans" flag should be thrown in the face of those who support abuse of process. When you abuse the legal system for political and economic advantage, you debase the system and impede it's function. The further from rule of law you get, the less justice you will see. A corrupt system is an expensive farce.
You are lost in specifics of legitimate business and have missed evidence of political abuse of process. The ties between corporate and government intelligence allow routine, unreasonable search. Government agents are also being used for political purposes though illegal wiretaping and other programs. You might have noticed the screening portion of Bush "crowd control", where political opposition is excluded from public events. Detailed records are being kept for innocent Americans, and we have dipped so low as to spy on our own churches. These unAmerican practices were expressly outlawed in the wake of Watergate and other scandals. The president who signed those laws, claims they are being broken. This is a waste of your money and it will be used against you in business. Ultimately, this kind of abuse is all about economic advantage.