Well, if students can't afford music any more because the RIAA has already taken away their LIFE SAVINGS, then I guess the students will be burning more music than ever. Thus, RIAA is digging their own grave, and turning the music industry in the US into the piracy nightmare that exists in Asia.
For the record, I went to a Metallica concert without paying a dime. I grab free tickets from my radio station (free giveaway). During the concert, I didn't buy any CDs or t-shirts that would have give them money. Instead, I got to see Linkin Park (who I was actually trying to see), free shots of boobies, and some neat pyrotechnics...all at their expense.
After I got home, I got on LimeWire and downloaded all of Linkin Park's albums. (As much as I like their music, I will never buy one of their albums because of their stance on file-sharing, copy protection, etc.)
But the wrong users. They need to go after the downloaders, which they can't do. If they shared files on their own, and people downloaded them, the RIAA would be liable for sharing the files.
Therefore, they are going after the uploaders, which is a dubious legal position. If I owned every single CD that I share, the RIAA can't technically go after me for sharing files, because sharing files is not legal. Owning illegal material is illegal.
For an example of this, we can always fall back on the TurboTax debunkle. Even Mom and Pop were told not to install it, and it backfired like you wouldn't believe. All over the media, million-dollar lawsuits, getting angry at tech support, etc.
I guess it goes to prove: you don't fuck with a man's boot sector:)
Sorry, but everything I release is GPL. I'm proud that it's GPL, and I'll "whine loudest in support" of it. If you're going to develop for it, I'd expect the source code for it.
Exactly my point. They even admitted that there was "not a single line of code", which indicates that they were open and honest with their answer, instead of trying to hide their fault with business-babble, which everybody is used to and tired of.
I appreciate that. I didn't know about this RealPC project, don't use a Mac, or had any interest in it, but the company is already a couple of notches ahead in my book for being so straightforward in their answer.
I just posted this post, saying to stop pretending to be URBL (which blacklists the world on purpose), and lo-and-behold, they go about and pretend to be URBL.
Maybe I can pretend to be surrounded by Swedish blondes next:)
SPEWS suck. Plain and simple. I'm glad he got DDoSed (though I don't agree with the methods) because his list blocks a lot of legitimate e-mail AND it's popular, which is a bad combination. Kill it, admins, and let it die die die!
I'll say this once, and I'll say this again: viruses will be the death of us all. I'm fasinated by them (as well as web spiders), but I respect them as the most dangerous tool a hacker has.
You can have Tea and No Tea, but not both. In order to have Tea, you must drop No Tea, but how on earth can you drop something that doesn't exist?! This goes against common sense.
I understand the point of trying to establish a "protest" RBL, but in order to successfully protest something, you must target something that everybody uses. Hardly anybody uses SPEWS. The two kinds of people who use SPEWS are:
1. Small-time folk who understand the risks of using SPEWS and know that legitimate mail gets blocked.
2. People who heard of SPEWS without researching it and rely on the false pretence that all RBLs are real lists of spammers, without any innocent victims. (This is the point of the URBL: to educate net admins the dangers of implementing a RBL on a server without researching it throughly first, by listing every single IP in IPv4.)
Thus, your "statement" has no impact, except for the innocent victims in point #2. They will simply demand that their ISP remove SPEWS from their RBL list, and after some research, they will remove it, and you lose another RBL "customer". People in point #1 already believe in anti-spam, so your statement has no impact on these people, either. (IOW, preaching to the choir.)
The big spammer hosts don't care about RBLs, and the big ISPs don't use your RBL because it is too hostile. So the only point of your RBL is to piss off the uneducated end users, who in turn get pissed off at the uneducated network admins. Sure, it may be a lesson in RBL education, but unlike the URBL, it takes a while before you get burned by it.
If the only point of your RBL is education, just drop it and let URBL that end of things.
I looked at qmail two years ago, and I have to say that qmail is the most confusing MESS I have even seen. NOTHING is in its right default place! NOTHING! Everything has this strange directory structure, and it doesn't even use the default LOGGER. Yes, you have to install this dumb logger daemon, solely for the purpose of logging stuff for your qmail.
Sorry, but I'd perfer a mail program that puts stuff in the right place. I want my configuration files in/etc, and I want syslog to manage my e-mail logging.
You can be on SPEWS for giving the wrong look. Seriously, SPEWS is an incredibly bad blacklist. The notion of throwing out entire IP blocks, entire ISPs, even entire backbones that MIGHT support spam, is entirely insane. The list is such a joke that the RBL test may be taken out of SpamAssassin in the next version.
The only thing more inaccurate than SPEWS is URBL. (And yes, that is a subtle joke.)
I second this. Countless times I accidently hit the search option, instead of the address option. How hard is it to type www.google.com, and searching yourself?
And you are equating murder with copyright BS? Man, that's worse than comparing it to sea pirates. And I don't remember Ghandi getting this much crap from people for trying to fight a system. Yes, it's illegal, but it is civil disobedience in order to fight a system. Sure, it's not a important as fighting for liberty for a country, but 60 million P2P file-sharers can't be wrong.
Yes, I realize that I'm making a bolder statement than most, but it is because I have grown weary of paying $15 for a CD, and I'm sick and tired of musicians not even supporting our cause. (Jesus, we WANT them to get more money, instead of the $.02 per CD they get now!) When the CD price drops to $7-10 and a majority of that money goes to the artist, then we'll talk about playing fair and paying for music. Until then, my money is better spent on the EFF.
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Well, if students can't afford music any more because the RIAA has already taken away their LIFE SAVINGS, then I guess the students will be burning more music than ever. Thus, RIAA is digging their own grave, and turning the music industry in the US into the piracy nightmare that exists in Asia.
For the record, I went to a Metallica concert without paying a dime. I grab free tickets from my radio station (free giveaway). During the concert, I didn't buy any CDs or t-shirts that would have give them money. Instead, I got to see Linkin Park (who I was actually trying to see), free shots of boobies, and some neat pyrotechnics...all at their expense.
After I got home, I got on LimeWire and downloaded all of Linkin Park's albums. (As much as I like their music, I will never buy one of their albums because of their stance on file-sharing, copy protection, etc.)
But the wrong users. They need to go after the downloaders, which they can't do. If they shared files on their own, and people downloaded them, the RIAA would be liable for sharing the files.
Therefore, they are going after the uploaders, which is a dubious legal position. If I owned every single CD that I share, the RIAA can't technically go after me for sharing files, because sharing files is not legal. Owning illegal material is illegal.
I guess I should remind everybody of the DDoS US Postal attack for the 50th time.
Well, that's really what IP boils down to: trying to copyright one's mental thoughts.
For an example of this, we can always fall back on the TurboTax debunkle. Even Mom and Pop were told not to install it, and it backfired like you wouldn't believe. All over the media, million-dollar lawsuits, getting angry at tech support, etc.
:)
I guess it goes to prove: you don't fuck with a man's boot sector
Point-Haired Boss. For reference, see Dilbert's comics.
What the fuck does this have to do with anything? Mod this down!
DCMA was unanimous vote, without any debate. Enough said!
Sorry, but everything I release is GPL. I'm proud that it's GPL, and I'll "whine loudest in support" of it. If you're going to develop for it, I'd expect the source code for it.
Exactly my point. They even admitted that there was "not a single line of code", which indicates that they were open and honest with their answer, instead of trying to hide their fault with business-babble, which everybody is used to and tired of.
I appreciate that. I didn't know about this RealPC project, don't use a Mac, or had any interest in it, but the company is already a couple of notches ahead in my book for being so straightforward in their answer.
I just posted this post, saying to stop pretending to be URBL (which blacklists the world on purpose), and lo-and-behold, they go about and pretend to be URBL.
:)
Maybe I can pretend to be surrounded by Swedish blondes next
SPEWS suck. Plain and simple. I'm glad he got DDoSed (though I don't agree with the methods) because his list blocks a lot of legitimate e-mail AND it's popular, which is a bad combination. Kill it, admins, and let it die die die!
I'll say this once, and I'll say this again: viruses will be the death of us all. I'm fasinated by them (as well as web spiders), but I respect them as the most dangerous tool a hacker has.
You can have Tea and No Tea, but not both. In order to have Tea, you must drop No Tea, but how on earth can you drop something that doesn't exist?! This goes against common sense.
I understand the point of trying to establish a "protest" RBL, but in order to successfully protest something, you must target something that everybody uses. Hardly anybody uses SPEWS. The two kinds of people who use SPEWS are:
1. Small-time folk who understand the risks of using SPEWS and know that legitimate mail gets blocked.
2. People who heard of SPEWS without researching it and rely on the false pretence that all RBLs are real lists of spammers, without any innocent victims. (This is the point of the URBL: to educate net admins the dangers of implementing a RBL on a server without researching it throughly first, by listing every single IP in IPv4.)
Thus, your "statement" has no impact, except for the innocent victims in point #2. They will simply demand that their ISP remove SPEWS from their RBL list, and after some research, they will remove it, and you lose another RBL "customer". People in point #1 already believe in anti-spam, so your statement has no impact on these people, either. (IOW, preaching to the choir.)
The big spammer hosts don't care about RBLs, and the big ISPs don't use your RBL because it is too hostile. So the only point of your RBL is to piss off the uneducated end users, who in turn get pissed off at the uneducated network admins. Sure, it may be a lesson in RBL education, but unlike the URBL, it takes a while before you get burned by it.
If the only point of your RBL is education, just drop it and let URBL that end of things.
I looked at qmail two years ago, and I have to say that qmail is the most confusing MESS I have even seen. NOTHING is in its right default place! NOTHING! Everything has this strange directory structure, and it doesn't even use the default LOGGER. Yes, you have to install this dumb logger daemon, solely for the purpose of logging stuff for your qmail.
/etc, and I want syslog to manage my e-mail logging.
Sorry, but I'd perfer a mail program that puts stuff in the right place. I want my configuration files in
At I pointed out in an earlier message, SPEWS is probably going to be taken out (or devalued to 0.001) on the newest version of SpamAssassin anyway. More respectable lists like opm.blitzed.org, list.dsbl.org, and dnsbl.njabl.org get higher scores with SpamAssassin.
You can be on SPEWS for giving the wrong look. Seriously, SPEWS is an incredibly bad blacklist. The notion of throwing out entire IP blocks, entire ISPs, even entire backbones that MIGHT support spam, is entirely insane. The list is such a joke that the RBL test may be taken out of SpamAssassin in the next version.
The only thing more inaccurate than SPEWS is URBL. (And yes, that is a subtle joke.)
i want to write that postal office dos attack... i want to write that postal office dos attack... i want to write that postal office dos attack...
Please tell me that somebody has already wrote it so that I can sleep at night, and don't have to take the responsibility of writing it myself.
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That, in and of itself, is funny.
I second this. Countless times I accidently hit the search option, instead of the address option. How hard is it to type www.google.com, and searching yourself?
And you are equating murder with copyright BS? Man, that's worse than comparing it to sea pirates. And I don't remember Ghandi getting this much crap from people for trying to fight a system. Yes, it's illegal, but it is civil disobedience in order to fight a system. Sure, it's not a important as fighting for liberty for a country, but 60 million P2P file-sharers can't be wrong.
Yes, I realize that I'm making a bolder statement than most, but it is because I have grown weary of paying $15 for a CD, and I'm sick and tired of musicians not even supporting our cause. (Jesus, we WANT them to get more money, instead of the $.02 per CD they get now!) When the CD price drops to $7-10 and a majority of that money goes to the artist, then we'll talk about playing fair and paying for music. Until then, my money is better spent on the EFF.
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Is SCO smoking crack?
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