Seriously, I'd say give them a basic lesson in cryptography. The history (and math) of the subject is facinating.
You be doing them a favor as citizens, and individuals.
You might start with PGP and work from there....
http://www.pgp.com
You have it the wrong way around...
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"The tech culture is becoming a elitist society with no coherent political values, poorly prepared to deal with real politicians, who pass real laws like the DMCA."
'Zactly backwards. The real questions is:
"Political culture has long been an elitist society with no coherent understanding of technical issues, and is poorly prepared to deal with real technological advance, such as distributed filed sharing, like Napster, Freenet, gnutella."
Anyone remember the "digital decency act"? Yeah, that really cleaned the Pr0n off the internet. Nice work guys.
Yes, various governments have boot-stomped a few indivuduals, but lets face it: all the hot air in the world hasn't changed the day-to-day reality that the internet is still vast, and untamed.
And we like it that way.
Politics will never react as quickly to change as the world's best information distribution system can.
For that matter, the U.S. has been under a state of "national emergency" since 50's cuban missile crisis. This means the executive branch has direct control of the military- not congress. The state of emergency was never repealed.
Now, this is not terribly sinister, but every US president since JFK has had executive control of military and used the "state of emergency" to issue sometimes-questional executive orders.
The unsettling thing about it all (if you happen to be a paranoid, libertarian, cough, cough) is that when the executive branch of a govenment also controls the military (rather than, say, an elected body of citizens), you are only one quick coup away from dictatorship.
Just me, or does this sound like a marketer's dream come true? Forget about click-through rate- we're talking about exact demographics about who looks at what for how long.
Anyone else worried about privacy issues here? MS doesn't have the best track record when it comes to consumer privacy.
*If* this company did what it claimed to do, doesn't it violate the 4th ammendment?
Article IV.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Hard to say what constitutes probabal cause. The only way for this company to verrify that they contents of each file is infact a mp3 metallica song is to directly scan or download from your harddrive. So their either lying about the authenticy of each "violator" or they're guilty of violating the 4th ammendment?
Y'know, it would be a pity if some malicious rogue went to the metallica chat forum and pasted in the source of a copywrite protected mp3 file, and then Metallica got sued for hosting such information on their server.
Ah-ha! I knew those pesky illuminati were behind this one. Looks like their P.R. department goofed up on this one, though. Seriously, from a social-engineering perspective, this program couln't be too hard to tank... the malcontents simply need to "hack" the system. phone: "Yes, Mr. W.A.V.E. representative? There's this kid at my school, he seems violent and agressive, he always wears the number 13 on his clothing and has this weird obsession with kicking things. What? No, I don't know his name by he's the quarterback for the football team... -------------------- Cullpepper "if ya shoot 'em, they don't learn nothin'."
if you knew the initial particle state of the universe you could, in theory, divine any other given state of the universe (given enough computing power) which would include conversations, "thoughts" and in fact, everything else.
(All this depends on your personal feelings towards the uncertainty principal and chaos theory)
The universe is simply one long crypographic equation.
Well... If A. a CD can be stamped out for the cost of a blank (or a few cents, if only digitally copied via the 'net) and B. the actual musicians get hardly any of the money from the sale of music (cd, tape, lp) then C. arn't the consumers being royally screwed for the price of a product (which suddenly seems to be monopolistically controlled) followed by D. it's even worse if you only want the music in digital form "buying the shoes without the box" and still having to pay for the box. Therefore: perhaps its time to apply freeware/shareware/full license agreements to music? If I know that the true value of digital music is pennys-per-song and the musician is only recieving pennys-per-song from the record labels, the anwser seems fairly simple to me. If a record lable was smart they'd do this: release all of their artists' music on the net in mp3 (or flavor-of-the-day) format. With additional services such as promotions, tours, contests, stats, links and sales for physical media. Access to the site is 19.95 per month or whatever. They pay the artist on a per-download basis. I'd be willing to pay for the convenience, central indexing, steady high-bandwith downloads and more certain availability. Oh well.
Bring on the data haven, in a politically independent country that doesn't fear U.S. "sanctions." *That* would revolutionize the banking/music/entertainment/data sectors over night. If Cuba were smart....... -Cullpepper
What about the Netscape or I.E. or AOL logo that shows up in a browser window? It is not "integral" to the browser, it has no function other than branding. However, if you point your browser at a pay-to-view website (comparable to selecting a cable channel on a television) the logo doesn't dissapear. Does this mean that Netscape, I.E. AOL and all the other browsers are guilty of the same crime of adding to the signal?
Media is ruled by darwinism as much as anything else.
In the case of media, if it is uninteresting, it won't be viewed as much, it won't generate revenue, production won't be sustainable.
Katz should know better than anyone that sensationalism sells. (such as this article. Ooooooh! Big bad Media Predators! Helpless little consumers! Use the @#$@% "off" button once in a while.
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Find a way to jam carivore.
First one who does, wins a prize.
Seriously, I'd say give them a basic lesson in cryptography. The history (and math) of the subject is facinating.
You be doing them a favor as citizens, and individuals.
You might start with PGP and work from there....
http://www.pgp.com
"The tech culture is becoming a elitist society with no coherent political values, poorly prepared to deal with real politicians, who pass real laws like the DMCA."
'Zactly backwards. The real questions is:
"Political culture has long been an elitist society with no coherent understanding of technical issues, and is poorly prepared to deal with real technological advance, such as distributed filed sharing, like Napster, Freenet, gnutella."
Anyone remember the "digital decency act"? Yeah, that really cleaned the Pr0n off the internet. Nice work guys.
Yes, various governments have boot-stomped a few indivuduals, but lets face it: all the hot air in the world hasn't changed the day-to-day reality that the internet is still vast, and untamed.
And we like it that way.
Politics will never react as quickly to change as the world's best information distribution system can.
best to encrypt everything first. you wouldn't want to be responsible any "unauthorized copying" that might take place between you and them...
Hey that rasies a question, does Eschelon violate copyright?
Muahahahahhaha.
How do we know *your* post isn't spin?
We don't. Ho-hum.
For that matter, the U.S. has been under a state of "national emergency" since 50's cuban missile crisis. This means the executive branch has direct control of the military- not congress. The state of emergency was never repealed.
Now, this is not terribly sinister, but every US president since JFK has had executive control of military and used the "state of emergency" to issue sometimes-questional executive orders.
The unsettling thing about it all (if you happen to be a paranoid, libertarian, cough, cough) is that when the executive branch of a govenment also controls the military (rather than, say, an elected body of citizens), you are only one quick coup away from dictatorship.
Read the constitution.
-Cullen
cullen@unadvertise.com
Just me, or does this sound like a marketer's dream come true? Forget about click-through rate- we're talking about exact demographics about who looks at what for how long.
Anyone else worried about privacy issues here? MS doesn't have the best track record when it comes to consumer privacy.
You're right of course. But you can say the same thing for any half-decent totalitarian nation.
Article IV.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Hard to say what constitutes probabal cause.
The only way for this company to verrify that they contents of each file is infact a mp3 metallica song is to directly scan or download from your harddrive. So their either lying about the authenticy of each "violator" or they're guilty of violating the 4th ammendment?
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Y'know, it would be a pity if some malicious rogue went to the metallica chat forum and pasted in the source of a copywrite protected mp3 file, and then Metallica got sued for hosting such information on their server.
Sure would be a pity.
Big deal. Login with a new user name. You reall y think napster is going to ban 335,000 ports?
I can't wait for the online chat tonight.http://www.interfacecreative.com/cartoons/gnuecono my.html
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Ah-ha! I knew those pesky illuminati were behind this one. Looks like their P.R. department goofed up on this one, though. Seriously, from a social-engineering perspective, this program couln't be too hard to tank... the malcontents simply need to "hack" the system. phone: "Yes, Mr. W.A.V.E. representative? There's this kid at my school, he seems violent and agressive, he always wears the number 13 on his clothing and has this weird obsession with kicking things. What? No, I don't know his name by he's the quarterback for the football team... -------------------- Cullpepper "if ya shoot 'em, they don't learn nothin'."
Sort of-
if you knew the initial particle state of the universe you could, in theory, divine any other given state of the universe (given enough computing power) which would include conversations, "thoughts" and in fact, everything else.
(All this depends on your personal feelings towards the uncertainty principal and chaos theory)
The universe is simply one long crypographic equation.
Well... If A. a CD can be stamped out for the cost of a blank (or a few cents, if only digitally copied via the 'net) and B. the actual musicians get hardly any of the money from the sale of music (cd, tape, lp) then C. arn't the consumers being royally screwed for the price of a product (which suddenly seems to be monopolistically controlled) followed by D. it's even worse if you only want the music in digital form "buying the shoes without the box" and still having to pay for the box. Therefore: perhaps its time to apply freeware/shareware/full license agreements to music? If I know that the true value of digital music is pennys-per-song and the musician is only recieving pennys-per-song from the record labels, the anwser seems fairly simple to me. If a record lable was smart they'd do this: release all of their artists' music on the net in mp3 (or flavor-of-the-day) format. With additional services such as promotions, tours, contests, stats, links and sales for physical media. Access to the site is 19.95 per month or whatever. They pay the artist on a per-download basis. I'd be willing to pay for the convenience, central indexing, steady high-bandwith downloads and more certain availability. Oh well.
Bring on the data haven, in a politically independent country that doesn't fear U.S. "sanctions." *That* would revolutionize the banking/music/entertainment/data sectors over night. If Cuba were smart....... -Cullpepper
What about the Netscape or I.E. or AOL logo that shows up in a browser window? It is not "integral" to the browser, it has no function other than branding. However, if you point your browser at a pay-to-view website (comparable to selecting a cable channel on a television) the logo doesn't dissapear. Does this mean that Netscape, I.E. AOL and all the other browsers are guilty of the same crime of adding to the signal?
how could they forget NetHack? Yea Gods.
In the case of media, if it is uninteresting, it won't be viewed as much, it won't generate revenue, production won't be sustainable.
Katz should know better than anyone that sensationalism sells. (such as this article. Ooooooh! Big bad Media Predators! Helpless little consumers! Use the @#$@% "off" button once in a while.
Bah.