This sounds to me like the first example of ICE. Black Ice would incorporate counter attacks(DDoS on your feeble little machine) by the network. Somebody should give William Gibson a call and tell him:).
I'm ordering a copy of the book and will definitly get the electronic version too(txt,HTML,PDF & PS I suppose?).
I'd like to express my sincerest thanks to the people that put their sweat behind this.
Spreading a compedium of information about hysteria of media,parents and educational officials, which all collectivly turn on people they are supposed to protect, is ever so important and will damn well make shure loads of people here will read it.
You're underestimating these companies. They definitly aren't dumb, even though their 100% dedication to profit might instill this.
Besides, I don't think our society is ready for the freedoms that the net and its distribution channels presents. Shure, broadband access is on its way and that's a good thing for a lot to kill off resource wasting middle-men, but the fact is that people have to live off their trade somehow.
Education and oppurtunity, despite that seemingly great trend in the US, is very very far away from providing sustenance to people that create content and art.
Some rethinking is shurely a necessity but that's not a process that comes easy, though it might come quicker because of the net. And that's a good thing in the US, where I feel a lot of things need to change very much.
I for one wouldn't feel so great about a country with socialy catastophic areas in one place and palace laden Beverly Hills' in the other.
The immaterial nature of the net hasn't sunk in yet with the general public. Most of them are likely to see it as another way to shop or easy access to public offices.
I don't yet see copyright free societies, the way Katz suggests. There's too much money on it.
Everybody with German language skills might want to check out this link to the German computer mag CT :
http://www.heise.de/ct/00/05/112/
The meat is that copies for private use are permitted because nobody can real stop you anyway, and recrod company people cannot be permitted to enter your home and check if you have any copies.
Therefore mp3 downloads are legal in Germany and making copies of CDs off your buddy or for your buddy or from CD rented or lent from the library are legal.
It is however illegal to offer unlicenced material to the general public. Libraries buy their CDs, as well as renting shops. And mp3 download sites that carry stuff ripped from CDs and are available to all are illegal too.
Check the article for more info. It's pretty damn good.
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This sounds to me like the first example of ICE. Black Ice would incorporate counter attacks(DDoS on your feeble little machine) by the network. Somebody should give William Gibson a call and tell him :).
I'm ordering a copy of the book and will definitly get the electronic version too(txt,HTML,PDF & PS I suppose?).
I'd like to express my sincerest thanks to the people that put their sweat behind this.
Spreading a compedium of information about hysteria of media,parents and educational officials, which all collectivly turn on people they are supposed to protect, is ever so important and will damn well make shure loads of people here will read it.
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You're underestimating these companies. They definitly aren't dumb, even though their 100% dedication to profit might instill this.
Besides, I don't think our society is ready for the freedoms that the net and its distribution channels presents. Shure, broadband access is on its way and that's a good thing for a lot to kill off resource wasting middle-men, but the fact is that people have to live off their trade somehow.
Education and oppurtunity, despite that seemingly great trend in the US, is very very far away from providing sustenance to people that create content and art.
Some rethinking is shurely a necessity but that's not a process that comes easy, though it might come quicker because of the net. And that's a good thing in the US, where I feel a lot of things need to change very much.
I for one wouldn't feel so great about a country with socialy catastophic areas in one place and palace laden Beverly Hills' in the other.
The immaterial nature of the net hasn't sunk in yet with the general public. Most of them are likely to see it as another way to shop or easy access to public offices.
I don't yet see copyright free societies, the way Katz suggests. There's too much money on it.
Tony
Everybody with German language skills might want to check out this link to the German computer mag CT :
http://www.heise.de/ct/00/05/112/
The meat is that copies for private use are permitted because nobody can real stop you anyway, and recrod company people cannot be permitted to enter your home and check if you have any copies.
Therefore mp3 downloads are legal in Germany and making copies of CDs off your buddy or for your buddy or from CD rented or lent from the library are legal.
It is however illegal to offer unlicenced material to the general public. Libraries buy their CDs, as well as renting shops. And mp3 download sites that carry stuff ripped from CDs and are available to all are illegal too.
Check the article for more info. It's pretty damn good.
Tony