Yeah its sorta like how if the police break into your home and find drugs but forget the warrant... Its illegal and because they used illegal methods to get the evidence they cant throw you in jail forever even if you have a monsterous drug lab supplying the entire country with .
Same goes for wiretapping, if they dont get a warrant they cant use the evidence they obtain through that wiretap in a court of law which includes getting other warrants theoretically and even if they did once a lawyer dug up this they'd throw the case out.
I disagree... Picking up a gun is for people who would rather kill for their cause than die for one. Only problem is that the numbers willing to do such are typically 1-3 people at a time rather than organize a revolution of sorts.
Tell him the information in your company WHOIS means that he could end up the target of a mob hit because the mafia doesnt like people honing in on their territory (they're behind alot of the penis enlargement and drug spam stuff)
People thought 1984 was fiction but we're getting closer and closer to it being a reality every day.
The fact is DRM is called 'Digital Rights Management' however a more accurate term would be 'Digital Restrictions Management'. There is nothing beneficial about DRM to the consumer. In fact, DRM is outright hostile toward the consumer treating them as a criminal. They already have your money and they're thinking of ways of trying to milk you (and your friends) for more money.
It is no coincidence that the Open Source community is so hostile towards DRM when you consider that companies like Major League Baseball screw people over because they decided to change their DRM scheme (and yes it is a scheme, just like other fraud schemes) or Microsoft MSN Music DRM Servers being turned off...
Now extrapolate that every dead tree publishers wet dream is being able to charge the same prices for books while not providing a physical copy. With DRM'ed books you could enact a 'Pay per View' type of system sort of like how the TV companies have done or charge per ebook reader or per computer or what have you...
The problem is that at present it is quite easy to break DRM schemes (thankfully) because CPUs are designed to 'do everything' so to speak. What the 'content generating' industries like the MAFIAA and others want is to lock away CPUs so that they do what the DRM designers want and eventually they will get their way because the people behind DRM have so much more money, power and influence than the common man unfortunately thats all that matters in the eyes of the legislators... At least in the US.
Just wait until you get a 3 year old stepping on your video game/dvd case then you'll see why you need 'backup' copies...
Unless of course the companies are willing to furnish a brand new copy for a damaged or destroyed old copy rather than milk the customer for another $20 for a DVD or $60 for a game.
Nice but then we could always ask... Why arent legit DVD players region free in the first place? YOU dont wanna be seen as supporting the terrorists by making a market for them do you?
Makes me want to vote with my dollars... read a few of these and buy some of the dead tree format... Apparently the post above this one indicates that when you buy the dead tree version you get the electronic versions of ALL of the ebooks they've ever published as well.
Why even give a 'voting receipt'... Part of being in a democracy means being able to *NOT* vote if that is what you wish. Now you've just opened up another lane for coercion. 'Hey did you vote? let me see your receipt!'
Also lets not forget that these votes are being stored in databases with timestamps at least in some locations... someone with sufficient authority could potentially link the voter registry (the people who come in and vote) with the timestamp on the machine and get who voted what.
I'm a technology enthusiast and even I think paper is better.
Yes it does... Though most voting places have individuals who are supposedly sworn to secrecy about the vote to help them. I'd assume this secrecy is on par with say Doctor-Patient or Lawyer-Client privilege in the eyes of the court.
Innocent until proven Guilty. At least thats one of the idea behind the 5th, 6th and 14th amendments were written around. The whole 'Due process' thing...
Yeah I know the US Constitution took a shitkicking from President Bush but its still there to protect the citizens (not necessarily the Arabs/Muslims they capture in combat)
They charged someone with the power to act on their behalf (MediaDefender) who presumably had permission to upload these files to the the internet via Bittorrent. They *KNOW* how Bittorrent works and theres no way in hell they're gonna be able to claim ignorance on that after all the campaigning they've done to try to kill P2P ever since the Napster days.
By uploading it on bittorrent they knew that others would grab peices from others thus reducing the load on their servers (which is what Bittorrent distribution is all about!) so in other words, the downloaders who are also uploaders are reducing the strain on their servers and should charge them for using their machine as a server.
Economics 101? Well I'll respond to this and your 'reply to self'
First off bandwidth is not a 'limited resource' such as land or a 'scarce resource'. Therefore treating it as if it was one is detrimental to the consumer. Unlike cell phones which utilize the electromagnetic spectrum in a broadcast fashion over the radio spectrum which is limited in its capacity although I do not believe enough to justify the ridiculous limitations on minutes and overage fees.
Internet bandwidth is not a limited resource in that it is possible to lay more fiber than one could ever need in theory. The fact is that Bell/Rogers are simply not upgrading their capacity to meet with demand is being seen through by the consumer, media and politicians alike. The fact remains that the industry is 'mildly regulated' right now in the fact that ISPs need to make their networks accessible to potential competition. However, the fact that they are throttling connections from the 'competition' stands to reason that they are engaging in anti-competitive practices which could force the industry to be moved from 'mildly regulated' to 'heavily regulated' including the codification of Network Neutrality into law if such happens then Bell/Rogers will be FORCED to invest in the infrastructure and remove throttling or end up as merely a wholesaler of bandwidth (because all the hardcore users will just move to a service where they arent throttled and it'll still be cheaper for them)
Just goes to show you how much legal mumbo jumbo it takes to say 'You can copy, distribute and alter the program however you see fit as long as you release the source along with modifications if you distribute any of it'
You're right, OSS isnt going to 'kill' them... Although if we are lucky it might unseat them from the position of monopoly and actually force some degree of competition.
Yeah besides didnt Jon Stewart make fun if Viacom suing Youtube on his show? Goes to show you how popular he is that he can get away with making fun of his corporate overlords without them biting his head off.
I wish I had mod points because this is funny. Whoever modded this troll obviously doesn't keep track of all the problems with the Windows OS that shows up on the stories here.
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Consider it an anti-theft device... Anyone who tries to steal your laptop will subsequently get the flu as well.
Thats ok, in the post 9/11 world you just declare them enemy combatants and send them off to the Gitmo.
Yeah its sorta like how if the police break into your home and find drugs but forget the warrant... Its illegal and because they used illegal methods to get the evidence they cant throw you in jail forever even if you have a monsterous drug lab supplying the entire country with .
Same goes for wiretapping, if they dont get a warrant they cant use the evidence they obtain through that wiretap in a court of law which includes getting other warrants theoretically and even if they did once a lawyer dug up this they'd throw the case out.
I disagree... Picking up a gun is for people who would rather kill for their cause than die for one. Only problem is that the numbers willing to do such are typically 1-3 people at a time rather than organize a revolution of sorts.
Yeah move out of the country and host it in some other country.
Tell him the information in your company WHOIS means that he could end up the target of a mob hit because the mafia doesnt like people honing in on their territory (they're behind alot of the penis enlargement and drug spam stuff)
Just drag the RIAA's litigation record into court. Its all public documents and make a case for RICO charges.
People thought 1984 was fiction but we're getting closer and closer to it being a reality every day.
The fact is DRM is called 'Digital Rights Management' however a more accurate term would be 'Digital Restrictions Management'. There is nothing beneficial about DRM to the consumer. In fact, DRM is outright hostile toward the consumer treating them as a criminal. They already have your money and they're thinking of ways of trying to milk you (and your friends) for more money.
It is no coincidence that the Open Source community is so hostile towards DRM when you consider that companies like Major League Baseball screw people over because they decided to change their DRM scheme (and yes it is a scheme, just like other fraud schemes) or Microsoft MSN Music DRM Servers being turned off...
Now extrapolate that every dead tree publishers wet dream is being able to charge the same prices for books while not providing a physical copy. With DRM'ed books you could enact a 'Pay per View' type of system sort of like how the TV companies have done or charge per ebook reader or per computer or what have you...
The problem is that at present it is quite easy to break DRM schemes (thankfully) because CPUs are designed to 'do everything' so to speak. What the 'content generating' industries like the MAFIAA and others want is to lock away CPUs so that they do what the DRM designers want and eventually they will get their way because the people behind DRM have so much more money, power and influence than the common man unfortunately thats all that matters in the eyes of the legislators... At least in the US.
Obligatory link is Obligatory: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Just wait until you get a 3 year old stepping on your video game/dvd case then you'll see why you need 'backup' copies...
Unless of course the companies are willing to furnish a brand new copy for a damaged or destroyed old copy rather than milk the customer for another $20 for a DVD or $60 for a game.
Nice but then we could always ask... Why arent legit DVD players region free in the first place? YOU dont wanna be seen as supporting the terrorists by making a market for them do you?
Yeah unfortunately most ISPs already filter out FTP and HTTP ports from home users so they cant set up their own servers
Makes me want to vote with my dollars... read a few of these and buy some of the dead tree format... Apparently the post above this one indicates that when you buy the dead tree version you get the electronic versions of ALL of the ebooks they've ever published as well.
Why even give a 'voting receipt'... Part of being in a democracy means being able to *NOT* vote if that is what you wish. Now you've just opened up another lane for coercion. 'Hey did you vote? let me see your receipt!'
Also lets not forget that these votes are being stored in databases with timestamps at least in some locations... someone with sufficient authority could potentially link the voter registry (the people who come in and vote) with the timestamp on the machine and get who voted what.
I'm a technology enthusiast and even I think paper is better.
Yes it does... Though most voting places have individuals who are supposedly sworn to secrecy about the vote to help them. I'd assume this secrecy is on par with say Doctor-Patient or Lawyer-Client privilege in the eyes of the court.
Yes... After all it didnt stop the oil industry why should it stop the MAFIAA?
Innocent until proven Guilty. At least thats one of the idea behind the 5th, 6th and 14th amendments were written around. The whole 'Due process' thing...
Yeah I know the US Constitution took a shitkicking from President Bush but its still there to protect the citizens (not necessarily the Arabs/Muslims they capture in combat)
Implied Consent...
They charged someone with the power to act on their behalf (MediaDefender) who presumably had permission to upload these files to the the internet via Bittorrent. They *KNOW* how Bittorrent works and theres no way in hell they're gonna be able to claim ignorance on that after all the campaigning they've done to try to kill P2P ever since the Napster days.
By uploading it on bittorrent they knew that others would grab peices from others thus reducing the load on their servers (which is what Bittorrent distribution is all about!) so in other words, the downloaders who are also uploaders are reducing the strain on their servers and should charge them for using their machine as a server.
Economics 101? Well I'll respond to this and your 'reply to self'
First off bandwidth is not a 'limited resource' such as land or a 'scarce resource'. Therefore treating it as if it was one is detrimental to the consumer. Unlike cell phones which utilize the electromagnetic spectrum in a broadcast fashion over the radio spectrum which is limited in its capacity although I do not believe enough to justify the ridiculous limitations on minutes and overage fees.
Internet bandwidth is not a limited resource in that it is possible to lay more fiber than one could ever need in theory. The fact is that Bell/Rogers are simply not upgrading their capacity to meet with demand is being seen through by the consumer, media and politicians alike. The fact remains that the industry is 'mildly regulated' right now in the fact that ISPs need to make their networks accessible to potential competition. However, the fact that they are throttling connections from the 'competition' stands to reason that they are engaging in anti-competitive practices which could force the industry to be moved from 'mildly regulated' to 'heavily regulated' including the codification of Network Neutrality into law if such happens then Bell/Rogers will be FORCED to invest in the infrastructure and remove throttling or end up as merely a wholesaler of bandwidth (because all the hardcore users will just move to a service where they arent throttled and it'll still be cheaper for them)
Just goes to show you how much legal mumbo jumbo it takes to say 'You can copy, distribute and alter the program however you see fit as long as you release the source along with modifications if you distribute any of it'
You're right, OSS isnt going to 'kill' them... Although if we are lucky it might unseat them from the position of monopoly and actually force some degree of competition.
Yeah besides didnt Jon Stewart make fun if Viacom suing Youtube on his show? Goes to show you how popular he is that he can get away with making fun of his corporate overlords without them biting his head off.
Yeah didnt he also pack them into movie theaters? No camcorders please!
I wish I had mod points because this is funny. Whoever modded this troll obviously doesn't keep track of all the problems with the Windows OS that shows up on the stories here.
If someone pushed the issue I'm sure they could get that particular restriction removed as unconstitutional.