Freenet project - the Death Star that will make all MPAA and RIAA resistance totally futile and useless.
Why do people keep claiming that Freenet is some kind of unstoppable service, spouting off meaningless phrases like "The Genie is out of the bottle" and other sayings emphasizing how no one can do anything about them. There's a very easy way to get rid of Freenet -- make it illegal to use, illegal to operate. That's what the Napster decision implies.
The only reason McDonalds set up RMH's all over the place is for the PR!
Or it could be that there are actually a few "nice guys" up in the McDonalds hierarchy. Not EVERY nice thing that a company does is necessarily a selfish move. Geez.
Lars can go fuck himself. Sorry, it had to be said. Why did I say that? Simple, he wants to put the writers of the Pan newsreader put in jail. Check out SuperPimpSoft's homepage for more information.
Really? He told you this himself? No? Oh, you must have read in an interview where he said he was trying to put SuperPimpSoft out of business? Wait, there was no interview where he said that either? Ohhhhhh, I see. The RIAA wants to cut off the Pan newsreader (as mentioned on the homepage link you provided). Now there's a big difference. Lars != RIAA. They may agree on some issues, but just because both Lars and the RIAA agree on one issue (Napster) does not mean that they agree on all (ie, that killing Pan is an acceptable practive in the goal of stopping copyright violations). I have my doubts that it's something Lars would really support, if he were made aware of the issues.
is there any precedence for a non-signed licence being viable?
Ahh, but that's the beauty of a license that grants additional rights instead of taking them away. Agreeing to the GPL -grants- you rights that you would not have normally with the absense of the GPL. Of course you don't have to agree to the GPL, but then the software falls back to the rights allowed under regular copyright law, which definately disallows distributing changes without authorization.
Somewhat OT, but interesting...I discovered an odd benchmark the other day. My Dell Inspiron 433MHz celeron laptop with redhat is 20% faster at the seti@home client than the 600MHz P3 Dell Optiplex workstation running the seti client under NT4+.
This is not unusual, and I think it's more a Seti@HOME problem than anything else. I never saw this discrepancy with the RC5 cracker.
Secure Computing's OS incorporated with their firewall product Sidewinder. There has been no Open-Source involved, no security problems
Uhhhh... you sure about that? Sidewinder runs a (heavily) modified version of OpenBSD. Audited, ACLs added, networking code rewritten. But there's still open source in there.
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Pretty Poor Privacy
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You can get on slashdot without registering, but you must register and login in order to contribute.
Even this isn't true. You can post without registering by posting as an AC. But for you (or anyone else) to conveniently track your posts requires a login.
The problem with many new media sites is that they're really old media trying to treat an online site as an old media endeavor. They might not know how to design an online site properly, they might not provide a good interface, they might assume that people want the exact same thing they get from the paper or TV, except just on the net. The old media firms who will succeed as new media are the ones who will recognize and solve these problems which face any media organization trying to establish an online presence.
The most brutally obvious answer is: "Give it away for free". Structure revenue models around other profit centers, such as service, support and hardware.
I love this saying. I really do. It sounds beautiful in simple, general principle, but only at a passing glance. The problem is that the "give away your primary product for free, structure your business about around service, support, etc" has yet to actually work. Can anyone point to any successful big business where this has been made a core part of the business and it worked?
Finally, why does the readme file delivered with my version (3.01 for Windoze) come in WRITE format and not PDF?
Often the readme files give tips if you're having problems getting the software to work. If you were having a problem even starting Acrobat Reader, then having a README only in pdf would be rather useless.
all they need to do is listen and log packets. the term "big brother" is really beginning to hit home.
Yeah, and if you put up a big sign in your front yard saying "Giving away Metallica rips here" and some cops drove by and saw it, that would be a tragedy as well.
He was probably making that point because honestly, we have enough crappy music to last us quite awhile. It would be nice if more musicians could write good music, but the ones who can are few and far between. So please, let us not foster any more of the "modern mediocrity" that encouraging people who are just in it for the money brings.
so i photocopy your "term paper" or whatever, turn it in before you, and you get a 0 for cheating...
No, more like you photocopy his term paper, write on the top that he wrote it, and then you turn it in. After all, no one is putting up Metallica songs and claiming they're the ones playing the music in the.mp3, which is what your analogy was pointing to.
Because assuming such would make perfect sense, and for God's sake, we can't have that. IANAL is a warning for those poor fools who don't have good sense and would take the statement as legal advice if no disclaimer appeared.
You _agree_ to the GPL by viewing and/or modifying GPL'ed code.
This is not quite true. You do not agree to the GPL by merely looking at the code or even modifying it. However, if you do not agree, you are still bound by the laws of regular copyright, which are stricter than the GPL's rules.
Oh now, we know this isn't true.:) There are so many other factors that come into play when buying software, other than actual quality: marketing, hype, investment in previous versions, cost of upgrade to a better brand. Most people don't know if software is good or not before they buy it. Often it's how slick the package looks, and because it's "brand X".
They're creating things like the gimp (OR pirating music + software), for free, hoping it will be used instead of products like photoshop, thus putting those companies out of business
This is just silly. Are you suggesting that if there is a free alternative to commercial software, consumers are obligated to buy the commercial version so as not to put them out of business? Investing time and money in a product creates no obligation in anyone. I don't like having to pay hundreds of dollars to Adobe for Photoshop. And since it's not Photoshop that I'm using, there's no problem with that. The problem never was MS giving IE away for free. Never. It was building it into the operating system as a method of attacking Netscape. That's where the problem lied.
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yes however DeCSS just got legitamized:D
Sorry, state law (UCITA) doesn't trump national law (DMCA).
It's a very interesting idea, and it makes sense, but is it really legal? I know Nintendo has railed over and over again that ROMS are completely illegal in any circumstance other from ripping it yourself. One is wrong, but Nintendo has more lawyers.:)
And you nerds wonder why you have problems forming relationships...
Way to take a quote out of context. If he wants advertisers to butt out, it obviously follows that he doesn't want anyone coming close. Nice leap of logic.
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Why do people keep claiming that Freenet is some kind of unstoppable service, spouting off meaningless phrases like "The Genie is out of the bottle" and other sayings emphasizing how no one can do anything about them. There's a very easy way to get rid of Freenet -- make it illegal to use, illegal to operate. That's what the Napster decision implies.
So, um... you claim Lodoss is extremely dumb crap. And somehow Voltron (and to a lesser extent, the American Starblazers) isn't?
Or it could be that there are actually a few "nice guys" up in the McDonalds hierarchy. Not EVERY nice thing that a company does is necessarily a selfish move. Geez.
Really? He told you this himself? No? Oh, you must have read in an interview where he said he was trying to put SuperPimpSoft out of business? Wait, there was no interview where he said that either? Ohhhhhh, I see. The RIAA wants to cut off the Pan newsreader (as mentioned on the homepage link you provided). Now there's a big difference. Lars != RIAA. They may agree on some issues, but just because both Lars and the RIAA agree on one issue (Napster) does not mean that they agree on all (ie, that killing Pan is an acceptable practive in the goal of stopping copyright violations). I have my doubts that it's something Lars would really support, if he were made aware of the issues.
is there any precedence for a non-signed licence being viable?
Ahh, but that's the beauty of a license that grants additional rights instead of taking them away. Agreeing to the GPL -grants- you rights that you would not have normally with the absense of the GPL. Of course you don't have to agree to the GPL, but then the software falls back to the rights allowed under regular copyright law, which definately disallows distributing changes without authorization.
This is not unusual, and I think it's more a Seti@HOME problem than anything else. I never saw this discrepancy with the RC5 cracker.
Uhhhh... you sure about that? Sidewinder runs a (heavily) modified version of OpenBSD. Audited, ACLs added, networking code rewritten. But there's still open source in there.
Even this isn't true. You can post without registering by posting as an AC. But for you (or anyone else) to conveniently track your posts requires a login.
I love this saying. I really do. It sounds beautiful in simple, general principle, but only at a passing glance. The problem is that the "give away your primary product for free, structure your business about around service, support, etc" has yet to actually work. Can anyone point to any successful big business where this has been made a core part of the business and it worked?
Often the readme files give tips if you're having problems getting the software to work. If you were having a problem even starting Acrobat Reader, then having a README only in pdf would be rather useless.
How ironic that you were quickly moderated as "insightful." :)
They blew up the damned earth! How much more earth-shattering can you get? :) (Not to mention the moon.. that was a nice touch).
Since when did Diana Ross become the ultimate arbitator of law in the land? I knew the music industry was powerful these days, but damn...
Yeah, and if you put up a big sign in your front yard saying "Giving away Metallica rips here" and some cops drove by and saw it, that would be a tragedy as well.
No, more like you photocopy his term paper, write on the top that he wrote it, and then you turn it in. After all, no one is putting up Metallica songs and claiming they're the ones playing the music in the .mp3, which is what your analogy was pointing to.
This is not quite true. You do not agree to the GPL by merely looking at the code or even modifying it. However, if you do not agree, you are still bound by the laws of regular copyright, which are stricter than the GPL's rules.
Oh now, we know this isn't true. :) There are so many other factors that come into play when buying software, other than actual quality: marketing, hype, investment in previous versions, cost of upgrade to a better brand. Most people don't know if software is good or not before they buy it. Often it's how slick the package looks, and because it's "brand X".
They're creating things like the gimp (OR pirating music + software), for free, hoping it will be used instead of products like photoshop, thus putting those companies out of business
This is just silly. Are you suggesting that if there is a free alternative to commercial software, consumers are obligated to buy the commercial version so as not to put them out of business? Investing time and money in a product creates no obligation in anyone. I don't like having to pay hundreds of dollars to Adobe for Photoshop. And since it's not Photoshop that I'm using, there's no problem with that. The problem never was MS giving IE away for free. Never. It was building it into the operating system as a method of attacking Netscape. That's where the problem lied.
Sorry, state law (UCITA) doesn't trump national law (DMCA).
The end results being: all generations suffer.
What a beautiful solution.
And you nerds wonder why you have problems forming relationships...
Way to take a quote out of context. If he wants advertisers to butt out, it obviously follows that he doesn't want anyone coming close. Nice leap of logic.