>>> Shortly after [the DDoS] a hacker break-in occurred, and a few days later came the investigators,” the source added.
Smells like a plant to me.
What if the hacker was someone paid off by a MAFIAA friendly contact, and the hacker was paid to plant malware ads on the servers, just to give Ukrainian authorities an excuse to shut them down?
It's just as devious as hacking someone, planting CP on their computer, and then calling the feds on them.
If they are my entertainment hours, how does anyone but me get to decide how they are spent?
Contrary to what the mafiaa goons want everyone to believe, it's MY calendar, MY clock, and MY wallet.
I will use them as I fucking see fit, and I will start by punishing anyone who tries to convince me otherwise by not patronizing them.
News flash to the mafiaa: Trying to control my purchasing decisions with DRM and region locking and other crap is the fastest way to piss me off and make me not watch your stuff. And heaven help you if you try to undermine my sovereignty over my own time and money with a backdoor rootkit.
Because the lobbyists that shoved this crap through congress knew damn well that they wanted to abuse it, so they deliberately left themselves a loophole.
Depends on whether Valve tries to use gpl only interfaces or not.
If valve breaks while relying on a public interface, then it's the kernel team's fault for breaking it.
My point is that if the kernel team wants to subtly break things for valve, it can only do so if valve tries to use backdoor apis that aren't designed for external code in the first place.
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I think they got hacked by a copyright cartel friendly blackhat just to give the ukracops an excuse to shut them down.
Kinda like planting CP on your boss's computer then calling the cops on them.
And I bet you whoever planted those ads was paid off by copyright lobbies.
At least candied walnuts, unlike serving a public enemy's head on a platter, don't require other people to get squashed.
Catering to someone's likes is ok, but catering to their hatred in a way that hurts others is not.
According to torrent freak:
http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-busted-as-a-gift-to-the-united-states-government-120806/
>>> Shortly after [the DDoS] a hacker break-in occurred, and a few days later came the investigators,” the source added.
Smells like a plant to me.
What if the hacker was someone paid off by a MAFIAA friendly contact, and the hacker was paid to plant malware ads on the servers, just to give Ukrainian authorities an excuse to shut them down?
It's just as devious as hacking someone, planting CP on their computer, and then calling the feds on them.
Which by the way has already happened:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/08/disgruntled-brit-plants-child-porn-on-bosss-computer-calls-cops/
So it wouldn't surprise me at ALL if this the malware ad spewing was a black hat contract paid for by someone friendly to US copyright interests.
Funny...
If they are my entertainment hours, how does anyone but me get to decide how they are spent?
Contrary to what the mafiaa goons want everyone to believe, it's MY calendar, MY clock, and MY wallet.
I will use them as I fucking see fit, and I will start by punishing anyone who tries to convince me otherwise by not patronizing them.
News flash to the mafiaa: Trying to control my purchasing decisions with DRM and region locking and other crap is the fastest way to piss me off and make me not watch your stuff. And heaven help you if you try to undermine my sovereignty over my own time and money with a backdoor rootkit.
Actually they do care.
It's unwanted competition for our eyeballs.
The answer would depend on whose pockets it came from to fill yours.
So maybe someone friendly to the MAFIAA poked a black hat into planting malware on it, and then blew the whistle on malware.
It's almost like calling the feds after hacking CP onto someone's computer. Which has been done btw.
They probably had a search warrant.
Because the lobbyists that shoved this crap through congress knew damn well that they wanted to abuse it, so they deliberately left themselves a loophole.
It doesn't hurt to have a big enough legal budget to litigate the small fry out of the market.
Depends on whether Valve tries to use gpl only interfaces or not.
If valve breaks while relying on a public interface, then it's the kernel team's fault for breaking it.
My point is that if the kernel team wants to subtly break things for valve, it can only do so if valve tries to use backdoor apis that aren't designed for external code in the first place.
It may not be theft but I'd certainly consider it insider trading.
The information they use is not available to the general public.
Seriously, why do people need information faster than even the general public can get it?
This doesn't benefit anyone except HFTers that front run based on insider information.
This is just a case of parasites inventing a sharper proboscis.
And bam, incentive for collusion.
In many cases they only contributed because the GPL bit them in the ass.
If they voluntarily complied it would mean more.
DMCA.
Same thing about trading security for freedom.
It applies both in software and politics.
I'd be more likely to steal a car if it meant the original owner could still drive it.
Don't you know that bits and bytes aren't the same as atoms?
It will probably be ruled unconstitutional just tlike the presidential line item veto act.
The constitution forbids it, and SCOTUS already struck down something like that.
We tried that already.
SCOTUS ruled it as an unconstitutional violation of the presentment clause.
Or demonoid's dns got compromised.
Older video standards have been banned ever since KMS depended on FBCON in the kernel.
The moral is that you apparently can sass your CO and get away with it.
I seriously doubt getting into an argument would have gotten you anything less than a captain's mast for your insolence.
So I'm calling bullshit.