Now, when are they going to go after all those teenage girls mimicking Brittney Spears -- lip syncing in front of the mirror. This is an unauthorized use (singing along without a license) of copyrighted proprietary material.
Disclaimer: I do not work for Godaddy, in fact I work for a competing ISP and domain registrar that is also in GoDaddy's local area:
That being said, I must say that everything I have ever learned by talking to existing Godaddy customers, Godaddy employees whom I know, and observation in general, I can say that what I have noticed conflicts with what you have said entirely. I realize that there is always bound to be someone who is going to be unhappy (e.g., you can't satisfy all the people all of the time) but honestly your complaint is the first I've ever heard of with Godaddy -- which is pretty amazing considering how many customers they have.
Another thing I like about them in particular, in addition to (again, what I believe, personally) their good reputation as a web hosting services and domain registrar is that they do not tolerate spammers and make a fairly decent effort to terminate them as they discover them (e.g., source: news.admin.net-abuse.email
The article states that "SunnComm is offering a patch to fix a security vulnerability with its MediaMax Version 5 content protection software on 27 SONY BMG CDs."
Does this mean that once the SunnComm DRM software is patched it will go back to working as designed -- that is, do the DRM restrictions continue to constrain the end users' freedoms to use the music? Is the SunnComm software "fixed" or removed?
I would have been happier to have heard they designed a removal tool.
Slashdot reports that soon, slashdot editors will only accept story submissions which contain severe grammatical or spelling errors, which are dupes of stories you have already sumbitted.
Notably, attempts to connect to 180Solutions' servers were made while performing a sign-on to the blogger's hotmail account.
It seems that it might be valuable research to take the logging to the next level. Speficically, he should setup a packet sniffer, either on the host itself or on the host's subnet and monitor the payload of the spyware packets as it calls home.
Not only would it prove interesting information to write about on his blog, but couldn't this, then, be definate proof that malevolent monitoring is actually taking place? It also seems to me that he should be called as a technical witness in the civil case against ZA.
In addition, armed with with this information it might be fun if someone in the community wrote a distributed application that would poison 180Solutions (non existant) databases with bogus data.
The type of operation we have is a buy-here-pay-here lot that attracts a lot customers with sub-prime credit, and we haven't had a single customer not buy a car because of the device. The fact is, if they won't agree to having the device on their car, they probably won't pay (keep in mind, these are sub-prime customers). We usually weed them about before they even come inside!
Nothing personal, but just because you haven't had a single customer refuse to purchase the product because of the device doesn't mean one never will.
I have purchased 3 new cars in my life, I have never missed or been late on a single payment for any of them -- ever. I can tell you right now there will be airborn swine and sub-thermal hell temperatures before I would ever acquiesce to such a device on any car I purchased.
Simply put, it offends me that because some dregs of society have problems keeping their financial committments that I should be treated as a criminal instead of a customer. This is automobile DRM.
No sir, you would certainly lose that sale if it were me. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, I'm the one who decides what I purchase and where I buy it.
The row concerns the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to allow the private firm Verisign to maintain control of.com forever.
Not to utterly nitpick here, but you'd think a highly reputable institution like the BBC would have journalists that comprehend that acronyms are capitalized. When one makes errors, such as improper spelling in a blog or in casual writing it doesn't bother me so much--but for some reason it really irks me to see BBC use "Icann" in a news article.
This aside, this is really an awful, uninformative news piece. For instance, it doesn't say anything about who the "World Association of Domain Name Developers" are nor who they represent.
Another important specification for inkjet printers is ink drop size, typically measured in picoliters. The smaller the number, the more ink per square inch can be placed on the paper.... and the better the secretly embedded printer's serial number may be hidden on your document.
*blinks*
"Bad Guy" paradigm shift?
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I have noticed one aspect from all of this Sony/BMG rootkit fallout that seems to have gone unnoticed; but which I believe is a positive thing:
Up until now the RIAA trade group has been the front-man for all of the label cartels' untenable activities -- it's never been BMG, Geffen, Warner Brothers, Universal, EMI, et al, suing 12 year old girls and old ladies--noo, it's the RIAA.
Up until now whenever the consuming masses are outraged, all they have to derive their seering hatred towards is a large anonymous trade association which exists purely to absorb all of that yucky malevolent P.R.
Finally the pressure is being put on a specific corporate entity who happens to also be an RIAA member, and they will feel the wrath directly. It couldn't happen to a better company (well... okay, perhaps EMI; Bronfman is a real chode smacker).
"If you do produce a program that will affect this softwares ability to perform its function then you may have to prove in criminal court that you have not infringed this warning. Infringement of a copyright licence is a criminal offence," RetroCoder's End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) states.
IANAEB (I am not an English Barrister), and I admit I have no idea how things work in that part of the world. In the U.S. civilians can't bring criminal actions, only a prosecuting attorney (e.g., District Attorney, Attorney General) can. It would surprise me if this was so in England. Note the clever wording "may have to prove" -- at best this is just a civil action.
Thanks, I'm glad others are thinking the same way I am now. I *have* actually decided that I will make a conscious effort never to buy Sony products again (adds to list).
Another reason not to buy a Sony VAIO laptop running SCO Xenix, pre-bundled with Adobe software...
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I don't think I'm gonna do it Hamster Style anymore.
HA HA!
I'll never buy another damned thing under the "Sony" brand as long as I live unless it's by accident.
Now, when are they going to go after all those teenage girls mimicking Brittney Spears -- lip syncing in front of the mirror. This is an unauthorized use (singing along without a license) of copyrighted proprietary material.
*grumblecakes*
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Disclaimer: I do not work for Godaddy, in fact I work for a competing ISP and domain registrar that is also in GoDaddy's local area:
That being said, I must say that everything I have ever learned by talking to existing Godaddy customers, Godaddy employees whom I know, and observation in general, I can say that what I have noticed conflicts with what you have said entirely. I realize that there is always bound to be someone who is going to be unhappy (e.g., you can't satisfy all the people all of the time) but honestly your complaint is the first I've ever heard of with Godaddy -- which is pretty amazing considering how many customers they have.
Another thing I like about them in particular, in addition to (again, what I believe, personally) their good reputation as a web hosting services and domain registrar is that they do not tolerate spammers and make a fairly decent effort to terminate them as they discover them (e.g., source: news.admin.net-abuse.email
My $0.02.
Most people in penal colonies are lucky to get unsupervised Internet access anyway!
hah!
*ducks fast before boomerang hits him*
The article states that " SunnComm is offering a patch to fix a security vulnerability with its MediaMax Version 5 content protection software on 27 SONY BMG CDs. "
Does this mean that once the SunnComm DRM software is patched it will go back to working as designed -- that is, do the DRM restrictions continue to constrain the end users' freedoms to use the music? Is the SunnComm software "fixed" or removed?
I would have been happier to have heard they designed a removal tool.
*grumblecakes*
Slashdot reports that soon, slashdot editors will only accept story submissions which contain severe grammatical or spelling errors, which are dupes of stories you have already sumbitted.
*blinks*
joking!
Notably, attempts to connect to 180Solutions' servers were made while performing a sign-on to the blogger's hotmail account.
It seems that it might be valuable research to take the logging to the next level. Speficically, he should setup a packet sniffer, either on the host itself or on the host's subnet and monitor the payload of the spyware packets as it calls home.
Not only would it prove interesting information to write about on his blog, but couldn't this, then, be definate proof that malevolent monitoring is actually taking place? It also seems to me that he should be called as a technical witness in the civil case against ZA.
In addition, armed with with this information it might be fun if someone in the community wrote a distributed application that would poison 180Solutions (non existant) databases with bogus data.
*grumblecakes*
Would this lawsuit set any type of precedent, or is it unique in any way?
The type of operation we have is a buy-here-pay-here lot that attracts a lot customers with sub-prime credit, and we haven't had a single customer not buy a car because of the device. The fact is, if they won't agree to having the device on their car, they probably won't pay (keep in mind, these are sub-prime customers). We usually weed them about before they even come inside!
Nothing personal, but just because you haven't had a single customer refuse to purchase the product because of the device doesn't mean one never will.
I have purchased 3 new cars in my life, I have never missed or been late on a single payment for any of them -- ever. I can tell you right now there will be airborn swine and sub-thermal hell temperatures before I would ever acquiesce to such a device on any car I purchased.
Simply put, it offends me that because some dregs of society have problems keeping their financial committments that I should be treated as a criminal instead of a customer. This is automobile DRM.
No sir, you would certainly lose that sale if it were me. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, I'm the one who decides what I purchase and where I buy it.
I'd mod you up for that background research (really interesting) but you're already at 5 ;-) Good job though.
Whatever happened to Godaddy's (et al) lawsuits against VerminSlime?
The row concerns the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to allow the private firm Verisign to maintain control of .com forever.
Not to utterly nitpick here, but you'd think a highly reputable institution like the BBC would have journalists that comprehend that acronyms are capitalized. When one makes errors, such as improper spelling in a blog or in casual writing it doesn't bother me so much--but for some reason it really irks me to see BBC use "Icann" in a news article.
This aside, this is really an awful, uninformative news piece. For instance, it doesn't say anything about who the "World Association of Domain Name Developers" are nor who they represent.
By the time I get to the 'o' in c-o-m, my fingers are about plumbt-tuckered out!
going through slashdot withdrawl symptoms...!!!
faaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!
we have 47 states to go!
*grumblecakes*
SCO announces the release of ScoLinux 2.7, buy now before the the post-Thanksgiving shopping spree begins.
Yahoo and AOL will be offering a new anti-spyware initiative to begin next year.
Because Yahoo! would never want anything to do with spyware, would they?
Oh, wait...
Another important specification for inkjet printers is ink drop size, typically measured in picoliters. The smaller the number, the more ink per square inch can be placed on the paper. ... and the better the secretly embedded printer's serial number may be hidden on your document.
*blinks*
I have noticed one aspect from all of this Sony/BMG rootkit fallout that seems to have gone unnoticed; but which I believe is a positive thing:
Up until now the RIAA trade group has been the front-man for all of the label cartels' untenable activities -- it's never been BMG, Geffen, Warner Brothers, Universal, EMI, et al, suing 12 year old girls and old ladies--noo, it's the RIAA.
Up until now whenever the consuming masses are outraged, all they have to derive their seering hatred towards is a large anonymous trade association which exists purely to absorb all of that yucky malevolent P.R.
Finally the pressure is being put on a specific corporate entity who happens to also be an RIAA member, and they will feel the wrath directly. It couldn't happen to a better company (well... okay, perhaps EMI; Bronfman is a real chode smacker).
"If you do produce a program that will affect this softwares ability to perform its function then you may have to prove in criminal court that you have not infringed this warning. Infringement of a copyright licence is a criminal offence," RetroCoder's End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) states.
IANAEB (I am not an English Barrister), and I admit I have no idea how things work in that part of the world. In the U.S. civilians can't bring criminal actions, only a prosecuting attorney (e.g., District Attorney, Attorney General) can. It would surprise me if this was so in England. Note the clever wording "may have to prove" -- at best this is just a civil action.
Thanks, I'm glad others are thinking the same way I am now. I *have* actually decided that I will make a conscious effort never to buy Sony products again (adds to list).
Another reason not to buy a Sony VAIO laptop running SCO Xenix, pre-bundled with Adobe software...
*blinks*
Oh, the URL...
http://boycottsony.us/
on talk like a pirate day...
arrRRR. scrum.
NOT YOU TOO!
DAMN THE MAN!