A council of 5(!) has sporadic oversight over the banlists and will only check small samples(!) of it. The BKA (federal police department) has the control over what will be on the list, and the ISPs have no opportunity to challenge an entry or know the reasons, why an url is on the list.
Further, several other official bodes, like gambling (which is a state-controlled monopoly), justice department (as a mean to block filesharing-sites and sites of "violent games") and even individual polticians (CDU-assemblyman Willy Wimmer suggested a block and taking legal actions against Google Street View, because it enables "forces from other states to take actions against unwanted Germans") already made vocal requests, that the blocks shall be extended to other areas.
Get your thinking right!
FTA: "Last week, Austrian broadcaster ORF,"
Show me the Australian broadcaster ORF. There is none? Too bad. http://www.orf.at/
As a side note, I live about 1.2 miles from the NBC tower and my over-the-air HDTV signal (for every channel) dropped dramatically last week. I'm so envious...
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Austrian UPC-Victim here, too. No proper usage of anything not-http since March. It's a disgrace.
With lottery tickets, the chances of a happy ending are rather slim.
No videogames or highschools/colleges are involved.
According to LA's twitter page, neither DOSBox nor ScummVM are being used.
The law only suggests DNS-blocking, but it allows the ISPs to use other methods too.
A council of 5(!) has sporadic oversight over the banlists and will only check small samples(!) of it. The BKA (federal police department) has the control over what will be on the list, and the ISPs have no opportunity to challenge an entry or know the reasons, why an url is on the list. Further, several other official bodes, like gambling (which is a state-controlled monopoly), justice department (as a mean to block filesharing-sites and sites of "violent games") and even individual polticians (CDU-assemblyman Willy Wimmer suggested a block and taking legal actions against Google Street View, because it enables "forces from other states to take actions against unwanted Germans") already made vocal requests, that the blocks shall be extended to other areas.
Probably outside the RDF.
Get your thinking right! FTA: "Last week, Austrian broadcaster ORF," Show me the Australian broadcaster ORF. There is none? Too bad. http://www.orf.at/
Then why does the UAC always come up, although I've installed in a non-standard location?
LOL meGUI. An encoder-GUI which needs admin-rights on Vista. No comment.
Exactly, Sweden, the beacon of privacy. Oh wait... http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/15/Swedish_surveillance_law_gets_legal_test/UPI-17691216144986/
Keep it.
I'm not your buddy, guy!
You mean upgrade to XP, right?
Battlefield Earth 2, NOW!
What if I want to use a different video-service? Exactly.