After reading the article, it seems like the router probes the source of 'suspect traffic' for known vulnerabilities, and if the source appears compromised, the router then quarantines/drops/whatevers the traffic until it can verify the source has been patched.
Not a well written article though. Quite short on technical details; my interpretation could be wrong too.
One thing to note: the RIAA might be able to subpoena your computer, hard drive and all. If your P2P username matches the one caught sharing behind your IP, and better yet, if the files they catch you sharing are on your computer, they have a really good case of infringement, and you might also face a perjury rap if you lie about it under oath. And deleting those files before you hand over your PC is not an option. Think the RIAA cares about a few grand for data recovery here and there? Not when statutory damages are $150,000 a pop.
Sorry to rain on the parade, but the legal system and computer forensics has the tools to make the WiFi defense quite difficult to pull off. Nonetheless, quite difficule =! impossible.
Based on the well-modded sample letters to the editor, I'm glad to see that the community is being calm, polite, explanatory, and at most, only slightly angry. If we continue to deal with those journalists who either don't know about the GPL or who are obviously anti-GPL, I'm sure perceptions of the movement will slowly change for the better.
What, in your experience, has been the most *cost-effective* spam-reduction software solution? Is it server-based, or is it some kind of client software?
The author, when speaking about the 'whole product' neglects to understand that the infrastructure which he praises as part of VHS, was just the result of something economists call 'lock-in' that often comes with products that exploit the network effect with closed architectures. It has real costs: technically inferior products gain early adoption and exploit the network effect, not market merit, but on legistlation (see DAT), or advertising. It would be impossible to argue that we wouldn't be better off if the same network effects enabled the widespread adoption of Beta instead of VHS.
The only benefit I can imagine arising from lock-in of a technically inferior product is the inspiration it gives inventors to keep on inventing new technically superior producs in response to the shortcomings of what was locked in (see audio mini-disk for a moderately convincing example).
Like most of you all I am feeling a bit of jealousy at those who can afford it, but at the same time I am equally skeptical. What's the solution? Let some people buy it, and if they like it and it fills a need, the word will spread, more people will buy it, the price will go down, and maybe you or I will get one and you soon we'll be bumping into each other. Or not. Either way, more information about the thing is always valuable, and whether this comes from brochures, reviews or word of mouth, I don't care; they all allow me to make a better decision in the end.
"Oh, come on. Jackson's more proabable reason was that he was pissed off that MS managed to get the court of appeals to overturn his previous ruling."
The appeals court affirmed almost all of Judge Jackson's findings. The fact that there would be an appeal was a foregone conclusion before the trial even started. Jackson was lucky to do such a disservice to his judicial opinion and still have so much of it upheld on appeal.
The internet, in order to work even at the most basic technical level, needs some standards; some governace. What do you think is the proper scope of that governace/standard setting, who are the constituents, and what are the proper mechanisms for governing?
How do they differ from what we have to day? On the whole, are you optimistic or pessimistic about all this?
The Berman-Coble bill creates a safe harbor for technological self help to impair infringing file-sharing on peer-to-peer networks. The relevant passage reads "a copyright owner shall not be liable...for disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise impairing the unauthorized distribution...of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network." This would appear to create safe harbor for the system described above, despite the costs it might create for ISPs, universities and users. However, section (B)(1)(b) creates an exception to the safe harbor if the copyright holder "causes economic loss to any person other than affected file traders" It would seem that any large scale scanning or impairment system would cause economic loss by virtue of increased bandwidth costs to affected ISPs or other network owners.
Whether or not infringement and impairment systems can meet the economic loss exception of the Berman-Coble bill, the costs for development and implementation of any scanning and impairment system will likely be passed on to consumers. Because copyright attempts to strike a balance between access to copyrighted works and incentives to creators, the Berman-Coble bill could increase incentives and thus increase the creation of new works because it creates a new means of self-help for rights holders. However, this might not fully be the case. Because costs for this system will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, demand for works might be decreased. Further, it has been argued that users of peer-to-peer systems are low-reserve price consumers of music who are willing to spend time, but not money on acquiring music. Raising prices to cover the additional enforcement costs will add to the pool of consumers for whom the market price is above their reserve price--users of peer-to-peer networks. However, since the aim of the Berman-Coble bill is to impair the ability of peer-to-peer networks to traffic in copyrighted works, it will eliminate whatever social value these networks created through the increased access to copyrighted works. If low reserve consumers weren't going to buy music anyway (thereby creating no new incentives for creators), the reduction in their access to it is essentially deadweight loss. Since the Berman-Coble bill will likely result in increased prices for music, possible economic loss for ISPs, and reduced access to works, it would seem to reduce overall social welfare, while at the same time overtly shifting the balance of copyright from access towards protection of incentives.
Stick with what you got. Who needs another Ghz of CPU? Aside from gamers, who have my sympathy, most other users out there don't come close to really needing all the power currently in their CPUs. So just don't buy it. You won't feel the difference.
I can care less how much this post is distributed. However, I do care that when it is distributed, it is distributed in verbatum, and that I am not bein misrepresented.
There is actually some value to not controlling misrepresentation of your words (note that I say words and not ideas--Ideas are not copyrightable, their implementations as works are). The value lies in the fact that the public benefits from 'bad' derivative works (e.g.: how to tell the relative merits of a good/accurate movie review without a bad one?) just as much as from good ones. As far as misrepresenting your words in a non-derivative work (i.e.: just copying it poorly--implying the spelling mistakes are your errors), there is value in that too--a new/different work has been created. The public (though probably not you) has benefitted.
Remember, copyight is not about the authors only. Copyright tries to bridge the gap between the free rider problem of public goods and authorial incentives.
I don't think this is always the case. Perhaps government IT workers chose their employer based on their desire to work *only* 40 hours a week, job security, and a salary paid in American Dollars (instead of NASDAQ shares). For some, those things might be worth the tradeoff of a lower salary than the private sector offers.
If we are forced into a "pay to view" regime, Americans will watch less television. Perhaps they will talk to their neighbors, take up a hobby, read a book, exercise (gasp!)...perhaps this is not a bad thing at all.
A3
A*Teens
Bryan Adams
Alice Deejay
All City
All That
Gary Allan
American Hi-Fi
Ametria
Angela Ammons
Angelfish
Marc Antoine
Aqua
India Arie
The Art of Noise
Artful Dodger
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Ask Me
ATC
Avant
AZ
Backbone
Erykah Badu
Balfa Toujours
Marcia Ball
John Barry
Cecilia Bartoli
Beautiful South
Beck
David Benoit
George Benson
Leonard Bernstein
BG
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Big Tymers
Bilal
Black Eyed Peas
Black Grape
Black Indian
Black Lab
Blackstreet
Everton Blender
The Blenders
Mary J. Blige
Blink-182
Rory Block
Bloodhound Gang
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Blue Hawaiians
The Blue Mondays
Blues Traveler
Bobs
Andrea Bocelli
Bon Jovi
Bond
Tracy Bonham
Barbara Bonney
Chris Botti
Bottlefly
Boyz II Men
Boyzone
Brave Combo
Michael Brecker
Alfred Brendel
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Brill
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Jimmy Buffett
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702
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Young Turk
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Zoppi
I was a project manager at a company called CitySoft back when it was just 7 employees. It has grown significantly since then. Part of the growth was due to limited initial funding, we had to grow organically from new business. More recently, infusions of modest amounts of VC (some from the like of Esther Dyson and others) have allowed expansion from the initial Cambridge/Boston location to NYC and Baltimore.
My experience there was on the whole a very positive one. We were successful at finding talented youth from inner-city Boston and getting them trained in basic web development tools and techniques. At the time this was Front Page and Photoshop. While I protested FP somewhat initially, I came to realize that the almost immediate ability to contribute the the company's work that FP allowed was more valuable than FP's notable drawbacks. Part of my role as a PM was in some respects to filter out some of those issues. Towards the end of my time there we began using Allaire's Cold Fusion, and I suspect that the developers probably get some training in that now.
As with any operation like this, there were some problems. For most developers, this was their first experience of gainful employment in their lives. The friction between their new 9-5 lifestyle and their situations at home caused difficulties, as did the fact that old habits die hard--frankly, some of these kids had never been required to perform diligently and consistantly in their lives. The coat and tie dress code was another area of complaint (and not just with the developers I managed). In essence though, that was the real challenge of the company: changing the outlook of these kids from one of entitlement to one of empowerment. While most normal businesses don't need to confront these social aspects of employment so acutely, CitySoft's mission and hiring policy required it. Nick Gleason, the CEO, had done a good deal of homework on how to attack these issues, and had some solid ideas that he brought into practice.
In hindsight, I was lucky to be a part of such an organization. The fact that the company seems to have lived through the.com boom and bust is a testament to the efforts of the founders, and their sound business practices. Further, though, I can personally attest to their belief in the company's mission, and their unflagging efforts to make it reality.
--cleetus
(The also do darn fine web development work too. It's well worth giving them a shot.)
all the owners of compromised MS boxen on the net are harboring terrorists? or, in the case of nimda-like viruses, that they are terrorists themselves?
'Common Framework' sounds suspiciously like 'Group Think.'
This is a foolish characterization. By common framework, the author is referring not only to shared experiences derived from entertainment and the media (e.g.: "where were you when Kennedy was shot?" or the last episode of MASH), but also, and more importantly, to simple acts of citizneship, like voting, school board meeting attendance, and volunteerism to name a few. If that is "groupthink," I am proud to be in the group.
This is just going to be more ammo for the RIAA. When Napster says to the court, "We're filtering out all copyrighted songs," the RIAA can just come back and say "No they're not; they're using Pig Latin now."
Uh, it's not Napster that's "using pig latin," it's cohort of Napster's users. While Napster could legitimately be faulted for a weak-ass filtering system, This also serves to highlight the difficulty of content verification in general, a problem with not only Napster, but all the rest of the P2P protocols for the most part. In fact, I would argue that this problem is just a cousin to those that plague NetNanny and the like, and that it's just not worth trying to effect any content management scheme through filtering.
This will likely result in Napster being shut down entirely
Good. I thank Mr. Fanning for the protocol and his nifty beta software, but, like all good networking protocols, development for this one is best left open source community. if Napster could provide a service to me beyond a moderately accurate catalogue of other people's mp3s, I might think about giving them my money. Until then, the opennaps at al. will be my choice for finding music.
Finally, I think that Aimster's citation of the DCMA as a defence for it's plugin is another reason to use it. Forcibly exposing the idiocy of this cancer of a law in such a public and widespread manner will in the end do the cause of fair use more good than harm.
you mention a son. this implies perhaps an intimate reationship with a female. was/is she your best friend? does/did she know of your difficulties? do you warn you son about your experiences?
That would be a form of copy protection, and trying to get a peek at the code through the side would violate the anti-circumvention clause of the DCMA...
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After reading the article, it seems like the router probes the source of 'suspect traffic' for known vulnerabilities, and if the source appears compromised, the router then quarantines/drops/whatevers the traffic until it can verify the source has been patched.
Not a well written article though. Quite short on technical details; my interpretation could be wrong too.
Cleetus
One thing to note: the RIAA might be able to subpoena your computer, hard drive and all. If your P2P username matches the one caught sharing behind your IP, and better yet, if the files they catch you sharing are on your computer, they have a really good case of infringement, and you might also face a perjury rap if you lie about it under oath. And deleting those files before you hand over your PC is not an option. Think the RIAA cares about a few grand for data recovery here and there? Not when statutory damages are $150,000 a pop.
Sorry to rain on the parade, but the legal system and computer forensics has the tools to make the WiFi defense quite difficult to pull off. Nonetheless, quite difficule =! impossible.
cleetus
Based on the well-modded sample letters to the editor, I'm glad to see that the community is being calm, polite, explanatory, and at most, only slightly angry. If we continue to deal with those journalists who either don't know about the GPL or who are obviously anti-GPL, I'm sure perceptions of the movement will slowly change for the better.
"Civility is not a sign of weakness" - JFK
is for a speedy, swift and relatively bloodless victory, followed by focused, sustained, and earnest redevelopment effort.
So that History might look favorably upon this, let us make our bed and able to sleep soundly in it.
It will be much harder than any of us think, whether we choose to accept our post-war responsibility or not.
cleetus
What, in your experience, has been the most *cost-effective* spam-reduction software solution? Is it server-based, or is it some kind of client software?
cleetus
Hemos, read slashdot much? Trying for the shortest perdiod between dupes? Most similar dupe headline? How much do they pay you? Sheesh.
cleetus
The author, when speaking about the 'whole product' neglects to understand that the infrastructure which he praises as part of VHS, was just the result of something economists call 'lock-in' that often comes with products that exploit the network effect with closed architectures. It has real costs: technically inferior products gain early adoption and exploit the network effect, not market merit, but on legistlation (see DAT), or advertising. It would be impossible to argue that we wouldn't be better off if the same network effects enabled the widespread adoption of Beta instead of VHS.
The only benefit I can imagine arising from lock-in of a technically inferior product is the inspiration it gives inventors to keep on inventing new technically superior producs in response to the shortcomings of what was locked in (see audio mini-disk for a moderately convincing example).
cleetus
Like most of you all I am feeling a bit of jealousy at those who can afford it, but at the same time I am equally skeptical. What's the solution? Let some people buy it, and if they like it and it fills a need, the word will spread, more people will buy it, the price will go down, and maybe you or I will get one and you soon we'll be bumping into each other. Or not. Either way, more information about the thing is always valuable, and whether this comes from brochures, reviews or word of mouth, I don't care; they all allow me to make a better decision in the end.
cleetus
"Oh, come on. Jackson's more proabable reason was that he was pissed off that MS managed to get the court of appeals to overturn his previous ruling."
The appeals court affirmed almost all of Judge Jackson's findings. The fact that there would be an appeal was a foregone conclusion before the trial even started. Jackson was lucky to do such a disservice to his judicial opinion and still have so much of it upheld on appeal.
cleetus
The internet, in order to work even at the most basic technical level, needs some standards; some governace. What do you think is the proper scope of that governace/standard setting, who are the constituents, and what are the proper mechanisms for governing?
How do they differ from what we have to day? On the whole, are you optimistic or pessimistic about all this?
The Berman-Coble bill creates a safe harbor for technological self help to impair infringing file-sharing on peer-to-peer networks. The relevant passage reads "a copyright owner shall not be liable...for disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise impairing the unauthorized distribution...of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network." This would appear to create safe harbor for the system described above, despite the costs it might create for ISPs, universities and users. However, section (B)(1)(b) creates an exception to the safe harbor if the copyright holder "causes economic loss to any person other than affected file traders" It would seem that any large scale scanning or impairment system would cause economic loss by virtue of increased bandwidth costs to affected ISPs or other network owners.
Whether or not infringement and impairment systems can meet the economic loss exception of the Berman-Coble bill, the costs for development and implementation of any scanning and impairment system will likely be passed on to consumers. Because copyright attempts to strike a balance between access to copyrighted works and incentives to creators, the Berman-Coble bill could increase incentives and thus increase the creation of new works because it creates a new means of self-help for rights holders. However, this might not fully be the case. Because costs for this system will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, demand for works might be decreased. Further, it has been argued that users of peer-to-peer systems are low-reserve price consumers of music who are willing to spend time, but not money on acquiring music. Raising prices to cover the additional enforcement costs will add to the pool of consumers for whom the market price is above their reserve price--users of peer-to-peer networks. However, since the aim of the Berman-Coble bill is to impair the ability of peer-to-peer networks to traffic in copyrighted works, it will eliminate whatever social value these networks created through the increased access to copyrighted works. If low reserve consumers weren't going to buy music anyway (thereby creating no new incentives for creators), the reduction in their access to it is essentially deadweight loss. Since the Berman-Coble bill will likely result in increased prices for music, possible economic loss for ISPs, and reduced access to works, it would seem to reduce overall social welfare, while at the same time overtly shifting the balance of copyright from access towards protection of incentives.
Stick with what you got. Who needs another Ghz of CPU? Aside from gamers, who have my sympathy, most other users out there don't come close to really needing all the power currently in their CPUs. So just don't buy it. You won't feel the difference.
cleetus
I can care less how much this post is distributed. However, I do care that when it is distributed, it is distributed in verbatum, and that I am not bein misrepresented.
There is actually some value to not controlling misrepresentation of your words (note that I say words and not ideas--Ideas are not copyrightable, their implementations as works are). The value lies in the fact that the public benefits from 'bad' derivative works (e.g.: how to tell the relative merits of a good/accurate movie review without a bad one?) just as much as from good ones. As far as misrepresenting your words in a non-derivative work (i.e.: just copying it poorly--implying the spelling mistakes are your errors), there is value in that too--a new/different work has been created. The public (though probably not you) has benefitted.
Remember, copyight is not about the authors only. Copyright tries to bridge the gap between the free rider problem of public goods and authorial incentives.
cleetus
I don't think this is always the case. Perhaps government IT workers chose their employer based on their desire to work *only* 40 hours a week, job security, and a salary paid in American Dollars (instead of NASDAQ shares). For some, those things might be worth the tradeoff of a lower salary than the private sector offers.
cleetus
If we are forced into a "pay to view" regime, Americans will watch less television. Perhaps they will talk to their neighbors, take up a hobby, read a book, exercise (gasp!)...perhaps this is not a bad thing at all.
cleetus
From the umusic.com site:
A3
A*Teens
Bryan Adams
Alice Deejay
All City
All That
Gary Allan
American Hi-Fi
Ametria
Angela Ammons
Angelfish
Marc Antoine
Aqua
India Arie
The Art of Noise
Artful Dodger
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Ask Me
ATC
Avant
AZ
Backbone
Erykah Badu
Balfa Toujours
Marcia Ball
John Barry
Cecilia Bartoli
Beautiful South
Beck
David Benoit
George Benson
Leonard Bernstein
BG
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Big Tymers
Bilal
Black Eyed Peas
Black Grape
Black Indian
Black Lab
Blackstreet
Everton Blender
The Blenders
Mary J. Blige
Blink-182
Rory Block
Bloodhound Gang
Blue October
Blue Hawaiians
The Blue Mondays
Blues Traveler
Bobs
Andrea Bocelli
Bon Jovi
Bond
Tracy Bonham
Barbara Bonney
Chris Botti
Bottlefly
Boyz II Men
Boyzone
Brave Combo
Michael Brecker
Alfred Brendel
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Brill
Foxy Brown
Ruth Brown
Buffalo Nickel
Jimmy Buffett
Burlap to Cashmere
Burning Spear
Daniel Cage
Caleb
Canibus
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that digital photos are much easier to alter than tradition photos?
cleetus
I was a project manager at a company called CitySoft back when it was just 7 employees. It has grown significantly since then. Part of the growth was due to limited initial funding, we had to grow organically from new business. More recently, infusions of modest amounts of VC (some from the like of Esther Dyson and others) have allowed expansion from the initial Cambridge/Boston location to NYC and Baltimore.
My experience there was on the whole a very positive one. We were successful at finding talented youth from inner-city Boston and getting them trained in basic web development tools and techniques. At the time this was Front Page and Photoshop. While I protested FP somewhat initially, I came to realize that the almost immediate ability to contribute the the company's work that FP allowed was more valuable than FP's notable drawbacks. Part of my role as a PM was in some respects to filter out some of those issues. Towards the end of my time there we began using Allaire's Cold Fusion, and I suspect that the developers probably get some training in that now.
As with any operation like this, there were some problems. For most developers, this was their first experience of gainful employment in their lives. The friction between their new 9-5 lifestyle and their situations at home caused difficulties, as did the fact that old habits die hard--frankly, some of these kids had never been required to perform diligently and consistantly in their lives. The coat and tie dress code was another area of complaint (and not just with the developers I managed). In essence though, that was the real challenge of the company: changing the outlook of these kids from one of entitlement to one of empowerment. While most normal businesses don't need to confront these social aspects of employment so acutely, CitySoft's mission and hiring policy required it. Nick Gleason, the CEO, had done a good deal of homework on how to attack these issues, and had some solid ideas that he brought into practice.
In hindsight, I was lucky to be a part of such an organization. The fact that the company seems to have lived through the
--cleetus
(The also do darn fine web development work too. It's well worth giving them a shot.)
all the owners of compromised MS boxen on the net are harboring terrorists? or, in the case of nimda-like viruses, that they are terrorists themselves?
'Common Framework' sounds suspiciously like 'Group Think.'
This is a foolish characterization. By common framework, the author is referring not only to shared experiences derived from entertainment and the media (e.g.: "where were you when Kennedy was shot?" or the last episode of MASH), but also, and more importantly, to simple acts of citizneship, like voting, school board meeting attendance, and volunteerism to name a few. If that is "groupthink," I am proud to be in the group.
This is just going to be more ammo for the RIAA. When Napster says to the court, "We're filtering out all copyrighted songs," the RIAA can just come back and say "No they're not; they're using Pig Latin now."
Uh, it's not Napster that's "using pig latin," it's cohort of Napster's users. While Napster could legitimately be faulted for a weak-ass filtering system, This also serves to highlight the difficulty of content verification in general, a problem with not only Napster, but all the rest of the P2P protocols for the most part. In fact, I would argue that this problem is just a cousin to those that plague NetNanny and the like, and that it's just not worth trying to effect any content management scheme through filtering.
This will likely result in Napster being shut down entirely
Good. I thank Mr. Fanning for the protocol and his nifty beta software, but, like all good networking protocols, development for this one is best left open source community. if Napster could provide a service to me beyond a moderately accurate catalogue of other people's mp3s, I might think about giving them my money. Until then, the opennaps at al. will be my choice for finding music.
Finally, I think that Aimster's citation of the DCMA as a defence for it's plugin is another reason to use it. Forcibly exposing the idiocy of this cancer of a law in such a public and widespread manner will in the end do the cause of fair use more good than harm.
cleetus
I am left handed. I see no indication from the article that I will be able get a model suitable to one who uses a pen with his/her sinister manus.
Am I wrong here? Anyone from IBM care to comment?
thank you CNN clee-tuhs
you mention a son. this implies perhaps an intimate reationship with a female. was/is she your best friend? does/did she know of your difficulties? do you warn you son about your experiences?
That would be a form of copy protection, and trying to get a peek at the code through the side would violate the anti-circumvention clause of the DCMA...