It works beautifully for its intended purpose, even if there's a sad amount of...malcontent littered throughout it. Despite the nastyness that you store on your own hard drive (which you couldn't read anyway unless you want searching for it), it's not like you or anyone else could ever prove it was on your system--if they could, the very trial itself would necessitate proving a means to crack commonly used cryptographic protocols--keeping that secret (if it's possible) would be worth more to anyone than convicting you ever would be.
Unfortunately, the MAFIAA doesn't need to prove anything to rack up massive legal costs against you, or threaten to sue you.
Considering that the parent company of Time Warner is the same as Warner Music and Warner Bros, they don't have to do anything for it to make its way into their hands.
I consider myself to be a conservative. From my perspective:
-Fox News is right leaning -CNN is slightly left leaning -MSNBC is forward-leaning (because they're getting pounded from behind by the Obama administration)
They also claimed that, because files are broken up into tiny "packets" before being sent over BitTorrent, this may not be enough to suggest a "substantial portion" of a copyrighted file was distributed.
I think this is a valid point. Unless you can download enough of the file from one person to prove copyright infringement (in the U.S. you are allowed 6 seconds of video), the studios shouldn't have a case.
The US is the most polluting country in the world, both in absolute terms and per capita.
Environmental damage that happens in other countries counts as US caused if it's done by US corporations. E.g., the Union Carbide disaster may have happened in India, but it was a US corporation that caused it.
Come now, take responsibility for your (collective) actions.
But that company employed many Indian workers.
It's everyone's problem. Had India required tighter regulation, the disaster may not have happened, or it may have happened somewhere else, where there were fewer regulations.
As long as it's cheaper to do business in a place that allows you to damage the environment more, it will happen. So we need to work with other countries to control the problem.
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They won't win the presidential election- not now.
But they might if we can put a few in the state legislatures, then the house, and then the senate.
Seems to me it's not in the best interest of ISPs to give their customers the boot. Unless they were absolutely sure of a violation, they should want to do everything possible to keep them as customers.
Seems to me that what is needed is a large number of people abusing this law and lodging false complaints with the aim to deny service to random/ non-random people before the legislators will be able to understand what a stupid law this is. Once enough of their (voting) constituents are adversely affected they'll either rescind it or be voted out of office.
Is it right to assume piracy and sales are mutually exclusive? Perhaps people pirate the game to find out if they like it, and if they do, then they buy it.
Anyone else have a Micro Center around? I like that place.
Unfortunately, even at Fry's, whenever I go to look at computers or monitors (i.e. anything expensive), the sales people always bug me.
In the 90s I could go play around with the latest and greatest gear all the time without being bothered. But then again, I turned 16 in 2000.
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At least real TV is, for the time being, DRM-free.
Yes, CableCARD has a bunch of BS DRM, but you can get a component video capture card and hook up a cable box to it with an IR blaster and record anything you want, probably even PPV.
Why botther at all? Better go straight to x64, I mean, even the lowliest of nvidia GPUs is already 64 bits, why bother with 32 bits technology?
They day an embedded system's CPU needs to address more than 4 gigs of memory (which is essentially why you would shift from a 32-bit to 64-bit CPU) is the day my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.
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That is why they introduced NEW Kentucky Grilled Chicken (TM)!
...office productivity is up 50 percent today.
...the government spies on people who use the Internet.
You can also use a gun for target practice, but if you use one during the comission of a crime, the penalties are stiffer.
You heard it from slashdot: downloading pirated content with a VPN is the same as shooting someone.
It's 5 euros per month: http://www.ipredator.se/
It works beautifully for its intended purpose, even if there's a sad amount of...malcontent littered throughout it. Despite the nastyness that you store on your own hard drive (which you couldn't read anyway unless you want searching for it), it's not like you or anyone else could ever prove it was on your system--if they could, the very trial itself would necessitate proving a means to crack commonly used cryptographic protocols--keeping that secret (if it's possible) would be worth more to anyone than convicting you ever would be.
Unfortunately, the MAFIAA doesn't need to prove anything to rack up massive legal costs against you, or threaten to sue you.
Heck, you don't even need a computer to do that.
What pisses me off the most is that nobody gives a shit.
I'm getting a way better deal than this. 6Mbps down/512 up, unlimited bandwidth, and it's $45/mo. My ISP is Time Warner.
Oh shit...
I've heard good things about DSL Extreme
Considering that the parent company of Time Warner is the same as Warner Music and Warner Bros, they don't have to do anything for it to make its way into their hands.
That would actually be a pretty smart thing to do...
Step 1: Agree to pay the RIAA/MPAA's "protection" fees (retroactively, of course)
Step 2: Agree to the deal where WB takes control of your company (both assets and liabilities)
Step 3: Profit?!!
(As WB now has to pay out all of it's cash-on-hand to the RIAA/MPAA)
Step 3: Incur massive debt paying protection fees
Step 4: Ask for bailout
Step 5: Profit!
I consider myself to be a conservative. From my perspective:
-Fox News is right leaning
-CNN is slightly left leaning
-MSNBC is forward-leaning (because they're getting pounded from behind by the Obama administration)
The Guardian's problem with Google is that people are just reading the feed and not going to THEIR site and clicking THEIR ads.
FTA:
They also claimed that, because files are broken up into tiny "packets" before being sent over BitTorrent, this may not be enough to suggest a "substantial portion" of a copyrighted file was distributed.
I think this is a valid point. Unless you can download enough of the file from one person to prove copyright infringement (in the U.S. you are allowed 6 seconds of video), the studios shouldn't have a case.
Well he said per capita, so you'd have to divide China's numbers by about 4 to get the same scale as the United States.
Tons of C02 Emissions in 2008:
China: 3,120,000,000 / 4 = 780,000,000
US: 2,820,000,000
The US is the most polluting country in the world, both in absolute terms and per capita.
Environmental damage that happens in other countries counts as US caused if it's done by US corporations. E.g., the Union Carbide disaster may have happened in India, but it was a US corporation that caused it.
Come now, take responsibility for your (collective) actions.
But that company employed many Indian workers.
It's everyone's problem. Had India required tighter regulation, the disaster may not have happened, or it may have happened somewhere else, where there were fewer regulations.
As long as it's cheaper to do business in a place that allows you to damage the environment more, it will happen. So we need to work with other countries to control the problem.
They won't win the presidential election- not now.
But they might if we can put a few in the state legislatures, then the house, and then the senate.
Actually, I think I already have Google ads blocked...
Will false-positives hurt them more than just adblocking them?
Way more.
I'm an AdWords user and I pay $1 every time someone clicks my ad.
I quit using their "affiliates" because I was getting a lot of clicks from cybersquatting sites.
Seems to me it's not in the best interest of ISPs to give their customers the boot. Unless they were absolutely sure of a violation, they should want to do everything possible to keep them as customers.
Seems to me that what is needed is a large number of people abusing this law and lodging false complaints with the aim to deny service to random/ non-random people before the legislators will be able to understand what a stupid law this is. Once enough of their (voting) constituents are adversely affected they'll either rescind it or be voted out of office.
http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/
Is it right to assume piracy and sales are mutually exclusive? Perhaps people pirate the game to find out if they like it, and if they do, then they buy it.
Anyone else have a Micro Center around? I like that place.
Unfortunately, even at Fry's, whenever I go to look at computers or monitors (i.e. anything expensive), the sales people always bug me.
In the 90s I could go play around with the latest and greatest gear all the time without being bothered. But then again, I turned 16 in 2000.
At least real TV is, for the time being, DRM-free.
Yes, CableCARD has a bunch of BS DRM, but you can get a component video capture card and hook up a cable box to it with an IR blaster and record anything you want, probably even PPV.
Why botther at all? Better go straight to x64, I mean, even the lowliest of nvidia GPUs is already 64 bits, why bother with 32 bits technology?
They day an embedded system's CPU needs to address more than 4 gigs of memory (which is essentially why you would shift from a 32-bit to 64-bit CPU) is the day my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.
Is 640K enough for you still?