If it's clear that a large percentage of their users are accessing content that is illegal in their home countries, does TPB have an obligation to prevent people from those countries from accessing the offending content?
Suppose it were legal to grow and export marijuana in Mexico (I don't know if it is or not). Does Mexico then have any obligation to stop people from exporting marijuana to the US?
Billions? Bah, if China has already done it, it will be easy for us to reimplement their solution. After all, we get all our other stuff from China, why not our censorshi- loyalty enforcement facilitators.
Wait...no...Joe Biden is the best senator ever! I welcome our new censorship overlor...
The trouble with caching though is that it would be a minefield from liability perspective to the likes of the RIAA/MPAA and anyone else who is being 'victimized' by p2p.
But (at least in the US) the DMCA should provide a "safe-harbor" provision for this, right?
ISPs use a P2P technology already to send you web pages using multicast. Now it doesn't use IGMP, but it is multicast if you think about it.
It's called caching. When you download a web page from, say, Slashdot, your ISP probably keeps a local copy of it on its own servers, so that if your neighbor requests the page, they just get the copy your ISP kept. This reduces bandwidth usage not only for your ISP, but also for the content provider.
Perhaps they could apply the technology in a similar way to P2P apps. They just have to figure out how to do it based on the file id (i.e. hash) instead of the server's ip address.
They sure are... where's the AGP version? Last nVidia AGP out there was a 7800 and they arbitrarily cut the render pipelines in half for that one. Why, to punish people for being on AGP?
Because it's outdated? Really, there are gamers who still use AGP and play games that need something better than a Radeon 9800?
But in addition, I think it would be really interesting if they billed based on a function of their actual cost for delivering every individual packet. I.e. if it stays in their network it's really cheap, if it goes through a peer then it's still pretty cheap, and if it goes to a transit provider then it gets expensive.
As a California resident, I have to say our voters are fucking stupid. Want to raise taxes? Any ballot measure that says "gives money to schools" passes. And after we figure out that we were idiots to vote for someone (e.g. Gray Davis), we spend even more money on a recall election.
Furthermore, remove the fancy packaging, the screaming flashing ads, the brand name, etc, and you can reduce the price of a product significantly while maintaining your profit margin (provided, of course, that you have a good product).
How many times have you seen better products fail because of poor marketing? (HD-DVD, Betamax, etc)
A week or so ago Jon Stewart had a guest who was talking about his work with some women's magazine. The writers and editors got around a table and all decided it would be cool if they used "regular" women as their models for the magazine. But the magazine wouldn't print it?
Why? Nobody wanted to advertise in a magazine that made women feel good about themselves. Women only buy cosmetics when they feel bad about their bodies.
Here in California, lights have to stay yellow for (speed limit)/10 seconds. So if the speed limit is 40, the light will be yellow for 4 seconds or more.
When the city of Los Angeles installed their photo-enforced intersections, the company installing the cameras got a commission for every ticket written. So they lowered the amount of time the light was yellow. Fortunately, a judge overturned the tickets written by those cameras until the lights were fixed.
Is it legal to post a traffic sign (speed limit, stop, etc) on your own property, facing a public street? (even if it is incorrect- for example, if I put a speed limit 50 sign in my front yard when it's really 35.)
Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if slow people drove in the right lanes? People do this on Germany's Autobahns, which have no speed limit and a lower accident rate.
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Yeah but people may not know just how much of a risk it is. That's why there are anti-mobile phone while driving laws. (Which I am against, BTW.)
Just require people to come down to the Washington Post's office and deliver messages in person.
No, but maybe Firefox is.
Bah, there's no place like 127.0.0.1
telnet your-smtp-server 25
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MAIL FROM: you@yourisp.com
RCPT TO: you@yourisp.com
DATA
Buy V1AGRA!
So in 2010, AT&T can give me an internet connection with 1/20 of the bandwidth of today's Internet? Sweet!
Between caching servers, upgrades, and improved routing algorithms, I think multi-million (billion?) dollar telecom companies can handle it.
If it's clear that a large percentage of their users are accessing content that is illegal in their home countries, does TPB have an obligation to prevent people from those countries from accessing the offending content?
Suppose it were legal to grow and export marijuana in Mexico (I don't know if it is or not). Does Mexico then have any obligation to stop people from exporting marijuana to the US?
Billions? Bah, if China has already done it, it will be easy for us to reimplement their solution. After all, we get all our other stuff from China, why not our censorshi- loyalty enforcement facilitators.
Wait...no...Joe Biden is the best senator ever! I welcome our new censorship overlor...
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But (at least in the US) the DMCA should provide a "safe-harbor" provision for this, right?
ISPs use a P2P technology already to send you web pages using multicast. Now it doesn't use IGMP, but it is multicast if you think about it.
It's called caching. When you download a web page from, say, Slashdot, your ISP probably keeps a local copy of it on its own servers, so that if your neighbor requests the page, they just get the copy your ISP kept. This reduces bandwidth usage not only for your ISP, but also for the content provider.
Perhaps they could apply the technology in a similar way to P2P apps. They just have to figure out how to do it based on the file id (i.e. hash) instead of the server's ip address.
You should tell everyone in Paraguay about OpenDNS.
Because it's outdated? Really, there are gamers who still use AGP and play games that need something better than a Radeon 9800?
Are you from Ferenginar?
The novelty of the internet is that everything is free. (Yeah, you pay for content but having a meter running for bandwidth would drive me crazy.)
As a California resident, I have to say our voters are fucking stupid. Want to raise taxes? Any ballot measure that says "gives money to schools" passes. And after we figure out that we were idiots to vote for someone (e.g. Gray Davis), we spend even more money on a recall election.
Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger is a Republican who ran on a campaign of no new taxes, so he will most likely veto it.
But then again President Bush (Sr.) also ran on the same promise and broke it.
Because it redefines "attractive!"
How many times have you seen better products fail because of poor marketing? (HD-DVD, Betamax, etc)
A week or so ago Jon Stewart had a guest who was talking about his work with some women's magazine. The writers and editors got around a table and all decided it would be cool if they used "regular" women as their models for the magazine. But the magazine wouldn't print it?
Why? Nobody wanted to advertise in a magazine that made women feel good about themselves. Women only buy cosmetics when they feel bad about their bodies.
Windows Vista is the best thing to happen to Linux.
Now by Microsoft's own admission!
Here in California, lights have to stay yellow for (speed limit)/10 seconds. So if the speed limit is 40, the light will be yellow for 4 seconds or more.
When the city of Los Angeles installed their photo-enforced intersections, the company installing the cameras got a commission for every ticket written. So they lowered the amount of time the light was yellow. Fortunately, a judge overturned the tickets written by those cameras until the lights were fixed.
Is it legal to post a traffic sign (speed limit, stop, etc) on your own property, facing a public street? (even if it is incorrect- for example, if I put a speed limit 50 sign in my front yard when it's really 35.)
Mod parent up.
I've long been of the belief that the vast majority of speeding tickets are written to generate revenue, not to ensure safe driving.
Not if people knew they *never* wrote any tickets.
Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if slow people drove in the right lanes? People do this on Germany's Autobahns, which have no speed limit and a lower accident rate.