As for the ISPs, I imagine the **IAs would love to see them inconvenienced even further by piracy. It means more of an incentive to put in place technological measures to stop piracy like blocking popular trackers, traffic shaping and tiny usage quotas.
Or an incentive to just stop caring and start ignoring the requests from media lawyers.
More than that, you need to filter out the nutjobs who would otherwise sue everyone and everything using insane troll logic to justify themselves and would constantly bog down the legal process by questioning even well established facts by claiming that "nobody ever proved it to them." Having lawyers as necessary middlemen does remove a whole lot of clutter for this specific problem, and if the lawyer himself becomes the problem, Jack Thompson demonstrated how well that ends up for them.
First, because I don't think that subpoenaing a defendant's identity from a service provider constitutes an abuse of the legal system in and of itself.
The abuse does not come from the request itself, but usually what follows said request. The plaintiff usually knows that he has thin legal ground over his lawsuit and will pull back his suit before a judgement likely to favor the defendants (and set a landmark) can happen. He will then turn around and DIRECTLY contact each of those defendants that got outed in the discovery process and personally extort thousands of dollars from them under threat of ruining them through endless litigation that will cost them far more to defend themselves from a million dollar lawsuit.
He documents how one woman narrowly missed being hit by a train after she followed sat-nav directions over a railway track. While she got out of her car to open the level-crossing gate, a speeding train drove straight through her vehicle. While this may be an extreme case, Vamosi argues that we are developing a culture of dependence on technology to the detriment of our common sense.
Are we really sure Skynet didn't become self-aware and declare war on humanity a few weeks ago?
How does a hacker steal several gigs of data in a few minutes in the midst of a DDoS attack, when the server are too overwhelmed to answer outside requests? Whatever ISP this guy has that can give a download speed of above 1 gig per minute, I want in on their service!!!
Imagine hitting "channel up" on your remote control and waiting... waiting... wondering if the infrared signal made it to the receiver or was blocked somehow, only to finally see the channel change a full minute later. It's my daily experience with my digital cable company.
This big problem would probably not have surfaced (at least not so soon) if one of their employees hadn't been stealing from the till. Sometimes it takes a crime to uncover another crime!
I misunderstood the intent of the title as "if you want to kill something, open source it"... which would make sense considering how more and more open source projects are being shot down in flames by lawsuits and patent claims.
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... to murder lowbies who are just trying to go in or out of the main hub towns?
they're loving it.
I say skip to the end where that monster of a tablet runs off to the north pole to never see people again and commit suicide by fire.
As for the ISPs, I imagine the **IAs would love to see them inconvenienced even further by piracy. It means more of an incentive to put in place technological measures to stop piracy like blocking popular trackers, traffic shaping and tiny usage quotas.
Or an incentive to just stop caring and start ignoring the requests from media lawyers.
Yeah, I only noticed my typo after hitting submit. It's that sort of thing that makes me long for a slashdot "edit" button.
...that you can't trust a bunch of anarchist computer network destroyers to be the champions of law and justice?
More than that, you need to filter out the nutjobs who would otherwise sue everyone and everything using insane troll logic to justify themselves and would constantly bog down the legal process by questioning even well established facts by claiming that "nobody ever proved it to them." Having lawyers as necessary middlemen does remove a whole lot of clutter for this specific problem, and if the lawyer himself becomes the problem, Jack Thompson demonstrated how well that ends up for them.
First, because I don't think that subpoenaing a defendant's identity from a service provider constitutes an abuse of the legal system in and of itself.
The abuse does not come from the request itself, but usually what follows said request. The plaintiff usually knows that he has thin legal ground over his lawsuit and will pull back his suit before a judgement likely to favor the defendants (and set a landmark) can happen. He will then turn around and DIRECTLY contact each of those defendants that got outed in the discovery process and personally extort thousands of dollars from them under threat of ruining them through endless litigation that will cost them far more to defend themselves from a million dollar lawsuit.
Now THAT is textbook abuse.
Dark matter is more of a medium charcoal color.
LastPass: the one stop hack for all your identity stealing needs.
Easier to implement, harder to cheat on, and it rewards using fuel efficient cars.
He documents how one woman narrowly missed being hit by a train after she followed sat-nav directions over a railway track. While she got out of her car to open the level-crossing gate, a speeding train drove straight through her vehicle. While this may be an extreme case, Vamosi argues that we are developing a culture of dependence on technology to the detriment of our common sense.
Are we really sure Skynet didn't become self-aware and declare war on humanity a few weeks ago?
How does a hacker steal several gigs of data in a few minutes in the midst of a DDoS attack, when the server are too overwhelmed to answer outside requests? Whatever ISP this guy has that can give a download speed of above 1 gig per minute, I want in on their service!!!
... for operating my touchscreen while holding my phone one-handed: it's called my thumb.
Come on, who would want to read what some unknown did that day, with only 140 characters? /sarcasm
Imagine hitting "channel up" on your remote control and waiting... waiting... wondering if the infrared signal made it to the receiver or was blocked somehow, only to finally see the channel change a full minute later. It's my daily experience with my digital cable company.
This big problem would probably not have surfaced (at least not so soon) if one of their employees hadn't been stealing from the till. Sometimes it takes a crime to uncover another crime!
The University gave no word on the possibility of tentacles in future models.
Seriously. Japan will provide, it's inevitable.
On one hand, it's worth spending the money to be rid of Bieber. On the other hand, for every Bieber we take down, ten Veronica Blacks will rise!!!
It took the death of the most hated man alive to finally put an end to the supremacy of Justin Beiber tweets.
If Uwe Boll is blackballed from the process before it even begins, I shall take this as a good sign.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
... long form death certificate.
I misunderstood the intent of the title as "if you want to kill something, open source it"... which would make sense considering how more and more open source projects are being shot down in flames by lawsuits and patent claims.
It's like the 90's all over, with people blaming MK for all the woes in the world! I feel young again!!!