Depending on what crap they put on the CD's i might buy it, but seeing what crap there's out there, i'm not holding my breath. (just google brokencyde if you want a lobotomy)
It's not like people won't pay for access & ease of use, i pay 3€'s a month to use last.fm for instance (and i use it quite extensively, about 40 to 45 hours a week), and i buy Cd's & dvd's, but I'm not going to pay €'s to get the privilege to watch a drm laden movie or series once, or pay to download songs just to be able to tell if the CD is worth shit
Based on that FAQ, it's time to switch your webserver to HTTPS, they don't block *any* HTTPS traffic, even to 'blocked' addresses.
So those in the biz of hosting kiddy porn simply need a self signed certificate and the vile scum they call customers will still be able to access them, come to think of it, i can't believe they'd pipe that content over the web unencrypted anyway
By putting up all those wind turbines we are affecting the natural wind flow of the planet, stop hurting mother Earth!
Won't you think of the children?!
We have those levies in Belgium too, that's why i refuse to buy media & devices in Belgium anymore, sucks for the local distributors, but I'm NOT going to contribute to the 'artist most likely to have their work shared'.
I buy Cd's, i have over 600 at last count, and none of those are from 'mainstream' artists (whom tend to suck badly anyway), if they insist on those levies, i want to be able to bring in my legal purchases as a reduction against those levies (hell, they'd owe *me* money that way) when i decide to buy a new memory card for my camera, and if that's impossible I'd at least appreciate having a say as to what artist gets my 'contribution', crap artists like 50cent and Britney Spears have no right to my money.
What part of using a botnet to swamp a server do you not understand? If you think it's a fair tactic to be used in the holy pursuit of money, fine by me, in the mean while, the law disagrees.
Take this from someone who sees 100+ concerts a year & buys alot of CD's:
Piracy is NOT the problem, quality is.
About 99% of current music simply sucks monkey balls, they would have to pay m to even listen to me
Ripping off customers: Why do cd's feature different numbers of tracks for different countries?!
Artificial scarcity: Some cd's don't see a release in this or that country for no logical reason, or are unavailable for sale because, well, they stopped making them
No means of listening to the whole cd before actually buying the bloody thing
That said, i'm a big last.fm user, and i still buy a lot of cd's at concerts directly of the bands (whom tend to be smaller bands mostly), but sampling a cd before buying it requires piracy.
Read the indictment, they were charged with conspiracy, fraud & illegal access to a system, not to mention that using a farm of machines to bombard the ticket sale system overloads & locks out legitimate customers from gaining access to the tickets, and that's why people are pissed of the most, because they are prevented to acquire the tickets at real price.
Not to mention how the black market is unregulated & prone to fraudulent sales & forgeries
Unwilling to pay the higher price? How about being unable to afford the higher price?
And what's so fair about the scalpers? The queue system is pretty fair, first come, first served, of course, throw a botnet onto that queue and you skew the system terribly, but for individuals it's pretty much fair & unbiased.
Did you ever consider the possibility that artists might have a say in the price? (Hint, they do)
Did you ever consider that using botnets to flood the ticket sales system prevents honest customers to get their ticket fairly?
It's not just the venue who set that price, but the acts themselves as well, a lot of artists want the prices to be accessible to many people (their fans), not the rich bastards who don't care what they pay.
Also, by using botnets, they prevent access to the sales system by other customers thus forcing that person to use their services or stay home.
Technology allows large scale scalpers to gain access to tickets they otherwise would not have access too, they overload the sales systems, they manipulate the availability & value of the tickets and generally piss off everyone (except a large portion of slashdot, oddly enough).
Ticket sales are usually limited to 2 or 4 per person, if an organization has access to multiple accounts on multiple names and a large enough number of computers & working bots, they can buy a lot more tickets within seconds then you or i ever will be able too, hell, the use of a large botnet might even mean you can't even access the ticket sale system
A little extra? You are clearly not someone who goes to concerts.
Besides, the scalpers in this case used illegal means to obtain their goal, this isn't John Doe selling his two tickets on eBay, this is organized crime.
20 million for 1 million tickets means an average of $20 per ticket, i don't know what prices are on your side of the globe, but over here in Europe, the average ticket price for a big event is around 55€, that's what, 3 times as much?
And yes, we do have scalpers over here too, seeing tickets for big events such as AC/DC or Metallica for instance for 5 to 20x their face price isn't that uncommon....
Read the indictment, the charges were conspiracy, fraud & illegal access to computer systems.
The were impersonating as other people to be able to purchase more then the set maximum tickets per buyer, they used automated software on whole networks to do so.
They were being charged with conspiracy, fraud & illegal access to computer systems, see page 14 & 15 of the indictment. That does seem like criminal behaviour to me...
I have no problems with one individual reselling his ticket for profit, sure, i might think he's a dick, but hey, it's his right to do so, however, when people start using whole networks to do this in bulk, then it does become a problem.
One scalper with thousand connections vs one customer with one connection, you do the math.
The problem isn't John Doe buying his two tickets to sell on eBay (although i do hate guys like that), it's John Does who has a botnet at his disposal.
The gang in this analogy is virtual, it's an asset that one person controls and can deploy within microseconds, this is unfair competition to the honest customers.
If you were to make an analogy to the old ticket booth, this would be akin to a necromancer summoning an army of zombies & parking them in front of the ticket booth weeks before tickets go on sale, preventing any living human to be able to get to the booth before them (you need to eat, drink, sleep, piss, take a shit... zombies don't, well, except maybe eating the brains of living customers...), and not only that, he can also magically transport his army of zombies to and from many locations within seconds
So you pretty much have no problems with organized crime preventing people to buy items legally by means of bullying/blocking access? because that's basically what happens.
Ticket sale system goes life, within a microsecond a botnet swamps the servers with thousands of connections filling up the queues pushing the individual customer way back to the queue or even unable to connect to the servers, see where the problem is?
Slashdot Mirror
Depending on what crap they put on the CD's i might buy it, but seeing what crap there's out there, i'm not holding my breath. (just google brokencyde if you want a lobotomy)
Funny? I find it scary as hell, mankind is getting crazier by the day
It's not like people won't pay for access & ease of use, i pay 3€'s a month to use last.fm for instance (and i use it quite extensively, about 40 to 45 hours a week), and i buy Cd's & dvd's, but I'm not going to pay €'s to get the privilege to watch a drm laden movie or series once, or pay to download songs just to be able to tell if the CD is worth shit
The military managed to take down wikileaks! Or did we just slashdot the site?
Don't filter, don't force companies to filter, but go after the ones making the material, by any means nessesary
Based on that FAQ, it's time to switch your webserver to HTTPS, they don't block *any* HTTPS traffic, even to 'blocked' addresses.
So those in the biz of hosting kiddy porn simply need a self signed certificate and the vile scum they call customers will still be able to access them, come to think of it, i can't believe they'd pipe that content over the web unencrypted anyway
that's an Ubuntu BSD release!
By putting up all those wind turbines we are affecting the natural wind flow of the planet, stop hurting mother Earth!
Won't you think of the children?!
We have those levies in Belgium too, that's why i refuse to buy media & devices in Belgium anymore, sucks for the local distributors, but I'm NOT going to contribute to the 'artist most likely to have their work shared'.
I buy Cd's, i have over 600 at last count, and none of those are from 'mainstream' artists (whom tend to suck badly anyway), if they insist on those levies, i want to be able to bring in my legal purchases as a reduction against those levies (hell, they'd owe *me* money that way) when i decide to buy a new memory card for my camera, and if that's impossible I'd at least appreciate having a say as to what artist gets my 'contribution', crap artists like 50cent and Britney Spears have no right to my money.
Stupid idea? It's already being done in different venue's, and to great success.
I do agree they need to offer a means to get rid of unwanted tickets though
What part of using a botnet to swamp a server do you not understand? If you think it's a fair tactic to be used in the holy pursuit of money, fine by me, in the mean while, the law disagrees.
Bullshit.
Take this from someone who sees 100+ concerts a year & buys alot of CD's:
Piracy is NOT the problem, quality is.
About 99% of current music simply sucks monkey balls, they would have to pay m to even listen to me
Ripping off customers: Why do cd's feature different numbers of tracks for different countries?!
Artificial scarcity: Some cd's don't see a release in this or that country for no logical reason, or are unavailable for sale because, well, they stopped making them
No means of listening to the whole cd before actually buying the bloody thing
That said, i'm a big last.fm user, and i still buy a lot of cd's at concerts directly of the bands (whom tend to be smaller bands mostly), but sampling a cd before buying it requires piracy.
Large scale scalping like wiseguy is still a problem, and quite common, and a crime
Read the indictment, they were charged with conspiracy, fraud & illegal access to a system, not to mention that using a farm of machines to bombard the ticket sale system overloads & locks out legitimate customers from gaining access to the tickets, and that's why people are pissed of the most, because they are prevented to acquire the tickets at real price.
Not to mention how the black market is unregulated & prone to fraudulent sales & forgeries
What. The. Fuck?!
Unwilling to pay the higher price? How about being unable to afford the higher price?
And what's so fair about the scalpers? The queue system is pretty fair, first come, first served, of course, throw a botnet onto that queue and you skew the system terribly, but for individuals it's pretty much fair & unbiased.
Did you ever consider the possibility that artists might have a say in the price? (Hint, they do)
Did you ever consider that using botnets to flood the ticket sales system prevents honest customers to get their ticket fairly?
It's not just the venue who set that price, but the acts themselves as well, a lot of artists want the prices to be accessible to many people (their fans), not the rich bastards who don't care what they pay.
Also, by using botnets, they prevent access to the sales system by other customers thus forcing that person to use their services or stay home.
Technology allows large scale scalpers to gain access to tickets they otherwise would not have access too, they overload the sales systems, they manipulate the availability & value of the tickets and generally piss off everyone (except a large portion of slashdot, oddly enough).
Ticket sales are usually limited to 2 or 4 per person, if an organization has access to multiple accounts on multiple names and a large enough number of computers & working bots, they can buy a lot more tickets within seconds then you or i ever will be able too, hell, the use of a large botnet might even mean you can't even access the ticket sale system
A little extra? You are clearly not someone who goes to concerts.
Besides, the scalpers in this case used illegal means to obtain their goal, this isn't John Doe selling his two tickets on eBay, this is organized crime.
20 million for 1 million tickets means an average of $20 per ticket, i don't know what prices are on your side of the globe, but over here in Europe, the average ticket price for a big event is around 55€, that's what, 3 times as much?
And yes, we do have scalpers over here too, seeing tickets for big events such as AC/DC or Metallica for instance for 5 to 20x their face price isn't that uncommon....
Read the indictment, the charges were conspiracy, fraud & illegal access to computer systems.
The were impersonating as other people to be able to purchase more then the set maximum tickets per buyer, they used automated software on whole networks to do so.
They were being charged with conspiracy, fraud & illegal access to computer systems, see page 14 & 15 of the indictment. That does seem like criminal behaviour to me...
I have no problems with one individual reselling his ticket for profit, sure, i might think he's a dick, but hey, it's his right to do so, however, when people start using whole networks to do this in bulk, then it does become a problem.
One scalper with thousand connections vs one customer with one connection, you do the math.
The problem isn't John Doe buying his two tickets to sell on eBay (although i do hate guys like that), it's John Does who has a botnet at his disposal.
The gang in this analogy is virtual, it's an asset that one person controls and can deploy within microseconds, this is unfair competition to the honest customers.
If you were to make an analogy to the old ticket booth, this would be akin to a necromancer summoning an army of zombies & parking them in front of the ticket booth weeks before tickets go on sale, preventing any living human to be able to get to the booth before them (you need to eat, drink, sleep, piss, take a shit... zombies don't, well, except maybe eating the brains of living customers...), and not only that, he can also magically transport his army of zombies to and from many locations within seconds
So you pretty much have no problems with organized crime preventing people to buy items legally by means of bullying/blocking access? because that's basically what happens.
Ticket sale system goes life, within a microsecond a botnet swamps the servers with thousands of connections filling up the queues pushing the individual customer way back to the queue or even unable to connect to the servers, see where the problem is?