The easiest way is checking credit card info.. I doubt many americans have canadian credit cards and if so..I think that it will be a small enough number that the US networks won't really give a shit anyway.
Out of all the big businesses a Porn company is the only one making any sense. Instead of suing the ISP's, or trying to shut down the companies that make the newsreaders etc. they are doing the sensible thing and going after the real offender. I guess they are open-minded.:)
We had to do something very similar to this. Basically we just modified the wwwboard.cgi script at Matts Script Archive. But I agree with several posts made earlier, there are Lots of similar programs like the one you're looking for at Freshmeat Good Luck!
I realize that this message is probably futile and it is totally off-topic but I'm going to post it anyway. I've sent this story to/. twice but it was rejected both times. I've read a lot lately about the RIAA taking legal action to prevent the illegal trading of Mp3's. I don't really agree with this legal action, however I can understand why they are suing most of the companies that they are suing. That is until today. I am a Linux user and Unix Systems Administrator for a large Networking Corporation. I have been using Linux on my Home PC for a number of years now. There was always a couple of things that I have found Linux lacked as compared to Windows. Linux lacks the multimedia features of Windows and the only other thing that I couldn't find for Linux was a really good News reader, something comparable to Forte Agent for windows. The other night I did a search for "linux news readers" and found one called "pan" I downloaded it, compiled it and found that it worked Great! It had almost all the features that Forte Agent had, I was able to download and decode binary attachments in newsgroups, it had great posting capabilities etc. So I decided to check out the developers web site. SuperpimpSoft I couldn't believe what I saw when I got there.
This company is being sued by the RIAA. The RIAA is suing them because their news reader is capable of decoding binary attachments. I'd like to know when the hell the RIAA is going to realize that the entire internet doesn't revolve around Mp3's. I mean come on, because it is capable of decoding binary attachments, that could possibly be Mp3's!! Hell why not sue AOL, MSN and every other ISP that enables people to connect to the internet, because if it weren't for them there is no way people would be trading Mp3's online.
Words cannot express how angry I am right now. Because of the RIAA, a great, open source news reader will have to stop development because it could potently be used to download Mp3's.. well news flash so can Netscape, Internet Explorer, WS_FTP, DOS FTP, Cute FTP, Lynx and the list goes on!!
So I did a Thought for a while.. why would the RIAA want to bully around such a small company that has only one software product, and that product is open source anyway? Then it hit me.. The RIAA knows that these guys can't fight back and they know that they'll probably win in court. This will set a precedent, opening the doors for the RIAA to sue other companies that make news readers, Most popular Windows newsreader.. Forte Free Agent. So I went to Forte's site to do a little digging. When I got there I read that Forte had recently been acquired by a company by the name of Genesys. Genesys is owned by Alcatel! I think that Alcatel should help out the guys at SuperPimpSoft I mean, it would be great PR for Alcatel, not to mention that they would be helping to avert a future lawsuit against one of the companies that they've acquired.
I think the most important thing is letting as many people as possible know about this. And that's my 2 cents..
This makes a hell of a lot of sense! We all know that M$ doesn't like anything that can do the job of one of their products and with the rising popularity of Linux they don't need a more stable product than they make that does the same job.. not to mention that it is open and they don't control it. I hope the/. guys look into this angle of the whole thing. ---
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The easiest way is checking credit card info .. I doubt many americans have canadian credit cards and if so ..I think that it will be a small enough number that the US networks won't really give a shit anyway.
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Out of all the big businesses a Porn company is the only one making any sense. Instead of suing the ISP's, or trying to shut down the companies that make the newsreaders etc. they are doing the sensible thing and going after the real offender. I guess they are open-minded. :)
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We had to do something very similar to this. Basically we just modified the wwwboard.cgi script at Matts Script Archive. But I agree with several posts made earlier, there are Lots of similar programs like the one you're looking for at Freshmeat Good Luck!
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I realize that this message is probably futile and it is totally off-topic but I'm going to post it anyway. I've sent this story to /. twice but it was rejected both times. I've read a lot lately about the RIAA taking legal action to prevent the illegal trading of Mp3's. I don't really agree with this legal action, however I can understand why they are suing most of the companies that they are suing. That is until today. I am a Linux user and Unix Systems Administrator for a large Networking Corporation. I have been using Linux on my Home PC for a number of years now. There was always a couple of things that I have found Linux lacked as compared to Windows. Linux lacks the multimedia features of Windows and the only other thing that I couldn't find for Linux was a really good News reader, something comparable to Forte Agent for windows. The other night I did a search for "linux news readers" and found one called "pan" I downloaded it, compiled it and found that it worked Great! It had almost all the features that Forte Agent had, I was able to download and decode binary attachments in newsgroups, it had great posting capabilities etc. So I decided to check out the developers web site. SuperpimpSoft I couldn't believe what I saw when I got there.
This company is being sued by the RIAA. The RIAA is suing them because their news reader is capable of decoding binary attachments. I'd like to know when the hell the RIAA is going to realize that the entire internet doesn't revolve around Mp3's. I mean come on, because it is capable of decoding binary attachments, that could possibly be Mp3's!! Hell why not sue AOL, MSN and every other ISP that enables people to connect to the internet, because if it weren't for them there is no way people would be trading Mp3's online.
Words cannot express how angry I am right now. Because of the RIAA, a great, open source news reader will have to stop development because it could potently be used to download Mp3's .. well news flash so can Netscape, Internet Explorer, WS_FTP, DOS FTP, Cute FTP, Lynx and the list goes on!!
So I did a Thought for a while .. why would the RIAA want to bully around such a small company that has only one software product, and that product is open source anyway? Then it hit me.. The RIAA knows that these guys can't fight back and they know that they'll probably win in court. This will set a precedent, opening the doors for the RIAA to sue other companies that make news readers, Most popular Windows newsreader .. Forte Free Agent. So I went to Forte's site to do a little digging. When I got there I read that Forte had recently been acquired by a company by the name of Genesys. Genesys is owned by Alcatel! I think that Alcatel should help out the guys at SuperPimpSoft I mean, it would be great PR for Alcatel, not to mention that they would be helping to avert a future lawsuit against one of the companies that they've acquired.
I think the most important thing is letting as many people as possible know about this. And that's my 2 cents..
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Spoken in the true M$ way!! I mean really people did we expect much more than this?
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This makes a hell of a lot of sense! We all know that M$ doesn't like anything that can do the job of one of their products and with the rising popularity of Linux they don't need a more stable product than they make that does the same job .. not to mention that it is open and they don't control it. I hope the /. guys look into this angle of the whole thing.
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