Thanks for replying. What if the copyright holder or his shill was the one posting the file as bait for "sharing" ? This makes the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel analogy even more obvious.
If I was a Public Relations firm employed to guage the popularity of my customer's content I would do exactly this and prosecuting the fish I catch would be like "icing on the cake".
This is the point of the article. A new line of law has sprung up to prosecute file sharers and its going to be pretty easy to do. Hard to protect yourself from false (and expensive) prosecution.
To protect yourself, use Linux firewall so you can keep accurate and exact records of what IP address and time (GMT, UTC) you are using at all times (set the clock and log the ip in your ip-up.local each time it changes) so you don't get targetted you will need to prove you weren't on that IP address at that time (your lawyer can demand your very own ISP's logs on you and compare them to yours).
Dangerous times we live in when everyone steals from everyone else. Sad but true. Takes all the fun out of the internet but welcome to the real world until the next new toy comes along uncorrupted by big business and lawyers.
Look people, its all over. Why persist in trading copyrighted materials using Bit-torrent?
To find anyone who is using bt to get an illegal file is like shooting-fish-in-a-barrel. Its not rocket science. To get a file sharer's name all any corporation has to do is:
1) attempt to download the file (just a tiny bit).
2) snap the list of peers that have 100-percent (cut and paste) and note the time in GMT (UTC).
3) end the download before you got anything
4) using ping -a to lookup the name of the computer at that ip address (gets the ISP, too its just that simple).
5) write letter to ISP demanding its logs of what customer was on that IP address at that time.
The ISP then sends it letter and its game, set, match. Just give it up. Use bt for your own creative content and what (like youtube) could be considered fair use.
A terrorist targets corrupt governments to force a change by making life unlive-able for the subjects of that government until THEY (not the terrorists) force a change.
Not that it matters to the person on the street who is killed or maimed for life.
Inside a country, to the folks living their under a corrupt government, its law enforcment they depend on the protect them from murder, rape, theft, etc.
No problem until the law enforcement becomes part of a corrupt CENTRAL gov't. Police in a democracy need to be kept LOCAL with access to resources that tie them all together.
A police state emerges as the central government tries to implement an over-reaching police department accountable to no one but that central gov't, and that is the state we are about to enter here in the US with ILLEGAL SPYING ON AMERICANS passed on July 9 by Pelosi and her 105 republi-Crats in the House leading the charge, Obama voted along with the republicans (except John McCain) and sealed the deal in the Senate so SPYING ON AMERICANS is now legal. Nice.
Google wants to keep its advertising model healthy since its the core of its business and our gov't here in US is full of one-party republi-Crats who are happy to embrace opt-out Phorm/NebuAD type session meddling -- I predict just after the election an un-fettered connection to any web site will become a thing of the past.
Microsoft has illustrated a complete failure to break into this market (advertising) it needs to survive and other companies will use our gov't to force open the HTTP stream between web-sites and you to display ads on the page just like Google does based on the nifty databases about you and I they are now building thanks to the ILLEGAL SPYING ON AMERICANS which the republi-Crats led by Pelosi enshrined into law on... Senate vote on July 9 sealed it (sans McCain who did not vote for this, and Hillary who voted NO).
Honda is what Ford could have been... before the truck-centric lobotomy the soccer-moms-in-Explorers craze wrought disaster to them. Give me my '93 capri (aussie built + 35 mpg convertible) anyday.
I predict FoMoCo will become part of Hyundai keeping its name. GM and Chrysler -- having owned both cars at various time over the past 31 years who cares what happens to GM and Chrysler.
That leaves Honda as the closest thing to the embodiment of the spirit of the original US auto industry. My wacky '03 Honda Element which I can still drive due to its SUV that fits in your garage + great gas mileage proves that Honda has the foresight to invent (and the original Insight was way ahead of its time back in 1999 at 60+ mpg).
An inexpensive Insight (even fuel cell or plugin Insight) I would buy it in a second.
The biggest problem I observe with Prius is the batteries are too expensive and not warranted beyond a certain number of years/miles. Plus its heavy... ever follow a Prius up a hill? My Element has a front windshield like a barn door but still comes up behind pokey Prius-es everyday.
My typical telco too distant 2000-circa ADSL gives me 74K of bandwidth to download and my firewall gets flaky if I overdrive the DSL modem can only handle 12K uploads. To allow surfing (for my point and clicks to go back up to the website) I set it to 6K upload max in microtorrent.
Now if I choose I can easily drive the full 74K download for six hours straight, four times a day, for 31 days, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. Therefore:
... so a simple IFCONFIG on the ppp0 interface to the DSL modem will give all the usage if you are really that worried about it (hint: don't bother unless you know already they have good reason to think your a problem... they ain't talkin about youtube... the are targetting pirated movies and for otherwise (of course, non-DSL tech-savvy HD folks should realize that their ISP wants to be the conduit to control the HD content and if you fight them you will lose.
From Bladerunner -know to be a slave is to always live in fear. When will my metered allowance expire?
This is a market-place. BT-downloaders have changed the rules. I can easily run my DSL at 100-percent pegged in/outbound bandwidth ALL NIGHT AND ALL DAY with two or three clicks of a mouse.
Do I choose to do it? Sometimes. Its my own damn business. This is a market-place and someone will sell me internet but only if it makes business sense to do so.
If I am a pig I will get fat and if I am a hog I will get slaughtered.
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Thanks for replying. What if the copyright holder or his shill was the one posting the file as bait for "sharing" ? This makes the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel analogy even more obvious.
If I was a Public Relations firm employed to guage the popularity of my customer's content I would do exactly this and prosecuting the fish I catch would be like "icing on the cake".
This is the point of the article. A new line of law has sprung up to prosecute file sharers and its going to be pretty easy to do. Hard to protect yourself from false (and expensive) prosecution.
To protect yourself, use Linux firewall so you can keep accurate and exact records of what IP address and time (GMT, UTC) you are using at all times (set the clock and log the ip in your ip-up.local each time it changes) so you don't get targetted you will need to prove you weren't on that IP address at that time (your lawyer can demand your very own ISP's logs on you and compare them to yours).
Dangerous times we live in when everyone steals from everyone else. Sad but true. Takes all the fun out of the internet but welcome to the real world until the next new toy comes along uncorrupted by big business and lawyers.
Look people, its all over. Why persist in trading copyrighted materials using Bit-torrent?
To find anyone who is using bt to get an illegal file is like shooting-fish-in-a-barrel. Its not rocket science. To get a file sharer's name all any corporation has to do is:
1) attempt to download the file (just a tiny bit).
2) snap the list of peers that have 100-percent (cut and paste) and note the time in GMT (UTC).
3) end the download before you got anything
4) using ping -a to lookup the name of the computer at that ip address (gets the ISP, too its just that simple).
5) write letter to ISP demanding its logs of what customer was on that IP address at that time.
The ISP then sends it letter and its game, set, match. Just give it up. Use bt for your own creative content and what (like youtube) could be considered fair use.
A terrorist targets corrupt governments to force a change by making life unlive-able for the subjects of that government until THEY (not the terrorists) force a change.
Not that it matters to the person on the street who is killed or maimed for life.
Inside a country, to the folks living their under a corrupt government, its law enforcment they depend on the protect them from murder, rape, theft, etc.
No problem until the law enforcement becomes part of a corrupt CENTRAL gov't. Police in a democracy need to be kept LOCAL with access to resources that tie them all together.
A police state emerges as the central government tries to implement an over-reaching police department accountable to no one but that central gov't, and that is the state we are about to enter here in the US with ILLEGAL SPYING ON AMERICANS passed on July 9 by Pelosi and her 105 republi-Crats in the House leading the charge, Obama voted along with the republicans (except John McCain) and sealed the deal in the Senate so SPYING ON AMERICANS is now legal. Nice.
Google wants to keep its advertising model healthy since its the core of its business and our gov't here in US is full of one-party republi-Crats who are happy to embrace opt-out Phorm/NebuAD type session meddling -- I predict just after the election an un-fettered connection to any web site will become a thing of the past.
... Senate vote on July 9 sealed it (sans McCain who did not vote for this, and Hillary who voted NO).
Microsoft has illustrated a complete failure to break into this market (advertising) it needs to survive and other companies will use our gov't to force open the HTTP stream between web-sites and you to display ads on the page just like Google does based on the nifty databases about you and I they are now building thanks to the ILLEGAL SPYING ON AMERICANS which the republi-Crats led by Pelosi enshrined into law on
Honda is what Ford could have been ... before the truck-centric lobotomy the soccer-moms-in-Explorers craze wrought disaster to them. Give me my '93 capri (aussie built + 35 mpg convertible) anyday.
... ever follow a Prius up a hill? My Element has a front windshield like a barn door but still comes up behind pokey Prius-es everyday.
I predict FoMoCo will become part of Hyundai keeping its name. GM and Chrysler -- having owned both cars at various time over the past 31 years who cares what happens to GM and Chrysler.
That leaves Honda as the closest thing to the embodiment of the spirit of the original US auto industry. My wacky '03 Honda Element which I can still drive due to its SUV that fits in your garage + great gas mileage proves that Honda has the foresight to invent (and the original Insight was way ahead of its time back in 1999 at 60+ mpg).
An inexpensive Insight (even fuel cell or plugin Insight) I would buy it in a second.
The biggest problem I observe with Prius is the batteries are too expensive and not warranted beyond a certain number of years/miles. Plus its heavy
The Google Calc guy was a nifty idea.
My typical telco too distant 2000-circa ADSL gives me 74K of bandwidth to download and my firewall gets flaky if I overdrive the DSL modem can only handle 12K uploads. To allow surfing (for my point and clicks to go back up to the website) I set it to 6K upload max in microtorrent.
Now if I choose I can easily drive the full 74K download for six hours straight, four times a day, for 31 days, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. Therefore:
31 * 4 * 6 * 60 * 60 * (74 * 1 024) = 202 958 438 400
Assume the rest is upload and 250GB sounds just about right on the money for a hog on ancient DSL.
Why give the higher speed folks any advantage since the world is mostly stuck on ADSL at best.
... so a simple IFCONFIG on the ppp0 interface to the DSL modem will give all the usage if you are really that worried about it (hint: don't bother unless you know already they have good reason to think your a problem ... they ain't talkin about youtube ... the are targetting pirated movies and for otherwise (of course, non-DSL tech-savvy HD folks should realize that their ISP wants to be the conduit to control the HD content and if you fight them you will lose.
Typical is whatever the heck I want to use.
From Bladerunner -know to be a slave is to always live in fear. When will my metered allowance expire?
This is a market-place. BT-downloaders have changed the rules. I can easily run my DSL at 100-percent pegged in/outbound bandwidth ALL NIGHT AND ALL DAY with two or three clicks of a mouse.
Do I choose to do it? Sometimes. Its my own damn business. This is a market-place and someone will sell me internet but only if it makes business sense to do so.
If I am a pig I will get fat and if I am a hog I will get slaughtered.