I completely agree with you as far as movies. Though to be honest, when I used to torrent movies (before I got Netflix) it was mostly to find out if the movie was any good, since often that can't be determined from the teaser trailers. I would generally buy the movie afterwards if I liked it, since most torrents are poor quality. I wonder if that counts as piracy still?
i don't think so. torrents nowadays are very high quality. you can get 5.1ch sound, dual audio, multiple subtitles, and of course 720p or 1080p.
songs downloaded from itunes can be transfered to any device, reencoded, you can do anything with them. also, i believe they now have a cloud streaming thing too for ipod/iphones, though i haven't tried that.
You can still access 216.34.181.45 because mucking with DNS isn't the same as banning access to the IP address (though they might do that separately).
but if i enter 216.34.181.45, and it redirects to slashdot.org, like it does, then i won't be able to get to slashdot. unless of course i have changed my dns to google or opendns.
but then if slashdot.org is dns blocked, you won't be able to access slashdot even if you enter the ip address. is this true or do i just not understand this stuff?
maybe guys like you have extra-sensitive ears but most people cannot hear a difference between flac at 48bit/196kHz (numbers made up) and aac/mp3 at 320kbps. i too haven't bough any cd or music over the net for about a decade now. i once bought an album on bandcamp, but it was $0.5 so that hardly counts as buying. lots of free downloads from bandcamp too. also, any song that is very good, i get from my friends. i dunno if that counts as piracy or not.
wtf did she even say? where did net-neutrality come in? how does net-neutrality represent a 'power grab' by the fcc? doesn't neutrality mean no person/agency has power on the internet? and what about the topic at hand?
"The industry groups counter by saying they have been left with no other choices after the criminal conviction of the Pirate Bay admins following their November 2010 appeal failed to close down the site. Instead, the number of Finns using the site only increased."
You'd think they worked out that suing people hasn't worked by now.
When the industry starts giving people what they want - DRM-free stuff they can 'own' and use whichever way they like, at a reasonable price - then piracy will go down.
you CAN get drm free mp3s from itunes now. has that actually decreased any piracy? nope.
My nieces and nephews all got MacBooks issued to them from their school. Just like the ones in that webcam scandal. So the school had a firewall installed that was supposed to block inappropriate sites. It was amazing how fast people, who had never owned a computer before, learned how to use a proxy, and learned to put that s on the end of https because apparently the firewall didn't filter sites using ssl. And one of the first things they learned was electrical tape defeats the webcam.
why not just uninstall the firewall? why do all this circumvention stuff?
zynga is now bigger than ea. i think there are a lot of people who ARE farmers, or mafia. though i am not, i still think this apps thing is a dealbreaker for g+. it will create hype for a few months, and then it'll wither down like wave, or buzz.
Slashdot Mirror
i could get four 8gb usb drives for that amount of money!
I completely agree with you as far as movies. Though to be honest, when I used to torrent movies (before I got Netflix) it was mostly to find out if the movie was any good, since often that can't be determined from the teaser trailers. I would generally buy the movie afterwards if I liked it, since most torrents are poor quality. I wonder if that counts as piracy still?
i don't think so. torrents nowadays are very high quality. you can get 5.1ch sound, dual audio, multiple subtitles, and of course 720p or 1080p.
songs downloaded from itunes can be transfered to any device, reencoded, you can do anything with them. also, i believe they now have a cloud streaming thing too for ipod/iphones, though i haven't tried that.
continued efforts to eradicate piracy by recording companies suggest that piracy is not decreasing. otherwise why'd they be so worried?
this is true. i replaced aac with mp3 by mistake.
You can still access 216.34.181.45 because mucking with DNS isn't the same as banning access to the IP address (though they might do that separately).
but if i enter 216.34.181.45, and it redirects to slashdot.org, like it does, then i won't be able to get to slashdot. unless of course i have changed my dns to google or opendns.
i am sorry, it seems that it sells aacs not mp3s.
but surprise, you're still an asshole!
but then if slashdot.org is dns blocked, you won't be able to access slashdot even if you enter the ip address. is this true or do i just not understand this stuff?
that is fucked up. when my uni gave me a laptop, its just like a laptop you bought yourself, just that we got nice ms office pro for (almost) free.
maybe guys like you have extra-sensitive ears but most people cannot hear a difference between flac at 48bit/196kHz (numbers made up) and aac/mp3 at 320kbps.
i too haven't bough any cd or music over the net for about a decade now. i once bought an album on bandcamp, but it was $0.5 so that hardly counts as buying. lots of free downloads from bandcamp too. also, any song that is very good, i get from my friends. i dunno if that counts as piracy or not.
wtf did she even say? where did net-neutrality come in? how does net-neutrality represent a 'power grab' by the fcc? doesn't neutrality mean no person/agency has power on the internet? and what about the topic at hand?
"The industry groups counter by saying they have been left with no other choices after the criminal conviction of the Pirate Bay admins following their November 2010 appeal failed to close down the site. Instead, the number of Finns using the site only increased."
You'd think they worked out that suing people hasn't worked by now.
When the industry starts giving people what they want - DRM-free stuff they can 'own' and use whichever way they like, at a reasonable price - then piracy will go down.
you CAN get drm free mp3s from itunes now. has that actually decreased any piracy? nope.
My nieces and nephews all got MacBooks issued to them from their school. Just like the ones in that webcam scandal. So the school had a firewall installed that was supposed to block inappropriate sites. It was amazing how fast people, who had never owned a computer before, learned how to use a proxy, and learned to put that s on the end of https because apparently the firewall didn't filter sites using ssl. And one of the first things they learned was electrical tape defeats the webcam.
why not just uninstall the firewall? why do all this circumvention stuff?
google public dns.
naah, i think it would be a sad day for humanity when i wouldn't be able to download an mp3 of any song i like, for free. also, movies and games.
then how do you find out the true ip? this seems scary!
won't stay true for long if random websites get blocked.
seems quite reasonable.
this is quite informative, but strangely at '0' right now.
fb allows 13+
facebook is for 13+. 18+ seems a bit stupid.
this is amazing! everyone should do it like this!!1
zynga is now bigger than ea. i think there are a lot of people who ARE farmers, or mafia. though i am not, i still think this apps thing is a dealbreaker for g+. it will create hype for a few months, and then it'll wither down like wave, or buzz.
i don't really see much of a difference between g+ and fb. except fb wins because i don't wanna give ALL my data to google.