Could you inform me how to get rid of the registry keys that prevent users from using Napster? I'm not interested in using Napster again -- I just don't like having a scarlett letter in my registry.
Not the best done site I've ever seen, but it appears to have the valid fix.
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On that Napster special MTV showed last week, they interviewed Sean, who claimed that "Napster" came from his school nickname, which was coined because of his curly "nappy" hair.
The people who play moral games and claim that it is not theft are among the most dangerous people in the computer militia known as the online piracy community. They will be the leaders in the new force against copyright, the people who gut the government and industry of all serious order, and who declare any creative art not tied to an artifact to be the thing of the past.
This is rich.... a "computer militia"? I can see it now - a bunch of black-trenchcoated, combat booted Linux geeks whose beowulf-clustered palm pilots generate enough static electricity to generate an impenetrable shield.
All kidding aside, I've read your posts in the other copyright thread today, VAXMan, and you're clearly one of two things.
1. A troll. In that case, you need to try a little harder.
2. A RIAA shill. In case you aren't aware what a shill is, this is a term for hired goons that act as outsiders in an attempt sway public opinion. In this case, expect to be walking the unemployment line soon - the Rich Indolent Assholes Association will be defunct in 3 years. Its no longer a question of morality or legality - its a question of reality. People like to share and download MP3 files - millions and millions of people. The number of people who enjoy this is increasing rapidly, and the publicity being generated by the RIAA's asinine attack on Napster is making this number increase expodentially. Its safe to piss off a small minority - it's decidedly unsafe (for the bottom line, that is) to piss off a number that could soon reach a majority. When a majority of this country believes there is nothing wrong with sharing files (and it will happen), the RIAA's day will be done (Personal note - I had never even heard of the RIAA or napster until the lawsuit. I'm now a dedicated user of the system, and a strong critic of the RIAA, although I don't share illegal material)
At the moment it seems that most advocates of internet privacy just want to stop people from downloading a couple of MP3s - what are they going to say when people are able to download entire discographys, or movies like Titanic?
In fact, this future has already arrived - have you checked IRC lately? Movies that haven't even been released yet, or just have been released to the theatres, are available for download. I have yet to think of a popular movie I couldn't find with a half hour of effort (not that I would DL them of course, this is merely research) Of course, the files are 100-500 megs depending on quality, so unless you've got a Cablem modem or equivalent, it takes a looooong time.
Of course, as bandwidth gets higher, the faster it gets... isn't technology grand?
I have a two-part suggestion, based on the following assumptions:
1)You a are very clever troll. In that case, I applaud a very well-conceived and entertaining post.
2)You actually believe that fundie bullshit. In this case, I have four words for you: You aren't God, asshole. YOU didn't write the Bible. In fact, the bible you read (I'm assuming KJV, all idiot fundies seem to read the edited version) bears little resemblance to what was actually written in Hebrew - the translation of the bible into Greek was atrocious. Your overwhelming holier-than-thou attitude is very typical of thumpers - judgemental, unforgiving fuckers such as yourself are the ones who will find themselves in Hell, if it indeed exists. You claim to be Christian, but don't have the slighest idea what true Christianity is. Let me leave you with a quote you probably conveniently forget as it does not match up with your rigid view: Luke 6:37 -
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
A misguided government of a large and fairly rich country can do an incredible amount of damage during the time it takes it to realize that its goals are unachievable.
This is quite possibly the most profound statement I've ever found on/., and it applies to the US government. See the "War on Drugs", the DMCA, the Vietnam war... the list is endless.
Oh, and it's kind of off-topic, but are there any numbers on how much the DVD piracy market has exploded since the release of the DeCSS program? Just curious...
I don't know about numbers, but one thing I do know is that all of the attention to DeCss has made both the code and useful applications much more widespread. There are several very neat DVD rippers out there(check Gnutella and Napster/Wrapster), and the number of movies availble for download is increasing expodentially from distributed clients and IRC.
Thanks MPAA, your ill-advised lawsuit just made "pirating" much more popular and easier. You'll be driven out of business yet!
Let me begin by saying, in the nicest way possible,
You're a stupid fuck. You have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Do you have even the slightest understanding of ecology? Students have parents (usually) to feed them. Deer don't.
Here's a question that your feeble mind might comprehend - would you rather your precious deer die by a gunshot or starve to death? Go ahead, try to get hunting banned. Then, when hordes of hungry deer are eating every farmer's field in sight, don't complain when YOUR food starts getting more expensive or unavailable. Don't cry when millions of deer each year starve because chewing the bark off trees (who knows, maybe the trees in your landscaped yard?) doesn't give them enough to live through the winter.
Stupid asshole. Try this new thing called LEARNING. You might like it.
From all the whining about your stories, I can imagine you're somehow using telekinesis to FORCE people to enter and post to this article.
If you don't like reading about or by Jon, for fuck's sake DON'T click on the article. Nobody (barring Jon's projected telekinesis) is forcing you to read it, and quite frankly, it makes those who whine look like idiots.
I have yet to find an example of a database in the US where this isnt true as well.
Wanna bet? It's called the credit reporting bureau's databases. Sure, you can request (or purchase) PART OF your credit report, but they have a great deal more information on you than you might expect. And you have NO RIGHT at ALL to change the information in there.
In fact, according to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (not a very accurate name), the Credit reporting companies don't really have to remove inaccurate information. Sure, you can send them a protest letter, but the incorrect information still stays on your report and you're still denied credit based on it.
And I won't even START on the MIB (Medical Information Bureau, not Men in Black) - lets just say if you were ever really sick, this group knows about it, and that information is freely available (regardless of their claims) to almost any organization that asks. People with bad health are bad credit risks, after all...
It's a mile long, and if you're American, you don't have a bit of control over it.
if I had the choice to lower the number of break-ins in the Netherlands by 50% while increasing the number of people killed in shootings by 50% the choice would be easy: I would prefer people living to a couple less break-ins.
He was referring to all violent crime in general. It drops when the society is armed. This is a fact, regarless of the FUD spread about gun-control nuts.
I truly feel sorry for you European types - your leaders get to be protected with guns, but they decided your lives aren't worth it. And you people actually approve.
n America's recent history, how many times have people used guns to defend their "freedom". None, that's how many....(additional meaningless bullshit deleted)
This is clearly a troll, but let me respond nonetheless.
So my life isn't worth the protection a gun offers? You would prefer to disarm me with a law, which just gives would-be criminals a banner that they can steal, rape and kill with impunity? Face the facts - When Florida relaxed their CCW (concealed weapon permit) law, violent crime dropped 70% in one year. Look it up.
Crime drops in an armed society, and none of your bullshit made-up statistics will eliminate that simple fact. It's cliche, but PEOPLE kill other people, not the tools those people use.
I'd pay an additional dollar, or two, to be allowed to copy a DVD or CD for personal use.
You don't need to purchase a license to copy - if it's for your PERSONAL USE, it's already allowed. By law, no matter what those pieces of shit at the MPAA say.
It's called "fair use". If you don't make a profit, you can copy it. Plain and simple.
This sounds good, but it's going to be hard to implement. The problem is that fair use rights a) are very broad and b) can only be determined legally after the fact.
I understand what you're saying here - but I have to disagree. Just because something is difficult to do gives these bastards the right to take away my "fair use" rights? Fuck that. It's the MPAA's responsibility to implement a system like this, not ours, and their lack of legal and effective access control methods is certainly not our problem.
The real problem here is that the MPAA and all of the other Evil Acronyms(TM) are attempting a pre-emptive strike against digital copying of their copywrited works. Even LEGAL copying. Well, I understand their position (retarded as though it may be), but they just need to shut the fuck up. If they catch pirates who *ARE MAKING MONEY* then they should sue/jail/castrate. That's fine, that's the law, it's wrong to make money from someone else's IP. But preventing me from making a digital backup copy? One that I won't be giving away or selling? That's wrong, that's a violation of my rights, and it must be stopped.
The ebook IS a PDF file, but you can't read it in Acrobat because Glassbooks uses a plugin that it doesn't install into Acrobat (I tried it in Acrobat proper, I don't have Reader installed on this machine). So it's a PDF file, but you can't read it in the standard PDF reader, unless you can manually install the Glassbook plugin into Acrobat.
Do you, or does anyone, else have a "solution" for this? I, too, have the BN locked version of the.pdf file. Proprietary crap like this pisses me off.
I don't talk politics with yanks anymore 'cause there is no point. The same old claims and denials get flung and if it gets too uncomfortable they claim "the red threat" "defense".
Hey - not all of us Americans are like this. There are many of us who really know what sort of evil things our government has done... but when we try to talk about it or change things, we're accused of being unpatriotic and told to "love it or leave it".
Americans never hear about the horrible things our government has done in school. We are not taught about things our leaders don't like us to hear. And when some of us do research, look into things like Echelon, our actions in the Iran/Iraq war, etc. we are accused of being crazy and paranoid.
I know what sort of evil bastards run my country. Not all of us defend them and agree with them - please remember that.
When will people realize law is not about right and wrong, or good and bad. It's simply the law.
You know what? This is the sort of thinking that is leading us all down the path to George Orwell's 1984. Just because a bunch of corrupt suits got a slight majority of drooling idiots to vote for him/her does NOT make them right. There are many laws that I disagree with, and you know what? Its not right to just shrug and say "The law is the law" - if something is wrong, we have the right and obligation as CITIZENS of this nation to make it right.
Great. More money down the drain. At least this research (assuming it isn't a cover for something else) may actually do some good... I guess we should be thankful they're not spending it on a study of cow farts this time...
Um, I would MUCH rather the evil politicians the idiots of this country continually elect do nothing... That way, they can't take even MORE freedom and excise even MORE taxes than they already do.
Think about it. I would vote for Ayn Rand's decaying corpse or a drooling catatonic without question - one less piece of shit politician out there trying to take what's mine. Better our "leaders" ignore us than to try to "fix" our country even more...
What will solve most (not all) of our tax-related problems is to force the government to stop wasting our money. Of course, as a Liberatarian, I believe not one cent of my money should be spent on something that does not directly affect me, but beside that arguement, the solution is simple:
Eliminate welfare for able-bodied/minded folk. They can get jobs, and the current system does not encourage (or force, as it should be) people to leave welfare and get a job. That's a huge chunk of change right there that could go back to our pockets through tax cuts.
I agree entirely. It is far worse to pretend at believing in an ideal than to not believe in the first place.
However, action in a mass sense usually starts with talk, even talk that is not backed up with action at first. An ideological movement takes a lot of "energy" to get moving, and even though the individual contribution of a "me too-er" may be small, their comments will be read by others who may be willing to invest more of their time and energy.
Our viewpoints are changing, slowly. This world is dependant on technology, and the readers of/. represent the leaders of technology - we don't realize exactly how much power we have.
This is ridiculous. How long are we going to let our rights get trampled on like this? Thank the goddess we have/. readers who are willing to take a stand for our freedom. NO data should be illegal - it's just 1's and 0's.
They can't put us all in jail - WE are the people, WE have the power - those rat bastards in DC have forgotten that.
Hmmmm... IMHO once a broadcaster freely releases their signal to the world over the airwaves, available to anyone with a TV and a set of rabbit ears, their ability to restrict the rebroadcast (or simulcast) should end.
Does anyone remember the big stink brought up by MediaOne vs local TV channels over this very same subject? The TV stations wanted to charge the cable companies for the honor of carrying their stations, but why should cable companies have to pay for someting the TV stations make available for free? It's all rather silly, to me.
Exactly. It boggles the mind to imagine why on earth a broadcaster, whose sole purpose of being is to sell advertising space, would sue someone for bringing in more viewers (assuming, of course, the broadcast is carried in its entirety)...
I mean, if I ran a TV Station, I would embrace streaming of my broadcast - more viewers = more $ you can charge to advertise. It's not as if you can't tell exactly how many people view from the net.
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Could you inform me how to get rid of the registry keys that prevent users from using Napster? I'm not interested in using Napster again -- I just don't like having a scarlett letter in my registry.
Certainly. Check out:
http://eccentrix.com/computer/napsterfix/
Not the best done site I've ever seen, but it appears to have the valid fix.
On that Napster special MTV showed last week, they interviewed Sean, who claimed that "Napster" came from his school nickname, which was coined because of his curly "nappy" hair.
The people who play moral games and claim that it is not theft are among the most dangerous people in the computer militia known as the online piracy community. They will be the leaders in the new force against copyright, the people who gut the government and industry of all serious order, and who declare any creative art not tied to an artifact to be the thing of the past.
This is rich.... a "computer militia"? I can see it now - a bunch of black-trenchcoated, combat booted Linux geeks whose beowulf-clustered palm pilots generate enough static electricity to generate an impenetrable shield.
All kidding aside, I've read your posts in the other copyright thread today, VAXMan, and you're clearly one of two things.
1. A troll. In that case, you need to try a little harder.
2. A RIAA shill. In case you aren't aware what a shill is, this is a term for hired goons that act as outsiders in an attempt sway public opinion. In this case, expect to be walking the unemployment line soon - the Rich Indolent Assholes Association will be defunct in 3 years. Its no longer a question of morality or legality - its a question of reality. People like to share and download MP3 files - millions and millions of people. The number of people who enjoy this is increasing rapidly, and the publicity being generated by the RIAA's asinine attack on Napster is making this number increase expodentially. Its safe to piss off a small minority - it's decidedly unsafe (for the bottom line, that is) to piss off a number that could soon reach a majority. When a majority of this country believes there is nothing wrong with sharing files (and it will happen), the RIAA's day will be done (Personal note - I had never even heard of the RIAA or napster until the lawsuit. I'm now a dedicated user of the system, and a strong critic of the RIAA, although I don't share illegal material)
At the moment it seems that most advocates of internet privacy just want to stop people from downloading a couple of MP3s - what are they going to say when people are able to download entire discographys, or movies like Titanic?
In fact, this future has already arrived - have you checked IRC lately? Movies that haven't even been released yet, or just have been released to the theatres, are available for download. I have yet to think of a popular movie I couldn't find with a half hour of effort (not that I would DL them of course, this is merely research) Of course, the files are 100-500 megs depending on quality, so unless you've got a Cablem modem or equivalent, it takes a looooong time.
Of course, as bandwidth gets higher, the faster it gets... isn't technology grand?
Does anyone here have any suggestions?
I have a two-part suggestion, based on the following assumptions:
1)You a are very clever troll. In that case, I applaud a very well-conceived and entertaining post.
2)You actually believe that fundie bullshit. In this case, I have four words for you: You aren't God, asshole. YOU didn't write the Bible. In fact, the bible you read (I'm assuming KJV, all idiot fundies seem to read the edited version) bears little resemblance to what was actually written in Hebrew - the translation of the bible into Greek was atrocious. Your overwhelming holier-than-thou attitude is very typical of thumpers - judgemental, unforgiving fuckers such as yourself are the ones who will find themselves in Hell, if it indeed exists. You claim to be Christian, but don't have the slighest idea what true Christianity is. Let me leave you with a quote you probably conveniently forget as it does not match up with your rigid view: Luke 6:37 -
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
A misguided government of a large and fairly rich country can do an incredible amount of damage during the time it takes it to realize that its goals are unachievable.
/., and it applies to the US government. See the "War on Drugs", the DMCA, the Vietnam war... the list is endless.
This is quite possibly the most profound statement I've ever found on
Oh, and it's kind of off-topic, but are there any numbers on how much the DVD piracy market has exploded since the release of the DeCSS program? Just curious...
I don't know about numbers, but one thing I do know is that all of the attention to DeCss has made both the code and useful applications much more widespread. There are several very neat DVD rippers out there(check Gnutella and Napster/Wrapster), and the number of movies availble for download is increasing expodentially from distributed clients and IRC.
Thanks MPAA, your ill-advised lawsuit just made "pirating" much more popular and easier. You'll be driven out of business yet!
Students or deer - what's the difference?
Let me begin by saying, in the nicest way possible,
You're a stupid fuck. You have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Do you have even the slightest understanding of ecology? Students have parents (usually) to feed them. Deer don't.
Here's a question that your feeble mind might comprehend - would you rather your precious deer die by a gunshot or starve to death? Go ahead, try to get hunting banned. Then, when hordes of hungry deer are eating every farmer's field in sight, don't complain when YOUR food starts getting more expensive or unavailable. Don't cry when millions of deer each year starve because chewing the bark off trees (who knows, maybe the trees in your landscaped yard?) doesn't give them enough to live through the winter.
Stupid asshole. Try this new thing called LEARNING. You might like it.
From all the whining about your stories, I can imagine you're somehow using telekinesis to FORCE people to enter and post to this article.
If you don't like reading about or by Jon, for fuck's sake DON'T click on the article. Nobody (barring Jon's projected telekinesis) is forcing you to read it, and quite frankly, it makes those who whine look like idiots.
I have yet to find an example of a database in the US where this isnt true as well.
Wanna bet? It's called the credit reporting bureau's databases. Sure, you can request (or purchase) PART OF your credit report, but they have a great deal more information on you than you might expect. And you have NO RIGHT at ALL to change the information in there.
In fact, according to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (not a very accurate name), the Credit reporting companies don't really have to remove inaccurate information. Sure, you can send them a protest letter, but the incorrect information still stays on your report and you're still denied credit based on it.
And I won't even START on the MIB (Medical Information Bureau, not Men in Black) - lets just say if you were ever really sick, this group knows about it, and that information is freely available (regardless of their claims) to almost any organization that asks. People with bad health are bad credit risks, after all...
It's a mile long, and if you're American, you don't have a bit of control over it.
if I had the choice to lower the number of break-ins in the Netherlands by 50% while increasing the number of people killed in shootings by 50% the choice would be easy: I would prefer people living to a couple less break-ins.
He was referring to all violent crime in general. It drops when the society is armed. This is a fact, regarless of the FUD spread about gun-control nuts.
I truly feel sorry for you European types - your leaders get to be protected with guns, but they decided your lives aren't worth it. And you people actually approve.
n America's recent history, how many times have people used guns to defend their "freedom". None, that's how many....(additional meaningless bullshit deleted)
This is clearly a troll, but let me respond nonetheless.
So my life isn't worth the protection a gun offers? You would prefer to disarm me with a law, which just gives would-be criminals a banner that they can steal, rape and kill with impunity? Face the facts - When Florida relaxed their CCW (concealed weapon permit) law, violent crime dropped 70% in one year. Look it up.
Crime drops in an armed society, and none of your bullshit made-up statistics will eliminate that simple fact. It's cliche, but PEOPLE kill other people, not the tools those people use.
Go away, little troll, ya bother me.
I'd pay an additional dollar, or two, to be allowed to copy a DVD or CD for personal use.
You don't need to purchase a license to copy - if it's for your PERSONAL USE, it's already allowed. By law, no matter what those pieces of shit at the MPAA say.
It's called "fair use". If you don't make a profit, you can copy it. Plain and simple.
This sounds good, but it's going to be hard to implement. The problem is that fair use rights a) are very broad and b) can only be determined legally after the fact.
I understand what you're saying here - but I have to disagree. Just because something is difficult to do gives these bastards the right to take away my "fair use" rights? Fuck that. It's the MPAA's responsibility to implement a system like this, not ours, and their lack of legal and effective access control methods is certainly not our problem.
The real problem here is that the MPAA and all of the other Evil Acronyms(TM) are attempting a pre-emptive strike against digital copying of their copywrited works. Even LEGAL copying. Well, I understand their position (retarded as though it may be), but they just need to shut the fuck up. If they catch pirates who *ARE MAKING MONEY* then they should sue/jail/castrate. That's fine, that's the law, it's wrong to make money from someone else's IP. But preventing me from making a digital backup copy? One that I won't be giving away or selling? That's wrong, that's a violation of my rights, and it must be stopped.
The ebook IS a PDF file, but you can't read it in Acrobat because Glassbooks uses a plugin that it doesn't install into Acrobat (I tried it in Acrobat proper, I don't have Reader installed on this machine). So it's a PDF file, but you can't read it in the standard PDF reader, unless you can manually install the Glassbook plugin into Acrobat.
.pdf file. Proprietary crap like this pisses me off.
Do you, or does anyone, else have a "solution" for this? I, too, have the BN locked version of the
I don't talk politics with yanks anymore 'cause there is no point. The same old claims and denials get flung and if it gets too uncomfortable they claim "the red threat" "defense".
Hey - not all of us Americans are like this. There are many of us who really know what sort of evil things our government has done... but when we try to talk about it or change things, we're accused of being unpatriotic and told to "love it or leave it".
Americans never hear about the horrible things our government has done in school. We are not taught about things our leaders don't like us to hear. And when some of us do research, look into things like Echelon, our actions in the Iran/Iraq war, etc. we are accused of being crazy and paranoid.
I know what sort of evil bastards run my country. Not all of us defend them and agree with them - please remember that.
When will people realize law is not about right and wrong, or good and bad. It's simply the law.
You know what? This is the sort of thinking that is leading us all down the path to George Orwell's 1984. Just because a bunch of corrupt suits got a slight majority of drooling idiots to vote for him/her does NOT make them right. There are many laws that I disagree with, and you know what? Its not right to just shrug and say "The law is the law" - if something is wrong, we have the right and obligation as CITIZENS of this nation to make it right.
Great. More money down the drain. At least this research (assuming it isn't a cover for something else) may actually do some good... I guess we should be thankful they're not spending it on a study of cow farts this time...
Um, I would MUCH rather the evil politicians the idiots of this country continually elect do nothing... That way, they can't take even MORE freedom and excise even MORE taxes than they already do.
Think about it. I would vote for Ayn Rand's decaying corpse or a drooling catatonic without question - one less piece of shit politician out there trying to take what's mine. Better our "leaders" ignore us than to try to "fix" our country even more...
What will solve most (not all) of our tax-related problems is to force the government to stop wasting our money. Of course, as a Liberatarian, I believe not one cent of my money should be spent on something that does not directly affect me, but beside that arguement, the solution is simple:
Eliminate welfare for able-bodied/minded folk. They can get jobs, and the current system does not encourage (or force, as it should be) people to leave welfare and get a job. That's a huge chunk of change right there that could go back to our pockets through tax cuts.
I agree entirely. It is far worse to pretend at believing in an ideal than to not believe in the first place.
/. represent the leaders of technology - we don't realize exactly how much power we have.
However, action in a mass sense usually starts with talk, even talk that is not backed up with action at first. An ideological movement takes a lot of "energy" to get moving, and even though the individual contribution of a "me too-er" may be small, their comments will be read by others who may be willing to invest more of their time and energy.
Our viewpoints are changing, slowly. This world is dependant on technology, and the readers of
Can I hear a "hell yeah!"
/. readers who are willing to take a stand for our freedom. NO data should be illegal - it's just 1's and 0's.
This is ridiculous. How long are we going to let our rights get trampled on like this? Thank the goddess we have
They can't put us all in jail - WE are the people, WE have the power - those rat bastards in DC have forgotten that.
Lets remind them.
Hmmmm... IMHO once a broadcaster freely releases their signal to the world over the airwaves, available to anyone with a TV and a set of rabbit ears, their ability to restrict the rebroadcast (or simulcast) should end.
Does anyone remember the big stink brought up by MediaOne vs local TV channels over this very same subject? The TV stations wanted to charge the cable companies for the honor of carrying their stations, but why should cable companies have to pay for someting the TV stations make available for free? It's all rather silly, to me.
Exactly. It boggles the mind to imagine why on earth a broadcaster, whose sole purpose of being is to sell advertising space, would sue someone for bringing in more viewers (assuming, of course, the broadcast is carried in its entirety)...
I mean, if I ran a TV Station, I would embrace streaming of my broadcast - more viewers = more $ you can charge to advertise. It's not as if you can't tell exactly how many people view from the net.