... most or all new XBox games are required to have online features, and perhaps online upgrades for older games (DOA3, etc) that are downloadable from the network.
If Microsoft implements that policy, developers will be annoyed, but users would have many more reasons to get online with their XBox.
How about an automated removal process? When someone (who has fixed their open relay) requests to be removed from the spam blacklist, the blacklist's site could attempt to connect to and relay test-spam through the supposedly fixed relay. If the mail gets delivered (to e-mail addresses monitored by the spam blacklist site), then the relay hasn't been closed properly and thus won't be removed from the list.
I thought there were a few court cases and judge's decisions stating that ISP's were *not* liable for user content?
For example, the good old Blumenthal v America Online Inc. suit said as much.
I'm no lawyer, but if that's correct, the ISP's in question, being not legally liable for anything, don't have to so much as pay attention to the MPAA and its requests to boot users off their broadband lines.
Here's a fun way to distribute DeCSS:
1) Take a drivable mower.
2) Find a friendly uncle (or something) with a very large field of grass.
3) Mow the DeCSS source code into the grass so that is visible from the air.
If you're really nuts (and your uncle has a *very* large field), you might be able to pick it up on satellite images. Will the MPAA then sue NASA?
As far as I know, the best way to post something anonymously would be to do so on Freenet, IRC, or on web sites, and use ZKS Freedom to disguise one's tracks.
Alternatively, you could always get colo at HavenCo and post it there..
That's some nice bandwidth. If only having access to high bandwidth lines didn't cost retarded amounts of money, the Internet would be a far better place than it is now. Just imagine, if the last-mile bit was solved with high(er)-bandwidth lines everywhere, one wouldn't need cable or telephones..
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A somewhat older rig for 3D visualization can be bought at Uncle Ira's Moser Electronics site, under the "Exotic Hardware" section.
... most or all new XBox games are required to have online features, and perhaps online upgrades for older games (DOA3, etc) that are downloadable from the network.
If Microsoft implements that policy, developers will be annoyed, but users would have many more reasons to get online with their XBox.
How about an automated removal process? When someone (who has fixed their open relay) requests to be removed from the spam blacklist, the blacklist's site could attempt to connect to and relay test-spam through the supposedly fixed relay. If the mail gets delivered (to e-mail addresses monitored by the spam blacklist site), then the relay hasn't been closed properly and thus won't be removed from the list.
Actually, older versions of XWin32 are freeware (or shareware?). I trolled Google and found an old copy. Works great.
I thought there were a few court cases and judge's decisions stating that ISP's were *not* liable for user content? For example, the good old Blumenthal v America Online Inc. suit said as much.
I'm no lawyer, but if that's correct, the ISP's in question, being not legally liable for anything, don't have to so much as pay attention to the MPAA and its requests to boot users off their broadband lines.
Should I blame the USA? Microsoft spawned there, after all.
I can't think of a catchy way of writing a "Blame the USA" song, though..
Here's a fun way to distribute DeCSS: 1) Take a drivable mower. 2) Find a friendly uncle (or something) with a very large field of grass. 3) Mow the DeCSS source code into the grass so that is visible from the air. If you're really nuts (and your uncle has a *very* large field), you might be able to pick it up on satellite images. Will the MPAA then sue NASA?
As far as I know, the best way to post something anonymously would be to do so on Freenet, IRC, or on web sites, and use ZKS Freedom to disguise one's tracks. Alternatively, you could always get colo at HavenCo and post it there..
That's some nice bandwidth. If only having access to high bandwidth lines didn't cost retarded amounts of money, the Internet would be a far better place than it is now. Just imagine, if the last-mile bit was solved with high(er)-bandwidth lines everywhere, one wouldn't need cable or telephones..
Utopia? Nah. Better? Yes.