That one person was Peter Sunde one of the co-founders whos methodology was asking an admin to randomly pick out torrents from the site in an amount of no statistical relevance. Then together with other admins tried to figure out how much of it was legitimate by googling them but not downlaoding them. It wasn't the most scientific method (by his own addmition during the trial) and I wouldn't go around thinking it's in any way correct. The academic in me calls bs while the pirate in me don't care if 99% of it is illegitimate.
It scares me that you probobly are serious, I realy hope you get around to socialised healthcare soon and don't have to make those types of dessicions because of economic reasons alone. It's not a decission that should be made by anyone in that sittuation.:(
De-facto atheists which is most of us, are realy agnostic towards God in the same way we are agnostic towards unicorns or flying pink elephants. It's being one step away from being fundimentaly Atheists in the regard that no matter what with complete disregard for irrefutable evidence to the contrary they would still never accept that there is a God (or matrix..).
I'd say that de-facto atheism sounds like you, although I guess you could believe more in the Matrix than Unicorns for all I know.
I haven't heard about the n-back test before that's quite interesting. Would you recomend a source for finding out about things like the n-back test that's both truthfull and understandable for us who aren't researchers in your field? I'd really like to increase my attention span if there's proven methods for it.
Then what happends in Poland when the copyright passes it's duration 50-70 after the author death (or whatever it is in Poland)? Does it go into the "collective copyright management instututions"?
Now it might be because I'm living in another country or maybe it's just me but I had too think for a few seconds to figure out what it stood for aswell. I'm curious if it really is such an obvious ackronym too the rest of the world, I rarely se anything but reuters and TT over here.
Comparing the ackronym USA with AP is so absurd I can't be bothered qualifying why.
I know you are joking but I'd like to point out that screen shots are dismissed as evidence in Swedish court, or at least so has been the case previously. The only thing the horrible screen shots meant, was that they didn't even have to make that point to begin with.
1) People have been pirating computer games on a large scale since the early 80ies. If you haven't been able to make a buck before, you never will.
Funny you should say that my experiences are the opposite. Back in the day before the average Joes had Internet and CD Burners, it was quite easy to sell pirated CDs. Although back then the burner cost 100s of dollars and the CDs a few bucks each, so there was an inherent cost in reproduction.
Nowadays its almost impossible simply because even computer illiterate people can burn DVDs and download music.
Sweden is a country where parliament uses words like "The blogosphere" in normal conversation. We probably have more pirates than not and while there are a few old geezer who obviously lack understand of how the Internet work there's usually people around to correct them (Lage Rahm of the green party is quite good at that). I wouldn't be too worried at getting the courts up too speed with technology.
I'm sure my bank would love to argue they at least got the 13 right as they skim a penny of every transaction.
I'm sure this the most awesome thing since sliced bread, but can we please avoid trying too argue this from the point of peoples bank accounts when it introduces random error.
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I find it far more interesting that the police would question someone taking a picture of a crowd even if they are children.
That one person was Peter Sunde one of the co-founders whos methodology was asking an admin to randomly pick out torrents from the site in an amount of no statistical relevance. Then together with other admins tried to figure out how much of it was legitimate by googling them but not downlaoding them. It wasn't the most scientific method (by his own addmition during the trial) and I wouldn't go around thinking it's in any way correct. The academic in me calls bs while the pirate in me don't care if 99% of it is illegitimate.
The others asking you for help problem lies with people not getting better.
... that and you obviously aren't unplesant enough for them to be scared of asking you, work on that it helps.
... and made Glyn Moody the resident nitpicker?
God damn I hate it when FSF-zealots procrastinate and start annoying us with these types of things instead of doing anything remotely usefull.
It scares me that you probobly are serious, I realy hope you get around to socialised healthcare soon and don't have to make those types of dessicions because of economic reasons alone. It's not a decission that should be made by anyone in that sittuation. :(
De-facto atheists which is most of us, are realy agnostic towards God in the same way we are agnostic towards unicorns or flying pink elephants. It's being one step away from being fundimentaly Atheists in the regard that no matter what with complete disregard for irrefutable evidence to the contrary they would still never accept that there is a God (or matrix..).
I'd say that de-facto atheism sounds like you, although I guess you could believe more in the Matrix than Unicorns for all I know.
I haven't heard about the n-back test before that's quite interesting. Would you recomend a source for finding out about things like the n-back test that's both truthfull and understandable for us who aren't researchers in your field? I'd really like to increase my attention span if there's proven methods for it.
Then what happends in Poland when the copyright passes it's duration 50-70 after the author death (or whatever it is in Poland)? Does it go into the "collective copyright management instututions"?
Now it might be because I'm living in another country or maybe it's just me but I had too think for a few seconds to figure out what it stood for aswell. I'm curious if it really is such an obvious ackronym too the rest of the world, I rarely se anything but reuters and TT over here.
Comparing the ackronym USA with AP is so absurd I can't be bothered qualifying why.
I know you are joking but I'd like to point out that screen shots are dismissed as evidence in Swedish court, or at least so has been the case previously. The only thing the horrible screen shots meant, was that they didn't even have to make that point to begin with.
1) People have been pirating computer games on a large scale since the early 80ies. If you haven't been able to make a buck before, you never will.
Funny you should say that my experiences are the opposite. Back in the day before the average Joes had Internet and CD Burners, it was quite easy to sell pirated CDs. Although back then the burner cost 100s of dollars and the CDs a few bucks each, so there was an inherent cost in reproduction.
Nowadays its almost impossible simply because even computer illiterate people can burn DVDs and download music.
At least that's the shift I've observed.
Sweden is a country where parliament uses words like "The blogosphere" in normal conversation. We probably have more pirates than not and while there are a few old geezer who obviously lack understand of how the Internet work there's usually people around to correct them (Lage Rahm of the green party is quite good at that). I wouldn't be too worried at getting the courts up too speed with technology.
They have a "how to help" page up at: http://trial.thepiratebay.org/how-to-help/ which asks for translators so I'm sure everything will be translated.
That's because there's nothing from a user-perspective too compare with.
Wait until Chrome works on Linux, it's quite an eyeopener (although at the same time a huge trade of due to lack of extensibility).
Although to be fair I hear massive improvements in this apartment is coming for Firefox 3.2 so maybe it won't even raise an eyebrow by that time.
I'm sure my bank would love to argue they at least got the 13 right as they skim a penny of every transaction. I'm sure this the most awesome thing since sliced bread, but can we please avoid trying too argue this from the point of peoples bank accounts when it introduces random error.