If you read the one page release notes, it seems Fedora actually knows how to try to cater to more general audience too, while still supporting the core Linux audience. I have always thought that why Ubuntu became the "standard" general OS you introduce as first Linux, as Fedora does a lot more things a lot better (and the Red Hat delivered design is imo a lot better than whats delivered from Debian)
What was interesting was the "better than ever tablet support". I have been thinking of getting a tablet pc for convenience in bed, and Linux would actually be quite perfect OS for it since theres no need to play games. Seems they're taken things like that into account too, while Linux community usually forgets the non-techie stuff.
It's more like setting up a site called drugdealers.com where people post advertisements on where to buy drugs. You can defend your "but the site is only giving address where to buy drugs, I'm not selling any!" all you want, but it wont hold up in court.
Terrible metaphor. It's more like setting up a site called streetaddresses.com where people post addresses of many places.
Did you forget that we're talking about The Pirate Bay here?
Is it illegal to download a list of instructions on which chunks to use ( and in what order ) to create a copyrighted work from your family photos?:)
That's just the same old "but it's just random 0 and 1 on my hdd, it's not the movie, it just happens to have the same order in bytes!". No matter how you try to circumvent laws with stupid technical jargon, if it's clear you are or your intention is to violate copyright laws, you wont get far with such jargon.
That doesn't really take into account usability. Things like fast interface, mouse gestures (finger gestures?) and so on can count a lot too and is missing in atleast Nokia's browser and IE. Opera wins a lot more with it's usability, so its not always only about the rendering engine.
And so isn't Opera, because Apple doesn't want to let other browsers in its phone.
But on Windows Mobile side it's clear that Opera is a lot better than the IE that comes with it. As I use Opera on desktop too, it's great that it contains the usual features like mouse gestures too. And performance, rendering and "it feels fast" wise it dominates on both mobile and desktop.
They would be if they we're actively promoting it like The Pirate Bay, or something like setting up a DC++ hub called "All The Warez You Need". In that case they wouldn't be just a common carrier anymore, they would actively promote copyright infringement like The Pirate Bay clearly does.
It's more like setting up a site called drugdealers.com where people post advertisements on where to buy drugs. You can defend your "but the site is only giving address where to buy drugs, I'm not selling any!" all you want, but it wont hold up in court.
There's no need to get into technical jargon about "md5 hashes of a file", ".torrent file just links to peers" in The Pirate Bay's case because it's so blatantly clear their main purpose is to enable users to spread copyrighted material.
Except that the law does NOT need to operate on black and white terms, at least not in Scandinavia, and doesn't even do so. Court takes into account your purpose too, and its pretty clear what The Pirate Bay's is. They probably wish now that they would had chosen a better name than a Pirate with it, didn't make it so clear that TPB is 99% for copyrighted materials and piss back on copyright owners when they wanted their content removed. THEN we would have a harder case, but now its perfectly clear.
Magnet link is an URI, your browser is supposed to send it to it directly.
It's interesting that TPB takes this stance now when it has become too expensive and hard to keep their trackers working, and while having legal issues shot against them from everywhere. DHT and PEX have been around for years with no significant improvements. This isn't a change because "the technology is ready now", but because the ship is sinking.
No, it is not. You cannot circumvent laws with technical bullshit, atleast not in nordic countries and probably elsewhere in Europe too, because intention counts in courts aswell. If it is as clear as The Pirate Bay is and how they handled to all the DMCA requests (even if theres no such law in sweden, but common sense works long way), judges are going to see whats going on and punish for it. You cannot get around that with technical reasonings like "but we dont host the files, we just provide.torrent files". And before anyone jumps on the "but then Google should be sued and shutdown too" bullshit, everyone can see the difference between TPB and Google.
Shouldn't the story here be about censorship rather than game content? Make a game that portrays Americans in a negative light and sell it here -- I doubt our Government will feel the need to prevent our people from buying it.
I really doubt there would NOT be any problems to release a game where you're an Iraqi fighting against the invading your country by American soldiers, trying to protect your country from the "bad". To give some extra perspective to the game, the American soldiers could be raping your families and completely destroying your country (interestingly that's not even made up story, as it's real). Or where you would be designing terrorist attacks against USA. Do you really think that would be allowed?
But there's no need to think what would happen. It would be banned for obscene material and the creators sent to jail, like in earlier case:
Extreme Associates and owners Robert Zicari, also known as Rob Black, 35, and his wife, Janet Romano, aka Lizzie Borden, 32, pleaded guilty in March to a felony charge of conspiracy to distribute obscene material through the mail and over the Internet and got over an year in jail time.
Yes, they are. Considering they reach almost 1% of internet users every day (by Alexa's stats), average 6 page views per visitor, 3-4 ads per page their CPM income is at least $2-3/1000 pageviews.
Alexa only shows the amount of visitors in percent and only TPB knows the actual amount, but 1% of internet users daily is A LOT and they're definitely making lots of money from the ads.
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If you read the one page release notes, it seems Fedora actually knows how to try to cater to more general audience too, while still supporting the core Linux audience. I have always thought that why Ubuntu became the "standard" general OS you introduce as first Linux, as Fedora does a lot more things a lot better (and the Red Hat delivered design is imo a lot better than whats delivered from Debian)
What was interesting was the "better than ever tablet support". I have been thinking of getting a tablet pc for convenience in bed, and Linux would actually be quite perfect OS for it since theres no need to play games. Seems they're taken things like that into account too, while Linux community usually forgets the non-techie stuff.
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Don't you too close it now, I'm 63% done receiving the GP's post!
It's more like setting up a site called drugdealers.com where people post advertisements on where to buy drugs. You can defend your "but the site is only giving address where to buy drugs, I'm not selling any!" all you want, but it wont hold up in court.
Terrible metaphor. It's more like setting up a site called streetaddresses.com where people post addresses of many places.
Did you forget that we're talking about The Pirate Bay here?
Is it illegal to download a list of instructions on which chunks to use ( and in what order ) to create a copyrighted work from your family photos? :)
That's just the same old "but it's just random 0 and 1 on my hdd, it's not the movie, it just happens to have the same order in bytes!". No matter how you try to circumvent laws with stupid technical jargon, if it's clear you are or your intention is to violate copyright laws, you wont get far with such jargon.
That doesn't really take into account usability. Things like fast interface, mouse gestures (finger gestures?) and so on can count a lot too and is missing in atleast Nokia's browser and IE. Opera wins a lot more with it's usability, so its not always only about the rendering engine.
And so isn't Opera, because Apple doesn't want to let other browsers in its phone.
But on Windows Mobile side it's clear that Opera is a lot better than the IE that comes with it. As I use Opera on desktop too, it's great that it contains the usual features like mouse gestures too. And performance, rendering and "it feels fast" wise it dominates on both mobile and desktop.
But how will we think of the children then? Won't somebody please think of the children?!
Bad text quality, idea out of sync with the output, no car analogy. Don't bother up-moderating this one.
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But the court systems and basis of laws are still pretty much the same, with some differences of course.
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They would be if they we're actively promoting it like The Pirate Bay, or something like setting up a DC++ hub called "All The Warez You Need". In that case they wouldn't be just a common carrier anymore, they would actively promote copyright infringement like The Pirate Bay clearly does.
The legality issue is not about DHT or torrents per se, it's about The Pirate Bay as a site. The underlying technology doesn't matter.
It's more like setting up a site called drugdealers.com where people post advertisements on where to buy drugs. You can defend your "but the site is only giving address where to buy drugs, I'm not selling any!" all you want, but it wont hold up in court.
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There's no need to get into technical jargon about "md5 hashes of a file", ".torrent file just links to peers" in The Pirate Bay's case because it's so blatantly clear their main purpose is to enable users to spread copyrighted material.
Except that the law does NOT need to operate on black and white terms, at least not in Scandinavia, and doesn't even do so. Court takes into account your purpose too, and its pretty clear what The Pirate Bay's is. They probably wish now that they would had chosen a better name than a Pirate with it, didn't make it so clear that TPB is 99% for copyrighted materials and piss back on copyright owners when they wanted their content removed. THEN we would have a harder case, but now its perfectly clear.
Magnet link is an URI, your browser is supposed to send it to it directly.
It's interesting that TPB takes this stance now when it has become too expensive and hard to keep their trackers working, and while having legal issues shot against them from everywhere. DHT and PEX have been around for years with no significant improvements. This isn't a change because "the technology is ready now", but because the ship is sinking.
No, it is not. You cannot circumvent laws with technical bullshit, atleast not in nordic countries and probably elsewhere in Europe too, because intention counts in courts aswell. If it is as clear as The Pirate Bay is and how they handled to all the DMCA requests (even if theres no such law in sweden, but common sense works long way), judges are going to see whats going on and punish for it. You cannot get around that with technical reasonings like "but we dont host the files, we just provide .torrent files". And before anyone jumps on the "but then Google should be sued and shutdown too" bullshit, everyone can see the difference between TPB and Google.
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The article poster lists several favorite games of his that he wants to play, and your suggestion is to find older, different games?
Actually, forget Freecycle, since.. eh, what are we talking about?
Shouldn't the story here be about censorship rather than game content? Make a game that portrays Americans in a negative light and sell it here -- I doubt our Government will feel the need to prevent our people from buying it.
I really doubt there would NOT be any problems to release a game where you're an Iraqi fighting against the invading your country by American soldiers, trying to protect your country from the "bad". To give some extra perspective to the game, the American soldiers could be raping your families and completely destroying your country (interestingly that's not even made up story, as it's real). Or where you would be designing terrorist attacks against USA. Do you really think that would be allowed?
But there's no need to think what would happen. It would be banned for obscene material and the creators sent to jail, like in earlier case:
Extreme Associates and owners Robert Zicari, also known as Rob Black, 35, and his wife, Janet Romano, aka Lizzie Borden, 32, pleaded guilty in March to a felony charge of conspiracy to distribute obscene material through the mail and over the Internet and got over an year in jail time.
Yes, they are. Considering they reach almost 1% of internet users every day (by Alexa's stats), average 6 page views per visitor, 3-4 ads per page their CPM income is at least $2-3/1000 pageviews.
Alexa only shows the amount of visitors in percent and only TPB knows the actual amount, but 1% of internet users daily is A LOT and they're definitely making lots of money from the ads.