According to this article at ABCNews.com, The injunction will go into effect at midnight Friday, after the nation's largest record producers post a $5 million bond against any financial losses Napster suffers from being shut down pending trial.
As I see it, Napster gets what it loses if RIAA wins/loses in court.
we didn't want to steal other peoples music to use for the eggs and we didn't want to just use noise, so we used the music close at hand with the approval of the artist. All of the bands and or musician friends we approached said, great idea - we support you. This was generally followed by their saying they didn't want to participate for fear of the backlash. Others got bogged down in band meetings about differences of opinion about what to do and never gave the ok.
Of course not... it'll get blocked by censorware.... then they'll have to go and put in a name change... just like Beaver College voted to do... then that'll be a real mess... having multiple working names for the same product... (not like we don't have that with flip-chip/coppermine/slot 1 Pentium processors already...)
John Berthoud, president of the National Taxpayers Union, based in Alexandria, Va., said, "It's disappointing but perhaps not unexpected that Microsoft opponents, who are trying to use the American judicial system to run down Microsoft, would stoop to these kind of political tactics against the voices of the free market."
Of course, as a reminder, the National Taxpayers Union is sponsored (apparently in a large part) by Microsoft. "Voices of the Free Market" my a$$!
"The voice of the free market. Brought to you to today by the letters Q, and Z, and Microsoft."
This seems to be a pretty standard practice in the real world... auctioning off a foreclosed home, or repossesed car... granted that they're doing things fairly quickly... that's hardly even enough time to get in touch with anybody regarding reposession of a domain name...
It'd just be nice to see one of the bigwigs get nailed with this... Seeing Microsoft lose www.microsoft.com would be funny... of course, even if you won the auction, you couldn't really do anything with it, because of recent laws and court decisions against cyber squatting and trademark infringment... that could be an interesting scenario...
Only problem with EZ Pass (or the North Texas Tollway Authority's TollTag) and the like is that they're a huge invasion of privacy.
That's a very valid point. Thankfully, they don't write speeding tickets based on ez-pass records.
Although, there WAS that episode of Law and Order which protrayed the DA using ez-pass records to ascertain that a person's car had entered the state and had ample opportunity to commit a murder... That is something to think about... but since (at least in NY) your license plate is photographed when you go through a toll booth anyways...
As an example, it is local government that is trying to eliminate lines at toll booths via EZ Pass and its ilk.
Not just local government, but a coalition of "local" governments. NY, NJ, Delaware, Massachusetts and West Virginia have all gotten into the act. Maryland has facilities under construction. And this is a "Good Thing"(tm) EZ-Pass Map
I had completley forgotten that Delaware was in on it until I was headed through NJ-Del to DC on vacation, and found that it was accepted on a strech of highway there. It was so nice to just blow around a large pile of traffic and go through the dedicated ez-pass lane.
Kind of reminds me of when I served on jury duty in a civil case. It wasn't the glitz and glamour that you see on tv shows like Law & Order and The Practice.
These were real people here in the courtroom.
One of my fellow jurors was a farmer. He brought fresh picked strawberries for us to eat one day. The alternate juror in the case was a good friend of mine who sat right next to me when we graduated from high school.
When it was over, it wasn't some *bang* gavel on the bench, court is dismissed, go home type of thing... We spent time talking with the judge and counsel (and how the defense counsel had really gotten away with one by settling the case.) We talked about issues we had with the current justice system... we even raised questions about the jurors being able to ask questions that we thought were important for witnesses.
But I can tell you one thing... that transcript is pretty accurate for what a trial can be.
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In a related story, today, the Better Business Bureau has filed a lawsuit today, seeking an injunction against Home Dept, Sears Roebuck & Co, Ace Hardware, True Value Hardware, and 50,000+ other independent hardware retailers for selling crowbars, the tool of choice for theives breaking and illegally entering businesses, in their stores nationwide.
"It's disgusting." says BBB representative Harvey Rabbit. "In 80% of all robberies, a crowbar was used to force doors open, or break through glass, or even beat unsuspecting victims silly while they sleep! The crowbar is a dangerous tool that criminals have been abusing. We need to make sure that people cannot have access to this dangerous tool."
"It's all about people wanting to remove a useful tool from use." says recycling-advocate-turned-crowbar-rights activist Marion Fruvous. "There are many legitimate uses for a crowbar, like in construction, or demolition, or even pulling nails out of a wooden board. The fact that it's used by a few people for criminal purposes doesn't mean that it should be pulled from the stores' shelves..."
It is unclear at this time if Judge Nance will accept the preliminary injunction motion.
The more questions asked in a deposition, the more answers you get. Every question unearths some little piece. And anyways, if you get one answer at a deposition, and another answer in a trial, you have a conflict... and possibly grounds for discrediting a witness (if you can show the mistake was deliberate)
No, at least for me, it looks at the last one, and assigns an icon accrdingly. Then, if the particular extension is not set to "Always Show Extension", then the extension is not displayed.
Example on my machine: "Misch.doc.txt" has the.txt extension and a Text File icon. "Misch.txt.doc" has the.doc extension and a Word Document icon. "Misch.txt.js" does not display the.js extension (in this example). It has a JavaScript icon.
Do you live in a hick town in the bible belt? Same thing happens there. Small cinema shows objectional movie... townsfolkies get mad... boycott.. *poof*. Little cinema dies. Simply put, in this case, if a film's content is in opposite to the conditions of the community, it either won't be show, or nobody will go to see it.
And if you're talking about a system to edit a movie... you're plunking down another half million dollars for the system to do that, I'm sure.
One other nice thing that the digital format would allow you to do would be actually having the different formats of a movie avaliable in an "on demand" format. You could have a PG-13 version of a movie, as well as a R rated version of the movie...
You can also include captioning right into the movie... another plus in areas with large numbers of hard of hearing/deaf people. (No additional cost to have movies captioned.)
Exactly! (Somebody got it right!) This is how your long-distance telephone works too... Imagine a big n-ary tree, with lots of little local offices at the bottom. These local offices are connected to a higher level regional office, and the regional offices are hooked into a larger office, and so on and so forth, so there are about 5 levels to the tree. When a call gets routed, it goes up to the lowest level of the tree that contains both you and the destination.
If you were both on the same leaf of the tree, the call would be routed within that tree. If you were one hop away, your call would be routed one level up the tree, then back down to the leaf.
In some cases, a call may go up three levels of the tree and back down again. (Much like how IP is handled).
Eventually, the people at AT&T noticed that some of the main trunk lines were getting really clogged. (Like ones that run from NYC-Los Angeles.) These weren't exactly in the same section of the tree, and so they needed to work their way up to the top of the tree and back down, making it difficult at times to make that call.
So, what was the solution? A direct trunk line from NYC-Los Angeles. Calls that would normally travel up to the top of the tree were instead shunted out along this new line. The direct service not only improved the NYC-LA connection, but it also improved other conenctions as well, because the bandwith that was hogged by NYC-LA connections was freed up.
This is very similar to what we see here, except in this case, the cost of the additional bandwidth is only being absorbed by one "leaf" of the tree... those leafs willing to pay extra to have a direct connection to one of the main trunks... bypassing a lot of the hops on the way.
To quote the article, it is in files marked "Pamela Anderson movie listing.vbs, collegesex.vbs, Battlefield Earth.vbs, Napster Metallica Crack.vbs and NSync.vbs"
Because of the way windows works, you may see something like "PamelaAndersonMovie.mov.vbs", much like the ILOVEYOU virus had. But more often, Windows defaults to not showing the extension on.vbs files.
Gnutella though, will show the.vbs extension before you download. And think about it... would a good movie be only a few thousand bytes long???
The problem is that the amount of common sense in the universe is a constant, however, the population keeps rising. This particular one can only really hit your system if you download and run it.
What ever happened to sheer user stupidity? Calling employees in a company and asking them for their username and password... Especially in a university/educational setting with poorly trained and underfunded technology groups.
Hello? Yes, this is (technology support group name) calling, we're currently working on testing a (fancy acronym here) upgrade, and we were wondering if you could help us. We'll need your username and password...
Accidentally designing all of your hardware around a 12-bit controller is not a glitch. Claiming a 12-bit controller can produce 65000 colors cannot entirely be an accident.
Yes it can be an accident. You create a specifications document for a product. That document gets reviewed and checked. It is sent off to marketing, R&D, and other areas.
Someone, somewhere along the line someone makes a modification to the specifications, and this change doesn't make its way over to marketing. By this time, the advertising and promotional materials for the product have been created, but are never really checked against the final spec. Thus, marketing and deliverable differ. A simple mistake. At least HP is standing up and saying "Yeah, we screwed up."... it's a lot more than some companies are doing... (especially those who are going to hide behind the UCITA...)
There's a fine difference between mistake and lying... this feels like a mistake.
When RIT had new apartments installed, they put Ethernet, Cable and phone connections in each bedroom and the living room. Granted, it's college housing, but this was very important... (and they didn't think to shunt all 5 cable connections together the first time... and the same with the phones...) Oh well. That's RIT for ya. (RIT = Retards In Training)
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According to this article at ABCNews.com, The injunction will go into effect at midnight Friday, after the nation's largest record producers post a $5 million bond against any financial losses Napster suffers from being shut down pending trial.
As I see it, Napster gets what it loses if RIAA wins/loses in court.
Quoth the article:
we didn't want to steal other peoples music to use for the eggs and we didn't want to just use noise, so we used the music close at hand with the approval of the artist. All of the bands and or musician friends we approached said, great idea - we support you. This was generally followed by their saying they didn't want to participate for fear of the backlash. Others got bogged down in band meetings about differences of opinion about what to do and never gave the ok.
-misch
Read the profile mattw... I'm Comp Sci at RIT.
RIT, is a different school, even in a different town
;-)
Different town... oh yes... we're in South Henrietta... That really makes us the South Henrietta Institute of Technology... or S.H.I.T.
A little school conceited, huh? We're really only a 5 minute drive apart...
And we have a reputation too! okay... not a great one... but we have a reputation!
-Misch (Flamebait, I know
As much as I dislike my school... he's got a point... it is "Rochester Institute of Technology".
-Misch
I guess the can't call it "Sextium"
Of course not... it'll get blocked by censorware.... then they'll have to go and put in a name change... just like Beaver College voted to do... then that'll be a real mess... having multiple working names for the same product... (not like we don't have that with flip-chip/coppermine/slot 1 Pentium processors already...)
NYT Article
John Berthoud, president of the National Taxpayers Union, based in Alexandria, Va., said, "It's disappointing but perhaps not unexpected that Microsoft opponents, who are trying to use the American judicial system to run down Microsoft, would stoop to these kind of political tactics against the voices of the free market."
Of course, as a reminder, the National Taxpayers Union is sponsored (apparently in a large part) by Microsoft. "Voices of the Free Market" my a$$!
"The voice of the free market. Brought to you to today by the letters Q, and Z, and Microsoft."
One of the first things Adrienne said to him after they were wed... "I don't do windows." Congrats Hemos :-)
This seems to be a pretty standard practice in the real world... auctioning off a foreclosed home, or repossesed car... granted that they're doing things fairly quickly... that's hardly even enough time to get in touch with anybody regarding reposession of a domain name...
It'd just be nice to see one of the bigwigs get nailed with this... Seeing Microsoft lose www.microsoft.com would be funny... of course, even if you won the auction, you couldn't really do anything with it, because of recent laws and court decisions against cyber squatting and trademark infringment... that could be an interesting scenario...
dirty tricks are the only games Microsoft knows how to play
Well, there is that Minesweeper game...
Only problem with EZ Pass (or the North Texas Tollway Authority's TollTag) and the like is that they're a huge invasion of privacy.
That's a very valid point. Thankfully, they don't write speeding tickets based on ez-pass records.
Although, there WAS that episode of Law and Order which protrayed the DA using ez-pass records to ascertain that a person's car had entered the state and had ample opportunity to commit a murder... That is something to think about... but since (at least in NY) your license plate is photographed when you go through a toll booth anyways...
As an example, it is local government that is trying to eliminate lines at toll booths via EZ Pass and its ilk.
Not just local government, but a coalition of "local" governments. NY, NJ, Delaware, Massachusetts and West Virginia have all gotten into the act. Maryland has facilities under construction. And this is a "Good Thing"(tm) EZ-Pass Map
I had completley forgotten that Delaware was in on it until I was headed through NJ-Del to DC on vacation, and found that it was accepted on a strech of highway there. It was so nice to just blow around a large pile of traffic and go through the dedicated ez-pass lane.
New York State also offers on-line registration renewal and vanity plate service (Orders and lookup).
They may move slowly... but at least they're moving.
A large portion of the ICQ spec has already been reverse engineered at this time already (IIRC).
ICQ V. 5 Spec
Kind of reminds me of when I served on jury duty in a civil case. It wasn't the glitz and glamour that you see on tv shows like Law & Order and The Practice.
These were real people here in the courtroom.
One of my fellow jurors was a farmer. He brought fresh picked strawberries for us to eat one day. The alternate juror in the case was a good friend of mine who sat right next to me when we graduated from high school.
When it was over, it wasn't some *bang* gavel on the bench, court is dismissed, go home type of thing... We spent time talking with the judge and counsel (and how the defense counsel had really gotten away with one by settling the case.) We talked about issues we had with the current justice system... we even raised questions about the jurors being able to ask questions that we thought were important for witnesses.
But I can tell you one thing... that transcript is pretty accurate for what a trial can be.
In a related story, today, the Better Business Bureau has filed a lawsuit today, seeking an injunction against Home Dept, Sears Roebuck & Co, Ace Hardware, True Value Hardware, and 50,000+ other independent hardware retailers for selling crowbars, the tool of choice for theives breaking and illegally entering businesses, in their stores nationwide.
"It's disgusting." says BBB representative Harvey Rabbit. "In 80% of all robberies, a crowbar was used to force doors open, or break through glass, or even beat unsuspecting victims silly while they sleep! The crowbar is a dangerous tool that criminals have been abusing. We need to make sure that people cannot have access to this dangerous tool."
"It's all about people wanting to remove a useful tool from use." says recycling-advocate-turned-crowbar-rights activist Marion Fruvous. "There are many legitimate uses for a crowbar, like in construction, or demolition, or even pulling nails out of a wooden board. The fact that it's used by a few people for criminal purposes doesn't mean that it should be pulled from the stores' shelves..."
It is unclear at this time if Judge Nance will accept the preliminary injunction motion.
The more questions asked in a deposition, the more answers you get. Every question unearths some little piece. And anyways, if you get one answer at a deposition, and another answer in a trial, you have a conflict... and possibly grounds for discrediting a witness (if you can show the mistake was deliberate)
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No, at least for me, it looks at the last one, and assigns an icon accrdingly. Then, if the particular extension is not set to "Always Show Extension", then the extension is not displayed.
.txt extension and a Text File icon. .doc extension and a Word Document icon. .js extension (in this example). It has a JavaScript icon.
Example on my machine:
"Misch.doc.txt" has the
"Misch.txt.doc" has the
"Misch.txt.js" does not display the
Do you live in a hick town in the bible belt? Same thing happens there. Small cinema shows objectional movie... townsfolkies get mad... boycott.. *poof*. Little cinema dies. Simply put, in this case, if a film's content is in opposite to the conditions of the community, it either won't be show, or nobody will go to see it.
And if you're talking about a system to edit a movie... you're plunking down another half million dollars for the system to do that, I'm sure.
One other nice thing that the digital format would allow you to do would be actually having the different formats of a movie avaliable in an "on demand" format. You could have a PG-13 version of a movie, as well as a R rated version of the movie...
You can also include captioning right into the movie... another plus in areas with large numbers of hard of hearing/deaf people. (No additional cost to have movies captioned.)
I don't think censorship is an issue here.
Exactly! (Somebody got it right!) This is how your long-distance telephone works too... Imagine a big n-ary tree, with lots of little local offices at the bottom. These local offices are connected to a higher level regional office, and the regional offices are hooked into a larger office, and so on and so forth, so there are about 5 levels to the tree. When a call gets routed, it goes up to the lowest level of the tree that contains both you and the destination.
If you were both on the same leaf of the tree, the call would be routed within that tree. If you were one hop away, your call would be routed one level up the tree, then back down to the leaf.
In some cases, a call may go up three levels of the tree and back down again. (Much like how IP is handled).
Eventually, the people at AT&T noticed that some of the main trunk lines were getting really clogged. (Like ones that run from NYC-Los Angeles.) These weren't exactly in the same section of the tree, and so they needed to work their way up to the top of the tree and back down, making it difficult at times to make that call.
So, what was the solution? A direct trunk line from NYC-Los Angeles. Calls that would normally travel up to the top of the tree were instead shunted out along this new line. The direct service not only improved the NYC-LA connection, but it also improved other conenctions as well, because the bandwith that was hogged by NYC-LA connections was freed up.
This is very similar to what we see here, except in this case, the cost of the additional bandwidth is only being absorbed by one "leaf" of the tree... those leafs willing to pay extra to have a direct connection to one of the main trunks... bypassing a lot of the hops on the way.
PamelaAndersonMovie.mov, collegesex.zip, MetallicaMP3crack.zip
.vbs files.
.vbs extension before you download. And think about it... would a good movie be only a few thousand bytes long???
To quote the article, it is in files marked "Pamela Anderson movie listing.vbs, collegesex.vbs, Battlefield Earth.vbs, Napster Metallica Crack.vbs and NSync.vbs"
Because of the way windows works, you may see something like "PamelaAndersonMovie.mov.vbs", much like the ILOVEYOU virus had. But more often, Windows defaults to not showing the extension on
Gnutella though, will show the
The problem is that the amount of common sense in the universe is a constant, however, the population keeps rising. This particular one can only really hit your system if you download and run it.
What ever happened to sheer user stupidity? Calling employees in a company and asking them for their username and password... Especially in a university/educational setting with poorly trained and underfunded technology groups.
Hello?
Yes, this is (technology support group name) calling, we're currently working on testing a (fancy acronym here) upgrade, and we were wondering if you could help us. We'll need your username and password...
Accidentally designing all of your hardware around a 12-bit controller is not a glitch. Claiming a 12-bit controller can produce 65000 colors cannot entirely be an accident.
Yes it can be an accident. You create a specifications document for a product. That document gets reviewed and checked. It is sent off to marketing, R&D, and other areas.
Someone, somewhere along the line someone makes a modification to the specifications, and this change doesn't make its way over to marketing. By this time, the advertising and promotional materials for the product have been created, but are never really checked against the final spec. Thus, marketing and deliverable differ. A simple mistake. At least HP is standing up and saying "Yeah, we screwed up."... it's a lot more than some companies are doing... (especially those who are going to hide behind the UCITA...)
There's a fine difference between mistake and lying... this feels like a mistake.
When RIT had new apartments installed, they put Ethernet, Cable and phone connections in each bedroom and the living room. Granted, it's college housing, but this was very important... (and they didn't think to shunt all 5 cable connections together the first time... and the same with the phones...) Oh well. That's RIT for ya. (RIT = Retards In Training)