You have to put a little thought in to how to get an SSL certificate without the issuer knowing how to find you. Not a lot of thought, but it at least takes some effort.
This news just makes me wish there was another season of "Farscape" coming up. Or, hell, another season of ST:TNG.
Or another season of black filler between the commercials. Or another season of static. Or another season of being kicked in the groin by a large horse.
If you buy a book, do you believe you can make infinite copies of that book and sell them? If so, you should be in prison
That's your opinion.
No, that's the law. If you don't like it, write your congressman, or move to somewhere that's not the law.
What if I buy an educational book, rewrite the contents,
Irrelevant, since Adam didn't rewrite shit. He just distributed (and sold) the original episodes.
Nice try to change the subject, though.
and give it away, nonprofit,
He sold VCDs, by most reports. But, again, nice try to change the subject from the criminal acts the buy committed.
Does Cliff's Notes pay a royalty to the people who publish Shakespeare's work?
Shakespeare's work is public domain, and has been for centuries. Again, nice try to change the subject, but still irrelevant.
Since you have failed to actually address the real point - that this guy was distributing someone else's copyrighted works for profit, which is a felony - I have to conclude that you agree completely that he belongs in prison.
Yeah, I know about the full episode downloads that were available, but come on - they haven't even been available for ages.
The first six seasons for Stargate are readily available on DVD in most of the civilized world. Season seven will be out this year. There is no excuse for making pirated copies of that show available.
6. The humans see the Romulans, and realize they look just like our good buddies the Vulcans, so they form the Federation to implement a massive conspiracy to make all humans who saw the Romulans forget they had.
Depends on how its handled, and how many people try to file charges.
There's also the possibility of a class action lawsuit, which requires only money to pursue.
And if you're feeling especially mean, maybe a RICO lawsuit for criminal enterprise, since this is also almost certainly a violation of Title 17 of the US Code, too.
I'd love to see how they're going to stop me from running a cable from the headphone jack to the audio input of my sound card. Proprietary headphones? Then I'll tear the fuckers apart and wire the speakers direct.
Not to mention, the price will be higher, and nobody will buy it anyway.
More likely is that spammers will take the doznes, or hundreds of domain names they register at a time now, and that they run their own DNS for now, and simply automate adding SPF records for, based on their current IP address.
No "email for this domain is allowed to come from these machines" program that is under control of the domain owner has any hope of reducing spam, because spammers will just use it, and keep cycling through disposable domain names at $5-10 each. Only.mail solves that, and that's at the expense of giving someone else control over some of your email settings (and paying them $2000 for the privilige, per domain).
In the short term, if whitelisting based on SPF becomes popular, it will increase the amount of spam coming through. In the long run, it will have zero effect.
Usually DNS records take 24 hours for changes to propogate across the whole of the net.
Unless the spammer sets the TTL to, say, five minutes. You can override that, but there are hazards to doing so.
So as a spammer, you'll have a very small window of opportunity from the moment your DNS records are valid to the moment you're on a distributed blacklist.
About the same window of opportunity that they have with disposable dial-up accounts, which have been a standard spammer trick for years. At worst, they'll just register a hundred new domain names at a time instead of 50. Won't slow 'em down.
A lot of spam we see comes at work from people with no reverse IP address.
That is a valid and useful thing to block or filter on. I currently block any IP that sends me spam that has no rDNS.
Graylisting is at least more likely to stop spam than legitimate email, but it has its hazards, too. Not all mail servers are configured correctly.
If only the original authors of SMTP could have seen the mess we're in now.
The original authors of STMP would view trying to block spam as network damage, and built a protocol robust enough to handle it. They couldn't imagine what email has become.
Suppose spammers set up and SPF record for 0.0.0.0/0.
If they follow the spam laws it is trivial to filter all their mail at the server. If they aren't, it is trivial to prove that they are breaking the law
Suppose the spammer is using a DCHP IP address. Suppose the spammer is sending their spam through the corporate mail server at a major ISP (who let them, in a pink contract). Suppose the spammer is using trojaned machines in Europe and China, and other parts of the world where US law doesn't apply.
You've got nothing new. All these issues have been dealt with by spammers in the past, quite successfully.
SPF will have zero affect on the amount of spam being sent, and will most likely increase the amount being received, until mail admins figure it out.
All of the posts I see so far are ones complaining about Microsoft having control over it
Here's a compalint that has nothing to do with who proposes what:
This suffers from the same flaw as SPF. The records in question are controlled by the spammer, so it will do nothing to reduce spam. If anything, it will increase it. Spammers already cycle through dozens, even hundreds of domain names per month. All they need to do is add the necessary SPF/Caller ID domain records - which will be completely automated in their automated "sign up for hundreds of domain names at a time" scripting, and their spam will get whitelisted by anybody who swallows what is being spoon fed them by Microsoft or the people behind SPF.
Huh? I'd never use a service that could restrict what I do, say or see in the first place.
If that were true, you wouldn't be posting to/. at all. I guarantee you, your ISP will can your account for downloading child porn. Or uploading it. Ergo, you do, in fact, have restrictions on what you can see and do. Ergo, you're full of shit.
If you're my customer, you signed my terms of service. If you didn't like those terms, don't sign them. Complaining about them afterwards is stupid and whiney.
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You have to put a little thought in to how to get an SSL certificate without the issuer knowing how to find you. Not a lot of thought, but it at least takes some effort.
This news just makes me wish there was another season of "Farscape" coming up. Or, hell, another season of ST:TNG.
Or another season of black filler between the commercials. Or another season of static. Or another season of being kicked in the groin by a large horse.
I think that Mr. Galton should review California Penal Code 158 at some point, before appearing in court.
If you buy a book, do you believe you can make infinite copies of that book and sell them? If so, you should be in prison
That's your opinion.
No, that's the law. If you don't like it, write your congressman, or move to somewhere that's not the law.
What if I buy an educational book, rewrite the contents,
Irrelevant, since Adam didn't rewrite shit. He just distributed (and sold) the original episodes.
Nice try to change the subject, though.
and give it away, nonprofit,
He sold VCDs, by most reports. But, again, nice try to change the subject from the criminal acts the buy committed.
Does Cliff's Notes pay a royalty to the people who publish Shakespeare's work?
Shakespeare's work is public domain, and has been for centuries. Again, nice try to change the subject, but still irrelevant.
Since you have failed to actually address the real point - that this guy was distributing someone else's copyrighted works for profit, which is a felony - I have to conclude that you agree completely that he belongs in prison.
Of course there is. There are plenty of reasons and excuses.
I can think of only one: criminal intent.
The guy belongs in prison.
You're an idiot. You're too stupid to even comprehend the difference between a sale of goods and copyright licensing.
If you buy a book, do you believe you can make infinite copies of that book and sell them? If so, you should be in prison.
Yeah, I know about the full episode downloads that were available, but come on - they haven't even been available for ages.
The first six seasons for Stargate are readily available on DVD in most of the civilized world. Season seven will be out this year. There is no excuse for making pirated copies of that show available.
Seattle may be a center of technology, but Orange County (which is where Huntington Beach is) is the most wired county in the US.
Deal with it. luser.
6. The humans see the Romulans, and realize they look just like our good buddies the Vulcans, so they form the Federation to implement a massive conspiracy to make all humans who saw the Romulans forget they had.
I'm voting again EVERY encumbent, since I don't think there's a human being in office worth the air they breath.
I can't help but wonder how frightened any incumbent should be of someone who can't spell incumbent.
Maybe if everyone voted against all incumbents for a decade or so we'd flush the professional policiticians out and take back our country.
No, then we'd have government run by professional bureaucrats who are all appointed, and completely unanswerable to the voters.
Film at 11.
Free hint, Joe: If it doesn't suck, it ain't Star Trek.
Depends on how its handled, and how many people try to file charges.
There's also the possibility of a class action lawsuit, which requires only money to pursue.
And if you're feeling especially mean, maybe a RICO lawsuit for criminal enterprise, since this is also almost certainly a violation of Title 17 of the US Code, too.
Clear Channel provides Stern's studio for recording. The others are just rebroadcasting. Stop it from being recorded, and nobody can rebroadcast.
I'd love to see how they're going to stop me from running a cable from the headphone jack to the audio input of my sound card. Proprietary headphones? Then I'll tear the fuckers apart and wire the speakers direct.
Not to mention, the price will be higher, and nobody will buy it anyway.
DIVX IS DEAD! LONG LIVE DIVX!
. . . that you must spend all your time doing one thing, and only that thing.
Perhaps you should game for a while, and then go out with your woman for a while, both in the same day.
That, or get a Sears catalog, and order a life.
More likely is that spammers will take the doznes, or hundreds of domain names they register at a time now, and that they run their own DNS for now, and simply automate adding SPF records for, based on their current IP address.
.mail solves that, and that's at the expense of giving someone else control over some of your email settings (and paying them $2000 for the privilige, per domain).
No "email for this domain is allowed to come from these machines" program that is under control of the domain owner has any hope of reducing spam, because spammers will just use it, and keep cycling through disposable domain names at $5-10 each. Only
In the short term, if whitelisting based on SPF becomes popular, it will increase the amount of spam coming through. In the long run, it will have zero effect.
. . . a four wheel Segway.
Comcast will come out of my local block list someafter the heat death of the universe.
May they rot in hell, up to their necks in viagra and penis cream.
Usually DNS records take 24 hours for changes to propogate across the whole of the net.
Unless the spammer sets the TTL to, say, five minutes. You can override that, but there are hazards to doing so.
So as a spammer, you'll have a very small window of opportunity from the moment your DNS records are valid to the moment you're on a distributed blacklist.
About the same window of opportunity that they have with disposable dial-up accounts, which have been a standard spammer trick for years. At worst, they'll just register a hundred new domain names at a time instead of 50. Won't slow 'em down.
A lot of spam we see comes at work from people with no reverse IP address.
That is a valid and useful thing to block or filter on. I currently block any IP that sends me spam that has no rDNS.
Graylisting is at least more likely to stop spam than legitimate email, but it has its hazards, too. Not all mail servers are configured correctly.
If only the original authors of SMTP could have seen the mess we're in now.
The original authors of STMP would view trying to block spam as network damage, and built a protocol robust enough to handle it. They couldn't imagine what email has become.
Suppose spammers did set up SPF.
Suppose spammers set up and SPF record for 0.0.0.0/0.
If they follow the spam laws it is trivial to filter all their mail at the server. If they aren't, it is trivial to prove that they are breaking the law
Suppose the spammer is using a DCHP IP address. Suppose the spammer is sending their spam through the corporate mail server at a major ISP (who let them, in a pink contract). Suppose the spammer is using trojaned machines in Europe and China, and other parts of the world where US law doesn't apply.
You've got nothing new. All these issues have been dealt with by spammers in the past, quite successfully.
SPF will have zero affect on the amount of spam being sent, and will most likely increase the amount being received, until mail admins figure it out.
#1: They are patenting the idea.
#2: Their license is apparently not compatible with the GPF license.
If clueless idiots start blocking based on the lack of a Microsoft patented DNS record, you will not longer be able to use an open source mail server.
Step 3: Profit!
Microsoft certainly has plenty of underpants gnomes.
All of the posts I see so far are ones complaining about Microsoft having control over it
Here's a compalint that has nothing to do with who proposes what:
This suffers from the same flaw as SPF. The records in question are controlled by the spammer, so it will do nothing to reduce spam. If anything, it will increase it. Spammers already cycle through dozens, even hundreds of domain names per month. All they need to do is add the necessary SPF/Caller ID domain records - which will be completely automated in their automated "sign up for hundreds of domain names at a time" scripting, and their spam will get whitelisted by anybody who swallows what is being spoon fed them by Microsoft or the people behind SPF.
. . . that Canada was a republic, or that bananas would grow so far north.
I wouldn't be your customer for long.
/. at all. I guarantee you, your ISP will can your account for downloading child porn. Or uploading it. Ergo, you do, in fact, have restrictions on what you can see and do. Ergo, you're full of shit.
You wouldn't be my customer at all.
Huh? I'd never use a service that could restrict what I do, say or see in the first place.
If that were true, you wouldn't be posting to
Your freedom of speech ends at my firewall.
Not if I am your customer.
If you're my customer, you signed my terms of service. If you didn't like those terms, don't sign them. Complaining about them afterwards is stupid and whiney.