While your post is pretty much correct, and the basic point holds true, there's one minor detail:
But slashdot.org is probably going to load at the same speed it is currently loading and your email attachments are going to take as much to upload as it is currently taking.
If you are using your ISPs mail server, then uploading your attachment to them will be over the fast connection, and actually will go faster (for you.) That mail server sending the attachment to the destination mail server however will be over the backbone, so will be the same slow speed as now, but you won't notice that yourself.
100 volts of electricity to make light that can only be seen in a dark room? Would we be able to power this via a battery for any length of time, and would I get electricuted if I dropped it?
The fluorescent backlighting in your current laptop requires much more than this to light up right now, usually in the range of 400 - 10000 volts.
So scale down that voltage to this 'high' voltage of 100v, and compare to your current battery life and frequency of getting shocked when you drop it.
If I was in your shoes, I would have wrote the guy a check, then put a stop payment on it after leaving the courthouse, then let him sue you again in hopes of getting a different judge.
I was about ready to write out a post making the same basic point, but you did both that and added alot more detail than I could come up with in the first few minutes of reading the story.
The question is whether or not Google is profiting off of Viacom's content without an agreement in place to allow them to do so.
Concidering the creators of the content viacom 'owns' want it there, I find it hard to believe you're still arguing IP law is to protect content creators and 'compensate artists'
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I know what your saying and I agree with it, but having the legal right to make a copy doesn't mean that they don't have the right to try and stop you.
Actually if you were to follow the spirit of copyright law, they do not have that right at all. After a certain time (Despite the fact right now its 100 years after the death of the copyright holder) their work MUST enter the public domain. That is the cost and price of getting a copyright on the work in the first place.
If they do not wish to pay the costs involved with getting a copyright, then I do not wish to grant them the rights a copyright would give. It's as simple as that.
Before DRM, it was morally tricky to assume that they had no intent to pay for their copyright by putting it in the public domain later. Unless you can see the future, there's no way to know for sure ahead of time. DRM is exactly the proof that they have no intention to play by the spirit of copyright however, so they do not deserve a limited monopoly over distribution from the start.
If the public can not benifit from their creation, screw them, nether can they.
If I'm missing something, then I'm sure a lot of other people are too, so please explain: exactly what is stopping malware2.0 from killing my processor?
A hardware switch or button that needs to be set in program mode.
Shame about the file fragments (or whole files) they'll find on your harddrive.. which the court will compell you to produce to a forensic expert. You're better off planting a worm infection on your computer.. then claim you were part of a botnet.
Totally valid point. One of the main reasons you should stay under the radar and not get a finger pointed at you if at all possible.
While excuses such as 'someone was on my wireless' are totally valid, the court will indeed check your systems, and once they find the files in question, add one purgery charge if you attempted to use that wireless excuse.
Alot more care needs to be taken to hide ALL of your downloads of that nature. Warez, music, video, everything.
Encrypted disks will be found, and now it's up to a judge to choose between your excuse why you can't show the court whats in it, and the FUD the procecuter will throw out.
Hiding your data on removable media (disk or otherwise) or even hidden systems, still seems like it would rely on luck of them not being found (Remember, in the USA, its quite possible for a raid first, sue later, depending on the source of the files. Alot more likely in massive busts than simple riaa/mpaa auto-lawsuits thou.)
Even your work infection idea isnt too good in all cases. "Yes your honor, we believe the computer was infected and part of a botnet.. so those files were put there by some hacker. The defendant just found them and played the music and watched the videos.. er, i mean the hacker somehow loaded them to the video player cache.. er, i mean the hacker must have gotten into his set top box and streamed media there too..."
Most patterns of usage of those types of files will not match what a botnet/trojan would do with them.
Making this type of attack public is Great for ppl who really didn't commit a crime and their wireless was used by someone else to do it. One less seeming item of proof to use aginst them.
But for the people really breaking the law and trying to lie about it after getting caught, you will need aLOT more planning to go into your excuse(s), and enough mucking with your system to hide things that it will not be convienent at all to use your pirated booty.
Of course that call is up to you. But if you are breaking the current laws, don't expect this one thing alone to help you out much if at all if you get caught.
Can most people detect when they're getting a cold? I always notice, just before the cold symptoms begin, a distinct baseline smell in my nose which does not come from the environment around me--it's always there no matter where I am or what I'm smelling.
It's very strange you mention this. I have the same ability, which most people I tell about it claim is 'in my head'.
The strangest part, in a botched medical procedure when I was 3 years old, I fully lost my sense of smell (Called 'anosmia'.)
Yet to this day, about 12-18 hrs before I notice the first symptoms of a cold or flu, I too can smell this strange odor and know to associate it with having caught a cold.
Unfortunatly due to not having a sense of smell, I've never been able to compare the cold catching smell with any other odor, but both due to the fact my smell receptors are physically damaged, and no one else i've mentioned this to knows what i'm talking about (plus you are the first person i've ever heard describe also having it), I tend to think either most people don't have this sense, or if they do it's percieved on such a low level that it's not realized it's even a sense or 'smell' and gets processed in another way by the brain.
While I do agree, falling overboard is a likely answer, and everything you said about that is true.
There is still one question... Where is the boat?
They started the search a couple days after he went out, basically once people noticed he wasnt back. As I remember, a week or something like that later there was concern for a storm coming in. One would think a spotter plane would atleast find the boat, before that storm came in.
Granted after a storm, which even if not a week later, im sure at least once between now and then probably happened, I would assume the chances of finding a boat go down dramatically. And if the boat happens to be in pieces, even if some pieces are found somewhere, id assume it could easily be no where near where he was by now, and would take a sheer stroke of luck for it to be a piece identifiable in some way.
Couldn't responding with a "We don't think you are the copyright holder of this material. Please show us proof you are before we take it down.", as long as it's swiftly done, be considered an adequate response still keeping the recipient shielded?
No You must take down the offending material upon recept of the takedown notice. By definition, if you contact them to ask for any proof, then your first action after recept was not to take the material down.
Now, the 2nd part after taking down the material is to contact whomever posted it to inform them. At that point, that party can claim the takedown notice is incorrect, and request the material be put back. But the point of that notice is so the ISP has contact info to pass along to whomever filed the takedown notice.
Once those are done, the ISP is safe harbored.
Then its fine for the ISP to leave the material up until the other two parties duke it out in court, and neither can come back and sue the ISP under the DMCA for that specific piece of media/whatever.
PBS should at this point not even have bothered to contact NBD at all what so ever, like the article claims they did (and got no reply) Their first step should have been to contact youtube and file their counter claim. Links will be back up. Youtube is safe. PBS is assuming all liability. Youtube can pass on PBSs lawyer info when/if NBD requests it from youtube, and then its up to the lawyers to deal with it. Depending on the wording here, and my lack of understanding, it is possible youtube MUST send PBSs contact info to NBD even if NBD does not request it. But still, no big deal either way.
There are many steps in there which if NBD "didn't respond", the matter can be concidered done and closed, or PBS can choose to counter sue them in the UK.
Which local telephone companies in the United States allow land-line customers to receive SMS? Or do I have to sign up for a 24-month mobile phone contract at $30 per month?
Short of voip services, no land-line carrier is likely to offer sms, since it originated with the cell networks, their main competition. I thought i saw something on skypes site about it with skype in, but didn't look too close.
One option is to get a free or freeish instant messaging client I know Yahoo, AOL AIM, and ICQ all let you send and receive SMS's. I think even Google talk lets you.
You are correct in that the code ended with 'A'. In the original code, select did not matter, however a lot of non konami games ended up ripping the code for alot of their games when it was popular with the 'inside' crowd, and of course variations arose, with different ending keys for diff codes, or where select/start at the end mattered. For the first few konami games, you had to put in the code either at the title screen, or while paused, so start simply started the game or unpaused, like you said.
I just now looked actually, wikipedia has a surprisingly long article on it, plus a list of games (both konami and non) that used that code.. atleast one is as new as the nintendo Wii!
It would be cool if you could just activate the individual features you are interested in, rather than have to buy say vista ultimate just to get one feature you need that happens only to be in ultimate.
That sounds way too close to buying your OS and then purchasing the applications you need and installing them seperate.
Why don't they start with, say, the VR interfacing hardware, and then, I don't know, maybe the computers and software needed to generate the environment.
Get two or more of these nonexistant devices in the same room talking to eachother over nice fast cheap ethernet first. THEN worry about the external network to hook said nonexistant devices together over a distance.
Oh, wait, my bad. Not as easy to get peoples money that way. Nevermind.
In fairness, the throw-away credit card number part should be fairly decent as far as online shopping goes.
I used to have an actual credit card that had this feature (MBNA bank if anyone is interested, highly recomended.)
They had it where you could use the app on the webpage, or download what appeared to be a flash standalone app that did the same thing.
It would generate a credit card #, exp date (of your choosing, min 1 month in advance rounded to the end of that month) and the 3 digit code. You could also set a limit on that card. Once it was charged to by someone, the number was locked to that vendor, and only they could make future charges to it. You can also go in and shut it off at any time prior to the expiration.
The idea is, in the automated way a charge is made to the card, and even if it is stored, stolen, or sniffed along the way, anyone ELSE trying to use that number after the automated charge would get denied. Also the store itself would get denied if it tried to charge over the limit, or past the expiration or when you disabled the number.
It was a feature I used quite alot.
The only downside here is the fact its PayPal and not a real bank. So kudos for them adding a good feature, but booo for them still being paypal and all the downsides that entails.
Do a youtube search on "water boarding" some time. A form of torture made leagal by the US (as far as that goes, but they do it) that is akin to drowning you as far as your lungs cant get enough air.
Also check back to the canadian dude that was traveling through the US (connecting flight), who was detained, sent to another country by the US specifically for the purpose to torture him. He was held for around a year, and daily had his arms and hands whipped with large metal cables, and had his legs clubbed.
Given her past actions (and without getting into the ethical or moral value of her crusade) I highly doubt that she has the legal right to distribute the software that she's making available today.
Most likely, you are correct.
By using traditional copyright law, the copy SHE has is perfectly legal, since only diebold broke the law and voilated copyright by distributing it (Unless of course they decide to not sue themselfs, by granting themselfs permission to distribute it to her, and thus abide by copyright law.) However, without diebolds permission, she has no rights under copyright to distribute it further.
The thing that bothers me is the government is actually allowing this software to be copyrighted in the first place. By the nature of what its doing (democracys future in this country is riding on this softwares sholders) the govt should instantly revoke ALL ip protection for this software, copyright, pattent, trade secret, everything.
It's sickening that the govt is allowing someone to potentially commit treason with this get out of jail free card of copyright protection, and that he isnt in prison for the crime.
> get pay-tv where you can watch movies without interruption (at least here in the netherlands)
Yes, not in the USA really.
Our pay-per-view tv still has ads most of the time, thou fortunatly not interrupting the show, just at the begining, and sometimes at the end.
Even when you go and buy a DVD, there are generally ads packed at the start, and frequently set so you can't skip them.
Technically downloading here isn't suppost to be illegal, but i fear it soon will be, in addition to distributing and copying which already is illegal (regarding bittorrent downloaded shows, where you upload as well) and ripping a DVD to remove the ads (or atleast change it so they can be skipped) is definatly illegal.
Of course a large portion of us don't care about the fact its illegal, and do it anyway, but that's the only way to get ad free movies and shows these days in the US.
Sorry, whats wrong with IPv4 and what problems that I have will be fixed with IPv6? You really want to start having to remember 8 groups of four hexidecimal digits just because "it da futar!"? Name one practical, real world use, that isnt solved by natting.
The thing wrong with IPv4 is that it is expensive if not impossible to get a large block of IP addresses, one for each machine you desire you connect to the internet.
Now, maybe you only have one machine yourself, but that in itself proves your lack of qualification to give input on this subject. It is also not the target crowd for slashdot.
If you have 50 systems and want them all on the internet, NAT does not allow you to do that. It really only allows 1. The point is sometimes 1 isnt enough, and you need more systems on the net at the same time. So NAT has to be ruled out.
Even if you want to attempt to claim port forwarding works with NAT to fake it, you fortunatly provided my argument that it doesnt. If you have 200 web servers, port forwarded from one IP, you yourself say you would hate to remember all those ports and which machine they go to, by your complaint at remembering IP addresses in IPv6.
Fortunatly the rest of us use DNS, which lets us not have to remember IPs. DNS doesn't much help with port mappings like you prefer to use.
The point is, your usage of the internet is very very limited, and atypical of the people here on slashdot.
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I can't agree more!
I no longer want anyone to call it 'copyright violation', but instead lets call it 'early retirement to the public domain'
While your post is pretty much correct, and the basic point holds true, there's one minor detail:
But slashdot.org is probably going to load at the same speed it is currently loading and your email attachments are going to take as much to upload as it is currently taking.
If you are using your ISPs mail server, then uploading your attachment to them will be over the fast connection, and actually will go faster (for you.)
That mail server sending the attachment to the destination mail server however will be over the backbone, so will be the same slow speed as now, but you won't notice that yourself.
100 volts of electricity to make light that can only be seen in a dark room? Would we be able to power this via a battery for any length of time, and would I get electricuted if I dropped it?
The fluorescent backlighting in your current laptop requires much more than this to light up right now, usually in the range of 400 - 10000 volts.
So scale down that voltage to this 'high' voltage of 100v, and compare to your current battery life and frequency of getting shocked when you drop it.
Personally, I think this should be illegal.
Fortunatly, it is.
but my suspicions were confirmed when it was announced that Google Mail would be storing your emails ad-infinitum even if you deleted them.
And this announced policy outrages you more than the fact governments want the same exact thing forced upon all ISPs?
If I was in your shoes, I would have wrote the guy a check, then put a stop payment on it after leaving the courthouse, then let him sue you again in hopes of getting a different judge.
In the mean time, that officer could be on the streets doing his work ... *snip*
And that is why everyone who can do so should go in to court for these kinds of tickets.
That's one more officer we can keep off the streets, making the world a little safer for everyone, even if only for 30 minutes...
I wish I had mod points for you!
I was about ready to write out a post making the same basic point, but you did both that and added alot more detail than I could come up with in the first few minutes of reading the story.
The question is whether or not Google is profiting off of Viacom's content without an agreement in place to allow them to do so.
Concidering the creators of the content viacom 'owns' want it there, I find it hard to believe you're still arguing IP law is to protect content creators and 'compensate artists'
I know what your saying and I agree with it, but having the legal right to make a copy doesn't mean that they don't have the right to try and stop you.
Actually if you were to follow the spirit of copyright law, they do not have that right at all.
After a certain time (Despite the fact right now its 100 years after the death of the copyright holder) their work MUST enter the public domain. That is the cost and price of getting a copyright on the work in the first place.
If they do not wish to pay the costs involved with getting a copyright, then I do not wish to grant them the rights a copyright would give. It's as simple as that.
Before DRM, it was morally tricky to assume that they had no intent to pay for their copyright by putting it in the public domain later. Unless you can see the future, there's no way to know for sure ahead of time.
DRM is exactly the proof that they have no intention to play by the spirit of copyright however, so they do not deserve a limited monopoly over distribution from the start.
If the public can not benifit from their creation, screw them, nether can they.
If I'm missing something, then I'm sure a lot of other people are too, so please explain:
exactly what is stopping malware2.0 from killing my processor?
A hardware switch or button that needs to be set in program mode.
Shame about the file fragments (or whole files) they'll find on your harddrive.. which the court will compell you to produce to a forensic expert. You're better off planting a worm infection on your computer.. then claim you were part of a botnet.
Totally valid point. One of the main reasons you should stay under the radar and not get a finger pointed at you if at all possible.
While excuses such as 'someone was on my wireless' are totally valid, the court will indeed check your systems, and once they find the files in question, add one purgery charge if you attempted to use that wireless excuse.
Alot more care needs to be taken to hide ALL of your downloads of that nature. Warez, music, video, everything.
Encrypted disks will be found, and now it's up to a judge to choose between your excuse why you can't show the court whats in it, and the FUD the procecuter will throw out.
Hiding your data on removable media (disk or otherwise) or even hidden systems, still seems like it would rely on luck of them not being found (Remember, in the USA, its quite possible for a raid first, sue later, depending on the source of the files. Alot more likely in massive busts than simple riaa/mpaa auto-lawsuits thou.)
Even your work infection idea isnt too good in all cases. "Yes your honor, we believe the computer was infected and part of a botnet.. so those files were put there by some hacker. The defendant just found them and played the music and watched the videos.. er, i mean the hacker somehow loaded them to the video player cache.. er, i mean the hacker must have gotten into his set top box and streamed media there too..."
Most patterns of usage of those types of files will not match what a botnet/trojan would do with them.
Making this type of attack public is Great for ppl who really didn't commit a crime and their wireless was used by someone else to do it. One less seeming item of proof to use aginst them.
But for the people really breaking the law and trying to lie about it after getting caught, you will need aLOT more planning to go into your excuse(s), and enough mucking with your system to hide things that it will not be convienent at all to use your pirated booty.
Of course that call is up to you.
But if you are breaking the current laws, don't expect this one thing alone to help you out much if at all if you get caught.
Can most people detect when they're getting a cold? I always notice, just before the cold symptoms begin, a distinct baseline smell in my nose which does not come from the environment around me--it's always there no matter where I am or what I'm smelling.
It's very strange you mention this. I have the same ability, which most people I tell about it claim is 'in my head'.
The strangest part, in a botched medical procedure when I was 3 years old, I fully lost my sense of smell (Called 'anosmia'.)
Yet to this day, about 12-18 hrs before I notice the first symptoms of a cold or flu, I too can smell this strange odor and know to associate it with having caught a cold.
Unfortunatly due to not having a sense of smell, I've never been able to compare the cold catching smell with any other odor, but both due to the fact my smell receptors are physically damaged, and no one else i've mentioned this to knows what i'm talking about (plus you are the first person i've ever heard describe also having it), I tend to think either most people don't have this sense, or if they do it's percieved on such a low level that it's not realized it's even a sense or 'smell' and gets processed in another way by the brain.
While I do agree, falling overboard is a likely answer, and everything you said about that is true.
There is still one question... Where is the boat?
They started the search a couple days after he went out, basically once people noticed he wasnt back.
As I remember, a week or something like that later there was concern for a storm coming in.
One would think a spotter plane would atleast find the boat, before that storm came in.
Granted after a storm, which even if not a week later, im sure at least once between now and then probably happened, I would assume the chances of finding a boat go down dramatically.
And if the boat happens to be in pieces, even if some pieces are found somewhere, id assume it could easily be no where near where he was by now, and would take a sheer stroke of luck for it to be a piece identifiable in some way.
Couldn't responding with a "We don't think you are the copyright holder of this material. Please show us proof you are before we take it down.", as long as it's swiftly done, be considered an adequate response still keeping the recipient shielded?
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Purely from reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Inf
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
(So hold this with the same grain as anything from wikipedia...)
No
You must take down the offending material upon recept of the takedown notice.
By definition, if you contact them to ask for any proof, then your first action after recept was not to take the material down.
Now, the 2nd part after taking down the material is to contact whomever posted it to inform them.
At that point, that party can claim the takedown notice is incorrect, and request the material be put back.
But the point of that notice is so the ISP has contact info to pass along to whomever filed the takedown notice.
Once those are done, the ISP is safe harbored.
Then its fine for the ISP to leave the material up until the other two parties duke it out in court, and neither can come back and sue the ISP under the DMCA for that specific piece of media/whatever.
PBS should at this point not even have bothered to contact NBD at all what so ever, like the article claims they did (and got no reply)
Their first step should have been to contact youtube and file their counter claim.
Links will be back up. Youtube is safe. PBS is assuming all liability. Youtube can pass on PBSs lawyer info when/if NBD requests it from youtube, and then its up to the lawyers to deal with it.
Depending on the wording here, and my lack of understanding, it is possible youtube MUST send PBSs contact info to NBD even if NBD does not request it. But still, no big deal either way.
There are many steps in there which if NBD "didn't respond", the matter can be concidered done and closed, or PBS can choose to counter sue them in the UK.
Heya ice.
Wow you finally got a mac!
You should come back to the chan with the rest of us sometime
Which local telephone companies in the United States allow land-line customers to receive SMS? Or do I have to sign up for a 24-month mobile phone contract at $30 per month?
Short of voip services, no land-line carrier is likely to offer sms, since it originated with the cell networks, their main competition.
I thought i saw something on skypes site about it with skype in, but didn't look too close.
One option is to get a free or freeish instant messaging client
I know Yahoo, AOL AIM, and ICQ all let you send and receive SMS's. I think even Google talk lets you.
You are correct in that the code ended with 'A'. In the original code, select did not matter, however a lot of non konami games ended up ripping the code for alot of their games when it was popular with the 'inside' crowd, and of course variations arose, with different ending keys for diff codes, or where select/start at the end mattered.
g ames
For the first few konami games, you had to put in the code either at the title screen, or while paused, so start simply started the game or unpaused, like you said.
I just now looked actually, wikipedia has a surprisingly long article on it, plus a list of games (both konami and non) that used that code.. atleast one is as new as the nintendo Wii!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_code_
Posting with no karma bonus due to offtopicness...
It would be cool if you could just activate the individual features you are interested in, rather than have to buy say vista ultimate just to get one feature you need that happens only to be in ultimate.
That sounds way too close to buying your OS and then purchasing the applications you need and installing them seperate.
Why don't they start with, say, the VR interfacing hardware, and then, I don't know, maybe the computers and software needed to generate the environment.
Get two or more of these nonexistant devices in the same room talking to eachother over nice fast cheap ethernet first. THEN worry about the external network to hook said nonexistant devices together over a distance.
Oh, wait, my bad. Not as easy to get peoples money that way. Nevermind.
In fairness, the throw-away credit card number part should be fairly decent as far as online shopping goes.
I used to have an actual credit card that had this feature (MBNA bank if anyone is interested, highly recomended.)
They had it where you could use the app on the webpage, or download what appeared to be a flash standalone app that did the same thing.
It would generate a credit card #, exp date (of your choosing, min 1 month in advance rounded to the end of that month) and the 3 digit code. You could also set a limit on that card.
Once it was charged to by someone, the number was locked to that vendor, and only they could make future charges to it.
You can also go in and shut it off at any time prior to the expiration.
The idea is, in the automated way a charge is made to the card, and even if it is stored, stolen, or sniffed along the way, anyone ELSE trying to use that number after the automated charge would get denied.
Also the store itself would get denied if it tried to charge over the limit, or past the expiration or when you disabled the number.
It was a feature I used quite alot.
The only downside here is the fact its PayPal and not a real bank. So kudos for them adding a good feature, but booo for them still being paypal and all the downsides that entails.
Do a youtube search on "water boarding" some time.
+ boarding+torture&search=Search
A form of torture made leagal by the US (as far as that goes, but they do it) that is akin to drowning you as far as your lungs cant get enough air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGyz-MMQuvU
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=water
Also check back to the canadian dude that was traveling through the US (connecting flight), who was detained, sent to another country by the US specifically for the purpose to torture him. He was held for around a year, and daily had his arms and hands whipped with large metal cables, and had his legs clubbed.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
Given her past actions (and without getting into the ethical or moral value of her crusade) I highly doubt that she has the legal right to distribute the software that she's making available today.
Most likely, you are correct.
By using traditional copyright law, the copy SHE has is perfectly legal, since only diebold broke the law and voilated copyright by distributing it (Unless of course they decide to not sue themselfs, by granting themselfs permission to distribute it to her, and thus abide by copyright law.)
However, without diebolds permission, she has no rights under copyright to distribute it further.
The thing that bothers me is the government is actually allowing this software to be copyrighted in the first place. By the nature of what its doing (democracys future in this country is riding on this softwares sholders) the govt should instantly revoke ALL ip protection for this software, copyright, pattent, trade secret, everything.
It's sickening that the govt is allowing someone to potentially commit treason with this get out of jail free card of copyright protection, and that he isnt in prison for the crime.
> get pay-tv where you can watch movies without interruption (at least here in the netherlands)
:/
Yes, not in the USA really.
Our pay-per-view tv still has ads most of the time, thou fortunatly not interrupting the show, just at the begining, and sometimes at the end.
Even when you go and buy a DVD, there are generally ads packed at the start, and frequently set so you can't skip them.
Technically downloading here isn't suppost to be illegal, but i fear it soon will be, in addition to distributing and copying which already is illegal (regarding bittorrent downloaded shows, where you upload as well) and ripping a DVD to remove the ads (or atleast change it so they can be skipped) is definatly illegal.
Of course a large portion of us don't care about the fact its illegal, and do it anyway, but that's the only way to get ad free movies and shows these days in the US.
Yeay USA
Sorry, whats wrong with IPv4 and what problems that I have will be fixed with IPv6? You really want to start having to remember 8 groups of four hexidecimal digits just because "it da futar!"?
Name one practical, real world use, that isnt solved by natting.
The thing wrong with IPv4 is that it is expensive if not impossible to get a large block of IP addresses, one for each machine you desire you connect to the internet.
Now, maybe you only have one machine yourself, but that in itself proves your lack of qualification to give input on this subject. It is also not the target crowd for slashdot.
If you have 50 systems and want them all on the internet, NAT does not allow you to do that. It really only allows 1. The point is sometimes 1 isnt enough, and you need more systems on the net at the same time. So NAT has to be ruled out.
Even if you want to attempt to claim port forwarding works with NAT to fake it, you fortunatly provided my argument that it doesnt.
If you have 200 web servers, port forwarded from one IP, you yourself say you would hate to remember all those ports and which machine they go to, by your complaint at remembering IP addresses in IPv6.
Fortunatly the rest of us use DNS, which lets us not have to remember IPs. DNS doesn't much help with port mappings like you prefer to use.
The point is, your usage of the internet is very very limited, and atypical of the people here on slashdot.