I'll bet this spammer already has your e-mail address from some other source. He checks it against the Bluesecurity DB, and if it's a positive match, he sends you the Bluesecurity-targeted spam. Since there is no web site associated with these messages (because he's not selling anything), he does not suffer any consequences for these particular messages.
Not having time to read the law, how is a "digital copy" defined? Arguably, we're all playing digital copies when we listen to CDs in portable CD players with anti-skip RAM buffers.
A file on your HDD, OK, maybe obvious. How about optical media? Flash memory? A complete 3-second track in a volatile RAM buffer? What if you read the data into RAM (from the CD) BEFORE the performance, never to be stored permanently on your HDD? Loophole or not?
This product borrows heavily from the OSS Slimserver product, which is primarily developed for the Squeezebox and SliMP3 by http://www.slimdevices.com/Slim Devices.
Who said the lines were arbitrarily chosen? I'm more likely to believe that they were thoughtfully and carefully drawn, and the journalist that didn't repect them was probably being arrogant and insensitive.
Presumably, 40X media is built accordingly to withstand the force applied by a 40X drive. If/when drive speeds reach 64X, we should hope that media manufacturers will offer compatible discs.
This raises the question: what can be done to preserve the electronic record created by everyday users? Is any preservation medium cheap and easy enough to become ubiquitous in off-the-shelf systems?
To revert to the old-fashioned way of archiving, you'll need a printer. For a truly nostalgic effect, stick with the black and white models.
Aw for fuck's sake. Just get it; do whatever you want with it, and if it doesn't work out, cancel it. Keep your old 56k as backup. What have you got to lose? When a less restrictive ISP offers you broadband, jump ship and tell the cable provider why you left. The current monopoly on broadband service in your area probably won't last forever.
They can state what they like on paper, but enforcement is the key. Sticks and stones, ya know?
The design flaws you're talking about require some social engineering (someone must previously use it to login) and other conditions to be met (intruder can sniff the particular packets containing the password) in order to stage an attack. What makes it different is that nobody made a programming mistake - it does exactly what it's advertised to do.
In this case, the system is vulnerable as soon as you put it on a network due to a code quality control problem.
> THE CD COMPANIES CANNOT COMPETE WITH A PRICE OF $0.00.
They don't need to. Here's what they give you, beyond the $0 stream of bits:
1) A compact disc
2) A jewel case
3) Liner notes
4) Art & Lyrics
5) Lossless audio (mp3 sounds worse than cdda)
6) Time savings
I'd pay a reasonable sum for these things. $17 is not reasonable in my view. My answer to this is to buy used CD's (amazon.com has a nice system for buying and selling used cd's) at a reasonable price; I often re-sell those with poor liner notes and art.
If a download service provided FAST access to native (or losslessly compressed with shorten) PCM audio tracks, I'd likely be willing to pay $1.25 per 10 minutes. I'd expect a small discount for downloading an entire album. An md5 sum or other data verification method would be necessary, too.
It really can't be that hard, people. Record companies are DRAGGING THEIR FEET and will continue as long as their legacy distribution model continues to be extremely profitable.
Can't figure out why a seller would want to pay for a reserve price auction anyhow. Why not just set the opening bid to the minimum you're willing to sell for (and save the cost of a reserve price auction)? That way you can even include the catchy "NR" in your item listing.
Sure, but if you leave your front door wide open when you leave home, you might have a difficult time collecting from the insurance company when all your possessions are stolen.
The point is, this guy isn't even making the minimum effort to prevent what he's complaining about! If he did put up a robots.txt and his images still showed up, then he'd have a legitimate beef.
That's a very nice formula, but it's not the way business operates. Think about it. What would happen to airline tickets prices if they didn't overbook flights? If ISP's had to provide enough uplink bandwidth to serve all of their users running at full bore simultaneously, either we'd be paying through the nose, or they'd be broke.
Obviously this person had enough material in distribution to constitute a major violation.
After all, they're not "blaming the messenger" on this one. I'm OK with that. What I mean is that Napster, ftp, IRC are just tools, like plenty of others with potentially misguided uses. You don't sue the makers of Slim Jims because crooks use them to illegally open car doors. You don't sue the makers of radar detectors because people use them to get away with speeding. You don't sue the makers of guns because people use them to shoot other people. It would be simply unjust to take away the legal uses of such tools, EVEN if misuse is widespread. It's pretty hard to refute this argument, in my opinion.
This case is something else entirely -- they're prosecuting the accused. No problem there. The message - don't be stupid about MP3's, and above all, don't get caught!
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I'll bet this spammer already has your e-mail address from some other source. He checks it against the Bluesecurity DB, and if it's a positive match, he sends you the Bluesecurity-targeted spam. Since there is no web site associated with these messages (because he's not selling anything), he does not suffer any consequences for these particular messages.
Not having time to read the law, how is a "digital copy" defined? Arguably, we're all playing digital copies when we listen to CDs in portable CD players with anti-skip RAM buffers.
A file on your HDD, OK, maybe obvious. How about optical media? Flash memory? A complete 3-second track in a volatile RAM buffer? What if you read the data into RAM (from the CD) BEFORE the performance, never to be stored permanently on your HDD? Loophole or not?
It's information. Do with it what you will. I make no conclusions about it, but some people might want to know where it comes from.
This product borrows heavily from the OSS Slimserver product, which is primarily developed for the Squeezebox and SliMP3 by http://www.slimdevices.com/Slim Devices.
> I block ads that are annoying and/or misleading[1], but leave the rest alone
I think "sponsored links" is a misleading form of "paid advertisements," which is what they should be required to state.
Who said the lines were arbitrarily chosen? I'm more likely to believe that they were thoughtfully and carefully drawn, and the journalist that didn't repect them was probably being arrogant and insensitive.
What do you mean by, "what happens to [them]?" Nothing. What should happen? Only the original purchaser gets the extras, obviously.
Presumably, 40X media is built accordingly to withstand the force applied by a 40X drive. If/when drive speeds reach 64X, we should hope that media manufacturers will offer compatible discs.
You can get a CD for $.25 on special.
To revert to the old-fashioned way of archiving, you'll need a printer. For a truly nostalgic effect, stick with the black and white models.
Because they actually have a product. It's all about first to market.
Are you implying that radio signals observe state boundaries and just stop when they hit one?
> No high-speed internet for me. Sigh.
Aw for fuck's sake. Just get it; do whatever you want with it, and if it doesn't work out, cancel it. Keep your old 56k as backup. What have you got to lose? When a less restrictive ISP offers you broadband, jump ship and tell the cable provider why you left. The current monopoly on broadband service in your area probably won't last forever.
They can state what they like on paper, but enforcement is the key. Sticks and stones, ya know?
The design flaws you're talking about require some social engineering (someone must previously use it to login) and other conditions to be met (intruder can sniff the particular packets containing the password) in order to stage an attack. What makes it different is that nobody made a programming mistake - it does exactly what it's advertised to do.
In this case, the system is vulnerable as soon as you put it on a network due to a code quality control problem.
> THE CD COMPANIES CANNOT COMPETE WITH A PRICE OF $0.00.
They don't need to. Here's what they give you, beyond the $0 stream of bits:
1) A compact disc
2) A jewel case
3) Liner notes
4) Art & Lyrics
5) Lossless audio (mp3 sounds worse than cdda)
6) Time savings
I'd pay a reasonable sum for these things. $17 is not reasonable in my view. My answer to this is to buy used CD's (amazon.com has a nice system for buying and selling used cd's) at a reasonable price; I often re-sell those with poor liner notes and art.
If a download service provided FAST access to native (or losslessly compressed with shorten) PCM audio tracks, I'd likely be willing to pay $1.25 per 10 minutes. I'd expect a small discount for downloading an entire album. An md5 sum or other data verification method would be necessary, too.
It really can't be that hard, people. Record companies are DRAGGING THEIR FEET and will continue as long as their legacy distribution model continues to be extremely profitable.
Can't figure out why a seller would want to pay for a reserve price auction anyhow. Why not just set the opening bid to the minimum you're willing to sell for (and save the cost of a reserve price auction)? That way you can even include the catchy "NR" in your item listing.
Sure, but if you leave your front door wide open when you leave home, you might have a difficult time collecting from the insurance company when all your possessions are stolen.
The point is, this guy isn't even making the minimum effort to prevent what he's complaining about! If he did put up a robots.txt and his images still showed up, then he'd have a legitimate beef.
That's a very nice formula, but it's not the way business operates. Think about it. What would happen to airline tickets prices if they didn't overbook flights? If ISP's had to provide enough uplink bandwidth to serve all of their users running at full bore simultaneously, either we'd be paying through the nose, or they'd be broke.
Obviously this person had enough material in distribution to constitute a major violation. After all, they're not "blaming the messenger" on this one. I'm OK with that. What I mean is that Napster, ftp, IRC are just tools, like plenty of others with potentially misguided uses. You don't sue the makers of Slim Jims because crooks use them to illegally open car doors. You don't sue the makers of radar detectors because people use them to get away with speeding. You don't sue the makers of guns because people use them to shoot other people. It would be simply unjust to take away the legal uses of such tools, EVEN if misuse is widespread. It's pretty hard to refute this argument, in my opinion. This case is something else entirely -- they're prosecuting the accused. No problem there. The message - don't be stupid about MP3's, and above all, don't get caught!