In fact this kind of stupid arrogance should and does irritate any half-brained american as well. I for one find this rulling quite irritating and have never left the united states in my life.
I believe the biggest problem with the legal system solution is the fact that it's not universal across the internet. Now what happens when the big US business decides to attack someone in Zimbabwe and looses to ICANN? Where to go from there?
Unless you actually read the article. Then doors open to vast new worlds of understanding. The courts overturned the decision you're referencing. Try reading, eh?
I don't think that's necessarily a good idea, though. Imagine having 26 domain names [a-z]Referee.com
"Now was that rReferee.com or hReferee.com I was looking for?"
Not to mention 20 of them would be pr0n,warez,banner ad sites leaving only 6 valid sites. Nightmare if you ask me.
Well I'm baffled again. Did anyone bother to read the article again? They weren't arrasting or raiding napster users. They were raiding website operators. 'Course this can lead to napster users being targeted. But the only mention of napster in the article was that the ruling for going after these people came a few days after the appeals ruling over napster.
Actually the word "server" is not implicit. Contrary to popular belief DNS does not stand for Domain Name Server. As outlined in RFC 1034 DNS stands for Domain Name System.
Just curious. But is the realtek driver really that bad? Any links you can point me to that talk about the subject? I use Realtek cards in all my machines at home and haven't noticed any problems. Maybe you're just joking around. But you got me curious.
It kills me when people claim their time is valuable. Time is time is time. Do with it what you will. I think this was intended as purely a project thing like the i-opener (but in my opinion not as cool as the i-opener) Here's a new challenge for someone to dig their hands into if they're looking for something. It could be worse. Someone could be trying to hack one of those dumb Boogie Bass things. Aw crap, too late.
Who in their right mind actually looks at one of those and wonders if they can hack it. Of course if it becomes easy enough to do I'm never going to use pen and paper again. What's that you say? Egghead pissed you off again? Bass 'em!
The thing that strikes me in this article is the fact that the government knows upwards of 4000 ps2 units have been bought and shipped out of the country. Can someone tell me how the government knows where these playstation consoles are going?
Why not have it just fall back to a more compatible mode as has been stated but with a warning? An error message stating things are going to be run in a compatability mode. Press any key to continue kind of thing.
I think you're missing the point here. I can't speak for all of slashdot (as though anyone could.) But this isn't as simple as pro-napster vs. anti-contentville.
I support the fact that napster as a company is not doing anything technically wrong. They do not host music for people to download. They have set up a file sharing method which people are free to use as they will. As it turns out (surprise, surprise) people want to transfer copyrighted materials they don't have any rights to. I don't support the copyright infringments on napster. But I do support napster saying they aren't responsible for what files are shared. They are only a search engine for a distributed network. The record company should be going after the individuals sharing the files rather than napster. Next they'll try to go after the ftp search engines out there because they create links to mp3's on servers. Same thing in my opinion.
IF (if being the keyword. I'm still not convinced contentville has no right to do this.) Contentville is selling copyrighted material they have no rights to be selling then it is an entirely different situation. They are hosting and selling copyrighted works. If UMI has the rights and they have allowed contentville to do this then I see no problems. But in anycase you can't make it as simple as 'pro-napster, and the general vibe is: "screw the big rich music companies."'
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In fact this kind of stupid arrogance should and does irritate any half-brained american as well. I for one find this rulling quite irritating and have never left the united states in my life.
I believe the biggest problem with the legal system solution is the fact that it's not universal across the internet. Now what happens when the big US business decides to attack someone in Zimbabwe and looses to ICANN? Where to go from there?
Unless you actually read the article. Then doors open to vast new worlds of understanding. The courts overturned the decision you're referencing. Try reading, eh?
I don't think that's necessarily a good idea, though. Imagine having 26 domain names [a-z]Referee.com "Now was that rReferee.com or hReferee.com I was looking for?" Not to mention 20 of them would be pr0n,warez,banner ad sites leaving only 6 valid sites. Nightmare if you ask me.
Damn it, people. Please correct me if I'm wrong but that article on the napster users was not about napster users. It's about website operators. Read!
Well I'm baffled again. Did anyone bother to read the article again? They weren't arrasting or raiding napster users. They were raiding website operators. 'Course this can lead to napster users being targeted. But the only mention of napster in the article was that the ruling for going after these people came a few days after the appeals ruling over napster.
Actually the word "server" is not implicit. Contrary to popular belief DNS does not stand for Domain Name Server. As outlined in RFC 1034 DNS stands for Domain Name System.
Just curious. But is the realtek driver really that bad? Any links you can point me to that talk about the subject? I use Realtek cards in all my machines at home and haven't noticed any problems. Maybe you're just joking around. But you got me curious.
It kills me when people claim their time is valuable. Time is time is time. Do with it what you will. I think this was intended as purely a project thing like the i-opener (but in my opinion not as cool as the i-opener) Here's a new challenge for someone to dig their hands into if they're looking for something. It could be worse. Someone could be trying to hack one of those dumb Boogie Bass things. Aw crap, too late.
Who in their right mind actually looks at one of those and wonders if they can hack it. Of course if it becomes easy enough to do I'm never going to use pen and paper again. What's that you say? Egghead pissed you off again? Bass 'em!
Oh please. Reserving the right to sell something does not mean it's being done or will be done. It's reserved that it can be done.
The thing that strikes me in this article is the fact that the government knows upwards of 4000 ps2 units have been bought and shipped out of the country. Can someone tell me how the government knows where these playstation consoles are going?
Why not have it just fall back to a more compatible mode as has been stated but with a warning? An error message stating things are going to be run in a compatability mode. Press any key to continue kind of thing.
I think you're missing the point here. I can't speak for all of slashdot (as though anyone could.) But this isn't as simple as pro-napster vs. anti-contentville.
I support the fact that napster as a company is not doing anything technically wrong. They do not host music for people to download. They have set up a file sharing method which people are free to use as they will. As it turns out (surprise, surprise) people want to transfer copyrighted materials they don't have any rights to. I don't support the copyright infringments on napster. But I do support napster saying they aren't responsible for what files are shared. They are only a search engine for a distributed network. The record company should be going after the individuals sharing the files rather than napster. Next they'll try to go after the ftp search engines out there because they create links to mp3's on servers. Same thing in my opinion.
IF (if being the keyword. I'm still not convinced contentville has no right to do this.) Contentville is selling copyrighted material they have no rights to be selling then it is an entirely different situation. They are hosting and selling copyrighted works. If UMI has the rights and they have allowed contentville to do this then I see no problems. But in anycase you can't make it as simple as 'pro-napster, and the general vibe is: "screw the big rich music companies."'