It's worth noting that they're appealing the decision, which means they can keep the license to surveil until Autumn when the appeal can be handled. At the same time, our Minister of Culture and Education (who is as paid-off by copyright mafiaa as America's Orrin Hatch) is pressuring the Norwegian Data Protectorate (which decided to halt the surveillance permit) to change its mind. I don't think this private surveillance is going anywhere, to be honest.
It's not ridiculously easy for an average person to find alternative DNS servers and change his DNS settings with them. Many people who accidentally hit the "stop sign" Verboten page are terrified. It's a reminder that they are under the watchful eyes of the criminal police, and I do think that can inhibit their inclination to freely seek and post information.
It's censorship, but it's a censorship that most people agree with. And if you disagree with it, you're suspicious, so you better shut up.
You mention the censorship filter (which even the universities and colleges subscribe to). You didn't mention that fictional writings depicting people described as minors having sex, is illegal. So are drawings of such, and animation. We also just barely escaped legislation against saying or writing criticism against organised religion. Our Prime Minister of many years was an ordained priest, placing us in league with Iran. When a person is born in Norway, he is automatically a member of our protestant state church by default, and you have to opt-out later if you find that offensive. Our state-controlled oil company is heavily involved in horrifically harmful oil sands projects in Canada. Broadband development is held back by prior state monopolies. Our politicians are corrupted by special interest groups and our lazy media routinely let them get away with blatantly abusing their powers for personal gain.
Is anyone contesting artists' rights to get paid when someone buys a ringtone of their music? This story is about ASCAP wanting money every time a phone rings with such a ringtone. You say yourself that they should. ASCAP may serve a useful purpose generally, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be criticised for making kneejerk demands.
Sun didn't "quietly edit" the release notes; they announced it publicly and appologized for having been unclear (which seems like a bit dishonest, but not quiet).
You're assuming he would be using exit servers at all. Wikileaks is available inside of Tor as http://gaddbiwdftapglkq.onion/, so you never leave the network, never use DNS, and your traffic is encrypted in onion layers both ways, i.e., end-to-end. If you can show that Tor is insecure even in this scenario, the scientific community would like very much to hear from you.
Why use Xerobank, a commercial service? I recommend installing Tor (which is free) and accessing Wikileaks only through their.onion address, http://gaddbiwdftapglkq.onion/. That way you don't use any exit servers, so nobody can sniff your traffic or even know that you're talking to Wikileaks except Wikileaks themselves (who won't know who you are).
OTOH Tolkien was very protective of his copyrights during his own lifetime; he once complained that he couldn't copyright the name "Shadowfax", to keep it from being used as the name of a hydrofoil!
Instead of complaining, perhaps he should have read a lawbook. To protect a name from being abused, you have to trademark it, not copyright it.
It should also be noted that unlike most (or all?) of the other parties, membership in Piratpartiet is free, and all you have to do is fill out a web form. You also don't have to be Swedish, it seems. For all we know, many of the new members could be fake.
Not to poop on their parade, or anything. I think what's happening is extremely interesting and I wish them huge success in the June elections.
I can download any TV show ever without ever leaving the Pirate Bay website. You may be able to find the same torrent in Google, but you can't download anything until you've left Google's site completely.
You're wrong.
Google this: heroes filetype:torrent
You now get a list of torrent files for the TV show Heroes. Click any link and you can download Heroes material without ever leaving the Google website.
The 'filetype:torrent' argument effectively turns Google into a BitTorrent website.
I didn't argue for such a restriction; in fact, I specifically argued against. I argued for the anonymous person's responsibility for maintaining his own anonymity.
I think we should recognise the role of anonymity and pseudonymity in a democracy. You cannot have free speech in its fullest if there are some things you have to be afraid to speak out about. Being able to criticise our politicians is perhaps particularly important.
However, I do agree that if you want to be pseudonymous, it's your own responsibility to hide your identity. You can't have laws against discovering someone's identity; that would be to outlaw investigative journalism. Instead, we have to educate people (and each other) on how to become and stay pseudonymous. It's not an easy thing to do well.
The problem is that the filters are not completely effective. There is always a way around them. Therefore, if the lists were public, they would function as advertisement. It cannot be any other way, of course, given how the internet was built to withstand censorship. Having the list public and giving reason for each block is of course the "democratic" thing to do, but for people who want censorship, democracy is not a consideration.
I find that most people who just say "Adobe" mean Adobe Photoshop. Apparently this guy meant Adobe Acrobat Reader. I suspected perhaps he meant Adobe Flash Player. Oh well.
KDE is not a window manager; it is a desktop environment backed by a rich development framework. The benefits of installing KDE applications on Windows or Mac is that you can run KDE applications on Windows and Mac:-) Perhaps you would like Amarok, or KOffice, or something.
Since the servers log nothing, the point must be pure intimidation, no? I also guess they don't get the seized servers back in many years, essentially meaning the equipment is lost. Perhaps they should find other countries to host the servers?
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Not everybody is a Windows-using gamer, you know. I have not had a single issue with 3.5.
It's worth noting that they're appealing the decision, which means they can keep the license to surveil until Autumn when the appeal can be handled. At the same time, our Minister of Culture and Education (who is as paid-off by copyright mafiaa as America's Orrin Hatch) is pressuring the Norwegian Data Protectorate (which decided to halt the surveillance permit) to change its mind. I don't think this private surveillance is going anywhere, to be honest.
It's not ridiculously easy for an average person to find alternative DNS servers and change his DNS settings with them. Many people who accidentally hit the "stop sign" Verboten page are terrified. It's a reminder that they are under the watchful eyes of the criminal police, and I do think that can inhibit their inclination to freely seek and post information.
It's censorship, but it's a censorship that most people agree with. And if you disagree with it, you're suspicious, so you better shut up.
You mention the censorship filter (which even the universities and colleges subscribe to). You didn't mention that fictional writings depicting people described as minors having sex, is illegal. So are drawings of such, and animation. We also just barely escaped legislation against saying or writing criticism against organised religion. Our Prime Minister of many years was an ordained priest, placing us in league with Iran. When a person is born in Norway, he is automatically a member of our protestant state church by default, and you have to opt-out later if you find that offensive. Our state-controlled oil company is heavily involved in horrifically harmful oil sands projects in Canada. Broadband development is held back by prior state monopolies. Our politicians are corrupted by special interest groups and our lazy media routinely let them get away with blatantly abusing their powers for personal gain.
I resent claims that we are "just sensible".
Is anyone contesting artists' rights to get paid when someone buys a ringtone of their music? This story is about ASCAP wanting money every time a phone rings with such a ringtone. You say yourself that they should. ASCAP may serve a useful purpose generally, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be criticised for making kneejerk demands.
Sun didn't "quietly edit" the release notes; they announced it publicly and appologized for having been unclear (which seems like a bit dishonest, but not quiet).
It's much better to not have to "play innocent" when the FBI bust your door in one early morning. I like your first advice better.
You're assuming he would be using exit servers at all. Wikileaks is available inside of Tor as http://gaddbiwdftapglkq.onion/, so you never leave the network, never use DNS, and your traffic is encrypted in onion layers both ways, i.e., end-to-end. If you can show that Tor is insecure even in this scenario, the scientific community would like very much to hear from you.
All .onion addresses are like that. It is associated to the public key of the site's private key, so that it cannot be spoofed.
Why use Xerobank, a commercial service? I recommend installing Tor (which is free) and accessing Wikileaks only through their .onion address, http://gaddbiwdftapglkq.onion/. That way you don't use any exit servers, so nobody can sniff your traffic or even know that you're talking to Wikileaks except Wikileaks themselves (who won't know who you are).
Bad advice. The police can make registrars give up the real contact details of any anonymous domain.
Instead of complaining, perhaps he should have read a lawbook. To protect a name from being abused, you have to trademark it, not copyright it.
It should also be noted that unlike most (or all?) of the other parties, membership in Piratpartiet is free, and all you have to do is fill out a web form. You also don't have to be Swedish, it seems. For all we know, many of the new members could be fake.
Not to poop on their parade, or anything. I think what's happening is extremely interesting and I wish them huge success in the June elections.
Someone else couldn't port ZFS to Linux, because ZFS has a GPL-incompatible license.
You're wrong.
Google this: heroes filetype:torrent
You now get a list of torrent files for the TV show Heroes. Click any link and you can download Heroes material without ever leaving the Google website.
The 'filetype:torrent' argument effectively turns Google into a BitTorrent website.
You must be joking.
I didn't argue for such a restriction; in fact, I specifically argued against. I argued for the anonymous person's responsibility for maintaining his own anonymity.
I think we should recognise the role of anonymity and pseudonymity in a democracy. You cannot have free speech in its fullest if there are some things you have to be afraid to speak out about. Being able to criticise our politicians is perhaps particularly important.
However, I do agree that if you want to be pseudonymous, it's your own responsibility to hide your identity. You can't have laws against discovering someone's identity; that would be to outlaw investigative journalism. Instead, we have to educate people (and each other) on how to become and stay pseudonymous. It's not an easy thing to do well.
The problem is that the filters are not completely effective. There is always a way around them. Therefore, if the lists were public, they would function as advertisement. It cannot be any other way, of course, given how the internet was built to withstand censorship. Having the list public and giving reason for each block is of course the "democratic" thing to do, but for people who want censorship, democracy is not a consideration.
I find that most people who just say "Adobe" mean Adobe Photoshop. Apparently this guy meant Adobe Acrobat Reader. I suspected perhaps he meant Adobe Flash Player. Oh well.
The Pirate Bay makes crazy money on ads. However, running such a major site costs crazy money, and they say they now barely break even.
A Danish ISP which blocks access to a political blog? What the hell. I hope Norway is far behind.
KDE is not a window manager; it is a desktop environment backed by a rich development framework. The benefits of installing KDE applications on Windows or Mac is that you can run KDE applications on Windows and Mac :-) Perhaps you would like Amarok, or KOffice, or something.
Since the servers log nothing, the point must be pure intimidation, no? I also guess they don't get the seized servers back in many years, essentially meaning the equipment is lost. Perhaps they should find other countries to host the servers?
You can see their bare strings!