If I was a small manufacturer of electronic devices, and stupid rules like this were the law of the land. I'd make my devices with firmware that can easily be modified on a USB connection.
I sure as hell would not officially make if open to all formats... but the day I started selling the machine, somehow would be the day the hacked firmware version was available on the internet.
I'd also not hold press conferences on exactly how to install and upgrade to this hacked version. That would be wrong. I'd probably yell at some consultant who used to work for us(and was paid handsomely) when he held the conference. I'd probably re-hire him at some point, because I am forgiving that way.
I'd denounce this hack publicly, calling it by its accurate name, so people wouldn't mistake it for some other, double-plus good firmware upgrade.
I'd even denounce my loyal and faithful software partners, who somehow seem to be giving this firmware upgrade away, in multiple formats for different operating systems, and with no spyware whatsoever... I'd make sure to expose exactly how this upgrade gets to the public. Of course, this bad behaviour by my partners would not interefere with future business relationships, all water under the bridge, really.
It would be an act of kindness of course, not to press charges on anyone who would hack their device in this way... and a demonstration of goodwill to pick up the legal tabs for anyone sued by some other party who didn't like what the consumer did to our device. Keep it in the family, as it were.
Look, I'll give up my anonymity, if you will do the same.... You want to look at who I called on my phone three years ago? fine. But I want those same records watermarked so I can look and see, at any time, and for any reason, who is looking at them. I want it on permanent record which invidiuals looked at my record, when they looked at my records, an if they had a warrant at the time they looked at them, and who they work for.
Hell, I want a program on my computer that allows me to click on it, and see if and when someone personally looked at my bank records (not only the feds, but the credit check people, and spammers would get caught by this too), my phone bills, and whatever other records I can think of, even my grocery purchases. Basically I want it to track how often theses specific records are being accessed, by who, and maybe even read the internal notes on the account to get a glipse of why.
THAT, and only that, will shut down this kind of abuse.
Maybe someone knows the answer to this
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If you coil a superconductor into a torus, it sounds like it will loop around the torus forever with no losses. How much electricity can you feed into it? Is the size of the coil a significant factor? If there is an easy way to feed electricity into it, and later pull electricity from it, have we created a perfect battery?
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I've been wanting this for a while, but lack the technical skills. I tried looking it up on shouldexist.com, where I posted the idea in the first place, but it's down at the moment... here's the google cache.
About two years ago, when it was Homegrocer.com, I used them at least ten times, buying enough food to feed a family of three healthy eaters for two weeks at a stretch.
The produce and meat cuts were better, consistently that what I could find myself in any of the four local stores close to my Kirkland Washington apartment.
My wife loves to cook, but had some health issues at the time so she couldn't stand or walk for more than a two to three minute stretch. According to her... I truly suck at finding a good tomato, or fresh bell pepper. I still don't know why the hell she thumps cantalopes.
These people impressed her, and she raved about the quality all the time.
Later, when they went out of business, we started looking at other home deliveries. Albertsons.com did not deliver quite the same quality at first, but got better later... We never tried cosmo, or webvan.
Now, my wife is far healthier, and we can grocery shop again... however I think I'll try some online grocers a few more times, and see what kind of quality I get now.
The business model here would be for nationwide service providers to pay a modest fee to individual hotspots based upon how many of the providors customers succesfully use the hotspots. care and maintenance of the hotspot is done solely at location, and aside from billing, would be the bulk of the expenses for the providor.
It would be in the best interests of the hotspots to make them accessible to as many providors as possible, including independents.
The problems would be:
-- The hotspots would get money from providors, and no longer have much of an incentive to provide service for free to individuals not affiliated.
-- Both the provider and maintainer of the hotspot would want to keep records of who's using the hotspot.... for billing.
-- Stupid marketing people will think the business model works best as a per-minute or per-megabyte fee, and will fail conssitently until someone wises up and makes things consistently all-you-can-eat
--It wont be free
The benifits would be
-- Your wifi connection would work, more often than not, as seemless hand-off technology would be in the best interest of everyone involved
-- connections would develop a consistency as a multitude of providers do their damdest to make sure they can connect to as many hotspots as possible, and hotspots doing their best to connect to as many providers as they can.
-- Connecting gets easier for the user as everyone wants you using it as much as posible.
The RIAA is targeting people too poor to fight them. this also means they have little to lose.
If enough people stood up to those bastards, this would snowball fast.
The settlement if it goes to trial will likely be closer to a dollar a song, rather than the thousands the RIAA want people to think a copy of a song is worth.
And I sure as hell would love to donate some money to the defense of someone who doesn't bend over and take it from these RIAA cretins.
The only way they will understand how much we hate them is by speaking their language. Money.
We only have to win once. They have to win every time. Cost them enough money, and they will stop.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who would love to donate money to fighting these bullying jerks.
yep. They are picking on people who can't afford to fight back. We change the rules, and help pay for their defense, and demonstrate in the only language the RIAA knows (money) how much we hate them.
The people the RIAA bastards are targeting don't have that much to lose in the first place. By fighting the RIAA, rather than bending over, they get support from people like me, lots of press coverage, and we have a chance to bloody the RIAA's nose. if they will garantee not to settle out of court, and take this all the way, I'd love to donate some money to help.
I'd love to have a way to directly target the RIAA, more so than just not buying cd's anymore.
Besides, the RIAA has to win every case, we just have to win one. and how many juries are going to award thousands of dollars for downloading music?
I'll bet the judgements are going to be closer to a dollar a song.
Delay. Delay. Delay. Demand a trial by jury, Delay. demand a hearing in your home town. Delay. pay your lawyer to nitpick. Delay. Mount the costs as high as you can... and if they ever get a settlement, fight it too, and if that ever succeeds, declare bankruptcy.
IF everyone they sue does this, the RIAA will run up horrendous bills trying to get blood from a turnip. their problems only increase, the more people they sue.
Set up a fund for people willing to do this. I'd contribute fifty bucks to it. the price of two cds in exchange for killing the RIAA... Hell yes.
If someone wealthy publicly offered to help back individuals being sued, that would stop this crap in a hurry.
They should put shows like this on the internet, and charge a buck to download and/or stream each episode. At least then, the show can control its own destiny, and the fans can watch it any way they want to.
Hell, I'd pay a buck an episode for it, even if they left the commercials in.
Now lets use their tactics against them. Set up websites and get lawyers.
Join support groups, get online advice, demand a trial by jury, and delay... delay... delay.... change venues when you can, demand they appear in court, and play the system for all its worth. If they do finally get a settlement out of you, Take THAT to court, and delay... delay... delay...... then declare bankruptcy.... you're college kids. you'll recover.
thousands of us ought to eat into their money pretty significantly.
Now that they are targetting individuals, we can really hit them hard... Bleed those bastards dry.
Donate money to help pay other peoples lawyers. Millions on defense, not one cent for tribute.
according to this http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-072903B
quote: "Recently, Republican Senator Sam Brownback offered an amendment to an FTC reauthorization bill that would force "owners of digital media products to file an actual case in a court of law in order to obtain the identifying information of an ISP subscriber" rather than the current standard where the subpoena power is virtually unchecked."
Sounds like Sam Brownback has the right idea, and I want to give him some encouragement...
It seems that money is the only thing these people seem to care about, so I think I will take what I would have spent on a music CD (about 20 bucks) and send a money order to this guys campaign fund instead. I think I will add a nice little note on why I did that. Too bad I can't vote for him directly...
I think I'll send a note to my senator as well, along with a copy of the Brownback note, explaining why I'm not sending HIM any money.
Twenty bucks isn't much.... but what happens if just one percent of the people who read this do the same thing? Hell I might make this an ongoing project, and send twenty bucks a month to whatever congress-critter seems to deserve it the most at the moment.
with location being part of the packet information sent through wireless networks... wouldn't p2p applications be able to connect wirelessly to each other without needing to go through any sort of ISP? They'd just have to consult a (relatively) small database to send information to other wireless devices that are "closer" to the designated target.
If all the information (except location) is encrypted, and all devices assisting in switching packets don't log where they actually send the info (for more than a few minutes)... this would paradoxically do wonders for privacy. It'd be hell to troubleshoot lost packets though.
Example: A packet is sent from wireless device "foo" to wireless device "bar", many miles away. It sends a short range (perhaps a mile) signal to every wireless in range... Packet A shows in its header info the location it's trying to reach. The wireless devices that are closer to "foo" send a signal back saying they are relaying, and transfer it another mile closer to "bar"... this goes on till "bar" sends a signal back saying "I got it" reversing tracks... after the devices connect, some algorythm takes place that chooses which connections were most useful, and the next Foo-Bar targets devices that helped out the most in the last relay, to speed things up a bit.
People... what happens when Freenet or something like it is modified to work over a wifi network, or ham radio, or ultra wide band packet radio?
The ability to connect to other people anonymously, share any information whatsoever, and do it without even talking to an ISP, is going to be the way to go. This may not look like much now, but I think it will be the future.
China will have no easy way to even tell its being used at that point, let alone what its being used for.
Okay, not exactly, but think about this. The basic linchpin of the open source movement, is the fact that many eyes make shallow flaws. To put it another way, if ten thousand people are pouring over the codes... ONE of them is bound to find the bug, and come up with a way to fix it. If enough people do this, it becomes very likely that we target and exterminate every single flaw in the code.
Extrapolate that into bills put up for review. Publish the bill on the internet, and encourage everyone interested to pour over the document with a magnifying glass, comment on any percieved flaws, and make suggestions to fix them. Log every comment to a public document, and let everyone have a look, and a say. Make those logs, in themselves, a legal document, every change watermarked by date, time and individual, not to be tampered with later, so people can say "I told you so".
Just like with an open source project, some people end up being very articulate, insightful, and handy, while others proudly display that the ability to type and to think are not always in synch with each other. There should be some method for people to moderate the comments, so that the cream rises to the top.
It becomes the congressmans ( project leader's) job to sift through the mountain of comments, and comments about comments, and glean the good from the bad. He then takes those comments and revises the proposed bill.
This new way of creating a bill may end up with a hundred drafts, or even a thousand drafts, before it reaches the floor to be voted on.
The benifit is simple, and follows the same linchpin. If ten thousand eyes are pouring over the proposed law, it's a good bet SOMEONE spots, explains, and proposes a fix for the loophole, or unintended consequence. And, if every proposed bill has to be made available for public scrutiny, it becomes very hard to pull a fast one.
Rules would have to be made on things like how long must a proposal be made available, exactly how this is to be accomplished, how and where is the log archived, format, protocals, etc... I'm thinking a six month period where every law undergoes this scrutiny, and if the congressman wants to, it can be extended another six months.
Now that they've gotten the supreme court to uphold it, let's kill them with it. Go over every piece of work Disney has produced, track down the works it was derived from, contact whoever could concievably be holding the rights to that work, and encourage them to sue Disney.
Winnie the Pooh comes to mind, Aren't they being sued over that? Any other movies they've made that come from books written this century?
Hell, lets make a cottage industry out of it. Go through every movie made and see if they own the rights to the book, then contact the writer and help him sue.
Get rediculous about it. Sue for using words that were coined by people in the last nine decades, Sue for having photo's of famous art in a movie without paying the artist. Sue for using the backdrop of a building without paying the architect. Sue for hairstyles that have been copyrighted. Hit them again and again with ramifications of this STUPID law they made. Let them suffer for it.
If we make enough of a mess out of the law, they will eventually junk it.
The slashdot crowd prides itself on using the rules against their creators. That's what hacking was originally about. looks like the board has been set, and the rules defined. Let's play.
The reason I go to a website for news, is because I can not only get the story, but in the comments, I get peoples opinion. Shortly followed by other peoples counter-opinion, better facts, cross-pollination of ideas, and quick debunking feedback on certain types of propoganda.
Of course this requires a little more work on my part, actually picking through information and choosing what is good and what is crap, rather than having it spoon fed.
I actually laugh at what the AP wire and most newspapers call news. I pay little attention unless there is a "comments" link I can sift underneath. I often test a website by checking for and if neccessary posting a contrary comment, just to see if it sticks around. If the comment is harshly negative to the majority of comments already posted, but is not deleted, that website has validity, and I will be more apt to trust it.
If the technology is already out there, and it doesn't take Big Brother to do it... let's start posting the available information about senators, key lobbyists, and other people supporting this. If a million eyes are watching their every move, maybe it won't end up happening... At the very least, we'll have a heads up on what's going on, and bring more attention to the problem.
A few hundred web sites devoted to tracking the mundane habits of the guy who wants to do the same to you seems rather appropriate.
Since the SF channel doesn't own it... why not petition the owners to keep making the show, post them online and charge an access fee? If it works for porn why can't it work for this? The tools are in place, the fan base is rabidly techno-literate, and the show is caught between a rock and a hard place. What would it hurt to give online distribution a shot? While you're at it, do Futurama and the animated version of "The Tick" too.
what it will means is it won't be free to call from the land line, unless you change your cell phone number to be in the same area code and prefix, or something very close. Call the company and find out what the service area is specifically for your phone... under TDMA it's called the SID code, under GSM it's called the CSA
So, according to this, the best way to "get" the RIAA is to find an independent label who doesn't pay them, and buy the hell out of their stuff.
Buy their CD's, buy their tee shirt's,and go to their concerts, making it clear the whole time the reason they get your money is because they don't belong to the RIAA (and incidentally, they sound good). If we do this enough, labels will defect in droves from the RIAA.
Sounds like a plan.... got a list of non RIAA music?
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but will they do micropayments?
If I was a small manufacturer of electronic devices, and stupid rules like this were the law of the land. I'd make my devices with firmware that can easily be modified on a USB connection.
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I sure as hell would not officially make if open to all formats... but the day I started selling the machine, somehow would be the day the hacked firmware version was available on the internet.
I'd also not hold press conferences on exactly how to install and upgrade to this hacked version. That would be wrong. I'd probably yell at some consultant who used to work for us(and was paid handsomely) when he held the conference. I'd probably re-hire him at some point, because I am forgiving that way.
I'd denounce this hack publicly, calling it by its accurate name, so people wouldn't mistake it for some other, double-plus good firmware upgrade.
I'd even denounce my loyal and faithful software partners, who somehow seem to be giving this firmware upgrade away, in multiple formats for different operating systems, and with no spyware whatsoever... I'd make sure to expose exactly how this upgrade gets to the public. Of course, this bad behaviour by my partners would not interefere with future business relationships, all water under the bridge, really.
It would be an act of kindness of course, not to press charges on anyone who would hack their device in this way... and a demonstration of goodwill to pick up the legal tabs for anyone sued by some other party who didn't like what the consumer did to our device. Keep it in the family, as it were.
Or maybe something like Henry Ford's "lawsuit insurance" is an alternative plan. http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/catalog/display.
Look, I'll give up my anonymity, if you will do the same.... You want to look at who I called on my phone three years ago? fine. But I want those same records watermarked so I can look and see, at any time, and for any reason, who is looking at them. I want it on permanent record which invidiuals looked at my record, when they looked at my records, an if they had a warrant at the time they looked at them, and who they work for.
Hell, I want a program on my computer that allows me to click on it, and see if and when someone personally looked at my bank records (not only the feds, but the credit check people, and spammers would get caught by this too), my phone bills, and whatever other records I can think of, even my grocery purchases. Basically I want it to track how often theses specific records are being accessed, by who, and maybe even read the internal notes on the account to get a glipse of why.
THAT, and only that, will shut down this kind of abuse.
If you coil a superconductor into a torus, it sounds like it will loop around the torus forever with no losses. How much electricity can you feed into it? Is the size of the coil a significant factor? If there is an easy way to feed electricity into it, and later pull electricity from it, have we created a perfect battery?
I've been wanting this for a while, but lack the technical skills. I tried looking it up on shouldexist.com, where I posted the idea in the first place, but it's down at the moment... here's the google cache.
8 J: www.shouldexist.org/story/2002/1/20/154726/325+ult ra+map&hl=en
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:umBU4Yg0iL
About two years ago, when it was Homegrocer.com, I used them at least ten times, buying enough food to feed a family of three healthy eaters for two weeks at a stretch.
The produce and meat cuts were better, consistently that what I could find myself in any of the four local stores close to my Kirkland Washington apartment.
My wife loves to cook, but had some health issues at the time so she couldn't stand or walk for more than a two to three minute stretch. According to her... I truly suck at finding a good tomato, or fresh bell pepper. I still don't know why the hell she thumps cantalopes.
These people impressed her, and she raved about the quality all the time.
Later, when they went out of business, we started looking at other home deliveries. Albertsons.com did not deliver quite the same quality at first, but got better later... We never tried cosmo, or webvan.
Now, my wife is far healthier, and we can grocery shop again... however I think I'll try some online grocers a few more times, and see what kind of quality I get now.
The business model here would be for nationwide service providers to pay a modest fee to individual hotspots based upon how many of the providors customers succesfully use the hotspots. care and maintenance of the hotspot is done solely at location, and aside from billing, would be the bulk of the expenses for the providor.
It would be in the best interests of the hotspots to make them accessible to as many providors as possible, including independents.
The problems would be:
-- The hotspots would get money from providors, and no longer have much of an incentive to provide service for free to individuals not affiliated.
-- Both the provider and maintainer of the hotspot would want to keep records of who's using the hotspot.... for billing.
-- Stupid marketing people will think the business model works best as a per-minute or per-megabyte fee, and will fail conssitently until someone wises up and makes things consistently all-you-can-eat
--It wont be free
The benifits would be
-- Your wifi connection would work, more often than not, as seemless hand-off technology would be in the best interest of everyone involved
-- connections would develop a consistency as a multitude of providers do their damdest to make sure they can connect to as many hotspots as possible, and hotspots doing their best to connect to as many providers as they can.
-- Connecting gets easier for the user as everyone wants you using it as much as posible.
--Lots of people make money.
yes.
The RIAA is targeting people too poor to fight them. this also means they have little to lose.
If enough people stood up to those bastards, this would snowball fast.
The settlement if it goes to trial will likely be closer to a dollar a song, rather than the thousands the RIAA want people to think a copy of a song is worth.
And I sure as hell would love to donate some money to the defense of someone who doesn't bend over and take it from these RIAA cretins.
The only way they will understand how much we hate them is by speaking their language. Money.
We only have to win once. They have to win every time. Cost them enough money, and they will stop.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who would love to donate money to fighting these bullying jerks.
yep. They are picking on people who can't afford to fight back. We change the rules, and help pay for their defense, and demonstrate in the only language the RIAA knows (money) how much we hate them.
The people the RIAA bastards are targeting don't have that much to lose in the first place. By fighting the RIAA, rather than bending over, they get support from people like me, lots of press coverage, and we have a chance to bloody the RIAA's nose. if they will garantee not to settle out of court, and take this all the way, I'd love to donate some money to help.
I'd love to have a way to directly target the RIAA, more so than just not buying cd's anymore.
Besides, the RIAA has to win every case, we just have to win one. and how many juries are going to award thousands of dollars for downloading music?
I'll bet the judgements are going to be closer to a dollar a song.
Delay. Delay. Delay. Demand a trial by jury, Delay. demand a hearing in your home town. Delay. pay your lawyer to nitpick. Delay. Mount the costs as high as you can... and if they ever get a settlement, fight it too, and if that ever succeeds, declare bankruptcy.
IF everyone they sue does this, the RIAA will run up horrendous bills trying to get blood from a turnip. their problems only increase, the more people they sue.
Set up a fund for people willing to do this. I'd contribute fifty bucks to it. the price of two cds in exchange for killing the RIAA... Hell yes.
If someone wealthy publicly offered to help back individuals being sued, that would stop this crap in a hurry.
They should put shows like this on the internet, and charge a buck to download and/or stream each episode. At least then, the show can control its own destiny, and the fans can watch it any way they want to.
Hell, I'd pay a buck an episode for it, even if they left the commercials in.
Now lets use their tactics against them. Set up websites and get lawyers.
Join support groups, get online advice, demand a trial by jury, and delay... delay... delay.... change venues when you can, demand they appear in court, and play the system for all its worth. If they do finally get a settlement out of you, Take THAT to court, and delay... delay... delay...... then declare bankruptcy.... you're college kids. you'll recover.
thousands of us ought to eat into their money pretty significantly.
Now that they are targetting individuals, we can really hit them hard... Bleed those bastards dry.
Donate money to help pay other peoples lawyers. Millions on defense, not one cent for tribute.
quote:
"Recently, Republican Senator Sam Brownback offered an amendment to an FTC reauthorization bill that would force "owners of digital media products to file an actual case in a court of law in order to obtain the identifying information of an ISP subscriber" rather than the current standard where the subpoena power is virtually unchecked."
Sounds like Sam Brownback has the right idea, and I want to give him some encouragement...
It seems that money is the only thing these people seem to care about, so I think I will take what I would have spent on a music CD (about 20 bucks) and send a money order to this guys campaign fund instead. I think I will add a nice little note on why I did that. Too bad I can't vote for him directly...
I think I'll send a note to my senator as well, along with a copy of the Brownback note, explaining why I'm not sending HIM any money.
Twenty bucks isn't much.... but what happens if just one percent of the people who read this do the same thing? Hell I might make this an ongoing project, and send twenty bucks a month to whatever congress-critter seems to deserve it the most at the moment.
If all the information (except location) is encrypted, and all devices assisting in switching packets don't log where they actually send the info (for more than a few minutes)... this would paradoxically do wonders for privacy. It'd be hell to troubleshoot lost packets though.
Example: A packet is sent from wireless device "foo" to wireless device "bar", many miles away. It sends a short range (perhaps a mile) signal to every wireless in range... Packet A shows in its header info the location it's trying to reach. The wireless devices that are closer to "foo" send a signal back saying they are relaying, and transfer it another mile closer to "bar"... this goes on till "bar" sends a signal back saying "I got it" reversing tracks... after the devices connect, some algorythm takes place that chooses which connections were most useful, and the next Foo-Bar targets devices that helped out the most in the last relay, to speed things up a bit.
The ability to connect to other people anonymously, share any information whatsoever, and do it without even talking to an ISP, is going to be the way to go. This may not look like much now, but I think it will be the future.
China will have no easy way to even tell its being used at that point, let alone what its being used for.
No, shouldexist.org will
Looks like a business oportunity for someone in a state that has low or no taxes for forwarding goods to real addresses.
"No really officer, All ten million orders last year went to the same address in Oregon"
Okay, not exactly, but think about this. The basic linchpin of the open source movement, is the fact that many eyes make shallow flaws. To put it another way, if ten thousand people are pouring over the codes... ONE of them is bound to find the bug, and come up with a way to fix it. If enough people do this, it becomes very likely that we target and exterminate every single flaw in the code.
Extrapolate that into bills put up for review. Publish the bill on the internet, and encourage everyone interested to pour over the document with a magnifying glass, comment on any percieved flaws, and make suggestions to fix them. Log every comment to a public document, and let everyone have a look, and a say. Make those logs, in themselves, a legal document, every change watermarked by date, time and individual, not to be tampered with later, so people can say "I told you so".
Just like with an open source project, some people end up being very articulate, insightful, and handy, while others proudly display that the ability to type and to think are not always in synch with each other. There should be some method for people to moderate the comments, so that the cream rises to the top.
It becomes the congressmans ( project leader's) job to sift through the mountain of comments, and comments about comments, and glean the good from the bad. He then takes those comments and revises the proposed bill.
This new way of creating a bill may end up with a hundred drafts, or even a thousand drafts, before it reaches the floor to be voted on.
The benifit is simple, and follows the same linchpin. If ten thousand eyes are pouring over the proposed law, it's a good bet SOMEONE spots, explains, and proposes a fix for the loophole, or unintended consequence. And, if every proposed bill has to be made available for public scrutiny, it becomes very hard to pull a fast one.
Rules would have to be made on things like how long must a proposal be made available, exactly how this is to be accomplished, how and where is the log archived, format, protocals, etc... I'm thinking a six month period where every law undergoes this scrutiny, and if the congressman wants to, it can be extended another six months.
Now that they've gotten the supreme court to uphold it, let's kill them with it. Go over every piece of work Disney has produced, track down the works it was derived from, contact whoever could concievably be holding the rights to that work, and encourage them to sue Disney.
Winnie the Pooh comes to mind, Aren't they being sued over that? Any other movies they've made that come from books written this century?
Hell, lets make a cottage industry out of it. Go through every movie made and see if they own the rights to the book, then contact the writer and help him sue.
Get rediculous about it. Sue for using words that were coined by people in the last nine decades, Sue for having photo's of famous art in a movie without paying the artist. Sue for using the backdrop of a building without paying the architect. Sue for hairstyles that have been copyrighted. Hit them again and again with ramifications of this STUPID law they made. Let them suffer for it.
If we make enough of a mess out of the law, they will eventually junk it.
The slashdot crowd prides itself on using the rules against their creators. That's what hacking was originally about. looks like the board has been set, and the rules defined. Let's play.
Of course this requires a little more work on my part, actually picking through information and choosing what is good and what is crap, rather than having it spoon fed.
I actually laugh at what the AP wire and most newspapers call news. I pay little attention unless there is a "comments" link I can sift underneath. I often test a website by checking for and if neccessary posting a contrary comment, just to see if it sticks around. If the comment is harshly negative to the majority of comments already posted, but is not deleted, that website has validity, and I will be more apt to trust it.
A few hundred web sites devoted to tracking the mundane habits of the guy who wants to do the same to you seems rather appropriate.
Don't they own hundreds upon thousands of phone booths around the country that are no longer being used because people use cell phones instead?
Using spread spectrum wireless connections to create a cloud of data hotspots hooked up to land lines wouldn't be too hard for them.
I wonder if ATT has been talking to the FCC?
Since the SF channel doesn't own it... why not petition the owners to keep making the show, post them online and charge an access fee? If it works for porn why can't it work for this? The tools are in place, the fan base is rabidly techno-literate, and the show is caught between a rock and a hard place. What would it hurt to give online distribution a shot? While you're at it, do Futurama and the animated version of "The Tick" too.
what it will means is it won't be free to call from the land line, unless you change your cell phone number to be in the same area code and prefix, or something very close. Call the company and find out what the service area is specifically for your phone... under TDMA it's called the SID code, under GSM it's called the CSA
So, according to this, the best way to "get" the RIAA is to find an independent label who doesn't pay them, and buy the hell out of their stuff.
Buy their CD's, buy their tee shirt's,and go to their concerts, making it clear the whole time the reason they get your money is because they don't belong to the RIAA (and incidentally, they sound good). If we do this enough, labels will defect in droves from the RIAA.
Sounds like a plan.... got a list of non RIAA music?