I agree. Hiding information helps dedicated crackers be the first.
Telling technical details to everybody helps kids be bad.
Some basic guidelines should be respected.
Everybody should be able to find out, but it's IMO not a good idea to provoke everybody by saying - look, it's that simple, you can do it too.
I wonder when people will check facts before replying. M17 is the current milestone. If you don't know - check or don't post.
By the way, M17 crashes less but it's still very slow on P133 with 64M RAM - much slower than Netscape 4.74.
This is the result of their Talkback - hangs and slowliness are not reported back to developers, as opposed to crashes. Sigh.
Napster and Gnutella don't charge you for their service, do they?
People get annoyed when somebody makes money from their work, be it a service charge or whatever.
I'm afraid that a "non-tech-savvy thief" will ask someone to replace Linux or whatever you have there with Another OS. E-mail address will not be preservered, as you can easily guess.
Because DOS is simple. You don't have to emulate anything above 8086 to run it - no protected mode, no 32-bit registers. This is an obvious first target for any x86 emulator.
You misunderstood me. I meant that enforcing copyrights in the digital age will inevitably restrict personal freedom.
You don't copy other people works, but your neighbor does. Then comes police to seize your computer to check whether you are infringing copyrights. They soon discover that your files are on a crypted partition. They ask your password to check your personal files. Do you want that police check you girlfriend's messages to you for MP3 attachements?
I don't. I would rather restrict myself to the IP created by people who don't care much about resticting copying of their works.
Now, it's in court and in trouble, doing damage to personal autonomy and freedom of speech.
I don't think that switching to Gnutella is going to damage "personal autonomy and freedom of speach". Another question that copyrights become extremely hard to enforce, especially if RIAA wins. It is sad that artists will suffer, but this is life. Freedom is more important that good music, though I would prefer not to have this choice.
It was my first impression too. But it's justified. SuSE supports PowerPC, as opposed to other distributions in the "seventh generation" that despite their solid version numbers don't support PowerPC at all.
By the way, you can upgrade kernel manually. I never run any distro with its native kernel more that one week. Also please note that if you start with a newer distro, you have chances to spare some problems while upgrading the software you really care about (kernel and X in your case) to the latest and greatest version.
I expect that other services will be shut down too. Only the strongest ones will survive - i.e. those that 1) Are relatively immune against court orders 2) Do their best to protect users from prosecution (I mean the technical side of the issue) 3) Can attract a big number of users (i.e. good interface)
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I agree. Hiding information helps dedicated crackers be the first. Telling technical details to everybody helps kids be bad. Some basic guidelines should be respected. Everybody should be able to find out, but it's IMO not a good idea to provoke everybody by saying - look, it's that simple, you can do it too.
I wonder when people will check facts before replying. M17 is the current milestone. If you don't know - check or don't post. By the way, M17 crashes less but it's still very slow on P133 with 64M RAM - much slower than Netscape 4.74. This is the result of their Talkback - hangs and slowliness are not reported back to developers, as opposed to crashes. Sigh.
Napster and Gnutella don't charge you for their service, do they? People get annoyed when somebody makes money from their work, be it a service charge or whatever.
Somebody would care. But it's not the point. They are selling other people's work.
I'm afraid that a "non-tech-savvy thief" will ask someone to replace Linux or whatever you have there with Another OS. E-mail address will not be preservered, as you can easily guess.
Because DOS is simple. You don't have to emulate anything above 8086 to run it - no protected mode, no 32-bit registers. This is an obvious first target for any x86 emulator.
It is not about MP3, TCP/IP, not even Napster protocol.
It is about a company making money from other people's work.
I hope that any attempt to outlaw a protocol will meet strong resistance here
even if that protocol is primarily used to violate GPL
You don't copy other people works, but your neighbor does. Then comes police to seize your computer to check whether you are infringing copyrights. They soon discover that your files are on a crypted partition. They ask your password to check your personal files. Do you want that police check you girlfriend's messages to you for MP3 attachements?
I don't. I would rather restrict myself to the IP created by people who don't care much about resticting copying of their works.
I don't think that switching to Gnutella is going to damage "personal autonomy and freedom of speach". Another question that copyrights become extremely hard to enforce, especially if RIAA wins. It is sad that artists will suffer, but this is life. Freedom is more important that good music, though I would prefer not to have this choice.
Good luck, RIAA
It was my first impression too.
But it's justified. SuSE supports PowerPC, as opposed to other distributions in the "seventh generation" that despite their solid version numbers don't support PowerPC at all.
By the way, you can upgrade kernel manually. I never run any distro with its native kernel more that one week. Also please note that if you start with a newer distro, you have chances to spare some problems while upgrading the software you really care about (kernel and X in your case) to the latest and greatest version.
because you don't have to buy a computer. Not even an iOpener
I expect that other services will be shut down too.
Only the strongest ones will survive - i.e. those that
1) Are relatively immune against court orders
2) Do their best to protect users from prosecution (I mean the technical side of the issue)
3) Can attract a big number of users (i.e. good interface)
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