Wow, I'm realty upset that everyone's favorite piracy tool has a privacy issue. Maybe someone should sue the company that makes it... oh, duh, I forgot its open source, so you are stuck...
I happen to know people who use Napster to trade music that is NOT copyrighted or to preview music before buying the CD or deleting the tracks.
Yeah right...
(Not me, I have a new policy: I pirate the CD's and then send the artist $5, far more than they get per CD from their label..
Yeah, sure you do... pull the other one. Why don't you scan and post some of those cancelled checks from some of thses artists you've sent money to? Oh, that's right... they don't exist becuase you are full of shit.
..its not even funny. I mean he talks like a populist, but thinks that Napster is getting the shaft? Oh, and this is a gem:
In fact, in "Screwtape Letters," one of the devils etches out what could be the Corporatist Marketing Manifesto: "Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level; all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, "democracy."
No John, that's American Liberalism you are thinking of...
...all the "security though obscurity is a bad idea" people to tell us how much more secure this message would be if the guy had published a description of how he encrypted it?
If you or I don't buy software....no one will care. But if Compusa and Best Buy stop buying software....then software makers WILL care.
Yeah, right.. they are going to give up some of the most profitable parts of their business becuase a few geeks cause some problems (hopefully you get more participation than the 20-gewek march, er, DeCSS protest thing).
More likely, they just raise prices to cover their increased costs of doing business. Thanks guys!
They claim they're protecting their art, but they're also putting a big chill on the very notion of free software, open source, and the free movement of information and ideas on the Net.
No they aren't. They are trying to stop theft, which we have had laws against for thousands of years.
I can remember spending $4000 for a 386 system right after they came out. Too bad computers never got any cheaper as time went by and production increased, eh?
Have you used any of the updated information that has been leaked and released over the past year (particularly at Salon.com), that shows that rather then the knee jerk reaction everyone had that assumed these were poor picked on geeks out to kill jocks, etc... that these were just a couple of mentally troubled kids who snapped? Or is there some value in continuing to perpetuate this unfortunate and inaccurate view of the situation. Esp, in light of your audience on/. seems to revel in this view?
I mean come on AOL has their own little playground. People either like it and stay there or wise up and go out into the real world. No harm in that.
And their business prospects are so bad they went out and by the proverbial dinosaur of the media world (TW) to try to make things better for them? And people are worried about this wonderful blend of incompetence and idocy? I'm not.
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You know, even 5-15% translates to a hell of a lot of money when you consider how large the computer market is...
Yeah, but you aren't dealing with the whole computer market, just PCs.
Well, really you aren't dealing with the whole PC market, just home PCs (since its pretty damn rare to see a modem in an office)
And then you are only dealing with home PCs with DSL access available.
So now you think they really care about 5% of the home PC DSL enabled market?
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Wow, I'm realty upset that everyone's favorite piracy tool has a privacy issue. Maybe someone should sue the company that makes it... oh, duh, I forgot its open source, so you are stuck...
I happen to know people who use Napster to trade music that is NOT copyrighted or to preview music before buying the CD or deleting the tracks.
Yeah right...
(Not me, I have a new policy: I pirate the CD's and then send the artist $5, far more than they get per CD from their label..
Yeah, sure you do... pull the other one. Why don't you scan and post some of those cancelled checks from some of thses artists you've sent money to? Oh, that's right... they don't exist becuase you are full of shit.
Perhaps we should go back to the days of simple e-mail clients, that would make a virus like this look around, get confused, and then fall over
Perhaps we should quit using electricity as well...
..its not even funny. I mean he talks like a populist, but thinks that Napster is getting the shaft? Oh, and this is a gem:
In fact, in "Screwtape Letters," one of the devils etches out what could be the Corporatist Marketing Manifesto: "Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level; all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, "democracy."
No John, that's American Liberalism you are thinking of...
...for this sort of thing, if you know what I mean...
...all the "security though obscurity is a bad idea" people to tell us how much more secure this message would be if the guy had published a description of how he encrypted it?
I still have a subscription to wired. Why? beacuse it reminds be of the time when WIRED DIDN'T SUCK!
Nice troll... everyone knows there was NEVER a time that Wired didn't suck.
Radio stations pay roayalties for broadcasting music. MP3.com didn't feel like they needed to... oops...
If you or I don't buy software....no one will care. But if Compusa and Best Buy stop buying software....then software makers WILL care.
Yeah, right.. they are going to give up some of the most profitable parts of their business becuase a few geeks cause some problems (hopefully you get more participation than the 20-gewek march, er, DeCSS protest thing).
More likely, they just raise prices to cover their increased costs of doing business. Thanks guys!
The sooner the US has a software community instead of a software industry the better!
Huh? When I need a piece of software I wan't to go to a store and buy the damn thing, not join a community....
...I guess information doesn't want to be as free as some people think.
When will Slashdotters realize that even trampling on the rights of SCUM like Mitnick is not at all OK and hurts us all?
When such a statement is true... which is to say, never.
They claim they're protecting their art, but they're also putting a big chill on the very notion of free software, open source, and the free movement of information and ideas on the Net.
No they aren't. They are trying to stop theft, which we have had laws against for thousands of years.
...you will call it a Moron chip.
Damn, don't the marketing guys think of this stuff?
Would you rather that instead they didn't report any cyberpatrol stories?
Is that a rhetorical question? Yes, I would prefer they didn't report any cyberpatrol stories.
one out of four stars... would have saved the reviewers a lot of time.
I don't think Babbage's computing engine was as late as this game.
I can remember spending $4000 for a 386 system right after they came out. Too bad computers never got any cheaper as time went by and production increased, eh?
So are you on record as saying you don't mind if people steal from you as long as it is in increments of less than .50 a pop?
We can pay homage to the 15 (yes 15) vicims of Columbine
You misspelled 13 victims and 2 criminals...
Yeah, sure you are.. pull the other one, its got bells on it.
Dude, you are way wrong with this one. If any of my comments are featured in that book of yours, then I'll definitly sue.
Don't flatter yourself, asshole.
The fact that it's non-profit is irrelevant. I can't take someone else's work and republish it, even if I don't make anything from it.
Yeah, but if you were to sue and win (fat chance) your damages would be damn near zero in this case.
So John,
/. seems to revel in this view?
Have you used any of the updated information that has been leaked and released over the past year (particularly at Salon.com), that shows that rather then the knee jerk reaction everyone had that assumed these were poor picked on geeks out to kill jocks, etc... that these were just a couple of mentally troubled kids who snapped? Or is there some value in continuing to perpetuate this unfortunate and inaccurate view of the situation. Esp, in light of your audience on
Death-of-the-Internet-predicted-Film (MPEGS?) -at-11 story.
I mean come on AOL has their own little playground. People either like it and stay there or wise up and go out into the real world. No harm in that.
And their business prospects are so bad they went out and by the proverbial dinosaur of the media world (TW) to try to make things better for them? And people are worried about this wonderful blend of incompetence and idocy? I'm not.
You know, even 5-15% translates to a hell of a lot of money when you consider how large the computer market is...
Yeah, but you aren't dealing with the whole computer market, just PCs.
Well, really you aren't dealing with the whole PC market, just home PCs (since its pretty damn rare to see a modem in an office)
And then you are only dealing with home PCs with DSL access available.
So now you think they really care about 5% of the home PC DSL enabled market?