"If everyone would quite buying the RIAA music, quite pirating it even. Quit buying the damn DVD's, quite going to see the movies, quit pirating movies...."
[Newsflash!]
Chairman Mao got it wrong. Religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, "entertainment" is, and like any other opiate it's addictive and addling.
So don't hold out any hope that sheeple will "see the light" and cease ingesting shite music, gawdaful movies, or infotainment any time soon.
Tell that to Microsoft and McAfee, who tacitly approved of "piracy" to garner marketshare for their crapware.
This isn't about "theft" or "protecting jobs", it's about dead business models and sh*tty products being protected by clueless politicians for the benefit of greedy, intellectually insufficient imbeciles at the helms of various corporations.
"From what I gather, this is only the ISPs that have their own servers that are affected, and not independent usenet providers themselves (like Giganews)."
How long do you really think it's going to take for this to trickle over to premium USENET servers, if in no other way than to have their traffic as closely monitored, and potentially throttled, as that of P2P users?
*Any* time it's "for the children", you can be damn well sure that they'll be last on the list of those being served.
I smell herring, red, and believe this is far from a "flash in the pan feel good law". It will in time be seen as odious as the DMCA and others of like ilk.
"( but I typically only buy used CDs because I am more willing to pay the discounted, still marked up price when I know the profit goes to the small business, so suck on that secondary market RIAA )"
1) Under one
2) Drinking the wrong kind of Kool-Aid®
3) Convinced of your "Devine Right" of supremacy
4) Distracted by {pick one} American Gladiators / Britney / Lindsay / Paris / America's Got Talent
5) All of the above
Personally, I blame the politicians for squandering the lead we had in space, starting in the 1970's.
Simply put, it's an election year and none of the Democrats want to appear "soft on terrorism/defense/insert-the-buzzword-of-the-day-here", out of fear of losing their jobs.
Unfortunately for "we the people", their fear means the loss of more of our civil liberties.
Granted it's not passed the Senate yet, but you can bet your sweet patootie it will, and should SCOTUS miraculously find in favor of the ISPs some slick lawyer will find a way to make it apply here.
After all, those small ISPs were probably run by terrorists, or sympathetic to them, or.... something.
There was stuff in the alt. hierarchy back then that made goatse look tame.
If anything it's self policed and gotten better as more and more people realized there was weird sh*t and free stuff to be had through USENET and the hardcore pervs moved on to more (supposedly) secure methods of distribution.
Now Verizon, Time Warner and Sprint make politically palatable noises ("It's for the children!"), while what they've really done is free up network resources they can better use to push pablum to the clueless, while gaining bargaining points with government regulators.
Ultimately this about money and media exposure, anything else is strictly secondary.
Any first year biology student can tell you that heterogeneity is key to the health of any biological system, and "over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%" does not mean jack if all of that "bounty" is tied to one organism... say... corn.
All it takes is a single blight in a monoculture to induce another An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol and we're already looking straight into the headlights of something similar with bananas.
This strikes me as another piece of disinformation meant as a palliative to soothe the masses who've grown restive over the real degradation of the biosphere.
Peter Watts (Rifters Triology, dark, twisted, but quite good)
Scott Westerfeld (Risen Empire was a great space opera, but he seems to have abandoned it for his more lucrative juvenile line)
I've noticed that the preponderance of decent, new, SF is coming from British authors. Perhaps growing up with the longest running SF serial on the planet helps inspire them.
The cops don't pull you over randomly in your car and ask if you've been speeding because you aren't guilty until it's observed. You don't get shaken down on the street for assault and battery because you have a baseball bat.
Bullshit, pure and simple bullshit. Cops and those in authority have, and always will, act arbitrarily.
Whether you have long hair (1960s - 70s), the "wrong" skin color (1700s - present), the wrong ideology, facial features, attitude, whatever, you can be a target at the momentary whim of someone else who holds "authority".
Just because you haven't been yet is due in large part to the actions of those who have shown the light of publicity on the dark motives of those who would abridge your liberties in the name of security, national or otherwise.
For christ's sake, when did feeding people become something "evil"?
When the chemicals that you're using to increase crop yield become incorporated into the food grown, to subsequently be released into the bodies of those that consume it.
That is the true "harvest of fear" we can thank Monsanto for.
"In the face of widespread, escalating online piracy,..."
Why is the same hokum being gussied up and trotted out yetagain to cover up the fact that the major labels all, each and every swingin' dick one of them, missed the boat on the internet business model and now are scrambling to save their wrinkled white asses from a just deserved demise?
Slashdot Mirror
"If everyone would quite buying the RIAA music, quite pirating it even. Quit buying the damn DVD's, quite going to see the movies, quit pirating movies. ..."
[Newsflash!]
Chairman Mao got it wrong. Religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, "entertainment" is, and like any other opiate it's addictive and addling.
So don't hold out any hope that sheeple will "see the light" and cease ingesting shite music, gawdaful movies, or infotainment any time soon.
"Just stop using the Internet to steal music."
Tell that to Microsoft and McAfee, who tacitly approved of "piracy" to garner marketshare for their crapware.
This isn't about "theft" or "protecting jobs", it's about dead business models and sh*tty products being protected by clueless politicians for the benefit of greedy, intellectually insufficient imbeciles at the helms of various corporations.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4614281
"First Usenet, then P2P, then IRC, then Youtube, then most of the web (other than major content providers' and business' sites)"
Mod parent up +5 insightful.
You, sir, have hit the nail on the head.
"From what I gather, this is only the ISPs that have their own servers that are affected, and not independent usenet providers themselves (like Giganews)."
How long do you really think it's going to take for this to trickle over to premium USENET servers, if in no other way than to have their traffic as closely monitored, and potentially throttled, as that of P2P users?
*Any* time it's "for the children", you can be damn well sure that they'll be last on the list of those being served.
I smell herring, red, and believe this is far from a "flash in the pan feel good law". It will in time be seen as odious as the DMCA and others of like ilk.
"( but I typically only buy used CDs because I am more willing to pay the discounted, still marked up price when I know the profit goes to the small business, so suck on that secondary market RIAA )"
Never fear, that's next on the agenda
time to get off this rock, then you've been:
1) Under one
2) Drinking the wrong kind of Kool-Aid®
3) Convinced of your "Devine Right" of supremacy
4) Distracted by {pick one} American Gladiators / Britney / Lindsay / Paris / America's Got Talent
5) All of the above
Personally, I blame the politicians for squandering the lead we had in space, starting in the 1970's.
Doesn't the Blizzard native OS X installer, also discussed here, work on MacIntels?
I've been considering using Diablo II to wean myself from a year long umbilical WoW connection and hadn't had a chance to try it yet.
Simply put, it's an election year and none of the Democrats want to appear "soft on terrorism/defense/insert-the-buzzword-of-the-day-here", out of fear of losing their jobs.
Unfortunately for "we the people", their fear means the loss of more of our civil liberties.
Telecom Immunity
Granted it's not passed the Senate yet, but you can bet your sweet patootie it will, and should SCOTUS miraculously find in favor of the ISPs some slick lawyer will find a way to make it apply here.
After all, those small ISPs were probably run by terrorists, or sympathetic to them, or .... something.
That jsuda is an anagram of Judas?
Seems suspicious to me.
There was stuff in the alt. hierarchy back then that made goatse look tame.
If anything it's self policed and gotten better as more and more people realized there was weird sh*t and free stuff to be had through USENET and the hardcore pervs moved on to more (supposedly) secure methods of distribution.
Now Verizon, Time Warner and Sprint make politically palatable noises ("It's for the children!"), while what they've really done is free up network resources they can better use to push pablum to the clueless, while gaining bargaining points with government regulators.
Ultimately this about money and media exposure, anything else is strictly secondary.
Any first year biology student can tell you that heterogeneity is key to the health of any biological system, and "over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%" does not mean jack if all of that "bounty" is tied to one organism ... say ... corn.
All it takes is a single blight in a monoculture to induce another An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol and we're already looking straight into the headlights of something similar with bananas.
This strikes me as another piece of disinformation meant as a palliative to soothe the masses who've grown restive over the real degradation of the biosphere.
Stiff, cold martians.
I'd like to add:
Peter Watts (Rifters Triology, dark, twisted, but quite good)
Scott Westerfeld (Risen Empire was a great space opera, but he seems to have abandoned it for his more lucrative juvenile line)
I've noticed that the preponderance of decent, new, SF is coming from British authors.
Perhaps growing up with the longest running SF serial on the planet helps inspire them.
How is hell is MS's bloatware supposed to fix that?
Mystically, with an infusion of Bill Gates $$$ up the orifice, like any other Kool-Aid©.
Make your congresscritter work for you...or at least pretend to:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/04/21/sen-kerry-i-need-your-feedback-on-net-neutrality/
https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?alertId=103&pg=makeACall
I would have been blacklisted in the McCarthy era, that's a given.
It's an unfortunate paradigm that truth and politics are often antithetical.
The cops don't pull you over randomly in your car and ask if you've been speeding because you aren't guilty until it's observed. You don't get shaken down on the street for assault and battery because you have a baseball bat.
Bullshit, pure and simple bullshit. Cops and those in authority have, and always will, act arbitrarily.
Whether you have long hair (1960s - 70s), the "wrong" skin color (1700s - present), the wrong ideology, facial features, attitude, whatever, you can be a target at the momentary whim of someone else who holds "authority".
Just because you haven't been yet is due in large part to the actions of those who have shown the light of publicity on the dark motives of those who would abridge your liberties in the name of security, national or otherwise.
For christ's sake, when did feeding people become something "evil"?
When the chemicals that you're using to increase crop yield become incorporated into the food grown, to subsequently be released into the bodies of those that consume it.
That is the true "harvest of fear" we can thank Monsanto for.
To any *one* of those companies that's peanuts, chump change, zilch, zero, nada, an executive retreat.
Now $60M, or $600M, spread across them all would have gotten their attention and made a "Don't do this again" statement.
Anything else is just toothless posturing.
When a company, a non corporeal legal entity, has more rights than the meat sacks something is seriously out of whack.
Companies now hold more of an interest in the inner workings of your own body than you do, and have laid successful claim to elements of orbital mechanics.
What's next? Patents being issued on the revitalizing and energizing properties of sunshine? The hydrating effects of water?
What are 1000 patent lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.
Redundant stories, Dupes, angst among the faithful!
More, after these messages.
"In the face of widespread, escalating online piracy,..."
Why is the same hokum being gussied up and trotted out yet again to cover up the fact that the major labels all, each and every swingin' dick one of them, missed the boat on the internet business model and now are scrambling to save their wrinkled white asses from a just deserved demise?
Open about:config
/sigh
Add booleans extensions.checkCompatibility & extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set to false
Multiple restarts
Get your dev build here: http://adblockplus.org/development-builds/more-firefox-3-fixes [adblockplus.org]
Adblock Plus still fails to install.
Any thoughts?