And being the ethical guy you are, you refused to sell the burners to those customers you were so sure weren't going to use them for illegal purposes, right?
If you did sell them, knowing their intended use, you're in no position to pontificate.
What do you do when employees are tunneling? You can't really call them on it, because that would require admitting monitoring.
For that matter, what happens when you catch an employee at something using the logs of emails or IMs? Once s/he tells colleagues, isn't your grand plan of clandestine monitoring sort of exposed?
Why is it that the networks themselves need to be shut down? Isn't the FBI capable of the same investigative techniques that they've used to generate subpoenas for all those MP3 sharers?
So you're sure the stuff was child porn? That means you verified it yourself, by downloading it. Unless you were at the time a sworn law enforcement officer conducting a legitimate investigation, you committed a felony. You're lucky the FBI didn't arrest you.
I haven't tried it myself, but intend to, if I can't find anything that says it won't run under VMware. The use of an alternative emulator that doesn't scream "I'm an emulator!" seems like a good plan. I haven't tried Win4Lin yet--I had been thinking of Bochs as a candidate if VMware didn't work.
Have you actually tried this? VMware is a MS partner, selling licenses and all (and having killed the version of VMware that runs on OS/2). VMware provides documented APIs for testing by which an app can tell it's running in a VM. I'd be very surprised if MS doesn't check these when dealing with "rights" managed documents.
That's weak. No matter what substansive examples of "non-infringing use" you can come up with, it's pretty obvious to anyone who'se been around awhile that the original TCP/IP protocol stack and utilities like ftp were designed for legitimate purposes. It's also pretty obvious what Napster and Kazaa were designed for. If you want to pretend that these were designed for sharing mom's blueberry recipies with five billion of your closest friends, that's fine with me, but don't expect anyone to believe it.
I think Google is taking a practical approach to this. They're informing the user that the results have been censored, and then link to the letter containing the censored results. Methinks they're hoisting Sherman with their own petard--the Kazaa Lite folks couldn't have bought publicity this effective.
A company whose entire business model is based on facilitating copyright infringement calls "Smithers, unleash the hounds" on Google over another company it believes is infringing its copyright.
In case you're still interested, I received what is meant to look like an auto-ignore late Sunday that said "due to the volume of email we receive . .."
You get the idea. I guess I'm done giving money during the annual pledge drives.
Freecraft allowed importing of WC2 graphics from a user's legitimately owned copy of WC2. The screenshot you saw was probably from someone who did that. Of course, with your 600,000+ user ID and mixed posting history, I can't tell if you're trolling or just plain ignorant.
Interesting--thanks for the link. Of course, I disagree with the minimal restrictions the CPB encumbers what it funds with--any program which is tax supported shouldn't even be subject to copyright, much less only available free for a limited time.
Fair enough--but if NPR wants to go the DRM route, they should change the "P" to stand for private and give up public funding totally.
I actually don't think the DRM features are used, even though they require players which support DRM, since I have had no trouble saving shows in which I was interested by grabbing the PCM stream. They are, however, helping those DRM technologies gain the critical mass necessary to have DRM become the rule rather than the exception. That is a bad thing.
NPR hasn't responded--I just sent the message Sunday A.M.
MP3, though encumbered by patents, is sufficiently universal to be usable across platforms, meeting the requirement that "a userbase can accept and play" with no trouble. While MP3 itself is proprietary, free (both as in open source and as in "beer") players for it are ubiquitous on almost all platforms, and aren't saddled with spyware and DRM as are Real and WMP9.
I do wonder what sort of "no strings attached" gift NPR received from MS to make the streams require WMP9. There is no valid technical reason for that.
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The MPAA gets special royalties on rental copies, so you're not hitting them in the wallet by using Netflix. Consider buying used DVDs instead.
How about a pedantic argument about how copyright infringement isn't theft? After all, the RIAA member still has the music.
If you did sell them, knowing their intended use, you're in no position to pontificate.
For that matter, what happens when you catch an employee at something using the logs of emails or IMs? Once s/he tells colleagues, isn't your grand plan of clandestine monitoring sort of exposed?
Change "they" to "the RIAA" in the above.
Why is it that the networks themselves need to be shut down? Isn't the FBI capable of the same investigative techniques that they've used to generate subpoenas for all those MP3 sharers?
So you're sure the stuff was child porn? That means you verified it yourself, by downloading it. Unless you were at the time a sworn law enforcement officer conducting a legitimate investigation, you committed a felony. You're lucky the FBI didn't arrest you.
That is absolultely freaking cool--I never thought of that!
If so, your problem's solved!
I haven't tried it myself, but intend to, if I can't find anything that says it won't run under VMware. The use of an alternative emulator that doesn't scream "I'm an emulator!" seems like a good plan. I haven't tried Win4Lin yet--I had been thinking of Bochs as a candidate if VMware didn't work.
Change "runs on OS/2" to "runs OS/2." My bad.
Have you actually tried this? VMware is a MS partner, selling licenses and all (and having killed the version of VMware that runs on OS/2). VMware provides documented APIs for testing by which an app can tell it's running in a VM. I'd be very surprised if MS doesn't check these when dealing with "rights" managed documents.
And when the trains didn't run on time, no one would dare say they didn't :).
That's weak. No matter what substansive examples of "non-infringing use" you can come up with, it's pretty obvious to anyone who'se been around awhile that the original TCP/IP protocol stack and utilities like ftp were designed for legitimate purposes. It's also pretty obvious what Napster and Kazaa were designed for. If you want to pretend that these were designed for sharing mom's blueberry recipies with five billion of your closest friends, that's fine with me, but don't expect anyone to believe it.
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I think Google is taking a practical approach to this. They're informing the user that the results have been censored, and then link to the letter containing the censored results. Methinks they're hoisting Sherman with their own petard--the Kazaa Lite folks couldn't have bought publicity this effective.
A company whose entire business model is based on facilitating copyright infringement calls "Smithers, unleash the hounds" on Google over another company it believes is infringing its copyright.
In case you're still interested, I received what is meant to look like an auto-ignore late Sunday that said "due to the volume of email we receive . . ."
You get the idea. I guess I'm done giving money during the annual pledge drives.
Is it bad if my mind was in the gutter and I knew she's the robot from the Jetsons?
Yes, yes. Thank you all for helping to fund the War on Freedom.
Freecraft allowed importing of WC2 graphics from a user's legitimately owned copy of WC2. The screenshot you saw was probably from someone who did that. Of course, with your 600,000+ user ID and mixed posting history, I can't tell if you're trolling or just plain ignorant.
Interesting--thanks for the link. Of course, I disagree with the minimal restrictions the CPB encumbers what it funds with--any program which is tax supported shouldn't even be subject to copyright, much less only available free for a limited time.
I actually don't think the DRM features are used, even though they require players which support DRM, since I have had no trouble saving shows in which I was interested by grabbing the PCM stream. They are, however, helping those DRM technologies gain the critical mass necessary to have DRM become the rule rather than the exception. That is a bad thing.
MP3, though encumbered by patents, is sufficiently universal to be usable across platforms, meeting the requirement that "a userbase can accept and play" with no trouble. While MP3 itself is proprietary, free (both as in open source and as in "beer") players for it are ubiquitous on almost all platforms, and aren't saddled with spyware and DRM as are Real and WMP9.
I do wonder what sort of "no strings attached" gift NPR received from MS to make the streams require WMP9. There is no valid technical reason for that.