Good thought--but what if the wireless weren't 802.11 to the Internet proper, but completely ad hoc networks negotiated locally with no control possible by the venue (save for jamming)?
And, unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before what you predict comes to pass. CompuServe was successfully prosecuted in Germany a few years back over pornography; a New York prosecutor got a settlement from a Usenet provider over underage porn.
The *A will start sniping at smaller ISP's which carry Usenet feeds, get a precedent, and it will be all over in the U.S.--and once that happens, stuff won't propagate so well. (This how damning it would look for a premium Usenet provider--it would be so easy to show a jury that they profit substantially from illegal content. And regular ISPs would love to get rid of the resource drain that Usenet is to them.)
The only hope is in technologies like Freenet that provide at least deniability of knowledge for now, and hopefully absolute anonynimity for all including exit servers at some point.
Interesting idea, but here's one problem. If the *AA wants to use my bandwidth to serve content they're charging for, I want a cut. That, and I'm not interested in "properly identifying" myself and my musical tastes to improve their marketing databases.
And of course, the people who created this product/service no doubt learned everything they know about P2P while sucking down all kinds of music and movies. Hypocrites.
Of course, but that also messes up the search algorithm's the users are running. Then, the clients get modified to search for the l33t characters, then sometime shortly thereafter, (ass)ranger gets the same changes.
as servers become better at cloaking the sharers and downloaders of content--in future p2p networks, no one server will have a complete copy of a copyrighted file; downloads will swarm to users from dozens of hosts, through several paths blinded even from their operators by public key cryptography.
And with every article about the crackdown, more people are made aware that movies and music are free for the downloading.
As someone once said here, copyright law in the digital age will be unenforceable without DMCA death squads.
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Think about it./. is whoring for Sony. You think any of the "editors" give two shits about your not wanting to view ads? Since they serve up some of the most intrusive ads on the whole net? Please.
. . . the OpenGL community has knowingly run afoul of the patents owned by Microsoft by designing the standard so that it depended upon them. Perhaps it would have been better to avoid using any of MSs intellectual "property" in the standard to begin with.
Please mod this down so I know when I go below 26. You can feel free to use "Troll," since I'm including this goatse.cx link for your convenience. Thank you.
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I had forgotten about that one--and it even relates specifically to copyright. Thanks!
Speaking of editor moderation, I just got slapped 10 points in the forbidden thread and a related one. Working my way to "Terrible" pretty quickly :)
No, that's not OK. Turn in your /. ID at the door.
Good thought--but what if the wireless weren't 802.11 to the Internet proper, but completely ad hoc networks negotiated locally with no control possible by the venue (save for jamming)?
Guess when the law doesn't work for justice, that leaves violence, then. Theoretically.
Now that they've got that down, let's see how far they get sending C&D's to people based on APNIC.
The *A will start sniping at smaller ISP's which carry Usenet feeds, get a precedent, and it will be all over in the U.S.--and once that happens, stuff won't propagate so well. (This how damning it would look for a premium Usenet provider--it would be so easy to show a jury that they profit substantially from illegal content. And regular ISPs would love to get rid of the resource drain that Usenet is to them.)
The only hope is in technologies like Freenet that provide at least deniability of knowledge for now, and hopefully absolute anonynimity for all including exit servers at some point.
Interesting idea, but here's one problem. If the *AA wants to use my bandwidth to serve content they're charging for, I want a cut. That, and I'm not interested in "properly identifying" myself and my musical tastes to improve their marketing databases.
And of course, the people who created this product/service no doubt learned everything they know about P2P while sucking down all kinds of music and movies. Hypocrites.
Of course, but that also messes up the search algorithm's the users are running. Then, the clients get modified to search for the l33t characters, then sometime shortly thereafter, (ass)ranger gets the same changes.
And with every article about the crackdown, more people are made aware that movies and music are free for the downloading.
As someone once said here, copyright law in the digital age will be unenforceable without DMCA death squads.
Steer clear of Yucca Mountain.
The subject line says "Like they said Vonnegut said. I guess I should have been clearer.
Wear sunscreen.
I doubt it's actually illegal, though it's probably not bright (LCD, get it?) to look at it while driving.
Ghola != thinking machine. The filthy Theilaxu did create "thinking machines," but gholas were not among them.
LOL, I got below 26, so I win. Now only three karma capped IDs to go after this one is in "Terrible" territory.
How about you go back to gargling some of your smelly, GNU hippie, RMS smelling, 3 inch cock, you worthless piece of shit moronic AC.
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There is no retirement from trolling. "Every time I think I'm out, they pull me right back in!"
Think about it. /. is whoring for Sony. You think any of the "editors" give two shits about your not wanting to view ads? Since they serve up some of the most intrusive ads on the whole net? Please.
That's better.
. . . the OpenGL community has knowingly run afoul of the patents owned by Microsoft by designing the standard so that it depended upon them. Perhaps it would have been better to avoid using any of MSs intellectual "property" in the standard to begin with.
I said "Troll," not "Offtopic," you straitjacketed morons.
Please mod this down so I know when I go below 26. You can feel free to use "Troll," since I'm including this goatse.cx link for your convenience. Thank you.