I was noticing odd applicant names like:
The dotPRO Consortium
The dotNOM Consortium
so I started looking a little closer and this is what I found: .pro
The dotPRO Consortium
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
The.TV Corporation International
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
.nom
The dotNOM Consortium
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
The.TV Corporation International
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
Two identical Addresses from 2 different "organizations" both suggesting the same exact domains... but that's not all folks.
Take a closer look and you'll notice that ALL the people that suggested.nom also suggested.pro... Lycos, Inc, SK Telecom, XO Communications, Inc. (formerly Concentric Network, OnlineNIC, Inc., 7DC
Wonder what's up with this? WTF is a.nom for anyhow? Why would Concentric, Lycos and some guys in Korea both all want it?
disc-chord "Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not. Information is power and currency in the digital world we inhabit."-Billy Idol(1994)
Actually the "next new thing" is Fcast, which takes the basic idea behind multicast and adds in some nifty error correction. But beware, it's got MicroSoft written all over it so you guys can't be l33t anymore if you use it... which will totally defeat the purpose of downloading RH7 in the first place, no?;)
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All we can do is hope that the courts will guide us in the right direction. Either they side with the media corps and the government, and decide to declare a "war on copyright", which will be a failure, of course, just like the war on drugs. Of course there is tremendous commercial interest that would benefit, not only those still able to make some money by being the sole distributer of their information, but also the money that will go to prisons to hold all the "pirates", the information criminals.
Unfortuantly we are not a powerful lobbying force and the only voices heard in congress are those of the MPAA, RIAA, blah blah blah... and their lawyers who have the time and resources available to wage a political war. How many DeCSS "supporters" do you think have even written a letter to their congressman?
I'll bet no more than 5%... the rest are too busy being r33t leeching the latest DVDRip on IRC.
They will continue to criminalize and demonize, and we will blindly fall vicitim to them. Most folks that really 'get it' are young adults... most of whome don't even know who their congressman is! What we need is a strong lobby to win the politik's game, and there just isn't enough advocacy in our "sub-culture" reguarding how we can fight the good fight on their turf.
It's a lose-lose situation for us. There is no way for us to really tell all the DeCSS supporters and would-be supporters that they need to take an active roll in defending their civil liberties. The only way to get our attention now is to buy a friggen 30 second spot on "Who Wants to Be a Millionair". And... interestingly enough, we don't have that kind of money or we wouldn't be stealing DVDs!
disc-chord
"Though we say, 'all information should be free'... it is not. Information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit" - Billy Idol (1994)
That must be mighty big rock you lot have been hidding under.
mpeg4 has been out for ages! None of you use Gnutella? Or Scour? Or even IRC?
Just search for Divx on your favorite file sharing app (sans napster or other mp3 exclusive ones) and you'll see every-movie-ever-made has already been ripped to divx.
You seen that quest commercial where the guy walks into the motel:
chick says "We have every movie, ever made, anytime, day or night"... and the dude mummbles "H-Ho-H-How is that Possible?"... welcome to cyberspace/.!
This stuff has been going on for over a year now!
Someone forget to tell/. ???
Let me clue you in on some other "news"... We landed on the moon!!!disc-chord
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I was noticing odd applicant names like:
.pro .TV Corporation International
.nom .TV Corporation International
.nom also suggested .pro ...
.nom for anyhow? Why would Concentric, Lycos and some guys in Korea both all want it?
The dotPRO Consortium
The dotNOM Consortium
so I started looking a little closer and this is what I found:
The dotPRO Consortium
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
The
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
The dotNOM Consortium
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
The
130 W. Union Street
Pasadena, California 91103 USA
+1 626 685-4904
a@www.tv
Two identical Addresses from 2 different "organizations" both suggesting the same exact domains... but that's not all folks. Take a closer look and you'll notice that ALL the people that suggested
Lycos, Inc, SK Telecom, XO Communications, Inc. (formerly Concentric Network, OnlineNIC, Inc., 7DC
Wonder what's up with this? WTF is a
disc-chord
"Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not. Information is power and currency in the digital world we inhabit."-Billy Idol(1994)
Actually the "next new thing" is Fcast, which takes the basic idea behind multicast and adds in some nifty error correction. But beware, it's got MicroSoft written all over it so you guys can't be l33t anymore if you use it... which will totally defeat the purpose of downloading RH7 in the first place, no? ;)
disc-chord
All we can do is hope that the courts will guide us in the right direction. Either they side with the media corps and the government, and decide to declare a "war on copyright", which will be a failure, of course, just like the war on drugs. Of course there is tremendous commercial interest that would benefit, not only those still able to make some money by being the sole distributer of their information, but also the money that will go to prisons to hold all the "pirates", the information criminals.
... the rest are too busy being r33t leeching the latest DVDRip on IRC.
Unfortuantly we are not a powerful lobbying force and the only voices heard in congress are those of the MPAA, RIAA, blah blah blah... and their lawyers who have the time and resources available to wage a political war. How many DeCSS "supporters" do you think have even written a letter to their congressman?
I'll bet no more than 5%
They will continue to criminalize and demonize, and we will blindly fall vicitim to them. Most folks that really 'get it' are young adults... most of whome don't even know who their congressman is! What we need is a strong lobby to win the politik's game, and there just isn't enough advocacy in our "sub-culture" reguarding how we can fight the good fight on their turf.
It's a lose-lose situation for us. There is no way for us to really tell all the DeCSS supporters and would-be supporters that they need to take an active roll in defending their civil liberties. The only way to get our attention now is to buy a friggen 30 second spot on "Who Wants to Be a Millionair". And... interestingly enough, we don't have that kind of money or we wouldn't be stealing DVDs!
disc-chord
"Though we say, 'all information should be free'... it is not. Information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit" - Billy Idol (1994)
That must be mighty big rock you lot have been hidding under.
... ... /.!
This stuff has been going on for over a year now!
Someone forget to tell /. ???
mpeg4 has been out for ages! None of you use Gnutella? Or Scour? Or even IRC?
Just search for Divx on your favorite file sharing app (sans napster or other mp3 exclusive ones) and you'll see every-movie-ever-made has already been ripped to divx.
You seen that quest commercial where the guy walks into the motel:
chick says "We have every movie, ever made, anytime, day or night"
and the dude mummbles "H-Ho-H-How is that Possible?"
welcome to cyberspace
Let me clue you in on some other "news"...
We landed on the moon!!! disc-chord