Wow, I don't think I would've even payed attention to most of those. I guess I don't know enough about TCP, etc, to recognize subtle stuff.
Though I do know enough (or not enough) to wonder about stuff like this:
Nov 18 12:58:01 home kernel: Packet log: ppp-out - ppp0 PROTO=1 xx.xx.xx.32:65535 yy.yy.yy.82:65535 L=24 S=0xC0 I=51990 F=0x002C T=255 (#1)
At least it looks weird to me (ICMP type 65535?) Anybody know what that's about? I just noticed it recently when it went to 212.15.64.41 which is where some linux worm phones home, but it pops up every now and then to other hosts too.
Probably a simple explanation but while all the network geeks are in the room I figured I'd ask...
I'm an Apple shareholder, and one fine day on the shitter I was reading their 10-K (annual SEC filing), and noticed this interesting quote on page 6, under "PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSES":
The Company currently holds rights to patents and copyrights relating to certain
aspects of its computer systems, peripheral systems, and software. [...] Although the Company believes the ownership
of such patents, copyrights, and trademarks is an important factor in its
business and that its success does depend in part on the ownership thereof, the
Company relies primarily on the innovative skills, technical competence, and
marketing abilities of its personnel.
I thought that was an interesting thing to write, I wonder what, say, Amazon or Microsoft say in their filings about patents?
If anything comes of this patent (I doubt anything will, despite the sensationalist/. headline), you can use that in your letters to Apple or something.
And on a regular basis send out an ad for themselves, through the software perhaps, asking for donations. If the donations don't come, or they aren't enough, take the server(s) down once a week, or twice a week, or permanently, whatever, until the donations reach the necessary level.
Anything but ads! Ads on the computer are just like white noise to me now, my brain has somehow learned to half-ignore them, not registering what they are about, but being annoyed by their presence.
If they die off because of lack of funds, then, well, natural selection in full effect. Something better will come along.
That page offers a list of things you can do, like not supporting the labels or buying and returning the CDs, etc. If you're the amoral type, here's something else you can do with a "factory-damaged" CD:
Rip the CD, analog style or with a Mac or whatever, and put some or all of the tracks on your web site. Blatantly label them and submit the page to search engines. Put a note there saying something like "these tracks came from a copy-prevention enabled CD, so if you see any MP3's here, you're imagining things!"
Then when the lawyerbots come by, take it down, and reply to them apologizing profusely and saying how important you think copyright is and all that jazz. I think if the labels see all these tracks traded on the internet exactly the same as all the other CDs, they'll start knocking on the door of the CD-protection company asking, what the hell did we just pay you 50million$ for??
Of course, I prefer just avoiding the labels and their music completely. Here's my rule of thumb: if you think you could send an email to both the head of the label and the artist, and get a personal reply within a few days, that CD is probably not going to be crippled. In fact after getting the CD be sure to email both with your compliments. And some of the bigger indie labels have also taken a anti-anti-copying stand too, like Projekt.
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Amen, amen to that, try also "copy interference". Because they're not preventing any copying, they just make you do it differently.
Or heck just "intentionally damaged" or whatever, anything to get away from their terminology.
Okay listen guys this is good. Why is MP3 piracy a problem?? Because really when you get down to it, songs are just data, numbers on a disk, and nothing keeps you from copying a bunch of numbers, right??
SO HERE'S WHAT YOU DO (if you're an artist, otherwise don't do this because the FBI can't tap your phone).
ENCRYPT your music files!! But wait I hear you saying.. how can anybody listen to TEH BOOTY BEATZ if they are encrypted??????????
Well you have a secret key, and only the people with the key can lsiten to the music!!! So instead of worrying about people copying your files, you don't care any more, because only the people with the secret key can listen.
PROBLEM SOLVED!! Let the money roll in, bling bling.
cause see, you can just sell the keys, over the internet, or on CDs, or in music players, or computers, because they're just data, a bunch of numbe......OH SHIT.
Microsoft doesn't represent capitalism, at least not the kind of free-market capitalism that benefits society. They are so large and entrenched and benefited by government laws (copyright), they are basically some kind of quasi-authoritative government of their own. Copyright basically allows them to enforce arbitrary unsigned contracts (kinda like when congress passes a law, hey if you don't like it move out of the country. Hey if you don't like microsoft's licenses, don't buy any computers.). They spread propaganda, they send thugs (BSA) to enforce their laws (licenses). The broken balance between property rights and freedom is evident in Microsoft. All they need now is a police force!
Yeah I went to microsoft.biz and sure enough there was a banner (with a freaky blurred photo of two people with no eyes, shiver) and an offer to buy. Well, shucks, if microsoft doesn't want it, can I buy it??
Nah, they get screwed just the same from concerts and everything else. Because the record companies basically control all the rights, they make the money, and all the middle men make the money.
If you don't want to sell your soul for a chance at becoming one of the priveleged few who actually make real money selling recordings and concert tickets, you need to become a "middle class" musician. These are the folks who make music for commercials, CDROMs, games, and who work as session players in the studio. If you're less of a performer and more of a producer, than you can build a reputation and hope to produce other middle-class musician's stuff.
These middle-classers make a decent living, and are working to earn it, just "as anyone else", like you say. They get paid more for their time than their copyrights.
It seems that, P2P or not, this is the only way to make money as a musician without rolling the dice in the CDs/concerts/label game.
I too once wanted to be a musician, in high school, until I learned the truth through musician friends, and by watching what happened to a favorite indie band (Lush) that got signed to a major. I found out it was all bullshit and you don't even make enough money to eat and live if you don't sell millions of records. No thanks! I decided computers would be easier work and I could still make music as a hobby. Of course now the internet has changed my mind, maybe I'll get back into it some day, with a more realistic view of the industry as it exists today, and a way to at least become well-known.
Art is a tough business, and RIAA, over the decades, has only made it worst.
A bunch of religious- and political- minded terrorists, suddenly getting the idea to terrorize Comdex?? What the hell. Reminds me of a tag line from a recent This is True story:
The 21st Century Egotist: someone who thinks they're important enough to be a target.
Anyway, if they ban bags, does that mean I have to carry my anthrax spores, 7-inch locking blade knives, and explosives in a box? How inconvenient!
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I wonder how many times he had to explain just what the hell this is supposed to be.
Actually, I'm not sure what type of thing the Gimp is, myself. What is it and why does it grin so? And where's its body?
And what's with the blue seamless paper and light boxes used in those photographs? Geeks are supposed to use cheap digital cameras with glaring flashes, with a stack of Jolt cans in the background.
Yeah yeah, DMCA bad, etc., now the real question, where are the files so we can all spread them around even though most of us don't have Aibo's and couldn't care less otherwise.
When are these hacker folks going to get smart and put text-encoded versions of this stuff on HTML pages and then let Google cache them??
Though, I bet Sony will back down after a while, and this will all blow over, even though they are a EvilMediaCompany(tm) they are also a CoolHardwareCompany(R)..
I haven't heard anything inspirational from Daft Punk since one of them went off and did 'music sounds better with you'. Strange that a vital, interesting band that produced 'revolution 909' and the excellent 'around the world' then ended up producing a parody of a cheesy hands-in-the-air house track, only to then recreate themselves based on a parody of that one track!
Amen, amen to that. The first album was really good in a fun and simple way. They totally went crap after that.
And the video with the dog-man was classic. I remember getting a kick out of the fact the bus driver kicked him off the bus because of his boom box, but didn't give a fuck that he was a dog!
Okay this whole article is pointless but I guess slashdot is a little slow 2nite. I thought CTaco was into The Who and stuff.
All I want is to be able to 1) buy a computer from any PC manufacturer I want without ANY operating system, or 2) be able to immediately sell, on eBay let's say, the operating system and junk that comes with a new PC. And not get a nastygram from Microsoft, or the guy who buys it can't run it because of some serial number.
If I buy a car, or a TV, or pretty much anything else, I can strip it down and sell the parts and nobody calls me a "pirate". For instance, I sold a card remote and sensor from an old Discman on eBay. I can remove the tires, or the engine, or the ashtray from my car and give them away or sell them, then add my own.
Why can't I do this with my computer? Why are software companies allowed this power? Really, I want to exercise my capitalistic rights and avoid Microsoft, but it's hard.
This is exactly this sort of MP3 player I'd like to buy, decent space, tiny size, light, simple interface and doubles as a hard drive.
Unfortunately $400 is about twice as much as I'd want to pay for something the size of a pack of cards. Too bad, it's an otherwise well-designed product.
Yeah there's going to be a lot of shit going on. Here's another bizarre story: Novel Security Measures. In my mind I imagine a group of ten terrorists sneaking by with sacks of plastic explosives, while "Security" goes through this guy's Harry Potter book.
I also see the subtext here: Do you look different? Act different? If so, you're going to be suspect. And I don't mean, do you look Middle Eastern, I mean, do you have black hair?
Listen to weird music? Read books with pictures of dynamite on them?
You thought Zero-Tolerance bullshit and picking on geeks and gamers was bad.. that's nothing!
But of course, you don't have the God-given right to fly in an airplane, go to work, walk on the street, or leave your house at all, right?
Holy fucknuggets... I remember seeing that one!! Sure didn't have any affect on me. Though wasn't it about "bootlegging" and Rerun bringing a tape recorder to a concert?
[Nestle] complained that Pro Fiducia Treuhand, a financial and management consulting firm with some 40 employees, had no legitimate claim on the Maggi.com domain and that it had registered and used the address in bad faith because, after five years, the company had not made use of the domain for a Web site.
Lawyers for Aspen Grove argued that, "by continuing to use the domain name without offering any or little content or any legitimate business use, (Clark) has confused (Aspen Grove's) prospective clients and business partners and has diluted the value of (its) trademark and reputation."
That stuff worries me. I personally have two domains that don't have any hosts, just MX records for personal email. I fully expect someday some company to come along and somehow claim trademark infringement from a non-existent web site.
So does that mean I should go ahead and put up a web site with infringing material so they can sue me easier?
This is like saying if you get mail at McDonald's Avenue, you are a trademark infringer, and doubly so because you aren't running a hamburger stand!
Kudos to the opposing lawyers and WIPO (that acronym always makes me chuckle when I say it out loud) for blasting that stupid notion. But I still fear that someday I'll have to deal with this bullshit even though my domains were first registered 7 years ago, just because some idiot wants the domain and can't deal with the fact that he doesn't have it.
The kiddies will just jump on IRC and get the 'sploit from BigDaddyHax0r..not all kiddies are stupid (some are just lazy), someone will write the exploit, and not all the skilled hackers are going to keep their tools to themselves. The exploits will appear pretty quickly. At least when a kiddie uses a bugtraq exploit, it's easy to spot and stop.
And remember, the Code Red bug was initially revealed without an exploit. And I read the FBI knew about it, but didn't say anything. Full disclosure with a possible attack signature would've helped quite a bit.
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Wow, I don't think I would've even payed attention to most of those. I guess I don't know enough about TCP, etc, to recognize subtle stuff.
Though I do know enough (or not enough) to wonder about stuff like this:
At least it looks weird to me (ICMP type 65535?) Anybody know what that's about? I just noticed it recently when it went to 212.15.64.41 which is where some linux worm phones home, but it pops up every now and then to other hosts too.Probably a simple explanation but while all the network geeks are in the room I figured I'd ask...
I'm an Apple shareholder, and one fine day on the shitter I was reading their 10-K (annual SEC filing), and noticed this interesting quote on page 6, under "PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSES":
I thought that was an interesting thing to write, I wonder what, say, Amazon or Microsoft say in their filings about patents?
If anything comes of this patent (I doubt anything will, despite the sensationalist /. headline), you can use that in your letters to Apple or something.
See the subject, but as an aside:
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Stupid lameness filter...There wasn't a single cap letter in the first version of this post????????
And on a regular basis send out an ad for themselves, through the software perhaps, asking for donations. If the donations don't come, or they aren't enough, take the server(s) down once a week, or twice a week, or permanently, whatever, until the donations reach the necessary level.
Anything but ads! Ads on the computer are just like white noise to me now, my brain has somehow learned to half-ignore them, not registering what they are about, but being annoyed by their presence.
If they die off because of lack of funds, then, well, natural selection in full effect. Something better will come along.
That page offers a list of things you can do, like not supporting the labels or buying and returning the CDs, etc. If you're the amoral type, here's something else you can do with a "factory-damaged" CD:
Rip the CD, analog style or with a Mac or whatever, and put some or all of the tracks on your web site. Blatantly label them and submit the page to search engines. Put a note there saying something like "these tracks came from a copy-prevention enabled CD, so if you see any MP3's here, you're imagining things!"
Then when the lawyerbots come by, take it down, and reply to them apologizing profusely and saying how important you think copyright is and all that jazz. I think if the labels see all these tracks traded on the internet exactly the same as all the other CDs, they'll start knocking on the door of the CD-protection company asking, what the hell did we just pay you 50million$ for??
Of course, I prefer just avoiding the labels and their music completely. Here's my rule of thumb: if you think you could send an email to both the head of the label and the artist, and get a personal reply within a few days, that CD is probably not going to be crippled. In fact after getting the CD be sure to email both with your compliments. And some of the bigger indie labels have also taken a anti-anti-copying stand too, like Projekt.
Amen, amen to that, try also "copy interference". Because they're not preventing any copying, they just make you do it differently.
Or heck just "intentionally damaged" or whatever, anything to get away from their terminology.
Okay listen guys this is good. Why is MP3 piracy a problem?? Because really when you get down to it, songs are just data, numbers on a disk, and nothing keeps you from copying a bunch of numbers, right??
SO HERE'S WHAT YOU DO (if you're an artist, otherwise don't do this because the FBI can't tap your phone).
ENCRYPT your music files!! But wait I hear you saying.. how can anybody listen to TEH BOOTY BEATZ if they are encrypted??????????
Well you have a secret key, and only the people with the key can lsiten to the music!!! So instead of worrying about people copying your files, you don't care any more, because only the people with the secret key can listen.
PROBLEM SOLVED!! Let the money roll in, bling bling.
cause see, you can just sell the keys, over the internet, or on CDs, or in music players, or computers, because they're just data, a bunch of numbe......OH SHIT.
Fuck. forget it.
Wouldn't it have been easier just to post a link?
tip: always convert files to base-50,000,000, pretty much any file can be represented by one digit. :-)
Microsoft doesn't represent capitalism, at least not the kind of free-market capitalism that benefits society. They are so large and entrenched and benefited by government laws (copyright), they are basically some kind of quasi-authoritative government of their own. Copyright basically allows them to enforce arbitrary unsigned contracts (kinda like when congress passes a law, hey if you don't like it move out of the country. Hey if you don't like microsoft's licenses, don't buy any computers.). They spread propaganda, they send thugs (BSA) to enforce their laws (licenses). The broken balance between property rights and freedom is evident in Microsoft. All they need now is a police force!
Yeah I went to microsoft.biz and sure enough there was a banner (with a freaky blurred photo of two people with no eyes, shiver) and an offer to buy. Well, shucks, if microsoft doesn't want it, can I buy it??
Artists get most of their money from concerts.
Nah, they get screwed just the same from concerts and everything else. Because the record companies basically control all the rights, they make the money, and all the middle men make the money.
If you don't want to sell your soul for a chance at becoming one of the priveleged few who actually make real money selling recordings and concert tickets, you need to become a "middle class" musician. These are the folks who make music for commercials, CDROMs, games, and who work as session players in the studio. If you're less of a performer and more of a producer, than you can build a reputation and hope to produce other middle-class musician's stuff.
These middle-classers make a decent living, and are working to earn it, just "as anyone else", like you say. They get paid more for their time than their copyrights.
It seems that, P2P or not, this is the only way to make money as a musician without rolling the dice in the CDs/concerts/label game.
I too once wanted to be a musician, in high school, until I learned the truth through musician friends, and by watching what happened to a favorite indie band (Lush) that got signed to a major. I found out it was all bullshit and you don't even make enough money to eat and live if you don't sell millions of records. No thanks! I decided computers would be easier work and I could still make music as a hobby. Of course now the internet has changed my mind, maybe I'll get back into it some day, with a more realistic view of the industry as it exists today, and a way to at least become well-known.
Art is a tough business, and RIAA, over the decades, has only made it worst.
A bunch of religious- and political- minded terrorists, suddenly getting the idea to terrorize Comdex?? What the hell. Reminds me of a tag line from a recent This is True story:
Anyway, if they ban bags, does that mean I have to carry my anthrax spores, 7-inch locking blade knives, and explosives in a box? How inconvenient!
I wonder how many times he had to explain just what the hell this is supposed to be.
Actually, I'm not sure what type of thing the Gimp is, myself. What is it and why does it grin so? And where's its body?
And what's with the blue seamless paper and light boxes used in those photographs? Geeks are supposed to use cheap digital cameras with glaring flashes, with a stack of Jolt cans in the background.
Yeah yeah, DMCA bad, etc., now the real question, where are the files so we can all spread them around even though most of us don't have Aibo's and couldn't care less otherwise.
When are these hacker folks going to get smart and put text-encoded versions of this stuff on HTML pages and then let Google cache them??
Though, I bet Sony will back down after a while, and this will all blow over, even though they are a EvilMediaCompany(tm) they are also a CoolHardwareCompany(R)..
I haven't heard anything inspirational from Daft Punk since one of them went off and did 'music sounds better with you'. Strange that a vital, interesting band that produced 'revolution 909' and the excellent 'around the world' then ended up producing a parody of a cheesy hands-in-the-air house track, only to then recreate themselves based on a parody of that one track!
Amen, amen to that. The first album was really good in a fun and simple way. They totally went crap after that.
And the video with the dog-man was classic. I remember getting a kick out of the fact the bus driver kicked him off the bus because of his boom box, but didn't give a fuck that he was a dog!
Okay this whole article is pointless but I guess slashdot is a little slow 2nite. I thought CTaco was into The Who and stuff.
Hmm, time to put on Homework.
All I want is to be able to 1) buy a computer from any PC manufacturer I want without ANY operating system, or 2) be able to immediately sell, on eBay let's say, the operating system and junk that comes with a new PC. And not get a nastygram from Microsoft, or the guy who buys it can't run it because of some serial number.
If I buy a car, or a TV, or pretty much anything else, I can strip it down and sell the parts and nobody calls me a "pirate". For instance, I sold a card remote and sensor from an old Discman on eBay. I can remove the tires, or the engine, or the ashtray from my car and give them away or sell them, then add my own.
Why can't I do this with my computer? Why are software companies allowed this power? Really, I want to exercise my capitalistic rights and avoid Microsoft, but it's hard.
This is exactly this sort of MP3 player I'd like to buy, decent space, tiny size, light, simple interface and doubles as a hard drive.
Unfortunately $400 is about twice as much as I'd want to pay for something the size of a pack of cards. Too bad, it's an otherwise well-designed product.
Waiting for iPod 2.......
Yeah there's going to be a lot of shit going on. Here's another bizarre story: Novel Security Measures. In my mind I imagine a group of ten terrorists sneaking by with sacks of plastic explosives, while "Security" goes through this guy's Harry Potter book.
I also see the subtext here: Do you look different? Act different? If so, you're going to be suspect. And I don't mean, do you look Middle Eastern, I mean, do you have black hair? Listen to weird music? Read books with pictures of dynamite on them?
You thought Zero-Tolerance bullshit and picking on geeks and gamers was bad.. that's nothing!
But of course, you don't have the God-given right to fly in an airplane, go to work, walk on the street, or leave your house at all, right?
Holy fucknuggets... I remember seeing that one!! Sure didn't have any affect on me. Though wasn't it about "bootlegging" and Rerun bringing a tape recorder to a concert?
Oh sure, just the sort of thing we'd expect from a stinkin' EMACS USER!
[Nestle] complained that Pro Fiducia Treuhand, a financial and management consulting firm with some 40 employees, had no legitimate claim on the Maggi.com domain and that it had registered and used the address in bad faith because, after five years, the company had not made use of the domain for a Web site.
Lawyers for Aspen Grove argued that, "by continuing to use the domain name without offering any or little content or any legitimate business use, (Clark) has confused (Aspen Grove's) prospective clients and business partners and has diluted the value of (its) trademark and reputation."
That stuff worries me. I personally have two domains that don't have any hosts, just MX records for personal email. I fully expect someday some company to come along and somehow claim trademark infringement from a non-existent web site.
So does that mean I should go ahead and put up a web site with infringing material so they can sue me easier?
This is like saying if you get mail at McDonald's Avenue, you are a trademark infringer, and doubly so because you aren't running a hamburger stand!
Kudos to the opposing lawyers and WIPO (that acronym always makes me chuckle when I say it out loud) for blasting that stupid notion. But I still fear that someday I'll have to deal with this bullshit even though my domains were first registered 7 years ago, just because some idiot wants the domain and can't deal with the fact that he doesn't have it.
So the rule of thumb is:
mv -f /mnt/friendsdisk/*.mp3 ~/mp3/: DANGEROUS, ILLEGAL
cp -f /mnt/friendsdisk/*.mp3 ~/mp3/: SAFE!
Whew! Looks like I've been doing the right thing all these years! Back off RIAA!
I like the oldspeak version of the term better:
Freedom of Speech
Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
The kiddies will just jump on IRC and get the 'sploit from BigDaddyHax0r..not all kiddies are stupid (some are just lazy), someone will write the exploit, and not all the skilled hackers are going to keep their tools to themselves. The exploits will appear pretty quickly. At least when a kiddie uses a bugtraq exploit, it's easy to spot and stop.
And remember, the Code Red bug was initially revealed without an exploit. And I read the FBI knew about it, but didn't say anything. Full disclosure with a possible attack signature would've helped quite a bit.