South America, the Philippines (well, less Luzon than the other islands), southern Asia... lots of places. Probably because a lot of those places have weak central governments so "The Feds" aren't around to bring massive resources to bear on every single kidnap case. If they were, I'm sure the US solution would work fine.
I just got off the phone with the Verizon sales department, and apparently not only do they cancel your service for "repeated" traffic in excess of 5GB/month (one time only will not break the contract), they also charge you an early termination fee because you are in violation of the contract. The fee scales based on the amount of contract time left over, but is in the neighborhood of $100-$200.
That's a bit crazy, IMO. I don't download/upload movies or music (illegally or otherwise) but do download a lot of podcasts. My monthly average is just under 5GB downstream, with about 500-600MB upstream from e-mail, games, etc. I'm guessing that puts me somewhere below the average/. user, and probably around the average for the 25-34 age bracket. Based on this wild assumption, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Verizon's wireless broadband is not a likely candidate to replace a wired connection, even for people with only a laptop (like me).
And if we don't see a massive copyright reform in the near future? Well... Ask any 16YO whether or not they consider it "wrong" to copy a CD. Copyright has fallen to the level of speeding as a socially-acceptible crime; we all know we might get caught, we all do it anyway, and we don't care. Except, rather than a $150 fine, you can get a $150,000 fine. Ouch.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but maybe this is a good example of when punishment as deterrence doesn't work. Most people break the law because they don't consider what could happen if they get caught, not because they think it will be worth it even if they do.
Presumably this would work just like any other GSM network, where authorized users are given a SIM and then those SIMs be in the network database as allowed. The obvious downside of this is that some (all?) of the major GSM providers in the US either lock their phones so that only their SIM chips will work, or don't use a SIM at all.
I guess maybe they could just *read* the IMSI off of each user's existing SIM and then manually build the database, but that'd be a lot more work on the admin side.
The Osprey project was not aborted-- it's still supposed to enter operational use this year, though the fleet is currently grounded due to a computer-related flight control problem.
So his testimony was about this...
I will testify to the procedures and results obtained by MediaSentry coupled with the information compiled by defendant's ISP to demonstrate the defendant's internet account and computer were used to download and upload copyrighted music from the internet using the KaZaA peer-to-peer network. And it has this exchange:
Q. Do you know what processes and procedures MediaSentry employed? A. I do not know the inner works of MediaSentry processes and procedures. As well as this exchange:
Q. Do you know what procedures Verizon employed to link Ms. Lindor's name and address to the alleged IP address? A. No. Now, IANAL but it seems like he's kind of fallen down on the job of being an expert witness.
Why couldn't the RIAA just buy their own island somewhere, have some department claim to be a sovreign state, and invade Sealand? I mean, if they're really THAT worried, they have the money.
Alternately, you could replace "mandates censorship of thoughts." with "forbids the keeping of ferrets in one's pants" and your post makes about as much sense.
Internet != sum of all human thought, as much as we'd all like to believe it.
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South America, the Philippines (well, less Luzon than the other islands), southern Asia... lots of places. Probably because a lot of those places have weak central governments so "The Feds" aren't around to bring massive resources to bear on every single kidnap case. If they were, I'm sure the US solution would work fine.
If.
Wouldn't someone standing directly below a vertically-oriented antenna be in its cone of silence?
I mean, that doesn't mean the RF theory is any less bunk, only that this instance doesn't necessarily mean anything.
I just got off the phone with the Verizon sales department, and apparently not only do they cancel your service for "repeated" traffic in excess of 5GB/month (one time only will not break the contract), they also charge you an early termination fee because you are in violation of the contract. The fee scales based on the amount of contract time left over, but is in the neighborhood of $100-$200.
/. user, and probably around the average for the 25-34 age bracket. Based on this wild assumption, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Verizon's wireless broadband is not a likely candidate to replace a wired connection, even for people with only a laptop (like me).
That's a bit crazy, IMO. I don't download/upload movies or music (illegally or otherwise) but do download a lot of podcasts. My monthly average is just under 5GB downstream, with about 500-600MB upstream from e-mail, games, etc. I'm guessing that puts me somewhere below the average
If I were in a situation where the choice was chimp or starve, I'd eat the chimp.
You probably would too.
Even if you don't think you would.
Because just by viewing her site, my web browser saved a cached copy!
Presumably this would work just like any other GSM network, where authorized users are given a SIM and then those SIMs be in the network database as allowed. The obvious downside of this is that some (all?) of the major GSM providers in the US either lock their phones so that only their SIM chips will work, or don't use a SIM at all.
I guess maybe they could just *read* the IMSI off of each user's existing SIM and then manually build the database, but that'd be a lot more work on the admin side.
The Osprey project was not aborted-- it's still supposed to enter operational use this year, though the fleet is currently grounded due to a computer-related flight control problem.
A. I do not know the inner works of MediaSentry processes and procedures. As well as this exchange: Q. Do you know what procedures Verizon employed to link Ms. Lindor's name and address to the alleged IP address?
A. No. Now, IANAL but it seems like he's kind of fallen down on the job of being an expert witness.
Example 2: Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3
Right... big bad Microsoft picking on poor little Sony.
Why couldn't the RIAA just buy their own island somewhere, have some department claim to be a sovreign state, and invade Sealand? I mean, if they're really THAT worried, they have the money.
Alternately, you could replace "mandates censorship of thoughts." with "forbids the keeping of ferrets in one's pants" and your post makes about as much sense.
Internet != sum of all human thought, as much as we'd all like to believe it.