Fact of the matter is, Microsoft's own website being hacked, while they're in the middle of a huge (fake) "Security Push," *is* tech news. MomAndPop.com's mail server getting pwned isn't.
"They wanna call me a thief, I'll *show* them a thief."
Honestly, they're going to demonize Bittorrent no matter what he does. They control the mainstream media, remember? For instance, take the Star Wars 3 piracy -- every single article I read on that very prominantly mentioned Bittorrent, often several times.
It doesn't matter that Bittorrent itself is legit, they don't want us even thinking about ways we could possibly subvert their hold on entertainment.
As for the trackerless system, I think that's a natural evolution of the Bittorrent protocol. The one last, major pain in the ass with Bittorrent is having a tracker die on you -- and trackers DO use up a lot of bandwidth, especailly popular ones. Removing or supplimenting the Tracker with it's own torrent of peers is just common sense.
The fact that it makes it even harder to shut down sites like lokitorrent is a happy accident.
Well, the mods wanted to post it, but they were waiting for one of them to mathematically prove his death, and CowboyNeil insisted they show their work.
Nintendo hasn't told anyone about the Revolution yet, aside from a few tiny tidbits (release date, size, etc). None of these are "the Revolution". Nintendo's big revolution as of right now is a very, very tightly held secret.
A few reasons -- Both MS and Sony have long held cherished traditions of ripping their competition off. Plus, every single 3rd party who has seen the Revolution has had pretty much the same thing to say about it -- this is going to be BIG. Industry changing big.
And, I think ultimately, they're going to wait until E3 or TGS to unveil it, and it's going to be a huge amazing "Woahgod" that will get every gamer that sees it salivating, just like last year's E3 presentation.
This video has been making the rounds, it's a confirmed fake made by a college graphic artists, he hid "HIRE ME" and his email address inside the video on a few frames.
Yeah, I'm sure the 40,000 people downloading Naruto off AONE's servers at any given time are going to be buying the 40-60 DVDs (at $20-30 a pop) that will be coming out over the next 5 YEARS to catch up to where they're at now.
Get real. The whole "The anime companies love fansubs because they're free advertisment" line is bull and you know it -- Naruto would be just as popular even if people weren't stealing it online. DBZ, the closest released show to Naruto in the US, was plenty popular without 30,000 random American college kids abusing their school T1 pirating it.
The Japanese publishers politely cast a blind eye to fansubs because most Japanese anime fans buy the DVDs and thousands of dollars in merchandise. If DVD sales suddenly plummeted in Japan due to piracy you can bet dollars to doughnuts that Animesuki would be the first ones against the wall.
Actually, persuant to the Berne convention, it's just as illegal to pirate Japanese cartoons as it is to pirate American ones.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Animesuki and 4chan are just as illegal as thepiratebay and suprnova -- it's just that the Japanese publishing houses usually don't CARE, because the people downloading the torrents usually buy DVDs and overpriced toys.
Well, no. Because the DS can actually run GBA games, whereas the PSP can run... GB games. You know, the 20 year old ones. Using a memory bug that Sony has patched.
Not only that, but, putting GB games on a GBA flash cart is trivial. Hell, you can fit a few hundred on one cart -- all using an emulator, not the GBA hardware (so they'd work on the DS).
Heck, if you know the right flash kits to get, you can even have full PDA functionality on your GBA SP -- and get some really REALLY big flashcarts (1gigabit+ -- the supposed limit of the GBA is 256megabit). Not the best of setups, but being able to read a txt/html e-book on your GBA SP is +5 Awesome.
And those are old GBA flash kits. The new ones for the DS are going to be insane -- 2 screens, much bigger processor and CPU, enough buttons to run SNES emulators properly.
The PSP is definately interesting from a homebrew situation, but the DS is going to be pretty darn fun too, especially when you get those multi-gigabit flash carts.
Well, yes, if Microsoft has an internal Linux distro, and they almost positively do have something similar to a distro, it falls under the GPL, which means if it ever sees the light of day, they have to release the source code or get nailed for it.
Unfortunately, while this is trivially reverse-engineered, it's illegal in the US to reverse engineer anything that can "bypass protections" -- which is so vauge that it basically boils down to "it's illegal to reverse engineer anything".
If someone did reverse engineer this, Nikon could have that entire project shut down for violating the DMCA.
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If you ever went to Arabia, they wouldn't need a legal reason to arrest / torture you. You'd just vanish or get beat to death by "holy" men. That's kinda the point.
However, if you are serious about helping, what I would suggest grabbing a copy of FreeNet and running a node. You don't even have to actively surf on it, IIRC, to allow it to make active copies of nodes, thus allowing "banned" content to get out.
IIRC, they had also included last time I ran it a built in proxy server/anonymizer, so you'd be helping in that way, too.
If you are concerned about Bandwidth, you can use Netlimiter to throttle it. I don't know of any Linux equivilants to Netlimiter, but I'm sure there's something (probably built in).
No, beacuse in your anaology, the person selling him the coke directly GAVE the guy his illegal material. Lokitorrent did no such thing. A closer anaology is "Would you arrest the guy who told the crackhead where to find the drug dealer?"
I wouldn't go to jail for telling someone where to buy crack. Legally speaking, just knowing where to get an illegal substance is not in itself illegal.
Get it right. Lokitorrent has not touched any illegal files. Thus, They have done nothing illegal. Merely data hashes, which are perfectly legal, and a database of IP Addresses, which is also perfectly legal.
The ??AA is on extremely shakey ground, they know it, and that's why they're bullying people into submission instead of daring to let it actually get to court.
That's also why they are so desperate to push laws through that would make just owning a copy of Bittorrent illegal. They can't sue every user downloading, they can't sue the trackers (because again, they're legally in the clear), so they're abusing the legal system while they try to make the mere idea of trading files illegal.
All of them were completely caught with their pants down on digital delivery systems and are trying desperately to put the genie back in the bottle until they can figure out a way to make sure they're the only ones making a profit at it. Well, we all have news for them -- it's far, far too late for that.
Lokitorrent's operator did not violate anyone's copyright. He empowered someone else to, which may or may not be illegal. No actual file data, other than a hash, was stored on loki's servers.
It's like someone shooting someone with a gun. Do you arrest the guy at K-Mart who sold him the gun?
Relax, the trademark / whatever still has to go under review by the government's lawyers, wherein they will CERTAINLY find prior art. I mean, it's not like they could miss out on finding prior art of something that's been around for 8 YEARS? Right?...
It's important beacuse a bunch of Bloggers, who are mostly people working in their spare time, were able to do the investigative journalism and discover that not only was this guy a Whitehouse plant, he's a flaming hypocrite who has ties to the swift boat vetrans for slander people.
Journalism that NONE of the major news outfits were willing to do.
WHat happens if you download a copy of something you already own for purposes of backing up the material?
You're violating the DMCA, get shut off from the Internet, fined a ton of money for copyright violations, and your PC gets taken away as "evidence" for a few years.
The complaint also addresses violations that include "various modifications to the source code for Tecmo games" including the creation of "several skins...designed to make Tecmo Characters appear naked." Games the alleged hackers are accused of applying their energy toward include Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, and Dead or Alive Ultimate.
So uh, texture files are now "source code"? Here's a surprise guys: You make a bunch of games designed for the sole purpose of titilating horny geeks, they will tend to take it to the next level if you like it or not. Just go out and look at any Dead or Alive Doujinshi (Amateur Japanese Comics) for more evidence of this.
I can't really defend them about the cracks and whatnot -- except to repeat that the DMCA is a bad, self-serving, completely ineffectual law. But nailing them for a nude patch? Get real.
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By clicking accept on the EULA, which you had to do in order to install and create the account, you signed away any rights to actually play the game. The fact that you actually get to, usually, play it is a happy accident.
This is because Sony is just refusing to TAKE anything but the most extreme cases. For instance, you have to have more than 7 dead pixels in a 1 cm square area for them to accept it as a problem and allow you to return it. With stupid, self-serving policies like that, I can see why only 0.6% of them have been returned.
Fact of the matter is, if you read any Japanese gamer BBS, the PSP's defects are *extremely* widespread and rather bad. Analog sticks fall off. The drive launches discs like a ninja star if you hold the console incorrectly. That's presuming the drive will even close properly -- some of them are warped and will not snap shut all the way. The screens have bubbles, dead pixels, and dust in them. Buttons, not just the Square button, but all of them, stick on a regular basis. And there appears to be an OS bug with the device -- it looks like it doesn't clean out it's streaming buffers when discs are changed, which leads to music, at the very least, becomming rather messed up if you switch games.
So yeah. Sony can claim only 5000 machines were defective and needed repair, but these are jerks that are saying that an obvious design flaw is a feature (and since they're geniuses and we're just peons, we should shut up and accept it) and jerks who said that the battery life of the darn thing was "6-8 hours" (more like 2-3)... so I wouldn't trust anything out of their mouth that's not backed up with a lot of supporting data.
Tell that to somebody who has spent years developing a new algorithm for something like facial recognition. Explain to me again why a clever person who comes up with a novel algorithm (note: I said NOVEL - I am NOT denying that there are horrible abuses in the patent system, esp. wrt software - I am just countering your claim that software patents shouldn't exist at all) to produce something useful and novel shouldn't enjoy a temporary monopoly from the fruits of his labour and research just because his invention happens to be in software rather than being hydraulic or pneumatic?
The counter of course, is that you shouldn't be able to shut down ALL Facial Recognition innovation by patenting the idea of "using a computer to digitalize and analize a human face, therefore allowing the computer to pick that face from a database of other faces.".
In the same way I can't patent a cog, a piston, or (wait for it) the wheel, you shouldn't be able to get a blanket patent on ANYTHING in software. Period.
Specifics may or may not be ok -- But honestly, copyright handles "distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work". It does not grant you exclusive use of a mere idea.
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Fact of the matter is, Microsoft's own website being hacked, while they're in the middle of a huge (fake) "Security Push," *is* tech news. MomAndPop.com's mail server getting pwned isn't.
Netcraft hasn't confirmed it, so, I just donno...
I think what's going through his head is:
"They wanna call me a thief, I'll *show* them a thief."
Honestly, they're going to demonize Bittorrent no matter what he does. They control the mainstream media, remember? For instance, take the Star Wars 3 piracy -- every single article I read on that very prominantly mentioned Bittorrent, often several times.
It doesn't matter that Bittorrent itself is legit, they don't want us even thinking about ways we could possibly subvert their hold on entertainment.
As for the trackerless system, I think that's a natural evolution of the Bittorrent protocol. The one last, major pain in the ass with Bittorrent is having a tracker die on you -- and trackers DO use up a lot of bandwidth, especailly popular ones. Removing or supplimenting the Tracker with it's own torrent of peers is just common sense.
The fact that it makes it even harder to shut down sites like lokitorrent is a happy accident.
Well, the mods wanted to post it, but they were waiting for one of them to mathematically prove his death, and CowboyNeil insisted they show their work.
Nintendo hasn't told anyone about the Revolution yet, aside from a few tiny tidbits (release date, size, etc). None of these are "the Revolution". Nintendo's big revolution as of right now is a very, very tightly held secret.
A few reasons -- Both MS and Sony have long held cherished traditions of ripping their competition off. Plus, every single 3rd party who has seen the Revolution has had pretty much the same thing to say about it -- this is going to be BIG. Industry changing big.
And, I think ultimately, they're going to wait until E3 or TGS to unveil it, and it's going to be a huge amazing "Woahgod" that will get every gamer that sees it salivating, just like last year's E3 presentation.
This video has been making the rounds, it's a confirmed fake made by a college graphic artists, he hid "HIRE ME" and his email address inside the video on a few frames.
Yeah, I'm sure the 40,000 people downloading Naruto off AONE's servers at any given time are going to be buying the 40-60 DVDs (at $20-30 a pop) that will be coming out over the next 5 YEARS to catch up to where they're at now.
Get real. The whole "The anime companies love fansubs because they're free advertisment" line is bull and you know it -- Naruto would be just as popular even if people weren't stealing it online. DBZ, the closest released show to Naruto in the US, was plenty popular without 30,000 random American college kids abusing their school T1 pirating it.
The Japanese publishers politely cast a blind eye to fansubs because most Japanese anime fans buy the DVDs and thousands of dollars in merchandise. If DVD sales suddenly plummeted in Japan due to piracy you can bet dollars to doughnuts that Animesuki would be the first ones against the wall.
Actually, persuant to the Berne convention, it's just as illegal to pirate Japanese cartoons as it is to pirate American ones.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Animesuki and 4chan are just as illegal as thepiratebay and suprnova -- it's just that the Japanese publishing houses usually don't CARE, because the people downloading the torrents usually buy DVDs and overpriced toys.
Well, no. Because the DS can actually run GBA games, whereas the PSP can run... GB games. You know, the 20 year old ones. Using a memory bug that Sony has patched.
Not only that, but, putting GB games on a GBA flash cart is trivial. Hell, you can fit a few hundred on one cart -- all using an emulator, not the GBA hardware (so they'd work on the DS).
Heck, if you know the right flash kits to get, you can even have full PDA functionality on your GBA SP -- and get some really REALLY big flashcarts (1gigabit+ -- the supposed limit of the GBA is 256megabit). Not the best of setups, but being able to read a txt/html e-book on your GBA SP is +5 Awesome.
And those are old GBA flash kits. The new ones for the DS are going to be insane -- 2 screens, much bigger processor and CPU, enough buttons to run SNES emulators properly.
The PSP is definately interesting from a homebrew situation, but the DS is going to be pretty darn fun too, especially when you get those multi-gigabit flash carts.
Well, yes, if Microsoft has an internal Linux distro, and they almost positively do have something similar to a distro, it falls under the GPL, which means if it ever sees the light of day, they have to release the source code or get nailed for it.
You gotta admit, that would be one hell of an unforgettable puppet show.
They stole that trick from Scotty on Star Trek. :(
"And how long will it really take?"
"3 hours."
"What, you told him the actual time?"
"Well, yes?"
"Well how will everyone think you're a miracle worker?"
Unfortunately, while this is trivially reverse-engineered, it's illegal in the US to reverse engineer anything that can "bypass protections" -- which is so vauge that it basically boils down to "it's illegal to reverse engineer anything".
If someone did reverse engineer this, Nikon could have that entire project shut down for violating the DMCA.
If you ever went to Arabia, they wouldn't need a legal reason to arrest / torture you. You'd just vanish or get beat to death by "holy" men. That's kinda the point.
However, if you are serious about helping, what I would suggest grabbing a copy of FreeNet and running a node. You don't even have to actively surf on it, IIRC, to allow it to make active copies of nodes, thus allowing "banned" content to get out.
IIRC, they had also included last time I ran it a built in proxy server/anonymizer, so you'd be helping in that way, too.
If you are concerned about Bandwidth, you can use Netlimiter to throttle it. I don't know of any Linux equivilants to Netlimiter, but I'm sure there's something (probably built in).
No, beacuse in your anaology, the person selling him the coke directly GAVE the guy his illegal material. Lokitorrent did no such thing. A closer anaology is "Would you arrest the guy who told the crackhead where to find the drug dealer?"
I wouldn't go to jail for telling someone where to buy crack. Legally speaking, just knowing where to get an illegal substance is not in itself illegal.
Get it right. Lokitorrent has not touched any illegal files. Thus, They have done nothing illegal. Merely data hashes, which are perfectly legal, and a database of IP Addresses, which is also perfectly legal.
The ??AA is on extremely shakey ground, they know it, and that's why they're bullying people into submission instead of daring to let it actually get to court.
That's also why they are so desperate to push laws through that would make just owning a copy of Bittorrent illegal. They can't sue every user downloading, they can't sue the trackers (because again, they're legally in the clear), so they're abusing the legal system while they try to make the mere idea of trading files illegal.
All of them were completely caught with their pants down on digital delivery systems and are trying desperately to put the genie back in the bottle until they can figure out a way to make sure they're the only ones making a profit at it. Well, we all have news for them -- it's far, far too late for that.
Lokitorrent's operator did not violate anyone's copyright. He empowered someone else to, which may or may not be illegal. No actual file data, other than a hash, was stored on loki's servers.
It's like someone shooting someone with a gun. Do you arrest the guy at K-Mart who sold him the gun?
Relax, the trademark / whatever still has to go under review by the government's lawyers, wherein they will CERTAINLY find prior art. I mean, it's not like they could miss out on finding prior art of something that's been around for 8 YEARS? Right? ...
Aw fsck, who am I kidding, they're screwed.
It's important beacuse a bunch of Bloggers, who are mostly people working in their spare time, were able to do the investigative journalism and discover that not only was this guy a Whitehouse plant, he's a flaming hypocrite who has ties to the swift boat vetrans for slander people.
Journalism that NONE of the major news outfits were willing to do.
You're violating the DMCA, get shut off from the Internet, fined a ton of money for copyright violations, and your PC gets taken away as "evidence" for a few years.
So uh, texture files are now "source code"? Here's a surprise guys: You make a bunch of games designed for the sole purpose of titilating horny geeks, they will tend to take it to the next level if you like it or not. Just go out and look at any Dead or Alive Doujinshi (Amateur Japanese Comics) for more evidence of this.
I can't really defend them about the cracks and whatnot -- except to repeat that the DMCA is a bad, self-serving, completely ineffectual law. But nailing them for a nude patch? Get real.
By clicking accept on the EULA, which you had to do in order to install and create the account, you signed away any rights to actually play the game. The fact that you actually get to, usually, play it is a happy accident.
This is because Sony is just refusing to TAKE anything but the most extreme cases. For instance, you have to have more than 7 dead pixels in a 1 cm square area for them to accept it as a problem and allow you to return it. With stupid, self-serving policies like that, I can see why only 0.6% of them have been returned.
Fact of the matter is, if you read any Japanese gamer BBS, the PSP's defects are *extremely* widespread and rather bad. Analog sticks fall off. The drive launches discs like a ninja star if you hold the console incorrectly. That's presuming the drive will even close properly -- some of them are warped and will not snap shut all the way. The screens have bubbles, dead pixels, and dust in them. Buttons, not just the Square button, but all of them, stick on a regular basis. And there appears to be an OS bug with the device -- it looks like it doesn't clean out it's streaming buffers when discs are changed, which leads to music, at the very least, becomming rather messed up if you switch games.
So yeah. Sony can claim only 5000 machines were defective and needed repair, but these are jerks that are saying that an obvious design flaw is a feature (and since they're geniuses and we're just peons, we should shut up and accept it) and jerks who said that the battery life of the darn thing was "6-8 hours" (more like 2-3)... so I wouldn't trust anything out of their mouth that's not backed up with a lot of supporting data.
Here's a crazy idea. Maybe it'll be modded -1 troll because, well, he's trolling? Just a thought.
Why did you reply to yourself? o.o;