Once again, an anti-anti-piracy screed misunderstands what a "customer" is. A "customer" buys something. The guy who sneaks into your bookstore with a portable scanner and makes a copy of a book and leaves without buying anything isn't a "customer."
Playing devils advocate. What if they buy the book scan and OCR the text then upload the text for everybody to share. Are they still a customer? Do you still sue?
Lack of competition I fear is a big setback for Net Neutrality. The American broadband market isn't like Europe where there is a large choice of ISP's. In America if you don't like the service being offered you can't just get a migration code and switch to a different ISP. In most places people only have a choice between Cable broadband or DSL from their phone provider (of which there is only one). Even in urban areas you're lucky if there are four providers to choose from.
Compare that to the UK market where the regulatory environment means that even small'ish towns have two or three providers running their own unbundled DSL networks from the local exchange or half a dozen independent ISP's which lease their capacity from the incumbent telco.
Ironically tiered pricing has been common in the UK for some time as the market seems to prefer that over a non network neutral throttled connection. There is still room in the market for budget Voice, Web & Email providers like Tiscali, however they rely on mainstream advertising, contract lock-ins and consolidation to maintain subscriber numbers. After finding themselves locked out of sites like ITunes it's not surprising many people will want to migrate to a Net Neutral provider as soon as their 12 month contract is up.
At the end of the day it's far better to have a Network Neutral Internet where the user simply pays for the bandwidth they use rather than endure a limited service.
Having a name that always parses as "The International Federation of the Pornographic Industry" is not just silly but shows how resistant to change the recording industry really is. I mean when was the last time you actually saw let alone played a Phonograph?
The latest speculation I heard on Torrentfreak 5 hours ago was that Demoniod was down due to a hardware failure and not a MAFIAA Hit squad. I haven't seen any statements from CRIA crowing about their victory which you would expect if they were really responsible.
Ironic that MAFIAADefenders business model is based on stopping content leaking out onto P2P networks.
When they can't even stop their own internal emails and phone calls from leaking you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe their claims. To make matters worse they resort to legal nasty grams and censorship to try and suppress the evidence of their incompetence which makes them look all the more the fool. To really put the cherry on the cake they're now resorting to illegal DDOS attacks, which for the most part have also failed.
If they were in any other business it would already be over for them, sadly for us, fortunately for them their clients are just the sort of gullible people who will keep doing business because they can't face the real truth. Their business model has failed.
Sadly we haven't heard the last of MAFIAADefender.
Sounds like one the Entanet resellers like UKFSN or ADSL24. They still ultimately use the BT DSL network but unlike the US each ISP can choose the type of service level they provide, BT just provide the infrastructure and is Net Neutral to the type of traffic that is sent across it. Entanet and their resellers also have a Network Neutrality policy. The only traffic management they have is an anti loss tool which reduces load on the pipes during periods of high demand. Even when the network is heavily congested you should still be able to get 2Mbs and they're pretty quick in expanding their capacity too.
There are very few ISP's now that won't manage their traffic in some way and they'll be using LLU not BT.
Be unlimited is probably the best provider for heavier downloaders. I recently switched to them from Entanet and now get 11Mbs at the port with a nearly 14Mbs line speed. On a BT provider you're lucky if your actual data rate hits 6Mbs
The most effective tactic they used to make me stop pirating music was to produce music that wasn't worth listening to.
Sshh thats their new DRM tm. Make the music sound so intolerable that no one will want to listen to it hence no will download it much less share it.
Of course to safeguard their profits they'll just buy legislation which will tax the production of music. Anyone found accidentally bashing a stick against another object will have to pay the RIAA royalty tax.
Unfortunately that will also include bashing A clue stick against hollow objects like the heads of Industry executives. It looks like they've finally found their uncrackable DRM system.
I wonder how many of these soccer mom's who are worried about wifi "radiation" think nothing of taking their kids on Holiday and exposing them to a far more powerful form of radiation otherwise known as "Sunlight" and unlike wifi prolonged exposure to UV radiation has "proved" to be harmful.
This means that UK residents can watch broadcast BBC programs out of sync with the broadcast schedule by up to 30 days for free.
That is not correct. You can stream programs up to 7 days from the date of broadcast and in some exceptional cases (15%) you may download and keep a recording for up to 30 days.
Lets see how this service stacks up against some of the alternative on demand tv download services.
BBC Iplayer 4/10 Pros It's free. Easy to use. Large selection.
Cons Poor retention (7 days) Closed DRM format, can't be viewed on TV or alternative OS's. Limited life span (30 days max)
Bittorent 7/10 Pros It's free. Easy to use. Good retention (many months) Open format, can be saved and viewed on TV and alternative OS's.
Cons
Illegal distribution Availability may be limited Download speed is variable Bandwidth Heavy
Giganews 9/10 Pros Good retention (~120 days) Open format, can be viewed on TV or alternative OS's. Very good download speed It is legal to download for private viewing as long you've paid your licence tax.
Cons
Monthly subscription fee. Availability relies on people uploading (illegal). Some may find it hard to use.
For Bittorent and other p2p users living in big metro areas this would provide a good level of cover from the MAFIAA. So long as they use a separate public IP for their FON then they'll be covered as a common carrier. If they can maintain at least one other user on their FON network then the mafiaa won't be able to tell which user was the one that did the illegal uploading.
When they serve their court order for the FON log the best they can get is a list of users who were connected at that time. I bet they won't be able to match up the mac addresses either.
With this rush to be like IE and all, I'm wondering how long until Linux or other OSes are no longer supported either
The key difference here is that like Windows itself Linux and the other OS's are continually being updated and supported. Windows 9x / Me have long been superseded by newer versions hence they are considered obsolete products and are no longer supported by Microsoft. It's ludicrous to expect third party developers to support a platform which isn't even supported by it's own manufacturer.
Those old 16bit OS's are now almost a decade old and won't even run on the latest series of processors. Times change, we move on. You may not have any current plans on leaving the 20th century behind but once you find nothing works on your old platform and you can't even find replacement hardware parts which do work I'm sure you'll re-consider upgrading. Perhaps to Linux?
The problem with the mafiaa is that they have turned their back on the traditional physical ownership aspects of music in favour of a rental, pay to play model.
Trying to sell digital information on the internet is literally like trying to sell sand on a beach. It's infinitely available. They're using DRM to create the illusion of scarcity, kind of like shovelling sand back into the sea, what they're really doing is just digging a big hole for themselves instead of trying to find somewhere which doesn't have any sand (improving their business model). When the tide comes in they'll just bury their heads and hope for the best.
You are so wrong. The RIAA do oppose digital distribution. They sued Diamond Multimedia who produced the RIO. The worlds first mass market mp3 player. Had they won there wouldn't be any IPOD's or Music phones today. They are also currently suing a Satalite radio service for their PVR recorder.
The RIAA are against any and all forms of music distribution which they don't understand. Read 'Control'!
Electronic distribution is occurring but people don't like the way it's happening. Too bad. Start your own label and show us all how to do it right. When your business goes under you'll learn the hard way that it's not as easy as you think. if the labels sold uncompressed, unprotected audio tracks for 10 cents a piece, giving 90% to the artists, a handful of people would purchase the songs and distribute them via P2P. Know why? Because these people secretly like Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson and they can obtain them anonymously vs P2P and put them on their iPods without anyone knowing they listen to that kind of music.
Sorry I'm afraid you'll have to pick another argument to support your Pigopolist cartel friends.
That's exactly what eMusic has done! Their business seems to be doing just fine. They've given the majors the STFU and sided with the Indie labels to release DRM free mp3 files. Not a Britney Spears in sight. They are the only fully legit music service to able to offer IPod compatible tracks and have taken the No2 slot after ITunes because of it.
This is the problem with all the other music services, their DRM is not compatible with the IPod and guess what the No1. portable music player is! Because Apple does not license it's fairplay DRM nobody else gets to offer a legit music service that works on the IPod unless they do away with DRM completely. That's exactly what eMusic has done. This was not a moral decision, it was purely a business one and they don't seem to be suffering from rampant piracy either.
Yes Colossus is a digital computer. It was partially re-programmable. I think you were thinking of the bomba which is simply an Electro-Mechanical device.
Colossus was used to break the Lorenz SZ 40/42 cipher used for communicating between high level members of Hitler's regime. The Lorenz teleprinter had 12 rotors as opposed to the 4 wheels on the Enigma. The bomba was uses to break the 4 wheel Enigma.
Because the Colossus machine was highly classified for many years Tommy Flowers and his team were deprived of the recognition they deserve.
Actually there is a memorial to the polish cryptologists at Bletchley Park so their contribution has been recognized.
It was actually Marian Rejewski who designed the Cryptologic bomb. Bomba being the polish word for Bomb.
Turing developed the Electro-Mechanical Bomb which was capable of cracking the more sophisticated versions of the Enigma code.
It's well worth taking a trip to Bletchley Park if you get the opportunity. It's more than just code breaking. It covers the whole history of computing.
BPI, the British PORNOgraphic Industry... aargh phonographic, who the hell uses/listens to phonographs these days: from wikipedia: The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. Those things have been declared death over and over again for 20 years... hmm...
An outdated name for an outdated organsisation with an outdated business model.
It seems to fit their policy quite well if you ask me.
Better still is the Irish Recording Assosiation. The IRA!
"And that was a party politcal broadcast on behalf of the RI/MP/GNAA"
Ah yes the oblig Anonymous Coward troll post calling everyone theifs for listening to music for free.
Maybe if you feel that your views really have some merit you won't post as AC.
Arn't there forums on the net you can go to where you can get support for your attack on non commercial file sharing. No? Then thats a problem with your world view. Not the view of the rest of the internet society.
Copyright laws are the foundation of intellectual property and makes copyright infringement just as serious as depriving a person of physical property. Violating someone's copyright is no different than stealing their physical CDs from a store. You can attempt to explain away your thievery all you want with idiotic statements like you've made, but the facts are the facts. You are stealing.
Why is it that whenever someone posts a pro **AA argument supporting the position of the cartels they post as Anonymous Coward.
If you genuinely feel that your argument has any merit and you're going to call someone else's statement "idiotic" and accuse people of theft DON'T POST AS AC otherwise you'll be regarded as a troll working for the RI/MP/GNAA
So please tell me if I download a song illegally off the net what exactly am I stealing? A CD from a shop? You're saying that downloading a song is like taking a $25 CD. Are you retarded? You're really saying that 1 song is worth $25! At that price please tell me who's stealing from who?
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Tell that to the guys who ran Megaupload.com
Playing devils advocate. What if they buy the book scan and OCR the text then upload the text for everybody to share. Are they still a customer? Do you still sue?
RIAA sues coffee machine.
Lack of competition I fear is a big setback for Net Neutrality. The American broadband market isn't like Europe where there is a large choice of ISP's. In America if you don't like the service being offered you can't just get a migration code and switch to a different ISP. In most places people only have a choice between Cable broadband or DSL from their phone provider (of which there is only one). Even in urban areas you're lucky if there are four providers to choose from.
Compare that to the UK market where the regulatory environment means that even small'ish towns have two or three providers running their own unbundled DSL networks from the local exchange or half a dozen independent ISP's which lease their capacity from the incumbent telco.
Ironically tiered pricing has been common in the UK for some time as the market seems to prefer that over a non network neutral throttled connection. There is still room in the market for budget Voice, Web & Email providers like Tiscali, however they rely on mainstream advertising, contract lock-ins and consolidation to maintain subscriber numbers. After finding themselves locked out of sites like ITunes it's not surprising many people will want to migrate to a Net Neutral provider as soon as their 12 month contract is up.
At the end of the day it's far better to have a Network Neutral Internet where the user simply pays for the bandwidth they use rather than endure a limited service.
Having a name that always parses as "The International Federation of the Pornographic Industry" is not just silly but shows how resistant to change the recording industry really is. I mean when was the last time you actually saw let alone played a Phonograph?
Remember you must think in Russian!
The latest speculation I heard on Torrentfreak 5 hours ago was that Demoniod was down due to a hardware failure and not a MAFIAA Hit squad. I haven't seen any statements from CRIA crowing about their victory which you would expect if they were really responsible.
Ironic that MAFIAADefenders business model is based on stopping content leaking out onto P2P networks.
When they can't even stop their own internal emails and phone calls from leaking you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe their claims. To make matters worse they resort to legal nasty grams and censorship to try and suppress the evidence of their incompetence which makes them look all the more the fool.
To really put the cherry on the cake they're now resorting to illegal DDOS attacks, which for the most part have also failed.
If they were in any other business it would already be over for them, sadly for us, fortunately for them their clients are just the sort of gullible people who will keep doing business because they can't face the real truth. Their business model has failed.
Sadly we haven't heard the last of MAFIAADefender.
Actually the GPL is used as a weapon against copyright it is actually what's known as copyleft. Fighting fire with fire.
If there was no copyright then there would be no need for the GPL.
The GPL violators are in fact the hypocrites here. They copyright their own work whilst using works which have been freely given to the public domain.
Sounds like one the Entanet resellers like UKFSN or ADSL24. They still ultimately use the BT DSL network but unlike the US each ISP can choose the type of service level they provide, BT just provide the infrastructure and is Net Neutral to the type of traffic that is sent across it. Entanet and their resellers also have a Network Neutrality policy. The only traffic management they have is an anti loss tool which reduces load on the pipes during periods of high demand. Even when the network is heavily congested you should still be able to get 2Mbs and they're pretty quick in expanding their capacity too.
There are very few ISP's now that won't manage their traffic in some way and they'll be using LLU not BT.
Be unlimited is probably the best provider for heavier downloaders. I recently switched to them from Entanet and now get 11Mbs at the port with a nearly 14Mbs line speed. On a BT provider you're lucky if your actual data rate hits 6Mbs
Sshh thats their new DRM tm. Make the music sound so intolerable that no one will want to listen to it hence no will download it much less share it.
Of course to safeguard their profits they'll just buy legislation which will tax the production of music. Anyone found accidentally bashing a stick against another object will have to pay the RIAA royalty tax.
Unfortunately that will also include bashing A clue stick against hollow objects like the heads of Industry executives. It looks like they've finally found their uncrackable DRM system.
I wonder how many of these soccer mom's who are worried about wifi "radiation" think nothing of taking their kids on Holiday and exposing them to a far more powerful form of radiation otherwise known as "Sunlight" and unlike wifi prolonged exposure to UV radiation has "proved" to be harmful.
That is not correct. You can stream programs up to 7 days from the date of broadcast and in some exceptional cases (15%) you may download and keep a recording for up to 30 days.
Lets see how this service stacks up against some of the alternative on demand tv download services.
BBC Iplayer 4/10
Pros
It's free.
Easy to use.
Large selection.
Cons
Poor retention (7 days)
Closed DRM format, can't be viewed on TV or alternative OS's.
Limited life span (30 days max)
Bittorent 7/10
Pros
It's free.
Easy to use.
Good retention (many months)
Open format, can be saved and viewed on TV and alternative OS's.
Cons
Illegal distribution
Availability may be limited
Download speed is variable
Bandwidth Heavy
Giganews 9/10
Pros
Good retention (~120 days)
Open format, can be viewed on TV or alternative OS's.
Very good download speed
It is legal to download for private viewing as long you've paid your licence tax.
Cons
Monthly subscription fee.
Availability relies on people uploading (illegal).
Some may find it hard to use.
For Bittorent and other p2p users living in big metro areas this would provide a good level of cover from the MAFIAA. So long as they use a separate public IP for their FON then they'll be covered as a common carrier. If they can maintain at least one other user on their FON network then the mafiaa won't be able to tell which user was the one that did the illegal uploading.
When they serve their court order for the FON log the best they can get is a list of users who were connected at that time. I bet they won't be able to match up the mac addresses either.
The key difference here is that like Windows itself Linux and the other OS's are continually being updated and supported. Windows 9x / Me have long been superseded by newer versions hence they are considered obsolete products and are no longer supported by Microsoft. It's ludicrous to expect third party developers to support a platform which isn't even supported by it's own manufacturer.
Those old 16bit OS's are now almost a decade old and won't even run on the latest series of processors. Times change, we move on. You may not have any current plans on leaving the 20th century behind but once you find nothing works on your old platform and you can't even find replacement hardware parts which do work I'm sure you'll re-consider upgrading. Perhaps to Linux?
The problem with the mafiaa is that they have turned their back on the traditional physical ownership aspects of music in favour of a rental, pay to play model.
Trying to sell digital information on the internet is literally like trying to sell sand on a beach. It's infinitely available. They're using DRM to create the illusion of scarcity, kind of like shovelling sand back into the sea, what they're really doing is just digging a big hole for themselves instead of trying to find somewhere which doesn't have any sand (improving their business model). When the tide comes in they'll just bury their heads and hope for the best.
Sadly their products are lawsuits.
Pity there isn't a way to boycott those
You are so wrong. The RIAA do oppose digital distribution. They sued Diamond Multimedia who produced the RIO. The worlds first mass market mp3 player. Had they won there wouldn't be any IPOD's or Music phones today. They are also currently suing a Satalite radio service for their PVR recorder.
The RIAA are against any and all forms of music distribution which they don't understand. Read 'Control'!
Sorry I'm afraid you'll have to pick another argument to support your Pigopolist cartel friends.
That's exactly what eMusic has done! Their business seems to be doing just fine. They've given the majors the STFU and sided with the Indie labels to release DRM free mp3 files. Not a Britney Spears in sight. They are the only fully legit music service to able to offer IPod compatible tracks and have taken the No2 slot after ITunes because of it.
This is the problem with all the other music services, their DRM is not compatible with the IPod and guess what the No1. portable music player is! Because Apple does not license it's fairplay DRM nobody else gets to offer a legit music service that works on the IPod unless they do away with DRM completely. That's exactly what eMusic has done.
This was not a moral decision, it was purely a business one and they don't seem to be suffering from rampant piracy either.
Yes Colossus is a digital computer. It was partially re-programmable. I think you were thinking of the bomba which is simply an Electro-Mechanical device.
Colossus was used to break the Lorenz SZ 40/42 cipher used for communicating between high level members of Hitler's regime. The Lorenz teleprinter had 12 rotors as opposed to the 4 wheels on the Enigma. The bomba was uses to break the 4 wheel Enigma.
Because the Colossus machine was highly classified for many years Tommy Flowers and his team were deprived of the recognition they deserve.
Actually there is a memorial to the polish cryptologists at Bletchley Park so their contribution has been recognized.
It was actually Marian Rejewski who designed the Cryptologic bomb. Bomba being the polish word for Bomb.
Turing developed the Electro-Mechanical Bomb which was capable of cracking the more sophisticated versions of the Enigma code.
It's well worth taking a trip to Bletchley Park if you get the opportunity.
It's more than just code breaking. It covers the whole history of computing.
Especially if the battery explodes!
An outdated name for an outdated organsisation with an outdated business model.
It seems to fit their policy quite well if you ask me.
Better still is the Irish Recording Assosiation. The IRA!
"And that was a party politcal broadcast on behalf of the RI/MP/GNAA"
Ah yes the oblig Anonymous Coward troll post calling everyone theifs for listening to music for free.
Maybe if you feel that your views really have some merit you won't post as AC.
Arn't there forums on the net you can go to where you can get support for your attack on non commercial file sharing.
No? Then thats a problem with your world view. Not the view of the rest of the internet society.
Now bugger off.
Why is it that whenever someone posts a pro **AA argument supporting the position of the cartels they post as Anonymous Coward.
If you genuinely feel that your argument has any merit and you're going to call someone else's statement "idiotic" and accuse people of theft DON'T POST AS AC otherwise you'll be regarded as a troll working for the RI/MP/GNAA
So please tell me if I download a song illegally off the net what exactly am I stealing? A CD from a shop? You're saying that downloading a song is like taking a $25 CD. Are you retarded? You're really saying that 1 song is worth $25! At that price please tell me who's stealing from who?