Ok kiddies here is the recipe you write the cookbook.
1) Write scripts to generate new passport (bogus) info.
2) Give to friends.
3) Generate thousands of accounts.
4) Iterate.
5) This will quickly swamp passport services.
Note: Look for new legislation making it a crime to provide false or misleading info to corporations. This will be one way hashed.
These fuzzy numbers will fool most of the people most of the time. In that sense the propaganda has already worked in two ways. First, most will conclude that sharing mp3 has damaged RIAA profits. Secondly, and far more important, by proving to law makers just how distructive unrestricted file sharing is, we can expect more laws directed at ISP's. In the process this diverts attention from the fact that the RIAA is losing control over the means of distribution. Fortunately for freedom minded people the Genie is already out of the bottle.
Try this. When confronted by such an IP agreement list everything from the when you were five yrs. old. Paper machet, with blue food coloring, red, green, yellow, with color made from dandy-lion flowers, soot from burned nose hair. Any and all hair brained ideas. A time machine with code written in a new language. Call it "geeko speako". Sorry folks I "invented" that. The hairier the better. I "invented" toothpicks made from dried bat gwano. Sure it didn't sell well and perhaps the patent on this idea should have been filed. After 10-100 pages of this it should be obvious, even for the gray matter challenged, that this agreement is pointless. Be sure not to include anything relavent. In short confront stupidity with brilliant stupidity.
"The proof is left as an exercise for the student"
There are always alternative... Selecting the best alternative is usually a balancing act. I recently was confronted with just such a problem. I was asked to adapt an existing program to support a new hardware product. The previous program had taken over a year to complete, was poorly written and the author had left the company. I conviced management to that I could re-write the program. Two month later, the new program is nearly complete. It is much smaller, easier to maintain and more versitile. Had I stuck to the original conditions of the project it would have taken much longer to complete and the end product would have had to conform to and support poorly written code. And yet the original program works and is currently used everyday. So there are times when re-writing is appropriate and advantageous.
---When in trouble, when in doubt
run in circles scream and shout---
So many people have been taken in by the Rec. Industries FUD!?! Fear of lawsuites. Uncertainty - "This CD now costs HOW much?" Doubt - Lost revenue may be "there" argument. The Recording Industries fear losing control over the musicians and artists. If anyone (ie musicians/video artists) can distribute data, then just having this ability makes the Rec. Ind. non-relavent. Consumers don't need the Rec. Industry. Artist don't need it anymore. It is the future of data distribution that they fear. A future that they can no longer control.
OOP! Did I state the obvious?
"Don't forget"
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Ok kiddies here is the recipe you write the cookbook. 1) Write scripts to generate new passport (bogus) info. 2) Give to friends. 3) Generate thousands of accounts. 4) Iterate. 5) This will quickly swamp passport services. Note: Look for new legislation making it a crime to provide false or misleading info to corporations. This will be one way hashed.
Unless encryption is built into every speaker, it is still possible to sample audio signals at the speaker input. End of story.
These fuzzy numbers will fool most of the people most of the time. In that sense the propaganda has already worked in two ways. First, most will conclude that sharing mp3 has damaged RIAA profits. Secondly, and far more important, by proving to law makers just how distructive unrestricted file sharing is, we can expect more laws directed at ISP's. In the process this diverts attention from the fact that the RIAA is losing control over the means of distribution. Fortunately for freedom minded people the Genie is already out of the bottle.
Try this. When confronted by such an IP agreement list everything from the when you were five yrs. old. Paper machet, with blue food coloring, red, green, yellow, with color made from dandy-lion flowers, soot from burned nose hair. Any and all hair brained ideas. A time machine with code written in a new language. Call it "geeko speako". Sorry folks I "invented" that. The hairier the better. I "invented" toothpicks made from dried bat gwano. Sure it didn't sell well and perhaps the patent on this idea should have been filed. After 10-100 pages of this it should be obvious, even for the gray matter challenged, that this agreement is pointless. Be sure not to include anything relavent. In short confront stupidity with brilliant stupidity. "The proof is left as an exercise for the student"
There are always alternative... Selecting the best alternative is usually a balancing act. I recently was confronted with just such a problem. I was asked to adapt an existing program to support a new hardware product. The previous program had taken over a year to complete, was poorly written and the author had left the company. I conviced management to that I could re-write the program. Two month later, the new program is nearly complete. It is much smaller, easier to maintain and more versitile. Had I stuck to the original conditions of the project it would have taken much longer to complete and the end product would have had to conform to and support poorly written code. And yet the original program works and is currently used everyday. So there are times when re-writing is appropriate and advantageous. ---When in trouble, when in doubt run in circles scream and shout---
So many people have been taken in by the Rec. Industries FUD!?! Fear of lawsuites. Uncertainty - "This CD now costs HOW much?" Doubt - Lost revenue may be "there" argument. The Recording Industries fear losing control over the musicians and artists. If anyone (ie musicians/video artists) can distribute data, then just having this ability makes the Rec. Ind. non-relavent. Consumers don't need the Rec. Industry. Artist don't need it anymore. It is the future of data distribution that they fear. A future that they can no longer control. OOP! Did I state the obvious? "Don't forget"