Keep on thinking that Dowling and LaMacchia keep you and your kind safe, but remember who's in the Supremes now, and that "private financial gain" could easily be interpreted by a partisan court as "absense of loss".
>Finally, an annoyed faculty member in an adjacent office unplugged the machine and dispersed the crowd.
I remember back in the day, when faculty in a technical university would stop two wars before breakfast, and still have time to help with a hack before the toast popped.
Kind of sad to see the spirit of exploration being so ruthlessly crushed. Attention US Educators: creativity and free thinking is our only advantage over India and China. Ponder on who's going to be paying for your Medicare before you decide to quell your inquisitive students.
If you're tripping, we ate the same mushroom. I'm also having flashbacks to a printer that sounded like an AK-47 on full auto.
And now we've got ATMs that feed you advertising for a bunch of crap that you really don't need while they make you wait for your money. Progress, eh?
Indeed, I get the feeling that Ecclestone is a Bean substitute. Still a solid choice though, and better than that RADA luvvie plonker everyone was jabbering about.
Because in Soviet UKistan, there were only another two, later three channels competing with Dr Who for most of its run. And you can knock one off of that because BBC 2 wouldn't compete with BBC 1 over such an expensive (in BBC terms) show.
Now that even UKia has hundreds of cable and satellite channels, Dr Who will have to compete on its merits rather than win by default.
Dipshit. You can mount sting operations. For a concrete example, you can leave an unlocked car parked and wait for some thieving scum to choose to jump in it, at which point you lock the doors remotely and pick them up at your leisure. Good luck arguing that as entrapment.
I'd like to offer you my congratulations on exposing the rank hypocrisy of the thieving scum who frequent P2P networks. It's simply hilarious to read the frothing hatred of the zealots here shrieking that you have no right - no right! - to violate their sacred privacy. Even when that privacy never existed in the first place, which they'd know if they had any idea how P2P works.
Even better is the gibbering about how dare you - how dare you! - trick their precious machines into doing something unexpected. Damn you, when they're trying to steal someone else's copyrighted work, they have a right to receive an application that does what they expected it to do. Also, bank robbers should be able to sue banks for loss of income if they're given fake bundles of notes containing dye-and-smoke packs.
Please continue the experiment, you've certainly put a smile on my face.
Hey buddy, fuck you! As a private citizen, if you choose to connect to my machine and choose to ask me if I have a given file and then choose to ask me to send that file to you, then I'll do whatever the fuck I want with your IP address and the information that you sent me.
Where exactly are you getting this bizarre notion of "right to violate [your] privacy" from? I don't need to ask your permission for jack. What's your right to privacy here, legal or ethical? You want to remain private, don't choose to hammer my machine with your requests.
Why do you feel angry? When you're trying to steal someone else's copyrighted product via a P2P network, do you have some expectation that you have a right to receive the application that you searched for?
Bollocks. The equivelant situation is the one that actually happens, where law enforcement leave an unlocked car in a car park. Along comes a car thief, actively looking for one car out of many to jack. He picks that car as being the most attractive, jumps in, the doors lock, and he's collared. Good luck arguing that the unlocked door turned him into a thief.
Same here. You have to go looking for these files. You don't just stumble across them, and you don't just accidentally download them, any more than you, as a non car owner, can accidentally search through a car park and then accidentally fall into a car that isn't yours.
The EFF do a lot of good, but on this issue, they can suck my dick. They need to pick the right fights. This isn't one of them.
Well, I guess posting all those snippy comments on Slashdot really showed them who was boss. So now it's back to the usual fawning at their feet, is it?
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Please stop watching Minority Report. That was fiction. Fic-shun.
So, no real answer? That's about what I figured.
You pre-supposed that I was being sarcastic. You lose.
And the meta-moderation system used to ensure that only those that comply with the groupthink may continue to moderate.
Censorship has never looked so democratic!
You, sir, are utterly full of shit. Show case law to prove your point, or get in the queue to suck my dick.
Take it up with dictionary.com.
Also, see Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1204.
Keep on thinking that Dowling and LaMacchia keep you and your kind safe, but remember who's in the Supremes now, and that "private financial gain" could easily be interpreted by a partisan court as "absense of loss".
So, no real answer then?
10% of ten minutes is noticable. That's about how long it felt like opening Mozilla 1.6.
>Finally, an annoyed faculty member in an adjacent office unplugged the machine and dispersed the crowd.
I remember back in the day, when faculty in a technical university would stop two wars before breakfast, and still have time to help with a hack before the toast popped.
Kind of sad to see the spirit of exploration being so ruthlessly crushed. Attention US Educators: creativity and free thinking is our only advantage over India and China. Ponder on who's going to be paying for your Medicare before you decide to quell your inquisitive students.
If you're tripping, we ate the same mushroom. I'm also having flashbacks to a printer that sounded like an AK-47 on full auto. And now we've got ATMs that feed you advertising for a bunch of crap that you really don't need while they make you wait for your money. Progress, eh?
Indeed, I get the feeling that Ecclestone is a Bean substitute. Still a solid choice though, and better than that RADA luvvie plonker everyone was jabbering about.
Source? And bear in mind that the BBC can chew through money fast when it gets some decent corporate intertia behind a project.
Because in Soviet UKistan, there were only another two, later three channels competing with Dr Who for most of its run. And you can knock one off of that because BBC 2 wouldn't compete with BBC 1 over such an expensive (in BBC terms) show.
Now that even UKia has hundreds of cable and satellite channels, Dr Who will have to compete on its merits rather than win by default.
You read it here first.
> I mean if I write a "Hello World" program and call it UT2004.exe does that mean everyone who downloads it is likely to be an evil pirate?
An evil stupid pirate. Cluelessness is not a defence.
On what charge? Exactly? Please be specific in your answer, citing the laws to which you refer and the jurisdictions in which they apply.
Dipshit. You can mount sting operations. For a concrete example, you can leave an unlocked car parked and wait for some thieving scum to choose to jump in it, at which point you lock the doors remotely and pick them up at your leisure. Good luck arguing that as entrapment.
So, what's your problem? If the rights owners come calling, you simply show them the box and it's the end of story.
What exactly are you whining about?
I'd like to offer you my congratulations on exposing the rank hypocrisy of the thieving scum who frequent P2P networks. It's simply hilarious to read the frothing hatred of the zealots here shrieking that you have no right - no right! - to violate their sacred privacy. Even when that privacy never existed in the first place, which they'd know if they had any idea how P2P works.
Even better is the gibbering about how dare you - how dare you! - trick their precious machines into doing something unexpected. Damn you, when they're trying to steal someone else's copyrighted work, they have a right to receive an application that does what they expected it to do. Also, bank robbers should be able to sue banks for loss of income if they're given fake bundles of notes containing dye-and-smoke packs.
Please continue the experiment, you've certainly put a smile on my face.
I think you mean "clifgriffin, you are worse than Hitler"
Hey buddy, fuck you! As a private citizen, if you choose to connect to my machine and choose to ask me if I have a given file and then choose to ask me to send that file to you, then I'll do whatever the fuck I want with your IP address and the information that you sent me.
Where exactly are you getting this bizarre notion of "right to violate [your] privacy" from? I don't need to ask your permission for jack. What's your right to privacy here, legal or ethical? You want to remain private, don't choose to hammer my machine with your requests.
Why do you feel angry? When you're trying to steal someone else's copyrighted product via a P2P network, do you have some expectation that you have a right to receive the application that you searched for?
What exactly is your beef with this?
Bollocks. The equivelant situation is the one that actually happens, where law enforcement leave an unlocked car in a car park. Along comes a car thief, actively looking for one car out of many to jack. He picks that car as being the most attractive, jumps in, the doors lock, and he's collared. Good luck arguing that the unlocked door turned him into a thief.
Same here. You have to go looking for these files. You don't just stumble across them, and you don't just accidentally download them, any more than you, as a non car owner, can accidentally search through a car park and then accidentally fall into a car that isn't yours.
The EFF do a lot of good, but on this issue, they can suck my dick. They need to pick the right fights. This isn't one of them.
Suing your customers increases CD sales.
Over them suing bnetd?
Well, I guess posting all those snippy comments on Slashdot really showed them who was boss. So now it's back to the usual fawning at their feet, is it?