If over 12000 Servers were linux and were being sucessfully cracked compared to 4000 of windows boxes. Now representing this as 67% is to skew the results. What we dont actually know is how many were in the data set ?
Did they sample 20000 Servers ? 20,000 servers or 200,000 servers ?
Linux 67 Breached Linux Servers 12892 73.59% Windows 23 Breached Windows Servers 4626 26.41%
90Total Cracked ? 17518
Well the percentile is only 90% of the figures. Which servers were in the missing 10%.
Did the survey compare windows to linux boxes alike e.g.
1 Linux Server examined to 1 windows box. for 20,000 boxes ?
I dont see any figures here for accuracy or qualification of the figures.
What I do see is a suggestion that Linux is very popular. If this is the case and we suggest that 80% of the net is unix to 20% microsoft. then 67% of 80% of the network being interupted seems very unusuall and rather high as a figure.
So I keep coming back to wondering where the figures have actually originated and been compiled.
Im fairly sure Microsoft can be secure, but unlike Unix it tends towards insecurity. Ive often compared running Microsoft boxes to herding sheep. You spend all your time keeping them alive and free of viruses. Unix on the other hand is the sheep dog, consistent , loyal and dependent.
They can bandy these figures all they like but unless they can flatten the survey and show a clear scope of investigation and comparison then I dont think we should be worrying about the quote.
For us that buying a linksys router is even more preferable. For a personal user to any business criteria the advantage over having full source to this hardware is incredible. Certainly its going to ensure that they stay high on our prefered supplier list provising we can access the boxes and code. incidentally we install WiFi in Public spots for the UK which is being kinda slow to take this up.
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Well we are 3aIT have for the last four years been moving sites from Novell and Microsoft Servers to OPen Source Applications such as Linux, Samba, Exim, HylaFax etc . Weve moveed appx 500 seats so fa. Weve saved these companies an estimated 100k in license fees and support costs over the last 4 years. We are a 6 Man team , growing in numbers each year, and we have experience and case studies on moving people to Linux...
Eddie Bleasedale, of Netproject has been one of the UKs most prolific advocates of the Open Source movement. Hes been running seminars, Discussions and meetings with a large variety of "movers and shaker" within the UK for several Years now. This is the not the first large scale project in the UK but it is certainly the most important. The Architecture employed to move everyone to the Linux Desktop , which I have seen , is certainly the most influential and consistent to date. We at 3aIT wish Eddie and his team all the best in this project and the future.
Though I am wondering when the UK Magazines are going to start including Eddies Name for Linux Advocacy nominations.
And if youve ever tried getting your boss to understand the benefits of Open Source in business then look out for Netprojects Day Conferences ( next on is 10th June 2003, London ) where Netprojects put together a excellent series of dicsussions and topics detailing issues and concerns over the Linux Answer.
Ok I will admit to posting before looking up the facts but I think Smoothwall went this way and this resulted in IPCOP. If Open Office/Star Office has a GPL License then its quite possible that it will fork, someone else will implement the other changes and.... then so what. Charging is Good. Giving away the Code is Good. Charging for Support is Good. Getting Free support is Good. There is nothing in the actual story that will actually affect the product. But theres quite a bit in here that affects how people will view Sun and other companies that take on Open Source projects for their own puposes....
I am self employed running a business which is basically installing Linux as the main File/Mail and intra/internet server to small and medium size business in the UK. I have been doing this for a year and have six stable and support low customers. Of all the issues that arise from the sites it is from getting Ms products to playball in terms of reliability.
Usually I am dealing with corrupt registries, poorly implemented com/dcom applications and to many applications installing their own libraries over the top of windows own libraries.
At sites where I have implented Linux as the main server in place of NT. Support calls have dropped from daily to monthly to in one case rarely.
Assuming my current growth rate I am looking at 1 customer every 2 months who moves to Linux.
When explaining the cost benefits I put it like this
File Server, Email access, internet access, Firewall and backup software. for 10 Users
Microsoft products £6000 approx
LInux Solution £50.00 per distro box I buy.
Factor in MS Upgrades/Hardware upgrades required in 5 years +£2000
I support Mandrake and Debian and Freebsd as the solution to the requirements and I have a easy time justfying the costs.
MS Can continue to dismiss Linux but lets face it small and medium size businesses dont want to pay for the operating system that should come as part of the PC.
So I was a 10 year old lad when Arcades were available in the tiny Hamlett of Yeovil, Somerset in the UK. I had made a friend there who seemed to have no trouble in having access to cash to drop into those machines.
Later that evening my parents sit me down and start asking me about where I was getting cash to play video games. Turns out the 'Friend' had used his own money from his savings then blamed it on theft by me. His parents had contacted mine and despite all the protestations and declarations of innocence on my part well my parents did not believe me and beat and punished me anyway.
take a moment here: As a 10 year old boy who had not stolen or done anything wrong this was pretty drucking framatic. I sat in my room the turmoil and suffering so intense at the injustice of it all. [cue Jon Katz suggesting its a good thing we dont have guns in the UK].
Later that evening the boy cracked and admitted to his parents that he had stolen his own money and spent it at the arcade.
MY parents of course did not discover this for 24hrs and so.... Well you can imaging the hell I went through.
Whats worse is I cant ever remeber my parents apologising. I can remember being told this was why Video games were so bad and arcades should not be visited.
Funny really how Parents seem to forget their own culpabilities in being responsible for their children in the face of external preasures and influences.
If the children are stealing from their parents punish the guilty children . Not those whose responsible actions should allow them the pleasures and luxuries of life.
I purchased Helicopter Girls new Album, How to Steal the World. I did this on the basis of Music people sending me a link to the tune for Subliminal Punk. So I bought the Album, yeah me!
Next thing I know I got a scratcht on it which blasts away tracks 3,4,5 So what I want is to rip the remaining functional tracks, use Napster to make up the difference and then write a new version of the CD, bin the old one and keep what I have legally paid for and own in a up to date format.
That said I am sure RIAA will find a way to prove that that is also Illegal.
So whats the problem... well I cant find those tracks through Napster ( so far any way )
Ok so I bought the 7110e, not because it was wap enabled but because the Ir and Modem funtions melded well with my Handspring and Vaio Ir/Modem requirements. So there Iam a happy little geekoid coding, surfing and using my technology when suddenly my 7110 just locks the hell up... This occurs several days in a row and when I speak to Orange technical support they say they are aware of the 'fault' and that I need a Sw upgrade.... Since when did I buy a Microsoft product ? so anyway I have the latest version of the Nokia sw and still Isuffer occasional faults that are exactly like DoS.
Question:
As a monthly paying subscriber locked into a phone contract for a product that is clearly unsuitable for commercial use. ( read that I am self employed) who do I approach for compensation ?
Oh well thanks for the news Im off to inform a few people of the issues.
Here in the UK WAP was ( and is ) being promoted and psuhed with all the usual marketing splendour and cluelessness that seems to accompany any situation where the media feels it has a 'handle' on the technology. The problem is , as has beenmentioned before, that its just no use. Its slow, has a poor interface ( mobile keypads are a poor alternative to a keyboard) gives limited information and does not feel integrated with the Web.
I should point out that I own a Nokia 7110e Wap enabled phone. I did not purchase the phone because it had WAP. I purchased it for its IRDA and Internal Modem with these I can use my PDA ( Handspring Visor) to surf the web and send emails much more effeciently than with Wap.
BT Cellnet actually have a advert for the technology where in a Girl sitting on a Bus Emails (form here phone) her friend asking about the weather. as usuall all the geeks in my Group point out that she could gave SMS'd the message in less time and more effeciently.
I get asked occasionaly if I will be developing WAP applications. I made a few suggestions all of which are better suited to SMS these are.
1. Spam a Exhibitor Attendee monile with special offers from Exhibitors providing they attend the stand within X minutes and display the message (C) Nik Butler
2. Inform patients when Glasses or prescriptions can be collected.(C) Nik Butler
3. Send Cat servicing reminders and history to a car owner, giving details of who to contact.(C) Nik Butler
As you can see all of these simply rely on the user receiving data to their phone. Which is in essence all they require to act on information.
For my Money HTML and possibly XML provide a smarter document structure for delivering content if designers could consider less client side reliability in their sites and more Server Side information and layout it could be implemented for a wider audience.
My part time job as a teen was working in a Video Rental store. Much better then the rest of my peers who spent their freetime working stocking shelves in supermarkets.
so it was here that I first was introduced to SpacedInvaders. I liked it so much I marked it down as lost and took it home with me;-) This movie oozes cliches farce and comedies of errors. Bad acting mixed with truly corny lines made this sci-pie flic a tru master of the ironic fantasy. Surely the reveiwers missed the Warner brother toonesque moments involving the DOD (Donut of Death). The Captain Biptoad flattened on a truck radiator grill. The 12 Story High Harvester Droid
I would say this movie influenced me greatly. I taight me that sometimes BAD is GOOD and that cliches are there because they have always been there. But mainly it taught me that some actors turn up in the most unusual of films..
hey to the Anonymous user thanks for the technical response. I did not feel like educating the particular responder regarding IPSpoofing as if they did not realise it then they might already be misusing it.. mistakenly . Still maybe a lesson in ping/pung/pang might be in order;-)
Actually it is suspicuosly timely that this story is posted. A few weeks back I was suffering a regular and time conistent number of attempts at port scanning on my machine. The port in question was 31337 ( can any one say back orifice?). Anyway IPChains blocked this and reported the IP, time and date. NSlookup reported who the IP belonged to ( the Same ISP as I was on as it happened, oh and another Big UK ISP ). So I wrap up the Log files, break down the data give the document the relevant information and forward it to the support departments of the ISPs in question. The response was..... well lets just say I think MS will go open source before they respond to my emails.
See I can believe cracking attempts will always occur and that ISPS should not be responsible for them. In the same way that the law is not responsible for someone breaking it. However if that person is identified with having made the Attempted break in then surely they should be punished. In this instance I was providing documentary evidence which should tie up with their own access records.
Clearly the ISPs dont maintain those records. Maybe for issues of privacy and if so how does recording the time you spend online affect your privacy really.
I would have thought though that the ISPs in question would like to have shown their ability to respond to the issues concerned and in turn acted on them... Fat Chance.
So here I am. Still online, grepping my message log for DENY and user and access and waiting for the next attempt.
I think for the benefit of society some ports should be blocked if they have become associatted with abuse. After a while we get down to the common methods of communication and with that we can better patrol our networks.
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Engaging perhaps a over simplification of the process what are the moral and ethical questions that shuold be asked about adjusting any currently live organism either during its Life span or its creation. Changing the scale from Genetic to Organic and I wonder why we never have these arguements when someone, who quite clearly would die, receives a transplant of organic material (Blood/Heart/Kidney/Marrow, Liver etc) which enables them to Live, Grow and thrive. Reduce the scale and what are the issues about someone receiving a replacement chromosone, base pair or node to fix a faulty line of development. I can understand the current fear factor of the perfect society but what does it really mean to ask these questions when we already sanction them at a larger scale.
Then its official, what we need to do is create a method where in Files dont actually contain the content they are labelled as such that a more thorough checking by the requester would ensure that contents = required file.
Tricky.. as it would invalidate searching.
Maybe a bridge removing/anonmysing the user would be better.
Or better yet MIRCOPAYMENTS [ insert crap MS Wallet gag here] I still say im happy to 'resell' by tracks where the receiver pays a central source a mini amount for the benefit of receiving the whole track.
Heck Napster could then enforce Track sharing against a registered list of pay per download files.
The premium here being that files in this category are checked and validated and payments can goto the Musicians.
Um It should be pointed out that whilst MP3 may be a 1st Generation copy. Its a Lossy Copy. Its Compressed to such a state that if you are to compare it to a CD or Audio tape you HEAR the differences in Bass and Treble. So we should throw out the ITS A PERFECT COPY arguement. Its not. Now if we were not to compress the music at all and to smaple it at a full rate then maybe I might agree. But who wants to share my 44Mb All Along the Watchtower single ?
Actually thats not such an unusual Idea. I have often discussed this theory with a number of professionals always with the same sceptiscm. But consider it this way. Users ( the end user kind ) are notoriously inept at upgrading. If there were a way to write Upgrade software distributed in a virus vector it might reduce your work load. MIGHT that is.
I even played with the concept in my earlier code days. Having written a client/server app that passed patches between computers it could find on its network where the computer was running the client. And did not inform the user.
Still i suspect the whole concept is considered disgusting and not worthy... sigh !
Ok I speak as one of a few who know personally someone working at MP3.com. Danm but I so want them to succeed as they represent a change in the attitudes and desires of a community.
Going after MP3, Napster and other 'format' related vendors is like going after Sony for inventing the Tape Recorder and Magnetic Tape. The RIAA is basically syndicating the intolerance of a few major players who dont want to see any one else playing in their sandbox.
Well Damnit thats it!
I am buying a RIO tommorow. Im going after MP3 format 100% and f**k em if RIAA can't stand to see the possibilities.
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If over 12000 Servers were linux and were being sucessfully cracked compared to 4000 of windows boxes. Now representing this as 67% is to skew the results. What we dont actually know is how many were in the data set ?
Did they sample 20000 Servers ? 20,000 servers or 200,000 servers ?
Linux 67 Breached Linux Servers 12892 73.59%
Windows 23 Breached Windows Servers 4626 26.41%
90Total Cracked ? 17518
Well the percentile is only 90% of the figures. Which servers were in the missing 10%.
Did the survey compare windows to linux boxes alike e.g.
1 Linux Server examined to 1 windows box. for 20,000 boxes ?
I dont see any figures here for accuracy or qualification of the figures.
What I do see is a suggestion that Linux is very popular. If this is the case and we suggest that 80% of the net is unix to 20% microsoft. then 67% of 80% of the network being interupted seems very unusuall and rather high as a figure.
So I keep coming back to wondering where the figures have actually originated and been compiled.
Im fairly sure Microsoft can be secure, but unlike Unix it tends towards insecurity. Ive often compared running Microsoft boxes to herding sheep. You spend all your time keeping them alive and free of viruses. Unix on the other hand is the sheep dog, consistent , loyal and dependent.
They can bandy these figures all they like but unless they can flatten the survey and show a clear scope of investigation and comparison then I dont think we should be worrying about the quote.
For us that buying a linksys router is even more preferable. For a personal user to any business criteria the advantage over having full source to this hardware is incredible. Certainly its going to ensure that they stay high on our prefered supplier list provising we can access the boxes and code. incidentally we install WiFi in Public spots for the UK which is being kinda slow to take this up.
What Google would Google Goo ?
Well we are 3aIT have for the last four years been moving sites from Novell and Microsoft Servers to OPen Source Applications such as Linux, Samba, Exim, HylaFax etc . Weve moveed appx 500 seats so fa. Weve saved these companies an estimated 100k in license fees and support costs over the last 4 years. We are a 6 Man team , growing in numbers each year, and we have experience and case studies on moving people to Linux...
Eddie Bleasedale, of Netproject has been one of the UKs most prolific advocates of the Open Source movement. Hes been running seminars, Discussions and meetings with a large variety of "movers and shaker" within the UK for several Years now. This is the not the first large scale project in the UK but it is certainly the most important. The Architecture employed to move everyone to the Linux Desktop , which I have seen , is certainly the most influential and consistent to date. We at 3aIT wish Eddie and his team all the best in this project and the future.
Though I am wondering when the UK Magazines are going to start including Eddies Name for Linux Advocacy nominations.
And if youve ever tried getting your boss to understand the benefits of Open Source in business then look out for Netprojects Day Conferences ( next on is 10th June 2003, London ) where Netprojects put together a excellent series of dicsussions and topics detailing issues and concerns over the Linux Answer.
Will be paying for the Bandwidth charge for that little load ?
Ok I will admit to posting before looking up the facts but I think Smoothwall went this way and this resulted in IPCOP. If Open Office/Star Office has a GPL License then its quite possible that it will fork, someone else will implement the other changes and .... then so what. Charging is Good. Giving away the Code is Good. Charging for Support is Good. Getting Free support is Good. There is nothing in the actual story that will actually affect the product. But theres quite a bit in here that affects how people will view Sun and other companies that take on Open Source projects for their own puposes....
I am self employed running a business which is basically installing Linux as the main File/Mail and intra/internet server to small and medium size business in the UK. I have been doing this for a year and have six stable and support low customers. Of all the issues that arise from the sites it is from getting Ms products to playball in terms of reliability.
Usually I am dealing with corrupt registries, poorly implemented com/dcom applications and to many applications installing their own libraries over the top of windows own libraries.
At sites where I have implented Linux as the main server in place of NT. Support calls have dropped from daily to monthly to in one case rarely.
Assuming my current growth rate I am looking at 1 customer every 2 months who moves to Linux.
When explaining the cost benefits I put it like this
File Server, Email access, internet access, Firewall and backup software. for 10 Users
Microsoft products £6000 approx
LInux Solution £50.00 per distro box I buy.
Factor in MS Upgrades/Hardware upgrades required in 5 years +£2000
I support Mandrake and Debian and Freebsd as the solution to the requirements and I have a easy time justfying the costs.
MS Can continue to dismiss Linux but lets face it small and medium size businesses dont want to pay for the operating system that should come as part of the PC.
MS its back to you.
So I was a 10 year old lad when Arcades were available in the tiny Hamlett of Yeovil, Somerset in the UK. I had made a friend there who seemed to have no trouble in having access to cash to drop into those machines.
Later that evening my parents sit me down and start asking me about where I was getting cash to play video games. Turns out the 'Friend' had used his own money from his savings then blamed it on theft by me. His parents had contacted mine and despite all the protestations and declarations of innocence on my part well my parents did not believe me and beat and punished me anyway.
take a moment here: As a 10 year old boy who had not stolen or done anything wrong this was pretty drucking framatic. I sat in my room the turmoil and suffering so intense at the injustice of it all. [cue Jon Katz suggesting its a good thing we dont have guns in the UK].
Later that evening the boy cracked and admitted to his parents that he had stolen his own money and spent it at the arcade.
MY parents of course did not discover this for 24hrs and so.... Well you can imaging the hell I went through.
Whats worse is I cant ever remeber my parents apologising. I can remember being told this was why Video games were so bad and arcades should not be visited.
Funny really how Parents seem to forget their own culpabilities in being responsible for their children in the face of external preasures and influences.
If the children are stealing from their parents punish the guilty children . Not those whose responsible actions should allow them the pleasures and luxuries of life.
I purchased Helicopter Girls new Album, How to Steal the World. I did this on the basis of Music people sending me a link to the tune for Subliminal Punk. So I bought the Album, yeah me!
Next thing I know I got a scratcht on it which blasts away tracks 3,4,5 So what I want is to rip the remaining functional tracks, use Napster to make up the difference and then write a new version of the CD, bin the old one and keep what I have legally paid for and own in a up to date format.
That said I am sure RIAA will find a way to prove that that is also Illegal.
So whats the problem... well I cant find those tracks through Napster ( so far any way )
Well there you go people any thoughts ?
So it looks like WAP will move definition from Wait And Pay to
What ? Another protocol ?
My justifications for purchasing the Visor are complete. Now I finally have somewhere to stash my metallica collection..
On the upside I wonder if I should build a gnapster app for H'Spring for swapping tracks with other Mp3 users.
Ok so I bought the 7110e, not because it was wap enabled but because the Ir and Modem funtions melded well with my Handspring and Vaio Ir/Modem requirements. So there Iam a happy little geekoid coding, surfing and using my technology when suddenly my 7110 just locks the hell up... This occurs several days in a row and when I speak to Orange technical support they say they are aware of the 'fault' and that I need a Sw upgrade.... Since when did I buy a Microsoft product ? so anyway I have the latest version of the Nokia sw and still Isuffer occasional faults that are exactly like DoS.
Question:
As a monthly paying subscriber locked into a phone contract for a product that is clearly unsuitable for commercial use. ( read that I am self employed) who do I approach for compensation ?
Oh well thanks for the news Im off to inform a few people of the issues.
Here in the UK WAP was ( and is ) being promoted and psuhed with all the usual marketing splendour and cluelessness that seems to accompany any situation where the media feels it has a 'handle' on the technology. The problem is , as has beenmentioned before, that its just no use. Its slow, has a poor interface ( mobile keypads are a poor alternative to a keyboard) gives limited information and does not feel integrated with the Web.
I should point out that I own a Nokia 7110e Wap enabled phone. I did not purchase the phone because it had WAP. I purchased it for its IRDA and Internal Modem with these I can use my PDA ( Handspring Visor) to surf the web and send emails much more effeciently than with Wap.
BT Cellnet actually have a advert for the technology where in a Girl sitting on a Bus Emails (form here phone) her friend asking about the weather. as usuall all the geeks in my Group point out that she could gave SMS'd the message in less time and more effeciently.
I get asked occasionaly if I will be developing WAP applications. I made a few suggestions all of which are better suited to SMS these are.
1. Spam a Exhibitor Attendee monile with special offers from Exhibitors providing they attend the stand within X minutes and display the message (C) Nik Butler
2. Inform patients when Glasses or prescriptions can be collected.(C) Nik Butler
3. Send Cat servicing reminders and history to a car owner, giving details of who to contact.(C) Nik Butler
As you can see all of these simply rely on the user receiving data to their phone. Which is in essence all they require to act on information.
For my Money HTML and possibly XML provide a smarter document structure for delivering content if designers could consider less client side reliability in their sites and more Server Side information and layout it could be implemented for a wider audience.
My part time job as a teen was working in a Video Rental store. Much better then the rest of my peers who spent their freetime working stocking shelves in supermarkets. ;-) This movie oozes cliches farce and comedies of errors. Bad acting mixed with truly corny lines made this sci-pie flic a tru master of the ironic fantasy. Surely the reveiwers missed the Warner brother toonesque moments involving the DOD (Donut of Death). The Captain Biptoad flattened on a truck radiator grill. The 12 Story High Harvester Droid
so it was here that I first was introduced to SpacedInvaders. I liked it so much I marked it down as lost and took it home with me
I would say this movie influenced me greatly. I taight me that sometimes BAD is GOOD and that cliches are there because they have always been there. But mainly it taught me that some actors turn up in the most unusual of films..
Good write up though
hey to the Anonymous user thanks for the technical response. I did not feel like educating the particular responder regarding IPSpoofing as if they did not realise it then they might already be misusing it .. mistakenly . Still maybe a lesson in ping/pung/pang might be in order ;-)
Wow Logcheck is the reason I love open source... Cheers... it works for me and my customers ;-)
Actually it is suspicuosly timely that this story is posted. A few weeks back I was suffering a regular and time conistent number of attempts at port scanning on my machine. The port in question was 31337 ( can any one say back orifice?). Anyway IPChains blocked this and reported the IP, time and date. NSlookup reported who the IP belonged to ( the Same ISP as I was on as it happened, oh and another Big UK ISP ). So I wrap up the Log files, break down the data give the document the relevant information and forward it to the support departments of the ISPs in question. The response was ..... well lets just say I think MS will go open source before they respond to my emails.
See I can believe cracking attempts will always occur and that ISPS should not be responsible for them. In the same way that the law is not responsible for someone breaking it. However if that person is identified with having made the Attempted break in then surely they should be punished. In this instance I was providing documentary evidence which should tie up with their own access records.
Clearly the ISPs dont maintain those records. Maybe for issues of privacy and if so how does recording the time you spend online affect your privacy really.
I would have thought though that the ISPs in question would like to have shown their ability to respond to the issues concerned and in turn acted on them... Fat Chance.
So here I am. Still online, grepping my message log for DENY and user and access and waiting for the next attempt.
I think for the benefit of society some ports should be blocked if they have become associatted with abuse. After a while we get down to the common methods of communication and with that we can better patrol our networks.
Engaging perhaps a over simplification of the process what are the moral and ethical questions that shuold be asked about adjusting any currently live organism either during its Life span or its creation. Changing the scale from Genetic to Organic and I wonder why we never have these arguements when someone, who quite clearly would die, receives a transplant of organic material (Blood/Heart/Kidney/Marrow, Liver etc) which enables them to Live, Grow and thrive. Reduce the scale and what are the issues about someone receiving a replacement chromosone, base pair or node to fix a faulty line of development. I can understand the current fear factor of the perfect society but what does it really mean to ask these questions when we already sanction them at a larger scale.
Then its official, what we need to do is create a method where in Files dont actually contain the content they are labelled as such that a more thorough checking by the requester would ensure that contents = required file.
.. as it would invalidate searching.
Tricky
Maybe a bridge removing/anonmysing the user would be better.
Or better yet
MIRCOPAYMENTS [ insert crap MS Wallet gag here]
I still say im happy to 'resell' by tracks where the receiver pays a central source a mini amount for the benefit of receiving the whole track.
Heck Napster could then enforce Track sharing against a registered list of pay per download files.
The premium here being that files in this category are checked and validated and payments can goto the Musicians.
I dunno the whole above maybe too idealistic
Um It should be pointed out that whilst MP3 may be a 1st Generation copy. Its a Lossy Copy. Its Compressed to such a state that if you are to compare it to a CD or Audio tape you HEAR the differences in Bass and Treble. So we should throw out the ITS A PERFECT COPY arguement. Its not. Now if we were not to compress the music at all and to smaple it at a full rate then maybe I might agree. But who wants to share my 44Mb All Along the Watchtower single ?
Actually thats not such an unusual Idea. I have often discussed this theory with a number of professionals always with the same sceptiscm. But consider it this way. Users ( the end user kind ) are notoriously inept at upgrading. If there were a way to write Upgrade software distributed in a virus vector it might reduce your work load. MIGHT that is.
... sigh !
I even played with the concept in my earlier code days. Having written a client/server app that passed patches between computers it could find on its network where the computer was running the client. And did not inform the user.
Still i suspect the whole concept is considered disgusting and not worthy
What if you have no Fingers, Hands, Arms to make the transaction ?
Paraplegics, MS and other non able bodied people may yet again be sidelined to a minority of a minority by technology that should free everybody.
Sure its hard to make perfect security but dont make it impossible to have sensible security
Yeah but the opening sentence reads:
'its like ' meaning for instance.
After all MP3.com did not create MP3 and I was not saying Sony invented tape just that its like saying BLAME them !
Ok I speak as one of a few who know personally someone working at MP3.com. Danm but I so want them to succeed as they represent a change in the attitudes and desires of a community.
Going after MP3, Napster and other 'format' related vendors is like going after Sony for inventing the Tape Recorder and Magnetic Tape. The RIAA is basically syndicating the intolerance of a few major players who dont want to see any one else playing in their sandbox.
Well Damnit thats it!
I am buying a RIO tommorow. Im going after MP3 format 100% and f**k em if RIAA can't stand to see the possibilities.