1) Find someone from New Hampshire 2) Coax them into a conversation worthy of blackmail. 3) Threaten to tell the wife/boss/mother whatever. 4) They cave in because they can't save your conversation without breaking the law.
It might actually work too. There was an episode of cops where they wouldn't do anything to a local crack house without proof. So a woman from the neighborhood walked in, bought crack, came out and gave it to the cops. They arrested her for possession of crack, and still ignored the crack house. Absolutely nuts.
It was interesting to read about the effect that default logging had the cases, but what can we look forward to in the future? Will the creators of IM software be considered liable if they don't implement a two-way consent system into logging of conversations?
And how would it apply if you aren't aware at the time that the person in the conversation lives within a state/province/country that requires two-way consent?
Keep creating the music YOU want to make. Keep doing your shows in bars and other small venues, and have one of your good friends make you a decent web site for beer. Join any one of the new crop of indy sites aimed at getting your music out there. Use a payment or donation system, and always make sure that your audience knows where to look on the web when they get home.
Why not sign with a major publisher? Because odds are you'll make more money doing it yourself these days, and there's a growing number of us who will not pay for overpriced shit marketed by megacorporations.
Kazaa isn't the only app that installs Gator. The adware supported DivX does as well, though they offer an adware free version on that site with not as many bells and whistles. There's a lot of other apps that do as well.
Reading the EULA used to be something people bypassed. Now it's a necessity.
Although I think hiding install info in the EULA is crap. The installer should show all applications being installed right from the beginning. Anything not implicitly listed at the install screen should be treated like the UK's theft of service laws for electricity when someone uses your machine without permission.
Enemies of the US that were formerly funded/supported by the US.
Ho Chi Minh Khadaffi Hussein bin Laden Noriega
The US government helps create monsters, then takes away the rights of US citizens via conscription and "anti-terror laws" just so they can fight the very problem they created.
It seems to be a cycle that repeats itself with some regularity. Meanwhile American men and women (and their allies) die each day trying to clean up these messes.
It's a damn shame.
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I just can't see someone spending more money on an Athlon CPU than an engine. Now if you had a cascade failure of hardware in your computer when the CPU blew, the I'd understand the extra expense. Even the bleeding edge AMD hardware isn't prohibitively expensive.
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My sympathy is with the Cobra owner:)
The Athlon owner can replace the component for less than 200 dollars.
And if North Americans didn't think we "need" high priced SUVs, home theatre systems, and anything that catches our eye to "survive" they wouldn't have to pay us so much either.
And that's the whole point is that the interpretation of the law that he quotes makes putting the files in place legal. So they can't get you just by browsing Kazaa to see what you're sharing. But if they manage to catch you in the act of uploading, watch out.
I was focused more on the webcam-voyeurs that are preferential to hidden cams, rather than those that just like to go to your average girl-cam site and check out the action.
There's something really creepy about a person getting off watching you use the bathroom from cameras hidden in strange places.
Yup, it's legal to download, but redistribution is still a no-no. So you have to force your client software into a 'leech-only' setting to remain within the law.
Still, this doesn't mean Canadians will be able to get off scott free when it comes to downloading music and other media. The storage media levies that get put in place may be quite substantial, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a "study" result in a claim that people that use greater than X amount of bandwidth a month are more likely to be pirating and therefore should incur additional levies.
On the plus side, Canadians are less likely to be robbed at gunpoint for their iPod full of tunes.;)
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I knew it! He IS real! Everyone told me it was a hallucination from bad pepperoni!
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So now you're trapped inside a microwave, since the handle's on the outside.
If you get desperate there's more nutrition in the steering wheel than the seat covers.
1) Find someone from New Hampshire
2) Coax them into a conversation worthy of blackmail.
3) Threaten to tell the wife/boss/mother whatever.
4) They cave in because they can't save your conversation without breaking the law.
It might actually work too. There was an episode of cops where they wouldn't do anything to a local crack house without proof. So a woman from the neighborhood walked in, bought crack, came out and gave it to the cops. They arrested her for possession of crack, and still ignored the crack house. Absolutely nuts.
It was interesting to read about the effect that default logging had the cases, but what can we look forward to in the future? Will the creators of IM software be considered liable if they don't implement a two-way consent system into logging of conversations?
And how would it apply if you aren't aware at the time that the person in the conversation lives within a state/province/country that requires two-way consent?
If this happens then the l33t won't have anyone to look down on!
Well, except for the guy who still can't figure out the toaster.
Dear Independent Artists,
Keep creating the music YOU want to make. Keep doing your shows in bars and other small venues, and have one of your good friends make you a decent web site for beer. Join any one of the new crop of indy sites aimed at getting your music out there. Use a payment or donation system, and always make sure that your audience knows where to look on the web when they get home.
Why not sign with a major publisher? Because odds are you'll make more money doing it yourself these days, and there's a growing number of us who will not pay for overpriced shit marketed by megacorporations.
Good music finds its own audience. Good luck.
Pearl will protect you... from the terrible secret of space?
Kazaa isn't the only app that installs Gator.
The adware supported DivX does as well, though they offer an adware free version on that site with not as many bells and whistles. There's a lot of other apps that do as well.
Reading the EULA used to be something people bypassed. Now it's a necessity.
Although I think hiding install info in the EULA is crap. The installer should show all applications being installed right from the beginning. Anything not implicitly listed at the install screen should be treated like the UK's theft of service laws for electricity when someone uses your machine without permission.
Do you use single weave or braided string with your can? :)
Hmm, I guess you have a point there.
Lions 1, Christians 0
Hahaha. I've never heard that one used before. Asshat, yes. But asscork is new.
Explains why he's full of shit though.
Does this mean you don't need a Biggus Dickus when you're getting by with a Palm Pilate?
It would be funnier if it wasn't a blatant cut and paste of this post.
Wouldn't that be "Linukth"?
Enemies of the US that were formerly funded/supported by the US.
Ho Chi Minh
Khadaffi
Hussein
bin Laden
Noriega
The US government helps create monsters, then takes away the rights of US citizens via conscription and "anti-terror laws" just so they can fight the very problem they created.
It seems to be a cycle that repeats itself with some regularity. Meanwhile American men and women (and their allies) die each day trying to clean up these messes.
It's a damn shame.
I just can't see someone spending more money on an Athlon CPU than an engine. Now if you had a cascade failure of hardware in your computer when the CPU blew, the I'd understand the extra expense.
Even the bleeding edge AMD hardware isn't prohibitively expensive.
My sympathy is with the Cobra owner :)
The Athlon owner can replace the component for less than 200 dollars.
They do...
It's called the Sybian.
Slashdot doesn't need anti-americanism.
:P
US foreign policy does a fine job of that itself
And if North Americans didn't think we "need" high priced SUVs, home theatre systems, and anything that catches our eye to "survive" they wouldn't have to pay us so much either.
Actually I did read it.
And that's the whole point is that the interpretation of the law that he quotes makes putting the files in place legal. So they can't get you just by browsing Kazaa to see what you're sharing. But if they manage to catch you in the act of uploading, watch out.
I was focused more on the webcam-voyeurs that are preferential to hidden cams, rather than those that just like to go to your average girl-cam site and check out the action.
There's something really creepy about a person getting off watching you use the bathroom from cameras hidden in strange places.
New defense appearing in court shortly:
Paternity: "Look, once the sperm leave my body I'm not responsible for anything they do."
Funny, my grandfather used the word "whifflesnoofer" for bicycle seat sniffers.
I've never actually seen anyone do it. Is this what deviants did for fun before hidden webcams were readily available?
Yup, it's legal to download, but redistribution is still a no-no. So you have to force your client software into a 'leech-only' setting to remain within the law.
;)
Still, this doesn't mean Canadians will be able to get off scott free when it comes to downloading music and other media. The storage media levies that get put in place may be quite substantial, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a "study" result in a claim that people that use greater than X amount of bandwidth a month are more likely to be pirating and therefore should incur additional levies.
On the plus side, Canadians are less likely to be robbed at gunpoint for their iPod full of tunes.
I knew it! He IS real! Everyone told me it was a hallucination from bad pepperoni!