Illegal copying is not stealing or theft! - It is copyright infringement!
The only form of software theft is the theft of those plastic boxes you buy at retail stores with a program package, operating system or game inside and I seriously doubt shoplifters steal $51B worth of those...
It's about limiting it to as small an amount as possible, to ensure that as many kids grow up to be productive members of society as possible.
So you're saying that kids that get to smoke, drink or play violent videogames cannot become productive membes of society?
That's crap and (hopefully) you know it.
Those are all irrelevant factors; what matters are social background and post-teen behavior.
Let's turn it around. I don't know a single colleague that didn't drink as a kid or watched violent movies or played violent games (cops and robbers, cowboys and indians etc. are pre-computer variants). And we are all productive members of society. Try the same at your place of work and you'll find the same. Adolescent behavior does not dictate adult behavior (unless we're talking about a life of crime or similar). Everybody acts out a bit as a kid/teen.
Sorry, but STFU! - When the only ads that pay the bills are ads that significantly reduce the usability of the site or the browser in general, it's time to change business model! - It's as simple as that!
Many sites have done this simple setup: Subscribers/members can pay for an ad-free experience (fairly low fee, labeled as 'support your site') or get the usual ad-infested but free ride. Now you can ban talking about ad-busting as there is an alternative... Now everybody is happy!
(I'm a long time ad-buster addon user, first Proxomatron, then AdBlock Plus - hate ads!)
An empty robots.txt is not blank-check permission to crawl and use the data for whatever you want.
No, but it's not a ban either.
Common sense dictates that if data is publicly accessible and not accompanied by a specific usage limitation, you can mine the data and use it for scientific purposes as fair use. This guy did not charge for his results, nor for the compiled data, so it was textbook fair use.
Remember, he did not use the collected data directly but only the relationships it inferred. That information is the product of the crawlers compilation, not the data itself, and only the data itself can be copyrighted. It's just like the fact that you cannot copyright the mood a certain piece of music or movie puts you in, only the music or movie itself. The mood is the product of an interpretation of the music or movie, and while it may be an intended result, it is still not a part of the music or movie itself.
If only... I could copyright sappy lovesongs... Profit!!
Also known as Al-Reuters (a reference to Al-Jazeera of course) during the Israeli-Lebanese war a few years back... Made characters like "Green Helmet Guy" (a guy in a green helmet showing up at every incident reportedly all over Lebanon), "the dead child" (killed at least a dozen times, also photographed between 'jobs' drinking a soda in the shade) and "Worlds Unluckiest Mom" (she lost her family, house, children at least at three different locations) famous, as well as the worst photoshop job ever to hit the newspaper front pages (the graphic hack added dozens of bad copies of a single plume of smoke all over a single picture). Probably made the worst job of impartial objective reporting ever in the history of the world, nazi-propaganda from the Third Reich included!
Maybe these guys were different. I don't know. I do know that Reuters has made a mockery of honest reporting recently, especially in the middle east.
Currently isohunt.com resolves to 208.71.112.30 which is assigned to NET-208-71-112-0-2 as NET-ISOHUNT-1. And NET-208-71-112-0-2 is assigned to neutraldata.com which seems to be located in Toronto, Canada. One would assume that their datacenter(s) would be located around there as well.
Now, I'm sure it should be fairly trivial to simply move the site to a country where there's no DMCA or equivalent. Then he could do what The Pirate Bay has done countless times: Say FUCK YOU to the MAFIAA morons that do not understand that TORRENT FILES contain no infringing data, and trackers contain only hashes of that. Every relation to data which may or may not be infringing is provided by search engine functionality completely similar to Google, Bing and others - which has not been brought on trial, probably due to these corporations having larger armies of lawyers than the MAFIAA. It's so much easier to attack a (and win against) defenseless individual that barely can afford a single lawyer.
So-called "National Security" is 99% bullshit. What's a video of an airstrike going to do that threatens the security of the US? - Last gazillion airstrike videos I've seen show zero details that can be used to identify people, military operations or similar. It may show an operation not properly authorized but that's just a threat to the morons ordering it and not national security as such.
It's just the usual bullshit propaganda... People (including pirates) are much more likely to support small companies than large faceless corporations, so the 'conscience payback' is much larger. I'm talking about retroactively paying for stuff you initially downloaded and found worth keeping.
For some mind-boggling stupid reason both record labels and motion picture companies keeps on geo-discriminating and ignoring their back catalog products, which means that a lot of people find that the only way they can get their hands on a product is by downloading it illegally. There's simply no way for them to buy or pay for it - because it just isn't available (yet) where they live.
This is exactly why I download what I download. It's tv-series has been aired in North America but won't come to Europe for months/years. It's movies not released outside the US. It's music available to radio stations and reviewers but not for purchase yet, or special editions only available in certain territories and not over the net.
I delete crap right away and the good stuff I delete if I'm able to buy the CD/DVD/Blu-ray. I own 5500+ CDs and 2500+ DVDs and Blu-rays so I certainly don't feel I'm talking the bread from the mouths of poor musicians or struggling actors.
It seems to me that catching and accusing this student has to be the result of a deliberate witchhunt - there are hundreds of students and they chose to look at this one, and 'see' drug abuse in his candy eating... They must have been out to get him and just him, just waiting for something - anything - to accuse him of.
Child abuse for the purpose of child pornography happens IN THE REAL WORLD, not in cyberspace! - No law acting on the Internet only will ever do the slightest bit to PREVENT the actual child abuse which must be the primary purpose of any child pornography law!
Don't they get it? - The abuse will happen and the materials will be produced. Once they exist they will be disseminated one way or the other. Making distribution harder will make them more valuable thus more attractive to produce. It is likely it'll actually increase the amount of abuse and the number of children affected.
Filtering the Internet will only force the users to move to encrypted channels that can bypass the filters. This will also make investigations much harder which is not a good thing. And it will do absolutely nothing to prevent children from being abused.
This is a textbook Bad Idea (tm)... They need to fire their technical advisers asap!
Actually - I talked with a guy who's part of the Danish police computer crimes division (the guys that among other things investigate CP), and he told me that they've processed just under a thousand computers for CP and only ONE used any kind of cryptography to hide his CP. Didn't work either as the moron used a common password which was broken in hours... go figure.
Waste is easily handled in a few decades... It's all about the cost of sending something into orbit and beyond. Once that is down (space elevator, maglev accelerator, other new tech) it's not a problem.
Besides, fusion power will be there in a few dacades too (or sooner).
Saving energy is good but it cannot solve any long term problems. We will always need a base amount of energy to heat or cool homes, transport water, food, waste, goods and ourselves. As more and more people get 'civilized' this amount will keep on growing and we're still a long way away from even a basic coverage (90% of the worlds population doesn't have access to any of this yet) so saving energy to solve a shortage is like pissing your pants to keep warm - a very short term measure.
I have simply stopped flying completely until they wake up and start treating the passengers decently and stop the completely stupid and inefficient security theater with an arsenal of scanners, strip searches and other deeply invasive measures. Proper profiling would do the trick much more efficiently and securely; the current scanners and methods still wouldn't have stopped the 9/11 terrorists for instance.
At the very least they need to do their job in ways much less abusive than they do today. They bark orders around and treat people like a cross between common trash and a heavily armed terrorists... smiling seems banned and people skills non-existent (job requirement it seems). Perhaps regulating the pay of the security personnel based on passenger evaluations would help? - More smiles, nicer methods, more flexibility, sense of humor... Could make the security check fun even!:)
Going to the moon is the stepping stone to going to Mars. Going to Mars is the stepping stone to go to the stars. Going to the stars is the only solution to our so-called terrestrial problems.
Once it has been identified that an end user has a zombie on their end, send the user a mail and a letter with a simple deadline - something like 72 hours to fix the problem or be disconnected. If the user doesn't fix the issue, disconnect. When the user have fixed the issue, he/she can petition to have the connection re-opened. Simple as that.
... https can make your mail slower since encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data....
That is complete bull... Data is data (1's and 0's) and it travels with the same speed regardless of what those bit represent.
The correct way of saying what the author intended to say is something like this: "https can make your mail slower compared to unencrypted http since encrypted data requires some additional overhead and some additional processing power to encrypt and decrypt at each end".
You are so right! - These scanners would still not catch the 9/11 terrorists if they were armed with carbon fiber box cutters (as opposed to regular metal ones) but of course the air marshals and the locked cockpit doors would at least stop them from carrying out the full attack.
The only sane thing is profiling and lots of it. Skip most of the stupid security theater and keep perhaps the old regular metal scanners. This will catch the random psychos that try to bring a gun or similar on a plane. Ground each and every one even remotely related to extremist organizations and the problem is solved - provided of course that the intelligence services do their job. Both the shoe bomber, the bottle bombers and the underwear bomber were indeed on these lists so they would have been stopped. As were the 9/11 terrorists.
We need to get back to the old state of things. Where the airport security staff only came out when someone actually were causing a problem. Today they are all over the place and thrive on inflicting maximum hassle on the passengers while being as rude and obnoxious as possible. And the worst part is that most travellers accept this as 'necessary' - which it most definitely isn't.
It is actually legal to break or circumvent DRM in order to be able to 'listen' to the music or 'view' a movie... whatever that means...
Is is legal to break or circumvent DRM in order to use a specific device to view/listen to a CD/DVD? Or do you have to use an off-the-rack CD or DVD player? - how about a software player on Linux or maybe BeOS or something else?
The common interpretation is that you have the right to use your 'common devices' (ipod, car stereo etc.) and to break the DRM if that is necessary but we do need a ruling as to the exact interpretation.
Anyone with the tiniest amount of knowledge about SETI@Home and networks would know that the software does not pose any kind of security risk. It doesn't 'open a port allowing access to the systems' (an open inbound port) but rather an outbound connection once in a while to deliver processed work and receive a new workload.
Now, if the software indeed caused problems with the intended use of the computers, it must be removed. No discussion.But otherwise I cannot see a problem running that instead of another stupid screensaver that does nothing useful. This SETI-project is at least useful, maybe even commendable.
I have both a cell phone and a watch. Each one has its own place. Maybe you've heard of the concept - "right tool for the job."
Exactly. I think this particular item is just plain wrong. Wristwatches won't be made obsolete, period. They may evolve into some form of extension to a mobile phone, combining the convenience of the wristwatch with some functionality of a phone or its other features, but they're just too damned handy to go away.
Oh, and I bought my first mobile phone (which didn't tell the time by the way) back in 1993, and I think the first one with built-in clock came in 1995 and I also got that one. Now 17 years and 20+ mobile phones later I still wear a wrist watch. During these 17 years I've actually acquired something like 5 or 6 new wristwatches, of which I wear one of three daily to this day (the others have dead batteries and have essentially been replaced by newer better models).
Locking down a product can be done very aesthetically pleasing. Also, they could have been fitted with hidden GPS trackers so the robbers could be found easily. Remember, these are demo models that isn't going to be sold (who wants a machine that's been used a thousand hours by thousands of people right off the streets?) so they can easily be 'special' in various ways.
Now, the most important thing is to catch those guys and get them behind bars for a few decades. Pulling something like this is likely to give them confidence so they'll definitely be doing more crime, and next time they will be even more ambitious and daring, probably taking even more. They need to be stopped and put away, as are those stupid people buying their stolen goods, keeping thieves and robbers like these in business.
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How many times do we need to repeat this?!
Illegal copying is not stealing or theft! - It is copyright infringement!
The only form of software theft is the theft of those plastic boxes you buy at retail stores with a program package, operating system or game inside and I seriously doubt shoplifters steal $51B worth of those...
I have a fairly fresh Windows 7 Home Premium (5 days) and I can chose between 12 restore points at the moment.
So you're saying that kids that get to smoke, drink or play violent videogames cannot become productive membes of society?
That's crap and (hopefully) you know it.
Those are all irrelevant factors; what matters are social background and post-teen behavior.
Let's turn it around. I don't know a single colleague that didn't drink as a kid or watched violent movies or played violent games (cops and robbers, cowboys and indians etc. are pre-computer variants). And we are all productive members of society. Try the same at your place of work and you'll find the same. Adolescent behavior does not dictate adult behavior (unless we're talking about a life of crime or similar). Everybody acts out a bit as a kid/teen.
Sorry, but STFU! - When the only ads that pay the bills are ads that significantly reduce the usability of the site or the browser in general, it's time to change business model! - It's as simple as that!
Many sites have done this simple setup: Subscribers/members can pay for an ad-free experience (fairly low fee, labeled as 'support your site') or get the usual ad-infested but free ride. Now you can ban talking about ad-busting as there is an alternative... Now everybody is happy!
(I'm a long time ad-buster addon user, first Proxomatron, then AdBlock Plus - hate ads!)
This quote seems appropriate here: "Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - by H. L. Mencken.
In Germany we recently got an "appearance pornography" law that says, if the depicted woman LOOKS younger than 18, it's illegal.
A so-called civilized country with thought crime laws... Despicable! :(
One thing is to protect children, another entirely to ban the innocent fantasy or role playing involving concenting adults.
An empty robots.txt is not blank-check permission to crawl and use the data for whatever you want.
No, but it's not a ban either.
Common sense dictates that if data is publicly accessible and not accompanied by a specific usage limitation, you can mine the data and use it for scientific purposes as fair use. This guy did not charge for his results, nor for the compiled data, so it was textbook fair use.
Remember, he did not use the collected data directly but only the relationships it inferred. That information is the product of the crawlers compilation, not the data itself, and only the data itself can be copyrighted. It's just like the fact that you cannot copyright the mood a certain piece of music or movie puts you in, only the music or movie itself. The mood is the product of an interpretation of the music or movie, and while it may be an intended result, it is still not a part of the music or movie itself.
If only... I could copyright sappy lovesongs... Profit!!
Also known as Al-Reuters (a reference to Al-Jazeera of course) during the Israeli-Lebanese war a few years back... Made characters like "Green Helmet Guy" (a guy in a green helmet showing up at every incident reportedly all over Lebanon), "the dead child" (killed at least a dozen times, also photographed between 'jobs' drinking a soda in the shade) and "Worlds Unluckiest Mom" (she lost her family, house, children at least at three different locations) famous, as well as the worst photoshop job ever to hit the newspaper front pages (the graphic hack added dozens of bad copies of a single plume of smoke all over a single picture). Probably made the worst job of impartial objective reporting ever in the history of the world, nazi-propaganda from the Third Reich included!
Maybe these guys were different. I don't know. I do know that Reuters has made a mockery of honest reporting recently, especially in the middle east.
Currently isohunt.com resolves to 208.71.112.30 which is assigned to NET-208-71-112-0-2 as NET-ISOHUNT-1. And NET-208-71-112-0-2 is assigned to neutraldata.com which seems to be located in Toronto, Canada. One would assume that their datacenter(s) would be located around there as well.
Now, I'm sure it should be fairly trivial to simply move the site to a country where there's no DMCA or equivalent. Then he could do what The Pirate Bay has done countless times: Say FUCK YOU to the MAFIAA morons that do not understand that TORRENT FILES contain no infringing data, and trackers contain only hashes of that. Every relation to data which may or may not be infringing is provided by search engine functionality completely similar to Google, Bing and others - which has not been brought on trial, probably due to these corporations having larger armies of lawyers than the MAFIAA. It's so much easier to attack a (and win against) defenseless individual that barely can afford a single lawyer.
So-called "National Security" is 99% bullshit. What's a video of an airstrike going to do that threatens the security of the US? - Last gazillion airstrike videos I've seen show zero details that can be used to identify people, military operations or similar. It may show an operation not properly authorized but that's just a threat to the morons ordering it and not national security as such.
It's just the usual bullshit propaganda... People (including pirates) are much more likely to support small companies than large faceless corporations, so the 'conscience payback' is much larger. I'm talking about retroactively paying for stuff you initially downloaded and found worth keeping.
For some mind-boggling stupid reason both record labels and motion picture companies keeps on geo-discriminating and ignoring their back catalog products, which means that a lot of people find that the only way they can get their hands on a product is by downloading it illegally. There's simply no way for them to buy or pay for it - because it just isn't available (yet) where they live.
This is exactly why I download what I download. It's tv-series has been aired in North America but won't come to Europe for months/years. It's movies not released outside the US. It's music available to radio stations and reviewers but not for purchase yet, or special editions only available in certain territories and not over the net.
I delete crap right away and the good stuff I delete if I'm able to buy the CD/DVD/Blu-ray. I own 5500+ CDs and 2500+ DVDs and Blu-rays so I certainly don't feel I'm talking the bread from the mouths of poor musicians or struggling actors.
It seems to me that catching and accusing this student has to be the result of a deliberate witchhunt - there are hundreds of students and they chose to look at this one, and 'see' drug abuse in his candy eating... They must have been out to get him and just him, just waiting for something - anything - to accuse him of.
Child abuse for the purpose of child pornography happens IN THE REAL WORLD, not in cyberspace! - No law acting on the Internet only will ever do the slightest bit to PREVENT the actual child abuse which must be the primary purpose of any child pornography law!
Don't they get it? - The abuse will happen and the materials will be produced. Once they exist they will be disseminated one way or the other. Making distribution harder will make them more valuable thus more attractive to produce. It is likely it'll actually increase the amount of abuse and the number of children affected.
Filtering the Internet will only force the users to move to encrypted channels that can bypass the filters. This will also make investigations much harder which is not a good thing. And it will do absolutely nothing to prevent children from being abused.
This is a textbook Bad Idea (tm)... They need to fire their technical advisers asap!
Actually - I talked with a guy who's part of the Danish police computer crimes division (the guys that among other things investigate CP), and he told me that they've processed just under a thousand computers for CP and only ONE used any kind of cryptography to hide his CP. Didn't work either as the moron used a common password which was broken in hours... go figure.
Waste is easily handled in a few decades... It's all about the cost of sending something into orbit and beyond. Once that is down (space elevator, maglev accelerator, other new tech) it's not a problem.
Besides, fusion power will be there in a few dacades too (or sooner).
Saving energy is good but it cannot solve any long term problems. We will always need a base amount of energy to heat or cool homes, transport water, food, waste, goods and ourselves. As more and more people get 'civilized' this amount will keep on growing and we're still a long way away from even a basic coverage (90% of the worlds population doesn't have access to any of this yet) so saving energy to solve a shortage is like pissing your pants to keep warm - a very short term measure.
I have simply stopped flying completely until they wake up and start treating the passengers decently and stop the completely stupid and inefficient security theater with an arsenal of scanners, strip searches and other deeply invasive measures. Proper profiling would do the trick much more efficiently and securely; the current scanners and methods still wouldn't have stopped the 9/11 terrorists for instance.
At the very least they need to do their job in ways much less abusive than they do today. They bark orders around and treat people like a cross between common trash and a heavily armed terrorists... smiling seems banned and people skills non-existent (job requirement it seems). Perhaps regulating the pay of the security personnel based on passenger evaluations would help? - More smiles, nicer methods, more flexibility, sense of humor... Could make the security check fun even! :)
You are so wrong!
Going to the moon is the stepping stone to going to Mars.
Going to Mars is the stepping stone to go to the stars.
Going to the stars is the only solution to our so-called terrestrial problems.
Once it has been identified that an end user has a zombie on their end, send the user a mail and a letter with a simple deadline - something like 72 hours to fix the problem or be disconnected. If the user doesn't fix the issue, disconnect. When the user have fixed the issue, he/she can petition to have the connection re-opened. Simple as that.
That is complete bull... Data is data (1's and 0's) and it travels with the same speed regardless of what those bit represent.
The correct way of saying what the author intended to say is something like this: "https can make your mail slower compared to unencrypted http since encrypted data requires some additional overhead and some additional processing power to encrypt and decrypt at each end".
You are so right! - These scanners would still not catch the 9/11 terrorists if they were armed with carbon fiber box cutters (as opposed to regular metal ones) but of course the air marshals and the locked cockpit doors would at least stop them from carrying out the full attack.
The only sane thing is profiling and lots of it. Skip most of the stupid security theater and keep perhaps the old regular metal scanners. This will catch the random psychos that try to bring a gun or similar on a plane. Ground each and every one even remotely related to extremist organizations and the problem is solved - provided of course that the intelligence services do their job. Both the shoe bomber, the bottle bombers and the underwear bomber were indeed on these lists so they would have been stopped. As were the 9/11 terrorists.
We need to get back to the old state of things. Where the airport security staff only came out when someone actually were causing a problem. Today they are all over the place and thrive on inflicting maximum hassle on the passengers while being as rude and obnoxious as possible. And the worst part is that most travellers accept this as 'necessary' - which it most definitely isn't.
It is actually legal to break or circumvent DRM in order to be able to 'listen' to the music or 'view' a movie... whatever that means...
Is is legal to break or circumvent DRM in order to use a specific device to view/listen to a CD/DVD?
Or do you have to use an off-the-rack CD or DVD player? - how about a software player on Linux or maybe BeOS or something else?
The common interpretation is that you have the right to use your 'common devices' (ipod, car stereo etc.) and to break the DRM if that is necessary but we do need a ruling as to the exact interpretation.
Anyone with the tiniest amount of knowledge about SETI@Home and networks would know that the software does not pose any kind of security risk. It doesn't 'open a port allowing access to the systems' (an open inbound port) but rather an outbound connection once in a while to deliver processed work and receive a new workload.
Now, if the software indeed caused problems with the intended use of the computers, it must be removed. No discussion.But otherwise I cannot see a problem running that instead of another stupid screensaver that does nothing useful. This SETI-project is at least useful, maybe even commendable.
I have both a cell phone and a watch. Each one has its own place. Maybe you've heard of the concept - "right tool for the job."
Exactly. I think this particular item is just plain wrong. Wristwatches won't be made obsolete, period. They may evolve into some form of extension to a mobile phone, combining the convenience of the wristwatch with some functionality of a phone or its other features, but they're just too damned handy to go away.
Oh, and I bought my first mobile phone (which didn't tell the time by the way) back in 1993, and I think the first one with built-in clock came in 1995 and I also got that one. Now 17 years and 20+ mobile phones later I still wear a wrist watch. During these 17 years I've actually acquired something like 5 or 6 new wristwatches, of which I wear one of three daily to this day (the others have dead batteries and have essentially been replaced by newer better models).
Locking down a product can be done very aesthetically pleasing. Also, they could have been fitted with hidden GPS trackers so the robbers could be found easily. Remember, these are demo models that isn't going to be sold (who wants a machine that's been used a thousand hours by thousands of people right off the streets?) so they can easily be 'special' in various ways.
Now, the most important thing is to catch those guys and get them behind bars for a few decades. Pulling something like this is likely to give them confidence so they'll definitely be doing more crime, and next time they will be even more ambitious and daring, probably taking even more. They need to be stopped and put away, as are those stupid people buying their stolen goods, keeping thieves and robbers like these in business.
Actually there's only a few thousand 'serious' domains registered... the rest are just junk domains registered by spammers and malware peddlers... ;)