Firstly, for every single employee they have working on protecting music, there are thousands, if not millions of computer geniuses out in the world who want nothing more than to break it. They cannot win this battle..
As long as you can go out to the store, pick up a compilation of music and take it home.. it can and will be able to be pirated and distributed on the net.
I mean, what is to stop me from just simply going out, playing a "safe" cd on my walkman, piping the audio to my soundcard through the line in or mic in jack, making it a wav file and then converting it to mp3 that way? nothing! while they may add a little more steps to the process, once it's an mp3 file and on the net, it doesn't matter anymore does it?:) GIVE IT UP! you're wasting money and resources on a problem that can't be solved this way.
Blowing up a building and pirating software however are two different animals.
Show me how to build a bomb, and show me how to pirate WinblowsXP, guess which one I'd be more likely to do;).. although, I could just build the bomb and blow up my copy of WinblowsXP
I am (not)with AOL's legal department, I would like to request that you cease in using the term "SHIT" in your posts as it is confusingly similar to the quality of AOL's products. I am sure you can respect the need to prevent confusion.
Here here, imagine my suprise, surfing through slashdot articles and I see someone mentioning my icqbot.net site:)
I think AOL is going way too far with their tactics, I recieved the letter from the lawyers along with a transfer form, all I had to do was sign it and send it back to prevent further action.. But I decided against it.. I can't stand seeing them loom over the little guys like they are.
Rob sent me an e-mail this morning letting me know of
their troubles with AOL, seems like I'm not the only one getting hounded by
them!
I've recieved a letter by AOL's lawyers concerning my domain icqbot.net, they
said that the name was "confusingly" similar to
www.icq.com and they wanted me to turn it over immediately, inclosed in the
letter was a transfer form..
Rather than transfer www.icqbot.net into
their control, (I had it appraised and it's worth almost $6,000).. I decided to
keep it.. I sent back a couple of letters to their lawyers.. it would seem,
atleast for the moment, that they've dropped the attack against me!
I submitted this story to slashdot back when it first happened, I was a little
disheartened that it never made it in. But either way, I encourage you to keep
up the fight, I sent Rob some advice based on my legal research when they
attacked me.
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Firstly, for every single employee they have working on protecting music, there are thousands, if not millions of computer geniuses out in the world who want nothing more than to break it. They cannot win this battle..
:) GIVE IT UP! you're wasting money and resources on a problem that can't be solved this way.
As long as you can go out to the store, pick up a compilation of music and take it home.. it can and will be able to be pirated and distributed on the net.
I mean, what is to stop me from just simply going out, playing a "safe" cd on my walkman, piping the audio to my soundcard through the line in or mic in jack, making it a wav file and then converting it to mp3 that way? nothing! while they may add a little more steps to the process, once it's an mp3 file and on the net, it doesn't matter anymore does it?
Blowing up a building and pirating software however are two different animals.
;).. although, I could just build the bomb and blow up my copy of WinblowsXP
Show me how to build a bomb, and show me how to pirate WinblowsXP, guess which one I'd be more likely to do
I am (not)with AOL's legal department, I would like to request that you cease in using the term "SHIT" in your posts as it is confusingly similar to the quality of AOL's products. I am sure you can respect the need to prevent confusion.
Lonnie A. Waugh
Here here, imagine my suprise, surfing through slashdot articles and I see someone mentioning my icqbot.net site :)
I think AOL is going way too far with their tactics, I recieved the letter from the lawyers along with a transfer form, all I had to do was sign it and send it back to prevent further action.. But I decided against it.. I can't stand seeing them loom over the little guys like they are.
Lonnie A. Waugh
or so it seems ..
.. I decided to
keep it .. I sent back a couple of letters to their lawyers.. it would seem,
atleast for the moment, that they've dropped the attack against me!
Rob sent me an e-mail this morning letting me know of their troubles with AOL, seems like I'm not the only one getting hounded by them!
I've recieved a letter by AOL's lawyers concerning my domain icqbot.net, they said that the name was "confusingly" similar to www.icq.com and they wanted me to turn it over immediately, inclosed in the letter was a transfer form..
Rather than transfer www.icqbot.net into their control, (I had it appraised and it's worth almost $6,000)
I submitted this story to slashdot back when it first happened, I was a little disheartened that it never made it in. But either way, I encourage you to keep up the fight, I sent Rob some advice based on my legal research when they attacked me.
best of luck!
Ps. My software is an AI program for ICQ.
Lonnie A. Waugh www.icqbot.net