The European Socialist thing to do would be to begin creating reports against all the customers you thought were in violation due to their bandwidth usage.
What this ISP is doing is pro-privacy so it is anti-socialist.
...a couple of hundred years of precedence that's based entirely on the concept that copying is difficult and controllable.
Wrong - Copyright is based on the premise that authors should have a period of time where they have the right to control copying. The intent being that they make some money off their work so they can continue to contribute to society and not also have to hold down a job.
They could write and lock up their work and no one would see it. No progress would be made. No batman for you until the producer is dead.
It's no longer difficult and it's no longer controllable...
So? Just because it's easy does not make it right.
I agree that the term of copy right has been increased until it is too long.. but it is still the law. An No I don't care that it's a somewhat new law (~100 years)
And so what? Even if it was a recent invention it is still right and proper that those who need to be compensated so they have time to create get what is now their right.
Cars are a recent invention, so I suppose you ride a horse?
I suspect that if "Sanity in Anarchy" could actually create a commercial grade product without the help of a studio and engineers and actual went through the work to do it, he would not be so "Take it, so what, I would rather be famous and broke".
...the recording industry and the "middlemen" profit through little effort or talent in most cases...
Yeah, those fat cat sound engineers, board operators, graphic artists, CD press operators, warehouse people, truck drivers, CD store employees.. How dare they expect to be paid when obviously ALL the work was done by the artist.
...Still, the fundamental principle I'm trying to champion here is that people deserve to be rewarded for their work. It's their right to set the price that they sell their work for... Instead they rely on someone, somewhere having bought it and then giving it away fro free
You talk out of both sides of your mouth. do they deserve to be rewarded or ripped off?
we are on slashdot aren't we? i'm pretty sure we all know what OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE is about right? i could have sworn a lot of the contributions to the servers that the site you're posting on were made free of charge
Contributing to open source was the author's choice. Not yours.
If I write a game, it is my choice how I want it copied, and what fee, if any, I want to be paid for my labor. It is not YOUR choice to say that I should give up my work for FREE.
I will grant you that perhaps an artist may continue to "make art" without being paid. But what about the engineer that mixed the recording? The press operator that makes the CDs? The truck driver that brings the CD to the local shop? The salse person that would have sold it to you? Will they all (and the army of others unmentioned) continue to do what they do without compensation?
Without them, your artist plays in a local Starbucks hoping someone will drop some change into their cup.
1 Encrypt the file (or record for databases) 1.5 (for a database) Encrypt the key fields each separately 2 Encrypt the file name separately 3 store on server
To search for a file: 1 Encrypt the search criteria (file name or key value) 2 search for encrypted thing on server 3 Retrieve matches.
Several Linux distributions work just fine just as installed. They don't need anything beyond what you might have to do if you were installing windows fresh.
We Linux users like to 'customize' but its not required.
My time is worth $25 to $30 an hour, but I can adjust, download, customize and registry edit just as much on Windows as I can on Linux.
Did you mean lying on the part of the sender = subject "pictures of our recent outing..."
Inside the email - Offers for various stuff - even if the offers are after a paragraph or two describing the outing?
or
You are a friend or I do business with you, and I value your email but I tell the email package that it is spam anyway so I can get the measly stamp.
??? If it's spam, it's spam - I am the one who can uniquely say if it is or not. (I say spam is emails, usually offers, that I am not interested in) but If I say that letter from my friend is spam I might loose a freind..)
And the email addresses of everyone who does opt-out are placed in a larger more expensive list that is available to all spammers, this list is called "Live Addresses"
This can be completely handled in the email client -no need to change anything about the current email system. Just add some new headers to the email or perhaps a new mime type.
If I have a "paid" email client it costs me a small amount to send a message. Your non-paid client just treats it as any other message.
If you have a paid client and so do I, your client returns my postage to me after they open my mail. They can declare my mail spam and keep the postage. (You get paid by the spammer to throw a way his mail)
Now if I, with my paid client, get an email from an unpaid client - it goes into a 'special' place not my inbox. If the unpaid client is on my whitelist it goes in my inbox. otherwise I look for it when I am able.
As more and more people use "paid" clients more and more of us can ignore the 'special' inbox.
Perhaps the e-stamps could be self validating - the sent date and time and sender address encrypted with a private key, at my end I can decrypt with your public key so I know it's you.
You only really need to buy postage to send an email to someone you don't know. Your friends will have you on their whitelist. Even then the person who you don't know could return the postage to you by not marking your mail as spam.
I have AT&T DSL for $15.00 a month, not real fast but it gets the job done. The only other choice I have is Comcast - $50.00 a month. Comcast is not a choice because I can't afford it.
I am in Sacramento, CA.
Any other DSL available would still get to me via AT&T's wires..
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The European Socialist thing to do would be to begin creating reports against all the customers you thought were in violation due to their bandwidth usage.
What this ISP is doing is pro-privacy so it is anti-socialist.
This is the ISP that has the fancy underground data center.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/
...a couple of hundred years of precedence that's based entirely on the concept that copying is difficult and controllable.
Wrong - Copyright is based on the premise that authors should have a period of time where they have the right to control copying. The intent being that they make some money off their work so they can continue to contribute to society and not also have to hold down a job.
They could write and lock up their work and no one would see it. No progress would be made.
No batman for you until the producer is dead.
It's no longer difficult and it's no longer controllable ...
So? Just because it's easy does not make it right.
I agree that the term of copy right has been increased until it is too long.. but it is still the law. An No I don't care that it's a somewhat new law (~100 years)
What you are stealing is not the crop, but the farmer's decision on who to sell it to and for how much.
Lets say you copy the crop and give it to anyone who approaches the farmer's front gate.
The farmer still has his crop, he is not out anything right? (except all those who came to buy some crop but you said "Here! have some free crop")
To whomever Commodore64 love is quoting:
And so what? Even if it was a recent invention it is still right and proper that those who need to be compensated so they have time to create get what is now their right.
Cars are a recent invention, so I suppose you ride a horse?
@ScentCone
I suspect that if "Sanity in Anarchy" could actually create a commercial grade product without the help of a studio and engineers and actual went through the work to do it, he would not be so "Take it, so what, I would rather be famous and broke".
...the recording industry and the "middlemen" profit through little effort or talent in most cases...
Yeah, those fat cat sound engineers, board operators, graphic artists, CD press operators, warehouse people, truck drivers, CD store employees.. How dare they expect to be paid when obviously ALL the work was done by the artist.
...Still, the fundamental principle I'm trying to champion here is that people deserve to be rewarded for their work. It's their right to set the price that they sell their work for... Instead they rely on someone, somewhere having bought it and then giving it away fro free
You talk out of both sides of your mouth. do they deserve to be rewarded or ripped off?
because it's so easy to do that today.
Just because it's easy does not make it right.
we are on slashdot aren't we? i'm pretty sure we all know what OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE is about right? i could have sworn a lot of the contributions to the servers that the site you're posting on were made free of charge
Contributing to open source was the author's choice. Not yours.
If I write a game, it is my choice how I want it copied, and what fee, if any, I want to be paid for my labor. It is not YOUR choice to say that I should give up my work for FREE.
A poor analogy, since the act of murder clearly adversely affects someone else.
And your act of copy right violation does not adversely affect not only the artist, but the whole army of people who bring the CD to the shelf?
I will grant you that perhaps an artist may continue to "make art" without being paid. But what about the engineer that mixed the recording? The press operator that makes the CDs? The truck driver that brings the CD to the local shop? The salse person that would have sold it to you? Will they all (and the army of others unmentioned) continue to do what they do without compensation?
Without them, your artist plays in a local Starbucks hoping someone will drop some change into their cup.
Sarin Gas is indiscriminate. The FBI tool is specific.
1 Encrypt the file (or record for databases)
1.5 (for a database) Encrypt the key fields each separately
2 Encrypt the file name separately
3 store on server
To search for a file:
1 Encrypt the search criteria (file name or key value)
2 search for encrypted thing on server
3 Retrieve matches.
Several Linux distributions work just fine just as installed. They don't need anything beyond what you might have to do if you were installing windows fresh.
We Linux users like to 'customize' but its not required.
My time is worth $25 to $30 an hour, but I can adjust, download, customize and registry edit just as much on Windows as I can on Linux.
I suppose your posting this anonymously is part of the joke?
You make money the old fashioned way, you earn it.
You make and sell stuff. You can make and sell actual stuff or you can 'make' work for a Boss who buys your work for a paycheck.
1)Grow a tree.
2)harvest the fruit.
3)sell it.
4)note: no ??? step.
More income also means the price of goods and services goes up. Higher demand (because we have more money) = higher prices.
Did you mean lying on the part of the sender = subject "pictures of our recent outing..."
Inside the email - Offers for various stuff - even if the offers are after a paragraph or two describing the outing?
or
You are a friend or I do business with you, and I value your email but I tell the email package that it is spam anyway so I can get the measly stamp.
???
If it's spam, it's spam - I am the one who can uniquely say if it is or not. (I say spam is emails, usually offers, that I am not interested in) but If I say that letter from my friend is spam I might loose a freind..)
But friends will usually be on my white list.
And the email addresses of everyone who does opt-out are placed in a larger more expensive list that is available to all spammers, this list is called "Live Addresses"
This can be completely handled in the email client -no need to change anything about the current email system. Just add some new headers to the email or perhaps a new mime type.
If I have a "paid" email client it costs me a small amount to send a message. Your non-paid client just treats it as any other message.
If you have a paid client and so do I, your client returns my postage to me after they open my mail. They can declare my mail spam and keep the postage. (You get paid by the spammer to throw a way his mail)
Now if I, with my paid client, get an email from an unpaid client - it goes into a 'special' place not my inbox. If the unpaid client is on my whitelist it goes in my inbox. otherwise I look for it when I am able.
As more and more people use "paid" clients more and more of us can ignore the 'special' inbox.
Perhaps the e-stamps could be self validating - the sent date and time and sender address encrypted with a private key, at my end I can decrypt with your public key so I know it's you.
You only really need to buy postage to send an email to someone you don't know. Your friends will have you on their whitelist. Even then the person who you don't know could return the postage to you by not marking your mail as spam.
How long did you wait to plug it back in after it fell in the puddle?
Even with bittorrent...
1) Booting when no network available?
2) Spread viruses even faster if one or more of the seed machines is infected?
3) Microsoft's new revenue model..
1- Get people to download a new os each boot
2- Be the only place to get it from
3- Begin charging for each boot
4- Profit
Would it really be that hard to have a picture of a rabbit and set it to accept bunny or rabit or even hare?
Their can't be that many possible alternatives to call a single object that a user couldn't get one in three different tries.
Not to mention the fools that would type "hair" and expect to get in.
I have AT&T DSL for $15.00 a month, not real fast but it gets the job done.
The only other choice I have is Comcast - $50.00 a month. Comcast is not a choice because I can't afford it.
I am in Sacramento, CA.
Any other DSL available would still get to me via AT&T's wires..
The remaining channel for music...
Home copied CDs originating from independent artists, shared hand-to-hand.
If you have one available.