>> The article says that some of the abusers who >> are getting these warnings/disconnections are >> moving upwards of 1 terrabyte of data/month.
And many of them in Rogers and Comcasts case are using less then 100gb / month, some of them less then 50gb / month. No one has a problem with the caps, we just want to know what they are. I download software builds from work, msdn subscription, obligatory pr0n, but need to know to slow down if I'm gonna hit a cap so it's there when I need it. No one is demanding they take a financial hit for us, we're demanding to know what the limits are.
This isn't about what they're downloading, or even if they are abusing it in your eyes. The problem is that several of the large isps have a cap established but are unwilling to tell paying customers what those limits are.
I'm not against limits, I'm against misleading customers and refusing to provide information that they have access to.
Rogers Cable is doing the same thing as well, tech support gives us different soft cap numbers but no meaningful information other then we'll find out if we've passed it, no they can't tell us how much we've used, no they can't give us a guideline.
>> As a rule Apple shuns DRM (digital rights >> management).
They might shun Microsofts DRM implementation, but they have their very own. Remember those AAC files that people get for 99cents on the itunes music store? Thats Apples very own DRM.
>>"In other words, make it as simple as possible >>for you to infringe on someone else's >>copyright."
I'm in Canada and the current understanding of the law here is that while sharing is forbidden, we do have the right to download. Until this goes to court, it has been widely by radio, print, and tv media organizations that this is acceptable, and even more importantly deemed legal by Canadian copyright regulators.
It may have something to do with the fee we pay on blank CD-Rs and some other media, it may not. Thats not my concern, my concern is that what I'm doing is legal, and under our law it is legal.
It will still probably go to court, and no matter if its a win or loss, when person X goes to court and says 'I thought it was legal to download, please don't punish me as much', he can point to news and copyright regulator decisions that prove he made an informed choice when he choose to download songs.
The best advice I can offer is to download and install PeerGuardian. It isn't a promise that it'll save you, but it's a level of protection you wouldn't otherwise have.
They maintain a blocklist which contains corporate IP address blocks, and acts on users submissions of IPs that connected to them at the time of accussed infringment.
I've already cancelled what I could with Royal Bank and followed with a letter (snail mail) detailing why. I tried just following up at the branch but no one there had any clue.
If there is a ruling in the US against SCO which says there is no SCO IP in Linux, can they still try to force licenses upon those in other countries until a case is that country goes to trial?
That wow, that sucks eh? Having to pay more to ship your product? Poor little labels.... spending money to infringe on customers fair use rights didn't work out for you? *light punch in arm* Aw com'on slugger, it'll be okay.
>> Caridi and make others think twice before >> leaking films to the net?"
Can you imagine how many hands this went through before it got to Caridi? Manufacturing? Shipping? Someone had to imprint those special markings? Were the markings modified by the release group from one set to another that now matches the markings that were assigned to Caridi? Innocent until proven guilty here folks.
Carmine Caridi is about 70 years old which doesn't strike me as the typical source for screener releases.
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>> ...maybe because 60% of the players are
...maybe because 60% of players claim to be women
>> women!!
Correction:
They had testing but someone decided to install porn on the lander. :(
check out the RBUA forums for lots more rogers stories from hell..
>> The article says that some of the abusers who
>> are getting these warnings/disconnections are
>> moving upwards of 1 terrabyte of data/month.
And many of them in Rogers and Comcasts case are using less then 100gb / month, some of them less then 50gb / month. No one has a problem with the caps, we just want to know what they are. I download software builds from work, msdn subscription, obligatory pr0n, but need to know to slow down if I'm gonna hit a cap so it's there when I need it. No one is demanding they take a financial hit for us, we're demanding to know what the limits are.
>> What's with the quotes around abusers?
This isn't about what they're downloading, or even if they are abusing it in your eyes. The problem is that several of the large isps have a cap established but are unwilling to tell paying customers what those limits are.
I'm not against limits, I'm against misleading customers and refusing to provide information that they have access to.
Rogers Cable is doing the same thing as well, tech support gives us different soft cap numbers but no meaningful information other then we'll find out if we've passed it, no they can't tell us how much we've used, no they can't give us a guideline.
>> As a rule Apple shuns DRM (digital rights
>> management).
They might shun Microsofts DRM implementation, but they have their very own. Remember those AAC files that people get for 99cents on the itunes music store? Thats Apples very own DRM.
>> Mr Darl McBride Esq
Esq?? Damn I need to get one of those watches so I can have that at the end of my name
>> the RIAA created derivative work of kazaa
But I thought SCO owned derivative works? All of them.
>>"In other words, make it as simple as possible
>>for you to infringe on someone else's
>>copyright."
I'm in Canada and the current understanding of the law here is that while sharing is forbidden, we do have the right to download. Until this goes to court, it has been widely by radio, print, and tv media organizations that this is acceptable, and even more importantly deemed legal by Canadian copyright regulators.
It may have something to do with the fee we pay on blank CD-Rs and some other media, it may not. Thats not my concern, my concern is that what I'm doing is legal, and under our law it is legal.
It will still probably go to court, and no matter if its a win or loss, when person X goes to court and says 'I thought it was legal to download, please don't punish me as much', he can point to news and copyright regulator decisions that prove he made an informed choice when he choose to download songs.
>>In the near future, he says, he's going to have
>>a sit-down with his boss and enthusiastically
>>return to a riskier way of life. This could
Where is he working now, has he actually left AOL? I see a lot of comments that he is gone, but last I heard he was still there and his words were:
I don't know when it will be, but I'm not going to last much longer.
The best advice I can offer is to download and install PeerGuardian. It isn't a promise that it'll save you, but it's a level of protection you wouldn't otherwise have.
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They maintain a blocklist which contains corporate IP address blocks, and acts on users submissions of IPs that connected to them at the time of accussed infringment.
Check it out, freeware and no spy crap.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.leonard1/methlab
I've also noticed when I have torrents open it blocks a lot of hits from MediaDefender
*sniff sniff*
Who farted?
Oh shit you got those new glasses
RUNNNNNNNNNN!
>> Maybe if they didn't insist on big breasts and
:(
>> lather-down scenes people would take the show
>> seriously
What do you think got the remain viewers watching? Thats right, the sonic shower scene with T'Pol.....
And I stopped watching a few eps after that..
It is just for blanks, parent is +1 clueless
This would be great until everyone realized what was happening and just zip'd it up to change the hash.
.tar? .rar? .lzh? What else? :P
Then we'd move to
I've already cancelled what I could with Royal Bank and followed with a letter (snail mail) detailing why. I tried just following up at the branch but no one there had any clue.
If there is a ruling in the US against SCO which says there is no SCO IP in Linux, can they still try to force licenses upon those in other countries until a case is that country goes to trial?
that was the first funny take on the joke I've seen here EVER! :)
Parent is troll and just cutting and pasting this comment in to every article, see Oct 22/2003 comment
WMA Files (DRM Protected)
I don't recall any of the little labels using any sort of archaic and non-functional DRM type protection methods.
(or maybe second)
That wow, that sucks eh? Having to pay more to ship your product? Poor little labels.... spending money to infringe on customers fair use rights didn't work out for you? *light punch in arm* Aw com'on slugger, it'll be okay.
>> Caridi and make others think twice before
>> leaking films to the net?"
Can you imagine how many hands this went through before it got to Caridi? Manufacturing? Shipping? Someone had to imprint those special markings? Were the markings modified by the release group from one set to another that now matches the markings that were assigned to Caridi? Innocent until proven guilty here folks.
Carmine Caridi is about 70 years old which doesn't strike me as the typical source for screener releases.
>> $10 million legal defense fund
Translation: $10 million Google defense fund