The internet and the computers connected to it are physical things that can be controlled by law or force. The internet is also an idea, and people have gotten used to the idea of being able to send _any_ data to anyone anywhere. Theres no spin-docter in the world who can persuade them to give that up, and any one who tries to pass laws will just have those laws ignored.
Even Disney and Hollings will have to work hard to convince the public that giving the government control of their computers and practically outlawing all computer-science, engineering and electronics degrees is a good thing.
Ok, lets get one thing straight: there is _no_ way of stopping piracy short of shooting gnutella users on sight. There is no 'magic' hardware or software solution, no DRM, no draconian laws that will stop piracy. Everything that has been tried has failed. If you can see it you can copy it, why can't people understand. The internet or information super-highway or whatever is not just a network anymore, its an idea. The idea is simple: anyone can send data to anyone else on this network. Even if governments implimented net-cops the internet would just evolve around it, already people are setting up wireless networks that have nothing to do with the internet (eg consume.net) and this is just the first step. The world has seen the idea of the internet and now theres no way to put it back in the box. What ever law or system anyone comes up with, someone else will find a way around it. Once people realise this, then maybe they (the riaa etc..) can change the way they oparate. So, to answer the question, no, there is no law that we would support that would also be able to wipe out piracy.
I know you were probably joking, but just in case..
The DMCA came to America first, and hasn't even got to europe (yet). Secondly, you have your own problems, ie the SSSCA. Lastly, you are much to low on the UN Human Freedom Index to be giving europe crap about free-speech.
The May-day riots are about to start here in London, After reading this story I feel like joining - well, you get free McDonalds (happy meal toys are subject to availability - i.e. who evers first behind the counter when the glass breaks:). Everyone says that you should just watch it on TV 'cos they get the best shots and do re-plays and commentary and stuff, but I think you just can't beat being there, with the atmosphere, smell of blood and cheap spray paint.
The best part about this new law is, that people who wouldn't normally waste their time cracking some protection system, will now devote _all_ their time just to make a point. Wow, i feel like smashing stuff "Down with the corporate pigs!!!!!!"
This should suit Microsoft fine, for most companys, 'digital' means "we can get away with bad compression quality, buggy software, controlling what the user can do, and over-pricing, and if anyone says our service is crap we just hype it up because its digital."
But, if Bill Gates appears in an advert were Monkey takes the piss out of him, then i might get Microsoft digital (but a hacked version, im not paying for that shit)
What ever the legal aspects are, there is a much simpler way to get rid of spyware - don't download the programs. boycott KaZaA and everything else that includes spyware until they stop. People these days are just not taking their right to boycott, its the same with DVDs, CDs, and MS Windows, all these things are trying to do stuff we don't want, but if everyone stops buying them, they will have no choice but to give the customers what they want.
Oh and screw the EULAs, if I want to remove spyware from something on _my_ hard-drive then what are they going to do about it?
"Nevada being Nevada, this is a unique subject," said Rick Bibbero, 55, a real estate agent who won $500 with his design for the license tag.
What kind of person is original, and creative enough to think up i design for Nevada incorporating a mushroom cloud and an atom? He is, in my opinion, a genius of einstinien proportions. No, if it was me, i would of designed something crap like i dunno - a picture of someone with their skin burnt off. or maybe a small child dieing of radiation sickness and choking on their own vomit.
What? i thought that the Patriots where running America and the campaigns were just a show. So they're planning on distributing computer programs now? like that y2k bug 'fix'? Will these computer games involve realistic VR combat situations? driving large mechanical monsters?
Seriously though, i wouldn't trust any software a political party had written on my computer. Obviously the games will be Windows only. Computer games can be very addictive and i would categorise this strategy as borderline aggressive psychological manipulation.
The RIAA has today announced that it is to stop selling music CDs. Instead, they will concentrate on selling blank CDs. Already a number of artists including Madonna, NSync and Britney have said that they will be producing 'own brand blanks' - blank CDs with pictures from their albums printed on the front. An industry expert said that blank CDs will be the RIAA's saviour. The MPAA said they are considering selling blank DVDs instead of films.
The jokes probably been done, but i couldn't be bothered to search
Well, i for one won't be copying any cd's for a while - my burner has packed up and i'm getting a new one. But, when i get my new drive, i'm going to copy as much as i like. Go screw yourself rosen & co. i've never bought a music cd in my life and i'm not about to start now.:)
The thing she missed out, was that the owner (or the label on their behalf) already sells their 'A' Paper to people everywhere. Also, i'm confused as to how the example of an essay from which you are given a grade and someone copying it to get the same grade bares any likeness to copying some music to listen too. Its not as if they are copying the music and then saying "_I_ actually wrote and performed this" (Unlike some bands)
There is one way, count it ONE way that you can distribute music without it being copied. You must supply an armed guard with every unit, and ensure that they shoot on sight anyone who attempts to copy anything. No other way will work so stop bull shitting, stop trying to flogg inferior products and stop being pigs. IF I CAN HEAR IT I CAN COPY IT. IF I CAN HEAR IT I CAN COPY IT, now say it pig, say it: I-F I C-A-N H-E-A-R I-T I C-A-N C-O-P-Y I-T. You stupid executives, what do you do all day? sit around your table letting shit come out of your ass? how do you get paid for this?
This is great though - now you won't feel like you getting something inferior when you download an mp3, because, the disk you buy in the shops will contain exactly the same reduced quality file!!!!
I think this, like DVD, is another good idea. My reasoning is thus: I have never bought a CD in my life, I own one DVD (it was on sale for £10). I have no moral problems with downloading ripped music, videos or anything else. For this reason i have saved much money over the years and when i see other peoples massive CD collections i always feel better knowing that they wasted thousands of pounds on it. I can spend my money on other things and therefore _appear_ to have more money. Not only this, but i'm not restricted as to what i can fast-forward through, what devices i can play stuff on, or what country i can play stuff in.
If stupid people want to buy this stuff, let them. I tell people how much it costs to press a CD, how DVDs restrict what the owner can do, and how buying all these things is supporting those corporate pigs and they just stare at me. F*ck'em, f*ck'em all, they can go and waste their money on inferior products and find that its incompatible with everything else and obsolete by next year. They can go and pay for Windows XP and be forced to sign-up for MSN, they can have their computers turned into remote controlled corporate cash machines and they can live with it.
Ok, granted they are helping to fuel the evil corporations who then go on to bribe governments into doing their bidding, but in the end, when people are being arrested for fast-forwarding though adverts, or putting music on their portable, i can sit back, laugh, and say "I told you so, you dumb fuck"
Lossy compression is evil, it is the polution of our time. But, like the polution of the real world, without it we would be held back, just as without cars and planes and factories we would be held back too.
Bad compression artifacts and degredation after generations of compression and editing piss me off more than anything in the world.
... American government (world police) nuke Japanese computing facility because "They were going to use it to build nukes"
What i don't understand about the whole supercomputer thing is that nuclear weapons were developed in WW2 with no more computing power than a wrist-watch and theres already a whole bunch of test data that anyone can look at.
he is still a pig f*cker. This bill does not hurt his dealings with hollywood and serves as a suck-up. He is a politician, the worst kind of cheating, manipulating scum.
Since the entire Carnivore system - new or old can be thwarted just by encrypting your emails or using secure tunnelling it seems pointless to even waste money developing it. Ok, so most people don't bother and don't even need to, but one day a popular OS or internet package will come with features to do this automatically with out the user having to worry about it (maybe its here already but i haven't seen it.. Peek-a-booty? maybe?). Then, all emails/etc. will be encrypted and the governments won't be able to do anything about it. Then most people will start installing similar things on their phones, and buying hard-drives that are rigged to self destruct etc.. and no warrant or wire-tap will be able to get anything.
All this technology is available now, but no-one can be bothered to use it (except the criminals). All it would take is one popular browser/email/OS developer to implement encryption like they implement spy-ware and half the internet would become unavailable to the governments over-night.
'Fraid not, cos a game costs even less to produce (its just a bit of plastic stamped with data), £1 at most. Just like with everything else, the developement costs are easily paid for in the price (i dunno - £5) leaving a great deal of it as profit for those gready crack-sniffing pigs. Even the controller sells for less than one game. Just like with playstation and everything else. Microsoft just wants to own your living room. I suppose its their product and their right, but i just get pissed when people say its a good deal
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The internet and the computers connected to it are physical things that can be controlled by law or force. The internet is also an idea, and people have gotten used to the idea of being able to send _any_ data to anyone anywhere. Theres no spin-docter in the world who can persuade them to give that up, and any one who tries to pass laws will just have those laws ignored.
Even Disney and Hollings will have to work hard to convince the public that giving the government control of their computers and practically outlawing all computer-science, engineering and electronics degrees is a good thing.
Yes and then the big newspaper paid the government to make it so that the small newspapers _had_ to use the old presses.
Ok, lets get one thing straight: there is _no_ way of stopping piracy short of shooting gnutella users on sight. There is no 'magic' hardware or software solution, no DRM, no draconian laws that will stop piracy. Everything that has been tried has failed. If you can see it you can copy it, why can't people understand. The internet or information super-highway or whatever is not just a network anymore, its an idea. The idea is simple: anyone can send data to anyone else on this network. Even if governments implimented net-cops the internet would just evolve around it, already people are setting up wireless networks that have nothing to do with the internet (eg consume.net) and this is just the first step. The world has seen the idea of the internet and now theres no way to put it back in the box. What ever law or system anyone comes up with, someone else will find a way around it. Once people realise this, then maybe they (the riaa etc..) can change the way they oparate. So, to answer the question, no, there is no law that we would support that would also be able to wipe out piracy.
Don't they understand? all we want is specs. give us the juicey specs! - you can even make them up if you want, i just want some numbers.
i think the PC version is out soon, and GTA4 is in the works
I would have thought that they'd hire a geek or someone to make sure they didn't use windows-only hardware
I know you were probably joking, but just in case..
The DMCA came to America first, and hasn't even got to europe (yet). Secondly, you have your own problems, ie the SSSCA. Lastly, you are much to low on the UN Human Freedom Index to be giving europe crap about free-speech.
The May-day riots are about to start here in London, After reading this story I feel like joining - well, you get free McDonalds (happy meal toys are subject to availability - i.e. who evers first behind the counter when the glass breaks:). Everyone says that you should just watch it on TV 'cos they get the best shots and do re-plays and commentary and stuff, but I think you just can't beat being there, with the atmosphere, smell of blood and cheap spray paint.
The best part about this new law is, that people who wouldn't normally waste their time cracking some protection system, will now devote _all_ their time just to make a point. Wow, i feel like smashing stuff "Down with the corporate pigs!!!!!!"
This should suit Microsoft fine, for most companys, 'digital' means "we can get away with bad compression quality, buggy software, controlling what the user can do, and over-pricing, and if anyone says our service is crap we just hype it up because its digital."
But, if Bill Gates appears in an advert were Monkey takes the piss out of him, then i might get Microsoft digital (but a hacked version, im not paying for that shit)
What ever the legal aspects are, there is a much simpler way to get rid of spyware - don't download the programs. boycott KaZaA and everything else that includes spyware until they stop. People these days are just not taking their right to boycott, its the same with DVDs, CDs, and MS Windows, all these things are trying to do stuff we don't want, but if everyone stops buying them, they will have no choice but to give the customers what they want.
Oh and screw the EULAs, if I want to remove spyware from something on _my_ hard-drive then what are they going to do about it?
"Nevada being Nevada, this is a unique subject," said Rick Bibbero, 55, a real estate agent who won $500 with his design for the license tag.
What kind of person is original, and creative enough to think up i design for Nevada incorporating a mushroom cloud and an atom? He is, in my opinion, a genius of einstinien proportions. No, if it was me, i would of designed something crap like i dunno - a picture of someone with their skin burnt off. or maybe a small child dieing of radiation sickness and choking on their own vomit.
What? i thought that the Patriots where running America and the campaigns were just a show. So they're planning on distributing computer programs now? like that y2k bug 'fix'? Will these computer games involve realistic VR combat situations? driving large mechanical monsters?
Seriously though, i wouldn't trust any software a political party had written on my computer. Obviously the games will be Windows only. Computer games can be very addictive and i would categorise this strategy as borderline aggressive psychological manipulation.
Music Industry to Stop Selling Music!!
The RIAA has today announced that it is to stop selling music CDs. Instead, they will concentrate on selling blank CDs. Already a number of artists including Madonna, NSync and Britney have said that they will be producing 'own brand blanks' - blank CDs with pictures from their albums printed on the front. An industry expert said that blank CDs will be the RIAA's saviour. The MPAA said they are considering selling blank DVDs instead of films.
The jokes probably been done, but i couldn't be bothered to search
Well, i for one won't be copying any cd's for a while - my burner has packed up and i'm getting a new one. But, when i get my new drive, i'm going to copy as much as i like. Go screw yourself rosen & co. i've never bought a music cd in my life and i'm not about to start now. :)
The thing she missed out, was that the owner (or the label on their behalf) already sells their 'A' Paper to people everywhere. Also, i'm confused as to how the example of an essay from which you are given a grade and someone copying it to get the same grade bares any likeness to copying some music to listen too. Its not as if they are copying the music and then saying "_I_ actually wrote and performed this" (Unlike some bands)
Big deal, you could already loose both spy-ware and advertising with a simple crack and registry edit...
There is one way, count it ONE way that you can distribute music without it being copied. You must supply an armed guard with every unit, and ensure that they shoot on sight anyone who attempts to copy anything. No other way will work so stop bull shitting, stop trying to flogg inferior products and stop being pigs. IF I CAN HEAR IT I CAN COPY IT. IF I CAN HEAR IT I CAN COPY IT, now say it pig, say it: I-F I C-A-N H-E-A-R I-T I C-A-N C-O-P-Y I-T. You stupid executives, what do you do all day? sit around your table letting shit come out of your ass? how do you get paid for this?
This is great though - now you won't feel like you getting something inferior when you download an mp3, because, the disk you buy in the shops will contain exactly the same reduced quality file!!!!
I wonder how long before it will be cracked
I think this, like DVD, is another good idea. My reasoning is thus: I have never bought a CD in my life, I own one DVD (it was on sale for £10). I have no moral problems with downloading ripped music, videos or anything else. For this reason i have saved much money over the years and when i see other peoples massive CD collections i always feel better knowing that they wasted thousands of pounds on it. I can spend my money on other things and therefore _appear_ to have more money. Not only this, but i'm not restricted as to what i can fast-forward through, what devices i can play stuff on, or what country i can play stuff in.
If stupid people want to buy this stuff, let them. I tell people how much it costs to press a CD, how DVDs restrict what the owner can do, and how buying all these things is supporting those corporate pigs and they just stare at me. F*ck'em, f*ck'em all, they can go and waste their money on inferior products and find that its incompatible with everything else and obsolete by next year. They can go and pay for Windows XP and be forced to sign-up for MSN, they can have their computers turned into remote controlled corporate cash machines and they can live with it.
Ok, granted they are helping to fuel the evil corporations who then go on to bribe governments into doing their bidding, but in the end, when people are being arrested for fast-forwarding though adverts, or putting music on their portable, i can sit back, laugh, and say "I told you so, you dumb fuck"
Lossy compression is evil, it is the polution of our time. But, like the polution of the real world, without it we would be held back, just as without cars and planes and factories we would be held back too.
Bad compression artifacts and degredation after generations of compression and editing piss me off more than anything in the world.
1.4% efficient still allowed the yanks to murder a 100,000 people
... American government (world police) nuke Japanese computing facility because "They were going to use it to build nukes"
What i don't understand about the whole supercomputer thing is that nuclear weapons were developed in WW2 with no more computing power than a wrist-watch and theres already a whole bunch of test data that anyone can look at.
he is still a pig f*cker. This bill does not hurt his dealings with hollywood and serves as a suck-up. He is a politician, the worst kind of cheating, manipulating scum.
Since the entire Carnivore system - new or old can be thwarted just by encrypting your emails or using secure tunnelling it seems pointless to even waste money developing it. Ok, so most people don't bother and don't even need to, but one day a popular OS or internet package will come with features to do this automatically with out the user having to worry about it (maybe its here already but i haven't seen it.. Peek-a-booty? maybe?). Then, all emails/etc. will be encrypted and the governments won't be able to do anything about it. Then most people will start installing similar things on their phones, and buying hard-drives that are rigged to self destruct etc.. and no warrant or wire-tap will be able to get anything.
All this technology is available now, but no-one can be bothered to use it (except the criminals). All it would take is one popular browser/email/OS developer to implement encryption like they implement spy-ware and half the internet would become unavailable to the governments over-night.
'Fraid not, cos a game costs even less to produce (its just a bit of plastic stamped with data), £1 at most. Just like with everything else, the developement costs are easily paid for in the price (i dunno - £5) leaving a great deal of it as profit for those gready crack-sniffing pigs. Even the controller sells for less than one game. Just like with playstation and everything else. Microsoft just wants to own your living room. I suppose its their product and their right, but i just get pissed when people say its a good deal