The RIAA blaming us "pirates" for artists not getting the money they should get is like the mafia blaming the vigilanties hunting the mafia for the mob extorting money from local business owners.
...only the RIAA uses lawyers instead of machine guns.
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I'm a sucker for replying to this...
I would just like to state, for the record, that acknowledge my exsistance means absolutely nothing to almost everything else. I have little fear of THE MAN as you put it pokeing his nose into everything in my life. What worries me, is that many people are assholes and they get off by using any power they have to make others lives miserable. Do you think people like trolls, spammers, and script kiddie wanna be crackers don't have lives and jobs? Do you really think that they are all gonna play by the rules in real life if they have the opportunity to make others lives miserable? Do you think the only jobs these people have is at McDonalds?
I do know the enemy is out their. I also know that just because someone offers me candy doesn't make them a friend. I don't want my "pampered ass" saved from the wolves by the sharks.
I don't have the link anymore. But, I would like to point out, assuming I remember correctly, that after 9/11 the FBI was actually bragging that carnivore keyword sniffs all traffic. This is despite all their pre-9/11 vehminent denials that the device did this. It was only supposed to pick up on email sent to and from people they where specifically watching.
I guess everyone is under investigation for possible crimes then, huh?:P
I buy consoles because I don't like having my games crash often. *cough*windows*cough* Which means I probably won't get an X-Box unless I can hack it into a cheap PC. Then I'd run nix on it just out of shear spite (and that'll probably be the only set of OS's to have drivers for it).;P
Hey. wait. I thought all you needed to patent an invention was the general idea. You know, like hyperlinking, a compression algorithm, turning a playing card to the side during a game or what not... Or, even just patenting the general concept, without having to have an actual invention to show for it.
Oh, wait, you have to be a corp with a huge bandwagon of lawyers, "financially support" a few polititions, and maybe "convince" a few "friends" in the patent office to do that, my bad.
*waits for someone to mod him up, then for the next person to mod him back down again 5 minutes later, again*
Your "delusional paranoid sci-fi geek" argument would work except for the booming market of people spying on one another. I would like to point out the following:
1. The explosion of software with built in spyware and "features" that automatically call home *cough*MS*cough* every so often to inform the parent company about your PC and your activities. 2. The market for personal spy programs that let you monitor others PC use. 3. The government blocking attempts to make encryption that doesn't have a nice little backdoor for the government, especially with cell phones. Oh, and Echelon.
Its true Joe Blow and Jane Blow have little to worry about some big powerfull entity monitoring their boring daily lives. But, god help those that catch the interest of the corporate/government eye.
To hammer it in a little better, if you and everyone else gives some anonymous theif the keys to your houses, its unlikely that you personally will get robbed. This is because there are simply much better pickings out their than your little pad to rob and he can only rob so much. But, that does not stop the fact that he's probably using the power he gained to rob people.
Feel free to send me all your personal info and back account numbers at your leisure.
...the only time I buy music now is when they're 80%+ off at a music store that has gone bankrupt and is liquidating its stock; and I am resonably sure the CDs I get are pre-copy-protection. $1-$5 a CD isn't bad at all.;P
MS would cry fowl. Users can not sell OEM copies of their software. There was an article on slashdot a while back about MS killing ebay auctions over it.
...there is someone willing to suck it. However, I associate spam with the serious start of the current corporate trend to screw over and piss off its customers as a means of increasing profits. How appropriate its a lawyer, don't you think?
...several isp's telling their customers that the uploading from p2p clients causes download speeds to drop like a rock, so they cap uploading speeds to help speed the downloads up (on full duplex OC3 and DS3 mind you...).
...and then the cap is so tight, that the sub modem uploading speeds make the simple dns, http server requests, and cookie uploads take so long its almost like I don't even have broadband when surfing.
Is that some double speak bullshit or what? My neighbors and I are thinking about pitching in for a $400-$600 a month full T1 line and splitting the cost....maybe help with the costs by hosting some small websites.
Usenet is very alive. The problem is finding a decent newsserver that doesn't have To get this I've had to subscribe to a commercial nntp server and paying for the membership. But, it is worth it.
If you are just interested in text posts, you can search google (click the groups tag) for posts up to way back when the internet was mainly populated by college students, researchers, and the gov.
Spam is a problem, but one learns to ID it from just a glance at the subject line. Some are more devious and annoying. But, thats spam for ya.
I don't like yenc personally, but my big worry about usenet is that the corps are starting to sue the crap out of nntpd hosts that have groups that the corps find their copyrighted material in. Oh, and watch your step, some of the porn is a little...um...extreme for some people.
(props to a.s.s, a.b.a, a.b.g.a, a.b.m.e, and a.b.p.e.a!);P
If I recall correctly (IANAL), you can not sue the government or an agency of the government without their permission to sue you. You can, however, sue individual people in the agency, but not the agency itself.
...heh..the US gov and corporate view on terrorism is the peons taking shots at the powerful. If its the other way around, they're just exercising their power.
Note to trolls: I do not support what those people did on 9/11 or to the embassies, etc.. So, blow off.
...the corporate attitude towards us "consumers" turned into a religon. Scientology is more than a cult; it is a corporation with ideals like those of the MPAA, RIAA, and the BSA. Screwing us "consumers" (read as peons, peasents, etc...)and making money from the shit they pump out.
We no longer have a class system soley of the poor, the middle, and the rich. It is now the consumers, the lawyers, and the corporations.
MS (and many other big corps for that matter) don't practice terrorism? I guess all those people too poor to defend themselves aren't terrorised when come big corp pulls out an army of lawyers and threatens to send you to financial hell (and prison) unless you brown nose them and like it.
"We'll make you wish you where dead if you don't do what we want," does not sound too much differnt than "Do what we want or we will kill you."
For the record, I think MS is just the tip of the iceberg.
This is a small (and off the main topic) consolation; but if the picture was legal in japan, then the genitals and anus would be censored. It applies to all legal porn and art there. It has been that way since the USA occupied Japan and made this law after WWII.
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Slightly off topic, but...
The RIAA blaming us "pirates" for artists not getting the money they should get is like the mafia blaming the vigilanties hunting the mafia for the mob extorting money from local business owners.
...only the RIAA uses lawyers instead of machine guns.
I do know the enemy is out their. I also know that just because someone offers me candy doesn't make them a friend. I don't want my "pampered ass" saved from the wolves by the sharks.
VNC, huh? Anyone wanna brute force the password and have a little remote control fun with that box? ;D
I guess everyone is under investigation for possible crimes then, huh? :P
*mods todays stories -1 Flamebait, -1 Troll.*
I buy consoles because I don't like having my games crash often. *cough*windows*cough* Which means I probably won't get an X-Box unless I can hack it into a cheap PC. Then I'd run nix on it just out of shear spite (and that'll probably be the only set of OS's to have drivers for it). ;P
No, I mean charge the comercials owners for providing coverage for their ads.
Oh, wait, you have to be a corp with a huge bandwagon of lawyers, "financially support" a few polititions, and maybe "convince" a few "friends" in the patent office to do that, my bad.
*waits for someone to mod him up, then for the next person to mod him back down again 5 minutes later, again*
Gee... Here's a freaking idea, how about making money off all those ads people download? That is the point of the entire damn website.
Your "delusional paranoid sci-fi geek" argument would work except for the booming market of people spying on one another. I would like to point out the following:
1. The explosion of software with built in spyware and "features" that automatically call home *cough*MS*cough* every so often to inform the parent company about your PC and your activities.
2. The market for personal spy programs that let you monitor others PC use.
3. The government blocking attempts to make encryption that doesn't have a nice little backdoor for the government, especially with cell phones. Oh, and Echelon.
Its true Joe Blow and Jane Blow have little to worry about some big powerfull entity monitoring their boring daily lives. But, god help those that catch the interest of the corporate/government eye.
To hammer it in a little better, if you and everyone else gives some anonymous theif the keys to your houses, its unlikely that you personally will get robbed. This is because there are simply much better pickings out their than your little pad to rob and he can only rob so much. But, that does not stop the fact that he's probably using the power he gained to rob people.
Feel free to send me all your personal info and back account numbers at your leisure.
He's already ordered ones with built in spycams for you and your co-workers. ...plans to use security as an excuse.
...the only time I buy music now is when they're 80%+ off at a music store that has gone bankrupt and is liquidating its stock; and I am resonably sure the CDs I get are pre-copy-protection. $1-$5 a CD isn't bad at all. ;P
Figured I'd just toss my 2 cents in.
MS would cry fowl. Users can not sell OEM copies of their software. There was an article on slashdot a while back about MS killing ebay auctions over it.
Question: Who's Wheaties did I piss in this morning?
Haven't I seen this before on slashdot?
...there is someone willing to suck it. However, I associate spam with the serious start of the current corporate trend to screw over and piss off its customers as a means of increasing profits. How appropriate its a lawyer, don't you think?
...and then the cap is so tight, that the sub modem uploading speeds make the simple dns, http server requests, and cookie uploads take so long its almost like I don't even have broadband when surfing.
Is that some double speak bullshit or what? My neighbors and I are thinking about pitching in for a $400-$600 a month full T1 line and splitting the cost. ...maybe help with the costs by hosting some small websites.
If you are just interested in text posts, you can search google (click the groups tag) for posts up to way back when the internet was mainly populated by college students, researchers, and the gov.
Spam is a problem, but one learns to ID it from just a glance at the subject line. Some are more devious and annoying. But, thats spam for ya.
I don't like yenc personally, but my big worry about usenet is that the corps are starting to sue the crap out of nntpd hosts that have groups that the corps find their copyrighted material in. Oh, and watch your step, some of the porn is a little...um...extreme for some people.
(props to a.s.s, a.b.a, a.b.g.a, a.b.m.e, and a.b.p.e.a!) ;P
If I recall correctly (IANAL), you can not sue the government or an agency of the government without their permission to sue you. You can, however, sue individual people in the agency, but not the agency itself.
Note to trolls: I do not support what those people did on 9/11 or to the embassies, etc.. So, blow off.
We no longer have a class system soley of the poor, the middle, and the rich. It is now the consumers, the lawyers, and the corporations.
...move to Antartica and live off the ice...
Its sad to see that when the nations of the world unite, its under greedy corporate policing...
MS (and many other big corps for that matter) don't practice terrorism? I guess all those people too poor to defend themselves aren't terrorised when come big corp pulls out an army of lawyers and threatens to send you to financial hell (and prison) unless you brown nose them and like it. "We'll make you wish you where dead if you don't do what we want," does not sound too much differnt than "Do what we want or we will kill you." For the record, I think MS is just the tip of the iceberg.
This is a small (and off the main topic) consolation; but if the picture was legal in japan, then the genitals and anus would be censored. It applies to all legal porn and art there. It has been that way since the USA occupied Japan and made this law after WWII.
He really shouldn't be including home videos in that estimate...