But the truth is artists get NO money from AllofMP3 (instead of an unfair tiny amount from the RIAA).
The RTIAA refuses to even ask for the money owed and (supposedly at least) held in trust by ROMS. They don't let their artists collect, so they can say they "didn't get a dime". If they asked for it, and ROMS failed to cough up, then they'd have some justice.
The RIAA is saying the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) to which allofmp3.com pays a fee to doesn't have "appropriate contracts" with the original copyright holders and is thus in violation of Russian Law.
You don't need a contract with the copyright owner in the case of compulsory licensing (as is used in the USA for radio broadcast rights). In the absence of a contract, statutory royalties are set (apparently 15% in Russia). It doesn't seem unreasonable to use a provision based on broadcast rather than physical media (i.e. disks) for downloads.
I'm sure all the people and companies that pay for that privileged bandwidth are very happy that it is being used for something as important as/.
Screw them. Thay can get their porn a bit slower. I (in Hong Kong) pay for my home connection which was completely dead for two days and is now at about 50% (guesstimate) of its normal performance.
What struck me as suspicious was that for the first 12 hours after the quake (about 8pm local time) I didn't notice any problems in access. Only the next morning did my connection suddenly go to shit. Presumably the corporate big spenders called the ISPs and demanded full access, leaving only some crumbs for domestic users.
Oddly enough I had the opposite experience to the submitter. Slashdot was one of the few US sites I could access most of the time. I couldn't get either Google or Yahoo (which is my mail host) for two days. But he's in Shenzhen, not Hong Kong. Google has been sucking up to Beijing, so maybe that paid off for them.
I could wish they'd prioritise email over web, I can live without Slashdot but not email. My POP3 connections just kept timing out and drove me nuts. (Of course, when I finally got email back, there wasn't anything important in the queue....)
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Is it just me who is wondering why these GW denier posts are continually being modded up. I'm shocked at the way these skeptics arguments seem to dominate any discussion here. Are we nerds really this stupid?
Same people who spam the site whenever "evolution" or "gun rights" comes up. Guaranteed 800+ posts, all exactly the same as last time the trigger words were uttered. Whenver Taco et al want to spike pageviews, they can just do an article with one of those topics mentioned, however little connection it actually has with the story, and watch the creationists/global warming deniers/gun nuts blurt out their "talking points", getting a similar reflexive response from their opponents.
If someone tells you: "We haven't got a better football player for 20 years!", you think: "Mkay, so there *was* a better one before that!", no?
If there were no one better, the time mentioned would be longer.
It's only logical.
No, it's not "logical". It's not grammatical either. The speaker may simply be stating the limits of his knowledge. He may not know anything about footballers of 20 or more years ago.
How about "He was the most famous TV presenter of the last century". Does that imply there was a more famous presenter before 1900?
Scientists who carefully state the limits of their knowledge are often misinterpreted like this.
Roland is reverting to his old ways of putting his own ZDNet blog, undisclosed, as if it were a primary link, when all it contains are photos he's filched from the original source.
That's like saying if it weren't for car thieves necessitating keys and alarm systems, then the price of cars would only be the cost of the materials that go into it.
Thus raising the bar for most incomprehensible and absurd "car = software" analogy.
The Slashdot editorial comment: "Microsoft is now backpedaling and telling bloggers to send back the laptops. Do they even have a legal right to do so?" is misleading. The letter from MS quoted in TFA is couched as a request. No one claimed they had a "legal right" to demand their return.
I hate MS as much as anyone, but there's no need to make stuff up.
grow up, get some balls and take some action. what actions you say?
I don't send spam. Some asshole blocks me because somoene in the same IP block as me did. I have no way of knowing who spammed who. I can't do anything about anonymous spammers. I get hundreds every week. AND MOST OF THE SPAM I GET OBVIOUSLY ORIGINATES IN THE USA.
You clean up your act. How many Americans have been prosecuted for sending billions of spam emails -- two or three perhaps. You know who they are and and where they live. Blaming the spammers in other countries they outsource to is pointless. If China, say, were to shut down every spam relay, how long would it take before you were getting exactly the same amount of spam from another country? Maybe a week.
Spam is driven ultimately by profits. If you stopped people from profiting from spam, by prosecuting and fining your home-grown spammers in Boca Raton for a start, there wouldn't be a problem.
Known Spam Operation: Country
Alan Ralsky: United States
Alex Blood / Alexander Mosh / AlekseyB / Alex Polyakov: Ukraine
Alexey Panov - ckync.com: Russia
Ameritech Advertising / Scott Ramaglia: United States
Amichai Inbar: Israel
Amir Gans: Israel
Andria Petito / Tranzact Media: United States
Anton Gorodov / Gorodetsk - srx / s-rx: Russia
AWG aka youngjoo aka qline: Japan
Bill Waggoner: United States
BlueStream Media: United States
Boris Mizhen: United States
Brian Fabian / Gregory Parsons: Canada
Brian Haberstroh / Atriks: United States
Brian Kos / BK Ventures / Internet Promos: Canada
Brian Kramer / Expedite Media Group: United States
Brian Walter: United States
Bubba Catts: United States
Calvin Ho / Optin Global Inc.: United States
Charles Earle IV - World Mail Direct: United States
Charles F. Childs / Ultra Trim / MegaTrim / Grant Gold: United States
Chris Smith / rizler.com: United States
Christopher J. Brown / Swank AKA Dollar: United States
Chuck An / iomega: United States
Daniel Khoshnood: United States
Daniel Lin: United States
Daniel Mankani: India
Dave Patton / lightspeedmarketing: United States
Dean Schlenker - eGo Direct Mail / Cyberside Marketing: United States
Drew Auman / thebulkclub.com: United States
Dzenis Softic: Bosnia
Eddie Davidson: United States
Eddy Marin - Oneroute: United States
elogic.cc: United States
emailspidereasy.com: China
Eric Reinertsen: United States
Estrela Marketing / Adam Taub: United States
EvoClix / Larry Tasman / Greg Numark: United States
eXcuria - inkjet cartridge spammers: United States
fairgamemail.us: United States
Flavio Vale - MKT Solutions: Brazil
Fred Lusky and Scott Maslowe / Netbenders and Lakeshore Development: United States
FXstyle - Tin Lok Wu aka Clayton Wu: Hong Kong
Gaven Stubberfield: United States
George Kokinos / Miles Marketing: United States
George Ryan: United States
Georgi Kara Yacoubain: United States
Glen and Stacey McCausland: United States
Glen Hannifin: United States
Heik & Agnaldo Rosa de Almeida: Brazil
Henry Perez: United States
hispeedmedia.com / adprosolutions.com: United States
Hong Chen / YonHen Internet Marketing Center: China
Howard Minsky / TheAdStop.com / ad360.com: United States
James Botkin: United States
Jason M. Pitts / AKA "J_Data" mortgage spammer: United States
Jeffrey P Goldstein / Gregory Greenstein - emailhello.com / impulse marketing: United States
Jeffrey Peters - JTel / CPU Solutions
Fuckwit, I know that. Eight out of nine documents referred to are not.
Assholes like you have modded my simple observation down as "troll", off-topic". I thought the implications were too obvious to need to be pointed out. But apparently not. It demonstrates how deeply embedded MS formats are, to the point that no one can do business with the Defense Department without a full MS Office setup. Not a great expense for a corporation, but unsettling. It strongly suggests that the severe security problems of MS systems still cannot force a rethink of what they should be using, that security will be bolted on rather than built in.
At least with Macs, I'm lead to believe that the power used to boot the machine is greater than the power used to keep the machine sleeping for a week,
This is like that prevalent myth that turning a fluorescent light on and off uses up more energy than running it all day.
If your Mac takes 1 minute to boot, for your claim to be true it would have to draw 60x24x7 times as much power as it does when "sleeping", i.e., if it draws 5W when sleeping (surely it would be more) then booting would draw over 50kW. I think not. (If it takes 2 minutes to boot, half that, if 30 seconds, double; same ball park.)
mers in Germany, too. Same story. Just like in South America, India, Australia, and Canada. But from those other places, more of the traffic is legitimate. If virtually none of the traffic from a particular class C (or B) address block is legitimate, then I'm often inclined to block it.
If it's your own personal mail, fine. If you're doing it for an ISP or a large company without gettng the users to sign off on you preventing them communicating with half the world's population, not fine. I know for instance I can hardly ever send messages to anyone on AOL because of broad-brushed blocking.
You are completely missing the point.
The point is YOU are blocking ME for something someone "on the same side of the Pacific" did. Then you gloat about it. So I take it personally.
Please do me a favor, since you speak for everyone in Hong Kong, and see about the other little problem (aside from the ocean of spam that does come from your neighborhood). The vast majority of the more sophisticated crack attempts that I see pounding on all sorts of systems that I touch come from Asia, and most of that from China and Korea.
Look at a map. I'm as responsible for what happens in Korea as you are for Brazil. And China is still in most ways a separate country. Telecom companies in particular are not cross border.
crap coming from your side of the Pacific..
Right. I'm responsible for the whole fucking hemisphere. 3 billion people, dozens of countries, All lumped together in your tiny mind. It's hard not to stereotype people like you in return.
And even worse, having white skin, I get blamed for what you idiots do.
Oh, right! I've got almost everything that might come down that pipe null-routed anyway.
I speak for everyone in Hong Kong, and say, fuck off and die.
95% of the world's spam is paid for by American spammers. (See the ROKSO list.) I get flooded by American spam and then get blocked by racist assholes like you.
I've been offline all day and while my email (hosted by Yahoo) is still dead somehow I can access Slashdot.
She reported that he was making collections and selling them, yes.
You said this was a blog -- link?
If true, I underestimated human stupidity and kinkiness. Who would pay more than a few dollars for a crappy quality spy cam footage of anonymous people when you can get hi res DVDs of explicit sex by porn stars for peanuts.
Perverts are caught all the time taking upskirt photos on the train, though in that case I would imagine the attraction was as a memento of something seen in real life.
Fine. My incredulity was about the claim that someone was selling such videos. I'm not at all surprised at guards watching and sharing them with their buddies. The addition of "selling" is probably the usual accretion of details urban legends get as they are passed on.
There's a blogger I've been reading for some time. She wrote about coming in and finding the security guard for her building, who she knows, doing as I've described.
You said SELLING the videos. Was he doing so? Watching I can believe. Selling is a briliant way to distribute evidence against yourself for a lousy few bucks -- what could you charge anyway, when you can get XXX DVDs online for a few bucks?
I walk through the bar districts around Boston all the time, and that line just doesn't get crossed. Wish the same could be said of Britain.
Maybe your chance of being harrassed or beaten up is greater in the UK than the US, though I personally am not conviced of that, but your chance of being killed on the streets is much, much higher in the US. And of course there are wide regional variations in both nations.
I know of one anecdotal story where couples having a quickie in a popular spot were unaware a camera had gone up; and the security guard watching was in fact recording their sex, compiling the events into tapes, and selling them.
Why even repeat such an unlikely urban legend? Even the dimmest guard is going to know that he'd lose his job, and probably be prosecuted, if he did this. And it would be all over the tabloids if it ever happened.
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The RTIAA refuses to even ask for the money owed and (supposedly at least) held in trust by ROMS. They don't let their artists collect, so they can say they "didn't get a dime". If they asked for it, and ROMS failed to cough up, then they'd have some justice.
You don't need a contract with the copyright owner in the case of compulsory licensing (as is used in the USA for radio broadcast rights). In the absence of a contract, statutory royalties are set (apparently 15% in Russia). It doesn't seem unreasonable to use a provision based on broadcast rather than physical media (i.e. disks) for downloads.
How many idiotic car=music analogies will we see today?
No.
The story is about Shenzhen, China. The quake off Taiwan was where the cables were damaged.
Screw them. Thay can get their porn a bit slower. I (in Hong Kong) pay for my home connection which was completely dead for two days and is now at about 50% (guesstimate) of its normal performance.
What struck me as suspicious was that for the first 12 hours after the quake (about 8pm local time) I didn't notice any problems in access. Only the next morning did my connection suddenly go to shit. Presumably the corporate big spenders called the ISPs and demanded full access, leaving only some crumbs for domestic users.
Oddly enough I had the opposite experience to the submitter. Slashdot was one of the few US sites I could access most of the time. I couldn't get either Google or Yahoo (which is my mail host) for two days. But he's in Shenzhen, not Hong Kong. Google has been sucking up to Beijing, so maybe that paid off for them.
I could wish they'd prioritise email over web, I can live without Slashdot but not email. My POP3 connections just kept timing out and drove me nuts. (Of course, when I finally got email back, there wasn't anything important in the queue....)
Same people who spam the site whenever "evolution" or "gun rights" comes up. Guaranteed 800+ posts, all exactly the same as last time the trigger words were uttered. Whenver Taco et al want to spike pageviews, they can just do an article with one of those topics mentioned, however little connection it actually has with the story, and watch the creationists/global warming deniers/gun nuts blurt out their "talking points", getting a similar reflexive response from their opponents.
No, it's not "logical". It's not grammatical either. The speaker may simply be stating the limits of his knowledge. He may not know anything about footballers of 20 or more years ago.
How about "He was the most famous TV presenter of the last century". Does that imply there was a more famous presenter before 1900?
Scientists who carefully state the limits of their knowledge are often misinterpreted like this.
Roland is reverting to his old ways of putting his own ZDNet blog, undisclosed, as if it were a primary link, when all it contains are photos he's filched from the original source.
Thus raising the bar for most incomprehensible and absurd "car = software" analogy.
I hate MS as much as anyone, but there's no need to make stuff up.
I don't send spam. Some asshole blocks me because somoene in the same IP block as me did. I have no way of knowing who spammed who. I can't do anything about anonymous spammers. I get hundreds every week. AND MOST OF THE SPAM I GET OBVIOUSLY ORIGINATES IN THE USA.
You clean up your act. How many Americans have been prosecuted for sending billions of spam emails -- two or three perhaps. You know who they are and and where they live. Blaming the spammers in other countries they outsource to is pointless. If China, say, were to shut down every spam relay, how long would it take before you were getting exactly the same amount of spam from another country? Maybe a week.
Spam is driven ultimately by profits. If you stopped people from profiting from spam, by prosecuting and fining your home-grown spammers in Boca Raton for a start, there wouldn't be a problem.
The ROKSO list of known spammers. How many from Hong Kong? Two. From the USA? 83.
Known Spam Operation: Country
Alan Ralsky: United States
Alex Blood / Alexander Mosh / AlekseyB / Alex Polyakov: Ukraine
Alexey Panov - ckync.com: Russia
Ameritech Advertising / Scott Ramaglia: United States
Amichai Inbar: Israel
Amir Gans: Israel
Andria Petito / Tranzact Media: United States
Anton Gorodov / Gorodetsk - srx / s-rx: Russia
AWG aka youngjoo aka qline: Japan
Bill Waggoner: United States
BlueStream Media: United States
Boris Mizhen: United States
Brian Fabian / Gregory Parsons: Canada
Brian Haberstroh / Atriks: United States
Brian Kos / BK Ventures / Internet Promos: Canada
Brian Kramer / Expedite Media Group: United States
Brian Walter: United States
Bubba Catts: United States
Calvin Ho / Optin Global Inc.: United States
Charles Earle IV - World Mail Direct: United States
Charles F. Childs / Ultra Trim / MegaTrim / Grant Gold: United States
Chris Smith / rizler.com: United States
Christopher J. Brown / Swank AKA Dollar: United States
Chuck An / iomega: United States
Daniel Khoshnood: United States
Daniel Lin: United States
Daniel Mankani: India
Dave Patton / lightspeedmarketing: United States
Dean Schlenker - eGo Direct Mail / Cyberside Marketing: United States
Drew Auman / thebulkclub.com: United States
Dzenis Softic: Bosnia
Eddie Davidson: United States
Eddy Marin - Oneroute: United States
elogic.cc: United States
emailspidereasy.com: China
Eric Reinertsen: United States
Estrela Marketing / Adam Taub: United States
EvoClix / Larry Tasman / Greg Numark: United States
eXcuria - inkjet cartridge spammers: United States
fairgamemail.us: United States
Flavio Vale - MKT Solutions: Brazil
Fred Lusky and Scott Maslowe / Netbenders and Lakeshore Development: United States
FXstyle - Tin Lok Wu aka Clayton Wu: Hong Kong
Gaven Stubberfield: United States
George Kokinos / Miles Marketing: United States
George Ryan: United States
Georgi Kara Yacoubain: United States
Glen and Stacey McCausland: United States
Glen Hannifin: United States
Heik & Agnaldo Rosa de Almeida: Brazil
Henry Perez: United States
hispeedmedia.com / adprosolutions.com: United States
Hong Chen / YonHen Internet Marketing Center: China
Howard Minsky / TheAdStop.com / ad360.com: United States
James Botkin: United States
Jason M. Pitts / AKA "J_Data" mortgage spammer: United States
Jeffrey P Goldstein / Gregory Greenstein - emailhello.com / impulse marketing: United States
Jeffrey Peters - JTel / CPU Solutions
Fuckwit, I know that. Eight out of nine documents referred to are not.
Assholes like you have modded my simple observation down as "troll", off-topic". I thought the implications were too obvious to need to be pointed out. But apparently not. It demonstrates how deeply embedded MS formats are, to the point that no one can do business with the Defense Department without a full MS Office setup. Not a great expense for a corporation, but unsettling. It strongly suggests that the severe security problems of MS systems still cannot force a rethink of what they should be using, that security will be bolted on rather than built in.
Interesting the specifications are supplied in:
DOC
DOC
XLS
DOC
DOC
DOC
PPT
PDF
DOC
So much for open formats.
This is like that prevalent myth that turning a fluorescent light on and off uses up more energy than running it all day.
If your Mac takes 1 minute to boot, for your claim to be true it would have to draw 60x24x7 times as much power as it does when "sleeping", i.e., if it draws 5W when sleeping (surely it would be more) then booting would draw over 50kW. I think not. (If it takes 2 minutes to boot, half that, if 30 seconds, double; same ball park.)
I was sure the UK uses 225/240 Volts, not 125.
If it's your own personal mail, fine. If you're doing it for an ISP or a large company without gettng the users to sign off on you preventing them communicating with half the world's population, not fine. I know for instance I can hardly ever send messages to anyone on AOL because of broad-brushed blocking.
You are completely missing the point.
The point is YOU are blocking ME for something someone "on the same side of the Pacific" did. Then you gloat about it. So I take it personally.
Yet still missing how prejudinced you are in your blaming the whole of Asia for the actions of some spammers msotly IN THE PAY OF AMERICANS.
Look at a map. I'm as responsible for what happens in Korea as you are for Brazil. And China is still in most ways a separate country. Telecom companies in particular are not cross border.
crap coming from your side of the Pacific..
Right. I'm responsible for the whole fucking hemisphere. 3 billion people, dozens of countries, All lumped together in your tiny mind. It's hard not to stereotype people like you in return.
And even worse, having white skin, I get blamed for what you idiots do.
I speak for everyone in Hong Kong, and say, fuck off and die.
95% of the world's spam is paid for by American spammers. (See the ROKSO list.) I get flooded by American spam and then get blocked by racist assholes like you.
I've been offline all day and while my email (hosted by Yahoo) is still dead somehow I can access Slashdot.
You said this was a blog -- link?
If true, I underestimated human stupidity and kinkiness. Who would pay more than a few dollars for a crappy quality spy cam footage of anonymous people when you can get hi res DVDs of explicit sex by porn stars for peanuts.
Perverts are caught all the time taking upskirt photos on the train, though in that case I would imagine the attraction was as a memento of something seen in real life.
Fine. My incredulity was about the claim that someone was selling such videos. I'm not at all surprised at guards watching and sharing them with their buddies. The addition of "selling" is probably the usual accretion of details urban legends get as they are passed on.
You said SELLING the videos. Was he doing so? Watching I can believe. Selling is a briliant way to distribute evidence against yourself for a lousy few bucks -- what could you charge anyway, when you can get XXX DVDs online for a few bucks?
Maybe your chance of being harrassed or beaten up is greater in the UK than the US, though I personally am not conviced of that, but your chance of being killed on the streets is much, much higher in the US. And of course there are wide regional variations in both nations.
This is the World-Wide Web, where not everyone is American. Your "founding fathers" aren't mine.
Why even repeat such an unlikely urban legend? Even the dimmest guard is going to know that he'd lose his job, and probably be prosecuted, if he did this. And it would be all over the tabloids if it ever happened.