Acually, that is part of what they are saying. The pipe is no longer the bottleneck, you are right. What's cool about that is that we have made a leap in technology, and we have new bottlenecks to fatten up for next year. It's like advancing an army one phalanx at a time.
How can they expect to track people? Bittorrent? The only tracking information specified in BT is IP address, and most people have a dynamic IP which can be changed by unplugging their modem for 10 minutes.
Well, all of the packets carry the MAC address of the person downloading the files. That's how they get you. It's often very difficult to change a MAC address. This is how people are tracked any time (if they are tracked well), since IPs can be spoofed but a MAC address is often burned into the hardware.
The reason they go after you even if you own the file is simple -- the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It says nothing about what is on your computer, but if you ever share stuff on your computer that is copyrighted, then you are breaking the law, and the copyright holder can sue you.
I go to Indiana University, and am one of the MPAA's chosen. Paramount used a company called BayTSP to download my directconnect file list, and they told IU that they found illegal content on my computer. I have logs showing that they did not even download headers to the file(s) in question, but they did get my internet access taken away by the university "indefinitely." With the help of Student Legal Services I filed a "Counter-Notice" in accordance with the DMCA, and after 10 long long long long business days I had my access back. I am the only person in my university's history to file a counter-notice, and Paramount and BayTSP did not even reply. Side note: I was sharing about 90GB of MP3, and about 20GB of movies, but the RIAA didn't touch me. The MPAA has been really annoying, though. One of the reasons they attack universities is because of the massive bandwith we get. Recently a 30kb/s cap was imposed on upload from any dorm room, but before that bandwith was practically unlimited! When trading files with another student Internet2, I was uploading at 10Mbit speeds! Even now, before I stopped sharing my files, I would serve 20G of crap in a day, easy. I'm only one user in a university of tens of thousands.
I was more thinking of sniping the redeemer in Unreal Tournament. I guess maybe the army realized how awful it is when you're trying to protect the flag and all the sudden rockets come outta nowhere and you dont have anti-grav boots. Speaking of anti-grav boots, when are they . . .
Call me un-patriotic, but the first thing that I thought about while reading this (aside from how cool it looks) was that it probably wouldn't be so hard to take out. Although they say it took out the Katyushas both "singly and in salvos" they also say that they've only fired 25 rockets. I wonder, it it's such a great defense system, why not fire 25 - or perhaps only 10 would do it - rockets all at once? I'm not declaring that it isn't a perfect defense - that's obvious. I wonder how easily it could be destroyed or disabled. Those electronic eyes look like great targets for a HV anti-tank round to me.
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Acually, that is part of what they are saying. The pipe is no longer the bottleneck, you are right.
What's cool about that is that we have made a leap in technology, and we have new bottlenecks to fatten up for next year. It's like advancing an army one phalanx at a time.
The notices sent by the agents of the MPAA are digitally signed.
The reason they go after you even if you own the file is simple -- the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It says nothing about what is on your computer, but if you ever share stuff on your computer that is copyrighted, then you are breaking the law, and the copyright holder can sue you.
I go to Indiana University, and am one of the MPAA's chosen. Paramount used a company called BayTSP to download my directconnect file list, and they told IU that they found illegal content on my computer. I have logs showing that they did not even download headers to the file(s) in question, but they did get my internet access taken away by the university "indefinitely." With the help of Student Legal Services I filed a "Counter-Notice" in accordance with the DMCA, and after 10 long long long long business days I had my access back. I am the only person in my university's history to file a counter-notice, and Paramount and BayTSP did not even reply. Side note: I was sharing about 90GB of MP3, and about 20GB of movies, but the RIAA didn't touch me. The MPAA has been really annoying, though. One of the reasons they attack universities is because of the massive bandwith we get. Recently a 30kb/s cap was imposed on upload from any dorm room, but before that bandwith was practically unlimited! When trading files with another student Internet2, I was uploading at 10Mbit speeds! Even now, before I stopped sharing my files, I would serve 20G of crap in a day, easy. I'm only one user in a university of tens of thousands.
I was more thinking of sniping the redeemer in Unreal Tournament. I guess maybe the army realized how awful it is when you're trying to protect the flag and all the sudden rockets come outta nowhere and you dont have anti-grav boots. Speaking of anti-grav boots, when are they . . .
Call me un-patriotic, but the first thing that I thought about while reading this (aside from how cool it looks) was that it probably wouldn't be so hard to take out. Although they say it took out the Katyushas both "singly and in salvos" they also say that they've only fired 25 rockets. I wonder, it it's such a great defense system, why not fire 25 - or perhaps only 10 would do it - rockets all at once? I'm not declaring that it isn't a perfect defense - that's obvious. I wonder how easily it could be destroyed or disabled. Those electronic eyes look like great targets for a HV anti-tank round to me.