So no commercialized intellectual property "benefits humanity"? Wow, bold statement. You know that rules out most books, movies, music and art created in the past 500 years, right?
Jesus, am I the only loyal/. reader who actually makes his living off content that is pirated daily on tubes sites??? I literally have more stress over feeding my family because of illegal torrents. I guess I won't have too much guilt if I decide to break into your homes and steal something nice I want.
Jesus, am I the only loyal/. reader who actually makes his living off content that is pirated daily on tubes sites??? I literally have more stress over feeding my family because of illegal torrents. I guess I won't have too much guilt if I decide to break into your homes and steal something nice I want.
For me, as sad as it may sound, it was porno. I was a casual computer user up until 1994 (typing papers in WordPerfect, playing Solitaire, etc.). Around that time, I was introduced to a new thing called NCSA Mosaic. I discovered there was porno on the WWW (I was never tech-savvy enough for the BBS scene). I figured that the way to find the most porno for free was to understand how the whole system ran. A year later I was running paysites while a senior in high school. Eight years later I'm running lots of sites as my real job. Pretty cool.
We scan about 500 slides a week for our website, and invested 2 years ago in a Nikon Coolscan IV slide/film scanner. It was about $2000 but has been fantastic. We use it under Windows with the Nikon software and Photoshop. The quality is fantastic, thanks greatly to Nikon's ICE technology which removes scratches and dust. We also have the adapter to bulk scan, so we can pop in 50 slides and let it go for an hour.
Some pornos do use CSS. We legally rip content from porno DVDs for web content (via licensing from the studios), and while 90% of DVDs don't have any encryption, some studios do. Among the offenders: Private, Vivid, Wicked (also the only one to use region codes).
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Not yet is right -- what if those spammers are trying to sell Weapons of Ass Destruction
We have 3 servers (web, database, media) that we own and colo at a facility nearby. Most of our bill is bandwidth (we do 300GB a month sometimes), but total including the rackspace (6U's) we pay about $1200. Our host has redundent uplinks and a great facility, and we've had about 20 minutes of total outage in 18 months there.
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I've only been reading for 17 or 18 years but the site has been a bit part of my daily experience for a long time. Kudos.
So no commercialized intellectual property "benefits humanity"? Wow, bold statement. You know that rules out most books, movies, music and art created in the past 500 years, right?
Jesus, am I the only loyal /. reader who actually makes his living off content that is pirated daily on tubes sites??? I literally have more stress over feeding my family because of illegal torrents. I guess I won't have too much guilt if I decide to break into your homes and steal something nice I want.
tubes -> torrent... but yeah tubes too
Jesus, am I the only loyal /. reader who actually makes his living off content that is pirated daily on tubes sites??? I literally have more stress over feeding my family because of illegal torrents. I guess I won't have too much guilt if I decide to break into your homes and steal something nice I want.
Condoms are not mandatory at all in porn in California. I should know, I'm a producer in Porn Valley, CA.
For me, as sad as it may sound, it was porno. I was a casual computer user up until 1994 (typing papers in WordPerfect, playing Solitaire, etc.). Around that time, I was introduced to a new thing called NCSA Mosaic. I discovered there was porno on the WWW (I was never tech-savvy enough for the BBS scene). I figured that the way to find the most porno for free was to understand how the whole system ran. A year later I was running paysites while a senior in high school. Eight years later I'm running lots of sites as my real job. Pretty cool.
We scan about 500 slides a week for our website, and invested 2 years ago in a Nikon Coolscan IV slide/film scanner. It was about $2000 but has been fantastic. We use it under Windows with the Nikon software and Photoshop. The quality is fantastic, thanks greatly to Nikon's ICE technology which removes scratches and dust. We also have the adapter to bulk scan, so we can pop in 50 slides and let it go for an hour.
Some pornos do use CSS. We legally rip content from porno DVDs for web content (via licensing from the studios), and while 90% of DVDs don't have any encryption, some studios do. Among the offenders: Private, Vivid, Wicked (also the only one to use region codes).
Wow, the first /. link to my site. I'm giggly.
We have 3 servers (web, database, media) that we own and colo at a facility nearby. Most of our bill is bandwidth (we do 300GB a month sometimes), but total including the rackspace (6U's) we pay about $1200. Our host has redundent uplinks and a great facility, and we've had about 20 minutes of total outage in 18 months there.
I get to work in porno... and I gotta say, it is all it's cracked up to be. Love doesn't quite cover my deep emotional bond with my employment.