..the people who "share" full albums, burn them, and "share" them with their "friends" for a small fee? Personally, I've never bought a music CD, or a pressed CD of any kind.
A few months ago I downloaded someone's resume and homework off FT (I don't remember the name but I'm sure it wasn't yours). There's a lot of interesting documents (as opposed to media) on kazaa, instantly available to anyone. FastTrack could become the next cheatmonkey/schoolsucks/allclasses if people would "accidently" do this more often.
By the way, try searching FT for "Tracy Mandeville" for documents. Apparently, she unintentionally shared her whole my documents collection. There's tons of homework questions, essays, and general school stuff there.
Has anyone here actually used eMusic? I hear about it every day, but am hesistant to sign up for the steep price. Any reviews or independent testimonies would be highly appreciated.
Good luck. FT encrypts all tranmissions except for peer-to-peer downloads. Dr. Damn, as revealed in the interview on Zeropaid, did not change any code. He simply used ResHack to remove spurious dialog elements, and wrote a nifty installer that installs a safe cd_clint. Not to downplay Dr. Damn's software, but it's not feastible to integrate other networks with FT without creating a separate program, and that requires knowledge of the FT protocol.
Ironically, the RIAA itself leaked an internal memo which contains information that could help in cloning FT. Again, the RIAA's internal memo on FastTrack is an excellent read. Perhaps, with the help of the RIAA, we can create our open FastTrack client.
For those interested, there's an interview conducted by Zeropaid of Dr. Damn. In related news, Zeropaid recently added several interviews, including: Pablo from Blubster, John Marshall creator of Gnucleus (victim of Morpheus PE rip off), the Limewire Team, Team XoloX, and Travis Hill of MediaEnforcer. Interesting read, a while back Zeropaid also reported on Sharman Network's attitude towards Kazaa Lite, the spyware-free Kazaa by Yuri.
True, and that space between the unit and the quanity is important (see rule #15). Multiplication and division, in this case of Mb and s, is covered by rule #5. Rule #2 shuns "Abbreviations such as sec, cc, or mps", of course that would include "bps".
Yes but it's been called that to fool people into thinking that too support it is patriotic.
Exactly. The bill originators hid their intent behind an ironic acronym, whose expansion contradicts the name itself. If this isn't bad enough, news reporters are such are now beginning to drop the caps so the public doesn't have a clue "USA Patriot" is an acronym. The EFF has been pretty good about using the correct capitalization to avoid misleading, not so with news reporters.
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Well said, but I prefer:
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. -- Arendt Hannahs
Reading random quotes by activists and great thinkers can be very enlightening, I highly recommend The Quotations Page, providing quotes since 1994 - quite inspiring.
(a) SHORT TITLE- This Act may be cited as the
`Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001'.
"USA PATRIOT" is an acronym, and a misnomer at that. Lowercasing it only hides this fact, the proper name is capitalized.
I went with a 60GB Deskstar. Zero problems. It's quiet.
Ignoring the many complaints about IBM hard drives, I also went with the Deskstar. No problems so far, they store my sizable MP3 collection quite well. Not to mention, drives are on nearly 24/7 (my record is 22 days) using RAID 1.
Ever heard of eMusic? $120 for a years subscription to unlimited MP3 downloads, directly from the bands. Although their selection is limited I'd say this kind of thing is the next legal killer app in the music industry.
That's because using Flash is not illegal. Downloading copyrighted material from P2P apps is. And, yeah, of course you've used P2P software and always downloaded public domain material. Sure...
What do you work for, the RIAA? As an avid P2P user, I'll have you know I steal music on a daily basis. Never bought a CD, never will.
Well said. I suggest you join an MP3 ripping group to truly exploit your efforts for the good of the MP3 community. Here are some links to get you started:
Everything worth getting is already available in MP3 format..And nothing thats currently being put out by the recording industry is worth listening to.
Are you implying only home users rip CDs into MP3s, and that if no one here buys a CD it will never appear in MP3? You're dead wrong, as groups such as RNS, EGO, REV, KSi, etc. get ahold of CDs before they are released and rip them for the MP3 community. I don't know about you, but I'm going to rely on these groups for my music.
I'm all for a boycott on the RIAA. Lets never buy their CDs again, only download them off the Internet. Personally, I've never bought a music CD. Whose with me?
How many people are on GNUtella [sic] or Kazza [sic]?
According to LimeWire, Gnutella currently has just over 300,000 users (immediately after Morpheus PE was released, they had 1/2 million users until everyone realized it sucked). KaZaA, by which you mean FastTrack, currently has 1654043 users online, sharing 291261K files (1706208.0 GB). Slyck is a good quick reference for comparing network sizes. Although a bit out of date, their current stats are:
BEST DATA PRODUCTS, INC.
56K/14.4K ISA8/16 V90 HARDWARE BASED WHITE BOX . According to mWave, this modem is "LiNux Compatiable" (their capitalization, not mine). I bought one of these back in '99 to try Linux on my desktop. Never did get it working, but only DSL can satisfy my bandwidth requirements.
As another poster said, good luck finding a PCI hardware modem. Much less a USB hardware modem. Your best bet is a serial hardware modem.
a modem that cost a whole ten bucks less! That's 5 blank cd's fer chrissakes.
$2/each? Where do you shop? As someone who works with copyrighted music on a daily basis, I demand competitive prices and the best I found was 100-PK 24X CD-R Media for $20. That's 20 cents each, ten times less than $2.00. $2 is more like what a pirate would sell a burned CD-R for..not anyone I know, of course.
Please DO NOT xfer files in bulk. Its running financially strapped. You should buy cdrom archives of the bulk of it before the site suffers and dwindles from bandwidth abuse.
Cryptome should definitely consider a P2P network for transfering their files. I'm thinking along the lines of BitTorrent. This would no doubt cut down on their "financially strapped" bandwidth while increasing it for everyone else downloading.
Does C have some magical functionality that remains wholly unavailable in Java?
Portability. GCC can compile on any architecture out there, and it generates optimized code. This is in contrast to Java which takes the easy way out and interprets bytecode. Java is a pain to set up on my FreeBSD box, what is the purpose of installing an extra Java "development kit" when all Java functionality is available in C built-in to the OS? C is the standard, and if some application does not have a C port, I'm not going to use it under any circumstances.
Well said. Remember the new-fangled Freenet P2P that was getting a bunch of press a while ago? After all that time, the developers are still only at 0.4. I argue Freenet would actually be useful if it was written in C rather than Java. Java claims "write once, run anywhere" but this is already a reality with C+autoconf. Why mess with success?
Not only that, but some peer-to-peer software now requires the.Net runtime! By shoehorning.Net into massively downloaded P2P software, Microsoft just converted those still using Windows 98.
Java may very well have over one million programmers, but how many do you think use Java based on merits of the language itself? Corporate marketheads certainly will pick up on C# and urge their programmers to develop in this language, touted as the next best thing. C# may be nothing more than a new Microsoft tool, but so are most corporations.
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..the people who "share" full albums, burn them, and "share" them with their "friends" for a small fee? Personally, I've never bought a music CD, or a pressed CD of any kind.
By the way, try searching FT for "Tracy Mandeville" for documents. Apparently, she unintentionally shared her whole my documents collection. There's tons of homework questions, essays, and general school stuff there.
Has anyone here actually used eMusic? I hear about it every day, but am hesistant to sign up for the steep price. Any reviews or independent testimonies would be highly appreciated.
Ironically, the RIAA itself leaked an internal memo which contains information that could help in cloning FT. Again, the RIAA's internal memo on FastTrack is an excellent read. Perhaps, with the help of the RIAA, we can create our open FastTrack client.
For those interested, there's an interview conducted by Zeropaid of Dr. Damn. In related news, Zeropaid recently added several interviews, including: Pablo from Blubster, John Marshall creator of Gnucleus (victim of Morpheus PE rip off), the Limewire Team, Team XoloX, and Travis Hill of MediaEnforcer. Interesting read, a while back Zeropaid also reported on Sharman Network's attitude towards Kazaa Lite, the spyware-free Kazaa by Yuri.
True, and that space between the unit and the quanity is important (see rule #15). Multiplication and division, in this case of Mb and s, is covered by rule #5. Rule #2 shuns "Abbreviations such as sec, cc, or mps", of course that would include "bps".
Well said, but I prefer:
Reading random quotes by activists and great thinkers can be very enlightening, I highly recommend The Quotations Page, providing quotes since 1994 - quite inspiring.
"USA PATRIOT" is an acronym, and a misnomer at that. Lowercasing it only hides this fact, the proper name is capitalized.
Ever heard of eMusic? $120 for a years subscription to unlimited MP3 downloads, directly from the bands. Although their selection is limited I'd say this kind of thing is the next legal killer app in the music industry.
To keep the corners from poking you, sending subliminal messages telling you MP3s cause harm.
One of their employees was using WinMX and liked the digraph, so they relabelled their flagship product to reflect this.
What do you work for, the RIAA? As an avid P2P user, I'll have you know I steal music on a daily basis. Never bought a CD, never will.
Hope this helps!
Are you implying only home users rip CDs into MP3s, and that if no one here buys a CD it will never appear in MP3? You're dead wrong, as groups such as RNS, EGO, REV, KSi, etc. get ahold of CDs before they are released and rip them for the MP3 community. I don't know about you, but I'm going to rely on these groups for my music.
I'm all for a boycott on the RIAA. Lets never buy their CDs again, only download them off the Internet. Personally, I've never bought a music CD. Whose with me?
As another poster said, good luck finding a PCI hardware modem. Much less a USB hardware modem. Your best bet is a serial hardware modem.
Cryptome should definitely consider a P2P network for transfering their files. I'm thinking along the lines of BitTorrent. This would no doubt cut down on their "financially strapped" bandwidth while increasing it for everyone else downloading.
Well said. Remember the new-fangled Freenet P2P that was getting a bunch of press a while ago? After all that time, the developers are still only at 0.4. I argue Freenet would actually be useful if it was written in C rather than Java. Java claims "write once, run anywhere" but this is already a reality with C+autoconf. Why mess with success?
Not only that, but some peer-to-peer software now requires the .Net runtime! By shoehorning .Net into massively downloaded P2P software, Microsoft just converted those still using Windows 98.
Java may very well have over one million programmers, but how many do you think use Java based on merits of the language itself? Corporate marketheads certainly will pick up on C# and urge their programmers to develop in this language, touted as the next best thing. C# may be nothing more than a new Microsoft tool, but so are most corporations.