Folks who rent mailing lists add "ringers," which, if they receive a mailing after the term of the rental is up, yield prima facie evidence of violation of the rental contract.
This is an interesting use of a known technique to help detect the unauthorized use of data, and alert administrators that the barn door is open--and maybe even who opened it.
For $80, you can make a portable 20GB drive, pack it full of your stuff, mail it to a friend, he copies it, and then he sends it back to you filled with his stuff. Repeat ad naseum. BUilding your collection 20GB at a stretch. 3 mailings a year oughta do it.
Then our mail will be subect to random searches and seizures, and arrests will come in the middle of the night. Just like the drug war and the war on terrorism. They have MJ sniffing dogs now; I imagine hard disks have a pretty obvious magnetic signature when going through screening equipment.
It does remind me of prohibition, but during prohibition, the government didn't have equipment that could detect a molecule of alcohol from a distance, or a computer network that connected together all the speakeasys so the address of anyone serving alcohol was available to a search for "bathtub gin."
Write a letter to your representatives in Congress. Yeah, they're bought and paid for, yadda yadda, but you won't know if it would do any good unless you try. No matter where you stand on intellectual "property," a felony rap for copying a song is punishment disproportionate to the crime.
Looks like a blatant attempt to make policymakers aware of the impending "anonymity problems" associated with open WiFi. Remember that all propaganda isn't of the RIAA "hit you over the head" variety.
If the state's saying there's no expectation of privacy in the public square, then Joe Citizen can film the square, too. I like it that way. At least there's a chance that some of "them" might be held accountable along with "us."
I wouldn't say I'm "down on it," but I don't think it's a magic talisman, either. Do we all really believe that the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/IDSA/SPA and other racketeering organizations aren't going to just get a residential cable modem or DSL account and run their bots on it?
While it certainly doesn't hurt to block IP ranges known to belong to the copyright cartels, I doubt it helps as much as people seem to want to believe.
Damn, that's the best idea I've read yet! Somehow, though, it would have to be enforced for searches across all the users (e.g. searching for Red Hat ISOs). For that, I'd envision a protocol that negotiated some kind of image whose pseudo-word would be good for that one search.
Of course, eliminating the ability of the *AA to trawl the networks with bots would yield an escalation, two of which I'll guess:
*AA outsources trawling to China or India, where it can be done by prisoner or cheap hired labor respectively.
*AA pays a bounty for ordinary people to manually search and turn in their peers. This would also allow them an out on the perjury clause of the DMCA, by requiring the snitch to sign a statement under penalty of perjury
I still think a Turing test for searches as you've proposed is a step in the right direction.
What happens when the RIAA sources bandwidth from RoadRunner, Comcast, and DSL providers that each have a monopoly on broadband in their service areas?
A more free (as in beer, and in freedom) way to make PDFs under Win32 is to create print to a file and create it with Ghostscript.
That said, I'm not interested in helping PDF become an entrenched standard, since it's controlled by Adobe, who proved themselves to be DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs in the Sklyarov case.
I'll stop calling it "genocide" when the scumbags at the RIAA quit referring to copyright infringement as "piracy," which involves the robbing and killing of people on the high seas.
Actually, I think DVDs are at about the right price point now. It's that CDs with about 10 audio tracks cost just as much as a DVD movie with a hojillion dollars worth or special affects that seems interesting to me.
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Heh. The cops in my neighborhood respond in about 5 minutes or so. I live near a school parking lot, and have had the pleasure of seeing some of these people taken away in cuffs and a flatbed tow truck picking up the car. Seems they like to drink underage while playing their punk music through my walls. Of course, it doesn't happen much any more, for some reason:).
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What racism? Sounds to me like rascist would be inferring the race from the type of music.
I'm sure in those circumstances your company could have obtained a court order from a court of competent jurisdiction for the information. Due process? Hell, we don't need no steenkin' due process!
In order for DRM to actually be effective in its stated goal of making copyright infringement by those who "license" media, the concessions that, for example, iTMS allows the "consumer" can't be allowed. It's a trivial matter for a rogue "consumer" to take advantage of the "analog hole," and then make "perfect digital copies" to distribute on peer to peer networks. This is straight party line, from Jack Valenti's mouth--THE ANALOG HOLE NEEDS TO BE CLOSED.
The only way to close the analog hole is encryption everywhere from the network to your eyeballs or your ears. (And ultimately, cameras and recording devices will have to refuse to record this media, to protect against those who use microphones and camcorders.)
The only hope of closing the analog hole is what any reasonable person would call intrusive DRM. QED.
Exactly. Even the record industry isn't stupid enough to think people are going to rush out and buy locked down "digital toasters" later this week. "Consumers" will have to be "eased into" the "transition." And for those who hold out, a descendant of the SSSCA/CBDTPA will make all that old hardware illegal.
Your reply illustrates what I'm trying to say--that implementing "kind and gentle" DRM, Apple has provided the mindshare needed to help it get critical mass. Not everything is a slppery slope, but this is, unfortunately.
The only business model of members of the RIAA and MPAA absent DRM and control of the distribution channels is bankruptcy. I imagine they'll choose DRM.
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This is an interesting use of a known technique to help detect the unauthorized use of data, and alert administrators that the barn door is open--and maybe even who opened it.
- RIAA member
- GPL violator
- DMCA wielder
- Freedom hater
- DRM purveyor
If you still want to buy toys from them and help fund the war on freedom, at least now you can't say you didn't know.Then our mail will be subect to random searches and seizures, and arrests will come in the middle of the night. Just like the drug war and the war on terrorism. They have MJ sniffing dogs now; I imagine hard disks have a pretty obvious magnetic signature when going through screening equipment.
It does remind me of prohibition, but during prohibition, the government didn't have equipment that could detect a molecule of alcohol from a distance, or a computer network that connected together all the speakeasys so the address of anyone serving alcohol was available to a search for "bathtub gin."
Write a letter to your representatives in Congress. Yeah, they're bought and paid for, yadda yadda, but you won't know if it would do any good unless you try. No matter where you stand on intellectual "property," a felony rap for copying a song is punishment disproportionate to the crime.
What I actually do is only purchase used CDs or the rare find that's published by a non-RIAA label (e.g. Warren Zevon's My Ride's Here on Artemis).
Heh. The rise of the BBS with the "ELITE" section all running on 2400 baud modems over VoIP. I like it!
Looks like a blatant attempt to make policymakers aware of the impending "anonymity problems" associated with open WiFi. Remember that all propaganda isn't of the RIAA "hit you over the head" variety.
If the state's saying there's no expectation of privacy in the public square, then Joe Citizen can film the square, too. I like it that way. At least there's a chance that some of "them" might be held accountable along with "us."
While it certainly doesn't hurt to block IP ranges known to belong to the copyright cartels, I doubt it helps as much as people seem to want to believe.
Of course, eliminating the ability of the *AA to trawl the networks with bots would yield an escalation, two of which I'll guess:
I still think a Turing test for searches as you've proposed is a step in the right direction.
What happens when the RIAA sources bandwidth from RoadRunner, Comcast, and DSL providers that each have a monopoly on broadband in their service areas?
A more free (as in beer, and in freedom) way to make PDFs under Win32 is to create print to a file and create it with Ghostscript. That said, I'm not interested in helping PDF become an entrenched standard, since it's controlled by Adobe, who proved themselves to be DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs in the Sklyarov case.
What file was it?
While he was working on his universal plan
He was making out like Charlie Sheen
He was a genius
-- Warren Zevon
(Can't help you with Hawking, though.)
Pretty much, yeah. Although I admit that it's insulting to bags of scummy matter.
I'll stop calling it "genocide" when the scumbags at the RIAA quit referring to copyright infringement as "piracy," which involves the robbing and killing of people on the high seas.
Actually, I think DVDs are at about the right price point now. It's that CDs with about 10 audio tracks cost just as much as a DVD movie with a hojillion dollars worth or special affects that seems interesting to me.
BPS-15?
Heh. The cops in my neighborhood respond in about 5 minutes or so. I live near a school parking lot, and have had the pleasure of seeing some of these people taken away in cuffs and a flatbed tow truck picking up the car. Seems they like to drink underage while playing their punk music through my walls. Of course, it doesn't happen much any more, for some reason :).
What racism? Sounds to me like rascist would be inferring the race from the type of music.
Shoot, and I just used my last damned moderator point. Good post!
I understand the other two, but what does that accomplish?
I'm sure in those circumstances your company could have obtained a court order from a court of competent jurisdiction for the information. Due process? Hell, we don't need no steenkin' due process!
The only way to close the analog hole is encryption everywhere from the network to your eyeballs or your ears. (And ultimately, cameras and recording devices will have to refuse to record this media, to protect against those who use microphones and camcorders.)
The only hope of closing the analog hole is what any reasonable person would call intrusive DRM. QED.
Exactly. Even the record industry isn't stupid enough to think people are going to rush out and buy locked down "digital toasters" later this week. "Consumers" will have to be "eased into" the "transition." And for those who hold out, a descendant of the SSSCA/CBDTPA will make all that old hardware illegal.
The only business model of members of the RIAA and MPAA absent DRM and control of the distribution channels is bankruptcy. I imagine they'll choose DRM.