I'm sure, however, that most of the Kazaa'ing losers reading the article will ignore that obvious distinction and think once again that their whole moral outlook is justified.
Nice ad hominem. Still doesn't change the fact that Hatch is a hypocrite. The failure to properly license the software is legally his responsibility--if employers could shove responsibility off to contractors, don't you think we would all be contractors? I'm sure if I had a contractor who failed to obtain a license for a piece of software he used on my site, the BSA would be so far up my ass I could taste Brylcreem.
On top of that the iptables firewall has been programmed to block all traffic to and from the p2p filesharer to those IP addresses listed as copyright police.
That should keep them out....
This one always gets me. While PeerGuardian, or iptables rules, or other firewalls which block known IP blocks owned by copyright Pinkertons are an interesting idea, when they start getting cable modems, will there be a need to block 24.x.x.x?
. . . spam volume in my hotmail.com sockpuppet accounts has decreased precipitously in the last 24 hours. Coincidence? Or are others seeing the same thing.
Try some of the below messages, sent to the contacts as listed in apnic.net. (I also send them in Chinese as translated by Altavista, but/dork won't let me post that here.) I figure one of two things can happen--the surveillance state apparatus wastes some time on unfounded messages, or a spam supporting admin in.cn gets a bullet in the head. A win-win situation if you ask me.
Your encrypted message has been received. The weapons you ordered for the "Free Tibet" and "Remember Tiananmen" forces in their fight against the Communist PRC are on their way through the agreed route. May your brave men prevail in the fight for freedom and the defeat of Communism.
Thank you so much for the beautiful picture of the Dalai Lama you sent me. I'm glad to hear that such formerly forbidden information can flow freely in the oppressive People's Republic of China without you being put up against a wall and shot! Congratulations!
In the wake of the recent Party Congress that has handed power to a new generation of corrupt politicians, I must congratulate you for your continued bravery in being a beacon of protest of the policies of the PRC. Your advocacy against the one-child policy, forced sale of blood by peasants, electronic pollution, and other evils of Chinese society is commendable. Particularly, risking your life to smuggle arms to Tibet makes your esteem in my eyes much the greater.
Didn't mean to say anything bad about the register--that's just where the story about the Churchill style "We'll firewall it at your ISP. We'll firewall it at your PC . .." quote from the Sony exec. was.
That probably has something to do with the fact that humans killing themselves on the road is not news. But let one person die because of a system failure of this Utopian vision, and see how well it's accepted.
My hope is that the vagaries of the marketplace force Microsoft to abandon their dream of ultimate control of every bit over every bus from the network to the display, and that the NGSCB will be but a footnote in computing history. Then neither one of us will know which one predicted right:).
I don't see the market forces, either. I think the industries' hopes are tied to legislation. Another possibility is that content will be so cheap that it's nearly free when these machines are first produced, until general purpose computers are driven out of the market, then prices increased once that happens.
But that can be eliminated by requiring MS signed binaries for network access in trusted mode--I don't believe for a minute that Jack, Hilary, Bill, and their minions will allow binaries which will P2P sharing of any kind to be signed with a Pd endorsement key.
So are you stating that the use of an endorsement key to prohibit the running of non MS-signed software is impossible, or that you just don't believe it will ever happen?
I had no problem accessing most of the URLs you mentioned. If you want a few hundred more working Asian URLs, let me know; I'll be happy to provide them.
For my blocking purposes, a list of all address space served by APNIC will be sufficient. Thanks!
Can MS donate a copy of Windows, that cost marginally a few cents to produce, and take a deduction against its corporate income for the full retail value?
Of course, if the scuttlebutt is that MS uses other loopholes to dodge all its taxes are true, then it's a moot point.
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Nice ad hominem. Still doesn't change the fact that Hatch is a hypocrite. The failure to properly license the software is legally his responsibility--if employers could shove responsibility off to contractors, don't you think we would all be contractors? I'm sure if I had a contractor who failed to obtain a license for a piece of software he used on my site, the BSA would be so far up my ass I could taste Brylcreem.
I was thinking intern. But the girl looks like she might still be alive.
This one always gets me. While PeerGuardian, or iptables rules, or other firewalls which block known IP blocks owned by copyright Pinkertons are an interesting idea, when they start getting cable modems, will there be a need to block 24.x.x.x?
And $18k is nothing compared to the potential for increased graft from the entertainment "industry."
Go, Bill!
Try some of the below messages, sent to the contacts as listed in apnic.net. (I also send them in Chinese as translated by Altavista, but /dork won't let me post that here.) I figure one of two things can happen--the surveillance state apparatus wastes some time on unfounded messages, or a spam supporting admin in .cn gets a bullet in the head. A win-win situation if you ask me.
Your encrypted message has been received. The weapons you ordered for the "Free Tibet" and "Remember Tiananmen" forces in their fight against the Communist PRC are on their way through the agreed route. May your brave men prevail in the fight for freedom and the defeat of Communism.
Thank you so much for the beautiful picture of the Dalai Lama you sent me. I'm glad to hear that such formerly forbidden information can flow freely in the oppressive People's Republic of China without you being put up against a wall and shot! Congratulations!
In the wake of the recent Party Congress that has handed power to a new generation of corrupt politicians, I must congratulate you for your continued bravery in being a beacon of protest of the policies of the PRC. Your advocacy against the one-child policy, forced sale of blood by peasants, electronic pollution, and other evils of Chinese society is commendable. Particularly, risking your life to smuggle arms to Tibet makes your esteem in my eyes much the greater.
Didn't mean to say anything bad about the register--that's just where the story about the Churchill style "We'll firewall it at your ISP. We'll firewall it at your PC . . ." quote from the Sony exec. was.
Yep. I bought 98Lite, and it's the shiznit. But XP Lite isn't likely to ever see the light of day. Be nice if he'd just admit it.
- RIAA member
- GPL violator
- DMCA wielder
- Freedom hater
- DRM purveyor
If you still want to buy toys from them, at least now you can't say you didn't know.That probably has something to do with the fact that humans killing themselves on the road is not news. But let one person die because of a system failure of this Utopian vision, and see how well it's accepted.
My hope is that the vagaries of the marketplace force Microsoft to abandon their dream of ultimate control of every bit over every bus from the network to the display, and that the NGSCB will be but a footnote in computing history. Then neither one of us will know which one predicted right :).
Oh. NM.
Prohibition.
Congressmen are like music and movies. They're not bought, they're licensed.
I don't see the market forces, either. I think the industries' hopes are tied to legislation. Another possibility is that content will be so cheap that it's nearly free when these machines are first produced, until general purpose computers are driven out of the market, then prices increased once that happens.
But that can be eliminated by requiring MS signed binaries for network access in trusted mode--I don't believe for a minute that Jack, Hilary, Bill, and their minions will allow binaries which will P2P sharing of any kind to be signed with a Pd endorsement key.
So are you stating that the use of an endorsement key to prohibit the running of non MS-signed software is impossible, or that you just don't believe it will ever happen?
Not me. If I were an SCO stockholder, I'd be selling. Now.
Not necessarily. I'm sure IBM has enough money to order a hit or two.
For my blocking purposes, a list of all address space served by APNIC will be sufficient. Thanks!
Political pressure is hard. Financial incentive wouldn't be. Not that I'm saying anything about any particular judge.
. . . the Principality of Sealand now has a navy.
Ooh! I'll be first in line to buy that! Right after I get done buying a copy of Warcraft 3 from the DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs of Blizzard.
Of course, if the scuttlebutt is that MS uses other loopholes to dodge all its taxes are true, then it's a moot point.
"Woot," an adjective? I thought it was one of those words that could be a variety of parts of speech, like "fuck."