You are not living in Europe.
Well, last time I checked, Germany was part of Europe;-)
I can make a copy and give it to my friend. Private copy, private exchange. If I would try to profit directly off the copied CD/DVD - then it's definitely illegal.
As I said: In some parts of Europe (read: at least in Germany) it is different since there are some DMCA-like laws now (since autuum of 2003 IIRC).
In Germany you aren't allowed to circumvent even the crappiest DRM to create a private copy.
Programs that can be used to circumvent DRM may not be sold or advertised for (that part of the law was created to stop magazines from running arcticles like "How to backup your movie DVDs", "The best ripper programs" or giving download/vendor URLs for programs that ignore or circumvent DRM).
Additionally you aren't allowed to make a copy from an "obviously illegal source". I think that was added as an anti-P2P measure but what constitutes an "obviously illegal source" isn't defined in the law and wasn't yet "defined" by court rulings.
btw: the site euro-copyrights.org tries to provide an overview of what's legal in which (EU) country.
The act of downloading is considered fair game but the act of uploading without the correct licence is still illegal.
I understood that the big thing about this decision was that even the uploading isn't illegal (didn't RTFA, but a German source a few hours ago).
It was mentioned that some time ago there already was a ruling that considered downloading to be legal. That's probably the "old news" that you were thinking about.
I hate to poop on the party, but the grandparent post is wrong - or at least oversimplified.
The legality of giving CD-Rs away for free depends heavily on the European country.
For Germany:
If you own the original, you may copy CD/DVDs (that don't contain DRM!) and give them to close familiy/friends; IIRC about seven people was a loose definition of "close family/friends". But this right is currently under attack so that no copys are allowed; the "non-DRM" part was the first step in September 2003 and now there are talks about banning all private copying; of course there are no talks of removing the blank media tax, the CD/DVD burner tax, scanner tax etc
AND: for stuff that contains DRM you aren't even allowed to make copys for YOURSELF!
To be precise: you aren't allowed to make copys of DRMed stuff if you have to circumvent the DRM somehow, so the "analog hole" is still open. That's why you can get programs that make copys by playing a CD and simultaneously recording it using the soundcard.
Unless there's some degree of "cost of court" added to that
There are additional fees so that (IIRC) it comes to ~200 Euros..
It is an almost completely automated system that works like this:
0. Game developer use the service of some dubios firm (logistep) that makes some bullshit (*) claims about their great P2P monitoring technology.
1. Dubios firm collects IP addresses of people sharing the game or at least files named like it, using a modified shareaza client that automatically sends the data to a closely connected law firm and the sharers' ISPs.
2. Lawyers swamp the attorneys of their district by filing tens of thousands of autmatically generated form letters (similar to "John Doe" stuff in the US).
3. Attorneys subpoena ISP subscriber infos, will likely cease/delay prosecution because they (and the courts) have real work to do and can't keep up with the form letter machinery. Although there were already some raids.
4. BUT the attorneys have the subscriber infos in their files and the plaintiff can (and will) request access to those records.
=> lawyers send a kind of cease and desist letters offering not to sue them in civil court if they pay X Euros damage and bill them their (practically not existing) legal "costs". But the criminal prosecution may still continue.
5. AUTOMATED PROFIT!!!
(6. One ISP got pissed by the hundreds of mails per hour telling them to keep the logs for IP a.b.c.d and got a court order against the law firm to stop the mass-mailing abuse of their network
7. Attorneys are pissed off, publically asking for a law change that allows them to drop the mass of those bagatelle cases
8. Politicians listen with the left ear to the attorneys and with the right ear and their pockets to the music industry and discuss to grant direct access to ISP customer records to the "content producers" )
(*) technical bullshit claims like "monitoring FTP services like WinFTP and Bittorrent"
AFAIK you don't have to restart tomcat either.
There was some (server.xml?) setting you could enable for hot deploy. But to be fair, I didn't trust that setting to always work back then.
But what Tomcat 5 has (and what I'm sure of that it works) is its manager webapp for (remotely) deploying webapps.
Now, a web interface isn't a nice thing to use for deploying during development but there are ant tasks to automate the whole thing: Ant Tasks for remote deploying on Tomcat
In best didn't RTFA manner I followed your link after posting my explanation and now understand what you meant with your upload/dowload imabalance.
To address that: the poster that recommended a 2/3 limit for your maximum upload rate is right.
If you totally max out your upload bandwith by uploading data, you will stall your downstream as
you need some upload bandwith for your downloading: you have to acknowledge received data, request new data and so on.
Example: I have about 200k/20k (down/up) DSL, usually limit the max P2P upload to 12-15k (2/3 to 3/4 of ~20k), can get full download speed and have a few bits left for ssh connections and to post on slashdot;-)
This is a problem that not only Bittorrent has, but all (P2P) applications.
Short answer:
If you are behind a router that does NAT (network address translation => you only have a local IP) and you do no (static) port forwarding, you can only share with peers that are NOT in the same situation. You can only share with peers that are directly connected to the net or do port forwarding, as you are only able to retrieve data from computers that you initiated the connection to.
Longer answer:
If you use P2P , among others you do two different things:
a) you look for peers that have the file you are interested in (by searching or connecting a tracker)
b) you connect those peers to download/upload data
After you have done the searching you have a number of peers/addresses to connect to; say you want to connect peer XYZ:
If XYZ is directly connected to the net (has a global IP address): no problem.
If XYZ is behind a not-forwarding router you can not directly connect him, since you can only connect the router that has the global ip address. The P2P app you actually want to connect to runs on a computer with only a local address in the LAN "behind" the router.
Now, depending on the P2P application/protocol you are using, there might be a way to tell XYZ to contact you to establish a connection.
For example: you could try to find someone that already has a connection to XYZ to tell XYZ to contact you on IP:Port. I don't know whether Bittorrent does something like that with the tracker (maybe it isn't even neccessary), but it seems somewhat obvious to track who can be connected and who can't and "suggest" peers accordingly.
You probably already see your problem now:
if your P2P app is "hidden" behind a NAT router too, even the "let XYZ contact me" method can't work since both of you have the same "I can't reach you behind your router" problem.
=> You can't share with a (probably) large number of peers, though you know they are out there somewhere.
=> All you "behind the router without forwarding" guys have to "fight" for the upload bandwith of the same (maybe few) directly connected ones.
=> It is slow instead of "no connections at all"
btw, it could be that even the statistics are against you: maybe more people with big upload bandwith are behind a NAT than directly connected. This probably is true for countries like Germany, where almost all broadband for the more-likely-to-be-direct-connected home users is ADSL with a rather limited upload (usually 128k to 256k), while business networks with bigger (upload) bandwith are shielded by NAT/firewalls.
(Though the number of home users with NAT has probably grown fast here because of DSL-modem/router/switch/WLAN combos being included in DSL subscriptions)
A slightly related user's point of view (though I'm also a developer):
I am not "forgoing this technology" because of security concerns, I am getting pissed off because of sites that force me to have Javascript enabled when I don't want to:
Coming from "JS disabled, enabled if needed/useful", I usually have it enabled now but I don't want to.
Which means that I will likely show up in the logs as a "non IE, but JS enabled => no problem" user (I am referring here to another answer to your post).
My problem with Javascript:
I want to disable it because of layer ads, remotely included tracking scripts (like Google's urchin.js), annoying eye candy (snowflakes and whatever), security and so on.
The "best" thing I encountered somewhere was a page remotely including some js for layer ads that used the click to close the ad to bypass popup blocking and open a popup. Great.
Don't get me wrong: I see uses for AJAX/Javascript, I was really impressed by maps.google for example.
Lots of Webapps might benefit by using it, especially Intranet or ASP stuff (I don't want to use an Office app with a server roundtrip after every click).
BUT: people who require Javascript because their menu URLs look like "javascript:goto('http://foo.com/bar.html')" or use it to open links in a new browser window because they never heard of "target='_blank'" should be drawn an quartered - though mostly because it breaks tabbed browsing;-)
The consequences:
I (have "always")used the "prefbar" mozilla extension with a checkbox for enabling (Java)Script/Referrer sending/cookies/etc
I most likely have Javascript enabled; AJAX supporters may cheer
I still only have it enabled because Flashblock says it needs it and there is more annoying Flash than Javascript;-)
Finally I was pissed of enough to bother to get the Adblock installation to work (had install troubles whenever I wanted to try it before) to be able to block stuff like Google's urchin.js and most layer ads
And guess what? I don't want to generally block ads, but during the blocking of webbugs and scripts I don't like, I found myself blocking the ads "while being already at it"
=> Yes, I might be able to visit (and use) a Javascript requiring site, but if the site's scripts seem useless or annoying to me. it hopefully doesn't rely on advertising revenue.
Somehow, a sentence containing "I like almost(*) all Pratchett books" got lost so the (*)-reference to "Thud!" in the parent post looks somewhat stupid now..
Not to sound like a "ME TOO!" post but I also think that Maurice is a great book and is not inferior to other Pratchett books.
Anyway, I just want to recommend the BBC radio play of "Maurice" to other Maurice fans. It's really good.
AFAIK it isn't sold anywhere but maybe there is a rebroadcast of it sometime; and you can probably find it if you search $P2P_NETWORK.
(*) For example, I was a litlle bit dissapointed by "Thud!"
I have the "Soul Music" DVD and really like it (though I normally don't like the animation style that is used).
But the voices - especially Christopher Lee as DEATH - and the songs they composed are great; that's really "Music With Rocks In"
It's just sad that there is no sound track (IIRC Terry Pratchett says the same in the included interview).
A while ago. some poilitician(s) in Germany made the useless suggestion to equip the German nuclear power plants with GPS jammers and fog machines, so that "terrsts" with a hijacked plane would have more difficulties to crash them into the reactors.
Well, in Serenity she is in the sunlight; also, having a vamipre or something supernatural(mystic) really doesn't fit in.
Although, an "Inara" _is_ the Hindu goddess of rain and lightning and the Japanese god(dess) of rice/food:-)
From what you have pointed out I would think more along the lines of genetic experiments/modifications(*).
Stuff like this is mentioned in the series (not only River), it could easily explain old-age-but-young-looking and could also tie in nicely with the "Blue Sun" storyline.
Also, maybe this isn't something special to Inara but that the companion training in general isn't only about candles, tea, pillows and seduction but also some genetic enhancements..
And I woudn't think that much about the (cross)bow with the rocket-powered bolts/arrows because it also fits that Inara uses weapons that are - compared to the guns of the crew - some more modern (although bow, it is an electronic enhanced bow) and stylish.
In fact, in the series (the scene you referenced at the end of "Trash") she also is the only one of the crew using a modern weapon (that little "ladylike" laser gun).
(*) Using that suicide kit will probably turn her into Ms. Hyde;-)
.
3. Oh wait, you mean this application/service/person might actually be doing something legal/useful/beneficial to us??? oh ok we're sorry
From what I understand it's more like:
3. The EFF has noticed us in an open letter about certain facts like "that any legal threats by Warner/Chappell against U.S. software developers in connection with software similar to pearLyrics could expose Warner/Chappell to legal action in U.S. federal courts."
Also, the software isn't available again; they didn't sue (this time?) but they still don't approve the software or say anything about their viewpoint regarding the legality of such a (basically search engine) software.
From what I read here it sounds more like that they will buy the software or hire the developer to develop a "legal" (and probably not free) version.
You can add JVC to that list for "I, Robot":
Will Smith character's home stereo equipment (CD player?)is featured very annoyingly during the movie with several (useless) close up shots of nothing but the player.
Very first example: the movie starts with Smith waking up, switching on the music and doing some loosening gymnastics. This little workout scene includes a shot of nothing but his player with its big JVC logo on the front.
Btw. regarding shoes: a not so blatant case were Uma Thurman's Asics in "Kill Bill". In the big mass fight scene (I think when she fights that "school girl") there are some shots were I had to think "Nice, that [jump|move|camera work] was only done to show off her sneakers in a close up".
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"Half of the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The problem is: I don't know which half."
According to a quick google often (but not solely) attributed to Henry Ford.
I had to up to an Amiga 500 to play forgot-its-name tennis game and North&South ;-)
You are not living in Europe. ;-)
Well, last time I checked, Germany was part of Europe
I can make a copy and give it to my friend. Private copy, private exchange. If I would try to profit directly off the copied CD/DVD - then it's definitely illegal.
As I said: In some parts of Europe (read: at least in Germany) it is different since there are some DMCA-like laws now (since autuum of 2003 IIRC).
In Germany you aren't allowed to circumvent even the crappiest DRM to create a private copy.
Programs that can be used to circumvent DRM may not be sold or advertised for (that part of the law was created to stop magazines from running arcticles like "How to backup your movie DVDs", "The best ripper programs" or giving download/vendor URLs for programs that ignore or circumvent DRM).
Additionally you aren't allowed to make a copy from an "obviously illegal source".
I think that was added as an anti-P2P measure but what constitutes an "obviously illegal source" isn't defined in the law and wasn't yet "defined" by court rulings.
btw: the site euro-copyrights.org tries to provide an overview of what's legal in which (EU) country.
The act of downloading is considered fair game but the act of uploading without the correct licence is still illegal.
I understood that the big thing about this decision was that even the uploading isn't illegal (didn't RTFA, but a German source a few hours ago).
It was mentioned that some time ago there already was a ruling that considered downloading to be legal. That's probably the "old news" that you were thinking about.
I hate to poop on the party, but the grandparent post is wrong - or at least oversimplified.
The legality of giving CD-Rs away for free depends heavily on the European country.
For Germany:
If you own the original, you may copy CD/DVDs (that don't contain DRM!) and give them to close familiy/friends; IIRC about seven people was a loose definition of "close family/friends". But this right is currently under attack so that no copys are allowed; the "non-DRM" part was the first step in September 2003 and now there are talks about banning all private copying; of course there are no talks of removing the blank media tax, the CD/DVD burner tax, scanner tax etc
AND: for stuff that contains DRM you aren't even allowed to make copys for YOURSELF!
To be precise: you aren't allowed to make copys of DRMed stuff if you have to circumvent the DRM somehow, so the "analog hole" is still open. That's why you can get programs that make copys by playing a CD and simultaneously recording it using the soundcard.
dada21 also doesn't know that "BMW" as acronym means "Bring Mich Werkstatt" in German ;-)
(Ok, it really means "Bayerische Motorenwerke" (Bavarian engine works), but hey..)
So, when will the couch get WiFi? ;-)
One click and in almost every case the redirects will be removed from all URLs in the page.
"Irak" is also the German spelling
..and probably in lots of other languages.
Unless there's some degree of "cost of court" added to that
There are additional fees so that (IIRC) it comes to ~200 Euros..
It is an almost completely automated system that works like this:
0. Game developer use the service of some dubios firm (logistep) that makes some bullshit (*) claims about their great P2P monitoring technology.
1. Dubios firm collects IP addresses of people sharing the game or at least files named like it, using a modified shareaza client that automatically sends the data to a closely connected law firm and the sharers' ISPs.
2. Lawyers swamp the attorneys of their district by filing tens of thousands of autmatically generated form letters (similar to "John Doe" stuff in the US).
3. Attorneys subpoena ISP subscriber infos, will likely cease/delay prosecution because they (and the courts) have real work to do and can't keep up with the form letter machinery. Although there were already some raids.
4. BUT the attorneys have the subscriber infos in their files and the plaintiff can (and will) request access to those records.
=> lawyers send a kind of cease and desist letters offering not to sue them in civil court if they pay X Euros damage and bill them their (practically not existing) legal "costs". But the criminal prosecution may still continue.
5. AUTOMATED PROFIT!!!
(6. One ISP got pissed by the hundreds of mails per hour telling them to keep the logs for IP a.b.c.d and got a court order against the law firm to stop the mass-mailing abuse of their network
7. Attorneys are pissed off, publically asking for a law change that allows them to drop the mass of those bagatelle cases
8. Politicians listen with the left ear to the attorneys and with the right ear and their pockets to the music industry and discuss to grant direct access to ISP customer records to the "content producers" )
(*) technical bullshit claims like "monitoring FTP services like WinFTP and Bittorrent"
AFAIK you don't have to restart tomcat either.
There was some (server.xml?) setting you could enable for hot deploy. But to be fair, I didn't trust that setting to always work back then.
But what Tomcat 5 has (and what I'm sure of that it works) is its manager webapp for (remotely) deploying webapps.
Now, a web interface isn't a nice thing to use for deploying during development but there are ant tasks to automate the whole thing:
Ant Tasks for remote deploying on Tomcat
In best didn't RTFA manner I followed your link after posting my explanation and now understand what you meant with your upload/dowload imabalance.
;-)
To address that: the poster that recommended a 2/3 limit for your maximum upload rate is right.
If you totally max out your upload bandwith by uploading data, you will stall your downstream as you need some upload bandwith for your downloading: you have to acknowledge received data, request new data and so on.
Example: I have about 200k/20k (down/up) DSL, usually limit the max P2P upload to 12-15k (2/3 to 3/4 of ~20k), can get full download speed and have a few bits left for ssh connections and to post on slashdot
This is a problem that not only Bittorrent has, but all (P2P) applications.
Short answer:
If you are behind a router that does NAT (network address translation => you only have a local IP) and you do no (static) port forwarding, you can only share with peers that are NOT in the same situation. You can only share with peers that are directly connected to the net or do port forwarding, as you are only able to retrieve data from computers that you initiated the connection to.
Longer answer:
If you use P2P , among others you do two different things:
a) you look for peers that have the file you are interested in (by searching or connecting a tracker)
b) you connect those peers to download/upload data
After you have done the searching you have a number of peers/addresses to connect to; say you want to connect peer XYZ:
If XYZ is directly connected to the net (has a global IP address): no problem.
If XYZ is behind a not-forwarding router you can not directly connect him, since you can only connect the router that has the global ip address. The P2P app you actually want to connect to runs on a computer with only a local address in the LAN "behind" the router.
Now, depending on the P2P application/protocol you are using, there might be a way to tell XYZ to contact you to establish a connection.
For example: you could try to find someone that already has a connection to XYZ to tell XYZ to contact you on IP:Port. I don't know whether Bittorrent does something like that with the tracker (maybe it isn't even neccessary), but it seems somewhat obvious to track who can be connected and who can't and "suggest" peers accordingly.
You probably already see your problem now:
if your P2P app is "hidden" behind a NAT router too, even the "let XYZ contact me" method can't work since both of you have the same "I can't reach you behind your router" problem.
=> You can't share with a (probably) large number of peers, though you know they are out there somewhere.
=> All you "behind the router without forwarding" guys have to "fight" for the upload bandwith of the same (maybe few) directly connected ones.
=> It is slow instead of "no connections at all"
btw, it could be that even the statistics are against you: maybe more people with big upload bandwith are behind a NAT than directly connected.
This probably is true for countries like Germany, where almost all broadband for the more-likely-to-be-direct-connected home users is ADSL with a rather limited upload (usually 128k to 256k), while business networks with bigger (upload) bandwith are shielded by NAT/firewalls.
(Though the number of home users with NAT has probably grown fast here because of DSL-modem/router/switch/WLAN combos being included in DSL subscriptions)
I am not "forgoing this technology" because of security concerns, I am getting pissed off because of sites that force me to have Javascript enabled when I don't want to:
Coming from "JS disabled, enabled if needed/useful", I usually have it enabled now but I don't want to.
Which means that I will likely show up in the logs as a "non IE, but JS enabled => no problem" user (I am referring here to another answer to your post).
My problem with Javascript:
I want to disable it because of layer ads, remotely included tracking scripts (like Google's urchin.js), annoying eye candy (snowflakes and whatever), security and so on. The "best" thing I encountered somewhere was a page remotely including some js for layer ads that used the click to close the ad to bypass popup blocking and open a popup. Great.
Don't get me wrong: I see uses for AJAX/Javascript, I was really impressed by maps.google for example.
Lots of Webapps might benefit by using it, especially Intranet or ASP stuff (I don't want to use an Office app with a server roundtrip after every click).
BUT: people who require Javascript because their menu URLs look like "javascript:goto('http://foo.com/bar.html')" or use it to open links in a new browser window because they never heard of "target='_blank'" should be drawn an quartered - though mostly because it breaks tabbed browsing
The consequences:
=> Yes, I might be able to visit (and use) a Javascript requiring site, but if the site's scripts seem useless or annoying to me. it hopefully doesn't rely on advertising revenue.
Somehow, a sentence containing "I like almost(*) all Pratchett books" got lost so the (*)-reference to "Thud!" in the parent post looks somewhat stupid now..
Not to sound like a "ME TOO!" post but I also think that Maurice is a great book and is not inferior to other Pratchett books.
Anyway, I just want to recommend the BBC radio play of "Maurice" to other Maurice fans. It's really good.
AFAIK it isn't sold anywhere but maybe there is a rebroadcast of it sometime; and you can probably find it if you search $P2P_NETWORK.
(*) For example, I was a litlle bit dissapointed by "Thud!"
There are animated version of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters.
I have the "Soul Music" DVD and really like it (though I normally don't like the animation style that is used).
But the voices - especially Christopher Lee as DEATH - and the songs they composed are great; that's really "Music With Rocks In"
It's just sad that there is no sound track (IIRC Terry Pratchett says the same in the included interview).
btw: there also is a Soul Music Region 1 DVD and a Wyrd Sisters Region 0 DVD
One other point about the logs:
How did they make sure that their clock was in sync with the ISP's?
Might matter in case of a dynamic IP address.
At this point, I was so pissed off that I entered a really long, expletive-laced fake email address to download iTunes.
I usually use sales@<stupidCompany>.com
Hey, maybe "stupidCompany"'s spamming software or mail server isn't yet configured to throw away their own spam. One can hope..
You aren't that far off:
A while ago. some poilitician(s) in Germany made the useless suggestion to equip the German nuclear power plants with GPS jammers and fog machines, so that "terrsts" with a hijacked plane would have more difficulties to crash them into the reactors.
Well, in Serenity she is in the sunlight; also, having a vamipre or something supernatural(mystic) really doesn't fit in. :-)
;-)
.
Although, an "Inara" _is_ the Hindu goddess of rain and lightning and the Japanese god(dess) of rice/food
From what you have pointed out I would think more along the lines of genetic experiments/modifications(*).
Stuff like this is mentioned in the series (not only River), it could easily explain old-age-but-young-looking and could also tie in nicely with the "Blue Sun" storyline.
Also, maybe this isn't something special to Inara but that the companion training in general isn't only about candles, tea, pillows and seduction but also some genetic enhancements..
And I woudn't think that much about the (cross)bow with the rocket-powered bolts/arrows because it also fits that Inara uses weapons that are - compared to the guns of the crew - some more modern (although bow, it is an electronic enhanced bow) and stylish.
In fact, in the series (the scene you referenced at the end of "Trash") she also is the only one of the crew using a modern weapon (that little "ladylike" laser gun).
(*) Using that suicide kit will probably turn her into Ms. Hyde
3. Oh wait, you mean this application/service/person might actually be doing something legal/useful/beneficial to us??? oh ok we're sorry
From what I understand it's more like:
3. The EFF has noticed us in an open letter about certain facts like "that any legal threats by Warner/Chappell against U.S. software developers in connection with software similar to pearLyrics could expose Warner/Chappell to legal action in U.S. federal courts."
Also, the software isn't available again; they didn't sue (this time?) but they still don't approve the software or say anything about their viewpoint regarding the legality of such a (basically search engine) software.
From what I read here it sounds more like that they will buy the software or hire the developer to develop a "legal" (and probably not free) version.
You can add JVC to that list for "I, Robot":
Will Smith character's home stereo equipment (CD player?)is featured very annoyingly during the movie with several (useless) close up shots of nothing but the player.
Very first example: the movie starts with Smith waking up, switching on the music and doing some loosening gymnastics. This little workout scene includes a shot of nothing but his player with its big JVC logo on the front.
Btw. regarding shoes: a not so blatant case were Uma Thurman's Asics in "Kill Bill". In the big mass fight scene (I think when she fights that "school girl") there are some shots were I had to think "Nice, that [jump|move|camera work] was only done to show off her sneakers in a close up".
..can be found on the official site:
? movie=operative&size=QTsmall
http://serenitymovie.com/nonflash_site/video.html
Dear Buddha.. ;-)
(THAT had to be said, in all "serenity")