Main Entry: theft Pronunciation: 'theft Function: noun Etymology: Middle English thiefthe, from Old English thIefth; akin to Old English thEof thief Date: before 12th century 1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
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Single IP seems pretty straightforward.
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Single user seems tougher.
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User in my house:
Is it a single concurrent user? (i.e. can I use it then someone else)
Or a single user period? (i.e. sorry, neighbor; you can't check your email on my machine or I'll be in violation of my ISP's TOS).
Am I a single user (I have 6 pc's)?
Or is it user accounts?
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User not in my house:
If I'm uploading to multiple clients are they users? What about uploading in these circumstances:
- Sending email (are the receptees users?)
- Hosting a Quake3 server
- Hosting unix accounts(which you can use to browse, run ftp/http, etc)
- Sending packets to a variety of IP's requesting data?
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The author of your ISP's TOS may be smart but I think there's lots of ambiguity there.
(I'm ignoring the cost of creating/leasing lines and support)
ISP's costs are based on bandwidth used (this can depend on when the bandwidth is used, and whether it's up or down and out of their netblock or inside it). The # of machines connected has no bearing and it's pretty damn difficult to define a 'connected pc' IMO. Which of these would you include?:
- A hardware router running embedded linux - A hardware router running embedded linux which I've hacked and can surf with - A linux router (with no keyboard/monitor) - A linux router (with a keyboard/monitor) - A palm which is connected 1nce per day to a windows machine behind the router - A bloke who's hijacking my WiFi connection - A bloke who's hijacking the hijacker's Infared port - My laptop which I plug in at night and take to work the next day - An x server (Or Windows Terminal Server) serving 50 websurfing clients
Will I be charged for maximum# concurrent natted boxes, or average# of natted boxes? Or some other sceme?
I don't see where you could draw a nice precise black line on the definition of internet client; it all looks grey to me.
Speculation:
I think ISP's don't charge for bandwidth YET because it'd cost them money to measure it. I assume it would cost them more to measure {average or maximum natted boxes}. I think they'll finally see the light and begin charging an amount that has some pretty close correlation to their costs (though I think it'll take 5 years or so before new ISP's begin rolling out nice routers which catalog bandwidth based on what time of day it is, etc.).
According to your theory on marketing there is nothing wrong with one a single copy of an album being bought and paid for with the rest of the copies being taken from that. Call it what you like. If you are doing it to avoid paying for music it's stealing.
I've made a vow to reduce (vow to reduce, goal to eliminate) my funding of the RIAA/MPAA until they quit buying facist laws. If your music copywright is owned by them, try the following
Encode your stuff in high quality.mp3's &.ogg's and put them on P2P (you can't offer them yourself legally because you don't own the copywright). Have a paypal link on your site for donations. If I like your music I'll give you money.
If you'd like me to make you a simple site I'll do so for free.
I can't believe our forefathers didn't see the evils of the patent, trademark, and copyright laws they laid down. I'm a consumer myself and things are getting rougher by the day while they should be getting much easier now that we can in effect replicate a thousand printing presses for nothing. Who says information can be owned? We have a right to trade and duplicate information. Using the law to create a monopoly on a piece of information is unethical. Saying it's because you're revenue is dropping is a rationalizing act. If the people don't go after RIAA like organizations should go after the individuals doing the lawmaking? Would it be better off to forgive Congress and let them know they won't be back in office if their condiuct doesn't change? It may not seem to you like you're getting away with something enforcing licensing on your data but in the long run you won't be able to enforce it. Without spending money on this data the people will be able to do other things with their money. The people are poor. You'll lose. And I've never enforced licencing on data.
Language is important; I was trying to correct the parent for poor language use.
By creating buzzwords and associating 'bad' words with an act, the establishment can sway public opinion. Consider 'pirate', 'thief', etc... they sound much worse than 'copyright infringer'.
Define kiddie porn, please; beauty pageants for preteens give me a much ickier feeling than watching a 17 year old screw a guy. Who should be the judge of what's indecent? Or illegal?
If you want to sample an artist's music before buying a disc, why not listen to the radio
I hate commercials and I prefer to hear what I want to when I want to rather than what the local stations play. Clearchannel pisses me off and I'm boycotting them.
MTV
MTV plays music? Maybe I should get a TV. Oh.. nevermind; local broadcast sucks and I don't want monthly fees for cable or satellite.
or the short samples available on Amazon.com (or wherever)
I can get full 'samples' faster with p2p than I can with any 'legitimate' service I know of. Even if amazon's service was useful I'd boycott it due to their predatory law team (trying to enforce no-brainer patents)
Data will be free!
caveat: I wish artists would make it easy to compensate them; I've wanted to compensate several over the past year but their websites had no useful info (paypal acct or mailing addr). While I'm imagine it's legally murky for them to take direct contributions I think this will be commonplace in a decade or few. I will not fund organizations who lobby for crap like the DMCA. I can honestly say I have not filtered one penny to the MPAA or RIAA for the past 2 years.
as long as people will buy CRT's and have the space for them, they will never become mainstream. So they will remain something for corporate offices and people with too much money. (the latter of which is declining rapidly)
Power costs money and LCD's use less (they also last longer than CRT's in general). For the general employee a 15" LCD for $250 is more cost effective than a 17" CRT (and probably more desirable to the employee). Depending on useage and power costs it'll pay for the delta in cost betwen it and a 17" CRT in ~3 years and should have a much higher resale value than the CRT at that point.
I like thinkgeek. but...
Those flashlights SUCK. Even with a full charge a lighter would do better; They're neat but completely useless.
And that damn fridge I bought from them quit cooling... how do you figure? 1 moving part (the fan) and a peltier. One of my projects this week is to figure out why it doesn't work worth a crap now (bought as a present for dad) and to hopefully fix it.
Hmm I've still been searching for a better link and actually read the one I posted; it does burn oil (and lubricates the bottom end with the fuel-oil mixture). I found A link on google groups for a closed crankcase 2 stroke:
I suppose the design's problematic for some reason (like maybe having to have high psi on the intake when you try to start the engine). I read up a bit on the 'jimmy' diesels and some of them had a compressed air tank to get them going.
(Gotta have greater pressure on the intake tract than in the cylinder for it to work)
You lubricate the bottom end and rings/cyliner walls like you do with a 4 stroke and somehow get the exhaust out and a nice new clean air/fuel mixture in before the piston makes it back up to the top.
Here's a way to do it:
http://cgi.motorcycle.com/mo/mchonda/exp2_tech.h tm l
I remember reading about some other ways ~ 10 years ago but this is the best I could find with a quick search.
Honda's above example looks complicated; a simple (but maybe inefficient) way is to use forced induction (and a one way valve) on the intake port, and use fuel injection to get the fuel in the combustion chamber; I read about doing it like that ~ 10 years ago but couldn't find a link.
This is nowhere near a super efficient engine (in terms of power/fuel consumption) it has super low power/weight ratio but it's power/fuel consumption ratio sucks. He just took a commodity part for little unreliable radio controlled toys and somehow crammed it and it's powertrain into a bibycle fork.
Not all two stroke engines burn a significant amount of oil; All four stroke engines burn some oil. Two stroke means it makes power each revolution; 99.9% of two stroke engines use a fuel/air/oil mixture to lubricate the engine (and then it ends up getting burnt); There are two stroke engines that don't mix (or inject) oil into the fuel mixture.
I have no evidence to prove or disprove the fact this thing would pollute more than a small moped but I'd suspect it's worse.
The little r/c engines I've seen are loud as hell; I'd love to ride one of these to see:
1) How much it vibrates 2) How loud it is 3) How much torque/speed it's got 4) Where the hell is the heatsink?
I suspect it's not that cool, and a well designed light moped would be a much nicer vehicle (and cheaper in the long run if you factor in a reasonable amount of mileage and fuel costs).
Yep; great book; I loved one of his analogies (referring to a finite universe with no boundaries) that went something like this:
Imagine you're a 2-D dude wandering the earth (which is really a 3-D globe like you'd find in a classroom). You can walk and walk and never hit a wall but there's a finite amount of 2-D space. Now imagine you're a 3-D dude... This is where my feeble brain says 'help!'.
The analogy would seem to back up the article; whatever direction you take if you walk long enough you end up where you started.
There are a variety of ways to monetize it. But one way that I think may work in the short run is for us to create a pool of money at the ISP level from a percentage of what people are charged for their online accounts and make those funds available on a statistical basis to the creators themselves as you do with entities like ASCAP. And unlike these licensing and collection entities, you have the potential to come up with a very clear understanding what material is actually passing online. You don't have to know who it's coming from or where it's going. But easy enough to know what it is quite accurately and then dividing up the proceeds from that general pool to the people who are responsible for the material that is passing through the ISPs on a most regular basis. That's my current idea for solving this problem. But his presupposes something that I am not very comfortable with which is compulsory licensing such as you've got it in broadcast now."
ASCAP isn't all bad, but their overhead is somewhere around 50%; what happens to countries outside the US? Will they be forced to pay $X per terabyte downloaded from the US regardless of what content was downloaded? Why should my webserver's internet connection (no copyrighted content on it) pay a tax to the media companies? It's not fair.
I know it's not black and white; I like some unfair taxes like the gasoline tax. We could make it fairer by having a toll booth at each intersection where your car is weighed and charged according to it's impact on the roadways... the problem is the overhead would be insane.
I think it's clear that all content will eventually be free and music, movies, software, etc will all have to rely on two things for their revenue streams:
1) Product placement (can you say advertisments in MS-Word)?
2) Goodwill (Artists, please begin putting paypal links (or equivalent) on your websites).
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Main Entry: theft
Pronunciation: 'theft
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English thiefthe, from Old English thIefth; akin to Old English thEof thief
Date: before 12th century
1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
It's copyright infringement, not theft.
I was going for sarcasm but instead of +1 Funny I get +1 Informative. Go figure. Next time I'll use my patented sarcasm tags.
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Single IP seems pretty straightforward.
__________________________
Single user seems tougher.
__________________________
User in my house:
Is it a single concurrent user? (i.e. can I use it then someone else)
Or a single user period? (i.e. sorry, neighbor; you can't check your email on my machine or I'll be in violation of my ISP's TOS).
Am I a single user (I have 6 pc's)?
Or is it user accounts?
__________________________
User not in my house:
If I'm uploading to multiple clients are they users? What about uploading in these circumstances:
- Sending email (are the receptees users?)
- Hosting a Quake3 server
- Hosting unix accounts(which you can use to browse, run ftp/http, etc)
- Sending packets to a variety of IP's requesting data?
__________________________
The author of your ISP's TOS may be smart but I think there's lots of ambiguity there.
(I'm ignoring the cost of creating/leasing lines and support)
ISP's costs are based on bandwidth used (this can depend on when the bandwidth is used, and whether it's up or down and out of their netblock or inside it). The # of machines connected has no bearing and it's pretty damn difficult to define a 'connected pc' IMO. Which of these would you include?:
- A hardware router running embedded linux
- A hardware router running embedded linux which I've hacked and can surf with
- A linux router (with no keyboard/monitor)
- A linux router (with a keyboard/monitor)
- A palm which is connected 1nce per day to a windows machine behind the router
- A bloke who's hijacking my WiFi connection
- A bloke who's hijacking the hijacker's Infared port
- My laptop which I plug in at night and take to work the next day
- An x server (Or Windows Terminal Server) serving 50 websurfing clients
Will I be charged for maximum# concurrent natted boxes, or average# of natted boxes? Or some other sceme?
I don't see where you could draw a nice precise black line on the definition of internet client; it all looks grey to me.
Speculation:
I think ISP's don't charge for bandwidth YET because it'd cost them money to measure it. I assume it would cost them more to measure {average or maximum natted boxes}. I think they'll finally see the light and begin charging an amount that has some pretty close correlation to their costs (though I think it'll take 5 years or so before new ISP's begin rolling out nice routers which catalog bandwidth based on what time of day it is, etc.).
I've made a vow to reduce (vow to reduce, goal to eliminate) my funding of the RIAA/MPAA until they quit buying facist laws. If your music copywright is owned by them, try the following
Encode your stuff in high quality .mp3's & .ogg's and put them on P2P (you can't offer them yourself legally because you don't own the copywright). Have a paypal link on your site for donations. If I like your music I'll give you money.
If you'd like me to make you a simple site I'll do so for free.
I can't believe our forefathers didn't see the evils of the patent, trademark, and copyright laws they laid down. I'm a consumer myself and things are getting rougher by the day while they should be getting much easier now that we can in effect replicate a thousand printing presses for nothing. Who says information can be owned? We have a right to trade and duplicate information. Using the law to create a monopoly on a piece of information is unethical. Saying it's because you're revenue is dropping is a rationalizing act. If the people don't go after RIAA like organizations should go after the individuals doing the lawmaking? Would it be better off to forgive Congress and let them know they won't be back in office if their condiuct doesn't change? It may not seem to you like you're getting away with something enforcing licensing on your data but in the long run you won't be able to enforce it. Without spending money on this data the people will be able to do other things with their money. The people are poor. You'll lose. And I've never enforced licencing on data.
Language is important; I was trying to correct the parent for poor language use.
By creating buzzwords and associating 'bad' words with an act, the establishment can sway public opinion. Consider 'pirate', 'thief', etc... they sound much worse than 'copyright infringer'.
That's right, you stole it.
m-w.com:
Steal
1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice.
Property
2 a : something owned or possessed; specifically : a piece of real estate
Copywright Infringement != Theft
Agreed; self censoring is the best awnser IMO (though I cringe when I imagine what grandma sees when she's using the new pc I got her).
Define kiddie porn, please; beauty pageants for preteens give me a much ickier feeling than watching a 17 year old screw a guy. Who should be the judge of what's indecent? Or illegal?
I've got ~100gig's on my desktop (on my WinXP bos); system runs snappy.
I'm 'perpared' to pay $0!
I hate commercials and I prefer to hear what I want to when I want to rather than what the local stations play. Clearchannel pisses me off and I'm boycotting them.
MTV
MTV plays music? Maybe I should get a TV. Oh.. nevermind; local broadcast sucks and I don't want monthly fees for cable or satellite.
or the short samples available on Amazon.com (or wherever)
I can get full 'samples' faster with p2p than I can with any 'legitimate' service I know of. Even if amazon's service was useful I'd boycott it due to their predatory law team (trying to enforce no-brainer patents)
Data will be free!
caveat: I wish artists would make it easy to compensate them; I've wanted to compensate several over the past year but their websites had no useful info (paypal acct or mailing addr). While I'm imagine it's legally murky for them to take direct contributions I think this will be commonplace in a decade or few. I will not fund organizations who lobby for crap like the DMCA. I can honestly say I have not filtered one penny to the MPAA or RIAA for the past 2 years.
Power costs money and LCD's use less (they also last longer than CRT's in general). For the general employee a 15" LCD for $250 is more cost effective than a 17" CRT (and probably more desirable to the employee). Depending on useage and power costs it'll pay for the delta in cost betwen it and a 17" CRT in ~3 years and should have a much higher resale value than the CRT at that point.
You can grab a domain for ~$12/year and use www.zoneedit.com for your free nameserver(s)/email forwarder.
I do this and haven't yet had a spammer do a dictionary attack on my domain.
Just buy yourself a domain name and forward *@yourdomain.com to your real email addy. Cheap and you stay in control.
I like thinkgeek. but... Those flashlights SUCK. Even with a full charge a lighter would do better; They're neat but completely useless. And that damn fridge I bought from them quit cooling... how do you figure? 1 moving part (the fan) and a peltier. One of my projects this week is to figure out why it doesn't work worth a crap now (bought as a present for dad) and to hopefully fix it.
Hmm I've still been searching for a better link and actually read the one I posted; it does burn oil (and lubricates the bottom end with the fuel-oil mixture). I found A link on google groups for a closed crankcase 2 stroke:
Google Groups Link>Link
I suppose the design's problematic for some reason (like maybe having to have high psi on the intake when you try to start the engine). I read up a bit on the 'jimmy' diesels and some of them had a compressed air tank to get them going.
(Gotta have greater pressure on the intake tract than in the cylinder for it to work)
You lubricate the bottom end and rings/cyliner walls like you do with a 4 stroke and somehow get the exhaust out and a nice new clean air/fuel mixture in before the piston makes it back up to the top.
h tm l
Here's a way to do it:
http://cgi.motorcycle.com/mo/mchonda/exp2_tech.
I remember reading about some other ways ~ 10 years ago but this is the best I could find with a quick search.
Honda's above example looks complicated; a simple (but maybe inefficient) way is to use forced induction (and a one way valve) on the intake port, and use fuel injection to get the fuel in the combustion chamber; I read about doing it like that ~ 10 years ago but couldn't find a link.
Edit: I meant the engine has a super high power/weight ratio.
A couple comments;
This is nowhere near a super efficient engine (in terms of power/fuel consumption) it has super low power/weight ratio but it's power/fuel consumption ratio sucks. He just took a commodity part for little unreliable radio controlled toys and somehow crammed it and it's powertrain into a bibycle fork.
Not all two stroke engines burn a significant amount of oil; All four stroke engines burn some oil. Two stroke means it makes power each revolution; 99.9% of two stroke engines use a fuel/air/oil mixture to lubricate the engine (and then it ends up getting burnt); There are two stroke engines that don't mix (or inject) oil into the fuel mixture.
I have no evidence to prove or disprove the fact this thing would pollute more than a small moped but I'd suspect it's worse.
The little r/c engines I've seen are loud as hell; I'd love to ride one of these to see:
1) How much it vibrates
2) How loud it is
3) How much torque/speed it's got
4) Where the hell is the heatsink?
I suspect it's not that cool, and a well designed light moped would be a much nicer vehicle (and cheaper in the long run if you factor in a reasonable amount of mileage and fuel costs).
Imagine you're a 2-D dude wandering the earth (which is really a 3-D globe like you'd find in a classroom). You can walk and walk and never hit a wall but there's a finite amount of 2-D space. Now imagine you're a 3-D dude... This is where my feeble brain says 'help!'.
The analogy would seem to back up the article; whatever direction you take if you walk long enough you end up where you started.
ASCAP isn't all bad, but their overhead is somewhere around 50%; what happens to countries outside the US? Will they be forced to pay $X per terabyte downloaded from the US regardless of what content was downloaded? Why should my webserver's internet connection (no copyrighted content on it) pay a tax to the media companies? It's not fair.
I know it's not black and white; I like some unfair taxes like the gasoline tax. We could make it fairer by having a toll booth at each intersection where your car is weighed and charged according to it's impact on the roadways... the problem is the overhead would be insane.
I think it's clear that all content will eventually be free and music, movies, software, etc will all have to rely on two things for their revenue streams:
1) Product placement (can you say advertisments in MS-Word)?
2) Goodwill (Artists, please begin putting paypal links (or equivalent) on your websites).