What? TiVo is a commercial enterprise, and bandwidth is a cost of doing business. It's not as if they linked to a 40 MB file on the Dalai Lama's website-in-exile or something.
Geez, stop with the shilling already. At least fake a posting history about something else. Does this pay enough to be worth being exposed as a corporate whore with each post? Or (heaven help us) are you a principal in this evil little company?
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Those are the kind of 'locked down' machines I like. Often, I encounter training labs set up like that (putty + terminal services client or VNC = freedom) but not kiosks. I'll have to watch for that:).
That would be the game if I weren't but one of millions of people who ackowledge those contracts are unconscionable. Not that I would be anything but a kind and benevolent dictator, given the opportunity, of course.
If they went through the trouble to lock down a Windows PC to the extent of disallowing removable media, but allow IE to launch an arbitrary executable from the Internet, they're criminally incompetent.
Artists being enter into unconscionable contracts is one thing, but the trotting out of the GPL each time intellectual property is debated is tiring and wrong. GPL hacked copyright, creating a license which, if unenforceable, would render copyright itself unenforceable. So while it technically "relies" on copyright, there would be no need for it if copyright didn't exist.
Weird Al is distributed under a faux independent label, Volcano Records, which is owned by Sony BMG, who brought us intrusive DRM and is a proud part of the RIAA intellectual "property" lawsuit cartel. Now I have to get a new goddamned movement for my irony meter!
And then make sure you never go one mile an hour over the speed limit, spit on the sidewalk, or park 10.001 inches away from the curb for the rest of yourl life.
Lots of those hundreds of thousands of people are being replaced by production being pushed to the artist--it doesn't take studio time and audio engineers to clean up the tracks anymore. Lots of middlemen are being replaced because the label-centric, payola-based, pop-packaging distribution model, which is really what the RIAA is fighting so hard to protect is dying. Those economic forces completely dwarf the alleged effect of teenagers swapping tracks in real life or online.
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What? TiVo is a commercial enterprise, and bandwidth is a cost of doing business. It's not as if they linked to a 40 MB file on the Dalai Lama's website-in-exile or something.
Ideally, with another job already lined up. Or obtain a good errors and omissions policy, because you can bet you'll be sued if they get pwned.
Naw, they'll just push harder to get them banned from schools and libraries as a place where pedophile terrorists recruit young people.
Geez, stop with the shilling already. At least fake a posting history about something else. Does this pay enough to be worth being exposed as a corporate whore with each post? Or (heaven help us) are you a principal in this evil little company?
They should, but they haven't, so there should have been a warrant -- is that your point?
Using the information for a purpose other than that presented to the provider on the Privacy Act statement should require a warrant.
. . . does it still leave the difficult to blow away INDEX.DAT files?
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Yep, flying the plane is pretty straightforward. It's that landing thing that's the hard part!
Those are the kind of 'locked down' machines I like. Often, I encounter training labs set up like that (putty + terminal services client or VNC = freedom) but not kiosks. I'll have to watch for that :).
That would be the game if I weren't but one of millions of people who ackowledge those contracts are unconscionable. Not that I would be anything but a kind and benevolent dictator, given the opportunity, of course.
If they went through the trouble to lock down a Windows PC to the extent of disallowing removable media, but allow IE to launch an arbitrary executable from the Internet, they're criminally incompetent.
Artists being enter into unconscionable contracts is one thing, but the trotting out of the GPL each time intellectual property is debated is tiring and wrong. GPL hacked copyright, creating a license which, if unenforceable, would render copyright itself unenforceable. So while it technically "relies" on copyright, there would be no need for it if copyright didn't exist.
Exactly -- without the ability to sell ourselves into slavery, we're not really free!
Thanks for playing.
And the good news is that bullets can be made with no animal by-products.
Are you seriously putting the firebombing of the home of a little old lady in the same category as peaceful dissent?
That would be too good. Better would be to use them for the experimentation that they deem unfit for animals. Everybody wins!
. . . nutcases interested in firebombing executives in the copyright cartel, they might be able to accomplish some good.
If the government is making under-the-table dealings with "private" crackers, what's the difference?
The next month, the top URL was an anonymizing proxy.
Good point, I wasn't trying to imply malice on Weird Al's part, just that it's a little incongruent to have Sony BMG publishing a sendup of the RIAA.
Clean them out -- you have plausible deniability, and you warned them. If things get hot, take a jet to Belize :).
Weird Al is distributed under a faux independent label, Volcano Records, which is owned by Sony BMG, who brought us intrusive DRM and is a proud part of the RIAA intellectual "property" lawsuit cartel. Now I have to get a new goddamned movement for my irony meter!
And then make sure you never go one mile an hour over the speed limit, spit on the sidewalk, or park 10.001 inches away from the curb for the rest of yourl life.
Lots of those hundreds of thousands of people are being replaced by production being pushed to the artist--it doesn't take studio time and audio engineers to clean up the tracks anymore. Lots of middlemen are being replaced because the label-centric, payola-based, pop-packaging distribution model, which is really what the RIAA is fighting so hard to protect is dying. Those economic forces completely dwarf the alleged effect of teenagers swapping tracks in real life or online.