The press is quite free, remember the bribery scandals as of late?
Yes, there are still soviet relics, but we are also a very young country who has got really far in a very short time span.
It's not that long ago we gained our independence, but in today's world we are leaders in many industries, sports etc. Given the low number of finns, in a really big country which is very expensive to maintain on per capita basis, we are indeed doing an amazing job.
The old cars thing is a two proned thing, we are afterall a rally country, and many of us drive older cars due to preference. Like i do. I occasionally go shopping for a newer car, but they all suck from a driver's perspective, and instead i buy an older car.
Yes, i drive almost 30yo cars out of preference. I don't want ABS, i don't want ESP, i don't need central locking, i don't need power windows, and most of all i refuse to drive a heavy front wheel driven car. FWD cars are damn awful driving experience, outright scary during winter, when you are used to have a controlleable RWD car and try to go at the speeds you are used to with RWD, you are extremely likely to just crash the FWD car on the first time you need to turn.
Could you tell me about that threat thing, EU investigation thing more? I'm curious what it's all about.
Everytime time thinking about the winter war gives me schills.
Always reading about the events shows mostly tactical & strategic superior planning by finns, along with "pure willpower" what we call "Sisu", just pushing through and keep pushing until there's nothing to give anymore despite no matter how hard you try.
We were vastly overwhelmed in numbers and supplies.
The child pornography censoring filter spurred the "mostly":)
Thank you for the new information, i haven't been following this issue much lately.
Our president does have one important power still, and it's the veto right. Afaik, she can deny any bill she doesn't like, am i right?
Taxation is always hot topic around here, how to increase taxes that is! GRR! They keep increasing all the time. As a car hobbyist i feel this extremely hard.
I know i'm voting for a candidate of "Perussuomalaiset", not sure whom yet. Will do my research when the time comes.
Political system has indeed been quite broken for the past decade or so, but it's starting to repair with "Piraattiliitto" (Pirate party) and "Perussuomalaiset" (basicly means average joe finns). I was actually quite happy for example Tony Halme getting elected, he has what people call life experience, meaning exactly the kind of person who needs to be there. Didn't work out so well, but atleast he had his chance.
Finland is far from perfect, but from all the countries, i do prefer being here. As a business owner this is quite good country to be in as well, despite the extremely heavy taxation. Paperwork is rated to be one of the easiest.
I noticed from follow ups that i was misunderstood by many, and by some by intention, as i was expressing myself badly.
Yes, the hosting niche we work in has possibility to be used for illegal purposes, so does any other hosting service, what i meant is that our niche is more likely to be used for copyright infringement than the average hosting service (ie. regular web hosting).
Some went even far as displaying us in a light that we'd promote or encourage such behavior - we definitively do not, and take these matters seriously. What we encourage and promote is usage of Bittorrent as a distribution mechanism, simple as that.
Uh... Anything can be used for illegal purposes, therefore do i dare to do ANYTHING?
My original post was widely misunderstood.
We do not accept copyright infringement, and do act upon it. Our service is not aimed at copyright infringement, but for data distribution.
We offer a distribution service - plain and simple.
We do not promote or encourage illegal activity.
And yes: We are a 2nd tier internet service provider.
And no: I'm not saying, or meant to say, that most of our customers infringe copyright, but exactly "some", as we received DMCA notices for ~1/12 users in our US servers points out.
He articulated it better than i did (guess it has to do with the fact it's middle of night and i'm tired).
Exactly, we do provide tools just like a company offers tools which are being used by locksmith's and thieves a like. Doesn't make our service in itself bad, illegal or something along those lines.
I did not mean that, while it might sound like that.
With "frequent", i meant in average 1 per week DMCA notice.
The sole point of my posting was that due to the grey haze the MAFIAA has laid upon torrents in general, we have to be extra careful not to get trouble by simple "Bittorrent is EEEEVIL!" association.
Unfortunately, MAFIAA has been succesfull in the propaganda making Bittorrent seem evil.
If you didn't happen to notice we are out in the open.
Our website is public, does not do anything to hide what we sell, and is marketed heavily.
Anything which creates something is creative. By your definition, creation of our services, rendering them etc. is destructive and immoral. Therefore your comment, along with your whole existence is destructive and immoral.
Why would i operating it outside the US?
- I live in Finland
- I'm born in Finland
- Servers are cheaper in Europe
- Our company is registered in Finland
- Most of our customers are all around the world
We do have US based servers tho.
Nope, it is not absurd. Our service neither is sold primarily as a tool to break the law, it does enable you to do so, just like download uTorrent to your desktop computer does, but our service primary selling point *is not* breaking the law.
Our service primary selling point is distributing any data cost effectively via bittorrent. Get a single SB from us the initial seed and ensure your files are always seeded.
and yet that "finder's keeper's" rules ought to be all what domains are about.
They are finite resource, if you missed your opportunity to register a domain, you cannot simply force someone to give it over. For one, that someone has very likely already added value to that domain name, or have plans on the domain for the future etc etc etc.
Probably hasn't cost him a fortune, because loser pays the winner's legal fees too, if the loser happens to be the suer/accuser. At least in certain type of cases, which this looks to be like.
Thank god i live and was born in Finland. Freedom of speech seems to still be somewhat appreciated around here - and people know that i host Wikileaks mirrors. If i disappear mysticiously, several hundred people will know really fast, and they will tell their friends and so on - a full blown media frenzy fast, if anything happens. Operating a rather large hosting company for our niche has it's benefits too;)
So i'm not afraid, and i trust that if there was life endangering information Assange and his team have censored that bit. In the earlier leaks there was huge concern of such, but i saw articles that there was nothing which endangered lives directly.
But i do know this: What the US banks are doing *NEEDS* and *HAS TO* be released publicly. It seems so likely they are doing quite a fraud, apart from what's already visible (tax payers bailing them out).
Yes, i am quite a bit feeling like checking the "Post Anonymously" box, but that only goes to show that governments are not serving citizens anymore! Governments should be afraid of citizens, not vice-versa. and drawing to the comfort that i do happen to live in Finland, a neutral country, and for the most part our government wants to do the right thing. Let alone that our president isn't afraid to be aggressive to voice her and our governments opinion if she sees wrong doing, even if it hasn't anything to do directly with us. Yes, Finland is a weird tiny big country.
Best things in the world are simple things. They might form complex mechanics, outcomes etc. but in essence they are still rather simple.
For example, such a simple thing as good food makes you feel good, but there is layer's upon layer's upon layer's of simple things making it that so.
Complexity is not the key, simplicity for complex outcome is.
Like some genius in the history said something like "Any idiot can make a bigger, more complex engine - it takes a true genius to make it simpler, smaller". With sufficient levels of abstraction, you can make anything, but the building blocks itself remain rather simple.
In a car analogy, internal combustion engine in principle is rather simple: Compress explosive/burning gaseous mixture, light it up, and as it expands it pushes the piston, redo the work by using some of the gained energy to compress next mixture. All components itself in a modern engine are simple: Ignition plugs, valves, camshafts, valve guides, valve stems etc etc etc etc. but they end up forming a rather complex structure to achieve the work.
Take a wankel engine, and it's that much simpler (less components), yet the outcome tends to perform better in a simple displacement vs. output comparison. The components are rather simple, but no one would say the engine as a whole is simple.
There simply is no substitute to the best we know-of right now.
There simply is no other kind of life forms we know-of right now. What about gaseous life forms? Simply because we don't know of such, does not mean such cannot exist.
combination of other elements might proof to be better overall, but only in a specially arranged combination. Therefore something could replace carbon and hydrogen. Or maybe a new element is found which can replace them.
Science is not about ultimatums, "this simply is so and cannot be otherwise", but science is about keeping an open mind that something else might work, or things might work on unexpected ways.
the IFPI organization doesn't have any more right to the domain than sunde did.
Leaving it unrenewed is their friggin' problem, not anyone elses. No average joe can go bitch "that dude stole my domain!", "It says here you didn't renew it", "So what, it's mine! I forgot!", why should MAFIAA have that right?
How about this? The Pirate Bay is too public to pull of a stunt like this, but some less known domains (like the ones seized a few moments ago) spurr less activism against it, so they can slowly roll it in and make it a norm. (like the antiterrorism bullshit going around)
Slashdot Mirror
MySQL Query progress bars on web page, fuzzy AI search algos for web app and putting it on the cloud are just check marks on the features list.
The press is quite free, remember the bribery scandals as of late?
Yes, there are still soviet relics, but we are also a very young country who has got really far in a very short time span.
It's not that long ago we gained our independence, but in today's world we are leaders in many industries, sports etc. Given the low number of finns, in a really big country which is very expensive to maintain on per capita basis, we are indeed doing an amazing job.
The old cars thing is a two proned thing, we are afterall a rally country, and many of us drive older cars due to preference. Like i do. I occasionally go shopping for a newer car, but they all suck from a driver's perspective, and instead i buy an older car.
Yes, i drive almost 30yo cars out of preference. I don't want ABS, i don't want ESP, i don't need central locking, i don't need power windows, and most of all i refuse to drive a heavy front wheel driven car. FWD cars are damn awful driving experience, outright scary during winter, when you are used to have a controlleable RWD car and try to go at the speeds you are used to with RWD, you are extremely likely to just crash the FWD car on the first time you need to turn.
Could you tell me about that threat thing, EU investigation thing more? I'm curious what it's all about.
Everytime time thinking about the winter war gives me schills.
Always reading about the events shows mostly tactical & strategic superior planning by finns, along with "pure willpower" what we call "Sisu", just pushing through and keep pushing until there's nothing to give anymore despite no matter how hard you try.
We were vastly overwhelmed in numbers and supplies.
Now i think it's time to watch again "Winter war", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098437/
The child pornography censoring filter spurred the "mostly" :)
Thank you for the new information, i haven't been following this issue much lately.
Our president does have one important power still, and it's the veto right. Afaik, she can deny any bill she doesn't like, am i right?
Taxation is always hot topic around here, how to increase taxes that is! GRR! They keep increasing all the time. As a car hobbyist i feel this extremely hard.
I know i'm voting for a candidate of "Perussuomalaiset", not sure whom yet. Will do my research when the time comes.
Political system has indeed been quite broken for the past decade or so, but it's starting to repair with "Piraattiliitto" (Pirate party) and "Perussuomalaiset" (basicly means average joe finns). I was actually quite happy for example Tony Halme getting elected, he has what people call life experience, meaning exactly the kind of person who needs to be there. Didn't work out so well, but atleast he had his chance.
Finland is far from perfect, but from all the countries, i do prefer being here. As a business owner this is quite good country to be in as well, despite the extremely heavy taxation. Paperwork is rated to be one of the easiest.
I noticed from follow ups that i was misunderstood by many, and by some by intention, as i was expressing myself badly.
Yes, the hosting niche we work in has possibility to be used for illegal purposes, so does any other hosting service, what i meant is that our niche is more likely to be used for copyright infringement than the average hosting service (ie. regular web hosting).
Some went even far as displaying us in a light that we'd promote or encourage such behavior - we definitively do not, and take these matters seriously. What we encourage and promote is usage of Bittorrent as a distribution mechanism, simple as that.
Uh ...
Anything can be used for illegal purposes, therefore do i dare to do ANYTHING?
My original post was widely misunderstood.
We do not accept copyright infringement, and do act upon it. Our service is not aimed at copyright infringement, but for data distribution.
We offer a distribution service - plain and simple.
We do not promote or encourage illegal activity.
And yes: We are a 2nd tier internet service provider.
And no: I'm not saying, or meant to say, that most of our customers infringe copyright, but exactly "some", as we received DMCA notices for ~1/12 users in our US servers points out.
^_^
Exactly like you said.
We don't know exact statistics, from the US based services an average ~1/12 of users received any DMCA notices.
glad someone makes business minded commentary as well :)
"pirates are leeches" is completely wrong. According to research pirates spend more money to music and movies.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Pirate-Fileshare-Music-Download-Illegal,news-5001.html
and which has been proven.
Pirates actually purchase MORE music and movies than the average joe, according to some research.
Parent should be modded +5 insightfull :)
He articulated it better than i did (guess it has to do with the fact it's middle of night and i'm tired).
Exactly, we do provide tools just like a company offers tools which are being used by locksmith's and thieves a like. Doesn't make our service in itself bad, illegal or something along those lines.
I did not mean that, while it might sound like that.
With "frequent", i meant in average 1 per week DMCA notice.
The sole point of my posting was that due to the grey haze the MAFIAA has laid upon torrents in general, we have to be extra careful not to get trouble by simple "Bittorrent is EEEEVIL!" association.
Unfortunately, MAFIAA has been succesfull in the propaganda making Bittorrent seem evil.
If you didn't happen to notice we are out in the open.
Our website is public, does not do anything to hide what we sell, and is marketed heavily.
Anything which creates something is creative. By your definition, creation of our services, rendering them etc. is destructive and immoral. Therefore your comment, along with your whole existence is destructive and immoral.
Why would i operating it outside the US?
- I live in Finland
- I'm born in Finland
- Servers are cheaper in Europe
- Our company is registered in Finland
- Most of our customers are all around the world
We do have US based servers tho.
Nope, it is not absurd. Our service neither is sold primarily as a tool to break the law, it does enable you to do so, just like download uTorrent to your desktop computer does, but our service primary selling point *is not* breaking the law.
Our service primary selling point is distributing any data cost effectively via bittorrent. Get a single SB from us the initial seed and ensure your files are always seeded.
and another case of USA forcing their own laws down the throats of citizens of other countries.
and that was exactly my point, but from different perspective :)
and yet that "finder's keeper's" rules ought to be all what domains are about.
They are finite resource, if you missed your opportunity to register a domain, you cannot simply force someone to give it over. For one, that someone has very likely already added value to that domain name, or have plans on the domain for the future etc etc etc.
Bad faith is subjective, and is only perceived as bad faith from the observer's perspective.
If i steal your wallet, you get angry for it and punch me, i could perceive you punched me in bad faith, not as response of my wrong doing.
But yeah, "bad faith" clause might win a court.
Probably hasn't cost him a fortune, because loser pays the winner's legal fees too, if the loser happens to be the suer/accuser. At least in certain type of cases, which this looks to be like.
Thank god i live and was born in Finland. Freedom of speech seems to still be somewhat appreciated around here - and people know that i host Wikileaks mirrors. If i disappear mysticiously, several hundred people will know really fast, and they will tell their friends and so on - a full blown media frenzy fast, if anything happens. Operating a rather large hosting company for our niche has it's benefits too ;)
So i'm not afraid, and i trust that if there was life endangering information Assange and his team have censored that bit. In the earlier leaks there was huge concern of such, but i saw articles that there was nothing which endangered lives directly.
But i do know this: What the US banks are doing *NEEDS* and *HAS TO* be released publicly. It seems so likely they are doing quite a fraud, apart from what's already visible (tax payers bailing them out).
Yes, i am quite a bit feeling like checking the "Post Anonymously" box, but that only goes to show that governments are not serving citizens anymore! Governments should be afraid of citizens, not vice-versa. and drawing to the comfort that i do happen to live in Finland, a neutral country, and for the most part our government wants to do the right thing. Let alone that our president isn't afraid to be aggressive to voice her and our governments opinion if she sees wrong doing, even if it hasn't anything to do directly with us. Yes, Finland is a weird tiny big country.
We do, and we are hosting couple static mirrors for them...
Yeah, it might sound a bit risky but who knows.
We gave 2 static mirrors now... Who knows if we add say 60 more :)
Best things in the world are simple things. They might form complex mechanics, outcomes etc. but in essence they are still rather simple.
For example, such a simple thing as good food makes you feel good, but there is layer's upon layer's upon layer's of simple things making it that so.
Complexity is not the key, simplicity for complex outcome is.
Like some genius in the history said something like "Any idiot can make a bigger, more complex engine - it takes a true genius to make it simpler, smaller". With sufficient levels of abstraction, you can make anything, but the building blocks itself remain rather simple.
In a car analogy, internal combustion engine in principle is rather simple: Compress explosive/burning gaseous mixture, light it up, and as it expands it pushes the piston, redo the work by using some of the gained energy to compress next mixture.
All components itself in a modern engine are simple: Ignition plugs, valves, camshafts, valve guides, valve stems etc etc etc etc. but they end up forming a rather complex structure to achieve the work.
Take a wankel engine, and it's that much simpler (less components), yet the outcome tends to perform better in a simple displacement vs. output comparison. The components are rather simple, but no one would say the engine as a whole is simple.
There simply is no substitute to the best we know-of right now.
There simply is no other kind of life forms we know-of right now. What about gaseous life forms? Simply because we don't know of such, does not mean such cannot exist.
combination of other elements might proof to be better overall, but only in a specially arranged combination. Therefore something could replace carbon and hydrogen. Or maybe a new element is found which can replace them.
Science is not about ultimatums, "this simply is so and cannot be otherwise", but science is about keeping an open mind that something else might work, or things might work on unexpected ways.
the IFPI organization doesn't have any more right to the domain than sunde did.
Leaving it unrenewed is their friggin' problem, not anyone elses. No average joe can go bitch "that dude stole my domain!", "It says here you didn't renew it", "So what, it's mine! I forgot!", why should MAFIAA have that right?
How about this? The Pirate Bay is too public to pull of a stunt like this, but some less known domains (like the ones seized a few moments ago) spurr less activism against it, so they can slowly roll it in and make it a norm. (like the antiterrorism bullshit going around)