His e-mail server isn't secure (it's accepting forged e-mails), meaning that it is a potential spam-source. Configure your server properly, end of problem - Anyone who runs a server exposed to the net needs to be sufficiently experienced to properly configure it - else they deserve what they get. The worst part of all of this, is that the guy won't even acknowledge that there is a problem, his reaction is to look into legal recourses. The morale of the story: if you're ignorant, sue to change the system.
Here's a thought; Charging royalties for mp3 decoders will most likely have the effect of killing most of the mp3 apps out there (yeah, I'll pay the $0.75, but it's b.s. to think most people will). - the net effect is the thousands of terabytes of illegally downloaded mp3s out there become less and less valuable to people over time. Sure ogg will work, but it will take time for the general population to convert (and you can be sure they'll do it by re-downloading, not by software conversion).
So IMHO, what today's announcement does is cripple the mp3 format at a time when there aren't any well-known, well-supported alternatives (except for, are you sitting down? WMA! With full DRM support built-in). The paranoid side of me suspects that the RIAA may have paid off Fraunhofer to enforce their patent. Fraunhofer must know that in the long run, this course of actions will cost them revenues - unless there was a big enough lump sum payment up front. Combine crippling the mp3 format along with a new round of strong attacks on illegal P2P trading, and all I see is increased CD sales and alot of bitching on/.
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His e-mail server isn't secure (it's accepting forged e-mails), meaning that it is a potential spam-source. Configure your server properly, end of problem - Anyone who runs a server exposed to the net needs to be sufficiently experienced to properly configure it - else they deserve what they get. The worst part of all of this, is that the guy won't even acknowledge that there is a problem, his reaction is to look into legal recourses. The morale of the story: if you're ignorant, sue to change the system.
Here's a thought; Charging royalties for mp3 decoders will most likely have the effect of killing most of the mp3 apps out there (yeah, I'll pay the $0.75, but it's b.s. to think most people will). - the net effect is the thousands of terabytes of illegally downloaded mp3s out there become less and less valuable to people over time. Sure ogg will work, but it will take time for the general population to convert (and you can be sure they'll do it by re-downloading, not by software conversion).
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So IMHO, what today's announcement does is cripple the mp3 format at a time when there aren't any well-known, well-supported alternatives (except for, are you sitting down? WMA! With full DRM support built-in). The paranoid side of me suspects that the RIAA may have paid off Fraunhofer to enforce their patent. Fraunhofer must know that in the long run, this course of actions will cost them revenues - unless there was a big enough lump sum payment up front. Combine crippling the mp3 format along with a new round of strong attacks on illegal P2P trading, and all I see is increased CD sales and alot of bitching on