How will Spammers be processed by the legal system?
What evidence can be presented in court?
It will cost more than it is worth to go to court for each offence. Electronic evidence can easily be forged. Prosecutors would probably need to confiscate the Hardware still containing data that is damming to get a conviction.
What happens to users who accidentally break the law? Damage was done. "I did not know better" will not protect you with most laws. At what point is a completely unsecured relaying computer constitute negligence and thereby vulnerability to prosecution?
I doubt any old style law system will stop this. The.01 cent tax per email idea could turn out better.
The DCMA is irrelevant. It is nasty and ugly but irrelevant as long as private communication exists to the other, particularly smaller, countries around the world. IMHO, preserving a right communicate privately is the linchpin.
For example:
I live in Cyprus, an EU country, and intellectual property is a joke here. Governments can sign all the agreements they want. In small countries the government is close enough to the people they will never enforce such laws. never. I hear pirated music on the radio and watch unauthorizd TV broadcasts of pirated content. They rarely enforce parking, speeding, and lots of other regulations Americans take for granted because the police fear a backlash.
BTW, I am talking about the Republic of Cyprus. On the north side, there is no recognized government. So who signs the treaty?
It is a small step in the wrong direction. A stupid, ugly, small step.
Legislation is a symptomatic solution. By the time a law is needed, passed, enforced, and sucessfully prosecuted, folks will find a different way to achieve the same end.
I block any incomming traffic I can single out from addsites, porn, etc.. on my network. So me and everyone who uses my network is a thief?
Do you think business planners worry much about wrong or right when they come up with these popups, spyware, and god knows what other intrusive ideas?
Hear Hear! I know exactly what you mean. I do exactly what you do with IE, Notepad, and Irfanview. I have not used LYNX since college in the mid 90s however. But hey if it works use it.
Too many folks think just because things are newer they are better. Comsumer software is just getting mature enough to finnaly start debunking this techie urban folktale. Software in the UNIX and mainframe world has its feet way in the past and it works fine.
I doubt that all 6500+ languages are 100% unique. In fact I bet there are probably on only a few hundred language families.
Languages are permeated with the culture of the speakers and that is how they live and grow. Once the language has lost its critical mass of speakers passing it on and changing it, it is dead.
If it is a written language, some of that culture can be preserved by recording the text. If a language is spoken only, no linguist is going to preserve what it ment to each generation that spoke it. At best they can record some of the folklore and technical stuff (lexicon, syntax, pronunciation) from the lastest generation.
My strategy is simple. When I need to run a particular app and it is not performing well enough for me on my current machine, then I upgrade my hardware.
The hardware I buy is typically is NOT the most expensive but a mix of performance per $ and my opinion of the technology. I usually end up paying 50 to 60% of what a bleeding edge system costs at the time.
BTW, I have not thrown away an old system since I discovered FreeBSD in the mid 90s.
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And exactly who is responsible when there is only one sending address and it is your machine which is relaying?
How much time and money will someone have to spend convincing a law enforcement official that their box was hacked? I can see it now...
Sir I was hacked I had no idea!.... Sure, thats what they all say sonny, smile for the picture... #FLASH#
People who are relaying.
How will Spammers be processed by the legal system?
What evidence can be presented in court?
It will cost more than it is worth to go to court for each offence. Electronic evidence can easily be forged. Prosecutors would probably need to confiscate the Hardware still containing data that is damming to get a conviction.
What happens to users who accidentally break the law? Damage was done. "I did not know better" will not protect you with most laws. At what point is a completely unsecured relaying computer constitute negligence and thereby vulnerability to prosecution?
I doubt any old style law system will stop this. TheThe DCMA is irrelevant. It is nasty and ugly but irrelevant as long as private communication exists to the other, particularly smaller, countries around the world. IMHO, preserving a right communicate privately is the linchpin. For example: I live in Cyprus, an EU country, and intellectual property is a joke here. Governments can sign all the agreements they want. In small countries the government is close enough to the people they will never enforce such laws. never. I hear pirated music on the radio and watch unauthorizd TV broadcasts of pirated content. They rarely enforce parking, speeding, and lots of other regulations Americans take for granted because the police fear a backlash. BTW, I am talking about the Republic of Cyprus. On the north side, there is no recognized government. So who signs the treaty?
It is a small step in the wrong direction. A stupid, ugly, small step. Legislation is a symptomatic solution. By the time a law is needed, passed, enforced, and sucessfully prosecuted, folks will find a different way to achieve the same end.
I block any incomming traffic I can single out from addsites, porn, etc.. on my network. So me and everyone who uses my network is a thief? Do you think business planners worry much about wrong or right when they come up with these popups, spyware, and god knows what other intrusive ideas?
Hear Hear! I know exactly what you mean. I do exactly what you do with IE, Notepad, and Irfanview. I have not used LYNX since college in the mid 90s however. But hey if it works use it. Too many folks think just because things are newer they are better. Comsumer software is just getting mature enough to finnaly start debunking this techie urban folktale. Software in the UNIX and mainframe world has its feet way in the past and it works fine.
I doubt that all 6500+ languages are 100% unique. In fact I bet there are probably on only a few hundred language families. Languages are permeated with the culture of the speakers and that is how they live and grow. Once the language has lost its critical mass of speakers passing it on and changing it, it is dead. If it is a written language, some of that culture can be preserved by recording the text. If a language is spoken only, no linguist is going to preserve what it ment to each generation that spoke it. At best they can record some of the folklore and technical stuff (lexicon, syntax, pronunciation) from the lastest generation.
My strategy is simple. When I need to run a particular app and it is not performing well enough for me on my current machine, then I upgrade my hardware. The hardware I buy is typically is NOT the most expensive but a mix of performance per $ and my opinion of the technology. I usually end up paying 50 to 60% of what a bleeding edge system costs at the time. BTW, I have not thrown away an old system since I discovered FreeBSD in the mid 90s.