Invite the RIAA, MPAA, and the BSA
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Threshold for Piracy?
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Tell participants that you don't want them doing any copyright infringement, and that the RIAA, MPAA, and the BSA have been invited.
They either show up or they don't.
If they do, you've basically ensured that any copyright infringement will be taken care of.
If they don't, you've invited the people who care about copyright infringement of their products, and fulfilled your duties in trying to prevent copyright infringement by telling participants not to do it.
That's the best solution to me. Don't monitor anything yourself, don't play cop.
Did you consider publishing to freenet?
I get the feeling that Freenet (www.freenetproject.org) is exactly what you want - it's like the internet, but anonymous, encrypted, distributed, etc. etc.
Oh, and it doesn't cost you any money to publish to Freenet.
Does anyone else find it horribly bad journalism/science to report with a graph where one bar is a third as long as another bar, yet the large value is less than 1% larger than the other because they start the graph at a random number instead of zero, and then just using a graph break in the scale?
If you make a bar graph and the values are 1% different, the sizes of the bars should be 1% different. Why do they not understand this?
Take any "recovered" memories with a grain of salt. There is a huge amount of suggestibility with memory.
I remember reading a story in my psych text about a woman who went through hypnosis as part of therapy for something, and "remembered" that she had been molested as a child - probably because there was a slight leading by the therapist in the phrasing of questions.
When you manufacture a memory like this, it seems very real, and the person will swear up and down that it's what happened.
But in this case, it wasn't. The guy she accused went to jail for awhile, and then they found evidence that it really didn't happen at all and that her newly "recovered" memory was actually completely false.
I don't think anybody will ever have a CD-R last as long as a tape can without a hiccup, even in the best storage conditions, meaning no sunlight, relatively constant temperature, controlled humidity, etc.
CD-R ~ 5 years before you will start getting some unreadable CDs out of a fair sized batch Tape ~ 20 years before the tape itself degrades to the point where you'll notice
Now, a pressed video cd, on the other hand, would probably last a long time...
Cable companies and phone companies are often allowed to have a monopoly in a certain area of a town - it's perfectly legal when the town enters a contract with the cable/phone company.
For instance, in my town of about 200,000 people, we have one cable company and one phone company - because we let them have a monopoly here in exchange for them laying down wire for the city (city owns it once they've laid it) and also making them push price changes, policy changes, important things like that before our city government - or risk losing their monopoly.
I forget the name of the type of monopoly this is, but it's perfectly legal and (arguably) better for the population of a smaller city to have a company come in and wire the entire city just for being allowed a monopoly AND for the population to have relative control over the price and content offered.
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Tell participants that you don't want them doing any copyright infringement, and that the RIAA, MPAA, and the BSA have been invited.
They either show up or they don't.
If they do, you've basically ensured that any copyright infringement will be taken care of.
If they don't, you've invited the people who care about copyright infringement of their products, and fulfilled your duties in trying to prevent copyright infringement by telling participants not to do it.
That's the best solution to me. Don't monitor anything yourself, don't play cop.
There's a 32 word limit per call.
Did you consider publishing to freenet? I get the feeling that Freenet (www.freenetproject.org) is exactly what you want - it's like the internet, but anonymous, encrypted, distributed, etc. etc. Oh, and it doesn't cost you any money to publish to Freenet.
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Take a high cfm 12v fan, drop it onto the car, glue it, run it at 9v or whatever.
Does anyone else find it horribly bad journalism/science to report with a graph where one bar is a third as long as another bar, yet the large value is less than 1% larger than the other because they start the graph at a random number instead of zero, and then just using a graph break in the scale?
If you make a bar graph and the values are 1% different, the sizes of the bars should be 1% different. Why do they not understand this?
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I've seen this at other websites, too. Does it irk anyone else?
Take any "recovered" memories with a grain of salt. There is a huge amount of suggestibility with memory.
I remember reading a story in my psych text about a woman who went through hypnosis as part of therapy for something, and "remembered" that she had been molested as a child - probably because there was a slight leading by the therapist in the phrasing of questions.
When you manufacture a memory like this, it seems very real, and the person will swear up and down that it's what happened.
But in this case, it wasn't. The guy she accused went to jail for awhile, and then they found evidence that it really didn't happen at all and that her newly "recovered" memory was actually completely false.
Sorry, here's some links. http://www.weisskopf.de/history.htm http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/whitehead.h tml
Whitehead (Weisskopf sp?), then Pearse, then the Wright brothers.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?act=ST&f=20 &t=4147
I don't think anybody will ever have a CD-R last as long as a tape can without a hiccup, even in the best storage conditions, meaning no sunlight, relatively constant temperature, controlled humidity, etc.
CD-R ~ 5 years before you will start getting some unreadable CDs out of a fair sized batch
Tape ~ 20 years before the tape itself degrades to the point where you'll notice
Now, a pressed video cd, on the other hand, would probably last a long time...
Cable companies and phone companies are often allowed to have a monopoly in a certain area of a town - it's perfectly legal when the town enters a contract with the cable/phone company.
For instance, in my town of about 200,000 people, we have one cable company and one phone company - because we let them have a monopoly here in exchange for them laying down wire for the city (city owns it once they've laid it) and also making them push price changes, policy changes, important things like that before our city government - or risk losing their monopoly.
I forget the name of the type of monopoly this is, but it's perfectly legal and (arguably) better for the population of a smaller city to have a company come in and wire the entire city just for being allowed a monopoly AND for the population to have relative control over the price and content offered.