I'm not a lawyer, and I barely understand my legal rights to facing my accuser in this digital world, but I do know this:
We don't have any prior examples of this specific niche technology at work. There's no baseline of acceptable "industry standard" out there - every bit of information about these products is held so closely to the chest of these businesses that we just do not know where the hell this data comes from and, more specifically, we don't know how this data is corroborated with ISPs to find these people who are supposedly committing the infringements. Plus, we have no idea of what the failure rate of this entire process has been. On top of all of that, there is no independent analysis of this method.
If the RIAA litigation team was an inventor, this whole ordeal would be nothing short of them running around screaming about how they've invented perpetual motion, and then not letting anyone independently verify that the machine works.
The problem is that computers are not a hard boats and fish kind of thing. With computers I can use an exploited chinese machine to do all of my downloading, then use a relatively robust services, like Tor, to download that material.
All of this while using a network connection that's three blocks away from me.
The law also says that they can auction off the items immediately, rather than waiting to prove that to violated copyright. You know those honeypots that people set up? Yeah, the ones that only have the titles of material and just junk data? Those computers would be seized and auctioned off too.
This law also doesn't discriminate between illegal and legal filesharing. You terrorist sumbitches that keep sharing Ubuntu via BitTorrent are going to be REALLY surprised one morning.
No, this isn't a deterrent. This is legislation, drafted by a conglomerate of corporations, attempting to address something that is slowly becoming a cultural phenomenon.
Chris Pirillo went on a rant last night on his live stream, and with good reason: Comcast was apparently blocking his legitimate traffic to our Exchange server, as well as traffic to Google and Microsoft Live.
We could confirm this much last night on Skype: it was either limited to him or his immediate area. Both Google and the Exchange server were working for us, as well as other Seattle-area Comcast subscribers.
The beautiful thing about this? He upgraded to Comcast Business to avoid just this bullshit.
An old girlfriend of mine always thought life was full of drama. If you kissed her she had to turn it into one big long sloppy "kiss at sunset" kind of thing. I found it really annoying, because she would always have the mentality of "oh baby, let's make this long and last forever" and in my mind all I could think was "sit on my face, bitch!"
I think there's a similar problem in Hollywood: we have a group of people obsessed with drama (rather than telling a story) to the point that we end up with a bunch of scenes that are nothing but overly dramatic and annoying. They've got drama soaking their brains and all I can think is "sit on my face, bitch!"
Well, maybe that's more my problem since I lack a girlfriend currently. Still, I think the point stand: Hollywood needs to give out free women at movies.
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What in the fuck are you droning on about?
That has to be the worst joke ever made on Slashdot.
I am really amazed that Slashdot hasn't picked up this story yet. I mean, I just can't believe it!
You're new here, aren't you?
I'm not a lawyer, and I barely understand my legal rights to facing my accuser in this digital world, but I do know this:
We don't have any prior examples of this specific niche technology at work. There's no baseline of acceptable "industry standard" out there - every bit of information about these products is held so closely to the chest of these businesses that we just do not know where the hell this data comes from and, more specifically, we don't know how this data is corroborated with ISPs to find these people who are supposedly committing the infringements. Plus, we have no idea of what the failure rate of this entire process has been. On top of all of that, there is no independent analysis of this method.
If the RIAA litigation team was an inventor, this whole ordeal would be nothing short of them running around screaming about how they've invented perpetual motion, and then not letting anyone independently verify that the machine works.
It has to heat itself to ... cool ... itself?
Goddamnit, I hate recursion.
NO. Fucking stop it.
STOP RIGHT THERE GOVERNMENT.
I am not going to let you use my tax money to start a "War on Piracy" - just like your dumbass "War on Drugs"
STOP. BAD DOG! NO BISCUIT FOR YOU!
Seriously, the only way you can teach these fucking politicians is by hitting them in the nose.
Hey, guess what, that 5 day period? You know, those 5 days where a domain is untouchable for a period of time?
Yeah, those same five days you use to lock a customer in at your jacked up prices?
That's called tasting. In fact, ICANN explicitly calls it domain tasting.
You were already an asshole for working with Network Solutions. That claim that you "never tasted" domains just made you into a lying asshole.
I don't know what you just said, but it sounds good. Could you tell me how I can short out the brakes on my car?
Am I the only one seeing this retarded mess of a theme on idle.*?
"and while it is still your right in some areas not to present it, prepare to get a hard time by the cops if you do in those cases"
They're great SEO.
Because that costs too much.
Please actually perform the function of editors and edit the story. It'll save us the time of correcting your mistakes in the comments section.
The problem is that computers are not a hard boats and fish kind of thing. With computers I can use an exploited chinese machine to do all of my downloading, then use a relatively robust services, like Tor, to download that material.
All of this while using a network connection that's three blocks away from me.
The law also says that they can auction off the items immediately, rather than waiting to prove that to violated copyright. You know those honeypots that people set up? Yeah, the ones that only have the titles of material and just junk data? Those computers would be seized and auctioned off too.
This law also doesn't discriminate between illegal and legal filesharing. You terrorist sumbitches that keep sharing Ubuntu via BitTorrent are going to be REALLY surprised one morning.
No, this isn't a deterrent. This is legislation, drafted by a conglomerate of corporations, attempting to address something that is slowly becoming a cultural phenomenon.
Chris Pirillo went on a rant last night on his live stream, and with good reason: Comcast was apparently blocking his legitimate traffic to our Exchange server, as well as traffic to Google and Microsoft Live. We could confirm this much last night on Skype: it was either limited to him or his immediate area. Both Google and the Exchange server were working for us, as well as other Seattle-area Comcast subscribers. The beautiful thing about this? He upgraded to Comcast Business to avoid just this bullshit.
Here's the problem with wording: Foxnews and George W Bush.
"criminals use technology" means that technology can be a neutral thing in which can both benefit and harm society.
"technology breeds criminals" means the loopy fuckers in power will send us into another dark age, all in the name of security.
A tamer PG movie? What? Am I the only one confused by these statements and modern movies?
Needs more pictures of cats and bunnies.
I ... wha ... ha ... za ... fuh?
Either the words don't exist to describe just how stupid these people are, or I'm too stupid to describe how stupid they are.
And the FOX reporters are worse!
Are you offering to host?
I swear to god, it's impossible to tell a fucking joke to a geek.
Now I can listen to music that I didn't buy for the media player I didn't purchase on an MP3 player that I don't possess!
Isn't technology awesome?
+5, Sarcastic Twat
An old girlfriend of mine always thought life was full of drama. If you kissed her she had to turn it into one big long sloppy "kiss at sunset" kind of thing. I found it really annoying, because she would always have the mentality of "oh baby, let's make this long and last forever" and in my mind all I could think was "sit on my face, bitch!"
I think there's a similar problem in Hollywood: we have a group of people obsessed with drama (rather than telling a story) to the point that we end up with a bunch of scenes that are nothing but overly dramatic and annoying. They've got drama soaking their brains and all I can think is "sit on my face, bitch!"
Well, maybe that's more my problem since I lack a girlfriend currently. Still, I think the point stand: Hollywood needs to give out free women at movies.
Why in the world did I read "Matter Discovered" as a name?