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Yowzers. Well, I can't say I've gone the Sun path in my home...
I figure the way motherboards are dirt dcheap, it would just be cheaper to buy a bunch of them, load 'em into a rack, and go from there. Even mini-ITX boards are under $99.
$4.99 more for local channels, tru. My Tivo can handle the local channels for free. (not to mention that local channels isn't supported by directTV for my city til December)
We did the same thing at our newspaper. We added a bogus name, but an address that went to one of our friends/relatives. If they ever recieved a magazine/newspaper/letter for them at that address with the bogus name, we'd know that our subscription lists was stolen. (Which is our largest asset)
Your argument only works if buying a smart-card writer is illegal. Is it? No. Then that means DirectTV needs to prove there was service theft.
Which is what they should have done with the info they got from the raids!! Instead, they go one step EASIER and just send a form letter. That's wrong.
I just made the jump from the cable cartel to DirectTV. Finally! A house with a view to the southern sky.
I don't agree with what they did, but neither am I bitching about the cost of DirectTV's feed. Come on, it's not like we're talking about an $18 music CD!!!!!
D'oh. Money order. I knew I was forgetting something.
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PCI expansion enclosure? I'm intrigued. Do you have a link?
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I agree with your first paragraph. People that are still waiting around for the "standard" to kick in boggle me. The standard war has already been going on for well over a year. Why would it end tomorrow?
The fact that any drive will still read your DVD-R disks just fine, even if DVD+R won tomorrow in a fist fight. And by the time this 'war' is over two things will have happened: You can buy a new DVD+R burner for super cheap, and we'll be well into the waiting war of which Blu-Ray media is going to win the standards war.
The wait is over. Buy a Pioneer A05 for $149, and the much cheaper DVD-R diskies, and never look back.
I did some math, though, and here is what I came up with:
120GB hard drive: $89
215GB from 1 Spindle of Princo 4X DVD-R's : $60.
Currently, it's cheaper to back up my mp3's on DVD-r's than to buy 6 hard drives. Although I would never deny the other benefits of going with hard drives.
I completely agree with you. 7X is not a big jump at all. If only we were going straight to 35GB blu-ray instead of DVDR *right now*, that would be the jump we'd all like to see.
I know I'm not in the norm, but converting my 1200 CD-R's to 180 DVD-R's isn't really a solution to me. 25 Blu-ray disks, on the other hand -- now we're talking!
And here I thought the first poster said that it just needed a xerox of your ID (as in driver's license) (as in an easily photoshopped version)
I wonder if they really check this, or just want to scare away the bulk of the yahoos. Plus, don't want to send cash in the mail to prepay, right? So you have to send a check or CC# to fill it. Which of course would have your real name on it.
I am sure you have broken the law. Somewhere, sometime.
Have you ever sped? Did you get thrown in jail for 5 years and a $250,000 fine? No, I'm sure the fine and punishment was befitting. That is all I'm asking. I know that trading mp3's is wrong. But it doesn't mean I have to sit by and watch the corporations continue to buy off our government, cripple technology.
Ruining someone's life because of some trumped up "potential" sales loss is wrong. And yes, a felony will ruin someone's life. Good luck at the interviews explaining why you have a felony on your resume. Assuming you got an interview.
The only downside to newsgroups for porn is that you're not going to be able to search so exactingly. However, my requirements for my porn usually consists of just "naked" and "women". A certain name is not really required.
Yes, the help desk of my previous DSL/Cable companies never seemed to mind when I talked to them about which newsgroups weren't working correctly.
I guess the only thing that puts the ISP into the clear from your statements... is why they feel that their statistics for newsgroup usage needs to be tagged to exact customer ID's. Although, even if they implemented a break in that link, there's nothing from keeping to stick with it. (I'm thinking of the recent TIVO demographic-viewing stats lately)
I often wonder why the RIAA/MPAA hasn't gone after IRC & Newsgroups. There are news servers out there just BRAGGING how much retention they have and even claim "Get your unlimited movies for only $9.99 a month".
Not only that, but Newsgroups and especially IRC is the very next drop off point from the release groups.
Maybe it's a numbers-thing. P2P certainly has more numbers than newsroups.
Well, it will take a long while, no matter what the case. At least these things go slowly.
I wonder how the August lawsuits the RIAA is planning will be affected by this. I guess they will be shooting for out-of-court settlements like usual.
To answer your question... I don't think it will pass. However, this type of hammering will eventually get them some type of win. We have to fight it every step of the way
The bill does not make P2P protocol illegal. It makes unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials to 10+ other people illegal. You are not doing that. Not to mention they will have no idea you're doing it either, since they can't connect to it, and no one else will either.
Come on. THey're not making the service illegal. They're making it so they can slap a felony on you easier IF YOU GET CAUGHT SHARING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL.
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I figure the way motherboards are dirt dcheap, it would just be cheaper to buy a bunch of them, load 'em into a rack, and go from there. Even mini-ITX boards are under $99.
$4.99 more for local channels, tru. My Tivo can handle the local channels for free. (not to mention that local channels isn't supported by directTV for my city til December)
We did the same thing at our newspaper. We added a bogus name, but an address that went to one of our friends/relatives. If they ever recieved a magazine/newspaper/letter for them at that address with the bogus name, we'd know that our subscription lists was stolen. (Which is our largest asset)
Oops, you said per Quarter. Stil... multiple by 4...
Which is what they should have done with the info they got from the raids!! Instead, they go one step EASIER and just send a form letter. That's wrong.
2.4 million a year in revenues is only about 7,000 subscribers (at $29/month).
I am sure they have more subscribers than that. So the word "revenues" is probably more like net profit, or _somthing_.
I just made the jump from the cable cartel to DirectTV. Finally! A house with a view to the southern sky.
I don't agree with what they did, but neither am I bitching about the cost of DirectTV's feed. Come on, it's not like we're talking about an $18 music CD!!!!!
I agree with you 100%. DirectTV should have made a proprietary system. Not some 2-cent card to save money
I think it's because he didn't want to promote a huge referrer list pointing from that device back to Slashdot.
D'oh. Money order. I knew I was forgetting something.
PCI expansion enclosure? I'm intrigued. Do you have a link?
The fact that any drive will still read your DVD-R disks just fine, even if DVD+R won tomorrow in a fist fight. And by the time this 'war' is over two things will have happened: You can buy a new DVD+R burner for super cheap, and we'll be well into the waiting war of which Blu-Ray media is going to win the standards war.
The wait is over. Buy a Pioneer A05 for $149, and the much cheaper DVD-R diskies, and never look back.
I did some math, though, and here is what I came up with:
120GB hard drive: $89
215GB from 1 Spindle of Princo 4X DVD-R's : $60.
Currently, it's cheaper to back up my mp3's on DVD-r's than to buy 6 hard drives. Although I would never deny the other benefits of going with hard drives.
I know I'm not in the norm, but converting my 1200 CD-R's to 180 DVD-R's isn't really a solution to me. 25 Blu-ray disks, on the other hand -- now we're talking!
I'm just a redneck, why would I have a passport?
And here I thought the first poster said that it just needed a xerox of your ID (as in driver's license) (as in an easily photoshopped version)
I wonder if they really check this, or just want to scare away the bulk of the yahoos. Plus, don't want to send cash in the mail to prepay, right? So you have to send a check or CC# to fill it. Which of course would have your real name on it.
And motorola. And IBM.
Have you ever sped? Did you get thrown in jail for 5 years and a $250,000 fine? No, I'm sure the fine and punishment was befitting. That is all I'm asking. I know that trading mp3's is wrong. But it doesn't mean I have to sit by and watch the corporations continue to buy off our government, cripple technology.
Ruining someone's life because of some trumped up "potential" sales loss is wrong. And yes, a felony will ruin someone's life. Good luck at the interviews explaining why you have a felony on your resume. Assuming you got an interview.
Just substitute 'pictures' with 'multimedia'.
The only downside to newsgroups for porn is that you're not going to be able to search so exactingly. However, my requirements for my porn usually consists of just "naked" and "women". A certain name is not really required.
Yes, the help desk of my previous DSL/Cable companies never seemed to mind when I talked to them about which newsgroups weren't working correctly.
I guess the only thing that puts the ISP into the clear from your statements... is why they feel that their statistics for newsgroup usage needs to be tagged to exact customer ID's. Although, even if they implemented a break in that link, there's nothing from keeping to stick with it. (I'm thinking of the recent TIVO demographic-viewing stats lately)
I often wonder why the RIAA/MPAA hasn't gone after IRC & Newsgroups. There are news servers out there just BRAGGING how much retention they have and even claim "Get your unlimited movies for only $9.99 a month".
Not only that, but Newsgroups and especially IRC is the very next drop off point from the release groups.
Maybe it's a numbers-thing. P2P certainly has more numbers than newsroups.
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*
Isn't that what Australia was??
I wonder how the August lawsuits the RIAA is planning will be affected by this. I guess they will be shooting for out-of-court settlements like usual.
To answer your question... I don't think it will pass. However, this type of hammering will eventually get them some type of win. We have to fight it every step of the way
The bill does not make P2P protocol illegal. It makes unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials to 10+ other people illegal. You are not doing that. Not to mention they will have no idea you're doing it either, since they can't connect to it, and no one else will either.
Come on. THey're not making the service illegal. They're making it so they can slap a felony on you easier IF YOU GET CAUGHT SHARING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL.
Same chances of getting caught... and it won't be a felony.