LOL! Normally I'm a bit more careful on my punctuation, but this just got right up my nose. Why don't you, the almighty MPAA, just go out and arrest these people if need to? Oh wait, you can't. You need a various legal papers to cover such acivities. What a shame. So you try to spread your FUD hoping to scare people away.
Biggest pile of Elephant wank I have ever seen! "If you hack TorrentSpy", "you can have anything you wish for", so here's a measly $15k! If he was tasked with saving a multi-billion dollar industry on his own, surely they could have a a quick whip-round at the MPAA directors meetings and probably raise 10x that in small change!!! Hacing TorrentSpy??!! WTF!? Hardly rocket science is it, its a publicly open web-server pushing out glorified text files telling you where file sharers are sharing copyrihted material! A few pokes about on WhoIs, the odd phone call here and there, leaving the IP collector on a few weeks on a few very popular torrents, work out the ISPs of those sharers and Bob's your Auntie's Live-In Lover, bish-bosh-zoom $500k please!
I'm sorry, but this smacks of FUD from the MPAA/RIAA bullshit, brain-storm meeting! How can we scare off casual "pirates"? I know, says bow-tied twat number 1, lets make up shit about professional hackers gathering your details and bringing down the fabric of society, or at least one of the 75 popular torrent sites.
I thought most of the big boys like EMC ( 30% of the worlds storage ), SUN, Dell, Compaq and HDS used plants in Mexico, if not then this could be good news other countries to get plants and increase employment in technology industries.
I'd have to agree with that. No matter what you do someone will make a crack or worse I think, build a keygen. A lot of companies wriet software but use the same license key system for years and years, so once the Mr Cracker has built a keygen, it works version after version. Heaven's above, I've seen cracks and keygens for $5 shareware titles, how cheap and nasty is that?! Don't waste your time making to too complicated it's not worth it. I always liked the "nagware" / "try it for 30 days full" software locks, after 30 days it locks up the most useful parts like save and print that sort of thing, you can still use it to view and operate and get used to it, but it's next to useless until you pay, that will at least make most businesses pay up if their staff want it that badly.
Like the parent says, spend more time making it better, if it's any good the right people will buy enough to offset the bad people "stealing" it!
Jeez, what is this 1986? Ahhh a woman in the room, run away!! That was a suitably chauvanistic article and you wonder why more women won't pick up IT as a career choice?!
My missus always does her own hardware mods and often wants another one of any gadget I end of buying! She says it's independence, but I think it's more likely that she doesn't want me fscking up her carefully crafted "rig"!
Symantec Enterprise Services in the UK is shite! In order for me to raise a support ticket a 450 server enterpise Netbackup kit going down, so no backups for 24 hours, I was told on the phone by the support rep that I would have to put an email to enterpise support with my problem and someone might be able to pick it up within 3-4 hours! I asked why the hell I could raise the ticket through the website like I used to be able to with Veritas, they said the system were being consolidated and that wouldn't be available again for sometime!!! So your running a multi-million dollar business with no website support presence?! I don't want to be one of your share holders at the next meeting! Don't get me started on how Symantec have mutilated the Veritas Support knowledge-base website, it was just about usable with Vertitas, but now Symantec have just screwed-it up royally! If we weren't tied into NetBackup, I'd happily find another backup vendor!
What about all the musicians who are now able to communicate and create music in disparate places across the globe? I've lost count of the number of metal bands who now say in interviews, that they only get together to sound check and then tour. Niche music like metal doesn't make the musicians overnight millionaires, they have to keep down regular jobs to pay for the music they make, the internet allows them to feed their families with a regular job and still have a career in music, selling thousands of albums. If Elton just took his f**king head out of his pompous millionaire's arse and actually took a serious look at what real musicians are doing in the real world, perhaps he wouldn't be so quick to mouth off about sh*t he knows nothing about!
...will show that this will make no difference what so ever! Fred will still copy his knocked off copy of Vista, XP or Office for his mate. It's like trying to scoop water out of the sink with your hands, while the tapes are on full. Some other group will see a gap in the market and will jump in, thankful that haven't been caught yet.
Christ on a bike! 50 years, and that is the shortest amount! Most of the drivel pumped out today has a shelf life of about 50 secs before it's recycled on the latest bi-monthly compilation CD, then left to rot in some record company basement alongside the careers of the so called musicians who "wrote" it!
Damn right! The one thing about every documentary, it's someone or group's opinion and you should be able to pick up opinions and pick and chose the facts from those opinions to develop your own. It's called free-thinking intelligence, unfortunately a very rare commodity in this day and age. Don't let the "idiot box" dictate what you should think!
All very nice, but when the CEO demands IT get him a website with domain ".big-corp.com", you try telling him no and he now has to have "www.big-corp.screw-customers-for-profit"...of course you could always threaten, sorry, legally pressure some poor little geek for his personal domain, 'cos its got your company name in it.
What about when your about to land? They just cut you off mid connection? About to send that document to the office, or in the middle of an important system/database callout fixing session and they just cut you loose!
"Sorry about that Boss, I know we had 20,000 clients who couldn't connect for 4 hours, but Delta cut my service halfway through and I couldn't get back in til I got into the airport lounge, after customs, the gift shop, duty free, cavity search, etc!"
...is good for gander.
Nice little article, I really hope this little skit achieves what it sets out to do and doesn't end up off course, as so many of these good intentions do.
I feel proud to know my taxes are once again being spent on something useful...
I notice they used smoke to spot the airflow, I hope the butterflies were consulted first on breathing 2nd hand smoke or we could be in for some costly litigation in a few years time!
Alright so its their cycles, but what about the Cancer and SETI screensavers? Do something useful for the good of mankind, with the spare cycles.
oops sorry, I got confused there...big corporation and caring about others....
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LOL! Normally I'm a bit more careful on my punctuation, but this just got right up my nose. Why don't you, the almighty MPAA, just go out and arrest these people if need to? Oh wait, you can't. You need a various legal papers to cover such acivities. What a shame. So you try to spread your FUD hoping to scare people away.
Biggest pile of Elephant wank I have ever seen! "If you hack TorrentSpy", "you can have anything you wish for", so here's a measly $15k! If he was tasked with saving a multi-billion dollar industry on his own, surely they could have a a quick whip-round at the MPAA directors meetings and probably raise 10x that in small change!!! Hacing TorrentSpy??!! WTF!? Hardly rocket science is it, its a publicly open web-server pushing out glorified text files telling you where file sharers are sharing copyrihted material! A few pokes about on WhoIs, the odd phone call here and there, leaving the IP collector on a few weeks on a few very popular torrents, work out the ISPs of those sharers and Bob's your Auntie's Live-In Lover, bish-bosh-zoom $500k please!
I'm sorry, but this smacks of FUD from the MPAA/RIAA bullshit, brain-storm meeting! How can we scare off casual "pirates"? I know, says bow-tied twat number 1, lets make up shit about professional hackers gathering your details and bringing down the fabric of society, or at least one of the 75 popular torrent sites.
I thought most of the big boys like EMC ( 30% of the worlds storage ), SUN, Dell, Compaq and HDS used plants in Mexico, if not then this could be good news other countries to get plants and increase employment in technology industries.
Jeez, how the top 5pc live!
I'd have to agree with that. No matter what you do someone will make a crack or worse I think, build a keygen. A lot of companies wriet software but use the same license key system for years and years, so once the Mr Cracker has built a keygen, it works version after version. Heaven's above, I've seen cracks and keygens for $5 shareware titles, how cheap and nasty is that?! Don't waste your time making to too complicated it's not worth it. I always liked the "nagware" / "try it for 30 days full" software locks, after 30 days it locks up the most useful parts like save and print that sort of thing, you can still use it to view and operate and get used to it, but it's next to useless until you pay, that will at least make most businesses pay up if their staff want it that badly.
Like the parent says, spend more time making it better, if it's any good the right people will buy enough to offset the bad people "stealing" it!
Jeez, what is this 1986? Ahhh a woman in the room, run away!! That was a suitably chauvanistic article and you wonder why more women won't pick up IT as a career choice?!
My missus always does her own hardware mods and often wants another one of any gadget I end of buying! She says it's independence, but I think it's more likely that she doesn't want me fscking up her carefully crafted "rig"!
Symantec Enterprise Services in the UK is shite! In order for me to raise a support ticket a 450 server enterpise Netbackup kit going down, so no backups for 24 hours, I was told on the phone by the support rep that I would have to put an email to enterpise support with my problem and someone might be able to pick it up within 3-4 hours! I asked why the hell I could raise the ticket through the website like I used to be able to with Veritas, they said the system were being consolidated and that wouldn't be available again for sometime!!! So your running a multi-million dollar business with no website support presence?! I don't want to be one of your share holders at the next meeting! Don't get me started on how Symantec have mutilated the Veritas Support knowledge-base website, it was just about usable with Vertitas, but now Symantec have just screwed-it up royally! If we weren't tied into NetBackup, I'd happily find another backup vendor!
What about all the musicians who are now able to communicate and create music in disparate places across the globe? I've lost count of the number of metal bands who now say in interviews, that they only get together to sound check and then tour. Niche music like metal doesn't make the musicians overnight millionaires, they have to keep down regular jobs to pay for the music they make, the internet allows them to feed their families with a regular job and still have a career in music, selling thousands of albums. If Elton just took his f**king head out of his pompous millionaire's arse and actually took a serious look at what real musicians are doing in the real world, perhaps he wouldn't be so quick to mouth off about sh*t he knows nothing about!
...will show that this will make no difference what so ever! Fred will still copy his knocked off copy of Vista, XP or Office for his mate. It's like trying to scoop water out of the sink with your hands, while the tapes are on full. Some other group will see a gap in the market and will jump in, thankful that haven't been caught yet.
Christ on a bike! 50 years, and that is the shortest amount! Most of the drivel pumped out today has a shelf life of about 50 secs before it's recycled on the latest bi-monthly compilation CD, then left to rot in some record company basement alongside the careers of the so called musicians who "wrote" it!
Damn right! The one thing about every documentary, it's someone or group's opinion and you should be able to pick up opinions and pick and chose the facts from those opinions to develop your own. It's called free-thinking intelligence, unfortunately a very rare commodity in this day and age. Don't let the "idiot box" dictate what you should think!
All very nice, but when the CEO demands IT get him a website with domain ".big-corp.com", you try telling him no and he now has to have "www.big-corp.screw-customers-for-profit"...of course you could always threaten, sorry, legally pressure some poor little geek for his personal domain, 'cos its got your company name in it.
What about when your about to land? They just cut you off mid connection? About to send that document to the office, or in the middle of an important system/database callout fixing session and they just cut you loose! "Sorry about that Boss, I know we had 20,000 clients who couldn't connect for 4 hours, but Delta cut my service halfway through and I couldn't get back in til I got into the airport lounge, after customs, the gift shop, duty free, cavity search, etc!"
...is good for gander. Nice little article, I really hope this little skit achieves what it sets out to do and doesn't end up off course, as so many of these good intentions do.
I feel proud to know my taxes are once again being spent on something useful... I notice they used smoke to spot the airflow, I hope the butterflies were consulted first on breathing 2nd hand smoke or we could be in for some costly litigation in a few years time!
Alright so its their cycles, but what about the Cancer and SETI screensavers? Do something useful for the good of mankind, with the spare cycles. oops sorry, I got confused there...big corporation and caring about others....