Now, you are capable of giving that mp3 to millions and millions, for free...
...Provided you have infinite bandwidth, no upload caps, the ability to be found by everybody (except the RIAA), a cooperating ISP, and time for your computer to be doing nothing else by serving up songs.
Get real (and I don't mean the player). I'm getting tired of overblown, unrealistic statements like those of the one-level-up poster. A few dozen copies over time -- sure. Millions? I doubt it!
tracks that the record industry is particularly interested in keeping off the p2p services.
If you want to keep them off the P2P services, never release them on CD, never play them on the radio, never stream them across the Internet. Heck, just never let them be heard at all. Otherwise it only takes one hacked copy loose in the wilds.
Allow me to instruct young Grasshopper. Apples are supposed to be more expensive than PC alternatives. Don't you know that this is the way you can feel you have a better system -- because you paid more for it!
Now, if they tie the burned data to a maintance fee
No way they could do that. Not at least until cars and portable players are connected to the Internet.
I don't see how, once you have paid your $.79 and burned one CD, that they can prevent you from ripping that as you please. Perhaps the hope is that you won't want to give away for free afterwards what you had to pay for first. Of course, all of P2P started with someone buying and ripping a CD once.
This could have been ended years ago if Microsoft had dropped a Look & Feel lawsuit on them. After all, they defend even their ownership of the word "Windows".
Or was this some secret plan of MS's -- like licensing *nix from SCO when SCO doesn't own it -- to get people to upgrade to XP so these banner ads will appear obsolete? This is how MS protects their users, by changing the whole visual metaphor?
Hopefully this signals that people are finally waking up to what is essentially a stealth campaign to end the doctrine of Fair Use. It is now being exposed for what it really is, nothing more than attempts to take away rights you already have in order to better line the pockets of a few, already rich, companies.
Now if they public could only realize why they would benefit from undoing the last several copyright extensions as well.
And that legislative assistant may have called the MPAA lobbiest a nice guy, but I don't agree. He obviously lied about the bill to get it introduced. I'd never let that guy in my office again!
How many electronic resumes can dance on the head of a pin.
Translation: How many resume.doc/.pdf files can fit on a single DVD-R?
Assign them sequential file names, put applicant name, position, date received, DVD disc number, and file name. Even Access could handle this for all the applicants any but the largest companies receive. Storing emailed resumes is probably not the problem.
And get those Disney auto-destructing DVDs to handle eventual automated disposal.
How does the RIAA justify their claim of billions of dollars lost due to free (i.e. no one is making money selling these files) file sharing over the Internet?
Where are they able to show that even one of these trades has resulted in a lost sale?
And how can they equate this to theft of a physical CD, which does involve cost of materials, manufacture, and transportation absent in a file download?
To and include replacing damaged media for the life of the copyright of the work
What about stolen media? I keep copies of my favorite CDs in my car to protect more against theft of my originals, rather than damage to them through playing.
First, is CSS patented? I mean, it's gotta either be patented or be in the public domain, right?
Wrong. Choice C: It's a trade secret, like the formula for Coke Cola, which can be protected against publication essentially forever. And there are legal consequences -- strong ones -- against anyone who reveals it.
If it was just a patent, anyone could get a copy of it from the Patent Office and then all they would have needed were the encryption keys.
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Stupidity is the greatest force the universe has ever known
There is a limit to how stupid people really are -- just as there's a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe. There's a lot, but there's a limit.
For every stupidity, there is an equal and opposite stupidity.
Another site temporarily destroyed by too much Slashdot effect success.
I find I've had to start a Slashdot directory in my favorites to track sites that I hope to visit a few weeks hence, after the excitement of the Slashdot discovery has abated.
BigPond was most vulnerable to users running their own open relay mail servers via connections to the ISP
These days open relay mail servers are just plain irresponsible. Maybe 99% of the users are responsible people, but the remaining 1% are a plague on what is otherwise a wonderful achievement. We just can't afford these open relays and if it takes major ISP's like AOL to start blocking large swaths of them to end this, more power to them!
only students at your college could recieve the password and if the RIAA felt so inclined as to break in or access your FTP server you could state that they did so illegally
I'd say to consult a good lawyer copyright/IP lawyer about this.
I'd say chances are however that the networks were ratted out to the RIAA by a student, who probably got little more then pizza money for it in return. Otherwise, unless the university itself got pressured into granting them access to snoop, they would have had to break in themselves -- which is illegal.
Would really be interesting to find out in a deposition just how the RIAA accessed these computers, and whether or not those who did give them access can be proscuted.
IT IS MY BELIEF however that none of these cases are actually intended to come to trial. Too much information would be released to the public, any high profile loss would really hurt all their efforts, and outcomes of trials are always uncertain. I hope there is someone of that group willing to fight this as far as necessary.
I currently run a version of phynd, but my school was not named in the suit...I have taken the site down.
They have succeeded in knocking down your site with the threat from high-profile proscutions. That was their intent, and they have succeeded. That might be enough for them since it is unlikely they have the legal resources to fight everyone at once.
Before anyone tries this, please recall that caller id to 800 numbers can't be blocked.
So just call it every time you walk past a phone booth and have an extra minute or three. Yell at whomever answers the phone, then walk away without hanging up. DoS'ing that number in relative safety isn't all that hard.
Personally, for the time being, I'd much rather see highly optimized and blazing fast 32-bit processors on the market. Leave the 64-bit for when I actually need over 4 gigs of memory.
Athlon is a 5 year old design. The new AMD IA-64 chips (including Athlon-64) are a new archtecture that will execute 32-bit code more efficiently as well. Since they can only afford to design one new processor, you are getting better execution and 64 bits.
Buy it now, and move to a 64-bit OS when you want to, but quit pining for faster 32-bit processors. The of us don't want to wait for what you want.
(Or are you still running on a 16-bit processor waiting for the day you need more then 16MB of ram???)
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Don't give them any more. 22M spam relays is plenty.
Get real (and I don't mean the player). I'm getting tired of overblown, unrealistic statements like those of the one-level-up poster. A few dozen copies over time -- sure. Millions? I doubt it!
If you want to keep them off the P2P services, never release them on CD, never play them on the radio, never stream them across the Internet. Heck, just never let them be heard at all. Otherwise it only takes one hacked copy loose in the wilds.
Allow me to instruct young Grasshopper. Apples are supposed to be more expensive than PC alternatives. Don't you know that this is the way you can feel you have a better system -- because you paid more for it!
No way they could do that. Not at least until cars and portable players are connected to the Internet.
I don't see how, once you have paid your $.79 and burned one CD, that they can prevent you from ripping that as you please. Perhaps the hope is that you won't want to give away for free afterwards what you had to pay for first. Of course, all of P2P started with someone buying and ripping a CD once.
This could have been ended years ago if Microsoft had dropped a Look & Feel lawsuit on them. After all, they defend even their ownership of the word "Windows".
Or was this some secret plan of MS's -- like licensing *nix from SCO when SCO doesn't own it -- to get people to upgrade to XP so these banner ads will appear obsolete? This is how MS protects their users, by changing the whole visual metaphor?
Excellent!
Btw, fully agree with the rest of your post too. How many more of these "big wins" can we afford?
Now there's a definition of "friend" of which I was previous unacquainted with.
I thought that question was: Kirk or Janeway?
Or are you making an uber-geek comparison between a role and an actor?
Now if they public could only realize why they would benefit from undoing the last several copyright extensions as well.
And that legislative assistant may have called the MPAA lobbiest a nice guy, but I don't agree. He obviously lied about the bill to get it introduced. I'd never let that guy in my office again!
Translation: How many resume .doc/.pdf files can fit on a single DVD-R?
Assign them sequential file names, put applicant name, position, date received, DVD disc number, and file name. Even Access could handle this for all the applicants any but the largest companies receive. Storing emailed resumes is probably not the problem.
And get those Disney auto-destructing DVDs to handle eventual automated disposal.
Where are they able to show that even one of these trades has resulted in a lost sale?
And how can they equate this to theft of a physical CD, which does involve cost of materials, manufacture, and transportation absent in a file download?
What about stolen media? I keep copies of my favorite CDs in my car to protect more against theft of my originals, rather than damage to them through playing.
Wrong. Choice C: It's a trade secret, like the formula for Coke Cola, which can be protected against publication essentially forever. And there are legal consequences -- strong ones -- against anyone who reveals it.
If it was just a patent, anyone could get a copy of it from the Patent Office and then all they would have needed were the encryption keys.
There is a limit to how stupid people really are -- just as there's a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe. There's a lot, but there's a limit.
For every stupidity, there is an equal and opposite stupidity.
I find I've had to start a Slashdot directory in my favorites to track sites that I hope to visit a few weeks hence, after the excitement of the Slashdot discovery has abated.
And your address is...?
(For the next time I want to run KaZaA and let the RIAA knock on your door.)
These days open relay mail servers are just plain irresponsible. Maybe 99% of the users are responsible people, but the remaining 1% are a plague on what is otherwise a wonderful achievement. We just can't afford these open relays and if it takes major ISP's like AOL to start blocking large swaths of them to end this, more power to them!
Using it while it's available is not contradictory to also trying to overturn it.
Who knows? Maybe yours will be the case that does overturn it, so you can win either way.
I'd say to consult a good lawyer copyright/IP lawyer about this.
I'd say chances are however that the networks were ratted out to the RIAA by a student, who probably got little more then pizza money for it in return. Otherwise, unless the university itself got pressured into granting them access to snoop, they would have had to break in themselves -- which is illegal.
Would really be interesting to find out in a deposition just how the RIAA accessed these computers, and whether or not those who did give them access can be proscuted.
IT IS MY BELIEF however that none of these cases are actually intended to come to trial. Too much information would be released to the public, any high profile loss would really hurt all their efforts, and outcomes of trials are always uncertain. I hope there is someone of that group willing to fight this as far as necessary.
Then I'd own my own record company and keep all the money. I'd be an idiot not to do so.
They have succeeded in knocking down your site with the threat from high-profile proscutions. That was their intent, and they have succeeded. That might be enough for them since it is unlikely they have the legal resources to fight everyone at once.
So just call it every time you walk past a phone booth and have an extra minute or three. Yell at whomever answers the phone, then walk away without hanging up. DoS'ing that number in relative safety isn't all that hard.
It's called NewSpeak -- as in Orwell's 1984.
Athlon is a 5 year old design. The new AMD IA-64 chips (including Athlon-64) are a new archtecture that will execute 32-bit code more efficiently as well. Since they can only afford to design one new processor, you are getting better execution and 64 bits.
Buy it now, and move to a 64-bit OS when you want to, but quit pining for faster 32-bit processors. The of us don't want to wait for what you want.
(Or are you still running on a 16-bit processor waiting for the day you need more then 16MB of ram???)