How about when you get that first letter from the RIAA claiming that you may be sued and (according to their lawyers only) you MUST preserve all evidence to make their case against you as easy as possible?
So write it to a DVD and get back online. How long can that take?
And check your robots.txt file to ensure that the Internet Archive keeps a backup copy as well.
And if you're extremely paranoid (given that other blogger site that just went tits-up), put a zipped searchable archive file on your site that anyone else can d/l and back up as well.
It doesn't have to be rocket science.
And print it all in a book which Google will scan and put in their digital library...
I would think that there's a massive opportunity for a class action case for fraud here. Clearly Bait & Switch to provide one level of service to lock in an equipment purchase + 2 year contract, then to degrade the service so much as to require the purchase of an even more expensive new equipment + new contract ought to result in costing AT&T so much that NO COMPANY WILL EVER consider doing this again.
No doubt the RIAA hopes that when they walk away from MediaSentry that somehow all their problems with them will be left behind. Seldom is life so simple.
Now all we need is a disgruntled ex-MediaSentry employee to spill the beans on their entire Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain operation while we start picking apart MS's replacement.
This isn't so wonderful if XP costs you an additional $150 (hello, Dell) over the Vista that you don't even want, but are forced to take as well. The previous $50 downgrade was just about palatable, but forcing you to virtually buy 2 OSs when you're only running one has got to be a Microsoft wetdream.
As much as the RIAA wishes differently, attempted copyright infringement isn't actual copyright infringement, and isn't a crime under current copyright law. This new RIAA approach sidesteps that issue by sidestepping the courts entirely and convincing the ISPs that "Yes It Is, So Help Us Out!" While this is all blowhard garbage by the RIAA, they now have the Big Stick of your ISP to shut you down based on the RIAA wishlist of how they want the world to be.
And it will probably take a few big class action suit wins to knock this nonsense out of your ISP.
I really hate the use and misuse of hype words like ultrahigh. What comes after ultrahigh? Is the next level double dumb-ass amounts of energy?
The one I've always liked least was some artist who used left over metal parts from Los Alamos atomic work for sculptures he said had transformed death into super good energy.
(Triple MD5 is is composed of the XOR of standard MD5 first byte to last byte, MD5 last byte to first byte, MD5 middle out to the ends. Faster hardware makes this feasible now.)
We've detected hydrogen and oxygen in a distant galaxy, and they actually combined when given the chance. Surely such a rare event was never suspected before and requires our confirmation. Now go have a beer.
Greed that Warners thinks they deserve more and more and more.
Stupidity that Warners thinks that YouTube and everyone else will have to cave into them and their terms (like any alleged filesharer sued by the RIAA) in the mistaken belief that: 1) Everyone needs their product; and 2) That they still have a monopoly on that product.
Lies that any of this additional money would actually go to the artists. (Think of the children<<<<<<<< artists!)
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Of course that may entail learning to read your setup screens in Japanese as well.
Virtually every coffee study I see never seems to distinguish between regular and decaff coffee. I'd prefer decaff with the same benefits otherwise.
This is too easy to test by swapping the memory between the two machines to actually pose as a question on Slashdot. How lazy can you be about this?
ATI HD4870 X3 anyone?
I'd consider that more likely than Nvidia managing 3 of their giant GPU's on a single card.
You don't have a case.
You never had a case.
Now get out of my courtroom!
But your Honor, if we could just inspect every bit on his hard drive there'd be something...
No! Leave now!
How about when you get that first letter from the RIAA claiming that you may be sued and (according to their lawyers only) you MUST preserve all evidence to make their case against you as easy as possible?
Or would you rather smash them instead?
So write it to a DVD and get back online. How long can that take?
And check your robots.txt file to ensure that the Internet Archive keeps a backup copy as well.
And if you're extremely paranoid (given that other blogger site that just went tits-up), put a zipped searchable archive file on your site that anyone else can d/l and back up as well.
It doesn't have to be rocket science.
And print it all in a book which Google will scan and put in their digital library...
I'm sure this will do wonders for Obama's standing with his college age voters.
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If they patent it you overturn the patent by showing your class project as prior art.
Seems to me that Robert A. Heinlein predicted this long ago in "The Door into Summer".
I would think that there's a massive opportunity for a class action case for fraud here. Clearly Bait & Switch to provide one level of service to lock in an equipment purchase + 2 year contract, then to degrade the service so much as to require the purchase of an even more expensive new equipment + new contract ought to result in costing AT&T so much that NO COMPANY WILL EVER consider doing this again.
No doubt the RIAA hopes that when they walk away from MediaSentry that somehow all their problems with them will be left behind. Seldom is life so simple.
Now all we need is a disgruntled ex-MediaSentry employee to spill the beans on their entire Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain operation while we start picking apart MS's replacement.
This is just compound foolishness. I gather they did it in an attempt to control bandwidth costs since it's hard to imagine any other reason.
If it's only liberal bloggers content...
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Locate, download, and install Open Office.
Sounds like Photosynth for geeks.
This isn't so wonderful if XP costs you an additional $150 (hello, Dell) over the Vista that you don't even want, but are forced to take as well. The previous $50 downgrade was just about palatable, but forcing you to virtually buy 2 OSs when you're only running one has got to be a Microsoft wetdream.
As much as the RIAA wishes differently, attempted copyright infringement isn't actual copyright infringement, and isn't a crime under current copyright law. This new RIAA approach sidesteps that issue by sidestepping the courts entirely and convincing the ISPs that "Yes It Is, So Help Us Out!" While this is all blowhard garbage by the RIAA, they now have the Big Stick of your ISP to shut you down based on the RIAA wishlist of how they want the world to be.
And it will probably take a few big class action suit wins to knock this nonsense out of your ISP.
WTF? We've been launching rockets for 50 years to probe the space around us and they're only figuring this out now?
Or has this changed from before?
I really hate the use and misuse of hype words like ultrahigh. What comes after ultrahigh? Is the next level double dumb-ass amounts of energy?
The one I've always liked least was some artist who used left over metal parts from Los Alamos atomic work for sculptures he said had transformed death into super good energy.
Triple MD5 anyone? Hey it worked to extend DES!
(Triple MD5 is is composed of the XOR of standard MD5 first byte to last byte, MD5 last byte to first byte, MD5 middle out to the ends. Faster hardware makes this feasible now.)
We've detected hydrogen and oxygen in a distant galaxy, and they actually combined when given the chance. Surely such a rare event was never suspected before and requires our confirmation. Now go have a beer.
It's all greed and stupidity and lies.
Greed that Warners thinks they deserve more and more and more.
Stupidity that Warners thinks that YouTube and everyone else will have to cave into them and their terms (like any alleged filesharer sued by the RIAA) in the mistaken belief that: 1) Everyone needs their product; and 2) That they still have a monopoly on that product.
Lies that any of this additional money would actually go to the artists. (Think of the children<<<<<<<< artists!)
Just ban the entire Arkansas government IP range from Wikipedia edits until they become more reasonable. Small amount of effort - big payoff.
As for the IP address, you already have that. What else is given away by tying it to the computer used?
ATI 4870 X3 anybody?