If anyone is making a profit off the business of piracy, it's the hardware manufacturers and the services that allow the infringing material to be transmitted or recorded.
Let us not forget Sony, who feeds both ends of this equation.
...that when 2 different penalties are out of agreement with each other, it's never suggested that the harsher one be brought down to the level of the milder one.
...that the British government seems not at all interested in serving the interests of the British people at all.
And this systems costs how much? And consumes how much power? And needs how many P/S's to operate?
They may have put on a desktop what it took a supercomputer to do before, but it's still a very expensive desktop, which makes it interesting, but hardly useful to 99% of us.
Took them long enough to become exasperated. With the notable exception of Oregon - and even there it took more than one suit to get the State A.G. involved - all of these colleges/universities/bastions of free and open thinking and individual rights have been very slow to fight back against these spurious lawsuits. Too much of a "Not the University's problem" type of thinking on display here.
The IOC cannot allow unofficial use of the Olympic rings logo, it has nothing to do with supporting or opposing the right of people to protest their condition or the conditions endured by others around the world.
But it's fine to put them on Visa cards and checks. I think the latter diminishes the value of the symbol much more than the former!
Changing the Olympic logo into handcuffs, while certainly offensive to some, is clearly protected political satire akin to flag burning. YouTube should be ashamed, and the posters of the video should counter-file that their video is protected fair use.
Our only real choice is to either slowly adjust our lifestyles now (by developing the alternative energy technologies quickly enough to handle our energy needs) or rapidly adjust our lifestyles later (in an economically catastrophic way).
I'm all for alternative energy in the long run. It eventually will become necessary, especially if nuclear is included in carbon-free renewable alternative energy. What I'm not for is the unnecessary suffering getting to it when abundant existing energy still exists.
I've worked in the "oil patch" and I understand drilling. We're an economy that runs on cheap available oil and I d@mn well don't want to go through unnecessary pain just because someone else doesn't think we're moving to renewable energy fast enough to suit them.
And I especially don't want to go through that pain due to some young, inexperienced idiot who is just so certain that he knows better than I do what's best for me.
From what i can tell this isn't about public safety at all, it's more about money. If it were about public safety, they would take it seriously and work with these guys to resolve the issues.
Funny, but that's also the only damages the RIAA members face from filesharing, yet they treat it as a national emergency demanding new laws, treaties, and 30,000+ lawsuits demanding damages far in excess of any actual losses. Overhype isn't limited to the MTA alone.
And, btw, this judge should be impeached for such a gross error of judgment in issuing this order. Hate to think of him deciding other cases given his obvious lack of understanding of the basics of the Constitution.
And have they managed to block every proxy server that can connect to every other proxy server that can see and connect to TPB? It just sounds like more press grandstanding to this observer.
And how about an ICQ that serves up torrent files? The file you need to get from TPB just isn't that big.
And how about IMBF (Information Must Be Free) people offering to e-mail in.tor files upon request? Got that blocked yet?
Strikes me that shutting down TPB countywide (unless you're China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or the like) isn't easy, or likely.
The only proper and moral way to enforce a non-compete agreement is to pay me not to work for someone else during the length of that agreement. Because you claim to own my time and skills through this period it is only fair that you pay me for them. I'm waiting for the day when the court actually says that, after which these things will probably go away.
It's worth noting that there are some great comments on Ray's blog (link in the summary) that don't appear to have made it to Slashdot. Worth reading for those of you with an intense interest in all this RIAA foolishness.
You've got to go clear to the east coast flagship New York Times for a report on Silicone Valley? Wtf?? And when has the NYT been right about much of anything in recent years anyway???
I don't want to be mean, but why would anyone use original (and sometimes irreplaceable) CDs in his car?
Because in the early days CD burners were very expensive, very slow, required very expensive (SCSI) non-standard interfaces, their media was very expensive, and required very fast computers for the day to not have dropouts. In short, in the early days most of us didn't have any ability to duplicate CD's on our own for automobile/portable use. Oh, and it was also illegal, or so we were told.
Can you elucidate further on the irreplaceable aspects of many of your discs? CD's last a long time, many were made, many remain available in catalogs, and then there's Amazon, iTunes, eBay, and your local secondhand music shop.
In fact, if the record companies are smart (admittedly the RIAA backed lawsuits strongly cast this into question) everything ever (re)mastered in digital should be available from online music stores.
If you're just trying to see how cheaply you can accomplish this that's fine, however, then it's simply a matter of cost, not availability.
I wonder what a 486 core would perform like on a modern fab process. After all that chip had a modest I/D cache, single instruction/cycle performance for many instructions, and integrated floating point - all with a tiny transistor budget by modern standards.
You're right. I suggest we just burn all the books that we find offensive. Oh, that's too hard to agree upon you say, well I bet you'd be happy if we just burned all the books YOU found offensive.
Then we wouldn't have to worry about tracking down everyone who checks out the Terrorist Cookbook, and you can still feel safe!
You clearly fail to understand sarcasm when it slaps you right in the face. The stupid terrorist would be identified because overdue lists are still kept and he would have not returned the book before killing himself and others. Besides, AFAIK, there is no Terrorist's Cookbook.
Then forget Intel and their closed patented Quick-Path Interconnect and make chipsets for other processors that aren't so anal about people trying to improve their products. Hummm, who could that be?
What about encrypting the message twice with two different algorithms for better security? The question here is that brute-force decrypting a message with a computer requires some way of knowing when it's decrypted. Normally one would assume that means that you actually get reasonable message text out of it. But if the correct decryption still only gives you random appearing garbage how can you even know when stage 1 is complete and you know which cipher text to start working on as stage 2? This approach would appear to multiply the problem by the number of possible keys in stage 1, yet isn't known to be widely used.
Privacy is more than encryption. Who is more likely to store and hand over your IP information to anybody trying to track down the owner of an e-mail address? If they find you then they can force you to decrypt it for them - unless you want to spend the rest of your life in a cell, that is.
One question not answered is if these computers contained information necessary for the library to operate? In fact, what information was on them at all?
Btw, had this coincidentally quite appropriate Slashdot FC at the bottom of my page on this article:
Did you know the University of Iowa closed down after someone stole the book?
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Option 1: You pirate a song that you never would have bought anyway from another music lover - the artist gets no money.
Option 2: You buy the song from the record company - the artist gets less than the credit card company processing the transaction gets.
Tell me again how this as all about the starving artists (and their families for decades after the artist is dead).
Now tell me just who has been starving the artists in the first place?
Let us not forget Sony, who feeds both ends of this equation.
I notice...
...that when 2 different penalties are out of agreement with each other, it's never suggested that the harsher one be brought down to the level of the milder one.
...that the British government seems not at all interested in serving the interests of the British people at all.
And this systems costs how much? And consumes how much power? And needs how many P/S's to operate?
They may have put on a desktop what it took a supercomputer to do before, but it's still a very expensive desktop, which makes it interesting, but hardly useful to 99% of us.
Took them long enough to become exasperated. With the notable exception of Oregon - and even there it took more than one suit to get the State A.G. involved - all of these colleges/universities/bastions of free and open thinking and individual rights have been very slow to fight back against these spurious lawsuits. Too much of a "Not the University's problem" type of thinking on display here.
But it's fine to put them on Visa cards and checks. I think the latter diminishes the value of the symbol much more than the former!
Changing the Olympic logo into handcuffs, while certainly offensive to some, is clearly protected political satire akin to flag burning. YouTube should be ashamed, and the posters of the video should counter-file that their video is protected fair use.
Big Fsking Wow! Get a patent for replacing a battery with a fuel cell. I'd hope that the Patent office has more brains than this.
I'm all for alternative energy in the long run. It eventually will become necessary, especially if nuclear is included in carbon-free renewable alternative energy. What I'm not for is the unnecessary suffering getting to it when abundant existing energy still exists.
I've worked in the "oil patch" and I understand drilling. We're an economy that runs on cheap available oil and I d@mn well don't want to go through unnecessary pain just because someone else doesn't think we're moving to renewable energy fast enough to suit them.
And I especially don't want to go through that pain due to some young, inexperienced idiot who is just so certain that he knows better than I do what's best for me.
Funny, but that's also the only damages the RIAA members face from filesharing, yet they treat it as a national emergency demanding new laws, treaties, and 30,000+ lawsuits demanding damages far in excess of any actual losses. Overhype isn't limited to the MTA alone.
And, btw, this judge should be impeached for such a gross error of judgment in issuing this order. Hate to think of him deciding other cases given his obvious lack of understanding of the basics of the Constitution.
And have they managed to block every proxy server that can connect to every other proxy server that can see and connect to TPB? It just sounds like more press grandstanding to this observer.
.tor files upon request? Got that blocked yet?
And how about an ICQ that serves up torrent files? The file you need to get from TPB just isn't that big.
And how about IMBF (Information Must Be Free) people offering to e-mail in
Strikes me that shutting down TPB countywide (unless you're China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or the like) isn't easy, or likely.
The only proper and moral way to enforce a non-compete agreement is to pay me not to work for someone else during the length of that agreement. Because you claim to own my time and skills through this period it is only fair that you pay me for them. I'm waiting for the day when the court actually says that, after which these things will probably go away.
This seems pretty last minute to put in a DRM system for Olympics starting in 2 days.
Too bad both of them have pissed me off so badly in the past.
The ACLU over the Second Amendment and their insanely restrictive view of the separation of church and state.
The EFF over their stand in the Michael Savage versus CAIR case.
It's worth noting that there are some great comments on Ray's blog (link in the summary) that don't appear to have made it to Slashdot. Worth reading for those of you with an intense interest in all this RIAA foolishness.
You've got to go clear to the east coast flagship New York Times for a report on Silicone Valley? Wtf?? And when has the NYT been right about much of anything in recent years anyway???
Because in the early days CD burners were very expensive, very slow, required very expensive (SCSI) non-standard interfaces, their media was very expensive, and required very fast computers for the day to not have dropouts. In short, in the early days most of us didn't have any ability to duplicate CD's on our own for automobile/portable use. Oh, and it was also illegal, or so we were told.
Can you elucidate further on the irreplaceable aspects of many of your discs? CD's last a long time, many were made, many remain available in catalogs, and then there's Amazon, iTunes, eBay, and your local secondhand music shop.
In fact, if the record companies are smart (admittedly the RIAA backed lawsuits strongly cast this into question) everything ever (re)mastered in digital should be available from online music stores.
If you're just trying to see how cheaply you can accomplish this that's fine, however, then it's simply a matter of cost, not availability.
I wonder what a 486 core would perform like on a modern fab process. After all that chip had a modest I/D cache, single instruction/cycle performance for many instructions, and integrated floating point - all with a tiny transistor budget by modern standards.
You clearly fail to understand sarcasm when it slaps you right in the face. The stupid terrorist would be identified because overdue lists are still kept and he would have not returned the book before killing himself and others. Besides, AFAIK, there is no Terrorist's Cookbook.
Then forget Intel and their closed patented Quick-Path Interconnect and make chipsets for other processors that aren't so anal about people trying to improve their products. Hummm, who could that be?
What about encrypting the message twice with two different algorithms for better security? The question here is that brute-force decrypting a message with a computer requires some way of knowing when it's decrypted. Normally one would assume that means that you actually get reasonable message text out of it. But if the correct decryption still only gives you random appearing garbage how can you even know when stage 1 is complete and you know which cipher text to start working on as stage 2? This approach would appear to multiply the problem by the number of possible keys in stage 1, yet isn't known to be widely used.
Privacy is more than encryption. Who is more likely to store and hand over your IP information to anybody trying to track down the owner of an e-mail address? If they find you then they can force you to decrypt it for them - unless you want to spend the rest of your life in a cell, that is.
Obviously Marketing rules at Apple. And you're surprised -- why?
One question not answered is if these computers contained information necessary for the library to operate? In fact, what information was on them at all?
Btw, had this coincidentally quite appropriate Slashdot FC at the bottom of my page on this article:
Did you know the University of Iowa closed down after someone stole the book?