It's not enough to simply not pass on the letters. UK needs to fight the RIAA at the ex parte stage when the RIAA creates a phony case that:
they have no intention of actually pursuing,
citing non-applicable laws,
with an illegal joinder of Doe Defendants,
based on flimsy to non-existent real evidence,
and no opposition to this farce,
to get a judge to issue the required subpoena's that would force UK to turn over student identities to the Record Industry extortion machine. Only then will I feel that UK actually has their student's interests at heart first!
That is absolutely true for my Comcast supplied Motorola DCT 6412-III.
However,
Prior to that, my non-branded Dish Network DVR worked great for 3 years. So I'm waiting for a Comcast provided TiVo box to see if they can hold onto my business.
With a $299 price point including remote + monthly subscription fees (yet a reliable subscription service), how does the new TiVo Lite stack up against DIY? Chopping a rough 60% off the price of the current HD model does change the equation.
Is there any Series III hack yet to avoid the TiVo subscription in favor of an open source solution?
So if a very small number of users start using an application like bittorrent and they end up with 2% of users using 95% of bandwidth what should an ISP do? By limiting the bandwidth available to bittorrent through packet inspection, they can ensure 98% of customers see the bandwidth they expect.
There is a HUGE fallacy in your argument. You state that by stopping 2% of the heavy users, that the other 98% get the bandwidth they expect. Well that 2% was getting never getting more than the bandwidth they expected (i.e. promised maximum bandwidth), still somehow leaving the other 98% with a trickle.
Yet if you remove that 2%, any other 2% in the remaining 98% could do exactly the same thing all over again. Truth is, people are paying for bandwidth that has no possibility of existing, and it's all a big lie -- especially by the cable ISP's, who are woefully under provisioned.
What I would consider fair is that bandwidth be more fairly apportioned. If there is 100Mbs available, and 20 heavy users, you get up to 1/20th of the bandwidth to use as you see fit. You might want to use your piece to make a trouble free VoIP call, play WoW, or download from BT -- BUT IT'S YOUR CHOICE.
Under the non-Net Neutrality proposed by this article, that isn't the case. If you're neighbor is doing something deemed more "worthy" of bandwidth, he may get more of it than you do, despite you both paying exactly the same price to transport bits to and from your house. That, to me, is most decidedly unfair.
I pay for my bandwidth, and therefore feel it's at least rented to me to use as I desire. As such, I want to be the one who sets the QoS levels for whatever bandwidth I have available at the time. I feel I know my own priorities better than my ISP, and feel I should be allowed to use what I purchased as I feel best meets my needs. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for all Internet users.
is that any argument that invokes 'Think of the Children' automatically loses
Much as I'd like to name such an argument after myself, I think Godwin's Law Part II will probably win the day. Any such argument would simply have to bear too much argument to Godwin's Law current.
Someone should really explain the concept of "unworkable" to these clowns. Short of shutting down the entire Internet...no, wait! They couldn't possibly be...???
The only think keeping me with Comcast right now (I'm on my 4th Motorola DCT 6412-III in 2.5 months) is the promise of a Comcast TiVo box to come and replace it. All the problem of the user with the Moto DCT 3xxx series I've had as well. My problem is that I'm in one of Comcast's smallest service areas (reported 85,000 customers), and we're not likely to see the new boxes soon enough!
The only reason I upgraded to XP is that I couldn't buy 2000 new any longer, nor get system updates. This is being typed on my last W2K machine, as it is.
There are enough passengers on an A380 to run your own filesharing network. Imagine hundreds of people all sharing music and videos around the plane's local network.
Imagine the RIAA trying to figure out how to stop it.
Not to mention chat with the lovely female in the next row up.
How about removing all the Crap in Vista? That might help.
I don't mean the crapware that Dell et al install, but all the internal DRM crap inside Vista. You're not serving your customers at all with it, and I, for one, have resisted Vista despite having free upgrades to Premium precisely because of that.
Vista has no performance improvement over XP, a much bigger memory footprint, no must-have feature(s) -- especially since DX10 can now be ported back to XP (thank you incompetent Nvidia driver writers) -- DRM Everywhere [tm], and unknown security issues. Why in the world did you ever think I'd want to upgrade to that?
The RIAA is great in the early stages of finding ways to keep people from fighting back when their case is the weakest. When, in fact, in the beginning where they actually have no case!
However, in an ex parte suit, their normal non-university approach, no defendant ever appears in court to show why personal information should not be released with the evidence provided.
And in these university cases, the university isn't being sued directly -- only threatened with bad publicity. As such, too many universities don't consider it worth their fighting on behalf of their students and cave in to demands that should be easy to shoot down.
The RIAA is using these cases in their attempt to rewrite copyright law more to their liking, and are being allowed to get away with it far too much!
I hardly consider an additonal 4.9% tax, passed along to the consumer as "Yet another wonderful move by your socialist overlords" to be "Going Crazy." It's more of a reason to go out and vote differently next election cycle. After all, you've brought this down on yourselves.
My gf is going to school in late September and will need a new machine. Shes currently looking at the Intel Core 2 Quad since it just had a great price drop (its $300 at newegg) and may be doing some vmware stuff.
I sincerely doubt that anyone still in school - any school - is going to overtax the current Core 2 Duo/AMD-64 X2 offerings available today. Short of running simulations of the Universe in real-time, or high resolution Maya renderings (remember when Photoshop was once the app that justified the most powerful machines, and AutoCad before that?) before class is over, that Quad Core is going to be performance, and wallet, overkill.
She may want it. She may actually get it. But I truly doubt she really needs it. Feel free to point out what heavy duty computing she is getting into to justify this. And VMware isn't the answer. It actually runs quite well on current dual processor rigs with enough memory.
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they have no intention of actually pursuing,
citing non-applicable laws,
with an illegal joinder of Doe Defendants,
based on flimsy to non-existent real evidence,
and no opposition to this farce,
to get a judge to issue the required subpoena's that would force UK to turn over student identities to the Record Industry extortion machine. Only then will I feel that UK actually has their student's interests at heart first!
I never knew that we were married to the same person.
That is absolutely true for my Comcast supplied Motorola DCT 6412-III.
However,
Prior to that, my non-branded Dish Network DVR worked great for 3 years. So I'm waiting for a Comcast provided TiVo box to see if they can hold onto my business.
Is there any Series III hack yet to avoid the TiVo subscription in favor of an open source solution?
There is a HUGE fallacy in your argument. You state that by stopping 2% of the heavy users, that the other 98% get the bandwidth they expect. Well that 2% was getting never getting more than the bandwidth they expected (i.e. promised maximum bandwidth), still somehow leaving the other 98% with a trickle.
Yet if you remove that 2%, any other 2% in the remaining 98% could do exactly the same thing all over again. Truth is, people are paying for bandwidth that has no possibility of existing, and it's all a big lie -- especially by the cable ISP's, who are woefully under provisioned.
What I would consider fair is that bandwidth be more fairly apportioned. If there is 100Mbs available, and 20 heavy users, you get up to 1/20th of the bandwidth to use as you see fit. You might want to use your piece to make a trouble free VoIP call, play WoW, or download from BT -- BUT IT'S YOUR CHOICE.
Under the non-Net Neutrality proposed by this article, that isn't the case. If you're neighbor is doing something deemed more "worthy" of bandwidth, he may get more of it than you do, despite you both paying exactly the same price to transport bits to and from your house. That, to me, is most decidedly unfair.
Btw, that was a long article for Ars Technica.
Much as I'd like to name such an argument after myself, I think Godwin's Law Part II will probably win the day. Any such argument would simply have to bear too much argument to Godwin's Law current.
Someone should really explain the concept of "unworkable" to these clowns. Short of shutting down the entire Internet...no, wait! They couldn't possibly be...???
And they're calling it The Fairness Doctrine???
That alone should get the parent modded TROLL -1.
The problem with insulting Islam is...
That it's far too easy to do!
The only think keeping me with Comcast right now (I'm on my 4th Motorola DCT 6412-III in 2.5 months) is the promise of a Comcast TiVo box to come and replace it. All the problem of the user with the Moto DCT 3xxx series I've had as well. My problem is that I'm in one of Comcast's smallest service areas (reported 85,000 customers), and we're not likely to see the new boxes soon enough!
The only reason I upgraded to XP is that I couldn't buy 2000 new any longer, nor get system updates. This is being typed on my last W2K machine, as it is.
1: How do I enable the 30-second forward skip?
2: Are these the ones Comcast will be rolling out to their subscribers?
You have to remember that EB contains intentional mistakes, to catch those who would plagiarize its content.
Imagine the RIAA trying to figure out how to stop it.
Not to mention chat with the lovely female in the next row up.
I don't mean the crapware that Dell et al install, but all the internal DRM crap inside Vista. You're not serving your customers at all with it, and I, for one, have resisted Vista despite having free upgrades to Premium precisely because of that.
Vista has no performance improvement over XP, a much bigger memory footprint, no must-have feature(s) -- especially since DX10 can now be ported back to XP (thank you incompetent Nvidia driver writers) -- DRM Everywhere [tm], and unknown security issues. Why in the world did you ever think I'd want to upgrade to that?
A "standard" means one, not several -- especially when they don't interoperate with each other.
Good luck!
Because the RIAA doesn't have a valid, legal case, and are committing acts more akin to extortion, than valid lawsuits. That's why!
However, in an ex parte suit, their normal non-university approach, no defendant ever appears in court to show why personal information should not be released with the evidence provided.
And in these university cases, the university isn't being sued directly -- only threatened with bad publicity. As such, too many universities don't consider it worth their fighting on behalf of their students and cave in to demands that should be easy to shoot down.
The RIAA is using these cases in their attempt to rewrite copyright law more to their liking, and are being allowed to get away with it far too much!
Can anybody?
Not that I can tell.
I hardly consider an additonal 4.9% tax, passed along to the consumer as "Yet another wonderful move by your socialist overlords" to be "Going Crazy." It's more of a reason to go out and vote differently next election cycle. After all, you've brought this down on yourselves.
I sincerely doubt that anyone still in school - any school - is going to overtax the current Core 2 Duo/AMD-64 X2 offerings available today. Short of running simulations of the Universe in real-time, or high resolution Maya renderings (remember when Photoshop was once the app that justified the most powerful machines, and AutoCad before that?) before class is over, that Quad Core is going to be performance, and wallet, overkill.
She may want it. She may actually get it. But I truly doubt she really needs it. Feel free to point out what heavy duty computing she is getting into to justify this. And VMware isn't the answer. It actually runs quite well on current dual processor rigs with enough memory.
Easy Question: Why not do both? Then you can sell 2X as many Wiis, since you sell to the old, and the new, crowd.