In the event that you are WILLFULLY and with the INTENT TO PROFIT from the process of reproducing copyrighted works, it is a misdemeanor if you distribute or reproduce 1 or more copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total retail value of more than $1000.
In the event that you are WILLFULLY and with the INTENT TO PROFIT from the process of reproducing copyrighted works, it is a felony if you distribute or reproduce 10 or more copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total retail value of more than $2500.
In the event you do not fall under these criminal statutes, for example, because you are not atttempting to profit from the distribution or copying, you cannot be dragged into a criminal trial. You can, of course, be sued shitless.
Or, to put it more bluntly: you are an idiot. As is typical of a slashbot (i.e. "idiot"), you have no idea what you're talkling about it, but that's not stopping you from pounding your manly chest as if you had a clue or a point.
And how, exactly, do you propose to keep any sort of reasonable industry afloat if said industry is required to make its products free? Are YOU willing to work for free, living off entirely random donations? I'll bet whoever employs you would LOVE IT if you were required by law to make your services free of charge and the only loophole they had to jump through was to figure out a way to balance the books such that it's impossible to show how your services contributed to the bottom line (a trivial task for professional number-crunchers, at best).
Idiots. It just never occurs to you pea-brains that regardless of who winds up producing content, whether it's a huge conglomerate like the *AAs or an individual artist, somebody at some point in time is going to have to pay for that production, and they're not going to want to do it for free. More importantly, it just never occurs to you that people don't WANT to see traveling musicians like in the 'olden days'. They want polished, professionally mangled music and movies which is why they keep buying the goddamn things.
Get the hell over yourselves you content-stealing jackasses. The majority of people would scream bloody murder if the professional content industries crumbled, and that's exactly what would happen if your communist "utopia" were allowed to happen.
How is saying "we're trying to keep problem X in check" the same as saying "we're just wasting your money by spending it on problem X"?
That was quite a "logical" leap you made there. Are you superman? Because that was a hell of a chasm to cross to come to the bizarre conclusion you did.
You fill out PHP Nuke templates for a living like this ass-sniffing cock muncher and that means you're qualified to write about the age-old concept of thin clients as if your ridiculous "thoughts" haven't been chewed up and spit out thousands of times across the Internet over the last 25 years already?
You, sir, are an idiot. Like 99.995% of all the other bloggers out there, you have nothing better to do with your newfound "skill" (it must be tough writing HTML with FrontPage all day, huh?) than act as if you've found some profound new insights, when the clued-in people you're choking out of information paths such as Google found those insights a decade before you and your stupid "Trackbacks" started fucking the web up with the ignorant yapping of the equivalent of a Middle School cafeteria at lunchtime.
I sincerely hope that a group of vandals like the GNAA take notice of your sorry little "blog" and excise it from the web like the cancerous blotch that it is.
"I have no qualifications, I'm just another ignorant 'blogger' sucking up bandwidth and blocking out REAL information on the web."
"I don't know HTML, which is why I used 'blogging' software to run my 'site', so I'll make up something about browser incompatibility, which would be entirely Slashdot's fault (since I was talking about YOUR posts HERE, dumbass - no way am I wasting my time reading the thoughts of your ignorant sychophantic readers after I killed brain cells reading your mind dump), and hope I don't sound like I suffer from congenital mental retardation."
"My 'article' got accepted on Slashdot because 1) Rob Malda's only significant technology knowledge lies in the software used to develop crappy 3d cartoons and 2) it's a really slow news day and Mr. Malda was afraid OSTG (formerly OSDN until it got such a bad rap it had to change its name) wouldn't pay him enough for his daily splurge of gin and tonics."
Crawl back to your hovel. I know more about brain surgery than you do about intarwebs technology. You have no qualifications to talk about any of this. Shit, you can't even write your own damn HTML.
Who the hell are you, and why should I care about what you have to say in your random "blog"?
Because, frankly, just because you managed to set up some search-choking "blogging" software, that doesn't mean anyone should listen to you.
I mean, hell, you can't even format your posts properly, why should I care about your random technology predictions in your random "blog" anymore than I care about some random fourteen year old kid's random day at school in her random "blog"?
If this is news, the quality of news has really gone downhill lately.
I think it's ironic that the phrase "You're a fucking twat" made me chuckle, which probably lowered my blood pressure, while your post probably raised your blood pressure by several points.
I thank you for killing yourself in the name of my personal comfort, and humbly suggest you get a kitten. You could hold it like a mitten and use it as a masturbation aid while you wile away your lonely, lonely days in front of the glowing screen that brings the only bit of fleeting happiness into your vapid, wasted life.
You could use it between the bowls of microwave macaroni and cheese your mom makes you!
P.S: I thought you might like to know that I'm currently banned from posting for posting posts like this post.
How is this an issue? Explain to me, please, how having oversight of the people you're supposed to have oversight on is a bad thing? Guess what? We track our employees via time clocks, quality assurance, and production quotes. We know where they are all the time while they're here, and if we don't, they're punished for being somewhere they're not supposed to be.
Yet another example of the reason that slashbot crowd simply does not have it's collective head planted anywhere near reality. If you have a problem with your employer making sure you're doing your bloody job, then quit. Be unemployed. When this starts to become an issue of people trying to monitor their employees in their homes or when they're off the clock or something, let me know.
I have a new opinion of the YRO section: anything that appears in it, especially if it's posted by Comrade Censorific Sims, is something that doesn't matter, and I shouldn't care about. This section is only good for keeping me up to date on all the things that aren't an issue and nobody needs to know about.
That's irrelevant. The point of the post was that computers are complex machines requiring maintenance. The point was merely illustrated by poining out how silly it would be to ignore maintenance on another complex piece of machinery that requires it - an automobile.
It had nothing to do with the reasons as to why people choose not to maintain their systems.
Maybe you'd sound less like a schizophrenic hobo who got kidnapped and shot up with DDT for fun if you stopped trying to justify your misplaced outrage using a bunch of unprecedented hypothetical scenarios and stuck to reality. The MPAA can sue the shit out of me and the worst that's going to happen is I'll have to take a day off work to show up in court and wait around while some data service images my hard drives (which, I might note, is all grounds for a countersuit). Why?
Well, because (and you'd know this if you weren't a 14 year old wanker pretending to be some revolutionary hero defending people's non-existant right to steal) in a civil case, the general burden of proof is on the plaintiff. They can subpeona the contents of all of my hard drives, DVDs, CDs, and VHS tapes and they'll not find even a second of ill-gotten content. No competent judge is going to rule against you when the only evidence of a "crime" is you visiting two pages legally. Not only that, sans any actual copied content, they could claim exactly $0 in damages. That is: 0 infringements x the maximum amount per infringement is still 0.
Maybe if you media-stealing retards weren't just a bunch of basement dwelling gerbilfags you'd realize that reality has nothing to do with star wars, MMORPGs, and pretty much everything else that your life revolves around.
Except, for people to treat their cars the way they do their computers, they'd have to:
Never get an oil change. Ever. Everytime the oil burned into the pan and the car stopped running altogether, they'd just replace the whole pan and rebuild the block to clean the ooze out. They would also whine incessantly about having to do this.
Never check their tire pressure. Ever. They would simply drive the car until the tires blew, then continue to drive on the rims complaing about how hard it is to control.
Drive the cars around bad neighbordhoods all the time without taking any precautions. When they get caught in a drive by, or someone comes along and smashes up their car, they'd whine about the car getting damaged as if it were the car's fault.
Everytime someone offered to install something, they'd do it. This would include everything from cutesy stickers with corrosive backing to "engine upgrades" that make the car go half as fast, but lets you change the color of your headlights. All negative affects would, again, be blamed on the car.
Computers are complex tools that require maintenance. Hell, some people pay more attention to their toaster's maintenance than the computer's maintenance. At least they clean the damn crumbs out of it from time to time.
The exploit was never made publicly accesible, and now it's not even on the web anymore. I even kept it in a directory that wasn't spidered, just in case.
Of course, if someone else finds the flaw and uses it against them, the imbeciles will probably blame me anyway. Heaven forfend some overpaid guru-wannabe with some ASP "skill" should get off his fat, cheeto-eating ass and actually spend five minutes fixing the bloody problem when you can just sue people for your own incompetence instead.
Not true at all. I happen to be the proud owner of a very serious exploit in the shopping cart of a major online retailer - an exploit of a simple-fix problem they refuse to even look at.
The gist is this - there's a variable in the GET string of the cart which does no input sanitization or checking at all. I derived a GET string which caused an invisible iframe to be embedded in the shopping cart page of this retailer. Inside the iframe, however, was a page pointing to one of my sites on which a fake form resided. The page/form claimed you would "Get a free gift for only 99 cents S&H" and asked for name, address, phone number, and credit card. The ONLY indicator that it's fake is:
1. The hard to read GET string which, if you know HTML and the concept of CGI, you could figure out points to a "bad" page if you looked at it.
2. The javascript alert that says "owned" after you click the "submit" button.
I even photoshopped some of their own button graphics and used their CSS files to maintain the look of the site.
They have yet, after almost a year, to fix the problem.
Firefox is just as vulnerable as anything else, and this particularly nasty XSS attack was fairly hard to detect. Do not rely on your browser to save you from yourself.
1) The people who really need it will never hear about it.
2) Even if 1 fails to return true, the people who really need it will never be able to find it amongst the 82 other toolbars that various companies have so helpfully installed for the sucke.... uh... users.
The only one of those you actively concentrate on is the talking.
You do not understand multitasking.
As has been previously mentioned, try something like singing a song while you write a memo and listen to another song on the radio.
Then, when you are done, try to relate the content of all three in a reasonably accurate fashion. You will see the problem of the human brain's relative inflexibility because of these new demands.
I think you misspelled "bizarre, unrealistic, and unprecedented nonsense" as "point". You see, child, just because you can come up with ridiculous and assinine technical extensions of an action or event, that doesn't mean you made a point.
Technically speaking, if I set a bowling ball on a ledge and a hilarious and improbable series of chain events ensued that caused the death of a construction worker in a high rise project on the other side of the country from me in California, it would be possible to make an unrealistic interpretation of the law and charge me with manslaughter.
Which is why we have courts, jackass. They interpret laws and hand down rulings. In the event that the g-parent posters faux 'point' ever becomes anything approaching reality, let me know. Until then, kindly plug up that fat hole on the front of your face. What little brains you have appear to be spilling out through it.
They're being sued for linking to the content. Not only did I not link to or provide actual instructions for finding ANYTHING, even if you knew what I was talking about, you got a webpage, not copyrighted material being distributed illegally.
But, that was a nice try. I'm sure it's the best your little pirate mind could muster, and for that, I'm proud of you.
No, wait, sorry, I'm not. You're just an imbecile.
Yea... because hard drives never fail outright or suffer physical damage that prevents normal access to the data on them..... in fact, when that happens, it's because your neighbor's computer running Windows picked the lock on your front door, went into your den, and damaged the drive on your 1337 Lunax machine, right?
Not if it landed in the Gulf of Mexico. Or anywhere with a significant land mass between the point of impact and a U.S. Coastline.
Don't be so dense you stupid welfare monkey. Besides, if the blue states were wiped out, who would subsidize your government provided trailer home and food stamps?
Now, shut the hell up, Cletus. If I wanted to hear a pukehole talking I'd go punch a blue state drunk in the gut in the bar across the street. With your sorry lack of education, the drunk's vomiting noises would still be leaps and bounds smarter than anything you and your trailer trash friends could come up with if you put all of your inbred heads together and thought until your brains smoked like your trucks.
Go eat your grits and attend to your mama's "special needs" hillbilly bob. I'll call you when my $500 leather shoes need a shine or I need a rag to sop up a water puddle beside one of my Bentleys.
Slashdot Mirror
In the event that you are WILLFULLY and with the INTENT TO PROFIT from the process of reproducing copyrighted works, it is a misdemeanor if you distribute or reproduce 1 or more copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total retail value of more than $1000.
In the event that you are WILLFULLY and with the INTENT TO PROFIT from the process of reproducing copyrighted works, it is a felony if you distribute or reproduce 10 or more copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total retail value of more than $2500.
In the event you do not fall under these criminal statutes, for example, because you are not atttempting to profit from the distribution or copying, you cannot be dragged into a criminal trial. You can, of course, be sued shitless.
Or, to put it more bluntly: you are an idiot. As is typical of a slashbot (i.e. "idiot"), you have no idea what you're talkling about it, but that's not stopping you from pounding your manly chest as if you had a clue or a point.
And how, exactly, do you propose to keep any sort of reasonable industry afloat if said industry is required to make its products free? Are YOU willing to work for free, living off entirely random donations? I'll bet whoever employs you would LOVE IT if you were required by law to make your services free of charge and the only loophole they had to jump through was to figure out a way to balance the books such that it's impossible to show how your services contributed to the bottom line (a trivial task for professional number-crunchers, at best).
Idiots. It just never occurs to you pea-brains that regardless of who winds up producing content, whether it's a huge conglomerate like the *AAs or an individual artist, somebody at some point in time is going to have to pay for that production, and they're not going to want to do it for free. More importantly, it just never occurs to you that people don't WANT to see traveling musicians like in the 'olden days'. They want polished, professionally mangled music and movies which is why they keep buying the goddamn things.
Get the hell over yourselves you content-stealing jackasses. The majority of people would scream bloody murder if the professional content industries crumbled, and that's exactly what would happen if your communist "utopia" were allowed to happen.
How is saying "we're trying to keep problem X in check" the same as saying "we're just wasting your money by spending it on problem X"?
That was quite a "logical" leap you made there. Are you superman? Because that was a hell of a chasm to cross to come to the bizarre conclusion you did.
You fill out PHP Nuke templates for a living like this ass-sniffing cock muncher and that means you're qualified to write about the age-old concept of thin clients as if your ridiculous "thoughts" haven't been chewed up and spit out thousands of times across the Internet over the last 25 years already?
You, sir, are an idiot. Like 99.995% of all the other bloggers out there, you have nothing better to do with your newfound "skill" (it must be tough writing HTML with FrontPage all day, huh?) than act as if you've found some profound new insights, when the clued-in people you're choking out of information paths such as Google found those insights a decade before you and your stupid "Trackbacks" started fucking the web up with the ignorant yapping of the equivalent of a Middle School cafeteria at lunchtime.
I sincerely hope that a group of vandals like the GNAA take notice of your sorry little "blog" and excise it from the web like the cancerous blotch that it is.
"I have no qualifications, I'm just another ignorant 'blogger' sucking up bandwidth and blocking out REAL information on the web."
"I don't know HTML, which is why I used 'blogging' software to run my 'site', so I'll make up something about browser incompatibility, which would be entirely Slashdot's fault (since I was talking about YOUR posts HERE, dumbass - no way am I wasting my time reading the thoughts of your ignorant sychophantic readers after I killed brain cells reading your mind dump), and hope I don't sound like I suffer from congenital mental retardation."
"My 'article' got accepted on Slashdot because 1) Rob Malda's only significant technology knowledge lies in the software used to develop crappy 3d cartoons and 2) it's a really slow news day and Mr. Malda was afraid OSTG (formerly OSDN until it got such a bad rap it had to change its name) wouldn't pay him enough for his daily splurge of gin and tonics."
Crawl back to your hovel. I know more about brain surgery than you do about intarwebs technology. You have no qualifications to talk about any of this. Shit, you can't even write your own damn HTML.
... fear astroturfing retards?
Who the hell are you, and why should I care about what you have to say in your random "blog"?
Because, frankly, just because you managed to set up some search-choking "blogging" software, that doesn't mean anyone should listen to you.
I mean, hell, you can't even format your posts properly, why should I care about your random technology predictions in your random "blog" anymore than I care about some random fourteen year old kid's random day at school in her random "blog"?
If this is news, the quality of news has really gone downhill lately.
I think it's ironic that the phrase "You're a fucking twat" made me chuckle, which probably lowered my blood pressure, while your post probably raised your blood pressure by several points.
I thank you for killing yourself in the name of my personal comfort, and humbly suggest you get a kitten. You could hold it like a mitten and use it as a masturbation aid while you wile away your lonely, lonely days in front of the glowing screen that brings the only bit of fleeting happiness into your vapid, wasted life.
You could use it between the bowls of microwave macaroni and cheese your mom makes you!
P.S: I thought you might like to know that I'm currently banned from posting for posting posts like this post.
How is this an issue? Explain to me, please, how having oversight of the people you're supposed to have oversight on is a bad thing? Guess what? We track our employees via time clocks, quality assurance, and production quotes. We know where they are all the time while they're here, and if we don't, they're punished for being somewhere they're not supposed to be.
Yet another example of the reason that slashbot crowd simply does not have it's collective head planted anywhere near reality. If you have a problem with your employer making sure you're doing your bloody job, then quit. Be unemployed. When this starts to become an issue of people trying to monitor their employees in their homes or when they're off the clock or something, let me know.
I have a new opinion of the YRO section: anything that appears in it, especially if it's posted by Comrade Censorific Sims, is something that doesn't matter, and I shouldn't care about. This section is only good for keeping me up to date on all the things that aren't an issue and nobody needs to know about.
That's irrelevant. The point of the post was that computers are complex machines requiring maintenance. The point was merely illustrated by poining out how silly it would be to ignore maintenance on another complex piece of machinery that requires it - an automobile.
It had nothing to do with the reasons as to why people choose not to maintain their systems.
Maybe you'd sound less like a schizophrenic hobo who got kidnapped and shot up with DDT for fun if you stopped trying to justify your misplaced outrage using a bunch of unprecedented hypothetical scenarios and stuck to reality. The MPAA can sue the shit out of me and the worst that's going to happen is I'll have to take a day off work to show up in court and wait around while some data service images my hard drives (which, I might note, is all grounds for a countersuit). Why?
Well, because (and you'd know this if you weren't a 14 year old wanker pretending to be some revolutionary hero defending people's non-existant right to steal) in a civil case, the general burden of proof is on the plaintiff. They can subpeona the contents of all of my hard drives, DVDs, CDs, and VHS tapes and they'll not find even a second of ill-gotten content. No competent judge is going to rule against you when the only evidence of a "crime" is you visiting two pages legally. Not only that, sans any actual copied content, they could claim exactly $0 in damages. That is: 0 infringements x the maximum amount per infringement is still 0.
Maybe if you media-stealing retards weren't just a bunch of basement dwelling gerbilfags you'd realize that reality has nothing to do with star wars, MMORPGs, and pretty much everything else that your life revolves around.
- Never get an oil change. Ever. Everytime the oil burned into the pan and the car stopped running altogether, they'd just replace the whole pan and rebuild the block to clean the ooze out. They would also whine incessantly about having to do this.
- Never check their tire pressure. Ever. They would simply drive the car until the tires blew, then continue to drive on the rims complaing about how hard it is to control.
- Drive the cars around bad neighbordhoods all the time without taking any precautions. When they get caught in a drive by, or someone comes along and smashes up their car, they'd whine about the car getting damaged as if it were the car's fault.
- Everytime someone offered to install something, they'd do it. This would include everything from cutesy stickers with corrosive backing to "engine upgrades" that make the car go half as fast, but lets you change the color of your headlights. All negative affects would, again, be blamed on the car.
Computers are complex tools that require maintenance. Hell, some people pay more attention to their toaster's maintenance than the computer's maintenance. At least they clean the damn crumbs out of it from time to time.The exploit was never made publicly accesible, and now it's not even on the web anymore. I even kept it in a directory that wasn't spidered, just in case.
Of course, if someone else finds the flaw and uses it against them, the imbeciles will probably blame me anyway. Heaven forfend some overpaid guru-wannabe with some ASP "skill" should get off his fat, cheeto-eating ass and actually spend five minutes fixing the bloody problem when you can just sue people for your own incompetence instead.
Not true at all. I happen to be the proud owner of a very serious exploit in the shopping cart of a major online retailer - an exploit of a simple-fix problem they refuse to even look at.
The gist is this - there's a variable in the GET string of the cart which does no input sanitization or checking at all. I derived a GET string which caused an invisible iframe to be embedded in the shopping cart page of this retailer. Inside the iframe, however, was a page pointing to one of my sites on which a fake form resided. The page/form claimed you would "Get a free gift for only 99 cents S&H" and asked for name, address, phone number, and credit card. The ONLY indicator that it's fake is:
1. The hard to read GET string which, if you know HTML and the concept of CGI, you could figure out points to a "bad" page if you looked at it.
2. The javascript alert that says "owned" after you click the "submit" button.
I even photoshopped some of their own button graphics and used their CSS files to maintain the look of the site.
They have yet, after almost a year, to fix the problem.
Firefox is just as vulnerable as anything else, and this particularly nasty XSS attack was fairly hard to detect. Do not rely on your browser to save you from yourself.
This will have little affect because:
1) The people who really need it will never hear about it.
2) Even if 1 fails to return true, the people who really need it will never be able to find it amongst the 82 other toolbars that various companies have so helpfully installed for the sucke.... uh... users.
The only one of those you actively concentrate on is the talking.
You do not understand multitasking.
As has been previously mentioned, try something like singing a song while you write a memo and listen to another song on the radio.
Then, when you are done, try to relate the content of all three in a reasonably accurate fashion. You will see the problem of the human brain's relative inflexibility because of these new demands.
Humans can't multitask my ass.
Why would you want them to?I think you misspelled "bizarre, unrealistic, and unprecedented nonsense" as "point". You see, child, just because you can come up with ridiculous and assinine technical extensions of an action or event, that doesn't mean you made a point.
Technically speaking, if I set a bowling ball on a ledge and a hilarious and improbable series of chain events ensued that caused the death of a construction worker in a high rise project on the other side of the country from me in California, it would be possible to make an unrealistic interpretation of the law and charge me with manslaughter.
Which is why we have courts, jackass. They interpret laws and hand down rulings. In the event that the g-parent posters faux 'point' ever becomes anything approaching reality, let me know. Until then, kindly plug up that fat hole on the front of your face. What little brains you have appear to be spilling out through it.
WRONG, FAILURE.
They're being sued for linking to the content. Not only did I not link to or provide actual instructions for finding ANYTHING, even if you knew what I was talking about, you got a webpage, not copyrighted material being distributed illegally.
But, that was a nice try. I'm sure it's the best your little pirate mind could muster, and for that, I'm proud of you.
No, wait, sorry, I'm not. You're just an imbecile.
Because google isn't intentionally making themself an accomplice in the crime.
Next question?
First five listings:
Half Life 2
The Grudge
White Chicks
Blade 3
Exorcist, The Beginning
Whatever, man. Boo hoo. They're getting sued. Maybe they should have thought about that before they started riding the legal fence like that.
They will not get a dime from me, and this has nothing to do with my rights.
Yea... because hard drives never fail outright or suffer physical damage that prevents normal access to the data on them..... in fact, when that happens, it's because your neighbor's computer running Windows picked the lock on your front door, went into your den, and damaged the drive on your 1337 Lunax machine, right?
At least he has the manners to use the proper utensils.
Get some culture!
Not if it landed in the Gulf of Mexico. Or anywhere with a significant land mass between the point of impact and a U.S. Coastline.
Don't be so dense you stupid welfare monkey. Besides, if the blue states were wiped out, who would subsidize your government provided trailer home and food stamps?
Now, shut the hell up, Cletus. If I wanted to hear a pukehole talking I'd go punch a blue state drunk in the gut in the bar across the street. With your sorry lack of education, the drunk's vomiting noises would still be leaps and bounds smarter than anything you and your trailer trash friends could come up with if you put all of your inbred heads together and thought until your brains smoked like your trucks.
Go eat your grits and attend to your mama's "special needs" hillbilly bob. I'll call you when my $500 leather shoes need a shine or I need a rag to sop up a water puddle beside one of my Bentleys.
Uh oh.