What on earth makes you think that avoiding P2P clients stops you from being vulnerable to trojan wma/wmv files?
TVstationxyorzy.com gets hacked. Their promo wmv file(s) is(are) replaced by wmvs with a trojan payload. Suddenly, downloading what you thought was a safe file, isn't. And your pc is now on the zombie network.
So now, wmv/wma files are on my 'Must Avoid' list, along with DRM'd MP3 files (the only mp3 files my Sony player won't play are the ones I purchased from a legal-download provider), and anything Real. So are Windows updates. And the entertainment industry has bitten yet another hand that feeds it.
*** This story was posted under a heading of "YRO," which I'm told stands for "your rights" something. Isn't that just a bit misleading here? ***
I always thought it stood for Your Rights Online, which is not misleading if you understand the average Slashdotter's point of view regarding the entertainment industries' point of view regarding the rights of the consumer: we have none.
We have no rights to record. We have no rights to share. We have no rights to skip anything during the broadcast that we would rather not watch. In other words, we have no rights to all the fun stuff.
Of course, we do have rights: the right to watch the broadcast, and the right to not watch the broadcast.
"If your default position is I'm a thief, then why are you surprised when I thieve?"
Right now, I purchase dvds because the sound and video quality are better than anything I can do with my tv card and a burner. And it's often easier to purchase the dvd than try to burn a homemade jobbie.
But DRM the dvd, making it a damned pain in the backside to get to the point where I can watch the film, and I won't be willing to purchase your next project when it comes to dvd. I'll either burn a copy when the film airs on PBS or TNT, or not watch it.
Look at it this way; every time you DRM a dvd or cd, you are building a maze the consumer needs to find their way through before they get to consume your product. DRM the tv broadcast, and you may convince me to turn the boob tube and dvd player off permanently.
What I find highly ironic is that in order to combat piracy, you are making the pirate versions the only easily-playable versions.
Nowhere in the article do they discuss what the current price of a cinema ticket in Edinburgh is, when the latest price increase was, how much the bucket of popcorn costs in a cinema, how clean the cinema is, etc etc.
Rentals of legit dvds that can be viewed in ones home are also competitive with the cinema.
It was in the newspaper a few months ago. There had been an accident on the local highway involving several cars - you know the scene, one guy driving too close to another, the guy in front brakes, and suddenly 5 cars crash into each other. And suddenly another guy crashes into the cars and there's a second pileup.
A number of witnesses swore blind to the cops that the guy had made no attempt to slow down and was speeding. Cops asked for, and were given, permission to access the black box data, which confirmed the guy did try to brake and that he wasn't speeding. So his black box prevented his being charged and possibly arrested.
Ironically, the cops required the car owner's permission to access the black box data; the insurance company does not require permission to access the black box data.
After getting one unblocked popup, I thought I'd give your advice a try. And ok, I was wrong. Neat feature is that search toolbar, and even neater is customizing the toolbar.
I'll have to go past the Firefox site and give much praise.
Suuuuure, first install the spyware you didn't want in the first place because it came attached to this neato program, then uninstall the spyware. Riiiiight.
I tell ya what, I'll just mindlessly skip installing the neato program.
The Mozilla/Firefox folks have forgotten why most of us switched to Moz/Fire in the first place: we wanted a simple browser that didn't have all those plug-ins that IE had, and could block images and popups.
And if I want to search the internet using Google, I'll type in www.google.com in the address box!
The damn browser comes with that damn Google search bar built in. I just want a damn browser that blocks popups, not a damn browser with a million plug-in features. Until they stop adding in fluff like the Google search bar, I won't upgrade. And if IE ever gets its act together, I'll switch to IE.
I've got the perfect solution: how about we ban France from the 'net. They can have their own intranet, run any way they like, and we are left the heck alone.
I'm starting to feel more and more like I got burned when I bought my Tungsten E - the Zire 21 was $100 cheaper, has a father processor... the Zire 71 is now WiFi... other Tungsten models are going WiFi...
I won't be upgrading to another Palm product when my current Palm finally bites the bullet.
When Lucas dies. When he dies, only then will some accountant with his ears to the geek fandoms release the original series as they were originally broadcasted. But it ain't going to happen during Lucas's lifetime.
Lucas has lost whatever karma or mojo or whatever that let him envision the original magic that was Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. He just doesn't realize that he's lost that karma/mojo/whatever. He still thinks that what he's doing is utterly magical and it's the rest of the world that's wrong.
I won't buy this dvd boxset and I won't see the third movie when it comes out in the theatre. I probably won't even rent the dvd of the third movie when it is released to dvd. Lucas and his revisioning/clumsy attempts at marketing are completely lost upon me and folks like me.
No one is going to get any sense out of the Lucas camp until the old guy croaks.
Or the cyber-ambulance chaser contacts gets in touch with her and says 'I have lots of online safety experience and I'm a lawyer; lets do a safety website together to help warn children and parents about the dangers of the internet.'
KatieT thinks this is a fab idea, but cac promptly goes overboard and tries to intimidate katieJ into giving up katie.com - heck, cac may have thought she had the legal stuff to fluff her way through a courtroom to legally gain possession of katie.com.
And then Slashdot happens.
And a CEO of Penguin, after the 80th email with 'katie.com' as the subject asks Peon X, Y, or Z, 'what the heck is katie.com?' And after email 800, he tells the legal department to rename the &^%$ing book.
KatieT finally gets asked 'What was the title you originally wanted?'
She's backed down - her latest blog makes vague claims that she never made any such phone calls/don't believe anything you read on the 'net, but without referencing katie.com or Katie Jones.
Aftab has backed down. She hasn't learnt a darned thing from this tussle, but she's backed down.
Dude, it was NOT like she was surfing adult chat sites - he knew she was a minor and deliberately enticed her out of her home so he could have sex with her.
KatieT's judgement may not have been of the best, but she was a kid and kids make mistakes. But make no mistake about the pervert, he is of the drag-him-behind-the-out-house-and-shoot-him variety. She didn't ruin his life - he ruined his life.
Free publicity? As what, a lawyer who creates car crashes so she can chase after ambulances?
Parry Aftab's reputation as an unsavoury lawyer with dubious judgement is currently being widely spread as a result of all this publicity, and it will harm both her and any project she undertakes/promotes.
What both KatieT and Aftab need to do is publically apologize to KatieJ and leave the domain katie.com out of any of their future efforts. Their, and Penguin's, attempts to intimidate Katie Jones has now spectacularly backfired. They will not be able to move forward with any venture until they make amends. It's astounding how KatieT and Aftab have sullied their and their cause's reputations amongst the one crowd they should have been working hard to positively influence.
And Aftab, if you read this, if you even think of starting trouble with Katie Jones, just remember there are thousands of Slashdot readers just itching to help Jones out.
Y'know, this might be just me, but I can't see the CEO of Penguin Books being happy that KatieT is alleging that Penguin is attempting to harrass the domain katie.com from KatieJ - which is precisely what KatieT is alleging in her email responses to various slashdot members.
Step one might be a politely worded letter from a lawyer to Penguin Books in the UK asking them to clarify their position on the matter -- does Penguin have an interest in the matter or is KatieT making baseless accusations?
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"Get legal by avoiding the P2P clients"
What on earth makes you think that avoiding P2P clients stops you from being vulnerable to trojan wma/wmv files?
TVstationxyorzy.com gets hacked. Their promo wmv file(s) is(are) replaced by wmvs with a trojan payload. Suddenly, downloading what you thought was a safe file, isn't. And your pc is now on the zombie network.
So now, wmv/wma files are on my 'Must Avoid' list, along with DRM'd MP3 files (the only mp3 files my Sony player won't play are the ones I purchased from a legal-download provider), and anything Real. So are Windows updates. And the entertainment industry has bitten yet another hand that feeds it.
*** This story was posted under a heading of "YRO," which I'm told stands for "your rights" something. Isn't that just a bit misleading here? ***
I always thought it stood for Your Rights Online, which is not misleading if you understand the average Slashdotter's point of view regarding the entertainment industries' point of view regarding the rights of the consumer: we have none.
We have no rights to record. We have no rights to share. We have no rights to skip anything during the broadcast that we would rather not watch. In other words, we have no rights to all the fun stuff.
Of course, we do have rights: the right to watch the broadcast, and the right to not watch the broadcast.
"If your default position is I'm a thief, then why are you surprised when I thieve?"
Right now, I purchase dvds because the sound and video quality are better than anything I can do with my tv card and a burner. And it's often easier to purchase the dvd than try to burn a homemade jobbie.
But DRM the dvd, making it a damned pain in the backside to get to the point where I can watch the film, and I won't be willing to purchase your next project when it comes to dvd. I'll either burn a copy when the film airs on PBS or TNT, or not watch it.
Look at it this way; every time you DRM a dvd or cd, you are building a maze the consumer needs to find their way through before they get to consume your product. DRM the tv broadcast, and you may convince me to turn the boob tube and dvd player off permanently.
What I find highly ironic is that in order to combat piracy, you are making the pirate versions the only easily-playable versions.
Nowhere in the article do they discuss what the current price of a cinema ticket in Edinburgh is, when the latest price increase was, how much the bucket of popcorn costs in a cinema, how clean the cinema is, etc etc.
Rentals of legit dvds that can be viewed in ones home are also competitive with the cinema.
It was in the newspaper a few months ago. There had been an accident on the local highway involving several cars - you know the scene, one guy driving too close to another, the guy in front brakes, and suddenly 5 cars crash into each other. And suddenly another guy crashes into the cars and there's a second pileup.
A number of witnesses swore blind to the cops that the guy had made no attempt to slow down and was speeding. Cops asked for, and were given, permission to access the black box data, which confirmed the guy did try to brake and that he wasn't speeding. So his black box prevented his being charged and possibly arrested.
Ironically, the cops required the car owner's permission to access the black box data; the insurance company does not require permission to access the black box data.
After getting one unblocked popup, I thought I'd give your advice a try. And ok, I was wrong. Neat feature is that search toolbar, and even neater is customizing the toolbar.
I'll have to go past the Firefox site and give much praise.
My HP All-In-One keeps trying to dial home also ...
We'll have to agree to disagree on the damn Google bar; I'll call it unnecessary fluff, you can call it handy.
Suuuuure, first install the spyware you didn't want in the first place because it came attached to this neato program, then uninstall the spyware. Riiiiight.
I tell ya what, I'll just mindlessly skip installing the neato program.
The Mozilla/Firefox folks have forgotten why most of us switched to Moz/Fire in the first place: we wanted a simple browser that didn't have all those plug-ins that IE had, and could block images and popups.
And if I want to search the internet using Google, I'll type in www.google.com in the address box!
The damn browser comes with that damn Google search bar built in. I just want a damn browser that blocks popups, not a damn browser with a million plug-in features. Until they stop adding in fluff like the Google search bar, I won't upgrade. And if IE ever gets its act together, I'll switch to IE.
I've got the perfect solution: how about we ban France from the 'net. They can have their own intranet, run any way they like, and we are left the heck alone.
Ooops ... should read 'Zire 31' and 'faster processor' ... my bad.
I'm starting to feel more and more like I got burned when I bought my Tungsten E - the Zire 21 was $100 cheaper, has a father processor ... the Zire 71 is now WiFi ... other Tungsten models are going WiFi ...
I won't be upgrading to another Palm product when my current Palm finally bites the bullet.
When Lucas dies. When he dies, only then will some accountant with his ears to the geek fandoms release the original series as they were originally broadcasted. But it ain't going to happen during Lucas's lifetime.
Lucas has lost whatever karma or mojo or whatever that let him envision the original magic that was Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. He just doesn't realize that he's lost that karma/mojo/whatever. He still thinks that what he's doing is utterly magical and it's the rest of the world that's wrong.
I won't buy this dvd boxset and I won't see the third movie when it comes out in the theatre. I probably won't even rent the dvd of the third movie when it is released to dvd. Lucas and his revisioning/clumsy attempts at marketing are completely lost upon me and folks like me.
No one is going to get any sense out of the Lucas camp until the old guy croaks.
"the software also comes with a utility to downsample HDTV content to DVD and DivX"
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I can almost hear the entertainment industries screaming
Jane needs to install an antivirus program and a firewall, or she keeps the computer permanently off of the internet. There's no getting around this.
Even if she upgrades the OS and/or the pc, she'll still need an antivirus program and a firewall.
But you already knew this.
Or the cyber-ambulance chaser contacts gets in touch with her and says 'I have lots of online safety experience and I'm a lawyer; lets do a safety website together to help warn children and parents about the dangers of the internet.'
KatieT thinks this is a fab idea, but cac promptly goes overboard and tries to intimidate katieJ into giving up katie.com - heck, cac may have thought she had the legal stuff to fluff her way through a courtroom to legally gain possession of katie.com.
And then Slashdot happens.
And a CEO of Penguin, after the 80th email with 'katie.com' as the subject asks Peon X, Y, or Z, 'what the heck is katie.com?' And after email 800, he tells the legal department to rename the &^%$ing book.
KatieT finally gets asked 'What was the title you originally wanted?'
And two Katies win!
She's backed down - her latest blog makes vague claims that she never made any such phone calls/don't believe anything you read on the 'net, but without referencing katie.com or Katie Jones.
Aftab has backed down. She hasn't learnt a darned thing from this tussle, but she's backed down.
Congrats! Both on Penguin renaming the book and on the baby!
:)
Hope your life is a quiet and uneventful one from here on out
If she's a Republican, I'll eat a sock. But from her bio, she's a tough 'un.
Dude, it was NOT like she was surfing adult chat sites - he knew she was a minor and deliberately enticed her out of her home so he could have sex with her.
KatieT's judgement may not have been of the best, but she was a kid and kids make mistakes. But make no mistake about the pervert, he is of the drag-him-behind-the-out-house-and-shoot-him variety. She didn't ruin his life - he ruined his life.
Free publicity? As what, a lawyer who creates car crashes so she can chase after ambulances?
Parry Aftab's reputation as an unsavoury lawyer with dubious judgement is currently being widely spread as a result of all this publicity, and it will harm both her and any project she undertakes/promotes.
What both KatieT and Aftab need to do is publically apologize to KatieJ and leave the domain katie.com out of any of their future efforts. Their, and Penguin's, attempts to intimidate Katie Jones has now spectacularly backfired. They will not be able to move forward with any venture until they make amends. It's astounding how KatieT and Aftab have sullied their and their cause's reputations amongst the one crowd they should have been working hard to positively influence.
And Aftab, if you read this, if you even think of starting trouble with Katie Jones, just remember there are thousands of Slashdot readers just itching to help Jones out.
She wasn't 13, she was 17, and she snuck out of the house to go with him. That kind of taints the whole proceedings, now doesn't it?
I'm in. Won't be for much, but I'm in.
Y'know, this might be just me, but I can't see the CEO of Penguin Books being happy that KatieT is alleging that Penguin is attempting to harrass the domain katie.com from KatieJ - which is precisely what KatieT is alleging in her email responses to various slashdot members.
Step one might be a politely worded letter from a lawyer to Penguin Books in the UK asking them to clarify their position on the matter -- does Penguin have an interest in the matter or is KatieT making baseless accusations?
Next question: how do we donate to KatieJ's legal defense fund?
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Can't let rabid left-winger legal sharks and their clients pull this kind of garbage