I just called and his voice mailbox is full and you can't transfer to an attendant. It won't be truly slashdotted until you get an "all circuits busy" message.
encoding on different machines, with different encoders, using different algorythms, using different levels of floating point precision, on different architectures etc... produces vastly different files.
Forget different machines, different encoders, different algorithms, etc. I just ripped the same song to the same filename three different times and got three entirely different md5 hashes.
Their first use of the time machine will be to go back and kill Sean Fanning's mother before she gets pregnant with Sean. If and when that fails, they'll try again by going back and killing Sean when he is a young child.
Don't we already pay a small tax to the recording industry every time we buy blank audio CDs (but not data CDs)? I'd like to see some lawyer fight a case claiming that a P2P user has already paid the RIAA and is therefore exempt from their lawsuits when downloading the music and burning it to an audio CD. That would be an interesting lawsuit.
Now that the signal to noise ratio on P2P networks like KaZaA is about 1.00, it is time to start flooding the networks with massive amounts of "music" files named after popular new releases, with the same sizes as the tracks would be, but the actual content would be expletives like "Fuck the RIAA". Make the files really big, and put them behind a 28.8kbps modem. Let them waste their time trying to download all of that content to find out you really aren't sharing copyrighted material.
I wrote up a humorous little piece about how the telemarketers could recoup their losses by forming a 501(c)(3). Read it here: http://bryce.jasmer.com/blog/archives/000014.html
I'm using a challenge/response system from Qurb, Inc. that is smart enough to know that a message is to a mailing list and then it won't send out a challenge to the entire list. It will just sideline the message until you approve it and then it knows that anything to that mailing list is ok.
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I just called and his voice mailbox is full and you can't transfer to an attendant. It won't be truly slashdotted until you get an "all circuits busy" message.
Forget different machines, different encoders, different algorithms, etc. I just ripped the same song to the same filename three different times and got three entirely different md5 hashes.
Their first use of the time machine will be to go back and kill Sean Fanning's mother before she gets pregnant with Sean. If and when that fails, they'll try again by going back and killing Sean when he is a young child.
Don't we already pay a small tax to the recording industry every time we buy blank audio CDs (but not data CDs)? I'd like to see some lawyer fight a case claiming that a P2P user has already paid the RIAA and is therefore exempt from their lawsuits when downloading the music and burning it to an audio CD. That would be an interesting lawsuit.
'[blah], [blah], [blah], [blah], brilliant people.' Sounds good to me.
Now that the signal to noise ratio on P2P networks like KaZaA is about 1.00, it is time to start flooding the networks with massive amounts of "music" files named after popular new releases, with the same sizes as the tracks would be, but the actual content would be expletives like "Fuck the RIAA". Make the files really big, and put them behind a 28.8kbps modem. Let them waste their time trying to download all of that content to find out you really aren't sharing copyrighted material.
I wrote up a humorous little piece about how the telemarketers could recoup their losses by forming a 501(c)(3). Read it here: http://bryce.jasmer.com/blog/archives/000014.html
I'm using a challenge/response system from Qurb, Inc. that is smart enough to know that a message is to a mailing list and then it won't send out a challenge to the entire list. It will just sideline the message until you approve it and then it knows that anything to that mailing list is ok.