Like a drunk driver intends to kill a family...
IMO this is dumb... some moron's playing with a laser, face stiffer fines and more jail time than a drunk driver who has killed people...
this is just wrong.
Don't forget about the DMCA(Digital Millennium Copy-right Act), the one that the RIAA and MPAA are all over like white on rice. That same one that made it illegal to copy your own dvd's because of the decryption method that was used. While ""Fair Use" has been clearly defined for years(well before the dvd was in the picture), the RIAA, MPAA, and the DMCA have all done their best to squash that movement, god forbid you ever think of copying something you purchased. Just to make things worse, they introduce HDCP which is the worst form of DRM ever, and possibly the most evil and anti-consumer.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To the world governments:
Please Leave us ALONE. Your forms of protection, infringe on our freedoms, maybe there wouldn't be a terrorist issue if you weren't so controling. Maybe if you didn't try to impose your morals on the rest of the world, there would be no reason to "rise up against $nation".
Where, at what point, did things go wrong?
I really don't know, but as long as there are more than 2 beings in exsistance, one will try to dominate.
Piracy was initially adapted to people who copied music/movies to sell for profit, thus pirating.
but the P2P networks, mainly the BT ones now days, are trying to profit with adds on the page, none that I know of charge for access to links. The people uploading the torrents are not profiting on the torrent, if anything they are losing money because of the BW used.
the only ones that can profit from the actual sharing is down loader who can then burn to cd or dvd, and then sell them on e bay.
in reality, the BT sites shouldn't even be a target, the up loaders should be the target, as the BT sites rarely host the actual files being downloaded.
in any case it is all bs, give me a product worth paying for, and I will pay for it.
it is getting increasingly inexpensive, faster, and more reliable than dial up...
... the down side, more people means more traffic, the pipes can only get so big, before there is no room left for all, and then there is the IP address problems that will come of it, there is hardly enough to go around now...
IPV6 that will help, but the costs of such a large protocol change will be daunting, to say the least... and what to do about those users that are still on win95/98...
When are we going to start running around in perfect lines doing a high kick march, and yelling zeik hail!
This is the RIAA and whatever one it is for the movie industries saying, "we just like to take our customers, bend them over, and rape them with burning embers wrapped in sand paper."
This is going too far, If it weren't for technology, the movie industry wouldnt be where it is today! Nor would the music industry, and software... what software.
When are these people going to realise that we copy movies that arent worth the hard drive space, and are not worth purchasing, I believe the number is like 1 in 5 movies, ever breaks even.
My solution, Stop Making CRAPY MOVIES!!!
Like Dodgeball...
I would prefer to pull my teeth out with a rusty pair of pliers, than pay to see it.
and music... HA HA HA
this is a laugh!!! If I liked paying 15-20 for 1 good song, then I wouldn't copy music. Again it is all about percieved quality VS percieved value, 15 dollars for one song that I precieve as quality, doesn't have any value, 15-20 quality songs for the same price, that I could, and probably would, percieve as a value.
I am a fan of confrontation, as an IT Pro at a small software company, I let them know what is going on all the time, I tell them which programers are quick/dirty, and the ones that are TOO insane about perfection, I tell them when thier systems need to be upgraded, and tell them why, how, when, and cost, both the positives and negitives of both, but I confront a problem head on, if my direct mangler (yes he doens't know the difference between a computer and a typewriter) wont listen, I move on up to the CEO and tell him (plus of a small company), that way my ass is always covered, I dont know what your situation is exactily, but you need to tell them what is going on, and be preped to find another job if they are going to fire you for finding a solution to a problem, or even bringing a problem into thier scope of vision.
I will be damed if I am gonna let an already too powerful government start to tax my free e-mail, I guess I don't understand what the problem is with spam, inst that why you have a delete button, and I don't want to hear "But think about the children," we live in a prudish society anyways, where sex is a dirty nasty thing, and as some of you may think this is going off topic it is actually very on topic, if it weren't for the porn sites lobbying for "fresh meat" this whole spam thing wouldn't even be a subject to talk about.
I will say this though, if we put as much thought and effort toward sexual education, there wouldn't be as much need for porn, and thus less spam, as usual EDUCATION IS THE ANSWER!
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Like a drunk driver intends to kill a family... IMO this is dumb... some moron's playing with a laser, face stiffer fines and more jail time than a drunk driver who has killed people... this is just wrong.
White list FTW!
Ummm RTFA?
Don't forget about the DMCA(Digital Millennium Copy-right Act), the one that the RIAA and MPAA are all over like white on rice.
That same one that made it illegal to copy your own dvd's because of the decryption method that was used.
While ""Fair Use" has been clearly defined for years(well before the dvd was in the picture), the RIAA, MPAA, and the DMCA have all done their best to squash that movement, god forbid you ever think of copying something you purchased.
Just to make things worse, they introduce HDCP which is the worst form of DRM ever, and possibly the most evil and anti-consumer.
Nothing is impossible...
;)
;)
improbable... but not impossible
We all knew it was only a matter of time before there were vulnerabilities found.
Time to cook that apple
and I am going to say it again!
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin To the world governments:
Please Leave us ALONE. Your forms of protection, infringe on our freedoms, maybe there wouldn't be a terrorist issue if you weren't so controling. Maybe if you didn't try to impose your morals on the rest of the world, there would be no reason to "rise up against $nation".
Where, at what point, did things go wrong?
I really don't know, but as long as there are more than 2 beings in exsistance, one will try to dominate.
Piracy was initially adapted to people who copied music/movies to sell for profit, thus pirating.
but the P2P networks, mainly the BT ones now days, are trying to profit with adds on the page, none that I know of charge for access to links. The people uploading the torrents are not profiting on the torrent, if anything they are losing money because of the BW used.
the only ones that can profit from the actual sharing is down loader who can then burn to cd or dvd, and then sell them on e bay.
in reality, the BT sites shouldn't even be a target, the up loaders should be the target, as the BT sites rarely host the actual files being downloaded.
in any case it is all bs, give me a product worth paying for, and I will pay for it.
I cant wait for there to be GIM(?)
I will be the 1st in line for that!
GO GOOGLE!
it is getting increasingly inexpensive, faster, and more reliable than dial up...
... the down side, more people means more traffic, the pipes can only get so big, before there is no room left for all, and then there is the IP address problems that will come of it, there is hardly enough to go around now...
IPV6 that will help, but the costs of such a large protocol change will be daunting, to say the least... and what to do about those users that are still on win95/98...
When are we going to start running around in perfect lines doing a high kick march, and yelling zeik hail! This is the RIAA and whatever one it is for the movie industries saying, "we just like to take our customers, bend them over, and rape them with burning embers wrapped in sand paper." This is going too far, If it weren't for technology, the movie industry wouldnt be where it is today! Nor would the music industry, and software... what software. When are these people going to realise that we copy movies that arent worth the hard drive space, and are not worth purchasing, I believe the number is like 1 in 5 movies, ever breaks even. My solution, Stop Making CRAPY MOVIES!!! Like Dodgeball... I would prefer to pull my teeth out with a rusty pair of pliers, than pay to see it. and music... HA HA HA this is a laugh!!! If I liked paying 15-20 for 1 good song, then I wouldn't copy music. Again it is all about percieved quality VS percieved value, 15 dollars for one song that I precieve as quality, doesn't have any value, 15-20 quality songs for the same price, that I could, and probably would, percieve as a value.
I am a fan of confrontation, as an IT Pro at a small software company, I let them know what is going on all the time, I tell them which programers are quick/dirty, and the ones that are TOO insane about perfection, I tell them when thier systems need to be upgraded, and tell them why, how, when, and cost, both the positives and negitives of both, but I confront a problem head on, if my direct mangler (yes he doens't know the difference between a computer and a typewriter) wont listen, I move on up to the CEO and tell him (plus of a small company), that way my ass is always covered, I dont know what your situation is exactily, but you need to tell them what is going on, and be preped to find another job if they are going to fire you for finding a solution to a problem, or even bringing a problem into thier scope of vision.
I will be damed if I am gonna let an already too powerful government start to tax my free e-mail, I guess I don't understand what the problem is with spam, inst that why you have a delete button, and I don't want to hear "But think about the children," we live in a prudish society anyways, where sex is a dirty nasty thing, and as some of you may think this is going off topic it is actually very on topic, if it weren't for the porn sites lobbying for "fresh meat" this whole spam thing wouldn't even be a subject to talk about. I will say this though, if we put as much thought and effort toward sexual education, there wouldn't be as much need for porn, and thus less spam, as usual EDUCATION IS THE ANSWER!