Due to the change in clients I am stopping my SETI@Home processing for selfish reasons. I will lose credit for all my 5 years of membership and have to start over at 1 workunit! I used to deal with the risk of 100% CPU usage 100% of the time, but since all record of my contributions will be lost and I can no longer work toward the next snazzy printable certificate I am officially jumping ship. A very lamentable decision on SETI's part.
I used to subscribe to Rogers. Never again will I pay the bastards a cent.
At first I was happily subscribed to Shaw@Home cable internet service. Uptime was good and I achieved 4.0Mb off of peak hours. I was paying $40\mo
Then Rogers bought Shaw and took over their territory. They called their new service "Rogers@Home Unlimited High Speed Internet". They reduced my service to 1.5Mb. They increased tech support hold times from 5 minutes to 45 or more. The service was so unstable that I was unable to stream an 11khz mono shoutcast UDP signal to one person (about 3Kb\s). They didn't lower their rates even though I was recieving a fraction of the service Shaw offered.
To top it all off, they called me 2 years ago, saying that I was downloading too much and was reducing the enjoyment of other Rogers internet subscribers. I dug up some pamphlets and the original documentation they provided me which clearly stated "unlimited internet access", but the CSR told me that "unlimited" means I can be connected at all times, not downloading unlimited amounts (aka "limited" in my dictionary). I'll omit my unpleasant response to this. I then told them that their equipment was inadequate for my area, which was the real cause of the lack of service. They seemed to think otherwise. I told Rogers to get stuffed.
Rogers is THE single most heartless, money grubbing, bait-and-switch gyp joint you can possibly surrender your earnings to. If you want a decent ISP with no caps and Usenet access, I highly recommend researching www.canadianisp.com to find one of the highly competetive ma and pa ADSL ISP's (there are over 100 in Toronto alone). Or do what I did and get the best one in the Toronto area - Cybernet (though they cap Usenet to 300MB/day).
There is NO REASON to subscribe to Rogers internet service. Their support is notoriously terrible, residential areas per shared hub are huge which makes throughput slow as molasses every evening, the price is relatively high, and you are forced to rent a modem from them monthly. Give your money to hard working independent ISPs who will work their butts off to make you happy. Buy your own modem (about $60) and save yourself $10\month for the same max speeds (3.0Mb slowest) with no slowdown at peak times. All these statements are corroborated by residential internet users like you at www.canadianisp.com
P.s., my girlfriend just told me that Rogers has reduced her evenings and weekends "unlimited" cellular times from 6pm-6am to 9pm-6am, and it will only cost her 100% of her previous price! What a deal!
The situation in Ireland isn't necessarily different from that in Sweden. The Irish arrangement was settled in court, whereas the Swedish ISPs are being contacted by the movie and music industries privately. The point is that companies are not the law, the law is the law.
Montreal, Canada, had a similar situation which was featured in newspapers. The CRIA (Canadian RIAA) petitioned the city's ISPs to translate IP addresses to subscriber names in order to prosecute individuals. All ISPs but one refused. Why that one ISP would cave into the demands of a fellow company is a mystery, but they were certainly not required to do so.
Good luck to Ireland, Sweden, Canada, and everyone! Pay to broadcast, free to own!
And I'm not sure what it means exactly, but Trillian lists "AIM\ICQ" as one plugin, one entity. I know AOL bought ICQ but I don't know what that means for the networks - I assume they use the same back end but are kept physically or logically separate. I'm not saying multimillion dollar buyouts are the same as open infrastructure, but it disproves this topic to a point. Maybe a mass merger like Microsoft\Yahoo is the best we can hope for in terms of interoperability.
Either way, don't expect open infrastructure any time soon. Closed standards with proprietary front ends means companies can jam banner ads on people's desktops. If you hate ads as much as I do, use an alternative.
I played Guild Wars for about 2 months before getting bored with it and sticking it back on the shelf. I played a few other games, took a bit of a break, and (gasp) read a book in the interim. I've now come back to the game a little bit and I have found a new appreciation for its subscription strategy. I love that I can play the game casually or hardcore and have little trouble picking up where I left off. If I played WoW and needed to take a break, I probably would never come back due to the prohibitive cost.
It's trite and oversaid, but Guild Wars truly is the choice of casual gamers. Games like Bejewelled have proven that this largely untapped demographic may have huge potential.
DIY content is why The Sims is so incredibly popular, and it's why the PC is such a great platform for gaming. Sid has obviously done his homework. With the game, mod implementation, mod development, and access to the community all on the same box, Civ 4 will undoubtedly be the most popular iteration of the series.
I used WinMX for a while, as it was much more featureful than the crappy Napster client of old and the subscribership was outstanding. I don't seem to remember any feature or message in WinMX that helped users pirate music. It's true that some people used the software to trade music, but there is absolutely no proof that the program was designed for that purpose. I don't know why they took the network down. It is a simple P2P file sharing utility and nothing more.
Furthermore, WinMX is freeware. I presume the author made no money from it. Regardless, why is the RIAA challenging this poor guy on the grounds that he has broken another country's laws?
Being a die hard fan of the original Gabriel Knight adventure game by Sierra On-Line, I recently acquired a copy of the sequel, The Beast Within. Having completed the game and being blown away by the characterization and performances of the actors, main and bit, I can hardly fathom why there hasn't been a deluge of live-action video adventures. I've loved adventure games since the earlier Sierra games (Police Quest 1 for DOS was my first) so I can say with some authority that the inclusion of live actors over text-spoken or even fully voiced animated characters brings the player that much deeper into the story.
The game can be found for as little as $3 on eBay and it's compatible with WinXP with a free patch. Wait until the sun goes down, dim the lights, open your windows (chilly night air really enhances the mood), and be mesmerized.
Post-Nirvana, why don't we call all alternative songs a remix? Post-swing era, why don't we call all Ska a remix? Post-Dizzy Gillespe, why isn't all trumpety jazz a remix?
Sampling used to be a gimmick but now it's the status quo. It is certainly not something to bemoan - it's simply the new norm. This is the digital age and there is a dichotomy between artists and audiences. Artists want to protect their creations, but the audience wants to share and participate.
Anyone who is tired of all the "remixing" in the world is in for a long, arduous ride. Sampling is the new piano. It is an instrument like any other./.ers should appreciate remixing all the more since it represents the marriage between computers and culture - humanity and machinery.
Rant - Artists who oppose to their work being remixed (musicians, artists, cartoonists, authors, etc.) should be ashamed of themselves. When you release your work into the world, it belongs to the world. Is there any more sincere flattery than the remix\interpretation\fanfiction? We emulate because we love!
John Carmack had to fight tooth and nail with his dev crew to ensure the computer consoles were activated with no more than the mouse and fire button in Doom 3.
Japanese media giant Bandai has announced the first movie titles to feature both a DVD and a UMD version in the same box, a trend which was widely predicted when Sony first announced the PSP's movie capabilities but has until now failed to materialise.
Yeah right. Consumers won't stand for a price hike for a format they can't use. I bet Bandai will be the first and last company to do this. I think the PSP's much touted and more maligned movie capabilities will fade into vapour within 6 months.
I bet that pink Power Ranger looks just as hot on a 3 inch screen though.
The best thing you can do is compose an outline or draft and show it to as many people as possible. Get feedback, criticism, and suggestions, and update the outline. Then get feedback again. The more eyes, the fewer mistakes.
I'm glad you brought this up. I've sort of enjoyed my Net MD for 1.5 years but yesterday I decided I'd had enough. I was sick of Sony's software and was furious when I'd wait for 10 minutes for a 2 hour DJ set to burn, just to have it fail at 99%. I bought a 512MB solid state MP3 player and I couldn't be happier. Drag and drop is a dream come true. Sony's ATRAC scheme is crap. Why reinvent the wheel when the world is using rocket ships?
Depends on whether you're a gamer. I'm more interested in gigabit throughput than low ping. Plus, I don't know if it's the 100baseT bit transfer or the hardware itself that impedes latency. I don't know for certain, but maybe the wider pipe means more work for the CPU.
I can do all these things on my Linksys (when the thing decides not to freeze up and drop all connections) but the D-Link router's QoS scheduling potentially allows me to do all these things at the same time. This is unheard of for any conventional residential router. It sucks when I beg my family not to touch the internet while I'm shoutcasting, but they do it anyway and cause buffer underruns. It also sucks when any of us saturate the link with P2P, rendering web browsing infuriatingly slow for everyone.
Some people have good luck with various vendors and some have bad luck. I can't really speak for Linksys as a whole, but after being burned twice I see no reason why I should give them my business again - especially after the frustrating tech\cust support.
I'm very interested in this router and may purchase it (or the nicer 4600) in the near future. I don't play online games but I'm interested in VoIP, P2P, and Shoutcast hosting. Any combination of these things was impossible in the past but this router sounds like the answer. It got a great review in Computer Power User (CPU) magazine which I believe to be a very reputable source.
I'm a little wary of the claim of better ping times though. This may be a statement concerning
QoS packet scheduling because I've heard from a few sources (including Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel) that 1000baseT has higher latency than 10/100. However, D-Link boasts that the router's onboard processor is much faster than most, allowing many more simultaneous connections, so perhaps it can direct packets more quickly than comparable products.
I should mention here that Linksys has absolutely abhorrent customer support and that I highly recommend supporting the competitive companies. I'm on my 2nd (non-consecutive) Linksys router and it's been very unreliable from the get go. Their tech support advised me to wait a while before calling back, and when I did they told me my 1 month replacement window had expired. 8 days ago after MUCH frustration with 3 techs and a manager they finally agreed to send me a replacement (shipped at my expense) in 3 working days and I've recieved no such thing.
Linksys is riding on its laurels. Hopefully they'll get the message when people start buying imaginative new products from competitors.
I'm a huge Simpsons fan who will challenge any other Simpsons nerd in a quote showdown any day of the week. However, I found this book to be a real snore. It picks the show apart like vultures on a carcass until nothing but the bones remain, gleaming in the sun. This book is too detailed for all but fanatics, and 99% too obvious for the die-hards. I never thought anything could make Simpsons boring, but this book is it. It reads like a pompous Masters thesis and is drier than the Sahara.
I just participated in a test pitting Win2k3 vs Red Hat ES3 vs SuSE Enterprise 9. The test was for useability and functionality.
Windows came out on top by a mile. These 2 distros are nowhere near a mature state. The included (gui) tools are atrocious, incomplete, and often break the service so bad that it's easier to reinstall than to repair. Yes, functionality can be established from the command-line, but if you could do that you wouldn't be buying a packaged enterprise distro.
Directory services are a nightmare to configure in linux, and these 2 distros are certainly no exception. Neither distro comes with a gui tool or scripted install procedure, and the testers and I couldn't figure out how to get kerberos and LDAP to work together. Novell's tech support was useless - they said they support installing the service (from RPMs) but not configuring them. The manuals in both distros were totally useless.
The lack of centralized management tools in linux was the biggest downfall. The sysadmin has a LOT of work to do writing scripts and delegating authority to subordinate admins. What the distros really need is a management console like AD/MMC to administrate objects, groups, security policies, profiles, permissions, etc etc etc.
Stay away from enterprise linux products for now. Roll your own. There's no substitute for know-how.
Netflix is a FANTASTIC idea and I hope it gets more and more popular so that the movie distribution model changes. It's very smart, but it's not going to be the end-all be-all. Using the internet as a menu and snail mail as delivery is pretty archaic. What the world will really adopt is video on demand. Many digital cable companies already offer this. They should start offering first run cinema movies the same way. People are sick of going to a theatre, paying exorbitant amounts for the show and for food, having to watch 20 minutes or more of commercials, and not enjoying the experience anyway thanks to some inconsiderate children making a scene.
As for a P2P code of conduct, that will only help the industry. Piracy is at the forefront of media content delivery. It gives people what they want, the way they want it. If industry successfully quashes piracy then capitalism itself will have a monopoly on society. If there's no better solution out there, no competition, then corporations will have little reason to strive to improve.
Companies do not have their consumers' wellbeing in mind. Only consumers do. With a P2P code of conduct setting guidelines for what to do when your P2P link site comes under legal fire, there can be an action plan to protect the webmaster and the site's members from harm. If the community stands together it will make more of a statement than the martyring of individual webmasters.
You're absolutely right. Lokitorrent should have shut itself down just like Suprnova. The Loki bust is the worst case scenario in a P2P arrest. Now that it's happened once it should never happen again. Webmasters need to smarten up.
You're absolutely right. Look at the 123studios case with DVDXcopy. They got starved to death by legal fees. That's a huge fallacy of the legal system. The richest party wins!
"I yearn and fear for the day when what I choose to do when online will be as anonymous as my thoughts."
Be careful what you wish for! I'm sure GAIN and Cydoor are developing neural spyware as we speak!
Most people don't want the truth. They want someone to handle the truth for them. That's why Bush was re-elected. The world is afraid of P2P. They want to be dumb terminals of a fascist mainframe.
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Due to the change in clients I am stopping my SETI@Home processing for selfish reasons. I will lose credit for all my 5 years of membership and have to start over at 1 workunit! I used to deal with the risk of 100% CPU usage 100% of the time, but since all record of my contributions will be lost and I can no longer work toward the next snazzy printable certificate I am officially jumping ship. A very lamentable decision on SETI's part.
I used to subscribe to Rogers. Never again will I pay the bastards a cent.
At first I was happily subscribed to Shaw@Home cable internet service. Uptime was good and I achieved 4.0Mb off of peak hours. I was paying $40\mo
Then Rogers bought Shaw and took over their territory. They called their new service "Rogers@Home Unlimited High Speed Internet". They reduced my service to 1.5Mb. They increased tech support hold times from 5 minutes to 45 or more. The service was so unstable that I was unable to stream an 11khz mono shoutcast UDP signal to one person (about 3Kb\s). They didn't lower their rates even though I was recieving a fraction of the service Shaw offered.
To top it all off, they called me 2 years ago, saying that I was downloading too much and was reducing the enjoyment of other Rogers internet subscribers. I dug up some pamphlets and the original documentation they provided me which clearly stated "unlimited internet access", but the CSR told me that "unlimited" means I can be connected at all times, not downloading unlimited amounts (aka "limited" in my dictionary). I'll omit my unpleasant response to this. I then told them that their equipment was inadequate for my area, which was the real cause of the lack of service. They seemed to think otherwise. I told Rogers to get stuffed.
Rogers is THE single most heartless, money grubbing, bait-and-switch gyp joint you can possibly surrender your earnings to. If you want a decent ISP with no caps and Usenet access, I highly recommend researching www.canadianisp.com to find one of the highly competetive ma and pa ADSL ISP's (there are over 100 in Toronto alone). Or do what I did and get the best one in the Toronto area - Cybernet (though they cap Usenet to 300MB/day).
There is NO REASON to subscribe to Rogers internet service. Their support is notoriously terrible, residential areas per shared hub are huge which makes throughput slow as molasses every evening, the price is relatively high, and you are forced to rent a modem from them monthly. Give your money to hard working independent ISPs who will work their butts off to make you happy. Buy your own modem (about $60) and save yourself $10\month for the same max speeds (3.0Mb slowest) with no slowdown at peak times. All these statements are corroborated by residential internet users like you at www.canadianisp.com
P.s., my girlfriend just told me that Rogers has reduced her evenings and weekends "unlimited" cellular times from 6pm-6am to 9pm-6am, and it will only cost her 100% of her previous price! What a deal!
The situation in Ireland isn't necessarily different from that in Sweden. The Irish arrangement was settled in court, whereas the Swedish ISPs are being contacted by the movie and music industries privately. The point is that companies are not the law, the law is the law.
Montreal, Canada, had a similar situation which was featured in newspapers. The CRIA (Canadian RIAA) petitioned the city's ISPs to translate IP addresses to subscriber names in order to prosecute individuals. All ISPs but one refused. Why that one ISP would cave into the demands of a fellow company is a mystery, but they were certainly not required to do so.
Good luck to Ireland, Sweden, Canada, and everyone! Pay to broadcast, free to own!
I was waiting for someone to mention this. Kudos.
And I'm not sure what it means exactly, but Trillian lists "AIM\ICQ" as one plugin, one entity. I know AOL bought ICQ but I don't know what that means for the networks - I assume they use the same back end but are kept physically or logically separate. I'm not saying multimillion dollar buyouts are the same as open infrastructure, but it disproves this topic to a point. Maybe a mass merger like Microsoft\Yahoo is the best we can hope for in terms of interoperability.
Either way, don't expect open infrastructure any time soon. Closed standards with proprietary front ends means companies can jam banner ads on people's desktops. If you hate ads as much as I do, use an alternative.
GAIM
Trillian
I played Guild Wars for about 2 months before getting bored with it and sticking it back on the shelf. I played a few other games, took a bit of a break, and (gasp) read a book in the interim. I've now come back to the game a little bit and I have found a new appreciation for its subscription strategy. I love that I can play the game casually or hardcore and have little trouble picking up where I left off. If I played WoW and needed to take a break, I probably would never come back due to the prohibitive cost.
It's trite and oversaid, but Guild Wars truly is the choice of casual gamers. Games like Bejewelled have proven that this largely untapped demographic may have huge potential.
DIY content is why The Sims is so incredibly popular, and it's why the PC is such a great platform for gaming. Sid has obviously done his homework. With the game, mod implementation, mod development, and access to the community all on the same box, Civ 4 will undoubtedly be the most popular iteration of the series.
I used WinMX for a while, as it was much more featureful than the crappy Napster client of old and the subscribership was outstanding. I don't seem to remember any feature or message in WinMX that helped users pirate music. It's true that some people used the software to trade music, but there is absolutely no proof that the program was designed for that purpose. I don't know why they took the network down. It is a simple P2P file sharing utility and nothing more.
Furthermore, WinMX is freeware. I presume the author made no money from it. Regardless, why is the RIAA challenging this poor guy on the grounds that he has broken another country's laws?
Being a die hard fan of the original Gabriel Knight adventure game by Sierra On-Line, I recently acquired a copy of the sequel, The Beast Within. Having completed the game and being blown away by the characterization and performances of the actors, main and bit, I can hardly fathom why there hasn't been a deluge of live-action video adventures. I've loved adventure games since the earlier Sierra games (Police Quest 1 for DOS was my first) so I can say with some authority that the inclusion of live actors over text-spoken or even fully voiced animated characters brings the player that much deeper into the story.
The game can be found for as little as $3 on eBay and it's compatible with WinXP with a free patch. Wait until the sun goes down, dim the lights, open your windows (chilly night air really enhances the mood), and be mesmerized.
Let's not forget this week's Sorrow's Furnace update to Guild Wars
Post-Nirvana, why don't we call all alternative songs a remix? Post-swing era, why don't we call all Ska a remix? Post-Dizzy Gillespe, why isn't all trumpety jazz a remix?
/.ers should appreciate remixing all the more since it represents the marriage between computers and culture - humanity and machinery.
Sampling used to be a gimmick but now it's the status quo. It is certainly not something to bemoan - it's simply the new norm. This is the digital age and there is a dichotomy between artists and audiences. Artists want to protect their creations, but the audience wants to share and participate.
Anyone who is tired of all the "remixing" in the world is in for a long, arduous ride. Sampling is the new piano. It is an instrument like any other.
Rant - Artists who oppose to their work being remixed (musicians, artists, cartoonists, authors, etc.) should be ashamed of themselves. When you release your work into the world, it belongs to the world. Is there any more sincere flattery than the remix\interpretation\fanfiction? We emulate because we love!
Plug - My S3M remix of Send Me An Angel. Don't send me to jail, Real Life.
John Carmack had to fight tooth and nail with his dev crew to ensure the computer consoles were activated with no more than the mouse and fire button in Doom 3.
From the article:
Japanese media giant Bandai has announced the first movie titles to feature both a DVD and a UMD version in the same box, a trend which was widely predicted when Sony first announced the PSP's movie capabilities but has until now failed to materialise.
Yeah right. Consumers won't stand for a price hike for a format they can't use. I bet Bandai will be the first and last company to do this. I think the PSP's much touted and more maligned movie capabilities will fade into vapour within 6 months.
I bet that pink Power Ranger looks just as hot on a 3 inch screen though.
The best thing you can do is compose an outline or draft and show it to as many people as possible. Get feedback, criticism, and suggestions, and update the outline. Then get feedback again. The more eyes, the fewer mistakes.
I'm glad you brought this up. I've sort of enjoyed my Net MD for 1.5 years but yesterday I decided I'd had enough. I was sick of Sony's software and was furious when I'd wait for 10 minutes for a 2 hour DJ set to burn, just to have it fail at 99%. I bought a 512MB solid state MP3 player and I couldn't be happier. Drag and drop is a dream come true. Sony's ATRAC scheme is crap. Why reinvent the wheel when the world is using rocket ships?
Depends on whether you're a gamer. I'm more interested in gigabit throughput than low ping. Plus, I don't know if it's the 100baseT bit transfer or the hardware itself that impedes latency. I don't know for certain, but maybe the wider pipe means more work for the CPU.
I can do all these things on my Linksys (when the thing decides not to freeze up and drop all connections) but the D-Link router's QoS scheduling potentially allows me to do all these things at the same time. This is unheard of for any conventional residential router. It sucks when I beg my family not to touch the internet while I'm shoutcasting, but they do it anyway and cause buffer underruns. It also sucks when any of us saturate the link with P2P, rendering web browsing infuriatingly slow for everyone.
Some people have good luck with various vendors and some have bad luck. I can't really speak for Linksys as a whole, but after being burned twice I see no reason why I should give them my business again - especially after the frustrating tech\cust support.
I'm very interested in this router and may purchase it (or the nicer 4600) in the near future. I don't play online games but I'm interested in VoIP, P2P, and Shoutcast hosting. Any combination of these things was impossible in the past but this router sounds like the answer. It got a great review in Computer Power User (CPU) magazine which I believe to be a very reputable source.
I'm a little wary of the claim of better ping times though. This may be a statement concerning QoS packet scheduling because I've heard from a few sources (including Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel) that 1000baseT has higher latency than 10/100. However, D-Link boasts that the router's onboard processor is much faster than most, allowing many more simultaneous connections, so perhaps it can direct packets more quickly than comparable products.
I should mention here that Linksys has absolutely abhorrent customer support and that I highly recommend supporting the competitive companies. I'm on my 2nd (non-consecutive) Linksys router and it's been very unreliable from the get go. Their tech support advised me to wait a while before calling back, and when I did they told me my 1 month replacement window had expired. 8 days ago after MUCH frustration with 3 techs and a manager they finally agreed to send me a replacement (shipped at my expense) in 3 working days and I've recieved no such thing.
Linksys is riding on its laurels. Hopefully they'll get the message when people start buying imaginative new products from competitors.
I'm a huge Simpsons fan who will challenge any other Simpsons nerd in a quote showdown any day of the week. However, I found this book to be a real snore. It picks the show apart like vultures on a carcass until nothing but the bones remain, gleaming in the sun. This book is too detailed for all but fanatics, and 99% too obvious for the die-hards. I never thought anything could make Simpsons boring, but this book is it. It reads like a pompous Masters thesis and is drier than the Sahara.
Sounds like a real hassle for channel surfers:
"Down... down... down... down... down... down... down.."
And isn't there a danger of the TV controlling itself?
"Okay, Marsha, I'll tell you my horrible, horrible secret. Now listen UP"
I just participated in a test pitting Win2k3 vs Red Hat ES3 vs SuSE Enterprise 9. The test was for useability and functionality.
Windows came out on top by a mile. These 2 distros are nowhere near a mature state. The included (gui) tools are atrocious, incomplete, and often break the service so bad that it's easier to reinstall than to repair. Yes, functionality can be established from the command-line, but if you could do that you wouldn't be buying a packaged enterprise distro.
Directory services are a nightmare to configure in linux, and these 2 distros are certainly no exception. Neither distro comes with a gui tool or scripted install procedure, and the testers and I couldn't figure out how to get kerberos and LDAP to work together. Novell's tech support was useless - they said they support installing the service (from RPMs) but not configuring them. The manuals in both distros were totally useless.
The lack of centralized management tools in linux was the biggest downfall. The sysadmin has a LOT of work to do writing scripts and delegating authority to subordinate admins. What the distros really need is a management console like AD/MMC to administrate objects, groups, security policies, profiles, permissions, etc etc etc.
Stay away from enterprise linux products for now. Roll your own. There's no substitute for know-how.
Netflix is a FANTASTIC idea and I hope it gets more and more popular so that the movie distribution model changes. It's very smart, but it's not going to be the end-all be-all. Using the internet as a menu and snail mail as delivery is pretty archaic. What the world will really adopt is video on demand. Many digital cable companies already offer this. They should start offering first run cinema movies the same way. People are sick of going to a theatre, paying exorbitant amounts for the show and for food, having to watch 20 minutes or more of commercials, and not enjoying the experience anyway thanks to some inconsiderate children making a scene.
As for a P2P code of conduct, that will only help the industry. Piracy is at the forefront of media content delivery. It gives people what they want, the way they want it. If industry successfully quashes piracy then capitalism itself will have a monopoly on society. If there's no better solution out there, no competition, then corporations will have little reason to strive to improve.
Companies do not have their consumers' wellbeing in mind. Only consumers do. With a P2P code of conduct setting guidelines for what to do when your P2P link site comes under legal fire, there can be an action plan to protect the webmaster and the site's members from harm. If the community stands together it will make more of a statement than the martyring of individual webmasters.
You're absolutely right. Lokitorrent should have shut itself down just like Suprnova. The Loki bust is the worst case scenario in a P2P arrest. Now that it's happened once it should never happen again. Webmasters need to smarten up.
You're absolutely right. Look at the 123studios case with DVDXcopy. They got starved to death by legal fees. That's a huge fallacy of the legal system. The richest party wins!
"I yearn and fear for the day when what I choose to do when online will be as anonymous as my thoughts." Be careful what you wish for! I'm sure GAIN and Cydoor are developing neural spyware as we speak!
Most people don't want the truth. They want someone to handle the truth for them. That's why Bush was re-elected. The world is afraid of P2P. They want to be dumb terminals of a fascist mainframe.