Does it really help a torrent or ED2k site if you send money to help with legal fees? I would think this would only complicate the defense - having to prove that the money was only used for the benefit of the website.
It looks like the P2P world is going to go through a bit of a shuffle until it can find the "sweet spot" country that will not prosecute, just like what happened with online bookies and casinos.
This story is getting pretty tired. Pirates figure out a smart way to distribute media, old fashioned companies too lazy to change their business model start suing the pants off of everybody, nothing changes in the long run, and in the end the company adopts the new methodologies or dies.
How many times must history repeat itself before companies learn to listen to their consumers? They know what they want better than any marketing department.
Oh yeah, and screw the proprietor of Lokitorrent for being a spineless jellyfish. He did a real disservice to his visitors by ratting them out. There needs to be a P2P code of conduct with a corresponding logo on list sites to tell users that their privacy will be protected if the site comes under legal fire.
The article should have mentioned the price of licensing as well. I believe the Quake 3 engine is still $250,000USD (which includes limited support from id programmers). D3 and Source must be a pretty penny.
The FAQ sheds some light on the software functionality.
Parent File Scan communicates with the developer, DtecNet, only to tell it what version of the program you're using. I'm sure the devs will keep your IP address in a locked vault away from the MPAA. They'd tell you in plain English, in this FAQ or on their cutesy flash homepage, if they intended to connect to your IP with BT or Emule, right? Right!
They also state that the program cannot differentiate between "legal and illegal copies", whatever that means.
This is all the more pathetic since Marvel is just a ripoff of DC. DC had been printing about a dozen series before Marvel appeared, clinging to DC's coat tails.
CoH has been very diligent about revoking names that infringe on the EULA. I hope Marvel is fined or countersued for such blatent and baseless greed.
I've installed it (bypassing the genuine OS scan on the download page) and ran it once. It picked up a lot of stuff that neither Ad-Aware nor Spybot found, which was very impressive. It ran MUCH more quickly than Ad-Aware SE.
Strangely, it identified "Edonkey2000" (I have eMule) as a potential adware carrier. I've never known an ED2k client to show ads. Thankfully, the default action for eMule was "Ignore" and there was an "Ignore always" option as well.
Antispyware has the potential to raise the bar for this type of security application. However, I'm a little worried that this beta will turn out to be the best and most functional iteration of the product. The preferential treatment for IE in the options is to be expected, but it could become a troublesome feature if MS pushes their browser too hard.
Isn't it possible that such a powerful and exclusive ruling group of warez illuminati could have supplied this reporter with false information? A supposed squealer dishing out red herrings? Or perhaps there are two duelling top-level release organizations and one is trying to rat the other out.
Traffic is a huge problem here in Toronto. I think that such traffic management systems would improve not only the efficiency of traffic flow, but the quality of life in general. People will be in better moods if they have to spend less time in the car.
Good for you! I think this is the correct way to exercise your rights as a consumer. It's your product and you should be allowed to use it however you wish. When my internet goes down I want to play games!
I play Gazillionaire Deluxe by e-mail with my girlfriend, but only because there is no better way (except hotseat).
I remember seeing lots of PBM ads in video game magazines in the early 90s. I guess they died out around 94. I never got into them because they were expensive. (for a kid, anyway)
Snail Mail is being outdated. There is no reason to play by mail anymore.
Most broadband routers let you enter your own MAC. You can change any of the values including the first 3 pairs which specify the vendor. Of course, most people don't take advantage of this.
Very good points, although they are only applicable to cases in the USA. Smart pirates could run a Linux virtual machine like Cygwin and run the BT client from there. When they get the dreaded RIAA letter in the mail they can switch to that spare NIC in the closet and claim "I don't use that client or operating system and that's not my MAC". Er, but that would be immoral.
I'm not really getting this... It's easier to patch than to reverse-engineer, so I presume the warez version of the game is supplied with a crack that fakes out the Steam authentication so that it doesn't know it's being tricked. Nobody who is interested only in the single player game will connect to another computer online.
How can they expect to track people? Bittorrent? The only tracking information specified in BT is IP address, and most people have a dynamic IP which can be changed by unplugging their modem for 10 minutes.
And what's the penalty? They're banned from the service they don't need? So what?
My mistake for replying on/.'s abstract instead of the article that I didn't read. I also didn't realize that an individual's infringement on movie copyright was a civil matter. I'm pretty sure Canada's (where I live) laws differ in that respect to America's.
However, I am not and shall never be a "karma whore". I love the irony of the phrasing though.
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I think people have the right to be policed by POLICE, not by companies. Companies should have the right to hire reputable companies to research suspected copyright infringement. Corporations should not have the right to snoop on people's private property and delete whatever they want - ESPECIALLY with an automated utility. If it was okay for anyone to be their own police, that would be anarchy. If America was anarchy they wouldn't have just had a presidential election.
Plus it's the MPA*A* - America only. I hope the MPAA does go through with this hackneyed plan so that they delete the private, legal files of some poor Brazillian who, in turn, sues the MPAA and the American government for allowing such a travesty.
When I bought Wing Commander 2 in the early 90s it took AN HOUR to install off the 8 compressed floppies. Turned out to be one of my favourite games of all time. Good things come to those who wait!
And comparing a Windows install on an 486 to Half Life's install on a P3 is like comparing apples and tubas.
G4T has some potentially good shows that are ruined by idiot hosts. Filter and Pulse would be great shows if the hosts had credibility. Arena and Cheat are just tripe.
Icons is an amazing show because it's factual and presented maturely. X-Play is silly but it's frank and in-depth. Electric Playground is outdated and boring but but Vic and Tommy's other shows are excellent. Old TSS with Leo and Patrick were awesome.
The channel has such potential but someone in charge doesn't know which trendy demographic to market to. Here's a clue! Market to the intelligent!
I am not intimately familiar with the DMCA, but I believe it makes illegal any act or technology that permits someone to circumvent regulated or protected systems. I don't know how American air American airwaves are regulated, but I don't think the DMCA would contradict the prosecutors.
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Does it really help a torrent or ED2k site if you send money to help with legal fees? I would think this would only complicate the defense - having to prove that the money was only used for the benefit of the website.
It looks like the P2P world is going to go through a bit of a shuffle until it can find the "sweet spot" country that will not prosecute, just like what happened with online bookies and casinos.
This story is getting pretty tired. Pirates figure out a smart way to distribute media, old fashioned companies too lazy to change their business model start suing the pants off of everybody, nothing changes in the long run, and in the end the company adopts the new methodologies or dies.
How many times must history repeat itself before companies learn to listen to their consumers? They know what they want better than any marketing department.
Oh yeah, and screw the proprietor of Lokitorrent for being a spineless jellyfish. He did a real disservice to his visitors by ratting them out. There needs to be a P2P code of conduct with a corresponding logo on list sites to tell users that their privacy will be protected if the site comes under legal fire.
The article should have mentioned the price of licensing as well. I believe the Quake 3 engine is still $250,000USD (which includes limited support from id programmers). D3 and Source must be a pretty penny.
Valve explained this once. The lake is the source, the filled glass is the game, and the faucet is the valve.
You're right, sound should have been taken into consideration in this writeup. Both feature their own in-engine sound rendering.
The FAQ sheds some light on the software functionality.
Parent File Scan communicates with the developer, DtecNet, only to tell it what version of the program you're using. I'm sure the devs will keep your IP address in a locked vault away from the MPAA. They'd tell you in plain English, in this FAQ or on their cutesy flash homepage, if they intended to connect to your IP with BT or Emule, right? Right!
They also state that the program cannot differentiate between "legal and illegal copies", whatever that means.
This is all the more pathetic since Marvel is just a ripoff of DC. DC had been printing about a dozen series before Marvel appeared, clinging to DC's coat tails.
CoH has been very diligent about revoking names that infringe on the EULA. I hope Marvel is fined or countersued for such blatent and baseless greed.
This is supposed to nullify movie piracy? If anything, it will improve it! No more cams and telescans - only DVD quality warez from now on!
I've installed it (bypassing the genuine OS scan on the download page) and ran it once. It picked up a lot of stuff that neither Ad-Aware nor Spybot found, which was very impressive. It ran MUCH more quickly than Ad-Aware SE.
Strangely, it identified "Edonkey2000" (I have eMule) as a potential adware carrier. I've never known an ED2k client to show ads. Thankfully, the default action for eMule was "Ignore" and there was an "Ignore always" option as well.
Antispyware has the potential to raise the bar for this type of security application. However, I'm a little worried that this beta will turn out to be the best and most functional iteration of the product. The preferential treatment for IE in the options is to be expected, but it could become a troublesome feature if MS pushes their browser too hard.
Isn't it possible that such a powerful and exclusive ruling group of warez illuminati could have supplied this reporter with false information? A supposed squealer dishing out red herrings? Or perhaps there are two duelling top-level release organizations and one is trying to rat the other out.
Traffic is a huge problem here in Toronto. I think that such traffic management systems would improve not only the efficiency of traffic flow, but the quality of life in general. People will be in better moods if they have to spend less time in the car.
Good for you! I think this is the correct way to exercise your rights as a consumer. It's your product and you should be allowed to use it however you wish. When my internet goes down I want to play games!
I play Gazillionaire Deluxe by e-mail with my girlfriend, but only because there is no better way (except hotseat).
I remember seeing lots of PBM ads in video game magazines in the early 90s. I guess they died out around 94. I never got into them because they were expensive. (for a kid, anyway)
Snail Mail is being outdated. There is no reason to play by mail anymore.
Doesn't the next piece of hardware belong to the ISP?
Just a guess, but if they were all with the same ISP I bet it would route the packets to whoever was plugged into port #1 on the switch.
Most broadband routers let you enter your own MAC. You can change any of the values including the first 3 pairs which specify the vendor. Of course, most people don't take advantage of this.
Very good points, although they are only applicable to cases in the USA. Smart pirates could run a Linux virtual machine like Cygwin and run the BT client from there. When they get the dreaded RIAA letter in the mail they can switch to that spare NIC in the closet and claim "I don't use that client or operating system and that's not my MAC". Er, but that would be immoral.
I'm not really getting this... It's easier to patch than to reverse-engineer, so I presume the warez version of the game is supplied with a crack that fakes out the Steam authentication so that it doesn't know it's being tricked. Nobody who is interested only in the single player game will connect to another computer online.
How can they expect to track people? Bittorrent? The only tracking information specified in BT is IP address, and most people have a dynamic IP which can be changed by unplugging their modem for 10 minutes.
And what's the penalty? They're banned from the service they don't need? So what?
My mistake for replying on /.'s abstract instead of the article that I didn't read. I also didn't realize that an individual's infringement on movie copyright was a civil matter. I'm pretty sure Canada's (where I live) laws differ in that respect to America's.
However, I am not and shall never be a "karma whore". I love the irony of the phrasing though.
I think people have the right to be policed by POLICE, not by companies. Companies should have the right to hire reputable companies to research suspected copyright infringement. Corporations should not have the right to snoop on people's private property and delete whatever they want - ESPECIALLY with an automated utility. If it was okay for anyone to be their own police, that would be anarchy. If America was anarchy they wouldn't have just had a presidential election.
Plus it's the MPA*A* - America only. I hope the MPAA does go through with this hackneyed plan so that they delete the private, legal files of some poor Brazillian who, in turn, sues the MPAA and the American government for allowing such a travesty.
When I bought Wing Commander 2 in the early 90s it took AN HOUR to install off the 8 compressed floppies. Turned out to be one of my favourite games of all time. Good things come to those who wait!
And comparing a Windows install on an 486 to Half Life's install on a P3 is like comparing apples and tubas.
G4T has some potentially good shows that are ruined by idiot hosts. Filter and Pulse would be great shows if the hosts had credibility. Arena and Cheat are just tripe.
Icons is an amazing show because it's factual and presented maturely. X-Play is silly but it's frank and in-depth. Electric Playground is outdated and boring but but Vic and Tommy's other shows are excellent. Old TSS with Leo and Patrick were awesome.
The channel has such potential but someone in charge doesn't know which trendy demographic to market to. Here's a clue! Market to the intelligent!
Thanks for filling me in. Now I know.
I am not intimately familiar with the DMCA, but I believe it makes illegal any act or technology that permits someone to circumvent regulated or protected systems. I don't know how American air American airwaves are regulated, but I don't think the DMCA would contradict the prosecutors.
Sorry then, I missed the point of your analogy. Could you clarify please?
And only Americans or people wishing to attend American schools take SAT's, but thanks for assuming.
All pirate radio stations violate the DMCA, but not all hackers do.