This concept is nice and dreamy, but the reality is this - most spammers are pretty much on the low end of the internet evolutionary chart, and don't have many morals to begin with. Trying to change the business model on those whose business for those who already crack other organization's systems to spit out millions of emails is simply not going to happen - they'll just find some way to get around this as well. What should happen is either an extension to SMTP or a completely new protocol for MTA's. Perhaps one that would use some sort of SSL certification to authentificate itself as the MX of a domain would be more effective? (At least it *might* put an end to all the forged emails.)
Remember, it's not the Digital Millenium Copyright Act... it's the Darth Maul Corporate Agenda. The RIAA Federation has blockade the peaceful planet of Naboo, whose citizens legally purchase music and desire making an unrestricted copy of it for their personal usage... so where are the Jedi Knights Qui Gon Jin and Obi Wan Kenobi to deal with the RIAA Federation and Darth Maul?
I know it's been said before, but none of this would exist if everybody followed the simple idea that if you're not actively searching for a product, don't go to a given site. I have never clicked on the "punch the monkey and you can win a prize" banners or any links for any life insurance, viagra, penis enlargement, young hawt teens with farm animals, etc. links because I am not the one initiating the dialogue with the suppliers/service providers.
Am I having a McCarthy-Era flashback here? What is the big deal even if the resistance to any corporation flexing its muscle to get you to do whatever it wants and buy whatever it wants you to is considered anti-capitalist? I thought capitalism usually took the market into consideration, and if the market resists enough, the best thing for any corporation is to immediately stop and either find a) a viable solution/compromise or b) cease and desist. It does not call for whining, and we seem to have an awful lot of whining lately. Maybe somebody needs to breastfeed all these babies (i.e. RIAA, SCO, Verisign, etc.) so they stop.
And what big favor did Verisign cause me? Well, it generated at least one emergency phone call for a new client of mine, whose previous network administrator had DNS (in DHCP for the lan) pointing to SBC's DNS servers instead of to the Win2k active directory server. Thus a DNS query for _ldap_._mcs..... didn't fail for the non-existent domain and the system never fell back to WINS for resolution... thus nobody could log on.
And here I thought they were just trying to bring back the old feel of the old reel-to-reel films decaying over time, just like we saw at the theatres some 20 years ago... *grin*
This sounds a lot like the old mafia-style protection money scheme...
And speaking of such, I wonder what Mr. Oppenheim would say if he woke up next to a stallion's front section with a homemade cd with a message for him on it... he'd say he got it straight from the horse's mouth that he needs to call off his legal goon squad.;-)
Anybody want to volunteer to defy any such law in order to be the good samaritan to pay out the nose in legal costs to get the courts to strike down the law? Please apply at www.irs.gov. *grin*
In the old days, wouldn't you tie bricks around a injured dog's neck and toss him in the river? SCO certainly is an injured dog, and it's about time somebody tied bricks around their FUD machine and toss it in the river...
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This concept is nice and dreamy, but the reality is this - most spammers are pretty much on the low end of the internet evolutionary chart, and don't have many morals to begin with. Trying to change the business model on those whose business for those who already crack other organization's systems to spit out millions of emails is simply not going to happen - they'll just find some way to get around this as well. What should happen is either an extension to SMTP or a completely new protocol for MTA's. Perhaps one that would use some sort of SSL certification to authentificate itself as the MX of a domain would be more effective? (At least it *might* put an end to all the forged emails.)
Remember, it's not the Digital Millenium Copyright Act... it's the Darth Maul Corporate Agenda. The RIAA Federation has blockade the peaceful planet of Naboo, whose citizens legally purchase music and desire making an unrestricted copy of it for their personal usage... so where are the Jedi Knights Qui Gon Jin and Obi Wan Kenobi to deal with the RIAA Federation and Darth Maul?
I know it's been said before, but none of this would exist if everybody followed the simple idea that if you're not actively searching for a product, don't go to a given site. I have never clicked on the "punch the monkey and you can win a prize" banners or any links for any life insurance, viagra, penis enlargement, young hawt teens with farm animals, etc. links because I am not the one initiating the dialogue with the suppliers/service providers.
Am I having a McCarthy-Era flashback here? What is the big deal even if the resistance to any corporation flexing its muscle to get you to do whatever it wants and buy whatever it wants you to is considered anti-capitalist? I thought capitalism usually took the market into consideration, and if the market resists enough, the best thing for any corporation is to immediately stop and either find a) a viable solution/compromise or b) cease and desist. It does not call for whining, and we seem to have an awful lot of whining lately. Maybe somebody needs to breastfeed all these babies (i.e. RIAA, SCO, Verisign, etc.) so they stop. And what big favor did Verisign cause me? Well, it generated at least one emergency phone call for a new client of mine, whose previous network administrator had DNS (in DHCP for the lan) pointing to SBC's DNS servers instead of to the Win2k active directory server. Thus a DNS query for _ldap_._mcs..... didn't fail for the non-existent domain and the system never fell back to WINS for resolution... thus nobody could log on.
And here I thought they were just trying to bring back the old feel of the old reel-to-reel films decaying over time, just like we saw at the theatres some 20 years ago... *grin*
Can they also collect damages for impotence and requiring penis enlargement due to infringements?
This sounds a lot like the old mafia-style protection money scheme... And speaking of such, I wonder what Mr. Oppenheim would say if he woke up next to a stallion's front section with a homemade cd with a message for him on it... he'd say he got it straight from the horse's mouth that he needs to call off his legal goon squad. ;-)
The real issue is this - The Darth Maul Corporate Agenda *cough cough* err DMCA makes you guilty until proven innocent! *grin*
Anybody want to volunteer to defy any such law in order to be the good samaritan to pay out the nose in legal costs to get the courts to strike down the law? Please apply at www.irs.gov. *grin*
In the old days, wouldn't you tie bricks around a injured dog's neck and toss him in the river? SCO certainly is an injured dog, and it's about time somebody tied bricks around their FUD machine and toss it in the river...