An economic terrorist inciting a revolt against the great and benevolent corporation of the US of A.
Oh, and one more thing. We support him!
P.S. The NegativLand article sort of defeat the very argument by the media conglomerate that file-sharing hurts the artists. How can we hurt the artists if they're already dead?
The music industry, with their firm control on the congress, will.
The next election no longer has meaning, either side with choose will result in the death of democracy.
May it be King George or King John, the multi-national corporation will make the government their puppet, and its citizens their slave.
This may seem harsh, but bear with me.
Terrorists have won on September 11. They've blinded us to the evil that's poisoning our society. For two years we've been hell bent on killing the monsters, but have ignore the very evil lurking in our society.
The Bill of Rights is no longer the holy grail of democracy. But merely guarantee corporations "The Right to Profit".
But all I know, here, now, is that what I said here no longer matters. Because despite the many intellectual frequenting this site, none has the power to change the falling bomb on our nation.
Just like Japan, who can't stop the two atom bombs.
All we can hope is a catastrophe. A disaster so great that it shatters our poisoned society. And from its ashes, we may be able to build a true nation by the people, for the people, of the people.
Or else, we're doomed to become merely a page in history, forgotten by all in the ages to come.
Considering that even if they block bots, a human player could always run it as a seperate program, feed it info, and it returns the best possible move.
But still, we should be on guard. There had being many times in history where people said "Nah... it won't happen because of this and this." And said thing happened (Hitler, Hitler's invasion to Russia, Pearl Harbor... perhaps 9/11).
As for Palladium, it has a new name, Longhorn. Palladium is just a concept, Longhorn borrowed some of the aspect from Palladium in one way or another.
In modern day, money = power. There's no way the government will do that. And if they do, the corporation will just move oversea to where there's less control.
Most of us know its wrong, but the whole problem with the current system is this.
1. All copy-protection will get broken. Sooner or later.
2. Media companies are unwilling to find alternatives to stop this (such as altering business model).
3. Media conglomerates in an essence are trying to control Tech industries, which pisses a lot of people off.
4. I personally don't believe ANY group of people DESERVE more power. Especailly not RIAA. I believe power in the individual (unfortunately, many are not responsible enough).
Note: Anonymous Coward, if you're not willing to stand by your words by signing up, your voice does not deserve to be heard.
Okay... I've no idea how these posts come about, but let's get something clear.
1. The article doesn't support child pornography, it merely state that under the current law, there's no decrease in child pornography AND there're huge increase in suppression of free speech. The overturning of the child porn law is merely that the law is ineffective.
To the anonymous coward who posted thread number #10221037 (parent thread to this)... No I'm not a parent, but I got a lot of cousin who I don't want to see them hurt. While it seems extreme to equivocate file sharer v.s. child pornographer, the basic idea is that the most efficient and effective tatic is the same for both, shutdown the Internet all together. The problem with this is that this kind of solution is similar to banning cars because it can be used to run people over, an extreme measure that completely overlook the benefit of the medium itself.
Um... just want to clarify. If you read the article (or even the story) carefully, you'll see that... here's an excerpt from the article.
No one challenged the state's right to stop the distribution of child porn, which is already illegal under federal law, but lawyers for the Center for Democracy and Technology and the American Civil Liberties Union had argued that the technology used to block those Web sites was clumsy.
Much as the phone company can't control what people fax over phone lines, ISPs can't control content on the Web, and efforts to use sophisticated filters to stop people from seeing illicit sites have proven problematic.
Over two years, the groups said, ISPs trying to obey blocking orders were forced to cut access to at least 1.5 million legal Web sites that had nothing to do with child pornography or even legal pornography, but shared Internet addresses with the offending sites. When a service provider blocked the address for a child-porn site, it wiped out the entire cluster.
No one is saying that child porn is good (it the extreme opposite of good, worse then murder). They're merely saying that under the current law, numerous legal sites got slammed because they share the same addresses (IP addresses I assume) as the one with child porn.
Now I know the reason my friend have to go through 3~4 CD drives a year.
There should be a law that makes software makers (or at least copy protection maker) liable for damage to your computer. I for one don't mind the copy-protection (even the CD kind), but I want to be able to point my finger at someone and scream when something went seriously wrong.
Yes, I did read the article, altough I'm not too happy about the part he said in regard to EULA. I mean WHO in their right mind would go through that long a statement just to play a game?
A law should be passed that a truncated EULA must included with the software, and it should be able to fit on the outside of the game box or at least very visible. I'm getting really tired of buying games and find out that they refuse to run on my computer correctly.
Because you lose investment in hardware when you build a manufacturing plant in another country that violates their laws, and those violations are difficult to change. But software, on the other hand, can be changed easily so there's no incentive to get it right the first time (why spend the money researching and modifying it when said country would point it out to you?)
Because Microsoft got monopoly. They got the money. And they're about the only game in town. That and the Hollywood don't trust anything open source, except when it saves them moneys.
If you read the article, Google IS threatening the tradition of underpricing stock. It doesn't mean that Google's share is underpriced, it means that google share is set WITHOUT "research" from the underwriters. Traditionally those underwriter will "underprice" a stock, allowing the primary investor to get a quick buck out of buying the stock. What Google did is deliberately overpriced the stock, breaking the "time-honored" tradition to price it below the market price.
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It's like there're elite snipers picking people off. Now these two twisted change the sniper into a hacking tool, elite hackers with a military twist.
If its bad, I'm sorry.
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Actually... you can. By law, if you're either in military or have martial art training, when you attack someone bare handed they can charge you with assault with a lethal weapon.
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Yo Bush! We have a terrorist here!
An economic terrorist inciting a revolt against the great and benevolent corporation of the US of A.
Oh, and one more thing. We support him!
P.S. The NegativLand article sort of defeat the very argument by the media conglomerate that file-sharing hurts the artists.
How can we hurt the artists if they're already dead?
The music industry, with their firm control on the congress, will.
The next election no longer has meaning, either side with choose will result in the death of democracy.
May it be King George or King John, the multi-national corporation will make the government their puppet, and its citizens their slave.
This may seem harsh, but bear with me.
Terrorists have won on September 11. They've blinded us to the evil that's poisoning our society. For two years we've been hell bent on killing the monsters, but have ignore the very evil lurking in our society.
The Bill of Rights is no longer the holy grail of democracy. But merely guarantee corporations "The Right to Profit".
But all I know, here, now, is that what I said here no longer matters. Because despite the many intellectual frequenting this site, none has the power to change the falling bomb on our nation.
Just like Japan, who can't stop the two atom bombs.
All we can hope is a catastrophe. A disaster so great that it shatters our poisoned society. And from its ashes, we may be able to build a true nation by the people, for the people, of the people.
Or else, we're doomed to become merely a page in history, forgotten by all in the ages to come.
Considering that even if they block bots, a human player could always run it as a seperate program, feed it info, and it returns the best possible move.
But still, we should be on guard. There had being many times in history where people said "Nah... it won't happen because of this and this." And said thing happened (Hitler, Hitler's invasion to Russia, Pearl Harbor... perhaps 9/11).
As for Palladium, it has a new name, Longhorn. Palladium is just a concept, Longhorn borrowed some of the aspect from Palladium in one way or another.
That would most likely be what the manufacture will do. And bundle with it the ability for admin access to activate said security feature.
Hm... or the fact the Microsoft is afraid of hackers suddenly decided to get more nasty.
Before...
Virus/Worm >> "Let's see... today's instructions... copy this... send... copy that... send... copy me... send..."
After...
Virus/Worm >> "Let's see... new instructions... copy this... send... copy me... send... repeat one hundred times... delete root directory..."
I see a lot of problem here...
No, more then a lot...
Welcome to reality. Oh, and dream on.
In modern day, money = power. There's no way the government will do that. And if they do, the corporation will just move oversea to where there's less control.
I feel you. My dad works in Taiwan, and even his work e-mail got innudated spam mail (more like 10 spam mails for every valid e-mail).
Of course, spam from US, scam from Nigeria... both need idiots/dumbass to make money.
Most of us know its wrong, but the whole problem with the current system is this.
1. All copy-protection will get broken. Sooner or later.
2. Media companies are unwilling to find alternatives to stop this (such as altering business model).
3. Media conglomerates in an essence are trying to control Tech industries, which pisses a lot of people off.
4. I personally don't believe ANY group of people DESERVE more power. Especailly not RIAA. I believe power in the individual (unfortunately, many are not responsible enough).
Note: Anonymous Coward, if you're not willing to stand by your words by signing up, your voice does not deserve to be heard.
Actually... you can't remove any copy-protection built into it (if it has one). That would violate the DMCA.
If DMCA is repealed, I would bet something like this will show up in newspaper ads.
"$50 to remove nuinance from your new DVD-Player. Please call 123-123-1337."
Okay... I've no idea how these posts come about, but let's get something clear.
1. The article doesn't support child pornography, it merely state that under the current law, there's no decrease in child pornography AND there're huge increase in suppression of free speech. The overturning of the child porn law is merely that the law is ineffective.
To the anonymous coward who posted thread number #10221037 (parent thread to this)...
No I'm not a parent, but I got a lot of cousin who I don't want to see them hurt. While it seems extreme to equivocate file sharer v.s. child pornographer, the basic idea is that the most efficient and effective tatic is the same for both, shutdown the Internet all together. The problem with this is that this kind of solution is similar to banning cars because it can be used to run people over, an extreme measure that completely overlook the benefit of the medium itself.
No one is saying that child porn is good (it the extreme opposite of good, worse then murder). They're merely saying that under the current law, numerous legal sites got slammed because they share the same addresses (IP addresses I assume) as the one with child porn.
I think this is the reason Bush pushed through the Patriot Act.
So he can eliminate all his political opposition... wait...
That sounds like something Hitler/Saddam/Castro did.
As long as those advertisement fit seamlessly into the game, I'm okay with it.
Whoa, Diablo II trashes CD drives?
Now I know the reason my friend have to go through 3~4 CD drives a year.
There should be a law that makes software makers (or at least copy protection maker) liable for damage to your computer. I for one don't mind the copy-protection (even the CD kind), but I want to be able to point my finger at someone and scream when something went seriously wrong.
Yes, I did read the article, altough I'm not too happy about the part he said in regard to EULA. I mean WHO in their right mind would go through that long a statement just to play a game?
A law should be passed that a truncated EULA must included with the software, and it should be able to fit on the outside of the game box or at least very visible. I'm getting really tired of buying games and find out that they refuse to run on my computer correctly.
If you got enough money, power or just LOTS OF guns, then that would be so.
Because you lose investment in hardware when you build a manufacturing plant in another country that violates their laws, and those violations are difficult to change. But software, on the other hand, can be changed easily so there's no incentive to get it right the first time (why spend the money researching and modifying it when said country would point it out to you?)
Then you're going to go into trouble with countries (India and Pakistan) who firmly believe that said territory is theirs.
Because Microsoft got monopoly. They got the money. And they're about the only game in town. That and the Hollywood don't trust anything open source, except when it saves them moneys.
If you read the article, Google IS threatening the tradition of underpricing stock. It doesn't mean that Google's share is underpriced, it means that google share is set WITHOUT "research" from the underwriters. Traditionally those underwriter will "underprice" a stock, allowing the primary investor to get a quick buck out of buying the stock. What Google did is deliberately overpriced the stock, breaking the "time-honored" tradition to price it below the market price.
It's like there're elite snipers picking people off. Now these two twisted change the sniper into a hacking tool, elite hackers with a military twist.
If its bad, I'm sorry.
Actually... you can. By law, if you're either in military or have martial art training, when you attack someone bare handed they can charge you with assault with a lethal weapon.
Well, its that and the fact that all they need is a short burst of connection to hack it. So it operates like a sniper rifle.
Ready the compuetr, Aim the scope, Trigger the signal, Target HACKED.
It's the same logic as why someone want a much house with more space then he will ever need. It's a sort of a "status" kind of thing.
Or, if you're a conspiracy theorist, one can argue that the politicians, especially the incumbents, want to be able to tamper with ballet result.