If I have to firmware update my player a couple times a year because they are battling piracy, I say fuck it. I'll stick with DVD where there is no battle.
Well, with DVD, there's battle too. I've had to update the firmware of quite a lot of DVD players so they become region code agnostic...
I've had no problems with dotster for ages (some 20+ domains with them). And they seem to oppose SOPA, so I'm considering moving my remaining domains from GoDaddy to Dotster as well.
we in the rest of the world could stop using american resources on the internet.
So American websites will start moving abroad. And frankly, why not, if the environment there is becoming so hostile? They already outsourced industrial production, why wouldn't they outsource websites? En masse? To protest SOPA et al? The day we hear that Google Inc. moved all its technical infrastructure to Iceland (or some other internet-friendly place), it would be a giant leap for freedom on the Internet. That's kind of sad, because in the days of old, the US used to be the place of choice for websites from all across the globe who sought real freedom of speech. Amazing how things have slipped.
Wait. Did you just state that there was a way to reliably block sites, sarcastically wish people luck, and then parenthetically note how to defeat your invented scenario?
It may look paradox, but that's exactly how it is because that's the way routing in IP backbones is working. Suppose e.g. that your provider is Level-3 based, and Level-3 withdraws the BGP route to TPB to comply with SOPA. However, TPB can also connect to another tier-1 backbone that doesn't filter out its routes. You, behind Level-3 won't be able to access TPB directly, but via proxies, you could exit Level-3 and reach that other backbone, hence reach TPB. Of course, that scenario is more something for techies as it requires constant updating of alternative routes, but the 99.99% of the masses won't be able to circumvent Level-3's IP-level block, and that's all the MAFIAA cares about.
Second is that entering the IP manually presumes that an IP address only has one web host on it. This is far from true - with dynamic hosting, lots of domains share the same IP address.
Nothing prevents a plugin from sending additional HTTP headers (e.g. the Host: header) once the TCP connection has been established to the IP address. No DNS intervention is needed for this.
If meddling with DNS doesn't work, network operators will simply be forced to block at the IP level, e.g. by withdrawing the BGP routes to the censored sites. Good luck circumventing this kind of blocking (still possible with proxies, and maybe distributed anonymous p2p proxies, but a nuisance anyway).
That's oh so typical of Oracle, even before they swallowed up SUN. They don't want the unwashed masses to touch their products (Database, Solaris, SPARC, now Java?,...). This elitist mentality was part of their DNA makeup from the very beginning.
Soon enough, Big Content will own the companies that own the intertubes, so yeah, they'll do as they please. That's our Achilles' heel: we, the public, don't own the infrastructure, i.e. the roads. Of course, we could always piggy back an encrypted p2p network on top of commercial carrier backbones, but it will always remain a matter of goodwill from the backbone operators (and their corporate overlords) whether and how long we could do that.
Dear Iran,
it has come to our attention, that you're unlawfully cloning one of our drones. Said drone is protected by US Patent Laws and its software is under DMCA protection. Furthermore, you're not allowed to circumvent its integrated DRM.
Unless you immediately cease your cloning activity, we'll be forced to sue you in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for damages.
US Attorney General.
First of all, you would have to draw and pull up your mirror faster than the police fires the laser at you.
You could always wear laser-reflecting material / lenses / visors etc... It won't necessarily reflect back towards the police and those reflections could hurt even more innocent bystanders though.
Why on earth do you think the theft of people's time and attention, the most important thing they have, for almost nothing in return is okay?
Not to forget the bandwidth! Be it mobile bandwidth that is restricted for everyone everywhere, or fixed-line bandwidth in developing countries that is often limited in speed and volume, ads can be an unacceptable overhead that costs real money just to download.
But hopefully we may see the internet change all that, once all the DMCA type shenanigans come to an end, and people figure out that you can still charge for content even if people steal it.
Sorry to sound pedantic, but people merely duplicate content, they don't steal it.
Really, wtf? Both companies have more than enough resources to set up their own domains and webpages where they can do whatever they want, without any kind of interference whatsoever. Why would they need to be on Facebook at all when they can have their very own place on the Net? This Facebook craze is going waaaay too far, IMHO. Individuals who don't want to or can't set up their own domains can go with it, no problems, but big companies?
The source code is nothing but a simple collection of GPL software. There's NOTHING kindle-specific in it.
Hacks to get a simple (root) shell prompt to the Kindle are actually a lot more useful than this source drop. Google is your friend. Use at your own risk. Slippery when wet.
It's not really the professors that make the difference (to self education), it is the motivation. At least at the undergrad/bachelor level. Unless you have some very strong and persistent self-motivation drive, you won't do the exercises and problems yourself, or you won't do them nearly so intensely and with at least so much dedication than if you were required to by the learning context that colleges provide. And you haven't learned something if you didn't become proficient at solving problems in that domain. The main point of classical teaching is not so much providing content, it is providing context and discipline.
The alternate is that this law DOESN'T exist, and then the guilty don't get any punishment at all.
But doesn't the presumption of innocence hold in this case? Without a conviction (that should be based on the proof that the prosecution failed to provide), the defendant isn't guilty in the legal sense, and it is only proper that she wouldn't get a punishment in this case. Yeah, I know, legal thinking is rather weird, but that's the way it is.
Full AES encryption of all the data would make the drive horribly slow.
Not at all. Maybe you're confusing AES (symmetric cipher) with asymmetric encryption methods based on Diffie-Hellman, RSA etc..., which ARE horribly slow for anything more substantial than encrypting the key for the symmetric cipher. AES itself is pretty fast, actually.
For human rights reasons, in most of continental Europe, coercive detention can't exceed a relative small number of months, at the most. The inconvenience is usually less than the time you have to serve if convicted. Plus, coercive detention alone is not considered as conviction, which is pretty much important if you apply for a job later on. So most people would still opt for coercive detention instead of cooperating with the authorities (if that cooperation would cause them more harm than good).
The technical 'truth' that the key was not on disk probably counts for little in a court of law, anyone with half a brain cell can see clearly your intent to tamper with evidence in the event of a warrant.
Right. Laws are often based on intent, not on technical facts. However, if you can prove good intent, this can save your ass here, e.g. if your line of defense runs like this: "Who said I wanted to tamper with the law? I wanted to prevent the competing corporation (or a foreign government) from stealing my trade secrets."
I wouldn't be so sure. Currently, Pirate Parties are still considered by mainstream parties and politicians as a kind of "generic protest party", but not yet as a party for copyright reform and citizens' rights. We nerds and pirate voters / -activists see it differently, of course, but your average citizen, including your average politician didn't get the message yet.
Or you can wait some years, and try to explain to your grandchildren why their freedom of speech is nowhere to be found.
Look at it this way: earlier, dissidents from all countries used to host their sites in the US, because of the freedom of speech. In 10+ years, US dissidents will host their sites in countries like Ukraine, Russia, etc.., because of an out-of-control US government. And some of them already do: we call them file sharers here (or pirates, depending on perspective).
Slashdot Mirror
Well, with DVD, there's battle too. I've had to update the firmware of quite a lot of DVD players so they become region code agnostic...
I've had no problems with dotster for ages (some 20+ domains with them). And they seem to oppose SOPA, so I'm considering moving my remaining domains from GoDaddy to Dotster as well.
So American websites will start moving abroad. And frankly, why not, if the environment there is becoming so hostile? They already outsourced industrial production, why wouldn't they outsource websites? En masse? To protest SOPA et al? The day we hear that Google Inc. moved all its technical infrastructure to Iceland (or some other internet-friendly place), it would be a giant leap for freedom on the Internet. That's kind of sad, because in the days of old, the US used to be the place of choice for websites from all across the globe who sought real freedom of speech. Amazing how things have slipped.
It may look paradox, but that's exactly how it is because that's the way routing in IP backbones is working. Suppose e.g. that your provider is Level-3 based, and Level-3 withdraws the BGP route to TPB to comply with SOPA. However, TPB can also connect to another tier-1 backbone that doesn't filter out its routes. You, behind Level-3 won't be able to access TPB directly, but via proxies, you could exit Level-3 and reach that other backbone, hence reach TPB. Of course, that scenario is more something for techies as it requires constant updating of alternative routes, but the 99.99% of the masses won't be able to circumvent Level-3's IP-level block, and that's all the MAFIAA cares about.
Nothing prevents a plugin from sending additional HTTP headers (e.g. the Host: header) once the TCP connection has been established to the IP address. No DNS intervention is needed for this.
If meddling with DNS doesn't work, network operators will simply be forced to block at the IP level, e.g. by withdrawing the BGP routes to the censored sites. Good luck circumventing this kind of blocking (still possible with proxies, and maybe distributed anonymous p2p proxies, but a nuisance anyway).
That's oh so typical of Oracle, even before they swallowed up SUN. They don't want the unwashed masses to touch their products (Database, Solaris, SPARC, now Java?, ...). This elitist mentality was part of their DNA makeup from the very beginning.
However, they're trying to get rid of GPL software in the src tree as fast as they can.
Soon enough, Big Content will own the companies that own the intertubes, so yeah, they'll do as they please. That's our Achilles' heel: we, the public, don't own the infrastructure, i.e. the roads. Of course, we could always piggy back an encrypted p2p network on top of commercial carrier backbones, but it will always remain a matter of goodwill from the backbone operators (and their corporate overlords) whether and how long we could do that.
Dear Iran, it has come to our attention, that you're unlawfully cloning one of our drones. Said drone is protected by US Patent Laws and its software is under DMCA protection. Furthermore, you're not allowed to circumvent its integrated DRM. Unless you immediately cease your cloning activity, we'll be forced to sue you in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for damages. US Attorney General.
You could always wear laser-reflecting material / lenses / visors etc... It won't necessarily reflect back towards the police and those reflections could hurt even more innocent bystanders though.
Not to forget the bandwidth! Be it mobile bandwidth that is restricted for everyone everywhere, or fixed-line bandwidth in developing countries that is often limited in speed and volume, ads can be an unacceptable overhead that costs real money just to download.
Yes, there are anti-DRM-circumvention provisions in it (DRM as in Drone Remote Management)...
Sorry to sound pedantic, but people merely duplicate content, they don't steal it.
Really, wtf? Both companies have more than enough resources to set up their own domains and webpages where they can do whatever they want, without any kind of interference whatsoever. Why would they need to be on Facebook at all when they can have their very own place on the Net? This Facebook craze is going waaaay too far, IMHO. Individuals who don't want to or can't set up their own domains can go with it, no problems, but big companies?
Hacks to get a simple (root) shell prompt to the Kindle are actually a lot more useful than this source drop. Google is your friend. Use at your own risk. Slippery when wet.
The HAM community can.
It's not really the professors that make the difference (to self education), it is the motivation. At least at the undergrad/bachelor level. Unless you have some very strong and persistent self-motivation drive, you won't do the exercises and problems yourself, or you won't do them nearly so intensely and with at least so much dedication than if you were required to by the learning context that colleges provide. And you haven't learned something if you didn't become proficient at solving problems in that domain. The main point of classical teaching is not so much providing content, it is providing context and discipline.
But doesn't the presumption of innocence hold in this case? Without a conviction (that should be based on the proof that the prosecution failed to provide), the defendant isn't guilty in the legal sense, and it is only proper that she wouldn't get a punishment in this case. Yeah, I know, legal thinking is rather weird, but that's the way it is.
Not at all. Maybe you're confusing AES (symmetric cipher) with asymmetric encryption methods based on Diffie-Hellman, RSA etc..., which ARE horribly slow for anything more substantial than encrypting the key for the symmetric cipher. AES itself is pretty fast, actually.
For human rights reasons, in most of continental Europe, coercive detention can't exceed a relative small number of months, at the most. The inconvenience is usually less than the time you have to serve if convicted. Plus, coercive detention alone is not considered as conviction, which is pretty much important if you apply for a job later on. So most people would still opt for coercive detention instead of cooperating with the authorities (if that cooperation would cause them more harm than good).
Right. Laws are often based on intent, not on technical facts. However, if you can prove good intent, this can save your ass here, e.g. if your line of defense runs like this: "Who said I wanted to tamper with the law? I wanted to prevent the competing corporation (or a foreign government) from stealing my trade secrets."
I wouldn't be so sure. Currently, Pirate Parties are still considered by mainstream parties and politicians as a kind of "generic protest party", but not yet as a party for copyright reform and citizens' rights. We nerds and pirate voters / -activists see it differently, of course, but your average citizen, including your average politician didn't get the message yet.
Look at it this way: earlier, dissidents from all countries used to host their sites in the US, because of the freedom of speech. In 10+ years, US dissidents will host their sites in countries like Ukraine, Russia, etc.., because of an out-of-control US government. And some of them already do: we call them file sharers here (or pirates, depending on perspective).
What is legitimate and what isn't, is often in the eye of the beholder. Or did you mean "legal" (as opposed to "legitimate")?