FreeNet nodes can - and often do - contain generally unacceptable content such as images of child pornography. It's not an acceptable solution for most people.
Do you have the right to break a law because you dont agree with it?
No. But then I'm not a moral crusader, I'm a thief with a grudge. I believe that the collective refusal of the community to pay the high prices currently charged for music will lead to a shakedown eventually and I'm willing to break laws in order to get there.
Really, I'd be happier if I didn't have to break the law to get music without getting gouged. Its a shame there's no "honour scheme" to allow people like me to make a payment direct to the bands I like without filling their distributors coffers...
Oh, I wouldn't deny it. Free markets are defined by a meeting at the place where seller and buyer can agree a price.
The music industry's never been a free market really due mainly to the existence of industry bodies and accepted price-points, but now it has the problem that people can obtain the goods without paying at all, it's going to have to start listening eventually
I believe my best contrinution to the debate is A) not to support them by paying extortionate prices for media and B) to state the conditions under which I uninstall eMule and BitTorrent, and stay legal in future.
I think the basic premise is being tired of being screwed over. Most slashdotters were probably born between the 1950s and 1980s, we've seen records replaced by tape, then tape with CD and perhaps now CD with DRM-download
We supposedly buy a licence to listen to music.. but then when a new format comes out, we're not allowed to "upgrade", you have to buy a whole new licence. If your media is damaged - tough. Buy a new licence.
Do I pirate music? Yes. Do I know it's technically wrong? Yes. Am I sympathetic to an industry which has stolen from me and everyone else for years and now has the tables turned? No fucking way.
I will start buying music again when I can pay between 40 and 50 pence per track for a file without DRM. Until then, I'll steal.
I had to run the stupid thing at DDR266 speeds(133 mhz) with ridiculously high timings(something like 3-6-7-15) just to install WinXP. Good thing I was able to RMA that crap
billions of dollars spent on research into vaccines for AIDS will do the same amount of good regardless of the motives of the giver. I don't buy the theory of "dirty money".
No, in order to save space the shrink-fit plastic sheet is transported inside a quantum singularity which is extruded to order by a massively-parallel badger array
A side question is whether the questioner's ageement with the company put an onus on hium to secure IP rights for any code he contributed from outside sources. If he didn't notify his employers at the time that he was supplying improved GPL code he might himself have a legal contract problem.
Like a lot of people, I have an Apple laptop and a DSL-Wifi router to avoid the need to plug a flaky D-link ethernet modem into an Airport base station
Obviously, I could connect an Airport Express to the Ethernet ports on my router, but would it be possible instead to have the DSL router providing the network and an Airport express also in the house, connected just to my stereo? I'm not sure if AirTunes requires an Airport base station to be the DHCP-issuer on the network in order to work.
It's increasingly likely that in the years to come it will be possible to rent videos by having a set-top box coupled to a DSL or Cable broadband pipe, which downloads DRM-enabled video files from a central server.
What better way to save bandwidth - the single killer cost when each film might sum a gigabyte - than by having the box download the film using a restricted version of bittorrent, and use a proportion of the available upstream bandwidth on the local connection to supply other people renting the same film? As the file's encrypted piracy wouldn't be a concern as the key to play it would only be issued by the central server, over an encrypted channel.
This would have the effect - exactly opposite to a DVD-rental shop - that popular videos would be available more quickly than rarely demanded ones. The system has the same priorities as the company behind it.
wuauclt.exe - Windows Update Automatic Update Client. Built into Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP4, it downloads critical updates automatically. I assumed everyone did it this way as you'd have to be insane to run an unpatched box....
That's the point isn't it, though. Crappy software is installed.. spyware comes as an infection. When will we acknowledge that these spyware writers are writing viruses which infect and damage people's systems through backdoor hacking techniques?
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FreeNet nodes can - and often do - contain generally unacceptable content such as images of child pornography. It's not an acceptable solution for most people.
... Great SIG.
Does it ever work? - it had me puzzled for a while because I couldn't click on it...
Do you have the right to break a law because you dont agree with it?
No. But then I'm not a moral crusader, I'm a thief with a grudge. I believe that the collective refusal of the community to pay the high prices currently charged for music will lead to a shakedown eventually and I'm willing to break laws in order to get there.
Really, I'd be happier if I didn't have to break the law to get music without getting gouged. Its a shame there's no "honour scheme" to allow people like me to make a payment direct to the bands I like without filling their distributors coffers...
Oh, I wouldn't deny it. Free markets are defined by a meeting at the place where seller and buyer can agree a price.
The music industry's never been a free market really due mainly to the existence of industry bodies and accepted price-points, but now it has the problem that people can obtain the goods without paying at all, it's going to have to start listening eventually
I believe my best contrinution to the debate is
A) not to support them by paying extortionate prices for media and
B) to state the conditions under which I uninstall eMule and BitTorrent, and stay legal in future.
I think the basic premise is being tired of being screwed over. Most slashdotters were probably born between the 1950s and 1980s, we've seen records replaced by tape, then tape with CD and perhaps now CD with DRM-download
We supposedly buy a licence to listen to music.. but then when a new format comes out, we're not allowed to "upgrade", you have to buy a whole new licence. If your media is damaged - tough. Buy a new licence.
We have had to sit and watch the recording industry take legal action to prevent importers from selling music in some countries at a lower retail price gained by buying it in another country... so they can continue to take massive profits in richer societies. This still happens - the EU is investigating iTunes Music Store pricing in the UK as its more expensive than in the euro-zone.
Do I pirate music? Yes. Do I know it's technically wrong? Yes. Am I sympathetic to an industry which has stolen from me and everyone else for years and now has the tables turned? No fucking way.
I will start buying music again when I can pay between 40 and 50 pence per track for a file without DRM. Until then, I'll steal.
.."Oh shit"
I had to run the stupid thing at DDR266 speeds(133 mhz) with ridiculously high timings(something like 3-6-7-15) just to install WinXP. Good thing I was able to RMA that crap
You can RMA Windows XP?
Cool !
billions of dollars spent on research into vaccines for AIDS will do the same amount of good regardless of the motives of the giver. I don't buy the theory of "dirty money".
As a businessman he's a shyster, but he has contributed more money personally than many countries do to the fight against poverty and disease.
That deserves recognition. It's just a shame the Queen didn't make better use of her sword after giving him the knighthood....
Yup
Yes. Not quite heavy enough to subsume itself in an event horizon of its own making.....
Thanks that's very helpful
No, in order to save space the shrink-fit plastic sheet is transported inside a quantum singularity which is extruded to order by a massively-parallel badger array
Makes sense I guess.
BTW, styrofoam is shipped in railfreight containers, wrapped in shrink-fit plastic sheet.
if it ever is you in that situation, let us know what it's like in jail...
A side question is whether the questioner's ageement with the company put an onus on hium to secure IP rights for any code he contributed from outside sources. If he didn't notify his employers at the time that he was supplying improved GPL code he might himself have a legal contract problem.
Like a lot of people, I have an Apple laptop and a DSL-Wifi router to avoid the need to plug a flaky D-link ethernet modem into an Airport base station
Obviously, I could connect an Airport Express to the Ethernet ports on my router, but would it be possible instead to have the DSL router providing the network and an Airport express also in the house, connected just to my stereo? I'm not sure if AirTunes requires an Airport base station to be the DHCP-issuer on the network in order to work.
I reckon it was to stop some clever sod registering liamG@Gmail.com
Although moc.liamG@Gmail.com has almost certainly already been taken.
Yes I know what you meant it to be short for... I also know what it can also be read as in some cultures !
I'm pretty sure that MoFo is not the approved adjective for a Mozilla project....
It's already available as a highly-developed stand-alone, called Nvu and sponsored by Lindows/Linspire of all people.
It's increasingly likely that in the years to come it will be possible to rent videos by having a set-top box coupled to a DSL or Cable broadband pipe, which downloads DRM-enabled video files from a central server.
What better way to save bandwidth - the single killer cost when each film might sum a gigabyte - than by having the box download the film using a restricted version of bittorrent, and use a proportion of the available upstream bandwidth on the local connection to supply other people renting the same film? As the file's encrypted piracy wouldn't be a concern as the key to play it would only be issued by the central server, over an encrypted channel.
This would have the effect - exactly opposite to a DVD-rental shop - that popular videos would be available more quickly than rarely demanded ones. The system has the same priorities as the company behind it.
There will be.
wuauclt.exe - Windows Update Automatic Update Client. Built into Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP4, it downloads critical updates automatically. I assumed everyone did it this way as you'd have to be insane to run an unpatched box....
That's the point isn't it, though. Crappy software is installed.. spyware comes as an infection. When will we acknowledge that these spyware writers are writing viruses which infect and damage people's systems through backdoor hacking techniques?
Why are the authors not prosecuted?