When you use "copyrighted" to mean "unlicensed", you strengthen the dangerous myth that copyright is a special thing that only protects commercial works, and that it's illegal to share copyrighted materials with your friends. The record companies want you to believe that, because they damn well don't want you to find out that there's free music out there that it's legal to copy and share, because that threatens their business.
Please explain to me how sharing copyrighted (which is exacly what I meant, not "unlicensed") work, like the latest Madonna song or Spielberg movie, is legal? It's not even legal to borrow a DVD to/from somebody ; merely tolerated. Well in Europe anyway, I don't know about the US.
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You can link to illegal content. You're pointing to it, you aren't hosting it. It's perfectly legal. What's wrong with these people.
I don't want to live in a 1984-style society. But comments like this are not fair. Yes it's legal to link to illegal content, sort of. But when the _only_ purpose of a server is to link to illegal content, you have to be retarded to think it's just for research, or study or for the sake that it's not illegal.
This intent of this server's owners is clear: they wanted to exploit a legal loop to provide copyrighted content. They played, they lost. They knew the rules, otherwise they wouldn't have tried to exploit them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for free, legal downloads for a private use. But these people can't say they didn't see this coming, unless they are liars.
if you're innocent, you shouldn't have to worry (true, but only if the government isn't violating the rights of the innocent, and leads to the possibility of forfeiting other rights).
When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
When they arrested the trade unionists,
I said nothing; afterall, I was not a trade unionist.
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
That's all I have to say. Mod me down if you want.
Oh noes! Nasty, meany peer to peer! We need to make anti-piracy laws even stronger! Piracy is the only possible explanation for this drop in sales! What? What do you mean "no innovation, sequels and bugs are to blame" ? I bet YOU are a pirate! Show me your ID!
I submitted this story 3 days ago, with much more details.
The title is named Star Trek: Legacy. It's been first revealed by Game Informer Online. The day after, Evil Avatar posted some more some more informations. The game is planned for Xbox 360 and PC, scheduled for a september 2006 release, and is developped by Mac Doc Software (known for Empire Earth, Dungeon Siege and... Star Trek Armada). The publisher is Bethesda Softworks, known for The Elders Scrolls series, among other titles. An interesting thing to note is that the game will cover the whole Star Trek timeline, from the Enterprise era up to the Voyager's.
it's a huge project, led by SEVERAL governments and telecom companies, neither of which are exactly known for efficiency or technical brilliance.
Duh? Thompson invented the freaking mp3 codec. France Telecom and Deutche Telekom are two of the biggest telecom companies in the world.
Yeah, yeah, and Russia said they wanted to sell $230 for 1,000 cubic metres of gas to Ukraine, when in the end they accepted only $100. And Iraq has WMD, the fact that they have 40% of the world's oil reserve is just a coincidence. And China is a free country, since there is no protests there.
You need to learn the difference beetween Realpolitic and press conferences.
Oh yeah, I'm sure European engineers didn't think if that. Do you actually believe that Europe would allow their Gallileo network to be destroyed in a war where they have a neutral stance, let alone allow another NATO ally do it? For that exact reason the US wouldn't even think of destroying these satellites.
Speaking of Linux and WoW, people should sign the petition. WoW runs fairly smoothly with WINE, once you patched the cursor bug, but it's not as smooth as it could be.
Patents that prevent companies to contribute to save the planet should be revoked, or moved to the public domain, or whatever the procedure is. Nobody should be able to force you to stop making efforts to pollute less.
The Gendarmerie Nationale is not "Military Police" in the sense "Police that deals with drunken grunts". It's a corp of the French Army, that helps Police forces. French Army has another branch to act as Military Police, which is simply called "Police Militaire".
As a French myself, I couldn't tell the differences beetween the regular Police Nationale and the Gendarmerie. They both give you fines for speeding, control your alcohol level, or look for fugitives. I think the difference is maybe the Gendarmerie is more reliable. Being military they are maybe more apt to follow orders.
By the way, the Gendarmerie Nationale is best known for its SWAT unit, the GIGN (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, National Gendarmerie Intervention Group).
Who knows, but they listed FFXI, where everyone I know who ever played it left for either EVE or WoW. What's really funny is that FFXI is a Japanese game, so I have no idea why it would even be listed as having a "Christmas" event, 'cause last I checked, very few Japanese were Christians...
I'm atheist, and I still offer (and receive ^^) presents for Christmas. I think Chrismas is now more a popular celebration to mark the end of the year than a religious celebration. I mean, if it was a religious thing, we'd see Jesus all around the place and not an old man from the North Pole, right?
Then again, your point is very true. The other day at the chinese food restaurant I wished the owners a merry christmas, and even though they returned the wish, I couldn't help but wonder if I did a mistake or not. This what had me thinking about this in the first place. And I officially decided that Christmas is for everyone.
Except that here you don't save 2 seconds, you can save hours. I undestand your position, but I completely don't share it. I like games, and as a gamer, I tell you: speed matters. I like movies, and not necessarily the big bad blockbusters that suck, and for this, speed matters.
It's your opinion that a large bandwith is not useful. Fine. Don't pay for one. But a lot of people are willing to pay for high speed connectivity, because for their activities, speed matters. I only quoted my hobbies, but what about people doing home office? I receive like 80-120 emails a day, and I want to download them as fas as I can and be done with it.
Not to mention triple play. Now that our phones, TV programs and Internet share the same tube, I say it's good to have a larger bandwith, allowing a better audio and video quality, while not impacting on the download speed.
Most online activities, like standard websurfing, are not significantly sped up by high-bandwidth connections, and the few that are, such as downloading, are not typically time-sensitive anyway.
Did you ever try to download the demo of an anticipated game? These things are as large as 1 Gb these days. Did you ever try to watch the high-res version of a trailer? They can reach 300 Mb easily. Did you ever try to buy an album online and want to listen to it RIGHT NOW? Well, I never bought music online, but I suppose when you buy a song you want to listen to it as soon as possible, if possible not 30 minutes later. Did you ever try to download a full Linux distribution because you lost the DVD and need to reintall your system pronto because your HDD crashed and your mother wants your holiday pictures (ok, that one is far etched)? Do you have a girlfriend that slows your connection, making you lag in Battlefield 2, because she's sending her dog's picture by MSN to her friends ? Sometimes you don't want to setup QoS on your router and just want more room in the tube.
Bottom line is, there are many times where speed is "for nerds, and that stuff matters". Because I don't want to start a download and have to wait until the day after to access the file (whatever it is).
"So only one-tenth of the house were present for the amendment. It seems like everyone else had gone home. 22 of the votes in favour were by a (what appears to be) minority party. As soon as parliament reconvenes, this will be gone. It's way too crazy/stupid/radical, I very much doubt the majority party want this, and you'd need a serious rebellion from that party in order to push this through."
Only a few people were still in the parliament because it was very late during the second night of discussion about this topic. Also, the people who proposed this amendment (and who also, obviously, voted for it), were UMP (right wing) which is the party of the majority, and also the party of the current French government
It's not "everyone" that would have to pay to their ISP. That would be optional. Here's an interview (english translation) of the deputy, Alain Suguenot, that proposed the amendment. The ISP would then transfert the money their receive from their customers to the SACEM (sorry, no page in english on Wikipedia), the French RIAA, like it's already done for television broadcasts.
There may actually be a practical result of this research eventually; the number theory surrounding primes is closely related to the security of the RSA cipher that most of the internet's commerce relies on. It's conceivable that this kind of work might eventually lead to a breakthrough in cryptanalysis. But I wouldn't count on it.
So I'm not being sarcastic here, my genuine questions is : why should I spend my free computing power on calculating prime numbers instead of research to cure cancer?
Well, Orange representing 58% of the France market share, and is also the wireless provider (by either owning a fair amount of companies in other European countries, or by being there itself), I guess it shouldn't take long. Orange belongs to France Telecom, which is is largest telecom operator in Europe (by subscriber), before BT and Telecom Italia.
Well, I don't think so (in France you _cannot_ pay if you are the receiver, _only_ the sender/caller pays). Bit I thought the service allowed to check your emails on your phone, and the possibility to call your contacts was an option. If I want to send SMS to my contacts I don't need a browser;)
I just tried this from France (wireless provider: Orange). My phone is listed as working but my wireless provider is not listed, obviously, since it's supposed to work only in the US. I wonder why it would work only in the US and not in the rest of the world. Any idea?
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When you use "copyrighted" to mean "unlicensed", you strengthen the dangerous myth that copyright is a special thing that only protects commercial works, and that it's illegal to share copyrighted materials with your friends. The record companies want you to believe that, because they damn well don't want you to find out that there's free music out there that it's legal to copy and share, because that threatens their business.
Please explain to me how sharing copyrighted (which is exacly what I meant, not "unlicensed") work, like the latest Madonna song or Spielberg movie, is legal? It's not even legal to borrow a DVD to/from somebody ; merely tolerated. Well in Europe anyway, I don't know about the US.
I don't want to live in a 1984-style society. But comments like this are not fair. Yes it's legal to link to illegal content, sort of. But when the _only_ purpose of a server is to link to illegal content, you have to be retarded to think it's just for research, or study or for the sake that it's not illegal.
This intent of this server's owners is clear: they wanted to exploit a legal loop to provide copyrighted content. They played, they lost. They knew the rules, otherwise they wouldn't have tried to exploit them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for free, legal downloads for a private use. But these people can't say they didn't see this coming, unless they are liars.
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
When they arrested the trade unionists,
I said nothing; afterall, I was not a trade unionist.
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
That's all I have to say. Mod me down if you want.
Oh noes! Nasty, meany peer to peer! We need to make anti-piracy laws even stronger! Piracy is the only possible explanation for this drop in sales! What? What do you mean "no innovation, sequels and bugs are to blame" ? I bet YOU are a pirate! Show me your ID!
The title is named Star Trek: Legacy. It's been first revealed by Game Informer Online. The day after, Evil Avatar posted some more some more informations. The game is planned for Xbox 360 and PC, scheduled for a september 2006 release, and is developped by Mac Doc Software (known for Empire Earth, Dungeon Siege and ... Star Trek Armada). The publisher is Bethesda Softworks, known for The Elders Scrolls series, among other titles. An interesting thing to note is that the game will cover the whole Star Trek timeline, from the Enterprise era up to the Voyager's.
Or, you can block only based on location of the person that makes the query....
it's a huge project, led by SEVERAL governments and telecom companies, neither of which are exactly known for efficiency or technical brilliance. Duh? Thompson invented the freaking mp3 codec. France Telecom and Deutche Telekom are two of the biggest telecom companies in the world.
You need to learn the difference beetween Realpolitic and press conferences.
Oh yeah, I'm sure European engineers didn't think if that. Do you actually believe that Europe would allow their Gallileo network to be destroyed in a war where they have a neutral stance, let alone allow another NATO ally do it? For that exact reason the US wouldn't even think of destroying these satellites.
Speaking of Linux and WoW, people should sign the petition. WoW runs fairly smoothly with WINE, once you patched the cursor bug, but it's not as smooth as it could be.
I'm confused. They are supposed to be a reliable time source, and their home page doesn't even show the current time!
Patents that prevent companies to contribute to save the planet should be revoked, or moved to the public domain, or whatever the procedure is. Nobody should be able to force you to stop making efforts to pollute less.
As a French myself, I couldn't tell the differences beetween the regular Police Nationale and the Gendarmerie. They both give you fines for speeding, control your alcohol level, or look for fugitives. I think the difference is maybe the Gendarmerie is more reliable. Being military they are maybe more apt to follow orders.
By the way, the Gendarmerie Nationale is best known for its SWAT unit, the GIGN (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, National Gendarmerie Intervention Group).
Then again, your point is very true. The other day at the chinese food restaurant I wished the owners a merry christmas, and even though they returned the wish, I couldn't help but wonder if I did a mistake or not. This what had me thinking about this in the first place. And I officially decided that Christmas is for everyone.
Nobody cares about what I'm saying, do they.
It's your opinion that a large bandwith is not useful. Fine. Don't pay for one. But a lot of people are willing to pay for high speed connectivity, because for their activities, speed matters. I only quoted my hobbies, but what about people doing home office? I receive like 80-120 emails a day, and I want to download them as fas as I can and be done with it.
Not to mention triple play. Now that our phones, TV programs and Internet share the same tube, I say it's good to have a larger bandwith, allowing a better audio and video quality, while not impacting on the download speed.
Bottom line is, there are many times where speed is "for nerds, and that stuff matters". Because I don't want to start a download and have to wait until the day after to access the file (whatever it is).
It's not "everyone" that would have to pay to their ISP. That would be optional. Here's an interview (english translation) of the deputy, Alain Suguenot, that proposed the amendment. The ISP would then transfert the money their receive from their customers to the SACEM (sorry, no page in english on Wikipedia), the French RIAA, like it's already done for television broadcasts.
Yeah. Or go AJAX. All-in-one.
So I'm not being sarcastic here, my genuine questions is : why should I spend my free computing power on calculating prime numbers instead of research to cure cancer?
Well, Orange representing 58% of the France market share, and is also the wireless provider (by either owning a fair amount of companies in other European countries, or by being there itself), I guess it shouldn't take long. Orange belongs to France Telecom, which is is largest telecom operator in Europe (by subscriber), before BT and Telecom Italia.
Well, I don't think so (in France you _cannot_ pay if you are the receiver, _only_ the sender/caller pays). Bit I thought the service allowed to check your emails on your phone, and the possibility to call your contacts was an option. If I want to send SMS to my contacts I don't need a browser ;)
I just tried this from France (wireless provider: Orange). My phone is listed as working but my wireless provider is not listed, obviously, since it's supposed to work only in the US. I wonder why it would work only in the US and not in the rest of the world. Any idea?