What the *AAs need to accept is that the model of printing media and selling it at a giant markup is as obsolete as selling horse carriages. When they forced the original napster out of business, they then took it's model (and name) and made it legit. The same now has to happen with bittorrent trackers. Charge a reasonable subscription, set up dedicated seeds so you only have to upload while you download, ???, profit, though not nearly as much as before. People will pay to be legit, and have all the old songs and B sides as well as decent speeds, and the p2p model will save bandwidth. Meanwhile with the website you can do what most content providers due and sell ad space.
Or they could just continue to pay off the government to get bad laws that bankrupt single mothers passed.
Nobody's born a techie, but some people are too stubborn to evolve/learn. Usually we call them Jehova's Witnesses or bible thumpers.
So that's the solution? Let most human beings fall victim to the predatory few? What about people who don't have access to technological education? What about people whose only offense was having a credit card?
Furthermore, what about the artists and programmers whose only crime was releasing their work to the public?
Look I don't think corporations should act as police, as the mods and responders seem to think I do, what I am saying is that while we all have benefited from the Internet being a modern day Wild West, we are benefiting off the backs of the rest of humanity.
What if it was the physically strong exploiting the mentally strong, as opposed to the other way around?
their "job" as an ISP is to provide you service. Nothing more, nothing less.
Then whose job is it to provide security? Just because some of us don't want to pay for proprietary software licenses, does not mean we need to leave the vast portion of the population defenseless against the scammers and worse that lurk on the net. We all know about these dangers, we laugh when we get 419 spam, others aren't so knowledgeable.
The solution can't just be education, if we tried that we would have 6 billion IT pros and no experts in anything else. Nor can we argue that they should avoid computers, they are integrated into every aspect of life. Therefore, if we do not enforce the laws, what is to become of the people that can't protect themselves?
What point is the law if there are no consequences of breaking it? AT&T respects the right to free speech, downloading kiddie porn and conspiring/threatening to kill the President are ACTIONS.
In fact they may not be going far enough, shutting down accounts is a temporary nuisance, if they see criminal activity, they have an obligation to society to bring it to the government's attention. Look, if you don't like the laws, get out there on the soap box, and fight to change them. Until then you will have to abide by the laws our elected officials have enacted.
AT&T can respect the right to free speech without granting immunity from the law, and this statement reflects that.
Certainly, the older generation in Japan (the one with power), heard stories of murder and abuse at the hands of the Americans, and so could very well harbor a strong resentment that they have suppressed to be allowed to rebuild over the years. They have the power to crash our currency on a whim, and are physically and culturally linked to China, one of our gravest threats.
And like all international problems, Japan wants oil, and preventing the US from getting the oil we need would serve them just fine. It is cheaper to pipe oil drilled in West Asia to East Asia rather than America.
How long will it be before Japan insists on being allowed to maintain an offensive military?
With China on its border, and the US treating it as a sock puppet, Japan must be looking for ways to reassert the Imperial power they once possessed. They are developing high powered fighter jets, and advanced space technology that has obvious military implications, plus they control a vast amount of US debt. Meanwhile we are just complacently buying cheap cars and sending all the wealth our forefathers gave their blood, sweat, and tears (well, not much crying in that generation) to earn.
Can we trust them? They were really friendly once we started glassing their cities, but once they have the power to return the favor, old nationalist sentiment is sure to follow.
Don't break the law, and don't assume you can get away with it.
She knew she was screwing some record labels out of money, so what? Everyone does it.
Of course it happens everyday but it is still not acceptable, if people don't get paid, people don't work. End of story.
What really did her in though was the lies. Look this guy might not be a kernal hacker but he seems reasonable, and that he got a firm grasp of the facts. He was willing to let her off with a slap on the wrist, but then she decided to tell blatant lie after blatant lie. Look, the RIAA is a lot more trustworthy that a woman who appears to be, in all frankness, a piece of white trash.
Western Europeans have given away their liberty. They have continued to vote for welfare state measures and now they are getting the guaranteed result. When you hand the governent your money and tell them to run society for you, they do. Once you give away your rights it is exponentially harder to get them back.
Somehow I don't think every google searcher wants to meet someone who looked for the same thing.
>So....you like "paris hilton" "sex tape"/"bonzi buddy" "warez"/"free video" "hot teens" too?
One of the reasons that the number of Linux distros is impairing its growth is that it hasn't presented any one competitor to Windows. If people want Windows, they get Windows. If they want to try Linux, should they use Gentoo, Slackware, Knoppix? Which one supports their hardware better, which one is more user friendly, which one is more secure, which one has a helpful userbase? It's not really easy to answer any of these questions, even for those experienced with Linux. Furthermore, there is no face to Linux (no offense Tux), it becomes something that occasionally goes from one to two percent of the market for much of the other 98%.
This is such a critical point. If the information field is optional, I leave it blank by default. If it is required but I think it is not needed for the site to render the services that I want, then I give an obvious fake. If my home address becomes relevant, you can always give it later.
This case will demonstrate to the international community that spam laws work if this case succeeds, otherwise, it will provide a reason to stop legislation on spam and possibly illustrate the futility of enforcing laws on the web. It's sort of a win-win situation.
I think those visions of the future are a fine barometer of what society is interested in seeing in the future. These crack pipe visions of the future provide a goal for the application of science that is in the distance. After 50 years robots in the home are getting closer to a reality. It seems that flying cars, in the form of passenger rockets and very fast jets are still on the distant horizon, but they seem possible.
Silver suits, well, I'm sure rappers are share your dream and are getting closer with every album sold.
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Remember when submitters used to mark links that required payment?
selling horse carriages. When they forced the original napster out of business, they then took it's model (and name)
and made it legit. The same now has to happen with bittorrent trackers. Charge a reasonable subscription,
set up dedicated seeds so you only have to upload while you download, ???, profit, though not nearly as much
as before. People will pay to be legit, and have all the old songs and B sides as well as decent speeds, and the p2p model
will save bandwidth. Meanwhile with the website you can do what most content providers due and sell ad space.
Or they could just continue to pay off the government to get bad laws that bankrupt single mothers passed.
Fortunately it will get caught in Xeno's paradox.
Different identification at different sites cuts down on spamming, trolling, phishing, everything bad out there.
So that's the solution? Let most human beings fall victim to the predatory few? What about people who don't have access to technological education? What about people whose only offense was having a credit card?
Furthermore, what about the artists and programmers whose only crime was releasing their work to the public?
Look I don't think corporations should act as police, as the mods and responders seem to think I do, what I am saying is that while we all have benefited from the Internet being a modern day Wild West, we are benefiting off the backs of the rest of humanity.
What if it was the physically strong exploiting the mentally strong, as opposed to the other way around?
Then whose job is it to provide security? Just because some of us don't want to pay for proprietary software licenses, does not mean we need to leave the vast portion of the population defenseless against the scammers and worse that lurk on the net. We all know about these dangers, we laugh when we get 419 spam, others aren't so knowledgeable.
The solution can't just be education, if we tried that we would have 6 billion IT pros and no experts in anything else. Nor can we argue that they should avoid computers, they are integrated into every aspect of life. Therefore, if we do not enforce the laws, what is to become of the people that can't protect themselves?
What point is the law if there are no consequences of breaking it? AT&T respects the right to free speech, downloading kiddie porn and conspiring/threatening to kill the President are ACTIONS.
In fact they may not be going far enough, shutting down accounts is a temporary nuisance, if they see criminal activity, they have an obligation to society to bring it to the government's attention. Look, if you don't like the laws, get out there on the soap box, and fight to change them. Until then you will have to abide by the laws our elected officials have enacted.
AT&T can respect the right to free speech without granting immunity from the law, and this statement reflects that.
Certainly, the older generation in Japan (the one with power), heard stories of murder and abuse at the hands of the Americans, and so could very well harbor a strong resentment that they have suppressed to be allowed to rebuild over the years. They have the power to crash our currency on a whim, and are physically and culturally linked to China, one of our gravest threats.
And like all international problems, Japan wants oil, and preventing the US from getting the oil we need would serve them just fine. It is cheaper to pipe oil drilled in West Asia to East Asia rather than America.
How long will it be before Japan insists on being allowed to maintain an offensive military?
With China on its border, and the US treating it as a sock puppet, Japan must be looking for ways to reassert the Imperial power they once possessed. They are developing high powered fighter jets, and advanced space technology that has obvious military implications, plus they control a vast amount of US debt. Meanwhile we are just complacently buying cheap cars and sending all the wealth our forefathers gave their blood, sweat, and tears (well, not much crying in that generation) to earn.
Can we trust them? They were really friendly once we started glassing their cities, but once they have the power to return the favor, old nationalist sentiment is sure to follow.
Don't break the law, and don't assume you can get away with it. She knew she was screwing some record labels out of money, so what? Everyone does it. Of course it happens everyday but it is still not acceptable, if people don't get paid, people don't work. End of story. What really did her in though was the lies. Look this guy might not be a kernal hacker but he seems reasonable, and that he got a firm grasp of the facts. He was willing to let her off with a slap on the wrist, but then she decided to tell blatant lie after blatant lie. Look, the RIAA is a lot more trustworthy that a woman who appears to be, in all frankness, a piece of white trash.
Western Europeans have given away their liberty. They have continued to vote for welfare state measures and now they are getting the guaranteed result. When you hand the governent your money and tell them to run society for you, they do. Once you give away your rights it is exponentially harder to get them back.
Somehow I don't think every google searcher wants to meet someone who looked for the same thing. >So....you like "paris hilton" "sex tape"/"bonzi buddy" "warez"/"free video" "hot teens" too?
One of the reasons that the number of Linux distros is impairing its growth is that it hasn't presented any one competitor to Windows. If people want Windows, they get Windows. If they want to try Linux, should they use Gentoo, Slackware, Knoppix? Which one supports their hardware better, which one is more user friendly, which one is more secure, which one has a helpful userbase? It's not really easy to answer any of these questions, even for those experienced with Linux. Furthermore, there is no face to Linux (no offense Tux), it becomes something that occasionally goes from one to two percent of the market for much of the other 98%.
This is such a critical point. If the information field is optional, I leave it blank by default. If it is required but I think it is not needed for the site to render the services that I want, then I give an obvious fake. If my home address becomes relevant, you can always give it later.
The news isn't the breakthrough, the news is that science is being done in Australia. No more 'Gator Studies' majors there anymore I guess.
In Soviet Russia, the government ownz corporations! I think Hell just froze over.
It's not quite like that, you get credits that are good on the service itself, so drop the sarcasm and get in line.
This case will demonstrate to the international community that spam laws work if this case succeeds, otherwise, it will provide a reason to stop legislation on spam and possibly illustrate the futility of enforcing laws on the web. It's sort of a win-win situation.
You've been examining patents too long if you consider reacting in 2003 to an action in 1996 immediate. Or are you a congressman?
Oh, I have....
You must be new here.
Silver suits, well, I'm sure rappers are share your dream and are getting closer with every album sold.
I suppose even phishers get burnt by giving away information to their ilk.