I register a domain. 1 half an hour goes by. Netcraft asks for index.html on port 80 at what ever IP the domain points to. Volla, new site. Fact is that the Netcraft and MSN bots are extremely eager to frequently spider new domains. This becomes clear if you look at the logs for new sites: They are both on the top of the user-agent lists.
A website which is static over time is no fun and will not gain a wide audience. That is why all websites generally are in a state of permanent construction. Putting those stupid under construction pictures on sites is just tragic, they should be banned from the Internet immediately.
That is what I would like to know: How many new people (w/valid credit card) get connected to the Internet every day? It is nice with Netcraft information on how much the competition is increasing every day, but what would be more fun to know is how many New Pepole get on the net daily? Does anyone know?
Gilette did it with razors.
The printer corps do it with printers.
1. Sell some product which addicts you to something cheap.
2. People must buy more of your razor-blades, printer-ink, games/controllers,
3. ???
4. Piles of profit.
Anyone know a Playstation owner will spend at least ten times what the console cost on other things.
Google clearly states that you are in no way allowed to ask your users to click on the advertisements. Read the terms of any service which pays pr click or search, you fill not find any such service which does not have a huge legal terms of service document which forbids all kind of click fraud. If you do Click Fraud then you will be In Violation and you get No Money. The same applies to SPAM: Affiliates forbid it, so if you spam then they close your account and No Money for you. The secret organized click fraud terrorism the seller of online marketing tools refers to may be highly over-estimated because any idiot with half a brain understands that Being in Violation is extremely bad for your long-term profit margin.
It will be very interesting to follow this one, because this is a case where any evidence that a Google client has been scammed will have to show which of the Google affiliates who have been involved. The stupid thing here is that they are suing. Google would probably refund if they had any real proof. Lack of real proof is probably the reason they are turning to a government institution which lacks the technological understanding needed to understand what the case is about.
1. Register hardcoretorrents.com
2. Make a web-site with torrents and explain to the users that BitTorrent is good for them.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Be aware that ??? involves creating or buying content. Content, specially TV content, is extremely expensive and that is a challenge for BitTorrent sites. I will push any TV content on as many viewers as possible if someone gives me TV content and gives me the distribution right.:-) And Major Corporations(TM) are not very willing to sell any mainstream content to torrent sites at all since they want to sell it on DVD and other polluting media. The Adult Industry, on the other hand, they have realized that (4) is good for everybody and are overall extremely kind, helpful and willing to work out good solutions for ???.
Feel free to contact me if you want to give away / sell any good video formatted entertainment. Rogers is a smart person who has accepted Internet the present preferred distribution method for content. Traditional distribution by loose things (DVD etc) has no future.
I love KDE 3.4.1, and from what I have read KDE 4.0 will be even better than all the Windows versions ever released put together. Thank you Trolltech, QT4 and KDE 4 will soon make my life and the life of every other Linux (ab)user out there so much better.
When running a quality BitTorrent site, the whole *point* is to have leechers => Happy Users!:-) Leechers just means the site is required to have high-bandwidth seeds running. A BitTorrent seed allows you to distribute excellent video to a much greater number of users than ftp and httpd allows using the same bandwidth, so a few pepole not uploading is really not a problem unless you are using pirate sites. Piracy is very bad for you and makes you a criminal, this is why torrents from illegal sites are so slow.
.. in one now very huge text-file. The text-file is encrypted with a long master passwords which I hope I will never forget, because if I do, I am screwed. I use Another Password Generator http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/ to make random passwords for every new service I encounter, so no two services have the same password.. and they all look like tajEbAmAb or something. The way I do it limits me to using a lot of services from home, but it does give me good security and allows me to only remember that one password for the text-file.
That depends on what EU country you are in, but it is generally true that local laws tend to override any unfair "Terms of use" crap placed on a website. That being said, websites are still subject to Copyright and a website owner generally only grants you the right to use _their_ website. Google could take action against people breaking their IP rights regardless of the "Terms of use" listed.
I have also got a DMCA takedown notice and it was intentionally mailed the upstream provider without any attempt to contact the proper e-mail given on the site and the DMCA link on the site. I think this is common for evil corporations. Like TPB kindly points out to someone who mailed them a DMCA notice: "Additionally, you have mistaken our ISP for us." http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php
Making such a site would not be a problem if you simply ask Google for the proper permissions. Who knows, if you are lucky then you might get a deal. And if you don't, at least you have tried, all they can do is say No. IP and Copyright does not need to be a problem if you are willing to talk and explain your intentions. Takedown notices generally come when you violate Copyright without even trying to get a permission deal.
housingmaps is also In Violation of the Google Map Service as stated on
http://www.google.com/help/terms_local.html , quote: "The photographic imagery made available for display through Google maps is provided under a nonexclusive, non-transferable license for use only by you. You may not use the imagery in any commercial or business environment or for any commercial or business purposes for yourself or any third parties."
Basically every site out there using any kind of images from the Google Map service is in violation and should shut down immediately.
This is not like the **AA who blaitently sends out takedown notices almost randomly to people who are not in violation of any law or rule, Google has The Right to ask sites who are in violation to please close down. And they should, now the cat is out of the bag, such sites apperently bother Google and they may not be so nice about it to those who do not take the hint later.
I would just like to say I am utterly impressed by acme.com, if anyone read cartoons you probably seen A Company Making Everything (ACME) advertised in almost all major comics made the last decade. The domain is so cool I am almost upset to tears that it is not mine (and also that it is unavailable right now because it is on slashdot)
It is, like very much else, all about the money. If you have enough zomibe computers then you can use them to make money. You can sell your network to spammers or someone who wants to lauch a major ddos attack against their competition, or simply use them yourselves to market what ever you have to offer.
..and I can tell you this about the speed on FreeNet: Start searching for my website now, and it will be finished rendering by the time your grandchildren learn about this in their history class in school...
It is right that China wanted their own IPvX version that was non-compatible with the normal IPv4/IPv6 standards. They called it IPv6 at one point but since that means something else to the rest of the world they eventually started calling it IPv9. Then someone realized it all was a bad idea (apparently) and nobody has mentioned it in a year or so (they may have a staff of a hundred working full-time on it secretly for all I know, but I *think* it's dead). More here:
http://www.circleid.com/article/646_0_1_0_C/
Most of the worlds people who want to run a website are required to host it somewhere, and the hosting provider usually requires a billing address.. So the rest of the world are also not free to publish what they want anonymously, at least not truly anonymously, unless they are using Freenet or some other clever way to hide their identity. Registering with a provider is obviously better than registering with a government, but it is still registering... This being said, I do not quite understand what the China government thinks they are accomplishing here. It is the Internet, what prevents a citizen of China to host a anti-China website anywhere else in the world? I am sure at least some of the non-China hosting providers in the world are unwilling to provide any foreign government with customer information when asked...
"instead of buying new cartridges that cost O(new printer)." You make a very interesting point. The last time I bought a printer I almost bought two because I noticed that the printer cost less than the color and black cartridges it came with when sold separately. I almost feel stupid I didn't buy two printers, but then again I know that printers will still be cheaper than two ink cartridges the next time I go empty anyway. Why? They are all doing it. Canon, HP, Lexmark and all other major brands for that matter are selling printers cheaper than the ink now and are defendant on revenue from their original ink to make an overall profit. The problem for them is that this model fails because of all the third party ink vendors who are also making a profit from them giving away printers, but printer vendors not liking competition does not make it fair to use "what ever dirty means they can" (like Lexmark did) to stop it. It is very good that the Supreme court for once put the foot down for the usual Big Corporations "if you can not beat them, sue and threaten them"-tactic.
It's my printer, I want to use what ever ink I want.. With a chip that prevents me from using the type of products I want together with their products they make me feel like I am renting their printers under some very rude terms, not buying them with the rights that normally follow a purchase. It is almost as bad as a DVD player not wanting to play any kind of DVD you put into it.. oh wait, that IS the case with zone-enabled DVD players..
In my eyes, the CD became obsolete years ago. I do not even remember when I sold my CD player. As for DVDs, I never bought a DVD player as I had already switched to using my computer for entertainment when it became popular.. Both the CD and the DVD are already dead, the **PA just have not realized it yet (unlike the adult industry who are now almost entirely based on on-line distribution).
Yes, the **AA can shut down Your Node. But what difference would it make if millions of people use it? They have not managed to shut down noticeable numbers of Direct Connect hubs, with anonymous programs everyone using it is acting as a hub. You can not shut down ever computer with a Internet connection used by persons under 40.
Be aware of one thing: They have not yet done a single successful lawsuit against a BitTorrent site. What they have done so far is to have lawyers send very threatening letters - and the webmasters have so far just bent over and shut down their sites when they have got them. A BitTorrent hub case has yet to be tried in the US.
You totally missed the parents point. I actually happen to be running a Legal BitTorrent Porn Site (hardcoretorrents.com) and I can tell you that the information from the tracker will never be used to call ISPs to get peoples real names and then call them.. I mean, what possible reason would any webmaster have to do that? Your argument is just stupid.
The parent posts point is that it is very good to know how many people are downloading the file, what the seed/peer ratio is and so on. Come on, do you know anyone with a big website who do not look at their logs to find out how many people are using it? Equally stupid argument would be to say you will stop using Slashdot because you are so afraid the Slashdot owners will call your wife and tell her about your Slashdot ramblings.
All wrong!! Anonymity is not about supporting piracy. It is about something very fundamentally important and much more valuable than all pirated copyrighted works put together: Free Speech. Today it is impossible to state some opinions and political views without running into major trouble. In some countries the local authorities still give you a bullet for saying something against them. Freenet (freenet.sf.net) is a P2P / web anonymity program that has been around for a while. It is very slow and crappy, but it has been in use a while and if you look at the sites there you will find that a huge number of them express opinions and views who could not be shared and stated on a non-anonymous system. The ability to express oneself without risking prosecution is what anonymous peer to peer systems are all about.
Slashdot Mirror
I register a domain. 1 half an hour goes by. Netcraft asks for index.html on port 80 at what ever IP the domain points to. Volla, new site. Fact is that the Netcraft and MSN bots are extremely eager to frequently spider new domains. This becomes clear if you look at the logs for new sites: They are both on the top of the user-agent lists.
A website which is static over time is no fun and will not gain a wide audience. That is why all websites generally are in a state of permanent construction. Putting those stupid under construction pictures on sites is just tragic, they should be banned from the Internet immediately.
That is what I would like to know: How many new people (w/valid credit card) get connected to the Internet every day? It is nice with Netcraft information on how much the competition is increasing every day, but what would be more fun to know is how many New Pepole get on the net daily? Does anyone know?
Gilette did it with razors.
The printer corps do it with printers.
1. Sell some product which addicts you to something cheap.
2. People must buy more of your razor-blades, printer-ink, games/controllers,
3. ???
4. Piles of profit.
Anyone know a Playstation owner will spend at least ten times what the console cost on other things.
Google clearly states that you are in no way allowed to ask your users to click on the advertisements. Read the terms of any service which pays pr click or search, you fill not find any such service which does not have a huge legal terms of service document which forbids all kind of click fraud. If you do Click Fraud then you will be In Violation and you get No Money. The same applies to SPAM: Affiliates forbid it, so if you spam then they close your account and No Money for you. The secret organized click fraud terrorism the seller of online marketing tools refers to may be highly over-estimated because any idiot with half a brain understands that Being in Violation is extremely bad for your long-term profit margin.
It will be very interesting to follow this one, because this is a case where any evidence that a Google client has been scammed will have to show which of the Google affiliates who have been involved. The stupid thing here is that they are suing. Google would probably refund if they had any real proof. Lack of real proof is probably the reason they are turning to a government institution which lacks the technological understanding needed to understand what the case is about.
1. Register hardcoretorrents.com
:-) And Major Corporations(TM) are not very willing to sell any mainstream content to torrent sites at all since they want to sell it on DVD and other polluting media. The Adult Industry, on the other hand, they have realized that (4) is good for everybody and are overall extremely kind, helpful and willing to work out good solutions for ???.
2. Make a web-site with torrents and explain to the users that BitTorrent is good for them.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Be aware that ??? involves creating or buying content. Content, specially TV content, is extremely expensive and that is a challenge for BitTorrent sites. I will push any TV content on as many viewers as possible if someone gives me TV content and gives me the distribution right.
Feel free to contact me if you want to give away / sell any good video formatted entertainment. Rogers is a smart person who has accepted Internet the present preferred distribution method for content. Traditional distribution by loose things (DVD etc) has no future.
I love KDE 3.4.1, and from what I have read KDE 4.0 will be even better than all the Windows versions ever released put together. Thank you Trolltech, QT4 and KDE 4 will soon make my life and the life of every other Linux (ab)user out there so much better.
When running a quality BitTorrent site, the whole *point* is to have leechers => Happy Users! :-) Leechers just means the site is required to have high-bandwidth seeds running. A BitTorrent seed allows you to distribute excellent video to a much greater number of users than ftp and httpd allows using the same bandwidth, so a few pepole not uploading is really not a problem unless you are using pirate sites. Piracy is very bad for you and makes you a criminal, this is why torrents from illegal sites are so slow.
.. in one now very huge text-file. The text-file is encrypted with a long master passwords which I hope I will never forget, because if I do, I am screwed. I use Another Password Generator http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/ to make random passwords for every new service I encounter, so no two services have the same password.. and they all look like tajEbAmAb or something. The way I do it limits me to using a lot of services from home, but it does give me good security and allows me to only remember that one password for the text-file.
That depends on what EU country you are in, but it is generally true that local laws tend to override any unfair "Terms of use" crap placed on a website. That being said, websites are still subject to Copyright and a website owner generally only grants you the right to use _their_ website. Google could take action against people breaking their IP rights regardless of the "Terms of use" listed.
I have also got a DMCA takedown notice and it was intentionally mailed the upstream provider without any attempt to contact the proper e-mail given on the site and the DMCA link on the site. I think this is common for evil corporations. Like TPB kindly points out to someone who mailed them a DMCA notice: "Additionally, you have mistaken our ISP for us." http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php
Making such a site would not be a problem if you simply ask Google for the proper permissions. Who knows, if you are lucky then you might get a deal. And if you don't, at least you have tried, all they can do is say No. IP and Copyright does not need to be a problem if you are willing to talk and explain your intentions. Takedown notices generally come when you violate Copyright without even trying to get a permission deal.
housingmaps is also In Violation of the Google Map Service as stated on http://www.google.com/help/terms_local.html , quote: "The photographic imagery made available for display through Google maps is provided under a nonexclusive, non-transferable license for use only by you. You may not use the imagery in any commercial or business environment or for any commercial or business purposes for yourself or any third parties."
Basically every site out there using any kind of images from the Google Map service is in violation and should shut down immediately.
This is not like the **AA who blaitently sends out takedown notices almost randomly to people who are not in violation of any law or rule, Google has The Right to ask sites who are in violation to please close down. And they should, now the cat is out of the bag, such sites apperently bother Google and they may not be so nice about it to those who do not take the hint later.
I would just like to say I am utterly impressed by acme.com, if anyone read cartoons you probably seen A Company Making Everything (ACME) advertised in almost all major comics made the last decade. The domain is so cool I am almost upset to tears that it is not mine (and also that it is unavailable right now because it is on slashdot)
It is, like very much else, all about the money. If you have enough zomibe computers then you can use them to make money. You can sell your network to spammers or someone who wants to lauch a major ddos attack against their competition, or simply use them yourselves to market what ever you have to offer.
1. Create a botnet
2. ???
3. PROFIT !!!
..and I can tell you this about the speed on FreeNet: Start searching for my website now, and it will be finished rendering by the time your grandchildren learn about this in their history class in school...
It is right that China wanted their own IPvX version that was non-compatible with the normal IPv4/IPv6 standards. They called it IPv6 at one point but since that means something else to the rest of the world they eventually started calling it IPv9. Then someone realized it all was a bad idea (apparently) and nobody has mentioned it in a year or so (they may have a staff of a hundred working full-time on it secretly for all I know, but I *think* it's dead). More here: http://www.circleid.com/article/646_0_1_0_C/
Most of the worlds people who want to run a website are required to host it somewhere, and the hosting provider usually requires a billing address.. So the rest of the world are also not free to publish what they want anonymously, at least not truly anonymously, unless they are using Freenet or some other clever way to hide their identity. Registering with a provider is obviously better than registering with a government, but it is still registering... This being said, I do not quite understand what the China government thinks they are accomplishing here. It is the Internet, what prevents a citizen of China to host a anti-China website anywhere else in the world? I am sure at least some of the non-China hosting providers in the world are unwilling to provide any foreign government with customer information when asked...
"instead of buying new cartridges that cost O(new printer)." You make a very interesting point. The last time I bought a printer I almost bought two because I noticed that the printer cost less than the color and black cartridges it came with when sold separately. I almost feel stupid I didn't buy two printers, but then again I know that printers will still be cheaper than two ink cartridges the next time I go empty anyway. Why? They are all doing it. Canon, HP, Lexmark and all other major brands for that matter are selling printers cheaper than the ink now and are defendant on revenue from their original ink to make an overall profit. The problem for them is that this model fails because of all the third party ink vendors who are also making a profit from them giving away printers, but printer vendors not liking competition does not make it fair to use "what ever dirty means they can" (like Lexmark did) to stop it. It is very good that the Supreme court for once put the foot down for the usual Big Corporations "if you can not beat them, sue and threaten them"-tactic.
It's my printer, I want to use what ever ink I want.. With a chip that prevents me from using the type of products I want together with their products they make me feel like I am renting their printers under some very rude terms, not buying them with the rights that normally follow a purchase. It is almost as bad as a DVD player not wanting to play any kind of DVD you put into it.. oh wait, that IS the case with zone-enabled DVD players..
In my eyes, the CD became obsolete years ago. I do not even remember when I sold my CD player. As for DVDs, I never bought a DVD player as I had already switched to using my computer for entertainment when it became popular.. Both the CD and the DVD are already dead, the **PA just have not realized it yet (unlike the adult industry who are now almost entirely based on on-line distribution).
Yes, the **AA can shut down Your Node. But what difference would it make if millions of people use it? They have not managed to shut down noticeable numbers of Direct Connect hubs, with anonymous programs everyone using it is acting as a hub. You can not shut down ever computer with a Internet connection used by persons under 40.
Be aware of one thing: They have not yet done a single successful lawsuit against a BitTorrent site. What they have done so far is to have lawyers send very threatening letters - and the webmasters have so far just bent over and shut down their sites when they have got them. A BitTorrent hub case has yet to be tried in the US.
You totally missed the parents point. I actually happen to be running a Legal BitTorrent Porn Site (hardcoretorrents.com) and I can tell you that the information from the tracker will never be used to call ISPs to get peoples real names and then call them.. I mean, what possible reason would any webmaster have to do that? Your argument is just stupid.
The parent posts point is that it is very good to know how many people are downloading the file, what the seed/peer ratio is and so on. Come on, do you know anyone with a big website who do not look at their logs to find out how many people are using it? Equally stupid argument would be to say you will stop using Slashdot because you are so afraid the Slashdot owners will call your wife and tell her about your Slashdot ramblings.
All wrong!! Anonymity is not about supporting piracy. It is about something very fundamentally important and much more valuable than all pirated copyrighted works put together: Free Speech. Today it is impossible to state some opinions and political views without running into major trouble. In some countries the local authorities still give you a bullet for saying something against them. Freenet (freenet.sf.net) is a P2P / web anonymity program that has been around for a while. It is very slow and crappy, but it has been in use a while and if you look at the sites there you will find that a huge number of them express opinions and views who could not be shared and stated on a non-anonymous system. The ability to express oneself without risking prosecution is what anonymous peer to peer systems are all about.