They make their products too expensive. ppl notice they can get a *free* copy from a friend or of the internet. If they want piracy to become less worse, they've got to do 2 things: 1) Lower the price to something which will be accapteable to the customer (either the consumer or a given company). 2) Increase the quality of the software.
Sorry for my bad English
This article doesn't belong here, it belongs on a site targeting U.S. citizens, not on a site targeting geeks. There are also geeks in the rest of the world, you know.
DO use/public/ wireless access points (preferably multiple). DO keep moving (prevent them from triangulating your position. DO keep changeing your IP and MAC. DO use encryption - preferably a method which does not look like garbage. DO use/multiple/ proxies and maybe privoxy. DO use crowded areas - ppl moving from A to B behave different then ppl looking for something/someone. DON'T keep your contact listings and documents on your computer or on a computer in your nation - if you get compromised, your contact list and/or documents won't be compromised. DON'T use linux, freebsd or windows - they are too main stream. DON'T buy/any/ hardware produced in your home country - it is probably compromised. DON'T use your home computer and/or public terminals for "dissident activities". Assume them to be insecure and compromised.
Microsoft just admitted to be unable to or unwilling to secure their operating system(s) (I suspect it's a mixture of both).
Lets just sit back and watch Microsoft get sued over and over again by countless clients which relied on Microsoft "security". Just a few arguments:
1) This service should be free, the custumors paid for a secure and capable os (windows is neither - except for games, for which it is perfectly suited). Should the customer pay again to actually get security? 2) Windows gets advertised as being secure. Then why is such a service needed? (lieing in advertisements is punishable in some countries).
They're trying to clamp down on much more then just 'illegal' music distribution. They're trying to get total control over the internet.
This is wrong ppl... very, very wrong.
I'm starting to get scared. Scared 1984 might become reality next year. Scared I will be detained and/or fined because I have an internet connection. Scared I will be reduced to a slave, because my government wasn't alert.
Where will this stop? When will the world governments recognise they're being reduced to tools of large coorporations? When will the people of the world say 'no' loud enough that they will be heard?
I fear that voice will come when it's too late. I fear the world we live in will dissolve into poverty, slavery and polution, with riches and power going to the few.
The few who will only abuse that power. The few who don't care about the masses. The few who only want/more/ power,/more/ control,/more/ money and/more/ freedoms for themselves.
If the swedish court gets air of this, they can say bye-bye to their case. And after that they'll get sued... or even get charged with criminal offenses.
Courts don't like people/organisations who plant evidence, most nations even have laws forbidding that kind of action.
And after a while, the EU will start doing things which/will/ harm microsoft permanently... simply because microsoft thought of it as an additional tax.
- How about a forced complete sales stop for microsoft until they comply? (hurts) - Or forced sale/destruction of property? (patents, source code, locations, shares, etc.) (irritating to very very painful). - Or how about a worldwide freeze on all their assets? (company/government killer).
Trust me, if microsoft still ignores the EU after that daily fine, they can expect something which will/really/ hurt... maybe even put them out of business if they are too slow to respond.
FRAG:
the first person shooter, without a computer. I'd truely advice you this one.
Falling (more then 4 players hihghly adviced):
Yes, I know. It's a card game... but a really good one. Also has a/very/ high pace.
This only applies in the legal insanity which is called United States of America. The U.S.A. doesn't encompass the entire world, you know (although its economic and military power is felt worldwide).
Most other nations had some time to think about a descent law system.
Maybe they should lower their prices. That would raise their sales (if a product is good enough(!)), while reducing illigal downloads.
If I walk into a shop and have to pay EUR 19,99 for a single music CD (quality doesn't matter for the price) and EUR 39,99 for a single game (again: quality doesn't matter), I'm more likely to download it. Simply because it's too expensive.
Lowering their prices and/not/ continueing with all those copy protection schemes might actually net them more money. Those copy protection schemes won't work anyway.
You are not secure.
- Why not encrypt the entire HD, while you're at it. Change the type of encryption, key and password once a week (or, less secure, a month).
- Those tapes are stored at a/trusted/ and/proven/ safe location, aren't they (no, that does not mean home).
- Shredding or burning? Ok, shredding doesn't work (remember what happened during the Iranian revolution?).
Burning? Doesn't work as well, unless you do it using a very efficient method.
I suggest the following treatment for paper:
1) Shred paper (using a shredder).
2) Burn it/completely/.
3) Boil the result and dry it.
4) Burn it again.
The result of this process can be safely thrown away.
btw: I am even less secure then you are. No encryption, no firewall, only a simple router. Security can be applied when it's needed (and, yes, I can be/very/ paranoid with my security).
1) Make sure it isn't connected to any network. 2) Pour it in concrete, making sure it looks like an asteroid. 3) Shoot it into space, preferably on a intercept course with planets like Saturn and Jupiter (the further away, the better). 4) Pray those planets don't support intelligent life, aliens don't find it and last, but not least pray humanity will never get some sort of interest for the planet in question.
Access to the box is a entirely different problem, though.
Instead of making the interface more beautiful to look at. They should make it more useful, and while they're at it, they might also consider making it more lightweight. Perhaps it might even become (shudder) more stable.
But wait! We are talking about Microsoft here. The only thing they know how to do well is integrating 'new' things in their user interface, so it will be more bug-prone, less secure and more resource hungry.
Oh well, perhaps longhorn will make faster cpu's cheaper.
Lets face it, we are in the information age. An age, where information doesn't need any resellers.
Perhaps the resellers need to refocus on providing information themselves, instead of simply reselling information which can be found cheaper somewhere else.
This 'problem' is going to spread around the world as internet access gets more widely spread, and gets cheaper and cheaper.
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They make their products too expensive.
ppl notice they can get a *free* copy from a friend or of the internet.
If they want piracy to become less worse, they've got to do 2 things:
1) Lower the price to something which will be accapteable to the customer (either the consumer or a given company).
2) Increase the quality of the software.
Sorry for my bad English This article doesn't belong here, it belongs on a site targeting U.S. citizens, not on a site targeting geeks. There are also geeks in the rest of the world, you know.
Are they starting to use /brainwashing/ tactics now?
DO use /public/ wireless access points (preferably multiple). /multiple/ proxies and maybe privoxy. /any/ hardware produced in your home country - it is probably compromised.
DO keep moving (prevent them from triangulating your position.
DO keep changeing your IP and MAC.
DO use encryption - preferably a method which does not look like garbage.
DO use
DO use crowded areas - ppl moving from A to B behave different then ppl looking for something/someone.
DON'T keep your contact listings and documents on your computer or on a computer in your nation - if you get compromised, your contact list and/or documents won't be compromised.
DON'T use linux, freebsd or windows - they are too main stream.
DON'T buy
DON'T use your home computer and/or public terminals for "dissident activities". Assume them to be insecure and compromised.
Microsoft just admitted to be unable to or unwilling to secure their operating system(s) (I suspect it's a mixture of both).
Lets just sit back and watch Microsoft get sued over and over again by countless clients which relied on Microsoft "security". Just a few arguments:
1) This service should be free, the custumors paid for a secure and capable os (windows is neither - except for games, for which it is perfectly suited). Should the customer pay again to actually get security?
2) Windows gets advertised as being secure. Then why is such a service needed? (lieing in advertisements is punishable in some countries).
They're trying to clamp down on much more then just 'illegal' music distribution. They're trying to get total control over the internet.
/more/ power, /more/ control, /more/ money and /more/ freedoms for themselves.
This is wrong ppl... very, very wrong.
I'm starting to get scared. Scared 1984 might become reality next year. Scared I will be detained and/or fined because I have an internet connection. Scared I will be reduced to a slave, because my government wasn't alert.
Where will this stop? When will the world governments recognise they're being reduced to tools of large coorporations? When will the people of the world say 'no' loud enough that they will be heard?
I fear that voice will come when it's too late. I fear the world we live in will dissolve into poverty, slavery and polution, with riches and power going to the few.
The few who will only abuse that power. The few who don't care about the masses. The few who only want
My keyboard is attacking me... OMG my keyboard got my ha...
Microsoft currently has 2 choices:
- Comply and nothing painful happens.
- Don't comply and be in for a world of pain.
There are *no* alternatives to these options.
There is *no* negociation possible.
This is the EU, not the US.
Silence speaks more as a thousand words.
If the swedish court gets air of this, they can say bye-bye to their case. And after that they'll get sued... or even get charged with criminal offenses. Courts don't like people/organisations who plant evidence, most nations even have laws forbidding that kind of action.
No, computer. You can't it my foot.
And after a while, the EU will start doing things which /will/ harm microsoft permanently... simply because microsoft thought of it as an additional tax.
/really/ hurt... maybe even put them out of business if they are too slow to respond.
- How about a forced complete sales stop for microsoft until they comply? (hurts)
- Or forced sale/destruction of property? (patents, source code, locations, shares, etc.) (irritating to very very painful).
- Or how about a worldwide freeze on all their assets? (company/government killer).
Trust me, if microsoft still ignores the EU after that daily fine, they can expect something which will
FRAG: the first person shooter, without a computer. I'd truely advice you this one. Falling (more then 4 players hihghly adviced): Yes, I know. It's a card game... but a really good one. Also has a /very/ high pace.
This only applies in the legal insanity which is called United States of America. The U.S.A. doesn't encompass the entire world, you know (although its economic and military power is felt worldwide).
Most other nations had some time to think about a descent law system.
Maybe they should lower their prices. That would raise their sales (if a product is good enough(!)), while reducing illigal downloads.
/not/ continueing with all those copy protection schemes might actually net them more money. Those copy protection schemes won't work anyway.
If I walk into a shop and have to pay EUR 19,99 for a single music CD (quality doesn't matter for the price) and EUR 39,99 for a single game (again: quality doesn't matter), I'm more likely to download it. Simply because it's too expensive.
Lowering their prices and
First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win.
Guess we're nearing stage 4.
You are not secure. - Why not encrypt the entire HD, while you're at it. Change the type of encryption, key and password once a week (or, less secure, a month). - Those tapes are stored at a /trusted/ and /proven/ safe location, aren't they (no, that does not mean home).
- Shredding or burning? Ok, shredding doesn't work (remember what happened during the Iranian revolution?).
Burning? Doesn't work as well, unless you do it using a very efficient method.
I suggest the following treatment for paper:
1) Shred paper (using a shredder).
2) Burn it /completely/.
3) Boil the result and dry it.
4) Burn it again.
The result of this process can be safely thrown away.
btw: I am even less secure then you are. No encryption, no firewall, only a simple router. Security can be applied when it's needed (and, yes, I can be /very/ paranoid with my security).
then do the following:
1) Make sure it isn't connected to any network.
2) Pour it in concrete, making sure it looks like an asteroid.
3) Shoot it into space, preferably on a intercept course with planets like Saturn and Jupiter (the further away, the better).
4) Pray those planets don't support intelligent life, aliens don't find it and last, but not least pray humanity will never get some sort of interest for the planet in question.
Access to the box is a entirely different problem, though.
Then a lot of otherwise nice persons would get deleted :)
which is not needed.
Instead of making the interface more beautiful to look at. They should make it more useful, and while they're at it, they might also consider making it more lightweight. Perhaps it might even become (shudder) more stable.
But wait! We are talking about Microsoft here. The only thing they know how to do well is integrating 'new' things in their user interface, so it will be more bug-prone, less secure and more resource hungry.
Oh well, perhaps longhorn will make faster cpu's cheaper.
I needed those microseconds to attend to my personal needs....
That is, automatically sliced bread.
Keep on the alert for ANY form of computer addiction... *especially* games and internet (browsing).
I got addicted to computers... games espescially (VIC20->C64->PC->Amiga->PC), that cost me years of my life.
Lets face it, we are in the information age. An age, where information doesn't need any resellers. Perhaps the resellers need to refocus on providing information themselves, instead of simply reselling information which can be found cheaper somewhere else. This 'problem' is going to spread around the world as internet access gets more widely spread, and gets cheaper and cheaper.