I have decided to start learning how to use linux in case I ever wanted to switch. While I see why some people like it, I still see why it is never going to be widely adopted. For instance, I installed an antivirus program and cannot run an update on it unless i go do the sudo command even though there is a button in the gui. Documentation and instruction has also been increasingly frustrating. It seems like every set of instructions have a step in which i have to find OTHER documentation to do or they just tell me to do something without telling me where to go and what to type in. I end up so confused and frustrated that I move onto something else. Mac on the other hand is great. I would probably move to a mac rather than linux if i had to.
Then they will have too much power to continue these actions. On the flip side, constantly fighting these cases in court is not what RIAA wants to do. They want it settled and out of the way as soon as possible. Hopefully law students in each state all take up this cause pro bono. I say law students because they probably will be most likely to fight pro bono and save the defendants money but also they will probably fight as hard as anyone against the RIAA. Imagine putting that on your resume after law school...that you successfully brought down the RIAA.
Catching these guys is definately a good thing but for anyone who casts stones at the practices of the RIAA, how can anyone agree with what the FBI did here. Isn't this basically the same thing the RIAA has been doing to filesharers? post fake files on kazaa and then find the IP of anyone caught downloading it, get info from the cable company, then legal action. I don't agree with the FBI here and I think they went too far.
For as fast as they can spit out their lawsuits, why does it take so long to issue the settlement to the artist? because RIAA is a bunch of greedy bastards. I don't agree with the RIAA and these lawsuits at all. Frankly i think they are overstepping their bounds and acting like the mob but if you are going to extract thousands from people then at least have the decency to pay the people you are supposedly protecting. Watch them come out and say to the artists that after the RIAA recoups their loss, there's nothing left for the artist.
the firm found the vulnerability. Shouldn't they be compensated? they aren't running a charity. Real would be the only one to benefit by security firms simply "giving" the exploit to them. sure you can argue that it's leaving customers insecure but are you telling me Real can't afford $10,000?
The laws need to catch up to technology. With everyone having camera phones and electronic devices at their disposal, it's not hard to record or videotape an event. I do agree that a citizen should not be able to follow around a cop all day and video tape him however what is so wrong about a person saying to a cop during a traffic stop "hold on, let me turn on my tape recorder or turn on my built in camera". Likewise, police record interrogations so why would anyone be against the innocent until proven guilty citizen being able to whip out his own tape recorder or camera to maintain his own copy of the events that take place.
I had this same idea last time I went to jury duty. They eliminated jurors who knew or were familiar with topics to be covered in the trial. Basically, if this is a case involving computers and the internet, shouldn't a "jury of peers" be at least familiar with computers, internet, and IP addresses rather than someone who thinks such information is WAY over their head? Likewise I don't think I should have to serve on a jury if the case revolves around something I know absolutely nothing about. How can I effectively measure guilt or innocence in a case if I have no idea what the doohickeys and thingamabobs do...especially if the case revolves around them.
I feel for her but i don't think she has a leg to stand on. If I was on the jury with my knowledge of the internet/ip address/kazaa, i could buy some of her defense about spoof. If she had a wireless router than that would have helped too. The fact that her kazaa name matched her aim and/or email address then that gave it away right there. If she was using kazaa lite and it showed up as the default username that it used, i probably wouldn't have ruled against her. Although even though I would have found her guilty, I probably would have held out on something like $10 per song in damages. Or better yet, $18 for a CD with 15 songs...so roughly $1 per song. I wouldn't award anymore to the RIAA. Speaking of, What would have happened if they couldn't agree on a price? I would been steadfast that I am not making a single mother pay $9000+ per song for something I can record off the radio.
i also hate these scalpers. Any major sporting event in NY/NJ is impossible to go to because scalpers buy up all the tickets. Ticketmaster should institute a system where a certain amount of tickets are set for resale...let's say 10% of total tickets available. When these ticketing systems call up to order tickets, they should have to say they are a reseller and tickets bought are deducted from that total leaving the other 90% to the general public. This makes the resellers fight against each other and not the fans. If resellers are selling tickets designated for fans then ticketmaster should be able to sue. If fans end up not being able to go, they can resell the ticket to their friends or whoever because that's under the table but if it goes up on ebay or other auction sites then they can be held liable too. Ticketmaster should also allow refunds to purchased tickets if a person can go. The fan, if they can't sell it, can return it back to the box office for the retail price. The ticket then becomes available at the box office at the time of the event.
That's how I would fix it. Of course ticketmaster would have to start enforcing the rule and make sure tickets on ebay/stubhub etc are really tickets marked for resale
I think Vista is slow to be adopted for a few reasons. It's different and non-technical people don't like different. I heard similar things about XP when it came out. It's more restrictive. Getting prompted to do little stupid things is annoying and not being able to do things you did in XP is equally frustrating. Need to upgrade PC's. Many people don't want to run it on their 3 or 4 year old PC and have it run sluggishly. Oh, and activation.
I have to say though, I just bought a new laptop with Vista Business and I didn't like it at first either. Now that I've been using it every day along with office 2007, I like it. Of course I had to turn UAC off though. Can't stand that. I think people will warm up to in once they start using it everyday.
I read through most of the transcript of the Q/A with the RIAA expert. He pretty much agreed with the defendant's stance. I don't know if you can do this in a trial but I would try to make sure those answers are summarized on a 1-2 page document to make sure the judge sees the answers. No he did not see any filesharing SW on the pc, could not verify the MAC address, Could not verify how many PC's were behind the router, whether wireless was used...and most damaging that there are COUNTLESS ways to spoof an IP address. that alone BY THEIR EXPERT!!!...should get this lawsuit thrown out with the RIAA forced to pay lawyer fees and laughed out of court.
but disappointed in what MS continues to do. I am also one of the people who turns off automatice updates. I like to know what I'm installing and what will be changing. Why would I want to install a patch to WMP that "fixes" the way to get around DRM media? MS has money and it has lawyers so I'm sure we granted permission somewhere in the EULA but that doesn't make it ethical. MS gets away with a lot of things they do simply because they can. Who's going to stop them? and who's going to replace them? I was actually supportive of MS business practices up until XP came out. Activation, limited functionality, WGA, updating when I specifically said not to...I'm drawing the line here. Sell your product but keep your hands off once I have it.
Don't you ahve to put a notice when videotaping someone? I think this is how stores and private property get around the law. So with that, just put a bumper sticker on the car that says activities within this car are taped and monitored at all times. Then when you get pulled over, turn the camera on. The cop has notice and if he doesn't want to be videotaped then maybe he shouldn't be pulled over. If you give him notice and it's within your own property then i don't think he can tell you to turn it off. of course he'd probably tell you to get out of the car and definately give you a ticket.
This is not a government free speech issue like some are arguing. Yes XM has every right to suspend O&A for something they said...but that goes against everything they have ever advertised and said they would promote with O&A. If O&A now have to run their skits and jokes by the XM executives, does that really constitute O&A having complete unfettered artistic control over their show? That is what everyone is complaining about and I think XM was wrong for doing so.
If I wrote a short story for a class and the school turned around and published it and started giving it out to people, wouldn't the school be liable moreso than the business that accepts the publishing? I guess you can't really sue your professor for checking your essay for plagiarism. However, I do think there is a case against the company because they are retaining the records. It would be one thing to just check a paper against known sources and if it checks out OK, it then clears it and releases it from the database. If this case goes anywhere then that might be what the company will have to start doing.
My girlfriend is a teacher for the last 2 years and in her first year, she was scolded by other teachers because she graded tests in RED ink. Other teachers said they used purple and green ink because a paper filled in RED ink makes the student feel bad.
There's that old saying that my parents always said...'You'll hate me now but you'll thank me later'. Teachers need to be tougher on kids. Tell them to grow a set and teach them that life isn't easy. Also that people are not going to bow down to you when you have a 'self-esteem' issue or don't like the way someone tells you to do something.
If they were smart, they would implement this DRM but make it so easy to get around that everyone moves from the Ipod to the Zune. MS will then rule the marketplace and kill apple's sales. Leave the workaround open for a while and let all the customers come over and then patch it.
The feeling I got from those answers is that we need smart people in positions of power like judges and attorney generals. I think those of us that actually understand how IP's work and computers and filesharing works cannot understand how these lawsuits continue on. I feel that we just need once judge with relevant technical knowledge about this stuff and the RIAA will get sent packing
This is just a case of us losing our rights yet again. RIAA, the government, school districts...everyone wants us to give up our constitutional rights for their benefit. I thought the constitution was written to protect the PEOPLE. they are going to push and push until someone pushes back. I hope this kid wins and forces the school district into a multimillion dollar settlement (i know that won't ever happen). You didn't have cases like this years ago because if someone complained about the school, who did they tell? a dozen people maybe a little more. but now with websites, his comments can be read by thousands of people and the school wants to stop it. Well it's not right and if the school doesn't back down, then hopefully the courts make the right ruling in favor of the kid.
I agree. I had friends using Netflix and they said it started slowing down after a while. I did research online and saw that netflix was sued and had to change the wording on their websites. At least blockbuster is sticking to their word for unlimited rentals. They even give you 2-4 free instore rentals a month. Netflix is just suing because customers are leaving. Seems like sour grapes to me
haha...24 years old and playing 3000 hours of warcraft. geez, get a life. go get a girl. getting banned could be the best thing that ever happened to him. now he can actually go out on a saturday night instead of sitting in front of a computer all night. What 24 year old would rather play warcraft than go to a bar or out with some friends? shrug your shoulders and move onto something else. it's not the end of the world
I would have no problems with ads on web pages as long as they stayed where they are supposed to. I understand that some websites rely upon ads to keep the site running. The ads i block or find particularly annoying are the flash animations that take up the entire screen and discretely hide the "close" button or the others that sit at the top of the screen and have sound to them. ESPN.com is notorious for these 2 types of ads. you can't look at scores or articles or message boards without flash animations restricting your view.
Everything has extra "features" that you have to pay for can companies want to lock you in. I hate being told what i can and cannot do with something that i BOUGHT. if i want to sync up my ipod with 10 different pc's, i should be able to. if i want to install linux on my xbox, it shouldn't be a problem. if i want to use my phone with other services or connect it to my pc to get pictures off or put ringtones on, i should be able to. if you are going to tell me what i can and cannot do, then why are you SELLING me a product?
it doesn't seem right to me that I can tape the show on VHS and put that episode on my shelf and no one has a problem with it. Now, because the quality is better and I can copy it to a DVD, it's wrong and the companies have a problem with it. As far as i'm concerned, it's the same thing. Just because one is better quality doesn't give them a right to say it's not OK. make up your mind. Either both are wrong or both are allowed. Make a decision and stick to it.
If one of these women wins and the court rules that there is not enough evidence to side with the RIAA, can't the women countersue for court costs incurred while defending themselves against a frivolous lawsuit?
and i still say the riaa is not doing enough investigating before suing people. Shouldn't they have to PROVE you have the file on your computer rather than just blindly sue?
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I have decided to start learning how to use linux in case I ever wanted to switch. While I see why some people like it, I still see why it is never going to be widely adopted. For instance, I installed an antivirus program and cannot run an update on it unless i go do the sudo command even though there is a button in the gui. Documentation and instruction has also been increasingly frustrating. It seems like every set of instructions have a step in which i have to find OTHER documentation to do or they just tell me to do something without telling me where to go and what to type in. I end up so confused and frustrated that I move onto something else. Mac on the other hand is great. I would probably move to a mac rather than linux if i had to.
Then they will have too much power to continue these actions. On the flip side, constantly fighting these cases in court is not what RIAA wants to do. They want it settled and out of the way as soon as possible. Hopefully law students in each state all take up this cause pro bono. I say law students because they probably will be most likely to fight pro bono and save the defendants money but also they will probably fight as hard as anyone against the RIAA. Imagine putting that on your resume after law school...that you successfully brought down the RIAA.
Catching these guys is definately a good thing but for anyone who casts stones at the practices of the RIAA, how can anyone agree with what the FBI did here. Isn't this basically the same thing the RIAA has been doing to filesharers? post fake files on kazaa and then find the IP of anyone caught downloading it, get info from the cable company, then legal action. I don't agree with the FBI here and I think they went too far.
For as fast as they can spit out their lawsuits, why does it take so long to issue the settlement to the artist? because RIAA is a bunch of greedy bastards. I don't agree with the RIAA and these lawsuits at all. Frankly i think they are overstepping their bounds and acting like the mob but if you are going to extract thousands from people then at least have the decency to pay the people you are supposedly protecting. Watch them come out and say to the artists that after the RIAA recoups their loss, there's nothing left for the artist.
the firm found the vulnerability. Shouldn't they be compensated? they aren't running a charity. Real would be the only one to benefit by security firms simply "giving" the exploit to them. sure you can argue that it's leaving customers insecure but are you telling me Real can't afford $10,000?
The laws need to catch up to technology. With everyone having camera phones and electronic devices at their disposal, it's not hard to record or videotape an event. I do agree that a citizen should not be able to follow around a cop all day and video tape him however what is so wrong about a person saying to a cop during a traffic stop "hold on, let me turn on my tape recorder or turn on my built in camera". Likewise, police record interrogations so why would anyone be against the innocent until proven guilty citizen being able to whip out his own tape recorder or camera to maintain his own copy of the events that take place.
I had this same idea last time I went to jury duty. They eliminated jurors who knew or were familiar with topics to be covered in the trial. Basically, if this is a case involving computers and the internet, shouldn't a "jury of peers" be at least familiar with computers, internet, and IP addresses rather than someone who thinks such information is WAY over their head? Likewise I don't think I should have to serve on a jury if the case revolves around something I know absolutely nothing about. How can I effectively measure guilt or innocence in a case if I have no idea what the doohickeys and thingamabobs do...especially if the case revolves around them.
I feel for her but i don't think she has a leg to stand on. If I was on the jury with my knowledge of the internet/ip address/kazaa, i could buy some of her defense about spoof. If she had a wireless router than that would have helped too. The fact that her kazaa name matched her aim and/or email address then that gave it away right there. If she was using kazaa lite and it showed up as the default username that it used, i probably wouldn't have ruled against her. Although even though I would have found her guilty, I probably would have held out on something like $10 per song in damages. Or better yet, $18 for a CD with 15 songs...so roughly $1 per song. I wouldn't award anymore to the RIAA. Speaking of, What would have happened if they couldn't agree on a price? I would been steadfast that I am not making a single mother pay $9000+ per song for something I can record off the radio.
i also hate these scalpers. Any major sporting event in NY/NJ is impossible to go to because scalpers buy up all the tickets. Ticketmaster should institute a system where a certain amount of tickets are set for resale...let's say 10% of total tickets available. When these ticketing systems call up to order tickets, they should have to say they are a reseller and tickets bought are deducted from that total leaving the other 90% to the general public. This makes the resellers fight against each other and not the fans. If resellers are selling tickets designated for fans then ticketmaster should be able to sue. If fans end up not being able to go, they can resell the ticket to their friends or whoever because that's under the table but if it goes up on ebay or other auction sites then they can be held liable too. Ticketmaster should also allow refunds to purchased tickets if a person can go. The fan, if they can't sell it, can return it back to the box office for the retail price. The ticket then becomes available at the box office at the time of the event. That's how I would fix it. Of course ticketmaster would have to start enforcing the rule and make sure tickets on ebay/stubhub etc are really tickets marked for resale
I think Vista is slow to be adopted for a few reasons. It's different and non-technical people don't like different. I heard similar things about XP when it came out. It's more restrictive. Getting prompted to do little stupid things is annoying and not being able to do things you did in XP is equally frustrating. Need to upgrade PC's. Many people don't want to run it on their 3 or 4 year old PC and have it run sluggishly. Oh, and activation. I have to say though, I just bought a new laptop with Vista Business and I didn't like it at first either. Now that I've been using it every day along with office 2007, I like it. Of course I had to turn UAC off though. Can't stand that. I think people will warm up to in once they start using it everyday.
I read through most of the transcript of the Q/A with the RIAA expert. He pretty much agreed with the defendant's stance. I don't know if you can do this in a trial but I would try to make sure those answers are summarized on a 1-2 page document to make sure the judge sees the answers. No he did not see any filesharing SW on the pc, could not verify the MAC address, Could not verify how many PC's were behind the router, whether wireless was used...and most damaging that there are COUNTLESS ways to spoof an IP address. that alone BY THEIR EXPERT!!!...should get this lawsuit thrown out with the RIAA forced to pay lawyer fees and laughed out of court.
but disappointed in what MS continues to do. I am also one of the people who turns off automatice updates. I like to know what I'm installing and what will be changing. Why would I want to install a patch to WMP that "fixes" the way to get around DRM media? MS has money and it has lawyers so I'm sure we granted permission somewhere in the EULA but that doesn't make it ethical. MS gets away with a lot of things they do simply because they can. Who's going to stop them? and who's going to replace them? I was actually supportive of MS business practices up until XP came out. Activation, limited functionality, WGA, updating when I specifically said not to...I'm drawing the line here. Sell your product but keep your hands off once I have it.
Don't you ahve to put a notice when videotaping someone? I think this is how stores and private property get around the law. So with that, just put a bumper sticker on the car that says activities within this car are taped and monitored at all times. Then when you get pulled over, turn the camera on. The cop has notice and if he doesn't want to be videotaped then maybe he shouldn't be pulled over. If you give him notice and it's within your own property then i don't think he can tell you to turn it off. of course he'd probably tell you to get out of the car and definately give you a ticket.
This is not a government free speech issue like some are arguing. Yes XM has every right to suspend O&A for something they said...but that goes against everything they have ever advertised and said they would promote with O&A. If O&A now have to run their skits and jokes by the XM executives, does that really constitute O&A having complete unfettered artistic control over their show? That is what everyone is complaining about and I think XM was wrong for doing so.
If I wrote a short story for a class and the school turned around and published it and started giving it out to people, wouldn't the school be liable moreso than the business that accepts the publishing? I guess you can't really sue your professor for checking your essay for plagiarism. However, I do think there is a case against the company because they are retaining the records. It would be one thing to just check a paper against known sources and if it checks out OK, it then clears it and releases it from the database. If this case goes anywhere then that might be what the company will have to start doing.
My girlfriend is a teacher for the last 2 years and in her first year, she was scolded by other teachers because she graded tests in RED ink. Other teachers said they used purple and green ink because a paper filled in RED ink makes the student feel bad.
There's that old saying that my parents always said...'You'll hate me now but you'll thank me later'. Teachers need to be tougher on kids. Tell them to grow a set and teach them that life isn't easy. Also that people are not going to bow down to you when you have a 'self-esteem' issue or don't like the way someone tells you to do something.
If they were smart, they would implement this DRM but make it so easy to get around that everyone moves from the Ipod to the Zune. MS will then rule the marketplace and kill apple's sales. Leave the workaround open for a while and let all the customers come over and then patch it.
The feeling I got from those answers is that we need smart people in positions of power like judges and attorney generals. I think those of us that actually understand how IP's work and computers and filesharing works cannot understand how these lawsuits continue on. I feel that we just need once judge with relevant technical knowledge about this stuff and the RIAA will get sent packing
This is just a case of us losing our rights yet again. RIAA, the government, school districts...everyone wants us to give up our constitutional rights for their benefit. I thought the constitution was written to protect the PEOPLE. they are going to push and push until someone pushes back. I hope this kid wins and forces the school district into a multimillion dollar settlement (i know that won't ever happen). You didn't have cases like this years ago because if someone complained about the school, who did they tell? a dozen people maybe a little more. but now with websites, his comments can be read by thousands of people and the school wants to stop it. Well it's not right and if the school doesn't back down, then hopefully the courts make the right ruling in favor of the kid.
I agree. I had friends using Netflix and they said it started slowing down after a while. I did research online and saw that netflix was sued and had to change the wording on their websites. At least blockbuster is sticking to their word for unlimited rentals. They even give you 2-4 free instore rentals a month. Netflix is just suing because customers are leaving. Seems like sour grapes to me
haha...24 years old and playing 3000 hours of warcraft. geez, get a life. go get a girl. getting banned could be the best thing that ever happened to him. now he can actually go out on a saturday night instead of sitting in front of a computer all night. What 24 year old would rather play warcraft than go to a bar or out with some friends? shrug your shoulders and move onto something else. it's not the end of the world
I would have no problems with ads on web pages as long as they stayed where they are supposed to. I understand that some websites rely upon ads to keep the site running. The ads i block or find particularly annoying are the flash animations that take up the entire screen and discretely hide the "close" button or the others that sit at the top of the screen and have sound to them. ESPN.com is notorious for these 2 types of ads. you can't look at scores or articles or message boards without flash animations restricting your view.
Everything has extra "features" that you have to pay for can companies want to lock you in. I hate being told what i can and cannot do with something that i BOUGHT. if i want to sync up my ipod with 10 different pc's, i should be able to. if i want to install linux on my xbox, it shouldn't be a problem. if i want to use my phone with other services or connect it to my pc to get pictures off or put ringtones on, i should be able to. if you are going to tell me what i can and cannot do, then why are you SELLING me a product?
it doesn't seem right to me that I can tape the show on VHS and put that episode on my shelf and no one has a problem with it. Now, because the quality is better and I can copy it to a DVD, it's wrong and the companies have a problem with it. As far as i'm concerned, it's the same thing. Just because one is better quality doesn't give them a right to say it's not OK. make up your mind. Either both are wrong or both are allowed. Make a decision and stick to it.
If one of these women wins and the court rules that there is not enough evidence to side with the RIAA, can't the women countersue for court costs incurred while defending themselves against a frivolous lawsuit? and i still say the riaa is not doing enough investigating before suing people. Shouldn't they have to PROVE you have the file on your computer rather than just blindly sue?