Bram Cohen's advertising budget for Bittorrent - $0
RIAA,MPAA,BSA,OMF advertising for Bittorrent - Priceless (Exceeds $20,000,000)
Thanks for the free ride, you are some damn useful tools.
Funny thing about credit card companies. They whine about losses but they rarely have any. If someone uses your card online and a month later you get your bill and you don't remember purchasing that home german bondage kit with free inflatable sheep, you tell your CC comany the card number has been stolen, they reverse the charges and you don't have to pay for it. Great, you think, however the CC company doesn't have to pay for it either, it's the retailer. That retailer geta a letter in the mail months later informing them that the CC company will be taking the money for the purchase back unless they can produce a signed receipt with the card holders signature on it. So lets say you actually did buy that German bondage kit with free inflatable sheep. If you signed the slip "Homer Simpson" and they don't have you on camera, baring legal action on their part, you get your stuff for free and they get boned.
Will it use the same secure technoligy all those toll booth and gas station e-passes that are so often cloned use? Damn it, at least make the guy get out of his car to steal my money.
I find it laughable that all these automakers and sinking millions of dollars into taking driving out of the hands of Americans. Are they looking to get their asses shot? It will never happen. If people wanted to be able to read the paper while driving, they would ride the bus. Americans think seat belt laws infringe on their basic rights and freedoms, a no steering wheel law, now that's something worth launching a few missles over.
This is all on a sound stage in Nevada, a really poorly lit sound stage with a.3MP camera phone. You can see Lee Harvey Oswald just off to the right in the shadows.
They have yet to prove anything, it doesn't stop them from sueing, despite having never won a case, it's still effective against those few sites their "experts" pick out. It seems a site has to be nearly as well known as google before it pops up on their radar however, which suggests to me the guy looking is not especially skilled. I once got a letter from a lawyer for Oakley Sunglasses for deformation of their product from a 3 year old reply to a post that they printed out from the google archives. Oakley sunglasses are still polycarbonate garbage that break if you look at them wrong, by the way.
I think if the feds have a problem with it, in the case of a publicly traded company, they can stop the sale from taking place. I'm sure billy has some dummy corporations setup to circumvent this though:)
Can anyone think of a product or scheme Macrovision has marketed in the last 5-10 years that has worked to block coping for more than a month or so? I see an increasing number of DVDs that are macrovision free. Are the publishers finally realizing that Macrovision is a scam and the only real accountable losses the studios can actually point to are the checks they write to Macrovision?
If the justice dept. let that one slide then I would hav to assume that the USA is now a free fire zone to create any monopoly you want, right up to and including controlling all the drinkable water.
The reporter in this story clearly does not have the razor sharp awarness of what causes people to panic, like say a CNN headline writer does. But sooner or later someone will realize that these kids that got caught/came forward, are the ONLY ones in that school you DON'T have to worry about. It's the other 30 or 40 that already hacked the system or better yet, are trying it right now.
The reason you can't find one is that besides you, no one wants a satelite pager. What you want is a satelite phone. I think you'll find that search turns up a few more hits.
Producers of shows don't get money from the commercials, they sell the show to networks who in turn make their money from commercials. I'm still not too clear on why we then have to pay a cable or satelite company so we can see those commercials but that's another topic. Producers do however get money from product placements within the show, and that would be next to impossible to remove, but you don't see much of that because it may not be compatible with the advertising contracts that other networks that pick up the show in syndication might have. For example if "Friends" is brought to you by Coke and Ross is drinking a Pepsi, the rebate check better be in the mail.
They lost the Broadcast flag bill and like clockwork the black lash arrives. Poor babies. Now if only congress would come up with a bill to prevent arbitrary suing of web sites and IP addresses. How exactly do you cross examine an IP address anyway? I guess it would be no more bizarre that Michael Jackson taking the stand.
Google "rumsfeld says un-american" and "rumsfeld says un-american. I think the first page is enough but there are dozens there if you want to read them all.
For example, from Wikipedia
"The House Committee on Un-American Activities grew from a special investigating committee established in 1938 and chaired by Martin Dies."
Well the original statement is actually false because the term has been used since before I was born and I wouldn't venture to guess who was first. It is one of Rumsfeld's favorite things to say however, if he got it from MM, well that would make it all the more ironic.
Cue the bogus reports of Wimax towers causing brain cancer and interfering with terrorist hunting electronic survelance. Also it kills kittens and causes impotence. -Your friendly cable company payrolled new reporter.
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Bram Cohen's advertising budget for Bittorrent - $0 RIAA,MPAA,BSA,OMF advertising for Bittorrent - Priceless (Exceeds $20,000,000) Thanks for the free ride, you are some damn useful tools.
Funny thing about credit card companies. They whine about losses but they rarely have any. If someone uses your card online and a month later you get your bill and you don't remember purchasing that home german bondage kit with free inflatable sheep, you tell your CC comany the card number has been stolen, they reverse the charges and you don't have to pay for it. Great, you think, however the CC company doesn't have to pay for it either, it's the retailer. That retailer geta a letter in the mail months later informing them that the CC company will be taking the money for the purchase back unless they can produce a signed receipt with the card holders signature on it. So lets say you actually did buy that German bondage kit with free inflatable sheep. If you signed the slip "Homer Simpson" and they don't have you on camera, baring legal action on their part, you get your stuff for free and they get boned.
Will it use the same secure technoligy all those toll booth and gas station e-passes that are so often cloned use? Damn it, at least make the guy get out of his car to steal my money.
I find it laughable that all these automakers and sinking millions of dollars into taking driving out of the hands of Americans. Are they looking to get their asses shot? It will never happen. If people wanted to be able to read the paper while driving, they would ride the bus. Americans think seat belt laws infringe on their basic rights and freedoms, a no steering wheel law, now that's something worth launching a few missles over.
This is all on a sound stage in Nevada, a really poorly lit sound stage with a .3MP camera phone. You can see Lee Harvey Oswald just off to the right in the shadows.
They have yet to prove anything, it doesn't stop them from sueing, despite having never won a case, it's still effective against those few sites their "experts" pick out. It seems a site has to be nearly as well known as google before it pops up on their radar however, which suggests to me the guy looking is not especially skilled. I once got a letter from a lawyer for Oakley Sunglasses for deformation of their product from a 3 year old reply to a post that they printed out from the google archives. Oakley sunglasses are still polycarbonate garbage that break if you look at them wrong, by the way.
I think if the feds have a problem with it, in the case of a publicly traded company, they can stop the sale from taking place. I'm sure billy has some dummy corporations setup to circumvent this though :)
Can anyone think of a product or scheme Macrovision has marketed in the last 5-10 years that has worked to block coping for more than a month or so? I see an increasing number of DVDs that are macrovision free. Are the publishers finally realizing that Macrovision is a scam and the only real accountable losses the studios can actually point to are the checks they write to Macrovision?
If the justice dept. let that one slide then I would hav to assume that the USA is now a free fire zone to create any monopoly you want, right up to and including controlling all the drinkable water.
We used to complain that MS does nothing to protect it's users, now we will complain they don't do it half as well as some other company :)
The reporter in this story clearly does not have the razor sharp awarness of what causes people to panic, like say a CNN headline writer does. But sooner or later someone will realize that these kids that got caught/came forward, are the ONLY ones in that school you DON'T have to worry about. It's the other 30 or 40 that already hacked the system or better yet, are trying it right now.
The reason you can't find one is that besides you, no one wants a satelite pager. What you want is a satelite phone. I think you'll find that search turns up a few more hits.
Angelina Jolie spouting the EULA during the love sceen at the end maybe?
god help us if here is actually another network out there that wants to buy and air reruns of Survivor :)
To drive Firefly DVD sales of course. And it's working.
Producers of shows don't get money from the commercials, they sell the show to networks who in turn make their money from commercials. I'm still not too clear on why we then have to pay a cable or satelite company so we can see those commercials but that's another topic. Producers do however get money from product placements within the show, and that would be next to impossible to remove, but you don't see much of that because it may not be compatible with the advertising contracts that other networks that pick up the show in syndication might have. For example if "Friends" is brought to you by Coke and Ross is drinking a Pepsi, the rebate check better be in the mail.
I wouldn't depend on the BBC to help you out, you think the MPAA is bad, the BBC has the right to barge into your house and take your VCR.
They lost the Broadcast flag bill and like clockwork the black lash arrives. Poor babies. Now if only congress would come up with a bill to prevent arbitrary suing of web sites and IP addresses. How exactly do you cross examine an IP address anyway? I guess it would be no more bizarre that Michael Jackson taking the stand.
Right around the time I first heard that the MPAA and RIAA could sue IP ADDRESSES, I kne wthe shit had hit the fan.
Google "rumsfeld says un-american" and "rumsfeld says un-american. I think the first page is enough but there are dozens there if you want to read them all.
For example, from Wikipedia "The House Committee on Un-American Activities grew from a special investigating committee established in 1938 and chaired by Martin Dies."
Well the original statement is actually false because the term has been used since before I was born and I wouldn't venture to guess who was first. It is one of Rumsfeld's favorite things to say however, if he got it from MM, well that would make it all the more ironic.
Cue the bogus reports of Wimax towers causing brain cancer and interfering with terrorist hunting electronic survelance. Also it kills kittens and causes impotence. -Your friendly cable company payrolled new reporter.
It's rummie's catch phrase, it's probably embroidered on his underwear. Are you kidding with this question or what?
Those who depend on Billy for the income, directly or indiectly, are probably forbidden from using the word Unix or Linux in a positive context :)