how exactly are they making "a hellacious profit"? The only revenue they would have at the moment is in advertising. That wouldn't be offsetting the bandwidth costs which must be astronomical.
An out of court settlement with a copyright holder means every other copyright holder who has ever had anything put on youtube will come knocking real quick.
Well its on by default, and it sounds safe (hmm should I protect my music or not....better be safe and stick with protect). Why change it if you dont know what it does?
This isn't going to screw around with people who are aware of these issues (they will be the ones using simething other than WiMP11), this just fucks with the people who don't know and just want a computer that works. Much the same as this isn't going to stop any copyright infringement/music sharing but it will piss people off who actually want to use their legitimate music.
oh, no problem then, all I have to do to be able to rip and play the CDs that I ALREADY PAYED FOR is rip them through WiMP11, then play them with WiMP11, direct the output from WiMP11 back into a different encoder through the soundcard.
All because Microsoft have decided to make themselves the DRM police. This in no way benefits the end users so I guess we know who microsoft sees as its customers then (Hint: it aint us).
Press the Open button on your remote control to open the drive tray
Press the 1 button on your remote control
Press the 0 button on your remote control
Press the 3 button on your remote control
Press the 0 button on your remote control
Press the 0 button on your remote control for multi-region playback
The onscreen display will indicate the currently selected region
Power off your DVD player
Power on your DVD player
That's not a hack, thats turning on a feature that is ALREADY THERE! how much prison time can I get for that? Does holding down SHIFT when closing your CD drive count as "circumvent(ing) DRM in any other way"?
I can see this going the same way as recording from TV to VHS or ripping mp3s. Was illegal for a very long time but everyone did it and no-one was ever prosecuted. This was recently ruled as legal with changes to copyright laws.
info here.
I can see no-one getting done for this except mod-chip sellers/services, unless of course the *IAA throw their weight around and demand a few big fines to keep the masses in line.
Thanks again Johhny Howard for bending us all over to take another one from GW.
I really admire the New Zealand government for consistantly having the backbone to stand up for what is "right" the heavyweight nations. They have a long tradition of doing this whereas Australia has started to get a reputation for folding when the USA starts throwing their economic/military weight around.
Examples:
+Anti-Nuclear policy - 1985 refused nuclear powered and armed ships access to their ports
+No "Free-Trade"* agreement with the USA (*also known as a "you scratch our back and we wont squash you agreement")
+Staying out of the "Coalition of the Willing" for IRAQ invasion.
If John Howard had half a backbone we wouldn't have been in the "Coalition of the Willing(to Invade)" either, but hs is all about the economy and for that he needed to sell out to the USA. Except now we are screwed in IRAQ and screwed by the agreement as well. Nice move.
Unless they have handed over control of the domain to the RIAA they could have at least had a little fun with the message they put up. They should have tried something like this:
The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available.
For those who want to steal music or movies we suggest you stop
Unless you want to be caught breaking the law.
Courts around the world - including the USSC - have ruled that anyone can be prosecuted for illegal downloading.
Kindly remember you are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material.
This is your IP address 127.0.0.1
Hope you realise we have logged it.
Even though you have only visited this website, and haven't actually done anything illegal.
Respect the music, download legally.
It's been fun.
All the best in the future.
And Goodbye Everyone.
Sure they would have cottoned on pretty quick and made them take it down but at least go out with (small) bang rather than a wimper.
stomping on citizens? -Carnivore -warrantless wiretaps.
lies? -WMDs. Invading a foreign country on a lie, a little bigger than an incident with a surveillance plane, international airspace or not. -secret foreign prisons to get around detainment and torture laws(we dont have them, oh wait, yes we do).
other fun facts. -Setting up a prison technically outside of your own coutry (Gitmo) so you dont have to abide by your own laws and keeping prisoners there indefinately (years and counting) without charge. -non-ratification of the Kyoto protocol.
Why would this country be in the WTO either?
I don't agree with a lot of the Chinese governments actions either but countries that live in glass houses shouldn't start throwing stones. The rest of the world "needs" to do buisiness with them because if one country stays out due to moral/ethical reasons the only thing that country will gain is they miss out on the enormous potential market that is China.
He could have easily defused it all much sooner than this but he's so intent on being the class clown and impressing his LiveJournal friends that I wonder if he can really comprehend not everybody is content to strike back with snarky comments on LJ.
Agreed. If you choose 178 people at random from the US population what are the chances that you get a least one lawyer? pretty high I think.
I don't think he has to worry about the people emailing him askng to take their shit down, he has to worry about the ones he hasnt heard from as they are are too busy filing lawsuits.
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>Geez, you make it sound like they're just some random cranks who got together. This was a meeting of the IAU. Common human >consensus had tomatoes as not being fruits and dolphins as fish before people sat down and came up with a consistent definition.
Are you suggesting that witches are not actually made out of wood?
Because someone might release the searche history.
Search queries sample:
-Agent10085045-where is osama? -Agent10085045-have you seen osama? -Agent10085045-stop Al kayeda -Agent10085045-destroy Al kayada -Agent10085045-how to spell Al Kayada -Agent10085045-cancel AOL -Agent10085045-how to cancel AOL -Agent10085045-how to clear my search history -Agent10085045-clear search history -Agent10085045-clear goddammit! -Agent10085045-NSA jobsearch -Agent10085045-how to get a job at the NSA -Agent10085045-what does NSA stand for? -Agent10085045-what does FBI stand for? -Agent10085045-poop
The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it. That was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door, this intense grid, and the jetplane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting.
Frank A. DeMartini
WTC Construction and Project Management
History Channel Interview, January 25, 2001 (first 40 seconds is the above quote)
It's important to note that this interview is PRIOR to 9/11 rather than after. Theory is all well and good but it's fairly safe to say nothing like the events of 9/11 were ever tested before on the Twin towers building design or any other. Perhaps tested in computer simulations or models but that's not the same thing.
I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners
It would be intesting to see if this guy still believes the same thing. I would think the design took into account the accidental impact of a 707, i.e. slow speed - trying to actually avoid the building, rather than a deliberate, full-speed impact.
As for the mosquito screen analogy, that doesn't really cover what happened. Maybe if mosquito netting stood up by itself without a frame, and then you poke it with a pencil that is nearly as wide as the netting itself. Then you pour some jet fuel on it and set it on fire.
You will actually have to buy a specific blank DVD for each movie you want to download and burn. For example if you want to watch "Weekend at Bernies" you will have to drive to WalMart and by the specific "Weekend at Bernies - Blank Edition", then drive home and download the movie, then burn it to the blank, then and only then will you be able to play the movie.
To compensate you for your trouble "Weekend at Bernies - Blank Edition" will be between $1.23 and $1.56 cheaper than "Weekend at Bernies" original that will be on sale right next to "Weekend at Bernies - Blank Edition", and between $1.56 and $1.93 cheaper than "Weekend at Bernies - Directors Cut" and "Weekend at Bernies - Now in HD", which will be the next two DVDs over.
Subtract lawyer fees and whatever the costs of investigations to find the individual IP addresses in the first place and I doubt there is much profit in there (if any).
$100 million sounds like a lot of cash, but if each case generates $3,000 to $11,000 then I can see the lawyers costs alone being more than that.
>So, by asking for the digits in order, it only takes 9 logins for the attacker to get your password. >By asking for them out of order, it takes 25. Hardly secure.
This isnt correct. By asking for them in order then a keylogger knows the PIN *exactly* after you have logged in 9 times when the keylogger is in place.
By asking for them out of order then it will still take 25 *guesses* to get the right PIN*. And the incorrect guesses carry over sessions, so more than 4 incorrect guesses without a correct login in between will mean a locked account and you will have to call and answer more security questions to get it re-activated.
* Thats assuming your stats are correct which I am not convinced they are, I believe that more than 25 guesses will be required, but my statistics aren't that strong. Either way asking out of order is a *lot* more secure than in order.
Are you sure you are talking about your internet banking PIN? This is not the same as the PIN you enter to withdraw money or make a purchase with your card.......
The internet banking PIN (or security number or whatever you want to call it) is no less and no more than 6 numbers.
The point isn't that a keylogger can capture your password. It's that they have tryed to implement a method of entering your 6 digit pin in a way that would stop a keylogger from revealing it, but the way they have done it actually allows a keylogger to figure it after relatively few times of logging in, hence creating a false sense of security.
The PIN is 6 digits, they ask for three of these six digits at any one login (e.g. type the 1st, 3rd and 4th digits of your pin). Because they always ask in ascending order (i.e. never 4th, 2nd and 1st) then after 9 login events the keylogger can figure out the number. All they had to do (and all they have to do now) is ask for the digits in any order and this problem goes away. The keylogger would eventually know which numbers are in your 6 digit pin but never what order, and as there is a 3 (or 4 ?) tries lockout then they wont be able to get in unless they are very lucky guessers.
I have HSBC internet banking and it never actually dawned on me how obvious this problem is, I don't think I ever noticed that they only ever ask in ascending order, but thats the beauty of it I guess.
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how exactly are they making "a hellacious profit"? The only revenue they would have at the moment is in advertising. That wouldn't be offsetting the bandwidth costs which must be astronomical.
An out of court settlement with a copyright holder means every other copyright holder who has ever had anything put on youtube will come knocking real quick.
Well its on by default, and it sounds safe (hmm should I protect my music or not....better be safe and stick with protect). Why change it if you dont know what it does?
This isn't going to screw around with people who are aware of these issues (they will be the ones using simething other than WiMP11), this just fucks with the people who don't know and just want a computer that works. Much the same as this isn't going to stop any copyright infringement/music sharing but it will piss people off who actually want to use their legitimate music.
oh, no problem then, all I have to do to be able to rip and play the CDs that I ALREADY PAYED FOR is rip them through WiMP11, then play them with WiMP11, direct the output from WiMP11 back into a different encoder through the soundcard.
All because Microsoft have decided to make themselves the DRM police. This in no way benefits the end users so I guess we know who microsoft sees as its customers then (Hint: it aint us).
I'm gunna need two seats.....for the twins.
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To enable multi region these are the steps:
- Power off your DVD player
- Power on your DVD player
- Press the Open button on your remote control to open the drive tray
- Press the 1 button on your remote control
- Press the 0 button on your remote control
- Press the 3 button on your remote control
- Press the 0 button on your remote control
- Press the 0 button on your remote control for multi-region playback
- The onscreen display will indicate the currently selected region
- Power off your DVD player
- Power on your DVD player
That's not a hack, thats turning on a feature that is ALREADY THERE! how much prison time can I get for that? Does holding down SHIFT when closing your CD drive count as "circumvent(ing) DRM in any other way"?I can see this going the same way as recording from TV to VHS or ripping mp3s. Was illegal for a very long time but everyone did it and no-one was ever prosecuted. This was recently ruled as legal with changes to copyright laws. info here
I can see no-one getting done for this except mod-chip sellers/services, unless of course the *IAA throw their weight around and demand a few big fines to keep the masses in line.
Thanks again Johhny Howard for bending us all over to take another one from GW.
I really admire the New Zealand government for consistantly having the backbone to stand up for what is "right" the heavyweight nations. They have a long tradition of doing this whereas Australia has started to get a reputation for folding when the USA starts throwing their economic/military weight around.
Examples:
+Anti-Nuclear policy - 1985 refused nuclear powered and armed ships access to their ports
+No "Free-Trade"* agreement with the USA (*also known as a "you scratch our back and we wont squash you agreement")
+Staying out of the "Coalition of the Willing" for IRAQ invasion.
If John Howard had half a backbone we wouldn't have been in the "Coalition of the Willing(to Invade)" either, but hs is all about the economy and for that he needed to sell out to the USA. Except now we are screwed in IRAQ and screwed by the agreement as well. Nice move.
Most silly amateurs don't have a legal department that could populate a small town.
Homeland Security called, they want you to send them a copy of your CV right away, they said you sound like management material.
Unless they have handed over control of the domain to the RIAA they could have at least had a little fun with the message they put up. They should have tried something like this:
The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available.
For those who want to steal music or movies we suggest you stop
Unless you want to be caught breaking the law.
Courts around the world - including the USSC - have ruled that anyone can be prosecuted for illegal downloading.
Kindly remember you are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material.
This is your IP address 127.0.0.1
Hope you realise we have logged it.
Even though you have only visited this website, and haven't actually done anything illegal.
Respect the music, download legally.
It's been fun.
All the best in the future.
And Goodbye Everyone.
Sure they would have cottoned on pretty quick and made them take it down but at least go out with (small) bang rather than a wimper.
guess the country
stomping on citizens?
-Carnivore
-warrantless wiretaps.
lies?
-WMDs. Invading a foreign country on a lie, a little bigger than an incident with a surveillance plane, international airspace or not.
-secret foreign prisons to get around detainment and torture laws(we dont have them, oh wait, yes we do).
other fun facts.
-Setting up a prison technically outside of your own coutry (Gitmo) so you dont have to abide by your own laws and keeping prisoners there indefinately (years and counting) without charge.
-non-ratification of the Kyoto protocol.
Why would this country be in the WTO either?
I don't agree with a lot of the Chinese governments actions either but countries that live in glass houses shouldn't start throwing stones. The rest of the world "needs" to do buisiness with them because if one country stays out due to moral/ethical reasons the only thing that country will gain is they miss out on the enormous potential market that is China.
China knows it, and so does everyone else.
Agreed. If you choose 178 people at random from the US population what are the chances that you get a least one lawyer? pretty high I think.
I don't think he has to worry about the people emailing him askng to take their shit down, he has to worry about the ones he hasnt heard from as they are are too busy filing lawsuits.
>Geez, you make it sound like they're just some random cranks who got together. This was a meeting of the IAU. Common human >consensus had tomatoes as not being fruits and dolphins as fish before people sat down and came up with a consistent definition.
Are you suggesting that witches are not actually made out of wood?
I thought youboats were meant to sink ?! A youboat that doesnt sink is just a boat.
Because someone might release the searche history.
Search queries sample:
-Agent10085045-where is osama?
-Agent10085045-have you seen osama?
-Agent10085045-stop Al kayeda
-Agent10085045-destroy Al kayada
-Agent10085045-how to spell Al Kayada
-Agent10085045-cancel AOL
-Agent10085045-how to cancel AOL
-Agent10085045-how to clear my search history
-Agent10085045-clear search history
-Agent10085045-clear goddammit!
-Agent10085045-NSA jobsearch
-Agent10085045-how to get a job at the NSA
-Agent10085045-what does NSA stand for?
-Agent10085045-what does FBI stand for?
-Agent10085045-poop
Just read up on Mr DeMartini, and it makes my above comment very insensitive. Sorry, I wasn't aware.
May he rest in peace
I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners
It would be intesting to see if this guy still believes the same thing. I would think the design took into account the accidental impact of a 707, i.e. slow speed - trying to actually avoid the building, rather than a deliberate, full-speed impact.
As for the mosquito screen analogy, that doesn't really cover what happened. Maybe if mosquito netting stood up by itself without a frame, and then you poke it with a pencil that is nearly as wide as the netting itself. Then you pour some jet fuel on it and set it on fire.
Isn't that another name for CSI?
> "AOL said it will try to accommodate Hawke's parents by not being too obtrusive."
Now that's what I call an abundance of sensitivity!
>"If humans evolved from apes...why are there still apes?"
This has to be the single dumbest argument against evolution.
"Evolved from" is not the same as "Turned into".
>And Mario should be replaced with
A penguin perhaps?
You will actually have to buy a specific blank DVD for each movie you want to download and burn. For example if you want to watch "Weekend at Bernies" you will have to drive to WalMart and by the specific "Weekend at Bernies - Blank Edition", then drive home and download the movie, then burn it to the blank, then and only then will you be able to play the movie.
To compensate you for your trouble "Weekend at Bernies - Blank Edition" will be between $1.23 and $1.56 cheaper than "Weekend at Bernies" original that will be on sale right next to "Weekend at Bernies - Blank Edition", and between $1.56 and $1.93 cheaper than "Weekend at Bernies - Directors Cut" and "Weekend at Bernies - Now in HD", which will be the next two DVDs over.
Subtract lawyer fees and whatever the costs of investigations to find the individual IP addresses in the first place and I doubt there is much profit in there (if any).
$100 million sounds like a lot of cash, but if each case generates $3,000 to $11,000 then I can see the lawyers costs alone being more than that.
Good option, but good luck booking flying lessons if your name has any kind of middle eastern background though.
>So, by asking for the digits in order, it only takes 9 logins for the attacker to get your password. >By asking for them out of order, it takes 25. Hardly secure.
This isnt correct. By asking for them in order then a keylogger knows the PIN *exactly* after you have logged in 9 times when the keylogger is in place.
By asking for them out of order then it will still take 25 *guesses* to get the right PIN*. And the incorrect guesses carry over sessions, so more than 4 incorrect guesses without a correct login in between will mean a locked account and you will have to call and answer more security questions to get it re-activated.
* Thats assuming your stats are correct which I am not convinced they are, I believe that more than 25 guesses will be required, but my statistics aren't that strong. Either way asking out of order is a *lot* more secure than in order.
Are you sure you are talking about your internet banking PIN? This is not the same as the PIN you enter to withdraw money or make a purchase with your card.......
The internet banking PIN (or security number or whatever you want to call it) is no less and no more than 6 numbers.
The point isn't that a keylogger can capture your password. It's that they have tryed to implement a method of entering your 6 digit pin in a way that would stop a keylogger from revealing it, but the way they have done it actually allows a keylogger to figure it after relatively few times of logging in, hence creating a false sense of security.
The PIN is 6 digits, they ask for three of these six digits at any one login (e.g. type the 1st, 3rd and 4th digits of your pin). Because they always ask in ascending order (i.e. never 4th, 2nd and 1st) then after 9 login events the keylogger can figure out the number. All they had to do (and all they have to do now) is ask for the digits in any order and this problem goes away. The keylogger would eventually know which numbers are in your 6 digit pin but never what order, and as there is a 3 (or 4 ?) tries lockout then they wont be able to get in unless they are very lucky guessers.
I have HSBC internet banking and it never actually dawned on me how obvious this problem is, I don't think I ever noticed that they only ever ask in ascending order, but thats the beauty of it I guess.