If the iPod sells just because it was Apple then why didn't the Rokr do better? Thats right...it was pretty shitty, and people saw that. Apple logo != Profit!
Amen brother! At least women have the option in the Western world! I'm in Japan atm, and you either spend most of our life after work hanging out with the boss, and colleagues, or never go anywhere. Now while I have a job that doesn't require that, women would be dicked if the world was even close to how it is here. Hell I dunno how the men that do it make it happen. If I had a kid i couldn't bring myself to devote that much time to work. Even if it did involve going to a strip club or getting wasted!
It's called people doing music stations because they want to. They don't have the financial backing to do it. I'm sure many would love to take them on, but you have to be careful. If you lose your case, you set a precedent for anyone after you that they have to fight though before they can even get to their case.
Those people are a HUGE exception, and are in fact upper class if they make that much. China really has next to zero inflation because wages are so low. I just got back from there 2 months ago, and will be going back later this year. I got to deal with people who would be considered fairly high end in the US, and they get paid crap. Those figures in the article aren't very far off. It's a country where a taxicab driver can make 15,000rmb, and watch 2/3rds of it go to the government, and those with power's pockets.
Where this falls apart is parody, mashups, and other such legal uses. What if my clip I use is part of their 5 second fingerprint? our kinda arsed. I'd love to see their tech in action though. I've played with enough, and none have always fallen short of useful.
Never said it was impossible, but were no where near that level yet. Facial recognition is here, but in very primitive forms. Not to mention the processor time involved. Checking a video against a massive catalog of banned videos is just not practical at this time. Won't be for some time too. The processing time is really what kills this. We have the tools, while very primitive require allot of processing power, and that power requirement really won't go down much.
Uh huh, and you expect everyone will trust the same 3rd party? For instance, everyone else seems to trust Verisign. I sure as hell don't! Verisign certainly wants to provide such a service through their Digital Signatures. People really aren't biting though. Article is redundant, and pointless. Just someone calling themself a journalist who has nothing else to write about.
Sorry, but fingerprinting the video is damn near impossible. Closest any image recogniton app can go is similar scene right now. Some can do logos, but were talking low resolution videos. Pretty much they'll do a file checksum, and that'll kill most reuploads. For the determined. All that'll be needed is a simple re-encode. That'll completely change any checksums involved. They won't seriously spend that much machine time on checking if they are allowed to make money off a video. They'll do just enough to say they did something, but not so much you can't find a way around it.
Remeber..C&C3 was NOT made by the loving hands of Westwood Studios (used to work for WW). It was made by the craptastic hands of Electronic Arts. Some people from WW worked on it, but by no means enough of the "right" people. They are off at other companies (ex. Petroglyph Studios).
Dude, the FCC will never come close to doing anything nearly as cool with ceulluar systems when compared to Hong Kong. Red tape, the established players, and poloticians who want a cut will all get in the way. Hong Kong didn't have people standing in the way of startups, and still doesn't. Just annoying mainland China taxmen looking for handouts periodically.
Hong Kong has the lowest bar to entry for any buisness. Lowest tax rates, pretty good consumer protection laws, etc. The average taxation rate is low. Like around 10% or less. Companies pay squat when it comes to taxes so extra BS fees don't go over well. Plus the place is extremely densly populated so coverage is easier. Did I mention 5 companies with startups coming along quite frequently? HK IMO has the best economy in the world, and they don't even manufacture anything.
Thats what QR code is for. Allot of people in Japan include QR codes on their cards. You can stuff a properly formatted card file on those very eaisily. Why OCR when the QR grabs it all, and applies the data to the right items in the contact list?
Theres a difference between anoying someONE, and just being a spot of shit on the lawn of society. When you awnser a cellphone at even a resturant: your not annoying just one person, your voice, and cellphone carry to a much large group. Other countries understand this. Most Westerners, such as yourself. Do not, nor will you ever (and you accuse me of not knowing there are countries on the other side of the pond).
I don't vandalize property. I remove people's capability to vandalize my enjoyment of what I paid for. If your that self important, stay at home, gain an extra 50 pounds, and keep downing the lard please if you don't have any etiquite (go all the way! Catch the rainbow!). Others will show you the exact same respect you are willing to show them. End of story. I can be reasoned with, and thats why you throw your hands up. Thing is, I've had this conversation with too many people (psyc majors to boot). No has ever been able to give a legitimate excuse they need to be a dick in public to everyone else around them. Doctors on call haven't even been able to. I'm even on call at all times (even while in a foreign country), but I know to setup a chain so when I'm where a cellphone shouldn't be on, others can deal with the problem if it's that important.
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Sure you'll spend your bucks at the arcade (and so do I, my home in the US is in Vegas, arcades are pretty piss poorly maintained there too). Problem is me, and you are the minority. Japan kinda makes me sick with how crazily thriving their arcades are. The worst Japanese arcade is better than the best US arcade ever to exist imo. Hell, I'd get together with some investment people I know to get an arcade in the US with japanese games if I thought it'd be worth it. Sad thing it isn't. You play hell getting Japanese makers to allow you to bring the game to the US, US consumers are cheap as shit, treat the hardware like crap, and the staff at such places aren't rabbid arcade goers like they are in Japan. Japan can do this well too since they can pay their people well given gambling (pachinko, slots, and other forms of crazy AWESOME gambling I'd love to see back home) in the back half of the arcade. Football games you play the role of coach, horse races where you take care of the horse, etc. Fing, awesome. Even some skill based gambling that I can't get the hang of completely.
Seriously, take a trip to Japan sometime, and use a cellphone there (ketai means CELLPHONE). US phones can't even begin to compete with Japan's offerings. I'm in the country right now with a POS rental, but I'd seriously love to use it back in the states over my Nokia N95 (too bad it doesn't support GSM, or US 3G signals). I highly doubt you can hold your cellphone up to dedicated pad to pay for things in the US. Hell most phones in Japan now have awesome built in OCR capabilties (getting Kanji readings seriously is AWESOME for someone learning the language). Theres a whole laundry list the OP doesn't go into that I'd kill for in the US market. Would go on about it, but it's almost 1:30am, and I needs sleep (Hokaido to Saporo in a few hours, 15 hours FTL!!!).
The sad thing is that none of this has to do with competition. Japan actually has next to zero competition between companies (they are all owned by the same people for the most part). Now if you wanna see competition between cellular companies goto Hong Kong. $13 a month for what I pay in the US at $70 a month without the ability to call international most places you wanna call without extra crazy fees. No contracts required to boot (5 cellular companies).
Providers will never challenge the FCCs ruling that cellphones can't be used on a plane due to the reasoning that it will overload their networks/would cost them to get their network able to do that. Sure, 1 or 2 planes might be handled well, but the network was not built to handle that kind of psychotic switching with the number of planes in the sky. Get ahold of a cellular tech. They'll tell you pretty much the same thing as me.
And no, cellphones do NOT belong on planes, period. Hell they shouldn't even ring on a train, nor should they be answered on a train unless a dire emergency arises (learn to text dimwit). I'm actually in Japan btw. I've been out of my own country quite a bit actually (nice personal jab in the dark about me not knowing about other countries). Here's something to think about that I know you've NEVER thought of since your kinda stuck in your isolationist "I'm more important" BS attitude. When your in a situation packed in with allot of people, last thing WE want to hear is about YOUR overly important life (I know you don't wanna hear bout mine, why do I wanna know bout yours?). Especially when usually on a plane (or train for that matter) people are trying to sleep, or just relax. Listening to you yammer on about your insignificant macrocosm of a life is the OPPOSITE of relaxing.
Just to give you a MUCH needed idea of how more socially progressed nations handle cellphones (since you won't get, or buy a clue). Japan for instance: Guess how many people I've heard talking on a cellphone? One, and they had a slight emergency, and apologized profusely afterwards. Guess how many cellphones I've ever heard on a train go off. ZERO!!! People know how to not be assholes, understand technology, and set their phones to vibrate, like the sign says on the train (not to mention it's just courteous). Instead, 1/4th of the people on the train are mad texting machines (70yr old granies txting is TOO funny). Hell, Hong Kong is pretty much the same way, and even China is too for the most part. Pretty sad when I can say the Chinese are more courteous than the general American public.
Never said to awnser the phone WHILE driving though. Pull the hell over, and take care of your uber important conference call while driving cross country. When you go off the side of a cliff for awnsering that call going 80mph I won't cry for you. Saftey first!
Seriously though, your the asshole who is emailing on his BB, and receiving calls when in a theater aren't you? I find it rather fun to start shit with your type by chucking the damn thing up to the front of the theater, and informing you to retrieve it when the movie is over after ignoring warnings. I wait in giddy anticipation for the day someone throws a swing at me for doing that.
Real issue though here is that your just a cheap ass. If you really need to make that call: get your Visa out, and get raped by swiping your card in the onboard airline phones. If it's financially not worth it (as evidenced by your bitching), you won't make the call, and anoy everyone else around you.
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Seriously...if people wanna bitch about arcades being pretty much non-existant just get outa the country, and go visit Japan. I'm there atm. Actually I can walk downstairs, and theres a bad ass arcade thats better than anything in the US right now, and it's in Fing Hiroshima!!!
If Americans really want arcades they'll show their love with money. So far Americans would assume play games at home, and steal games via MAME (things this book pushes). Thing that Arcades in the US really missed is those sutpid assed claw machines. Those can really rake in the cash when you are like me, and would like to see something for your troubles/want easy gifts. Seriously, not this stuffed animal crap we have in the US too. I'm talking stuff from anime, videogames, movies, etc. I spend maybe $4-$5 for $20+ items, and feel good because I have something tangible (looking at a stack of Evangelion crap I won today).
Plus there is that thing where the Japanese do know how to make FAR better arcade games, and update the current games in the arcade far more often than American vendors will (The Gundam 0083 RTS card based game is teh fucking WIN!).
Cellphones are more of a danger to the user who owns it than everyone else. Wi-Fi however is safe for the user, and everyone around them. If a cellphone goes off in flight the person whom it belongs to is in more danger than anything else of getting their ass kicked.
Now...for the technical reason (since most people can't comprehend altitude). When your on the ground, your cellphone sees 3-5 towers MAYBE (just enough to make a voice call). When your on a plane your cellphone can see upwards of 20 towers. While moving at high speeds it will have to change towers FREQUENTLY. Simple put, your hitting way the fuck too many towers (people do get bitched at/service terminated by their cell company because of this), and that would seriously overload the network with that many cellphones having access to so many towers. Not to mention the speed issue that'll cause mass switching. It's a GREAT way to drain your cellphones battery. Especially if you get somewhere where your cell can't find any towers. It'll drain power very fast looking for towers constantly.
Cellphones have ZERO business being on a plane, ever. If you need to be able to receive, and send calls that badly; get in your car, and drive to your destination. Otherwise, you have voicemail, and the horrendously priced phones available on the plane.
Dude, Nintendo can't even keep them in stock in Japan still. Every time they get them in sufficient numbers they release a special edition. Right now theres a Pikachu Special Edition. I hate Pikachu, but I could give my left nut for a yellow DS. Only place I've even seen those sold in Japan are the Pokemon centers of all places (don't ask why I was there...please...) XD
I'm always loaded down with my carry-ons. As long as it fits in the box outside the terminal they don't care. Even if it does not fit they rarely give me any fuss. Only airline that got pissy with me was some cheap shit China airline going from Shenzen to Beijing. They were cheap as hell. A whole $20 extra to check the luggage was fine by me.
God I hope OSX can never be legitimately installed on a cheap POS laptop HP, and the rest makes (ASUS actually makes Macbooks). Not to mention there is NO such thing as a cheaper PC machine that has the same specs as a Mac machine (go ahead, try to look...I'll wait, and then laugh at the missing specs to get a lower price). They run the same price if not more to package all the extra options. Not to mention they are gaw damn ugly compared to real Macs. Not to mention the nightmare drivers, and support PC users settle for. Macs are rock solid because of tight Q&A on a few different hardware configurations. You turn that around, and allow any POS motherboard, and crappy drivers onto a mac, and it'll be circa windows 98 with stability, quality, and responsiveness. Please think more fully before speaking in the future.
It's not vigilantism...TW has the right to protect their network, and what you do on it if it's harmful to it. They could just kick users off entirely. Trust me, they have no issue with it. They will actually terminate accounts if you get infected with a viri one too many times. I've had friends who it's happened to. When people won't listen theres only one way to fix a problem. Be a dick, and take care of business.
They can use IP addresses all they want. TW can easily just reroute where it goes on their network. Hijacking the DNS request is just a simple means of accomplishing this. Not to mention these people won't be able to hide so well if they actually use an IP address.
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If the iPod sells just because it was Apple then why didn't the Rokr do better? Thats right...it was pretty shitty, and people saw that. Apple logo != Profit!
Amen brother! At least women have the option in the Western world! I'm in Japan atm, and you either spend most of our life after work hanging out with the boss, and colleagues, or never go anywhere. Now while I have a job that doesn't require that, women would be dicked if the world was even close to how it is here. Hell I dunno how the men that do it make it happen. If I had a kid i couldn't bring myself to devote that much time to work. Even if it did involve going to a strip club or getting wasted!
Stop...brain hurt...ow...
It's called people doing music stations because they want to. They don't have the financial backing to do it. I'm sure many would love to take them on, but you have to be careful. If you lose your case, you set a precedent for anyone after you that they have to fight though before they can even get to their case.
Those people are a HUGE exception, and are in fact upper class if they make that much. China really has next to zero inflation because wages are so low. I just got back from there 2 months ago, and will be going back later this year. I got to deal with people who would be considered fairly high end in the US, and they get paid crap. Those figures in the article aren't very far off. It's a country where a taxicab driver can make 15,000rmb, and watch 2/3rds of it go to the government, and those with power's pockets.
Where this falls apart is parody, mashups, and other such legal uses. What if my clip I use is part of their 5 second fingerprint? our kinda arsed. I'd love to see their tech in action though. I've played with enough, and none have always fallen short of useful.
Never said it was impossible, but were no where near that level yet. Facial recognition is here, but in very primitive forms. Not to mention the processor time involved. Checking a video against a massive catalog of banned videos is just not practical at this time. Won't be for some time too. The processing time is really what kills this. We have the tools, while very primitive require allot of processing power, and that power requirement really won't go down much.
Uh huh, and you expect everyone will trust the same 3rd party? For instance, everyone else seems to trust Verisign. I sure as hell don't! Verisign certainly wants to provide such a service through their Digital Signatures. People really aren't biting though. Article is redundant, and pointless. Just someone calling themself a journalist who has nothing else to write about.
Sorry, but fingerprinting the video is damn near impossible. Closest any image recogniton app can go is similar scene right now. Some can do logos, but were talking low resolution videos. Pretty much they'll do a file checksum, and that'll kill most reuploads. For the determined. All that'll be needed is a simple re-encode. That'll completely change any checksums involved. They won't seriously spend that much machine time on checking if they are allowed to make money off a video. They'll do just enough to say they did something, but not so much you can't find a way around it.
Remeber..C&C3 was NOT made by the loving hands of Westwood Studios (used to work for WW). It was made by the craptastic hands of Electronic Arts. Some people from WW worked on it, but by no means enough of the "right" people. They are off at other companies (ex. Petroglyph Studios).
Even better! One of the Jaguar games I really loved! I wish my Jaguar worked still :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutal_Sports_Footbal l
Dude, the FCC will never come close to doing anything nearly as cool with ceulluar systems when compared to Hong Kong. Red tape, the established players, and poloticians who want a cut will all get in the way. Hong Kong didn't have people standing in the way of startups, and still doesn't. Just annoying mainland China taxmen looking for handouts periodically.
Hong Kong has the lowest bar to entry for any buisness. Lowest tax rates, pretty good consumer protection laws, etc. The average taxation rate is low. Like around 10% or less. Companies pay squat when it comes to taxes so extra BS fees don't go over well. Plus the place is extremely densly populated so coverage is easier. Did I mention 5 companies with startups coming along quite frequently? HK IMO has the best economy in the world, and they don't even manufacture anything.
Thats what QR code is for. Allot of people in Japan include QR codes on their cards. You can stuff a properly formatted card file on those very eaisily. Why OCR when the QR grabs it all, and applies the data to the right items in the contact list?
Theres a difference between anoying someONE, and just being a spot of shit on the lawn of society. When you awnser a cellphone at even a resturant: your not annoying just one person, your voice, and cellphone carry to a much large group. Other countries understand this. Most Westerners, such as yourself. Do not, nor will you ever (and you accuse me of not knowing there are countries on the other side of the pond).
I don't vandalize property. I remove people's capability to vandalize my enjoyment of what I paid for. If your that self important, stay at home, gain an extra 50 pounds, and keep downing the lard please if you don't have any etiquite (go all the way! Catch the rainbow!). Others will show you the exact same respect you are willing to show them. End of story. I can be reasoned with, and thats why you throw your hands up. Thing is, I've had this conversation with too many people (psyc majors to boot). No has ever been able to give a legitimate excuse they need to be a dick in public to everyone else around them. Doctors on call haven't even been able to. I'm even on call at all times (even while in a foreign country), but I know to setup a chain so when I'm where a cellphone shouldn't be on, others can deal with the problem if it's that important.
Sure you'll spend your bucks at the arcade (and so do I, my home in the US is in Vegas, arcades are pretty piss poorly maintained there too). Problem is me, and you are the minority. Japan kinda makes me sick with how crazily thriving their arcades are. The worst Japanese arcade is better than the best US arcade ever to exist imo. Hell, I'd get together with some investment people I know to get an arcade in the US with japanese games if I thought it'd be worth it. Sad thing it isn't. You play hell getting Japanese makers to allow you to bring the game to the US, US consumers are cheap as shit, treat the hardware like crap, and the staff at such places aren't rabbid arcade goers like they are in Japan. Japan can do this well too since they can pay their people well given gambling (pachinko, slots, and other forms of crazy AWESOME gambling I'd love to see back home) in the back half of the arcade. Football games you play the role of coach, horse races where you take care of the horse, etc. Fing, awesome. Even some skill based gambling that I can't get the hang of completely.
Seriously, take a trip to Japan sometime, and use a cellphone there (ketai means CELLPHONE). US phones can't even begin to compete with Japan's offerings. I'm in the country right now with a POS rental, but I'd seriously love to use it back in the states over my Nokia N95 (too bad it doesn't support GSM, or US 3G signals). I highly doubt you can hold your cellphone up to dedicated pad to pay for things in the US. Hell most phones in Japan now have awesome built in OCR capabilties (getting Kanji readings seriously is AWESOME for someone learning the language). Theres a whole laundry list the OP doesn't go into that I'd kill for in the US market. Would go on about it, but it's almost 1:30am, and I needs sleep (Hokaido to Saporo in a few hours, 15 hours FTL!!!).
The sad thing is that none of this has to do with competition. Japan actually has next to zero competition between companies (they are all owned by the same people for the most part). Now if you wanna see competition between cellular companies goto Hong Kong. $13 a month for what I pay in the US at $70 a month without the ability to call international most places you wanna call without extra crazy fees. No contracts required to boot (5 cellular companies).
Providers will never challenge the FCCs ruling that cellphones can't be used on a plane due to the reasoning that it will overload their networks/would cost them to get their network able to do that. Sure, 1 or 2 planes might be handled well, but the network was not built to handle that kind of psychotic switching with the number of planes in the sky. Get ahold of a cellular tech. They'll tell you pretty much the same thing as me.
And no, cellphones do NOT belong on planes, period. Hell they shouldn't even ring on a train, nor should they be answered on a train unless a dire emergency arises (learn to text dimwit). I'm actually in Japan btw. I've been out of my own country quite a bit actually (nice personal jab in the dark about me not knowing about other countries). Here's something to think about that I know you've NEVER thought of since your kinda stuck in your isolationist "I'm more important" BS attitude. When your in a situation packed in with allot of people, last thing WE want to hear is about YOUR overly important life (I know you don't wanna hear bout mine, why do I wanna know bout yours?). Especially when usually on a plane (or train for that matter) people are trying to sleep, or just relax. Listening to you yammer on about your insignificant macrocosm of a life is the OPPOSITE of relaxing.
Just to give you a MUCH needed idea of how more socially progressed nations handle cellphones (since you won't get, or buy a clue). Japan for instance: Guess how many people I've heard talking on a cellphone? One, and they had a slight emergency, and apologized profusely afterwards. Guess how many cellphones I've ever heard on a train go off. ZERO!!! People know how to not be assholes, understand technology, and set their phones to vibrate, like the sign says on the train (not to mention it's just courteous). Instead, 1/4th of the people on the train are mad texting machines (70yr old granies txting is TOO funny). Hell, Hong Kong is pretty much the same way, and even China is too for the most part. Pretty sad when I can say the Chinese are more courteous than the general American public.
Never said to awnser the phone WHILE driving though. Pull the hell over, and take care of your uber important conference call while driving cross country. When you go off the side of a cliff for awnsering that call going 80mph I won't cry for you. Saftey first!
Seriously though, your the asshole who is emailing on his BB, and receiving calls when in a theater aren't you? I find it rather fun to start shit with your type by chucking the damn thing up to the front of the theater, and informing you to retrieve it when the movie is over after ignoring warnings. I wait in giddy anticipation for the day someone throws a swing at me for doing that.
Real issue though here is that your just a cheap ass. If you really need to make that call: get your Visa out, and get raped by swiping your card in the onboard airline phones. If it's financially not worth it (as evidenced by your bitching), you won't make the call, and anoy everyone else around you.
Seriously...if people wanna bitch about arcades being pretty much non-existant just get outa the country, and go visit Japan. I'm there atm. Actually I can walk downstairs, and theres a bad ass arcade thats better than anything in the US right now, and it's in Fing Hiroshima!!!
If Americans really want arcades they'll show their love with money. So far Americans would assume play games at home, and steal games via MAME (things this book pushes). Thing that Arcades in the US really missed is those sutpid assed claw machines. Those can really rake in the cash when you are like me, and would like to see something for your troubles/want easy gifts. Seriously, not this stuffed animal crap we have in the US too. I'm talking stuff from anime, videogames, movies, etc. I spend maybe $4-$5 for $20+ items, and feel good because I have something tangible (looking at a stack of Evangelion crap I won today).
Plus there is that thing where the Japanese do know how to make FAR better arcade games, and update the current games in the arcade far more often than American vendors will (The Gundam 0083 RTS card based game is teh fucking WIN!).
Cellphones are more of a danger to the user who owns it than everyone else. Wi-Fi however is safe for the user, and everyone around them. If a cellphone goes off in flight the person whom it belongs to is in more danger than anything else of getting their ass kicked.
Now...for the technical reason (since most people can't comprehend altitude). When your on the ground, your cellphone sees 3-5 towers MAYBE (just enough to make a voice call). When your on a plane your cellphone can see upwards of 20 towers. While moving at high speeds it will have to change towers FREQUENTLY. Simple put, your hitting way the fuck too many towers (people do get bitched at/service terminated by their cell company because of this), and that would seriously overload the network with that many cellphones having access to so many towers. Not to mention the speed issue that'll cause mass switching. It's a GREAT way to drain your cellphones battery. Especially if you get somewhere where your cell can't find any towers. It'll drain power very fast looking for towers constantly.
Cellphones have ZERO business being on a plane, ever. If you need to be able to receive, and send calls that badly; get in your car, and drive to your destination. Otherwise, you have voicemail, and the horrendously priced phones available on the plane.
Dude, Nintendo can't even keep them in stock in Japan still. Every time they get them in sufficient numbers they release a special edition. Right now theres a Pikachu Special Edition. I hate Pikachu, but I could give my left nut for a yellow DS. Only place I've even seen those sold in Japan are the Pokemon centers of all places (don't ask why I was there...please...) XD
I'm always loaded down with my carry-ons. As long as it fits in the box outside the terminal they don't care. Even if it does not fit they rarely give me any fuss. Only airline that got pissy with me was some cheap shit China airline going from Shenzen to Beijing. They were cheap as hell. A whole $20 extra to check the luggage was fine by me.
God I hope OSX can never be legitimately installed on a cheap POS laptop HP, and the rest makes (ASUS actually makes Macbooks). Not to mention there is NO such thing as a cheaper PC machine that has the same specs as a Mac machine (go ahead, try to look...I'll wait, and then laugh at the missing specs to get a lower price). They run the same price if not more to package all the extra options. Not to mention they are gaw damn ugly compared to real Macs. Not to mention the nightmare drivers, and support PC users settle for. Macs are rock solid because of tight Q&A on a few different hardware configurations. You turn that around, and allow any POS motherboard, and crappy drivers onto a mac, and it'll be circa windows 98 with stability, quality, and responsiveness. Please think more fully before speaking in the future.
It's not vigilantism...TW has the right to protect their network, and what you do on it if it's harmful to it. They could just kick users off entirely. Trust me, they have no issue with it. They will actually terminate accounts if you get infected with a viri one too many times. I've had friends who it's happened to. When people won't listen theres only one way to fix a problem. Be a dick, and take care of business.
They can use IP addresses all they want. TW can easily just reroute where it goes on their network. Hijacking the DNS request is just a simple means of accomplishing this. Not to mention these people won't be able to hide so well if they actually use an IP address.