They ran a search engine that provided links to torrents which accessed trackers which then gathered information on thousands of computers.
No, they do quite a bit more than that. They run tracking software which is responsible for collating those pieces and advertising them, enforcing rules about who can do what with them, all those little bits of the torrent protocol.
And then they make money off of the use and download of them.
Comprehension. The RIAA neither asked for, insisted, demanded, and likely had no idea that the student's tenancy was revoked. That was entirely between the student and the university.
If you have a problem with the severity of this, you have a problem with the university.
I realize that the RIAA is a great posterchild to spit vitriole and venom at, but they had nothing to do with this.
They sent a letter. I have no love for Media Sentry and their 'scatterfire' methods. But the university showed him the email, and he admitted it was him and that he did it.
My guess would be either that is not the first time, or that there have been other issues. Seems odd that they'd evict on a first time infraction. Perhaps he got shirty about "Information wants to be free!" or somesuch and wanted to be hardline about it, so they decided to be the same.
There is NOTHING in the story to suggest that MediaSentry put any pressure on the university to evict. They'd probably not even be aware that he lived on campus (in Australia, the VERY vast majority of students do not live on campus, and I don't believe a single university has even a single year where you are required to live on campus).
They sent an email informing the college as owners of the IP address of the infringement. He admitted to it, and while looking over the agreement for use of his dorm, which almost certainly included a clause along the lines of "not using your ethernet port in your dorm for...", they decided to terminate his residency.
Stop looking for a way to spin this into "the new lows that RIAA will go to". It ain't.
And in this case, he only got emailed. Media Sentry didn't demand that the university terminate his residency contract.
That was the result of a contract he willingly entered into between himself and the university about behaviour. He admits he did as described in the letter, and as a result, the university is asking him to leave the dorms.
Should have considered, perhaps, that they might actually have desired and expected that he adhere to the contract that he as an adult signed.
When receiving stolen property, the law looks at what a "reasonable" person would believe. A reasonable person would believe that someone selling on CL/eBay a Samsung 55" 1080p 120Hz LED TV complete with packaging, receipt for warranty purposes for say $2,500 (from an selling prize at Amazon of $3,199) was getting a good, but legitimate deal.
A reasonable person, in the eyes of the law, would not believe if I came up to them at an outdoor cafe and said "Want a 55" LED TV for $300? Meet me in the parking lot in 5 minutes" that they were buying anything other than illegally obtained or acquired property.
A reasonable person selling his Nokia 1100 (currently settling in the market for around $70) would assume that if they got, say an offer of $150, that the buyer might be an aficionado of old school cellular technology.
A reasonable person selling his Nokia 1100 would not "ask no questions" about a bidding war on their phone which saw it run into the five digit territory. A reasonable person would also have doubts about such money, and the motivations of a buyer. Whilst under no obligation to investigate either, a reasonable person, in the eyes of the law, would have "concerns" about whether the payment they were about to receive was the proceeds of a crime, or similar.
Don't believe me?
Go ahead and create a multi-TB database (on one server) with a few tables that are >100GB each. Do some performance benchmarking after scaling as best you can with each DB System and let me know how that works out for you.
Oh, did I mention that this has to be on one server that you replicate to the other side of the world with less than 30s of change difference between the two and that you also need local HA and global DR OUTSIDE of the replication you just setup?
Oh yeah; your data change rate is ~500MB/min.
Good luck!
One server? Why? Your company is big enough that it can afford to be running OC-12 links at your site and OC-3 to both the remote, and the DR sites (500MB * 3 = 1.5GB/min, with TCP/IP overhead, in the order of 300mbps) for your database alone, let alone email and other connectivity, at going market rates of over $600k/mo, and yet you can't/don't want to cluster a couple of servers?
Why should only profits be taxed? The stocks were income, full stop. They were worth $70 each when they were received, and tax was calculated on them at that point, as income. The fact that he held on to them until they were worth a fraction of that, and his tax debt was deferred are unrelated. That tax was owed at the time of receipt. Why on earth would or should they have been imagined to be tax-free income, unless a profit was made over and above?
I bet he wouldn't be arguing that he'd owe tax on the entire $200 if they'd reached that price.
My point still stands - it's not a hidden fact that stocks received are income in the IRS's eyes. That he didn't set aside money for that deferred tax liability is not anyone else's fault. That he lost his house is horrible and extremely unfortunate (though that makes me raise an eyebrow - why wasn't the IRS willing to arrange a payment plan, as they are obligated to do?), but ultimately, blame lies in one place only.
Not just any Nokia 1100. One made in a certain factory in a certain date range with a certain revision of the firmware. And how long before you sold such a phone before the police came knocking on your door, wanting that money back (I'm fairly sure that 'hackers wanting a phone for its ability to easily be hacked for online banking' are not actually giving you 25,000 of their own euro...)
If you're lucky, as you say. Me, I'm still sulking over the loss of Carnivale, with its 3 season plot arc, yanked after season 2, or even The Riches, yanked despite high ratings (although Eddie Izzard has been quoted as saying that he's looking to do a Firefly, and make a movie that is essentially covering the planned plot for the next season).
But it would cut down on a lot of pointless service calls.
Ah, I see your problem. You're thinking like a consumer, not a producer. Dealers love 'pointless service calls'. They get the base fee, and it takes all of 5-10 minutes for the apprentice to diagnose.
A friend of mine lost his house over RSUs, he did not unload them when he received them. In the 2001 crash, they went from $70 to $13, and the tax bill was 70% of $70, so he had a tax bill of $49 on an asset worth $13. Multiply this by a few thousand RSUs.
Because he thought he'd make it big. He'd not be complaining if they went from $70 to $200. He took a gamble, and he lost. He was, or should have been, aware of the risks.
The tax man was less than sympathetic.
Honestly, neither am I. The stock market is not a zero risk endeavor.
Sorry, but people making much ado about terrorism is the same as people making much ado about the so-called "gun-violence" epidemic. There is no epidemic.
Right. In the US, there are 2.97 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year.
Let's have a look at the highest European country: Lithuania, 2.24... Western Europe, Portugal... 0.85. So 32% more than Eastern Europe isn't epidemic. 249% more than Portugal isn't epidemic.
How about Canada? 0.54. Australia, where guns were banned following Port Arthur? 0.31. (But yet the NRA would have you believe that banning guns makes for a less safe society).
In fact, how about we have a look at a list of some of the countries that do have higher firearm homicide rates (excluding those that are in outright civil and other wars): Colombia. Paraguay. Zimbabwe. Mexico. Belarus.
What makes things even worse? Twenty percent of U.S. homicides occur in four cities with just 6% of the population - New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. Detroit has 47.3 murders per every 100,000 residents.
At least, in a more pleasant contrast to these areas, some areas have widespread gun ownership with low rates of homicide. Wyoming had the highest number of homes with loaded and unlocked guns, at 33% of all homes in the state, of any state in the United States and had a homicide rate of 1.7 of every 100,000.
No, no epidemic here. Ignore the fact that in Detroit, firearm homicide is as common as it is on the streets of Colombia. Reality has an unfortunate way of approaching "from my cold dead hands".
Nope. Contrary to popular/alarmist consent, it is perfectly okay to be in possession of nude imagery of children.
What is NOT okay is such imagery with "sexual intent" or "suggestive posing".
If simple possession of nude imagery of a minor was illegal, then people like Sally Mann and Jock Sturges would be behind bars, not having their work exhibited in some of the biggest galleries in the world.
My issue with it, though unexpected, was how he was spinning it as "fundamentally incompatible with the principles of a 'less invasive government'". I highly doubt that this is a brand new invention of the Obama administration... it's been in trials for a while at SLC.
a) Perhaps he should have mentioned that to his Republican leaders when they were in power, and b) perhaps he should recall that the populace of the US voted for the party that/wasn't/ looking for the (espoused, idealist, not realistic) principles/claims of the Republicans being for smaller government.
See that the Dems got the $10k and the $95K plus donation lead categories in even the 2006 cycle. IIn 2008, they smoked it by business.
Democrats got paid by business more than the Republicans. The MSM likes to say the Republicans are bought off more but it is not supported by the facts.
And prior to that the Repubs got more. Maybe business saw that there wasn't a chance in hell McCain/Palin was going to win, and wanted to put there money where it was more effective (which is indicative of the problem, just looked at the opposite way).
Two ways, either a floor limit, or batched offline transactions can be approved. When you already have the goods...
Now, should it be able to happen? No... but typically, if the merchant can't get an approval on your card, they can offline the transaction, and it'll typically go through, based on what their merchant 'type' is (a la the same thing AmEx etc use on your bills for the type of charge, i.e. 'flights', 'dining', 'goods', 'services', 'travel'). Some of these are able to get offline approvals in excess of available funds.
And then there's the grey area in between. A while ago, in Australia, I'd gone out shopping. Used my debit mastercard to buy about $3,000 of furniture.
Went to use my card the next day. Declined. Checked online, I was at least $2,000 overdrawn. I noticed that the furniture chain had charged my card twice. Called the bank. She noticed who it was and said that "it definitely wasn't the first time [said chain] had had billing errors where they ran batches twice on Friday and reversed on Monday"...
I wonder how much interest they make on that...
She reversed the charge. Then a few days, the store reversed the charge. Then called me up to complain about why I'd had the charge reversed. Nice. Their claim (haha) was that I should have waited for them to fix their error. I laughed and said there was no way that would happen. Not for a credit card, and definitely not for a debit card that their incompetence/malice had managed to overdraw with their billing.
Trust me, nobody in the US is getting long distance and several thousand minutes a month for $70 a month in the US. My wife and I's combined account, with a data plan for each phone (hers is an iPhone), 700 minutes, with rollover, unlimited nights and weekends, and messaging, is $170 a month after taxes.
But then their manhood will be threatened, for no-one will buy the truck that does that, rather than "V8 TITAN 5.5L SUPERDUTY". You know what's really fucking horrible, seeing that on a pickup, with a four wheel rear axle, no tow hook, internal or external to be seen, and half the time a hood... what exactly do you need that engine for, again?
EXACTLY. Apropos of what you think of Repubs, what you think of Palin, what in the holy hell was McCain thinking when he okayed this? While I think the D's would still have won, I think it'd have been a lot closer without Palin in the picture.
If you wanted an integrated suite of Office software, you'd have to wait out the 80s for another seven years before Microsoft could reassemble its own Office suite for the Macintosh, and then later Windows.
Apparently Works didn't count, not that I'm surprised that you'd forget or gloss over it. That was available in the mid-late 80s. Revisionist/apologist history FTW.
This is a forum. You hit "Reply", and your response was indented. Given that the parent comment wasn't at the root level, you had to have noticed this.
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No, they do quite a bit more than that. They run tracking software which is responsible for collating those pieces and advertising them, enforcing rules about who can do what with them, all those little bits of the torrent protocol.
And then they make money off of the use and download of them.
If you have a problem with the severity of this, you have a problem with the university.
I realize that the RIAA is a great posterchild to spit vitriole and venom at, but they had nothing to do with this.
They sent a letter. I have no love for Media Sentry and their 'scatterfire' methods. But the university showed him the email, and he admitted it was him and that he did it.
Seems there's more to it, I suspect.
They sent an email informing the college as owners of the IP address of the infringement. He admitted to it, and while looking over the agreement for use of his dorm, which almost certainly included a clause along the lines of "not using your ethernet port in your dorm for ...", they decided to terminate his residency.
Stop looking for a way to spin this into "the new lows that RIAA will go to". It ain't.
That was the result of a contract he willingly entered into between himself and the university about behaviour. He admits he did as described in the letter, and as a result, the university is asking him to leave the dorms.
Should have considered, perhaps, that they might actually have desired and expected that he adhere to the contract that he as an adult signed.
A reasonable person, in the eyes of the law, would not believe if I came up to them at an outdoor cafe and said "Want a 55" LED TV for $300? Meet me in the parking lot in 5 minutes" that they were buying anything other than illegally obtained or acquired property.
A reasonable person selling his Nokia 1100 (currently settling in the market for around $70) would assume that if they got, say an offer of $150, that the buyer might be an aficionado of old school cellular technology.
A reasonable person selling his Nokia 1100 would not "ask no questions" about a bidding war on their phone which saw it run into the five digit territory. A reasonable person would also have doubts about such money, and the motivations of a buyer. Whilst under no obligation to investigate either, a reasonable person, in the eyes of the law, would have "concerns" about whether the payment they were about to receive was the proceeds of a crime, or similar.
One server? Why? Your company is big enough that it can afford to be running OC-12 links at your site and OC-3 to both the remote, and the DR sites (500MB * 3 = 1.5GB/min, with TCP/IP overhead, in the order of 300mbps) for your database alone, let alone email and other connectivity, at going market rates of over $600k/mo, and yet you can't/don't want to cluster a couple of servers?
I bet he wouldn't be arguing that he'd owe tax on the entire $200 if they'd reached that price.
My point still stands - it's not a hidden fact that stocks received are income in the IRS's eyes. That he didn't set aside money for that deferred tax liability is not anyone else's fault. That he lost his house is horrible and extremely unfortunate (though that makes me raise an eyebrow - why wasn't the IRS willing to arrange a payment plan, as they are obligated to do?), but ultimately, blame lies in one place only.
Not just any Nokia 1100. One made in a certain factory in a certain date range with a certain revision of the firmware. And how long before you sold such a phone before the police came knocking on your door, wanting that money back (I'm fairly sure that 'hackers wanting a phone for its ability to easily be hacked for online banking' are not actually giving you 25,000 of their own euro...)
If you're lucky, as you say. Me, I'm still sulking over the loss of Carnivale, with its 3 season plot arc, yanked after season 2, or even The Riches, yanked despite high ratings (although Eddie Izzard has been quoted as saying that he's looking to do a Firefly, and make a movie that is essentially covering the planned plot for the next season).
Ah, I see your problem. You're thinking like a consumer, not a producer. Dealers love 'pointless service calls'. They get the base fee, and it takes all of 5-10 minutes for the apprentice to diagnose.
Because he thought he'd make it big. He'd not be complaining if they went from $70 to $200. He took a gamble, and he lost. He was, or should have been, aware of the risks.
Honestly, neither am I. The stock market is not a zero risk endeavor.
Right. In the US, there are 2.97 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year.
Let's have a look at the highest European country: Lithuania, 2.24... Western Europe, Portugal... 0.85. So 32% more than Eastern Europe isn't epidemic. 249% more than Portugal isn't epidemic.
How about Canada? 0.54. Australia, where guns were banned following Port Arthur? 0.31. (But yet the NRA would have you believe that banning guns makes for a less safe society).
In fact, how about we have a look at a list of some of the countries that do have higher firearm homicide rates (excluding those that are in outright civil and other wars): Colombia. Paraguay. Zimbabwe. Mexico. Belarus.
What makes things even worse? Twenty percent of U.S. homicides occur in four cities with just 6% of the population - New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. Detroit has 47.3 murders per every 100,000 residents.
At least, in a more pleasant contrast to these areas, some areas have widespread gun ownership with low rates of homicide. Wyoming had the highest number of homes with loaded and unlocked guns, at 33% of all homes in the state, of any state in the United States and had a homicide rate of 1.7 of every 100,000.
No, no epidemic here. Ignore the fact that in Detroit, firearm homicide is as common as it is on the streets of Colombia. Reality has an unfortunate way of approaching "from my cold dead hands".
What is NOT okay is such imagery with "sexual intent" or "suggestive posing".
If simple possession of nude imagery of a minor was illegal, then people like Sally Mann and Jock Sturges would be behind bars, not having their work exhibited in some of the biggest galleries in the world.
a) Perhaps he should have mentioned that to his Republican leaders when they were in power, and b) perhaps he should recall that the populace of the US voted for the party that /wasn't/ looking for the (espoused, idealist, not realistic) principles/claims of the Republicans being for smaller government.
And prior to that the Repubs got more. Maybe business saw that there wasn't a chance in hell McCain/Palin was going to win, and wanted to put there money where it was more effective (which is indicative of the problem, just looked at the opposite way).
Now, should it be able to happen? No... but typically, if the merchant can't get an approval on your card, they can offline the transaction, and it'll typically go through, based on what their merchant 'type' is (a la the same thing AmEx etc use on your bills for the type of charge, i.e. 'flights', 'dining', 'goods', 'services', 'travel'). Some of these are able to get offline approvals in excess of available funds.
Went to use my card the next day. Declined. Checked online, I was at least $2,000 overdrawn. I noticed that the furniture chain had charged my card twice. Called the bank. She noticed who it was and said that "it definitely wasn't the first time [said chain] had had billing errors where they ran batches twice on Friday and reversed on Monday"...
I wonder how much interest they make on that...
She reversed the charge. Then a few days, the store reversed the charge. Then called me up to complain about why I'd had the charge reversed. Nice. Their claim (haha) was that I should have waited for them to fix their error. I laughed and said there was no way that would happen. Not for a credit card, and definitely not for a debit card that their incompetence/malice had managed to overdraw with their billing.
Trust me, nobody in the US is getting long distance and several thousand minutes a month for $70 a month in the US. My wife and I's combined account, with a data plan for each phone (hers is an iPhone), 700 minutes, with rollover, unlimited nights and weekends, and messaging, is $170 a month after taxes.
But then their manhood will be threatened, for no-one will buy the truck that does that, rather than "V8 TITAN 5.5L SUPERDUTY". You know what's really fucking horrible, seeing that on a pickup, with a four wheel rear axle, no tow hook, internal or external to be seen, and half the time a hood... what exactly do you need that engine for, again?
EXACTLY. Apropos of what you think of Repubs, what you think of Palin, what in the holy hell was McCain thinking when he okayed this? While I think the D's would still have won, I think it'd have been a lot closer without Palin in the picture.
Apparently Works didn't count, not that I'm surprised that you'd forget or gloss over it. That was available in the mid-late 80s. Revisionist/apologist history FTW.
This is a forum. You hit "Reply", and your response was indented. Given that the parent comment wasn't at the root level, you had to have noticed this.
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