If the sums are that hefty, why aren't Hollywood doing it?
Hollywood? Hollywood are making quite hefty sums from ads and everything else (though usually they'll ad for themselves). In fact, they are the ones that have the money to lobby the Swedish administration into suing the operators of one of the worlds most visited websites.
Awesome!!! Please provide a link to Hollywoods Torrent site!
A person who, with the intention of committing or promoting a
crime, presents or receives money or anything else as pre-payment
or payment for the crime or who procures, constructs, gives,
receives, keeps, conveys or engages in any other similar activity
with poison, explosive, weapon, picklock, falsification tool or other
such means, shall, in cases where specific provisions exist for the
purpose, be sentenced for preparation of crime unless he is guilty of
a completed crime or attempt.
In specially designated cases a sentence shall also be imposed
for conspiracy. By conspiracy is meant that someone decides on the
act in collusion with another as well as that someone undertakes or
offers to execute it or seeks to incite another to do so.
I expect that is what the prosecution will be focused on.
Just have their lawyers show up in court with a laptop (with wireless connection and the appropriate software installed) and go to Google. Search for "Harry Potter Goblet Fire Torrent" and click a link. Viola- bittorrent starts up. Therefore, Google can be used to search for torrents, therefore they should be charged, too. If they are not charged, then it demonstrates selective prosecution. The same goes for ANY search engine.
Or better yet, ask to see the prosecution's laptop. Then do a search using it. Show that the prosecution are guilty of the same thing they're accusing TPB of and have them taken into custody (preferably with the most dangerous offenders.)
'The Swedish prosecutor listed dozens of works that had been downloaded through The Pirate Bay site, including The Beatles' Let It Be, Robbie Williams' Intensive Care and the movie Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire. Plaintiffs in the case include Warner, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, Universal and EMI.'"
It's been said 1000 times: These things were not downloaded FROM the Pirate Bay - they just provide the reference as to where they could be downloaded from. Do you think that by listing The Beatles and Robbie Williams I'm supposed to have sympathy? By listing Harry Potter are they 'thinking of the children?' - is the list of big media supposed to be scary? TPB are very careful not to break Swedish law. They don't care what the laws of other countries are - (I'm looking at you USA) as they live in SWEDEN they are only concerned with Swedish law.
I hope they come out squeaky clean - as they should as they have not broken their countries law.
At home, we have a DC run throughout the house wherever we upgraded our power, and I'm seriously thinking of changing it to USB charging. AC in the home is useful, but so many devices use DC (and the dreaded overheating wall-warts!) that I'm shocked that more devices aren't standardizing on DC. 18V, 5A+, not a big deal -- but so many devices could use it (charging tools, video games, cell phones, even some computer monitors). Simple, without needed ANOTHER heat-generating and wasting transformer. My laptop is DC, too, yet I need the darned transformer throughout the house.
I never got to play tits - sounds like fun. What was the objective?
Essentially the same: To get your fury balls behind the netting into the oppositions box. You also prey that your balls don't get smashed too hard and hope it all leads to 'french open'. Love means nothing, and you think "it was in" when you're being told otherwise.
Natural language processing etc:
To register, answer these questions and click the button on the right
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What is three times three?
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There is a good podcast on Security Now (see episode 101) Here is the transcript - this bit not all that clear as it is an actual transcript from Steve's stenographer.
....But, for example, you could imagine some sort of puzzle-solving solution. There has been JavaScript created which asks simple, English-language problems, like what is one plus one, as a trivial example. The problem is, again, it wouldn't be hard to cause a computer to have, you know, there would be a limited enough vocabulary of permutations of questions that different numbers would get plugged into that you could write some code that would understand that limited subset of questions and be able to answer them. So that's not very exciting.
Basically with natural language questions, there can only be a limited number of questions that have to be answered - it is difficult to have a computer generate a large enough number of questions (that are 'general enough knowledge'). The person attacking this captcha then only has to answer them once, and have his script pick the right answer in an automated fashion. (and from TFA, the attacker only cares if he gets it right 30% of the time, so even if they spend a hour answering a bunch of these, then given enough queries the questions the attacker answered will come around again, and again, and again and be answered by the script.
Highly recommend the episode on captcha's and the couple afterward that address listener feedback.
It wouldn't need to be an actual virus, it only needs to be something Viral. Says some hilarious mp3 file that has the same signature as that of RIAA content on the watchlist.
Conversely, If I was an advertiser and the audio ad available for download at my website just happened to have the same signature as something blacklisted - and caused my "potential customers" to lose their internet, then I'd be looking to sue someone....
Ok, I actually read TFA, and what's not mentioned is whether or not these actions are even illegal in Russia. Just because something is against the law in the U.S. does mean it's illegal everywhere in the world.
Which leads me to believe, that the people the senators hire (which obviously fall in line with the senators agenda), have no interest in hearing from constituents, but rather already have the answer, and are only really researching the questions
If that approach is systemic then things are really bad but the question is 'how can someone change that?'
They refused to speak English except with the professors and had posters of Mao along with his poetry all over the half of the graduate-student office that they dominated. I don't want to sound xenophobic, but it was very strange.
I'm sure if you were studying in China you'd be speaking English to your American friends and you'd have big posters of Bush in the Student office with lists of his famous quotes... .... right? right?
this post has a list of what he's said and why the Blogger has a 'bounty' on him. Here's the summary:
Here is a grand summary of my posts about Ray Niro (you can click on the Niro Scavone labels to read them all):
1) I posted Fish & Richardson's allegations against him. But those were F&R's words, not my own. By the way, the judge granted expedited discovery to allow F&R to determine whether to add Ray Niro personally as a defendant. And if F&R does sue Niro, personally, I'll report about it here. Which is not disparaging him, just reporting.
2) I posted about how Niro secured a permanent injunction that was stayed in light of BMC v. Paymentech. True!
3) I dared Niro to sue the New York Yankees in Boston on the '341 patent. But I don't think he wants to litigate out of state. C'mon Ray, if you want to stay in Chicago, at least add the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings as defendants, too. (They have JPEGimages).
4) I reported that he represents Acacia in a bit of patent litigation. All true.
5) I speculated that he actually represents non-practicing entities as a fair amount of his overall practice. Also, true.
With a clean install of Vista it takes me around 5-10 seconds to delete a file.
I had the same problem. My first experience with Vista was on my Presario c700 with 1GB RAM. After the first boot ( and once everything had settled) I started doing all the things that needed to be done like deleting the majority of the unnecessary desktop shortcuts. After hitting the delete key, I got a dialog something like "Vista is calculating the time to carry out this action"...... And it took about 15 to 20 Seconds for the entire process. I just found it DOG slow with almost everything.
Sure others have pointed out that I could add some ram and get my performance back, but I managed to get a major boost in performance for free (and in less time) by installing Ubuntu.
I used nlite after needing to slipstream my RAID drivers into my windows install. (no floppy drive.) At the same time I removed all the bloat (media player, explorer, msn, explore XP intro etc, and included a bunch of updates with the tool offline-updates.
I considered trying vlite on the recovery disks that I made with my laptop (presario c700 (1GB RAM)) right before I overwrote it with Ubuntu. But there wouldn't be much point as the Ubuntu has proven to be much more responsive and offers the encrypted install option with the 'alternate' install.
Anyone had success with vlite or nlite on OEM 'recovery' disks?
yeah, do you think the owner of the pirate bay ever walked into the office one day and asked someone "you think the name's why they're suing us?" They might have done better with Happyland or Distributed Data Inc.
or better yet, put a US style patriotic spin on it:
Freedom for all information.org
Democratic Freedom Media.org
Patriotic Freedom data.org
FREE (as in beer) trade.org
We fight terrorism with movies and music if you shut us down the terrorists will win.org
Why cant I please my wife with my.org (that's just for giggles when the **IA spokespeople are giving press conferences.)
That could mean that if the government wants your user data, and the servers are outside the U.S., they could tap/hack/physically break in and get the data they want w/o even the pretense of judicial sanction, and w/o even the possibility of court action for you.
I'd say no matter what the hosting solution is, the server being compromised is a significant risk. (I'm sure the Three Letter Acronym organizations can get in if they try hard enough). So you'd want the people posting to be using an anonymous proxy (TOR) and being very careful not to be socially engineered into providing information. (I recall a 20/20 or 60minutes with a housewife from the US posing as an Islamic extremist and was handing much info to the FBI through social engineering the bad guys). Also, I recall an article here describing identifying AC's across the internet by their writing style. I.e someone posts on your site as AC, then their own blog with the same 'tells' and then they go missing.
I just hope that all those on/. dont get arrested for helping the person who wrote the article because what he's doing is uber illegal. That'd suck.
Firstly, I'm not a chemist/biologist (as you can already tell - and last time I was even in a class that brushed on this was in highschool over 20 Years ago.) Secondly, I was trying to convey enough information from what I recalled to get the gist of the news segment across. I heard it a number of weeks ago, and without going and doing a freakin masters in it to write a/. post i figured i'd try and get enough across to let those 'informed' people expand on it.
But thanks to the other reply to your post, I've learned something.
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It's been said 1000 times: These things were not downloaded FROM the Pirate Bay - they just provide the reference as to where they could be downloaded from. Do you think that by listing The Beatles and Robbie Williams I'm supposed to have sympathy? By listing Harry Potter are they 'thinking of the children?' - is the list of big media supposed to be scary? TPB are very careful not to break Swedish law. They don't care what the laws of other countries are - (I'm looking at you USA) as they live in SWEDEN they are only concerned with Swedish law.
I hope they come out squeaky clean - as they should as they have not broken their countries law.
Here is the transcript - this bit not all that clear as it is an actual transcript from Steve's stenographer. Basically with natural language questions, there can only be a limited number of questions that have to be answered - it is difficult to have a computer generate a large enough number of questions (that are 'general enough knowledge'). The person attacking this captcha then only has to answer them once, and have his script pick the right answer in an automated fashion. (and from TFA, the attacker only cares if he gets it right 30% of the time, so even if they spend a hour answering a bunch of these, then given enough queries the questions the attacker answered will come around again, and again, and again and be answered by the script.
Highly recommend the episode on captcha's and the couple afterward that address listener feedback.
It wouldn't need to be an actual virus, it only needs to be something Viral. Says some hilarious mp3 file that has the same signature as that of RIAA content on the watchlist.
Conversely, If I was an advertiser and the audio ad available for download at my website just happened to have the same signature as something blacklisted - and caused my "potential customers" to lose their internet, then I'd be looking to sue someone....
oh wait.
The Anonymous Blogger has already offered (on their blog) to turn themselves over to Niro if the bounty hits $50K.
Sure others have pointed out that I could add some ram and get my performance back, but I managed to get a major boost in performance for free (and in less time) by installing Ubuntu.
I used nlite after needing to slipstream my RAID drivers into my windows install. (no floppy drive.) At the same time I removed all the bloat (media player, explorer, msn, explore XP intro etc, and included a bunch of updates with the tool offline-updates.
I considered trying vlite on the recovery disks that I made with my laptop (presario c700 (1GB RAM)) right before I overwrote it with Ubuntu. But there wouldn't be much point as the Ubuntu has proven to be much more responsive and offers the encrypted install option with the 'alternate' install.
Anyone had success with vlite or nlite on OEM 'recovery' disks?
I thought this kind of behavior was a pre-requisite to work for the RIAA...
Freedom for all information.org
Democratic Freedom Media
Patriotic Freedom data
FREE (as in beer) trade
We fight terrorism with movies and music if you shut us down the terrorists will win.org
Why cant I please my wife with my
TPB could argue "if you think this business model is so great, then why isn't Hollywood using it?"
I just hope that all those on
um, yeah, ok thanks.
/. post i figured i'd try and get enough across to let those 'informed' people expand on it.
Firstly, I'm not a chemist/biologist (as you can already tell - and last time I was even in a class that brushed on this was in highschool over 20 Years ago.) Secondly, I was trying to convey enough information from what I recalled to get the gist of the news segment across. I heard it a number of weeks ago, and without going and doing a freakin masters in it to write a
But thanks to the other reply to your post, I've learned something.
good point, of course they don't. I should have said 'modified'.
Late brain was in need of coffee.