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Good site that gets personal with Landon Donovan’s childhood. Has a few personal childhood pictures too. About half-overlapping with my existing hoard.

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I do think Landon was awful in World Cup 2006 in relation to World Cup 2002. The fact that he was just average in World Cup 2006 but still shines in MLS means that MLS is still just a minor league compared to Europe, but I wouldn’t call it outright awful though. Its more like Major League Basebal being like the English Premiere League and AAA Minor League baseball being like Major League Soccer. I see the USL 1st Division is similar to single-A minor league baseball relative to the EPL. Landon wants to stay in the USA for happiness reasons and I support it. But he’ll never be an international superstar in MLS, but I don’t think he cares.

Update 7/28/2006 - Broke up into two posts because the mixed topics might be confusing the google ads

I think telepathy between best friends or close family would be cool. Other forms of telepathy outside of strict useful use of telerecieve and telesend would be like the medical insurance world of screw or be screwed (or likely both if everybody could indiscriminately mind-read). Most RPGs mostly just give modest skill bonuses for close relationships, although GURPs 4th edition adds a mindlink, which is a essentially a permanent or a guaranteed connection telepathic link with one or more people (point cost varies with number - from freakish best friends to a illuminati conspiracy organization like the MIB). Vulcan mind-melds are form of telepathy. Contact-only range, but extremely high bandwidth enough for a two-way full neural-interface level telepathic connection. Most RPGs do not have systems to measure bandwidth, although that would be limited to telepathy and ESP though. Just skill/accuracy and power/range (many have only 1 combined scale). In GURPs, power determines range for ESP, psycoportation, and Telepathy, but for Psychokinesis, its weight, or temperature change rate. Skill determines connectivity for telepathy and overall control for all power categories. There is no mention of bandwidth. I guess a house rule could be made that it would be a function of power and skill and how much of those capacities are being used.

I’ve seen limited uses of holy-spirit assisted telepathy, mostly in the form of prophecy or message verification/repetition, though this is easy to fraud (training/coordination/pre-organized act), and also tongues interpretation is completely unverifiable by nonbelievers, while plain-english or multilingual verification has limited verification capability. But I’m pretty sure the 2-key security system (when ICBMs were manually launched before the mid-80s) for launching nuclear weapons (at least in the USA) and verification / seconding of prophecy have at least slight correlation beyond coincidence, especially since God’s most used communication channels is direct through emotion infested analog human brains and also that drugs and other hallucination-enhancing situations would make one more sensitive to such messages, from any source including your own brain. So I think it probably would be good for God to do extreme messages (voices, images, and especially fully audiovisual and possibly interactive things like angels) between two close friends with holy-ghost assisted telepathy (or high-bandwidth mind-meld) and in situations free of hallucinatory enhancer (extreme heat, LSD, Marijuana, other drugs, extreme hunger/thirst, high blood loss, major depression, severe stress / trauma, etc…). If you think you see an angel or have a strange dream that suggests the end of the world, or tells you to do something radical, then if it ain’t like the telepathic dreams of Explorers (the mid-80s movie) or Vulcan mind-melds (3-way actually w/ god as the 3rd party) with somebody you really trust, I’d ignore it because you might be going looney or just really desperately want something. I think telepathic dreams would be really cool. I know only two movies that cover it, - Explorers and Nightmare on Elm Street 3-4 (Explorers shows it far better).

Another thing that would be cool, if and when the technology is developed, is machine-interface enabled telepathy or even mind meld! Go get your chick, partner, or best friend, or best-friend equivalent family member (likely identical twins), plug-in, and download minds to each other (which is why normal friends, acquaintances, and strangers probably wouldn’t want to do such a thing)! Just simply sharing thoughts directly without any keyboard or mouse would be pretty cool. Apserger people and some HFA, and even normal people would probably really tripp off of it, including me. And you can control the computer and plug in or unplug whenever you want, which is better than other methods (I only seen limited telepathy in holy-roller environments unfortunately), especially drug assisted ones. The only machine-assisted ‘telepathy’ you can get today, in the here and now, is to plug two or more people into conventional networked audio/visual VR systems to get voice-only virtual telepathy, but no direct image communication or voice+images. MMORPGs like World of Worldcraft or Star Wars Galaxies or Everquest is the closest to remote-telepathy that the average joe-smoe will get to in the next few years.

LI-ION batteries always blow up if they are substantially overcharged on high current (like Dells) or if they are shorted for a long time. I wanna keep the ability to charge 2 batteries in 4 hours though….with the machine on. Alienware takes 4 hours to charge 1 battery with the machine off. Dell probably has a separate charge circuit for each bank of 4 cells and the 8000-8200 batteries have 2 banks and the XPS ones have 3 (subwoofer) or 4 (no subwoofer). My Alienware has 3 banks (4×3=12 cells). I think LI-ION cells are up to 2600mah now for the size that laptop batteries use. AND you can build your own batteries too. Don’t leave out the protection chip though.

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This is cool new technology. It seems public enough to be resistant to be being bought out and shelved. So I hope to see it in my Thumb Drive, Camera/Phone memory card, or even a smy PCS’s main RAM within the next 5-10 years.

Update 7/28/2006 - Broke this post into two because it might be confusing the Google ads.

This is they guy who is taking his MPAA lawsuit all the way to trial. The next paragraph is an echo of my comment in his blog.

They Don’t give a shit. They are using automated systems and assume that everybody is criminals. It is best to just be one. IP filters are very effective against P2P network spiders from data centers, but not deep packet sniffing or PI/FBI investigator on a personal internet connection with a dynamic IP. If you used an IP blocker and managed your server list (like favorite servers high prio, small servers low prio, rest normal prio, and set servers you trust to static and tell emule to connect only to servers on static list), you would of never ended up in their lawsuit lottery. Odds of getting a lawsuit are about the same as winning top prize on a scratcher…. You owning the DVDs already doesn’t matter to them. It is worse with the RIAA. They want you to buy the DVD again if you scratch it, lose it, or get it stolen (like getting your DVD case snatched from your checked luggage by airline baggage people or TSA baggage screeners). They actually prefer everybody socially engineered into pay-per-view.

I that if the case starts looking bad, he should start liquidating his assets. If he loses he still has to keep the MPAA from getting paid. I think his company is safe though. One can just ‘expense’ out some rent. I know a chick who’s husband expensed (write-off as a marketing expense to avoid personal or corporate income taxes) a half million dollars for a tripped-out F-350 (with basic wrecker gear to make it expensable). Whatever the case outcome, I think he should be a brave, but smart rebel, and keep using Emule and download whatever he wishes. Especially if there is moral (but not legal, but moral is enough for me) backing of ownership of ligit copies, even if it may be partial (it don’t look like the legit ownership backing is very partial by his blog - it is rather complete).

He got plenty of money and doesn’t want donations also. So I agree with donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). You also got the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and the Wikipedia, and numerous individual open-source projects also, such as Emule, BitTorrent, Azureus (The best BitTorrent Client), ZSNES (SNES emulator), Orbiter Space Flight Simulator, and SETI@Home (BOINC / Grid Computing). Also, if you prefer political donations, you have the pirate-parties - Pirate Party of the United States and Pirate Party Sweden. If he loses, he can donate his assets to any of these lovely charities instead of letting the MPAA collect and garnish them Only the FBI in terrorist or anti-spy mode can freeze a bank account in less than a day or two (The time it takes for a ACH transaction to go through). If he moves it to paypal first, then nobdoy could stop it unless they attack the EFF, FSF, Wikipedia, etc… also.

I guess Ladonia is a micro-state like the Vatican and that the internet is totally illegal in their territory. I wouldn’t want to blow them up or fabricate terrorism over it. I would support the citizens rebelling against the law by disregarding it and getting internet anyway and then only get violent only to defend against violent enforcement of the stupid anti-internet law.

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China is number two. Doesn’t adjust or reflect any zombienet factors. Says Russia is #1 for zombienet mob operations, which I would agree with. Looks like Asia has significant minority sources to be number one, but I also think that its not just oriental asia and southeast asia and includes Russia, India, and the middle east. I wouldn’t doubt that america leads for classic non-botnet spamming (individuals, small-businesses on diy systems), while western europe leads for botnet-originated spam.

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Hey they do this all over central and south america too. Kidnap and possibly beat or torture you and your family. I got a really nasty torture video from China that I downloaded from Emule. They were puting a needle through somebody’s skull on the side about a few inches from the eye and out the front the eye. Another scene where they were cutting up a woman and making her husband watch. ED2K Link to video.

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Hey that makes China’s firewall easy to hack around. I hope to see more Chinese on Emule! Though most of the chinese on emule are probably already using these hacks if there is any port blocking. If China blocks ports on international connections like my company does out of the office, how does one hack around that? Putting Emule onto port 80 only makes only a small few servers and less than 1% of clients connectable. China should probably do that. AES encryption would probably bypass that so BitTorrent / Azuerous would work at level 2 or higher encryption.

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Guess they didn’t want the sick and dying to be in the media spotlight. Columbia is still far worse when it comes to selective enforcement of tyrannical law, but China’s got the press and I hate China’s CommyGov too. I would love to see a democratic China culturally and economically conquer the world though.

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Some more various articles on Chinese Tyranny

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This is my favorite kind of leak!!!! Bush is whining like a stupid and spoiled child (video in ‘Surveillance Disclosure Denounced’ article) that aspires to be totalitarian dictator of the world! Might mean the end of freedom of press in this country, especially with the world ‘treason’ being flown around. The 4th amendment is already mostly annulled.

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P2PNet’s crimes are nothing compared to what other bloggers have done. The Forbes article linked above has tips on fighting back, which includes lawsuits.

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This article gives the view on both sides on Net Neutrality. I prefer Net Neutrality but I don’t want any laws that result on HFOG on people or companies unless it is to prevent deception or exploitation. Plus I would pay a premium for the right to abuse. $1/Gig is too much. But 0.10 - 0.20 per gig is reasonable (considering that there will still be fixed service charges). A 100% utilized T1 is about 950 gigabytes per month and you can get one for $350 to $400 per month. .025 per gigabyte on 950GB is $237.50. A SpeakEasy (Open-Policy DSL ISP) DSL line at 1536/768 is $80/month. 0.25 per gigabyte is $178 about. 0.10 per gigabyte would be 71.25 with 100% utilization on speakeasy. DSL isn’t full-duplex like a T1 though so you’d get about half that bandwidth utilization maximum with Emule (355 gigabytes per month) so it would be about $89/month at $0.25 per gigabyte of transfer, and $71/mo at $0.20 per gig. My web hosting account is $13/mo and I get 200GB of transfer!!! Great for file hosting. $0.065 per gigabyte! Only problem is that I am currently only using 1.5GB/per month and I would probably get shut down if I consistantly went over 100GB if it were mostly file and image hosting (only about 1/3 of my bandwidth usage is blog-related).

Got a little behind here. Heres about two weeks worth of stuff.

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Great Progress! Now get somebody elected…. Any national level office…. Any Country…. Thats the next step of progress.

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Pirates II is a good movie. It is very cinematic realism, but I like it and it is also consistant. I’m getting the CAM because I won’t pay $7 / $9.50 for a movie ticket more than once anymore. They keep on raising the prices (the popcorn and soda is going up too!) and they are also suing people.

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For me.. If I was determined, I could get into MIT. I don’t want the debt, I rather spend money of RPGs and Video Games, and I hate studying and Homework. So I went to SUNY Tech. SUNY Tech was a ‘tweener’ school, at least for computer science, where the smart tended to get off easy and the average struggled no matter how much work they did. If I had Emule back then I’d probably would’ve gotten into trouble less but if I did get into trouble it would be for the file sharing instead of the newsgroup spamming and warez-linking. When I went, SUNY Tech was a upper-divsion two-year transfer-only school and masters-degree graduate school (Junior, Senior, Masters). Now it is full-range, freshman to PHD.

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Hmm. Exmample Shock that doesn’t work, Failed Anti-Competitive measures, Easy to crack DRM, political Hypocracy, Trying to make anything related to copying illegal including recording live broadcasts, and Spyware implantation. That describes the MPAA and especially the RIAA pretty well…

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I filled out one of these surveys by accident. Didn’t clarify PC games being distributed on DVD. Just said ‘DVD games’. DVD-Player-only games would’ve made me say ‘no’ and disqualify me for the survey. But I had fun ridculig that outragous products the they are planning to push out. DVD-Player only video games that are largly simple games and well decorated trivia questions that function withing the pretty tight limits of the DVD-video protocol.

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RIAA only got one left. If they lose, they are doomed. Remember, 5 childeren, probably one of those kids using kazaa in a very ignorant fashion (noob leech). RIAA could care less. But they will probably go to trial as she is refusing any kind of settlement. I hope she’s a renter because the RIAA has a lot of lawyers, but they gotta work for pittence though because nobody’s getting paid with at most a house to take. More likely just wage garnishment and a used car.

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Too much bad will??? Too late… I’ve bought only 2 CDs in the past year and a half. Only buy Sepultura and Soulfly now. Everybody else I download. I don’t want to give the RIAA member MegaCorps any more money.

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Columbia has an inefficient and inconsistent goverment. It is more a tool to knock out political enemies and for cops to enjoy bouts of power. Lack of consistant enforcement (it has to be consistant like robber, assault, homicide) will fail knock out piracy or DRM-cracking, even with torturous public executions. If everybody got caught instantly, most would respond with just a week in the Sherriff’s can here in Maricopa County…(first offense standard DUI-equivilant penalty) while the rest will get smart and just not get caught.

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DRM = digital rights management: Original meaning
DRM = digital restrictions management: Corrected meaning by ZDNet reporter
DRM = C.R.A.P = Content Restriction Annulment and Protection: Renamed Acronym and Meaning by ZDNet Reporter
DRM = C.R.A.P = Cancellation, Restriction and Punishment: FSF’s Stallman’s meaning change

I like DRM=’Digital Restrictions Management’ and CRAP=’Content Restriction Annulment and Protection’

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Original source of the adventures of ‘Private Infringer’ and ‘Captain Copyright’. Only 2 chapters written. Author most have gotten legal letters and got scared. I refused and resist a ‘Henry Conn’ (was determined to do so because I settled with a different collections agency for the debt but have no proof), an aggressive collections lawyer. All of the calls were from his paralegal though, but they did call my job for feasability of wage garnishment, but I think he was targeting my car in the form of ‘non exempt assets garnishment’. Just ignored him didn’t answer any calls. Ended up sellig the debt to a laid back collections agency. Attempting to be legal is just like gun registration (and subsquent banning in CA) - it just makes you more trackable and bustable.

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I would trade in my pirate DVDs for that, if I had a computer to copy it first…. Maybe make 10 more and turn them in if I had a good label printer.

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Get those #1.25 DVDs into my Wal-Mart. I would buy them if they don’t suck. $1.25 for 80s movies, $5 for new releases. No-Case CardBoard I could care less. Would put the movie rental industry out of business though so it probably won’t happen. China doesn’t have a movie rental industry. At least one can rent-and-rip. Or better, just download it. But chinese people likely can’t do either (No PC w/ burner, crummy or no internet).

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‘Scanning’=List Shared files, which is off by default and turned out by 1 in 5 people, of which about 2/3 of those are for friends only, or is it spidering the network with general searches, mostly via KAD, and rounding up sources and grouping by IP? A IP in a dynamic IP address pool can have multiple users so if they are grouping by IP then it is too ambigous. Grouping by UserHash (Emule) and then tagging a one-to-many database of IP addresses may hold up better in court. Media Sentry has been hitting my IP Blocker a lot more lately, so they are definitly desparate. Deep packet sniffing that BayTSP uses probably can’t capture UserHashes effectively. For the good laywers out there, a UserHash can be duplicated by leecher (or l33chr) mods or by people just copying their emule directory and plopping it onto another machine, making even UserHashes a little too ambigous!! It will take only dedicated PI or FBI survailence to get something that holds weight in court even with a superhero defense lawyer!

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This Video is on Emule P2P FileSharing. Go Get it there. The infringement is permanent. YouTube is difficult to rip, so it was leaked to P2P before it was uploaded to YouTube. He just looking for money as it is probably true that he didn’t send a warning/cease & desist prior to the suit. Looks like he is a major litigator. THe RIAA will love him once he retires as a reporter. Now somebody hoard up all his stuff that has registered copyrights and share em up on Emule! He can’t sue them all! The RIAA sure can’t!!

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Any way to save money. Bandwidth savings on the movies could save a lot… Get a DVD-rip XVID or album-archive while you’re at it

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Don’t work for her company. My blog has a multiple instances of that level of ‘crime’.

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Just a tactical change. All those secondary plaintiffs probably are detrimental to victory. Jon still could get nailed. Just don’t pay, force them to collect. Can maybe dump assets to charity too, like WikiPedia.

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Azeurus (BitTorrent) can do this encryption stuff too. It actualy can do more to defeat traffic shaping and throttling. You just have to turn it on. Skype appears to have it always-on. Might be bad for BitTorrent users because it is giving bandwidth-owners more motivation have their deep-sniffing to defeat the encryption because skype appears to be an uncontrollabel bandwidth hog thats 4 times worse than kazaa. The Article says that it decides for it self whether the skype client becomes a supernode and there may be no bandwdith control setttngs. Emule and Azeurous have extensive bandwidth control settings - both manual (Both) and automated (Emule).

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If Yahoo! Music offered an unrestricted MP3 file format for music downloads, how likely would you be to use it?

Very Likely if it is 128-192kbps. A choice of 96,128,160,192,256 is preferred.

Would you consider paying $1.09 for a single, unrestricted MP3 download that would have absolutely no limitations on its use and could be transferred to any portable audio player or computer?

Yes, but at $1.09, only my favorites. For 0.25-0.35, probably everything because you become competitive with intelligent managment (not getting nailed with ‘featured selections’) and purchasing (Wait for Buy one at reg price buy unlimited at $5 sales that happen every 3-4 months) from music clubs such as BMG Music Service. I won’t pay $1.09 for unfamiliar songs and I won’t impulse shop at $1.09.

I got this from a forum post in the RIAA/MPAA problems thread on Emule Forums. These are very relevant for those who auto-fetch servers, publish their share lists, and any body who downloads and especially shares or releases mainstream commercial copyrighted material. I echoed my reply here, filling more detailed tips:

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If you decide to continue using Emule: (no guarantees though):

# 1) Change IP-adress if possible. Change ports regularly.

# 2) Uninstall your old mule and replace it with a fresh one and you’ll get a new UserHash. You are losing your credits of course.

# 3) Do not connect to any of the Fake/Spy-servers. See ElChele’s topic.

# 4) Download and install an IP-filter as said above and keep it updated .

# 5) Stay in the middle of the shoal of fish. Or in other words; stay below the radar.

#1 is free - I have a dynamic IP address but it changes only when i reconnect (which a disconnect occurs every 24 hours with my ISP to prevent commercial abuse). I have an ISDN-equivilant (after traffic shaping - up/down 144kbps simulaneously) cellphone modem using Verizon Wireless’s BroadBandAccess. Traffic Shaping limits Emule to NationalAccess speeds, which is good for the network because BroadBand Access has 144kbps up / 2mbit down (usualy get 600-800kbps) which would mean leeching without traffic shaping.

#2 I ain’t doing this. My UserHash has been the same since 2004.

#3 Most important. Sort your server list and frown upon anything from the united states (Only Emule Mods support country flags). Isreal and China have fake servers too and there are some in the netherlands now too (where most of the big servers are at now). Connectiong to a fake even for just a few minutes tells the RIAA everything that you are sharing with IP, userhash and all. Set your favorite servers to high. Set your trusted servers to static, then tell Emule to connect to static list servers only. Set all the small servers (<3million files) to low and the rest to normal. Turning off auto-retrieve servers when connectig to servers and from other clients is helpful, but I don't do that as I liek to download rare files. But if you download mostly mainstream stuff I would recommend turning off any server auto-fetch and only load server.mets from trusted web sites.

#4 Very Important. Helps #3 alot, especially if you turn out auto-fetch servers from other servers and clients. The easiest IP fileter to load is the Emule-PawCio / Emule-Mods.de IPFilter, which is mostly bluetack data but has other stuff too. It only uplates once or twice per month though. Going direct to bluetack will get you lists that update every day. This is the Emule-optimized list but the descriptions are highly truncated.

#5 Either turn off allow people getting a file list (default) or make default visibility ‘hidden’ (MorphXT feature). Set priority of incomplete/incoming files to ‘very low’, but it is effective only if you are permasharing other files. I have a 9:1 completefile to partfile ratio. You will have a 1:2 UL:DL ratio or worse on copyrighted DVD movies while you get your own releases and rare files out better (My permashares are about 2/3 legal, 2/5 when excluding bible-related files).

Country Breakdown for people in my upload queue requesting a Perma-Share
Maximum of Morning of 7/21/2006 and Evening of 7/21/2006

 Argentina           2
Australia           2
Brazil              14
Camaroon            1
Canada              7
Chile               1
China               3
Columbia            5
Croatia             1
Denmark             1
Dominican Republic  2
France              19
Germany             9
Greece              2
Honduras            1
Islamic Repub Iran  1
Isreal              4
Italy               23
Luxemburg           1
Malaysia            1
Mexico              5
Netherlands         3
New Zealand         1
Nigeria             1
Not Applicable      2
Paraguay            1
Peru                1
Poland              2
Portugal            3
Republic of Korea   5
Russian Federation  2
Slovakia            1
Slovenia            3
Spain               32
Switzerland         1
Thailand            1
Turkey              1
United Arab Emirate 1
United Kingdom      2
United States       13
Uraguay             1
Viet Nam            1

Aggragate Stats of PermaShares by Directory / Category

Notes:

• The Session Stats are on my current Emule Up-Time of 8 Days + 1-2 Hours
• For the full list of my file shares, either all, grouped by priority, or a ‘leader board’ format, go look at the page list on the right, which is visible if you are looking on the main blog page or in a category but not this individual entry.
• In the Bible Category, 2 files - Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? - Audio Bible - New Living Translation NLT - New Testament - Dramatized - Mp3.rar (ED2K Link) and Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? - Audio Bible - New Living Translation NLT - Old Testament - Dramatized - Mp3.rar (ED2K Link) - Make up 4.3GB of the 5.46GB total in the category
• In the Books Category, 2 Files - Penton Media VIP Super Master CD - SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator - Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm (ED2K Link) and Penton Media VIP Super Master CD - SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator - Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm (ED2K Link) - Make up 810MB of the 1105MB total in the category
• The Books Category is Dominated in only cumulative bytes transferred by former PowerShare Penton Media VIP Super Master CD - SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator - Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm (ED2K Link) - With 14.95GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred.
• The FileSharing Category has the cumulative stats depressed by replacements by newer versions of the filesharing client and server software.
• The Pictures Category is Dominated in both session and cumulative bytes transferred by current PowerShare (it’s in-and-out of PS) Area 51 Groom Lake AFB Pictures 156 Pics - 1959-2005 Aerial & Satellite 5-15 MP - Maps Diagrams Panorama Photos - Top Secret Black Project UFO.rar (ED2K Link) - Which has 1.0 GB session Bytes Transferred and 9.87GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred.
• The Pictures Category has 1 Church / Bible releated file and Movies Categories has 5 Church / Bible Related Files, all Power-Shared, but with only a modest amount of tranfer volume relative to their categories.
• The Warez Category is Dominated in both session and cumulative bytes transferred by former PowerShare (curently non-PS release) Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Ed. 2006-05-04 060504 - Base + SDK + Planet HiRes + Earth L10 + Mars L10 + DeltaGlider HTex + DragonFly HTex.rar (ED2K Link) - With 1.05GB Session Bytes Transferred and 7.52GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred

Loving parents and/or best friends are the best treatment for autism. It requires a ‘magic compatibility’ though. Otherwise it will just be humongous amounts of loving, patient effort (brute-force love). The worse the autism, the narrower the niche, even microscopic for the severely autistic, which are more likely to need more and more brute-force love (or eventual giving up and putting away for containment). Magic compatibility is better, so promoting best-friendships is definitely better when the autistic kid gets older. I’m fully autistic but had a loving patient mother who was able to wiggle out state services (in the late 70s after moving from AZ to CT) and had a very few close friends in life (though I was a total socially non-functional reject most of my grade school years), combined with a libertarian father that hates any ’system’ and hates taxes and believes that anything can be disciplined away (which that part was mostly negated by my mother; but my father’s discipline was always structured, consistent, and not emotion-driven unlike my mother who was inconsistent, and mood dependent), so I had early intervention that was limited to removing self-injourous stimming, developing language and very basic emotion and world-awareness skills.

Right now though I am fully autistic on DSM-IV terms, I function and appear to the outside world as Asperger’s Syndrome. I think my official diagnosis is PDD-NOS because my mother keeps telling me i am ‘atypical’ which is a layterm for PDD-NOS, so probably at official diagnosis time probably at age 5-6, they were able to bribe-away my stimming behavior, accompanied by some clever fibbing (definitly by my father’s order). I think though fully autistic because i do stimm a lot at home in the form of hand flapping, but object-fixation is minimal - I don’t knock on the fridgerator for hours anymore nor stare at driers all day. I may fondle or stare at an object like a pen or a textured object for way too long if I am very bored or very stressed. This behavior was probably conditioned out prior to my offical diagnosis and was easy to hide from a clinician when I was 5-6 and is very minimal right now.

I think the high compatibility close/best friend interface is the only social interface I can function with without large amounts of effort and determination. I have 0 ability in group conversation without reverting to a sub-conversation or emulation via non-rapport broadcasting mode only on intellectual context and I can’t navigate in any kind of social clique. So if you have a high-function autistic / PDD-NOS or an asperger’s kid I would try to maximize the odds of him/her finding a best friend (in a structured environment is ok, but the friendship connection has to be as direct and no-obsticle — etiquette, cultural beaurocracy — as possible) and then once such a friendship forms on its own (not an teacher or parent hand-hold maintained relationship) do all that you can to keep it together. Then maybe auxiliary branch-off friendships will form, all mostly on a 1-1 or very small group interface.

Makes sense. Blind people’s visual centers shrink and their tactile and auditory sensory centers increase. Autistic’s people’s social centers shrink and their logic centers increase because something else keeps it from functioning correctly.

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Over-mail genetic imprintation in the brain makes more sense than over-male sex hormones. Only problem though is that I’ve read autistic people have larger frontal lobes and bigger heads/brains and not smaller frontal lobes as suggested in the smaller forebrains and larger limbic brains of over-paternal genetic imprintation and big bodies / small brains of paternal-cell chimeras.

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I think most of this ‘increase’ in increase in the diagnosis rate of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger’s. Way back then when it was ‘1 in 500′ mostly only substantially impaired individuals were diagnosed. I think LFA, HFA , AS, and PDD-NOS (fail AS only b/c of language delay but fail autism) and PDD-NOS (other) should be separated out in these diagnosis statistics. LFA/HFA probably can be differentiated on the GAF scale. That last article itemizes a little bit but it only differentiates ‘classic’ which could include HFA and ‘everything else’ which would include Aspergers, PDD-NOS, Rhett Syndrome and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. The ‘classic’ category is 1 in 256, which is seems consistent to the 80s/90s ‘1 in 500′ figure + an increased diagnosis percentage.

I think it is consistent with me. A lot of things that is that is more than 2 stereotyped brain-lobes away works poorly. Hearing and Vision coordinate well and also Hearing and Touch and Touch and Vision. Motor Coordination and any of the senses don’t work well together except maybe vestibular sensations (My gross motor coordination sucks and my fine motor coordination is mediocre). Anything emotional doesn’t synchronize well - they want to dominate or are suppressed. If I get analytical, most low-level emotions cease (still there; just not getting any CPU or bandwidth). Also low-function and any higher-functions don’t communicate well, which is probably why i can get boners and feel sexual pleasure without it broadcasting through all the higher brain to say go flirt or go screw. Reasoning and motor work ok together, and motor and touch work pretty well together also. I can fly airplanes (unofficial never spent money to get lessons/license), scuba dive, and drive. I am week with processing multiple sensory sources at once though.? That handicaps my ability in sports far more than my ability to drive but it affects that but I seem to have developed work-arounds from years of riding a bicycle in traffic. Vestibular sense (motion), and peripheral vision are my fastest senses (primary vision is really slow) for interfacing with ‘intuitive processes’ or ‘primal functions’.

Though I may be auditory, it is strictly on processing of external sensory information, short-term memory, and rote memorization. I think I am fairly visual when just thinking without much sensory input. I do think, for internal thinking or on memories, but not for external live-sensory streams, that I coordinate visual and auditory (sound context not just spoken language) very well, but communication there is only 1 brain-lobe away (temporal->occipital). I know can’t form complex visualizations that well because there just isn’t enough bandwidth. I can visualize simple to moderate complexity objects without a backdrop or a scenic view visualized like somebody who needs glasses but doesn’t wear them very well. I know many sources (DIY tests, psychology teachers) say I am right brained, so I probably would excel in music pretty well because my dominant sense is auditory. But I also know I can only do music well from memory or reading off a sheet. I have little ability in synchronizing with an external source (banging drums in synch with a group without previous knowledge) though. I also know that listening to music blocks my ability to visualize unless it is in relation to the music, like synchronize waves and colors (I have control it is not uncontrolled) - with low detail and rounded-off accuracy but still correlated - with the music. I can visualize (including un-related things) well while playing a song internally in my head from memory though. I can’t do lightning calculator math with visual symbols or auditory beeps and blips. I excel overall in comparisons, relationships, non-linear problem solving, inter-networked recognition bits, and low long-term memory decay (once its been in there for days to weeks). The real-world Rain-Man mixes autistic memory and thought patters with a genuine full photographic memory that is independent but mutual with his autism.

I also think I am different when very drunk or very high. I adapt to slowing brain functions very well because things are already slow at least on sensory or when things have to dart from opposite ends of the brain. My drunk behavior is loud, nosey, and super-hyper-analytical. If being super-high on weed (marijuana) makes me feel spinning, it doesn’t affect my vision or balance. I just feel the spinning. One time I got so high that spinning made me throw up, but I cleaned up after it while still high!! Booze slows down the entire brain.? Weed (in light-moderate dosage) seems to supress the entire brain but then enhance right-brain visualization ability and general creativity.? Also the Dentist, when I had my wisdom teeth taken out, had to check my eyes to see if the Nitrous Oxide (N2O) was in my system because my behavior wasn’t being affected enough. N2O did nothing to make me less anxious and it actually affect very little of my higher functions, and it made me feel the needle 3 times in the same area of the tooth he was targeting (3 pricks really close to each other), but the nitrous oxide N2O certainly FEELS GOOD though (weed and booze do too). I guess it is from autism limiting communication between lower and higher brain functions (limbic system<-->cerebral cortex) and maybe also the over-compartmentalized other parts of the brain.

The guy in the article was fixated on the sounds and fury of breaking glass. I seem to have a similar fixation with Emule. It started when I learned how to copy disks on the commodore 64 in 6th grade small-classroom (I taught a kid named wesley how to rip-off pacman and star trek to take home even under the supervision of a very disciplinary teacher, Mr. Thorely) and I was teaching all my computer literate peers how to copy their games and give them away to friends. The obsession didn’t manifest much because disks and disk drives were too expensive and I knew at most a half a dozen computer literate kids in school at that time.

Nothing really revisited until high school when my father let me get grubby hands onto an ‘extra’ government laptop, which was a Compaq-286 with VGA (which was laptop-greyscale but it played tank wars and other VGA-only games), in 1990-1991. The hard drive had a bunch of encrypted data on it so and I was never supposed to be messing with the hard drive in the first place, but there was about 5-6MB of free space and I had free reign on the machine itself. I got my first true experience of ‘warez’ (but didn’t learn the term back then), when kids at school were copying games to each other left and right. I failed to make a significant contribution in terms of ‘uploading’ (giving out copies) to that scene because my mother was poor and my father had money but definitely wouldn’t fund any kind of hoarding related expenses especially video games. But I at least got some free disks (mostly from the school but some from the other kids) and filled them some cool games, most notably ‘Tank Wars’ (Bomb32), ‘Bar Games’, ‘PGA Tour Golf’, ‘GHL Hockey’, and ‘Dungeon Explorer’. I was always obsessive with video games but not the arcade ones but back then I would obsess on any friends’ arcade games because of lack of access because of combination of poverty (mother) and parental unwillingness to fund (Mother, Father x 3). It was the time when I got my first significant piracy rush because I was actually receiving and to a lesser extent giving free warez rather than just teaching people how to copy stuff. It was when a latent obsession with video games converged with an obsession with copying. Oh yeah I did get to help a kid rip-off CadKey from the machines in the drafting room (’Basic Technical Drawing’), it was very liberal there. Kids were able to install the first soundblaster cards to come out into those machines. They were all IBM PS/2s with 286s in them. I was also utilizing the typing classroom’s computers the most to copy disks as they had 2 floppy disk drives instead of 1-floppy disk drive and a hard drive.

It was on this Compaq 286 though that I learned DOS and enhanced my programming skills (I initially learned programming on a VIC 20 in 3rd-4th grade then an Aquarius in 6th grade - then Apple IIe in 7th-8th grade). I was also running some wild unauthorized experiments both on the school (North Stafford High School) and my father’s ’spare’ government laptop and I learned much. Norton Wipe-Disk on the free space, Norton Speed Disk, setting file attributes on DOS. But the machine eventually got taken away as I spent more and more time playing games (Mostly Tank wars, Bar Games, and PGA Tour Golf) that I got as friend-to-friend warez (it wasn’t his to begin with) rather than learning more productive things such as OS-guru and programming or even hard-physics (my hardcore astrophysics spreadsheet started on First Choice then moved on to Professional Plan at Middletown High School). After losing the laptop I started lying about having detention (eventually I just started staying after school without saying anything) so I would be able to stay after school to play games until my dad found out and combined with constant miscommunication resulting in my dad waiting in the car too much, he just stopped bothering to pick me up at school at all. This small period of warez ended in the summer of 1991 when my dad gave me unlimited access to the Nintendo that he previously greatly limited use for ‘family time’.

That obsession got me to shut up about the laptop at school and to stop begging for free games, and best of all created limited motivation for me to get out of the house that wasn’t dependent on any social-life success. Once I got a Family Video membership card and I obsessed with Dragon Warrior, Dragon Warrior II, Ultima Quest of the Avatar, and Final Fantasy, I was doing all kinds of jobs for my father and then riding my bike up a steep hill on Richmond Road to go rent my video games. The LawnMowing of hill-graded lawns, Wheelbarrow Hauling up steep driveways from park reconstruction leftovers, and Bike Rides up the steep hill is what made my legs and calves huge initially - all for an obsession with video games combined with Dungeons and Dragons (RPG-video games). My big calves combined with previous online interactions with Mark Chung is what got me in the door for having Octavio Zambrono liking me and thus me getting to hang out with MLS teams all the time in 2000-2003 but that has nothing to do with emule other than the tangent-branch (Addiction to Nintendo -> Big Calves from work and transport to feed addiction -> Contribute to be able to hang out with metrostars as virtual team member / pet fan).

My Nintendo obsession was actually a merging of two obsessions - Video games that was latent and very intermittently fed since I was 6 and Dungeons and Dragons (and later, GURPs space, which merged my interest with Astronomy and Dungeons and Dragons) that started when I was living in Safford in 8th grade. My dad greatly suppressed my indulgence in Dungeons and Dragons, first preference as punishment for any grades slip-up and eventually taking away all my books until I ‘moved out’, which happened to be prior to graduation when I went to live with my Mother. The PnP games actually started getting me out of the house a little bit and resulted in a soccer tangent (I didn’t get interested in soccer until I was 16 when played ad-hoc soccer games on the 9th hole of the Aquia Harbor golf course), but the social connections largely failed and I was back staying inside the house just reading the D&D books. My father was greatly unaware that ‘Dragon Warrior’, and ‘Final Fantasy’, and ‘Ultima Quest of the Avatar’ was also ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ in concept. I would have leaned toward spending more time on the Nintendo Fantasy RPGs because of the lack of social requirement though I am perfectly capable of just reading D&D rulebooks (and later Star Wars and especially GURPs space which I found out by buying a used copy at a used bookstore at PlayTogs plaza when visiting my mother sometime winter 1990-1991) just by myself. So I had three separate mergers of obsessions at this stage of life — Video Games with ‘Copying’, Video Games with pnp RPGs (via Dungeons and Dragons) and Astronomy/Spaceships with pnp RPGs (via GURPs Space), creating three stronger obsessions from four weaker ones (Though the D&D obsession was the strongest of the 4, then Video Games).

Once I was living with my mother after thanksgiving 1991, nothing was really eventful in regards to piracy or filesharing until 1996. My D&D and Nintendo addiction was fed provided that I got a job and funded it myself. RPGs and my Nintendo games were my sole motivations to get a job. My mother didn’t intervene unfairly much at all. My soccer interest grew a bit to get me to be a 3-sport athlete in high school but it did not get strong enough to earn anything more than absolute bare bones self-funding. I became a Christian in this time period. Some warped beliefs from D&D (I started believing in the 1st edition AD&D multiverse pathology and planes of existence as real) were corrected but my interest stayed an I never got rid of any books and such. D&D combined with movies and my mom’s indulgence in bhagwan and meditation and the mental/spiritual aspects of martial arts has given me a heightened knowledge and awareness of supernatural and magical things but It was kept rational by my (no longer really obsessive) interest in science and my supernatural knowledge and interests have little to do with my Emule obsession, except maybe a small percentage of my motivation to share bibles and are by no means obsessive.

What did contribute to my obsession with Emule, though is both my father taking away my D&D and Star Wars books (The GURPs space book escaped his attention because it don’t look very D&Dish or gamey) until I moved out and my mother taking away my Mythus books for several months, giving them back only on promise of going to a ‘meditation camp’ which resulted in me being on probation for 3 years when I lost major control of anger when it came time to keep that promise (I just ‘yessed’ her to get my stuff back). The Mythus book incident is probably more impact-full than my dad with the D&D and star wars books because I was far more obsessed with Mythus than I did with AD&D though it was largely unchallenged, plus add the fact that I bought the books myself on my job money and they weren’t parental or relative gifts or hand-outs. The impact from my father taking the books until I moved out is that I did manage to find where he ’stashed’ the books and I photocopied as much as I could out of them. Plus I had support of a borrowed Dungeons Masters Guide, which my father took, along with ‘most’ but not all of my photocopied pages when he found out I was pilfering into the ‘taken books stash’. The ‘most’ only excluded the 2nd or 3rd copies i made of critical tables and charts I needed to create and modify characters. My GURPs Space book still escaped his attention, but it got stolen at school about a month after my father’s re-taking away of my books. Emule, DVD burners, Easy access to PCs, and Cheap blank DVD would have bypassed both my mother and father’s discipline as I would be able just to make copies faster than they could take it away provided they don’t resort to other, worse punishments such as getting kicked out of the house. Emule and DVD burners would beat photocopying anytime. Hey Emule itself can out-copy multiple FBI search warrants!!!, if the file spreads… Not even the FBI can take away my favorite books if they spread sufficiently on emule!. Emule would ‘back up’ my hoard favorites that other people like enough even to withstand a year or two in jail!!

Now the Big Warez Rush started when I got on the Internet. There was a delay. I got online in 1996 but I didn’t become aware of warez sites until 1997. The sites were good back then when they were mostly about free stuff and not profit from porn and gambling. I got regged versions of virtually all my favorite gamez and appz at the time (I had little access and awareness of anything commercial back then because of lack of $$$). I think my first commercial warez download was ‘Mortal Kombat II’. I didn’t get too obsessed, until I found the ROMs. Then I went nuts and got very obsessive because my obsession with copying merged with my obsession with Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and like games. The addiction was moderate at the time, and sustained all the way through when I graduated from SUNY Tech in 1999. Making my own website and spamming to get traffic to my site and having the traffic actually come has boosted the obsession enough to get me into trouble majorly at school though - Got my residential port disconnected and my on-campus unix-account access disabled for the remainder of the semester for a combination of newsgroup spam (probably 50%), running ads on the site to exploit the traffic (25%) and the links to Warez and ROM sites on my website (25%)

Things were quiet piracy and copying-wise from when I graduated SUNY Tech in 1999 until a very delayed indulgence in Napster when I started at Jobing.com in 2001. I was instantly hooked on Napster. All my favorite songs for free and anything and everything was available. The addiction was regulated because It was ONLY music. No ROMs No books No games. I was actually very delayed into getting into Napster. It came out in 1999. I first heard of it in 2000 and I didn’t get into it until 2001 because of my bad experiences with HotLine which requires social connections to get much and I thought they were similar. I was introduced to HotLine in 1998 about. Napster was shut down with within 2 months of me getting into it. In 2002 I finally warmed up to Kazaa.. It was slow and unstable. I mostly only used it to get ROMs after GB-extreme got shut down and I used it a little bit for music. Then in 2004 I warmed up to EMULE!!! It is the best! It combines my obsession with copying, and all my other major obsessions (Video Games, Astronomy / Spaceships / SciFi, Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs), anxiety relief of things being taken away, and just flat out GREED!!! I actually first heard of Emule in 2003 from CodecGuide.com - Home of the K-Lite codec pack, which I found on google looking for a codec, but I didn’t’ warm-up to it until May 2004. I am totally obsessed with Emule and I’m keeping my Emule and Other than the computer itself, my data hoard, and my book (paper) hoard, it is probably tied for 3rd (with my paper book hoard) for my most valuable possession group / service / freedom. Actually, because of laptops and Emule and Cellphone Modems, probably 65% of my overall ‘comfort zone’ will fit in a backpack

As to getting any of the benefits of the guy in the link waaaay up there, I probably won’t get any of it. My mother is on disability, but still independent, but unable to provide much anymore and will soon need to be provided for. I’ve been out of the ’system’ since I went to live with my father in Safford in 1989 and have a poor view of the ’system’ and a ‘isolate and pamper’ system (in east coast) or ‘try quick-fix; lock-away and forget if it don’t work’ (in AZ). So if I run into excessively difficulties and I lose access to the Internet to bypass my social limitations (mostly via pseudo-spam networking), I would quickly become homeless, jailed, or institutionalized as the Internet (not Emule - just the web though I majorly abuse my privileges with Emule and I’m not going to stop without a major threat that I think I won’t be likely to be able to cheat around), combined with my frugal nature and good planning, research and shopping skills (when no people are needed) is largely what makes me independent. I think its best-friends, not Emule or the Internet that makes me better-function as an autistic person though, but I haven’t had an active best-friend since 1996. Actually I haven’t made any new local friends since I was living independently. Numerous acquaintances and in-between MLS-Player friends, but no real friends. But I am very contented by my computer and Emule and Video games that I don’t worry about it. Emule/Internet and my fulfillment of greed for information and data is equivalent to weed and more intense sensory and mental indulgences from video games is my booze (Video game addiction actually keeps me off of real booze because it is a mental-downer both while being drunk beyond a buzz and during the hangover which is largely mental depression over a day or two); Money stinginess and health concerns (mostly ‘brain fry’ / bad for computer / video games) largely keeps me off of real-weed and other drugs. Emule / Web is weed. Video Games are booze. The web is a major crutch. Best friends and the paper yellow pages are minor crutches. Best friends are the best treatment, if one can connect to anyone (and I’m pretty addicted and content to Emule and Video games which makes it more difficult). I equate everything to booze and weed because most of the people around me that I got along with were only concerned with beer or weed (especially first and last semesters at SUNY tech and Mike Parker when I was at OCCC).

So these are why I’m so addicted to emule like the guy in the article is addicted to breaking bottles, though the semantics are different, in rough descending order of contribution:

• GREED for me (I want everything I want!) — The ‘copying’ obsession
• GREED for others (I want everybody else to have everything they want!) — The ‘copying’ obsession
• EGO for people hoarding what I have in my hoard (People like what I like!)
• Facilitates and preserves access and acquisition to pnp Roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons (Obsession merger)
• Facilitates and preserves access and acquisition to Video Games (Obsession merger)
• Facilitates and preserves access and acquisition to Science and Astronomy (Obsession merger)
• (Combined with Burners and cheap blank media): Difficult for authority figures to prevent access to stuff or take stuff away from me whether parents, bosses, cops, or FBIs!
• (Combined with Burners and cheap blank media): Difficult for authority figures to prevent access to stuff or take stuff away from other people, particularly citizens of countries with oppressive governments!

International Diversity! Spain (Western Europe), Dominican Republic (Central America), Brazil (South America), Indonesia (Southeast Asia), and Russia (North Asia)! All active uploads are for PermaShares and 5 of 6 are for PowerShares. This screenie was taken on 2006-06-22, when I was downloading BBC’s ‘Walking with Cavemen’, ‘Walking with Beasts’, ‘Chased by Sea Monsters’, and ‘Amazing Earth’ (Discovery Channel).

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Never seen a Lebanese before! Israel and Lebanon are at war now… I want Israeli Emule presence to stay and I want Lebanon’s presence to grow! Screw the war (and any associated secrecy and trade restriction laws)! Also, the only ‘Not applicable’ country flags that I see are of biblical material. These users are smuggling bibles right underneath their tyrant dictator’s noses! It it is probably personal (hopefully) rather than organized ‘crime’. All active uploads are for PermaShares and 5 of 6 are for PowerShares.

Some Category changes are reflected to accommodate my increase in downloading DVDs. The screenshot was taken on 2006-07-06, when I was currently downloading SpaceCamp, IMAX ‘Dream is alive’, and NeverEnding Story. Flight of the Navigator, Explorers and IMAX ‘Blue Planet’ have recently finished. All the Movies including the IMAXs are 80’s. I didn’t know Navigator, SpaceCamp, and Explorers were on DVD. They may not be on DVD. They could be DSRs (Digital Signal Rips) or TIVO-rips (Record-to-VCR with a PC’s TV-In as the ‘VCR’) or Sat-Rips (Satellite Receiver TV-Out Plugged to PC). I also have a paused download, ‘The Wizard’ which I know has never been released on DVD. I don’t know when I’m going to start it though.

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An Iranian downloading Tyndale’s Dramatized NLT Bible on CD - Old Testament. The Old and New testament will fit a single DVD+R wit 50 megs to spare, un-rarred! Need that for some good smuggling - not too bulky, and easy to make more if one happens to get one confiscated without also being jailed, killed, or tortured, depending on availability of blank DVD media. I think Bibles have the same legality in Iran as Heroin or pedoporn / kiddy porn / child porn or cocaine or ak-47s do in America. Also got 3 Brazilians in active upload slots downloading Area 51 pics, Lejendary Journeys RPG book, and Neverending Story DVD. Same downloads as above picture, but a little later in time. 4 of 6 active uploads are for PermaShares and 2 of 6 are for PowerShares. It was taken on 2006-07-08 with the same downloads active.

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The Iranian is still here! Still downloading the Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament. Defying the great Islamic theocracy (I wouldn’t want a theocratic or fundamentalist goverment of any religion)! All active uploads are for PermaShares. 3 of 6 are for PowerShares. The screenshot was taken The screenshot was taken on 2006-07-09. I started up downloads for Willow (late 80s), 2010 (mid 80s), and Total Recall (Early 90s) after SpaceCamp and NeverEnding Story Finished.

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Verizon Wireless’s Traffic Shaping cuts out for about 20 seconds! It seems to have occurred on one of the active .pdf downloads for ‘GRR - Races of Renown - Drow’. With the way the shaping is set up right now, it is actually good for the network because the shaping keeps it down to NationalAccess bandwidth limits (144kbps up/down), which is synchronous and prevents leeching! There was a time when the traffic shaping wasn’t there at all and I was hitting my 3:1 zzRatio sometimes. BroadBandAccess will get you up to 800kbps of sustained download speeds if its from the web and not filesharing! The ability to run Filesharing reliably on a CellPhone Modem (Especially on off-peak hours) signifies their quality of service! So go to Verizon Wireless and get some broadband for yourself (ISDN-like semi-broadband for Emule)! Especially if you are not in a broadband-enabled area!.

All Active upload slots are for PermaShares and 4 of 6 are for PowerShares. This screenie is reflecting a bit of international diversity also — Iran, India, USA, Israel, Romania, and Belgium. In this screenie, I am current downloading a large number or WOTC and third-party Dungeons and Dragons (D20 / D&D) RPG-books. It was taken on 2006-07-16.

Also, the same Iranian that was downloading the Tyndale Dramatized NLT OT is now downloading the Haah Bible Commentary. It happens to be a PowerShare. 112MB in upload transfer to this Iranian and Counting. And I don’t give a damn (Iran is under US export embargo I think) either!. 90% of all Emule users use the Vanilla Official Emule client and that means that 90 or more percent of Emule users could be sending stuff to countries on the USA’s hate-list and not even know it! This is particularly true if you are sharing or downloading academic, political, or religious material. Transfer rate is pretty decent too. Much have access to contraband bandwidth from China or Russia. There must be a significant illegal (in Iran) Christian worship organization there. Free stuff aplenty on Emule! And often, the only place to get it outside of USA, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, or Australia!.

The dominant theme of this batch of downloads are 3rd party D20 / Dungeons and Dragons book PDFs. A lot of it is hoard optimizatio - replacing, 80 .. 120 .. 160+ MB PDFs (My current DM Guide II is 180MB) that I downloaded 2-3 years ago with OCRd versions or just lower DPI scans. The overall net effect will be a no net increase of space usage despite adding several dozen new books. Im also downloading a few books on ‘genetic algorithms’. Emule has quite the piracy-public-library. If it is computers, hacking, military, anarchy, and especially Roleplaying games, any and all bookstore and public library is obsolete. Emule is competitive with small-medium stores and libraries in business, ‘dummies’ books of all types, and astronomy / science.

Here’s the country breakdown of my Emule’s known clients (Max of Late-Night of 7/15/2006, Morning of 7/16/2006, or Late-Afternoon of 7/16/2006):

 Argentina           11
Australia           11
Austria             5
Belgium             2
Bolivia             4
Brazil              67
Bulgaria            8
Canada              21
Chile               5
China               15
Columbia            5
Croatia             1
Czech Republic      1
Denmark             5
Dominican Republic  2
Ecuador             1
Estonia             2
Finland             4
France              39
Germany             34
Greece              8
Guadelupe           1
Guatamala           1
Hong Kong           2
Hungary             1
India               2
Indonesia           1
Iran                1
Ireland             1
Islamic Repub Iran  3
Isreal              29
Italy               82
Japan               1
Latvia              1
Lithuania           2
Malaysia            1
Mexico              8
Netherlands         8
New Zealand         1
Norway              3
Not Applicable      7
Panama              2
Peru                2
Phillipines         1
Poland              27
Portugal            5
Republic of Korea   11
Romania             4
Russian Federation  4
Saudi Arabia        1
Serbia Montenegro   3
Singapore           2
Slovakia            3
Slovenia            4
Spain               68
Sweden              2
Switzerland         4
Taiwan              9
Turkey              7
Uganda              1
Ukraine             1
United Arab Emirate 1
United Kingdom      19
United States       86
Venezuela           6
Viet Nam            1

Here’s whats in my incoming folder (I actually moved them out to my unshared ‘assimilation’ so I can give preference to my permashares, and they are filtered for stuf I just don’t like, dupes, fakes (mostly porn), crap quality, about in that order):

Here’s all the files that i’m currently downloading:
(Click on more / ‘read the rest of this entry’) link if you see it insted of the links)

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These rare and hatelists are by far small minority or outright rare on Emule but I watch out for them. I gathered off and on over over about 21/2 weeks

America’s Hate List:

Afghanistan -

(Didn’t see any)

Bosnia -

(Didn’t see any)

Cuba -

(Didn’t see any)

Iran -

[FunnyNick] Harsh Pony
Religion Holy Christian Church ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? - Audio Bible - New Living Translation NLT - Old Testament - Dramatized - Mp3.rar
Religion Holy Christian Church ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? - KJV RSV NIV NLT Hebrew Greek - Bible Commentary Dictionary 54,000 words.rar

[FunnyNick] Harsh Frog
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

mmm
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas.pdf

AeroSpace_006_Iran
Zombeck, Martin - Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

Nemesissoso
Flight.of.The.Navigator.1986.DVDRip.XviD-MBCD2000.avi

[FunnyNick] USB-Abe
Total Recall Special Edition - CD2 - 1990 DVDRip XviD AC3 5 1CH - WAF.avi

Iraq -

(Didn’t see any)

Libya -

(Never seen any ever yet)

North Korea -

(Never will see any - North/South Korea is not differentiated in IP2Country because North Korea has only a few dozen IP addresses assigned to them).

Palestinian Territory, Occupied -

w
WinRK File Archiver v 3.0.3 - Best Compression Ratio Archiver in the WORLD - With PatchCrack.rar

Pakistan (Unofficial because of puppet goverment) -

skdqxp [eMule]
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

ujaveri
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

Syria -

(Didn’t see any)

More Middle Eastern Countries:

Bahrain -

OJ
ROMS - Favorite - GBA Game Boy Advance - 24 ROMs - Final Fantasy Tactics 1-2+4 Golden Sun 1+2 Fire Emblem 1+2 Pokemon Dragon Quest 16 Others.rar

Kuwait -

KANOOZ
Explorers.1985.avi

Lebanon -

www.bigbang.to scoupout
Gary Gygax Dangerous Journeys Mythus - Mythus - GDW 5000 - OCR.pdf

Saudi Arabia -

vklovv [ePlus]
Discovery Chaneel - Amazing Earth - Part 1 of 2 - Divx511-Ac3.avi

XcX
eurosport.-.Top.50.Champions.League.Goals.(osloskop.net).avi

todd
Zombeck, Martin - Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

United Arab Emirates -

rahmat
Schaums Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables.pdf

[FunnyNick] Bavarian Godzilla
Willow (1988) CD2.avi

Extra-Rare Countries Just for Fun:

Albania -

[FunnyNick] Giant Wolf
Penton Media VIP Super Master CD - SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator - Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm

Algeria -

Shiryu le chevalier dragon
Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy.pdf

Bahamas -

Bluesilvex
Religion Holy Christian Church ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? - Audio Bible - New Living Translation NLT - Old Testament - Dramatized - Mp3.rar

Barbados -

Hairytoo
Flight.of.The.Navigator.1986.DVDRip.XviD-MBCD2000.avi

Camaroon -

(httpemule-france.com) Pius
SQL Server Magazine Master CD - Volume 8 - March 1999 to September 2003 - With Code.rar

Guatamala -

[FunnyNick] USB-7
DOS Abandonware - PFS Office Apps - Software Publshing Company - Professional File Dec 1988 - Professional Plan Feb 1987 - Professional Write Jul 1990.rar

dimebag
ROMS - Favorite - GBA Game Boy Advance - 24 ROMs - Final Fantasy Tactics 1-2+4 Golden Sun 1+2 Fire Emblem 1+2 Pokemon Dragon Quest 16 Others.rar

Jamaica -

Jammin’s
Zombeck, Martin - Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

Maldives -

[FunnyNick] Smooth Sock Puppet
Text Files - 1993-1996 - COMPINFO - Mostly DOS Power User Stuff and Old School Newbie Hacking.rar

Puerto Rico -

[FunnyNick] Harsh Smurf
Schaums Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables.pdf

The Former Yugoslav Republic -

Voyager
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

Uganda -

AfricanSky
Religion Holy Christian Church ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? - Audio Bible - New Living Translation NLT - Old Testament - Dramatized - Mp3.rar

Some More Rare Countries (No ED2K Links):

Albania - Penton Media VIP CD (UL)
Algeria - Dictionary of Geophysics Astrophysics and Astronomy (UL)
Bahamas - Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament (UL)
Bahrain - ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL)
Barbados - Flight of the Navigator DVD (DL)
Bolivia - ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), Microsoft MS Press SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Tech Ref (UL), ROMs Favorite Super Nintendo SNES (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Color GBC (UL)
Bulgaria - Explorers DVD (UL+DL)
Camaroon - SQL Server Master CD (UL)
Columbia - Area 51 Groom Lake AFB Pictures 2003 (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), Sepultura Inner Self Live Rio De Jenerio 1994 (UL+DL)
Chile - ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL)
Costa Rica - SQL Server Master CD With Code (UL)
Croatia - Total Recall DVD (UL)
Dominican Republic - ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), Willow DVD (UL+DL), Star Wars Broken Allegiance (UL)
Ecuador - Schuam’s Mathamatical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), Penon Media VIP CD (UL)
El Salvador - Penton Media VIP CD (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL)
Guadelupe - D20 D&D Races of Renown - Drow (DL)
Guatamala - DOS Abandonware PFS Office Apps (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL)
India - Dramatized NLT Audio Bible New Testament (UL), Flight of the Navigator DVD (UL+DL), Microsoft MS Press Inside C# (UL), Total Recall DVD (UL+DL), Pention Media VIP CD (UL), D&D 3.5 Tome of Magic (DL)
Indonesia - Discovery Channel Amazing Earth (DL), WinRK 3.0.3 (UL), Microsoft MS Press Inside SQL Server 2000 (UL), WinRK Archiver 3.03 (UL)
Ireland - BBC Chased by Sea Monsters (UL+DL), Flight of the Navigator DVD (UL+DL), Willow DVD (DL), D&D Advanced Player’s Manual (DL)
Jamaica - Zombeck Martin Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
Kuwait - Explorers DVD (DL)
Maldives - Text Files CompInfo (UL)
Pakistan - Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
Palestinian Territory, Occupied - WinRK 3.0.3 (UL)
Panama - Flight of the Navigator DVD (DL), Total Recall DVD (UL+DL)
Peru - NOD32 Update 15062006 (DL), Screen Paver 4.4 (UL), Inside SQL Server 2000 (UL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL), Blancmange What’s Your Problem Video (UL+DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Bad SQL Byting the Hand that Feeds You Joe Celko (DL), D&D Dungeon Masters Guide II (DL), D&D D20 MGP Quintesential Barbarian II (DL)
Phillipines - ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), D&D Fiendish Codex I (DL)
Puerto Rico - Schuam’s Mathamatical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL)
Saudi Arabia - Discovery Channel Amazing Earth (DL), Top 50 Champions League Goals (DL)
Serbia - Willow DVD (DL+UL), Modern Physics for Engineers (UL), D&D Players Handbook II (DL), GURPS Infinte Worlds 4e (UL), D&D Fiendish Codex I (DL)
Thailand - ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), SpaceCamp DVD (DL), Zombeck Martin Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
The Former Yugoslav Republic -
Uganda - Bible Old Testament NLT Dramatized (UL)
Ukraine - EServer 17.10 Linux i686-Linux-NPTL, MS Press Inside C# (UL)
Uraguay - ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), IMAX Blue Planet (DL)
United Arab Emirates - Schuam’s Mathamatical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), Willow DVD (UL)
Viet Nam - Emule Extreme 5.1.2 (UL), Microsoft MS Press Inside C# (UL), Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies (Different Version) (DL), Encylopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)

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France, Belgium, and Italy have pirate parties now… That makes 5 countries having ‘pirate’ political parties that want to abolish patents and nerf copyright.

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Matches my beliefs but I think instead of ‘public domain’ after registration expiration, it should be ‘copylefted’ for the current lifetime+ terms (Lifetime+70 in the USA, Lifetime+50 in Canada, 50 or 100 years total in other countries). If the John Hurt guy at The HTML Bible - Speaking Bible - Speed Bible was as evil as the RIAA, he could make proprietary packages out of the public domain bible texts, charge money for, deny permission to copy, and go sue people over infringement if he so wished. He would just have difficulty suing if people extracted only the strictly public domain text out of the proprietary packages. Fortunatly though, he is NOT evil and gives away the public domain portions for free (though he does’t have too - its not required by law if its public domain!) and the stuff he authored is being sold at very reasonable prices and probably also lossy shipping rates ($14.95 for ‘everything’ CD + $2.00 domestic shipping + $5.00 international shipping).

Copyleft protects against such ‘true intellectual property theft’ and while it doesn’t prohibit copying or distribution, it still requires credit/aknowledgement of the author and prevents plagarism, claiming as own work, DRMing, and proprietarization of the work itself and deriviative works.

So it becomes:

I would edit “a five-year term, renewable by the creators or their heirs (not previous copyright holders)” to “a five-year term, renewable by the creators or their heirs (not 2nd-hand or beyond owners incase the copyright is sold)

I Would also Edit “from the date of first publication for published works, or from the death of the creator for unpublished works.” to “from the date of first publication marked on published works, from the date of publication marked on the registration form, or from the date of the copyright registration, whichever of the three is earliest”

If I could buy a legal legit bare-bones DVD of a modern hit (like Harry Potter, LOTR) movie at wal-mart for $3-5, it would make me download a lot less from emule, even to replace DVDs stolen from me by airline luggage handlers or TSA luggage searchers!

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Boy the MPAA is going schizophrenic! Harkins was so convinced I was going to CAM superman returns that they had 3 staffers in front of the theater and patrolling up and down the isles constantly until about 30 minutes after the start of the movie!! I carry some external laptop hard drives, a still digital camera, and a bunch of gadgets in a video-camera bag. Proud to be of service if I happened to have diverted enough of their CAM-busting staff to allow somebody to CAM a movie in a different theater

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My internet has P2P filesharing explicitly banned in the newest version of their TOS (it wasn’t on the TOS when I initally signed up). Still connected. Hogging 30-60GB per month on a 144kbps up/down cellphone modem. I do need to get off my lazy butt and move to where I can get DSL service and yes I’m am willing to pay $80 for a $15-35 DSL line that doesn’t throttle (whether by avg usage or time of day), traffic-shape, impose bandwidth usage limitations, or boot bandwidth-hogs and has open-policy in regards to file sharing and server hosting.

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User-friendliness is important for wooing users off of you-tube and getting them onto the more free-for-all download all you want ad-free filesharing networks

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Don’t expect me to buy a playstation 3 with this DRM crap on it. It will prevent your playstation 3 from playing used, rented, or borrowed games, probably by request of the game developer, to prevent a repeat of that sony betamax lawsuit in a day when there is enforcable (but not neccesarily uncrackable) DRM measures. So some games will permit borrowing, renting, and using a used games, others will not. Some will require ‘activation’ (probably local but maybe remote) and others may not. This alone will make me prefer a Nintendo Wii outright and not just a swing vote dependent on game quality (of which I have a more favorable outlook toward wii) as the graphics quality (ps3) and price (wii) negate.

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I’ve seen this before. The Nintendo 64 had emulators playing commercial games before the console was ever released. Now we got higly praised DRM being univeraslly cracked before Blu-Ray / HD-DVD movies ever come out! I bet I will have a one-click XVid on-the-fly Blu-Ray ripper before I ever get my first Blu-Ray movie! btw All the ‘praise’ was based on all the rippers that were already out their. They probably did not anticipate al the Lugdunums and all the other isolated geniuses out there.

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Cops and FBIs only give back search-siezed stuff only with a huge amount of red-tape. So make lots of backups and share away on Emule!

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Too bad these sites can’t run off of donations… Free WaReZ everywhere, funded by generous donations. Wouldn’t even need generous donations if all my food water and gadgets can be replicated in trekky matter-energy replicators. And I have little interest in porn and gambling and only care to click-spam vunerable ads if I was motivated enough to do so.

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Not very suprising to me. Still 15,000,000 (estimate increased to 15,000,000 b/c bittorent isn’t very aggratable to a global level) simultaneous users divided by 6.5 billion (world population) is only 0.23%. Where are the 6.7 million american users? Still on hopeless kazaa/fastrack?? Increasing that to 9 mill for bittorrent, that would put america at 3.2%. Thats not too bad. So got get more of africa, middle east, and southeast asia onto Emule! I would love to see 10% of the whole world on free-for=all P2P filesharing at a given time!

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I hate that kazaa picture (’RIAA victim talks to p2pnet’ link). Kazaa sucks. I hope she fights to conviction (even if its swift from lack of lawyer funds). Then refuse all the bills. It don’t look like she has that many assets to take though over 20 grand and no future bank account, car (even a used clunker if you register it), or paycheck is safe for life, but at least there is no legal home invasions yet… She should bring a laptop with an emule full of muzic, moviez, bookz, and warez and sit and play with it on the defendant’s table with all the media cameras watching. Would they haul someone off to jail then even if its only for contempt of court (well you can probably dodge that if you obey the judge’s orders to turn it off)? Hey bring the kids with warez-filled laptops too he he…

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It may not matter if its legal in russia. The RIAA/MPAA will either slowly change Russia’s laws to what they want or they will just get knocked down from the financial burdens of the civil lawsuit defense and pre-prosecution crinimal investigations. As for law-differences in countries, the possesion of the Bible (Christian bible not muslim bible) is as legal in Iran as Possession of Heroin is in the United States.

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Hey if I crack DRM and make a package for it for others to use and put it up on a indiscriminate P2P network then you might as well remove the entire criminalization for DRM-cracking. I stil prefer a ‘copyleft’ default copyleft that lasts for the current very-long term with 5 years at a time 20 years max registered commercial copyrights which revert back to a copyleft after expiration. That don’t cover DRM though. I say de-criminalize DRM-cracking altogether and let tech-racing and capitalistic competition deal with ‘copy protection’.

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Better do a world-wide roundup of all P2P programmers, open-source or not… Including Lugdunum who is so convince that his eserver software is 100% legal. If it happens to be legal, it probably won’t be for long. The law and morality are not the same. Winny is miniscule anyway.

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Whats cool about winny is that a leaker-virus designed specifically for Winny called ‘Antinny’ was released. It picks random directories on your hard drives and instructs winny to mark it as shared, which can include corporate and national secrets… The articles mentioned files containing passwords to restricted areas of japanese airports specifically and there is a lot of mention of Japan’s military secrets being leaked. I wonder if there could be a ‘antule’ or ‘antorrent’ virus that can leak stuff from top-secrent military employees (of any country) involved in extraterrestrial spacecraft research and reverse-engineering looking to get some free moviez muzic bookz and warez Or military personell or police or their the friends that they brag to who torture their POWs or crinimal inmates… Or experimentalists who experiment on the mentally ill and the drug-fried.

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The MPAA fails to emphasize file sharing in the video much if that is what they are targeting. The ‘illegal downloading’ at the end is completly out of context with the global emphasis on buying and selling counterfeit DVDs off of street vendors. Hey Emule hurts the street vendors more it does the MPAA. I do like the ‘Abuse of Power’ parady better than the original, and if it changes its music, it would be very resistant to a copyright infringement suit.

You can get links to warez sites on all search engines in america! Just a jurisdiction exploit to get rich on lawsuits and spread fear and dread of the allmighty and all-powerful RIAA that you much bow-down for your exclusive (wannabe) source of all your musical entertainment.

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So much bureaucracy that an FBI agent is worshiped rather than arrested by his immediate and semi-immediate peers for cracking classified systems because he shares the bounties of his hacks to help them get around the 9 layers of bureaucratic hell.

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So many people yes their way through WGA installation (IE mode, people with Firefox as their default browser get it served up as an automatic update) are suckers for this worm, and microsoft’s dreams of power and empire…

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Microsoft could care less if they could get away with it. They have no problem letting 20% of the false-positives (piracy) re-buy windows again for $100-200.

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Wonder if they are going to go after house-internet-cafes like they do with house-churches?? Whats china to do when broadband becomes as accessible as it does in america? You cannot control the internet. The internet is freedom. If you don’t want freedom, you have to supress and ban it, like Cuba. People are going to get their porn, democracy, and bibles anyway if they got internet.

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Thats the way to do it… Now make easy to use script-kiddy hacker tools so the average joe-smoe can hack around Commy-China’s tyranny. Then only a DMCA-like law enforced via martial law and on-the spot executions that sometimes makes the front page of ogrish.com would be the only way they could even try to control the internet without banning it (and if they ban it, people will get it anyway without tank-shock drag-out-the-door execution martial law)

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Ah, buggy censorship software. It was buggy in the opposite polarity too - failing to censor what was supposed to be censored. I wonder what would happen if 1000 people got into the commy-party hall with pro-democracy signs? Maybe the most graphic and bloody torturous mass-execution in history??

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RIAA so evil and tyrannical with copyright that they mis-target a departmental university server as hosting all kinds of mp3z? They are probably sending cease and disists using exclusively the results of an automated spider. Further action may not be soley on automated spiders but it may… It also may mean that if you got warez on your site and you have control over the internet connection, ProtoWall may keep the RIAA’s spidey’s out. You’d probably want ProtoWall anyway even you don’t have any cool music-warez as demonstrated in these articles. Blocklist Manger will help streamline and automate the updating of the dozen or two blocklists with over 100,000 block-entries. The only problem with protowall is that I can’t get it to work on eithe rof my machines.. The protowall service crashes on startup even on a fresh install and administrator priviledges! But I am using a cellphone modem internet connection also (goes through dial-up networking)

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Microsoft has the cash flow and/or cash borrowing capability to pay of such fines? I think they should just not pay the fines. Then it’ll be fun to see SWAT in the European MS headquarters kicking out all the employees and siezing the place. Then everybody can get their windoze from Emule and then are gradually forced to switch to open-source Linux (which will never be warez because its legal to pirate it).

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Propagandic education, propaganda powered volunteer spy-recruitment, price-fixing, bribery. RIAA seems worse… Corporate hitlers…

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Looks like the P2PNet Blogsuit is paranoia and political driven…. Looks like it fits the Sharman Nikki Bitch’s anxiety problems pretty well…

Looks like the RIAA’s various plans in curbing P2P filesharing with free or very cheap, but DRM-ed alternatives isn’t working out so great…. Especially in the schools where the free or ultra-dirt cheap music expires at or around graduation and you music hoard is inaccessible junk unless you know how to crack it.

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Old News - The RIAA and Internet2. I would of loved file sharing on Internet2, especially since could bridge onto regular file sharing on the open internet (by runing I2Hub and Emule simultaneously using common incomplete/incoming/permashare folders).

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This will probably reduce the bureaucracy of the university IS department but it won’t stop file sharing. University of California @ berkely has their residence halls on a dedicated internet connection and internal network. But they have problems with people using file sharing in the computer labs!!! I was only marginally aware of kazaa until SETI@Home’s admin leaked to me their kazaa abuse problems when I was helping brainstorm about their connection problems long ago. SETI@Home has their own internet connection now. Kazaa didn’t work out well for me, but it was a decent source of GBC GBA ROMs (after GBA-Extreme went down), but I couldn’t mass-hoad like I could froma GBA-Extreme or a leaked FTP distro where I got a huge amount of NES and SNES ROMs from. Now with Emule it has all changed. It is Napster+++++++ and it ain’t just for music.

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I would have fallen for this. They probably also don’t have escalating punishment for repeat offensives. I don’t have much pride when it conflicts with greed so i would sign wrongdoing forms and reprimands. Only problem is that these forms are more than just demerital reprimands on your student records that employers for jobs that don’t require US security clearences hardly ever look up, it gets sent directly to the core of the RIAA… Even if you were leechin warez, bookz, or moviez instead. Even despite that I wouldn’t care unless it makes it more likely that the RIAA sues me. But even then, unlike other colledge kids, neither I or my primary parent (divorced) had any collectable assets beyond garnishment of low-income wages at the time.

At least they don’t call me anymore. What you have to do is call a customer service rep, have them take you off the list. Unfortunately their telemarketing system does apply this to their current calling campaign. You must answer one of their calls, tolerate the stupid fat bitch that can barely speak english on the other side and refuse whatever they were selling. Then they apparently stop calling you. If you don’t call a rep to be taken off the list BEFORE answering one of their sales calls and refusing, you may be called again for one more telemarketing campaign before your removal request will take effect in their automated dialing system. If you don’t answer any of their calls, even if you call customer service to be taken off the list, they will keep calling you, as much as 6-8 attempts per day (Their dialer apparently does not implement a 1-day delay for ‘NA’ or ‘no answer’ like DialAmerica did when I worked there) until you do answer and listen to their incompetent solicitation at least once. Not even my mother tries to call more than 4-6 times per day!!

The table below has all the search phrases incoming to my blog in the past month, limiting to phrases occurring 5 or more times. Most of my blog’s traffic are people looking for the number that comes up on their caller ID when Dish Network nags them with their sorry attempts to sell premium movie channel packages!! The dupes are from different localized search sites such as google.com, google.ca or google.il

btw, as in my post a few months earlier, calling that 866-668-8047 number that comes up on your caller ID goes directly to a customer service rep, bypassing the automated system and any hold queue!! They STILL haven’t fixed that exploit!!! I wonder how easy it is to hack Dish Network’s online database?? Things like getting passwords that may be used on other sites, credit cards for fraud, contact info for spamming. SQL Injection (no stored procedure use or parameter filtering) and PHP code injection (parameterized include files, not filtered for cross-server urls) heaven!!