News Comments – P2P Filesharing 2006-07-10
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.
