P2P FileSharing News Comments 2006-07-24
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.
