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The GPL and any license that has mandatory source disclosure (GPL, L-GPL, Design Science) and/or viral-share alike (only the GPL), or even non-viral share-alike (L-GPL, Design Science, Free-Art, Creative Commons w/ Share-Alike option) may end up getting banned because both of these provisions could be used to circumvent laws that ban development and possibly sales/distribution of software types or individual software titles. These laws don’t exist in America yet but they will eventually. France has banned development of P2P file sharing software. Most of China’s software restrictions are by title and target sales & distribution. Most of the original developers will chicken out when other countries pass similar laws. But source distribution and viral share-alike (and non-viral share-alike to some extent too) will make these laws easy to circumvent if one doesn’t seek profits (usually only enough to make a living), and possibly doesn’t mind being a criminal, and if one gets busted, somebody else will take over as these mandatory open-source and share-alike license greatly promote such actions.

Well I don’t have the genius to take over this kind of hardcore network programming, but I totally don’t mind being a criminal (if distribution gets banned) and will glad-fully hoard and help distribute source code in defiance of the ever tighter-gripping law. Also the litigation of GPL-violations is weak and largely limited to cease and desist letters against skittish mid to large (but not mega) corporations and upper middle class to rich people. So if the copyright law is overhauled to not allow enforcement of source-inclusion and share-alike, it will probably have no effect. The only think that could squash open-source is possible wide-scale government-initiated copyright prosecutions without involvement of the author, which is currently not very feasible without iron-hand rule.

I think the human race is trying to evolve though autism. Most autistic people are evolutionary rejects, or semi-rejects that can still reproduce out refinements. But I think the new, more intelligent human species is slowly going to break out over hundreds or thousands of years if this revelation rapture thing doesn’t happen soon. Hey the AntiChrist could materialize as a self-indulged genius Aspie building an AI megacomputer that ‘wakes up’ and becomes a sadistic ruler of the world (like Matrix or Terminator but bent on Hitler and pharaoh like rule rather than extermination). But if something like that or any other ‘end of the world’ scenario doesn’t happen soon (in geological time), modern humans will probably become like Neanderthals compared to a new, genius race spun off of the very-high functioning end of the autistic spectrum (Asperger) with some of the IQs and abilities of the lower functioning savants.

Einstein and Bill Gates are supposedly aspies. This Bram Cohen is a self-diagnosed aspie (Asperger’s syndrome) that may or may not have an official adult diagnosis (I don’t know). He has reproduced multiple times. Many Asperger Syndrome, High Functioning Autistic, and High-Functioning PDD-NOS people are reproducing, and even some lower functioning autistic people are too. Autism and Aspergers are one of the most hereditary psychological disorders in the DSM-IV (Neurobiological disorders in general are largely hereditary or are genetic defects). Most of the favorable autistic people for natural selection (survival to reproduction and able to attract mates) are Aspergers Syndrome people because they have minimal language delay and only mild to moderate sensory integration deficits, and with appropriate crutching on technology or close friends or family the can accommodate their disability, they can become very successful. Just need maximum IQ enhancement while minimizing the flaw of sensory integration issues. Social dysfunction isn’t that much of an issue because they can often still befriend like-people and crutch off the computer and those socialization antics brain sections and be reallocated to IQ enhancement. Plus the limbic brain is separated further from the higher functions of the cerebral cortex because of brain over-compartmentalization, resulting in people who are less driven by animal instincts and more by pure sentience and will, provided that it has a good interface to the senses and other higher-brain function compartments.

Bram is really smart. Its just computers instead of physics. Not sure if his kids are going to be super-geniuses, but they may be carriers and reproduce off other autie/aspie people and the grandkids could be supra-geniuses. For all I know, places like China could be breeding geniuses out of the asperger and autistic gene-pool but I doubt they will function well in military-secret confinement unless the psychology is extremely well catered for. They did it with the African slaves in the colonial era. Many slaves were kept in camps for breeding rather than sold immediately. They were bred for strength, obedience, and dumbness though. That’s why there are so many african-american star-athletes of late colonial / civil war slave-camp ethnicity. I’m pretty sure their higher rate of genetic defects (aortic aneurysms, sickle cell, etc..) are from the lack of exclusion of inbreeding in the breeding processes. I’m pretty sure some countries may be doing the same with autistic and asperger’s for military research geniuses. But I think it will be better off for it all to evolve at its own pace, naturally. Get the genome that makes Einstein’s genius and Rain Main’s memory and computations, and get that at the asperger’s level of functioning so that they might theoretically survive in a low or no-technology world, and that would be the ultimate next step in human evolution.

Limewire has gone partially open source. It is not enough. They did some stuff to please the RIAA but I think they are just time stallers and the RIAA finally learned the same. I say dump the source code. Part-Time development is better than no-time development. They are dreaming up some cool stuff. I hope it gets incorporated (or reverse engineered) into KAD 2.0 on Emule. But some of those features definitely are stimulated by full-time, professional (able to make a living) development, though one doesn’t necessarily have to be a millionaire, as the RIAA/MPAA and other corporations think.

If this goes all the way to trial I think LimeWire may win if they can keep paying the lawyers. But if there site had Mp3z, Warez, and Moviez all over it three years ago, then forget it. I don’t know what the statute of limitations is for copyright inducement suits are. I think it is better to dissolve the company, get jobs if needed (need at least 500K to a mill in a money market to pay bills), and continue development part-time, non-profit, and virally open-source.

As to breaking up the client and core and re-branding the client, The RIAA will only take advantage of it as a method of evasion. Just dump the sources , then kiss butt, shut down, or whatever. They actually did release the sources but it is only ‘partial’ because it was a one-time thing with no update releases. If they can preserve the core without DRM infestation, then all the better.

The dominant theme of this batch of downloads are a few DVD movies, science / astronomy books, and Schaum’s outlines in science and mathematical subjects. There are some leftover D20 / D&D books including some rare OCRs that I decied to seed temporarily in my incoming folder.

Here’s the country breakdown of my Emule’s known clients (Max of several samples over the course of the day of 2006-08-05):

 Algeria             1
Argentina           19
Australia           7
Austria             6
Bahrain             1
Belgium             5
Bolivia             1
Brazil              44
Bulgaria            4
Canada              13
Chile               4
China               23
Columbia            12
Costa Rica          1
Croatia             2
Cyprus              1
Czech Republic      3
Denmark             5
Dominican Republic  1
Ecuador             3
Estonia             3
Finland             3
Former Yogoslav     1
France              69
Germany             32
Greece              9
Guatamala           1
Honduras            1
Hong Kong           3
Hungary             3
India               3
Indonesia           1
Islamic Repub Iran  3
Isreal              27
Italy               161
Japan               4
Jordan              1
Latvia              1
Lithuania           3
Malaysia            3
Malta               1
Mexico              8
Netherlands         16
Norway              3
Not Applicable      11
Palastinian Territ  1
Pakistan            1
Paraguay            1
Peru                3
Phillipines         2
Poland              24
Portugal            17
Republic of Korea   9
Romania             3
Russian Federation  6
Serbia Montenegro   3
Singapore           3
Slovakia            2
Slovenia            7
Spain               163
Sweden              4
Switzerland         6
Taiwan              9
Thailand            5
Turkey              5
United Arab Emirate 4
United Kingdom      16
United States       59
Uraguay             3
Venezuela           6
Viet Nam            1
Zimbabwe            1

Here’s whats in my incoming folder (Most ‘incoming’ files have been moved to ‘Assimilation’, which is not Shared. These are mainly files that I like but are very rare and decided to help seed without making it a permashare):

Here’s all the files that i’m currently downloading:

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 1 1/2 weeks

America’s Hate List:

Afghanistan -

(Never seen any ever yet)

Bosnia -

(Didn’t see any)

Cuba -

(Didn’t see any)

Iran -

[FunnyNick] Harsh Pony
Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? – Audio Bible – New Living Translation NLT – New Testament – Dramatized – Mp3.rar

[FunnyNick] House Girl
Zombeck, Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

[FunnyNick] Atrocious Men
[FunnyNick] House Snake
Ivanov.Head.2003.The.Earth.In.Space.Venus.Encyclopedia.Of.Geology.Eds.Selley.Et.Al.pdf

[FunnyNick] XBox Snail
Encyclopedia of Space Sciences – Volume 3 – Humans in Space – 2002.pdf

BDC
Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm

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 -

[FunnyNick] Atrocious Mouse
Legend – Ridley Scott – Tom Cruise Mia Sara – 1985 Divx Dvdrip.avi

Pakistan (Unofficial because of puppet goverment) -

emule
fPenton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm

qrmei
Microsoft MS Press – SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference.pdf

Syria -

(Didn’t see any)

More Middle Eastern Countries:

Bahrain -

Jordan -

[FunnyNick] Lucky 16
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

wsfbjp [ePlus]
Axiom Software DISCUS Big Corporate personality test software – Old Cracked Demo with backup & copyover exploit batchfile to refuel 3 test admins.rar

Aladdasi
Encyclopedia of Space Sciences – Volume 3 – Humans in Space – 2002.pdf

Lebanon -

[CHN][VeryCD]Scoupout
Modern Physics For Engineers (all formulas in 22 pages!).pdf
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

Saudi Arabia -

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

United Arab Emirates -

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

[FunnyNick] Furious 3
Encyclopedia of Space Sciences – Volume 3 – Humans in Space – 2002.pdf

Kirkoven
Mcgraw-Hill – Schaums Immunology 2003.pdf

[FunnyNick] Furious 3
McGraw-Hill, Schaum’s Outline of Biology Schaums Outlines by Belzy.pdf

[FunnyNick] Bright 3
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

baghax [ePlus]
Limewire.Professional.v4.12.4.RETAIL-Lz0.rar

ijiyj
LimeWire.Pro.v4.12.3.Multilingual.Retail-ZWT.rar

Extra-Rare Countries Just for Fun:

Algeria -

moi
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

[FunnyNick] Radioactive Abe
Mcgraw Hill, Schaums Easy Outlines Human Anatomy And Physiology (2001) Lotb.pdf

Bahrain -

[FunnyNick] EFrog
College Chemistry (Mcgraw Hill-2000, Schaums) (197P, Como Para Amas De Casa).pdf

Camaroon -

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

Bolivia -

rodo (Lphant.com)
7-Zip 4.42 src.tar.bz2

gerardo Zombeck, Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

Former Yogoslav Republic -

[FunnyNick] PS2-Reindeer
Mcgraw-Hill – Schaums Easy Outlines – College Physics.pdf

Guatamala -

BAFITO
Star Wars D20 – Core Rulebook Revised.pdf

Oswaldo
7-Zip 4.42 src.tar.bz2

udbhgc [ePlus]
Legend – Ridley Scott – Tom Cruise Mia Sara – 1985 Divx Dvdrip.avi

Iceland -

[FunnyNick] Dumb Horse
D20 D&D 3E 3rd Ed – BP Bastion_Press – Norse Gods.pdf

Malta -

project_XYZ
Beginning Calculus Schaums by Belzy.pdf

Nigeria -

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

[FunnyNick] Cute Jackal
Religion Holy Spirit Ghost Christian Church Jesus – ESword E-Sword – Bible Commentary – 16 Commentaries – Like Life Application Bible Notes.rar

Puerto Rico -

[FunnyNick] Mini Mouse
Top Secret Information From The Fbi & Cia’S Classified Documents.pdf

Zimbabwe -

[FunnyNick] Nice Worm
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

Some More Rare Countries (No ED2K Links):

Algeria – ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Scaum’s Anatomy & Physiology (DL)
Bahrain – Schaum’s College Chemistry (DL)
Bolivia – 7-Zip 4.42 Src (UL), Zomback Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), MS Press SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Tech Ref (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), Phillip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia (DL), Schaum’s Advanced Calculus (DL)
Bulgaria – Star Wars D20 Hero’s Guide (DL), AD&D Creative Campaigning (DL), Windows NT 3.51 (DL), Schaum’s Immunology (DL), Venus Encyclopedia of Geology (UL), MS Press Inside SQL Server 2000 (UL), Legend DVD (DL),
Camaroon – SQL Server Master CD (UL)
Costa Rica – Schaum’s College Physics (DL)
Croatia – ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), D&D Monster Manual III (DL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL), Star Wars Broken Allegiance (UL)
Cyprus – Venus Encyclopedia of Geology (DL)
Dominican Republic – Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006, LimeWire Pro 4.12.3 (DL)
Ecuador – ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), Schaum’s Biology (DL)
El Salvador – Pention Media VIP CD (UL)
Former Yogoslav Republic – Schaum’s College Physics (UL)
Guatamala – Star Wars D20 Core Rulebook Revised (UL), 7-zip 4.42 Src (UL), Legend DVD (DL)
Honduras – Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), Edonkey 2000 Pro 1.4.5 (UL)
Iceland – D&D Bastion Press Norse Gods (DL)
India – Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament (UL), NSA New Employee Handbook (UL), Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas, Penton Media VIP CD (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences Vol 1 (DL), , Schaum’s Biology (DL), Zomback Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
Indonesia – WinRK 3.03 (UL), Emule 0.47a Installer (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences Volume 2 (UL), Venus Encyclopedia of Geology (DL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences 2002 Vol 2 (UL), Schaum’s Beginning Calculus (DL), Venus Encyclopedia of Geology (DL)
Ireland – Howard the Duck DVD (DL)
Jordan – ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Axiom Software Discus (UL)
Lebanon – Modern Physics for Engineers (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
Luxemburg – ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N54 (UL)
Malaysia – Zomback Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), DOS App DBase V (DL), Schaum’s Mathamatical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), DOS Personality Tests (UL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL), Mortal Kombat DVD (UL+DL)
Malta – Schaum’s Beginning Calculus (DL)
New Zealand – Schaum’s Mathamatical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL)
Nigeria – Penton Media VIP CD (UL), E-Sword Bible Extras (UL)
Pakistan – Penton Media VIP CD (UL), MS Press SQL Server Performance Tech Reference (UL)
Palestinian Territory, Occupied –
Paraguay – Enyclopedia of Space Sciences Vol 1 (DL), Azureus 2.4.02 Win32(UL)
Peru – Schaum’s Mathamatical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), D&D Magic of Faerun (DL), AD&D Ships & The Sea (DL), D&D Magic of Faerun (DL), Disturbed Stupified MP3 (UL), Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry (DL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL)
Phillipines – D&D Champions of Ruin (DL), D&D Poor Wizard’s Almanac (UL), SpellJammer War Captain’s Companion (DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), GURPs Vehicles (3E) No OCR (UL), Schaum’s Biology (DL), LimeWire Pro 4.12.3 (DL)
Saudi Arabia – Zomback Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
Serbia and Montenegro – D&D Races of Stone (DL), AD&D Encyclopedia Magica Vol 3 (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), D&D Expanded Psionics Handbook (UL), Schaum’s Immunology (UL), Schaum’s College Mathemathics (DL), Edonkey 2000 Pro 1.4.5 (UL)
Thailand – MS Press Inside C# (UL), ROMs Favorite Super Nintendo SNES (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), GURPs 4th Basic Set OCR (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences Vol 1 (DL), D&D Basion Press Poisoner’s Handbook (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences Vol 3 (DL), Schaum’s Anatomy & Physiology (DL), Schaum’s Advanced Calculus
Ukraine – Zomback Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
Uraguay – AlphaSim Area 51 FlightSim 2004 (UL), Dictionary of Geophysics Astrophysics and Astronmy (UL), D&D Races of Eberron (DL), , Disturbed Stupified MP3 (UL), Schaum’s Organic Chemistry (DL)
United Arab Emirates – Encyclopedia of Space Sciences Vol 3 (DL), Schaum’s Biology, Encylopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), LimeWire 4.12.4 (DL)
Viet Nam – MS Press Inside SQL Server 2000 (UL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL), MS Press Inside C# (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences 2002 Vol 1 (DL), Schaum’s College Physics (DL), Schaum’s Advanced Calculs (DL)
Zimbabwe – ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL)

Here is some stuff I learned about car pollution and the greenhouse effect from HowStuffWorks (and an off-topic bit on electricity):

Gasoline

• aliphatic hydrocarbon (All Hydrogen/Carbon)
• 7-11 (Usually 9) Carbons in a string / line
• # Hydrogens = (# Carbons * 2 + 2)
• 132×106 Joules, 36,650 watt-hours, 125,000 BTU, 31,000 food calories (31,000,000 physics calories; 1 food calorie = 1000 physics colors or 1 physics kilocalorie)

Gasoline Combusion / Pollution

• 100% efficient gasoline combusion passes through the Nitrogen and generates CO2 and H2O from combining the Carbon with Oxygen and Hydrogen with Oxgyen.
• Gas combusion eats up 1 Oxygen Molecule (O2) for every Carbon atom and 1 for every 4 Hydrongen atoms.
• Burning 1 C9H20 molocule consumes 14 Oxygen molecules and produces 9 CO2 molecules and 10 Water Molocules.
• Stoichiometric ratio is about 14.7:1 – For each pound of gasoline, 14.7 pounds of air will be burned.
• Less than 100% efficient gasoline combusion produces CO (Carbon Monoxide; Poisnous), evaporated unburned hydrocarbon gas, and NO/NO2 (nitrogen oxides, NOX; NOS/Nitrous Oxide is N2O; Mucus irritant)
• Sunlight breaks down unburned hydrocarbon vapor, which react with nitrogen oxides to form ground-level ozone.

Farads:

• 1 Columb at 1 Volt.
• 1 Columb = 6.25 * 10^18 Electrons
• 1 Amp = 1 Columb of flow Per Second or 6.25 * 10^18 Electrons per second
• 1 Farad=1 Amp-Second at 1 Volt
• Capacitor is designed for rapid charge/discharge of staged current, not long-term storage.
• 1 Farad as big as a can of Tuna or Larger depending on Voltage capacity (Lower is Bigger b/c of more amp-second capacity?).

Water Vapor is a greenhouse gas also, but it’ll eventually come down as rain. Its the carbon-compound gasses like Carbon Dioxide and Methane that are the baddies. Excessive bacteria in sewage, factory farms, and hyper-fertilized soil, and too many people and their feed/domesticated/pet animals also produce lots of carbon dioxide also. A fuel-efficient car driven 1 hour per day generates the same amount of CO2 as about 240 people simply breathing for an hour. Since peopel drive for about an hour per day it takes about 10 people breathing all day to equal the CO2 from a day’s commute in a fuel efficient car. I’m assuming that people-metabolism and gasoline cumbustion generate about the same amount of CO2 per unit of engergy produced. Probably by the time we get rid of fossil fuels, there will be so many more people on the planet that all their breathing plus the breithing of their pet, feed, and service animals, and all the breathing in backteria in their sewage and fertilized soil, will make up for the difference in CO2 emissions!

How about making Solar powered CO2 processors and then recycle the carbon? Put the O2 back into the atmosphere. Plenty of carbon for plastics, carbon-fiber and other carbon-composites, rather than just letting it sit in the atmosphere. We probably got enough computer technology to develop artificial photosynthesis that may be even more efficient than the plants. With all the jungles being cut down, there will be plenty of Carbon Dioxide (and maybe other carbon compund gasses) for theyse hyper-efficient mass-scale, self powered machines to collect.

Here’s some of Sony BMG’s contacts you can harrass and terrorize over the fone with your DRM complaints or just simple enjoyment. Everything is there. It is only worth going to defective design to read and post call logs. They can take their DRM and spyware and shove it up their ass.

Name                BigCorp Division                 Country  Phone Number
Andrew Lack         Sony BMG Music Entertainment     USA      212-833-8880
Position: Chairman of the Board
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz  Sony BMG Music Entertainment     USA      212-833-6600
Position: CEO; led the merger of Sony and BMG
Kevin Kelleher      Sony BMG Music Entertainment     USA      212-833-7243
Position: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Cory Shields        Sony BMG Music Entertainment     USA      212-833-4647
Position: Senior VP of Communications
Mitch Singer        Sony Pictures Entertainment      USA      switchboard: 310-449-2100
Position: Executive Vice President of the digital policy group
Ole Obermann        Sony BMG Music Entertainment UK  UK       switchboard: 020 7384 7500
Position: VP Digital Business Development
Katja Neese         Sony BMG Music Entertainment     Germany  +49 (0) 89 4136 9435
Position: Director of Corporate Communications
Willy Ehmann        Sony BMG Music Entertainment     Germany  switchboard: +49.89.4136-0
Position: Senior Vice President of the Music Division
Norman Miller       Sony BMG Music Entertainment     Canada   switchboard: 416-589-3000
Position: Vice President, Digital Business, IS&T and Marketing Services
Neil Foster         Sony BMG Music Entertainment     Canada   416-589-3014
Position: General Manager, Emergency Contact No # 416-589-3015

DRM will only increase piracy, not decrease it, especially if the physical product suffers any kind of shortage of supply in ANY region of the world or faces any kind of goverment restrictions (including ‘R’ or ‘M’ ratings enforcement) in ANY region of the world. I notice piracy is lowest when both legit physical product (book/cd/dvd) AND un-DRMd digital copies are plentiful and purchasable. However, insufficient availability of physical product tends to increase piracy about twice more than insufficient or DRMd digital product. When neither is available or restricted in one or more regions of the world, you can expect piracy to be rampant. You will need both plentiful physical product AND plentiful non_DRM digital product for piracy to be low. These observations are largely from Roleplaying books (GURPS / Steve Jackson Games and Dungeons & Dragons / D&D / WOTC / Wizards of the Coast) and PC games and not movies or music though, and only on Emule.

If they get a court summons from anybody in the RIAA or MPAA, throw it in the garbage. You will more likely get a call or letter from a lawyer for a settlement first though. Don’t answer the call (it’ll be a no-caller ID or unknown number anyway that probably also won’t reverse-lookup on switchboard.com), and throw that letter int he garbage. I got a letter of intent to sue over a debt that i paid to another collections agency after I bought a car. That lawyer was looking to garnish it. I think the private-party lien on the title saved it (I bought it from my father). The lawyer (Henry Conn or one of his paralegals I think) also looked into wage garnish as a backup, but the company had a cop-out because i’m chronically tardy and generally irresponsible (just too talented), which are legal causes for dismissal to use in leiu of garnishment (which would neturalize the garnishment). So that stupid lawyer who called everyday and left blackmail type messages every day ended up selling the debt to a laid-back collections agency. You can probably do the same with the RIAA or MPAA. The actual lawsuit (if not small-claims) has so much cost and red-tape in arizona, that you must do all your homework, including garnishment feasability beforehand or you will be wasting a lot of money and time, whether or not you can get the civil judgement. Actually, better yet, take your legal letters and Summonses and stuff and put them and ridicule them like The Pirate Bay does Of the ones that have working links I like EA, Microsoft, and Enya / Warner Music the most..

I can unofficially fly airplanes, though I am weak on non-GPS navigation from lack of motivation and lining up with runways without memorized/looked up compass numbers and just simply landing, also because of a lack of motivation to practice, because X-Plane isn’t real and I can quit when it gets boring (I usually take off, fly around, often dangerously, get bored and quit). I’ve actually been off an on Microsoft Flight Simulator since 1988 but haven’t learned substantially about flying since getting into X-Plane in 2005. The only thing that keeps me from getting a pilots license now is lack of motivation to spend money on pilot training 40 hours of pilot school is pretty expensive and I probably will not make the vision requirements.

The good thing about X-Plane is that it is FAA-Approvable. The FAA doesn’t approve simulator software, they approve fully assembled training apparatuses. According to what I have read online Anybody who has made a simpit with hardware that follows FAA regulations has had no problems getting approval if X-Plane is the simulation software. I think the FAA approvals on private and low-end corporate sim-pits range from instrument ratings to Commercial Carrier licenses (full-motion only for commercial I believe). DIY is good because any pre-packaged commercial FAA approved training kit you buy, especially if X-Plane is on it because of its pace of updates, will be fairly obsolete, because any change in hardware OR software requires going through the whole approval process again. You can sell / give away exactly identical copies of an approved setup and I think it is either automatically approved or approvable with only minor red-tape. So if you have a $50 copy of X-Plane on your machine, your are using the same exact software that are in fully FAA approved training devices that use X-Plane, even ones approved for accruing hours for commercial carrier permits!!

I’m making a solar powered high flying mutation of the Stemme S10-VT, a Mutation of the Stemme S6-RT, a 500+ knot 2-4 seater propfan aircraft, and a 2-engined ‘flying winnebego’, essentially a 6-8 metric ton aircraft that is 10 meters long and has uber fuel economy, with X-Plane. X-Plane has a few bugs with large, curved propellers pushed closed to the speed of sound (worse on light aircraft), where once you reach 400+ knots, you can sustain it at idle throttle, and if the prop is big enough, you lose control of the RPM and the tip speed is slightly supersonic regardless of RPM setting. It excels in airfoil simulation. Non-airfoil aerodynamics and drag is simplified. Basically Flight simulators is straight table-data for aircraft and X-Plane is Cl/Cd/Cm tables for airfoils and Cd and Surface Area for non-airfoils and I don’t know how engine simulation works, but I know props go through airfoil simulations, not sure about jets (especially the turbines, which are airfoils like ducted props with manipulated air-inflow). Before X-Plane turned into a simulation game, it was an airfoil aerodynamics research program. I would consider X-Plane to be ‘prosumer’ software for research — on the edge of top of the line at the consumer level and bottom of the line at the professional level. For flight training, it is also probably prosumer, but it becomes mid-grade professional when accompanied by professional-level hardware.

Here’s some Links:

• X-Plane FAA approvability brag page
• Precision Flight Controls & X-Plane Professional FAA Approved Advanced and Basic ATDs
• Cat III BASIC A.T.D. FAA and Canadian Transport Approved
• Cat IV M.F.D Modular Flight Deck A.A.T.D. Advanced Aviation Training Device(s)
• Fidelity Flight Simulation Inc – Motus Full-Motion simulator uses Laminar Research’s X-Plane as it’s software
• FAA Aproval letter for a Motus 311p kit with X-Plane software (X-Plane not mentioned on letter)
• Getting FAA Approval – MOTUS simulation device
• Interview with Austin Meyer and Randy Witt of Laminar Research, makers of the X-Plane flight simulator.

Precision Flight Controls’s A-ATDs and B-ATDs and Fidelity Flight Simulation’s MOTUS simulation devices are considered FAA Approvable and X-Plane is also FAA Approvable so mixing the two makes any personalized kit should make it a cinch to get FAA approved.

So What does this mean? Well since Barry Legar’s X-Planes site has been taken down (I have to get off my lazy ass and get these onto Emule as I have hoarded most of his offerings and they are on free-to-distribute licenses so its legal too), here’s some stuff to raise up some paranoia. A Dabbler like me, or an actual analytical spy can reverse-engineer some serious stuff with X-Plane (Orbiter space-flight simulator is hyper-realistic also) and well constructed aircraft such as the ones from Barry Legar. You can analytically reverse engineer performance and tactices from American, European, Russian, and Chinese aircraft to your heart’s content! You can make new experimental aircraft for your own amusement or profit. Self motivated folks with no money (or those who want to hide their training from the law) can learn to fly aircraft almost as good has having real lessons. Then when you eventually go to real flight school, you’d be only filling your self-taught gaps, meaning you’ll still learn a lot of stuff but you can laze through the course also and still pass / get a decent grade.

For those who want to make America more of a Police State, Al-Qaeda (Al-Quaeda, Al-Queida) and like terrorists (or foreign sabotage agents) can train pilots to smack planes into buildings without leaving any fingerprints! The only difference between the $50 X-Plane and the X-Plane ‘professional’ variants seems to be only complicated hardware control device connectivity, but it may only be different in branding and price! Maybe they could also practice their actual attacks such as smacking buildings, nuking Yellowstone, nuking unstable volcanic mountainsides in the ocean, or detonating nukes, bio-nukes, or dirty-bombs, while on a undeviated approach over city terrain (Phoenix has a lot of city terrain approaches). Happy banning! When and if America bans X-Plane / Orbiter it’ll still be pirated on Emule P2P Filesharing (Especially Orbiter as its freeware – legal to pirate and no crack needed) and I’ll still be using it anyway! I personally use x-plane and Orbiter only for my own personal gratification and really could care less who else is using it. More likely, any consumer-available product will probably be barred from further official approvals, but X-Plane has already cheated that with it’s branding strategy and refusal do disclose any difference between versions. I’m pretty sure it is just advanced avionics connectivity, label and licensing terms.

Update 2006-09-25: Barry Legar’s X-Planes site is back up. It has been up for awhile, but I just finally took the time to mention it now. It hasn’t been updated or added to since it went down or gone back up though. Also Austin seems to be working on a hyper-realistic driving (consumer and high-performance road car) simulator going by a sparse mention of a email (Yahoo Group x-plane news) news release and a some of the improvements in the X-Plane 8.50 betas. They are mainly road traffic and a greatly enhanced landing gear tire traction model. These are probably code from the top-secret driving sim being cross-implemented back into the X-Plane 8.50 betas.

I am Autistic (full autistic, high functioning – HFA), and not only do I drive, I drive a stick-shift. I am surprising a pretty good driver for my experience level (2 years) and autism handicap doesn’t affect my driving ability at all except in congested or chaotic traffic conditions, or if there is so little traffic or car-control challenges that driving gets boring enough for you to zone-out. I am also very vunerable to distraction and have extremely limited multitasking ability with driving. I think talking on the cellphone while driving (or even to a passanger) is 4 times more distracting to me than to a normal person. I can do low-concentration driving (not at an intersection or parkin lot and don’t need to change lanes) and low-cognition cell-phone talking or passenger conversation but I cannot watch the car in front of me, watch out for the light, and talk at the same time. I end up swerving a little bit when the slight jerk forces my concentration back over. I have multitaskig problems with spoken language in many other areas also.

As far as the stickshift goes, I am fairly competent with it now. When I first started out I was actually driving like I was a complete noob that just passed my road test in NY because of multiple simulaneous points of concentration issues, more with the clutch than the shifter. But with me throughly knowing the clutch in and out, it is hardly a distraction for me and I’m a lot less overcautous at un-signaled intersections now. The stick shift I think is safer actually becuase you can get jumpy in anticpation or following the jumpy anticpating driver in front of you at the lights and with an autmoatic you jump into the intersection a little bit when you just simply let off the break and it is easy to put on the gas before being able to verify a green light (or the other side turning yellow via the cop-slit in AZ or the rear-cop-light in No-Cal), but with the stick you have to put in the clutch, put it into gear, let go of the brake, and then go on the gas and let go of the clutch. You’d realised the light didn’t actually turn green yet long before you make it to putting on the gas.

I think my alertness / sensory processing limitations were largely worked around by my 5 years of riding a bicycle in semi-city traffic (MIddletown, NY) and 4+ years of experience of riding a bicycle in city traffic (West Mesa/Tempe/South Scottsdale/Phoenix AZ). Yes I was hit by a car a total of 3 times (twice in NY once in AZ), luckily all at low speeds where my bicycle rather than me was struck by the car and I either cleared out of the way of the car (2x in NY) or went over the hood and stayed on top of the hood until the car stopped (1x in AZ). Two of those were my fault (cut in front of car on right turn lane, riding of left side of road) and one was the driver’s fault (made left turn with me on the inside of the right side of the road turning left). I know my best two senses for alertness are auditory cues and peripheral vision. Auditory doesn’t work all that well on a car at any speed or on a motorcycle over 20mph. My father is a good driver and he says I have his reflexes which in the application of splitting wood it keeps my from hitting my foot when I miss with the axe (I haven’t split wood since I was 16, living with my father and have only done it a few times total in the span of 2-3 months).

I do like to speed, but I don’t like to take chances in aggressively passing other cars. I only go 80+ if there’s nobody in the way. Going 80-90 on interchange ramps is fun. I’m still not at the level that I can comfortably do 90-100 around winding turns on the 60 between Riverside and LA though (many drivers go that fast). 80 is about my limit around those terms though I may be better now if I drive to LA again (I live in Phoenix AZ). I may be limited in dealing in close-quarters traffic weaving, being able to process things at multiple points around me simultaneously, but I am very good in fuel efficient driving (outside of speeding on the freeway), and calmness and forward-focus awareness and anticipating of not-so-pro professional lane changers (the 90-110 lane changers are much more graceful and cause lot less braking in other drivers than the 70-80 ones do) and generally aggressive, distracted, or drunk drivers. I am a very good braker, a carryover my city bicycling experience, and I am also good with evasive maneuvers (for my level of training), also a carryover my by city bicycling experience I think. I actually want to go to racing school, but Bondurant Racing School is sooooo expensive – 2-6 grand – the price of an older used car or a strong (but not top-of-the-line) gaming PC.

I actually went through driving courses 3 times. I would’ve possibly had a license at 16 if I stayed in Virginia just a few months longer and didn’t leave classroom driver’s ed early (without driver’s ed or my father there is no car to take the road test in because my mother doesn’t have a car), but I probably would have failed road test repeatedly at the time (North Stafford’s behind-the-wheel driver’s ed was more car control than traffic awareness, which is my weakness, but I sucked in both at the time because I had no illegal driving experience that many other kids had) and had very limited bicycle-in traffic experience a this age also. I went to a private driving school in Utica, NY when I was 24 and got a license on my 2nd road test attempt after spending $450 at the driving school. I used that license to make driving a loaded cargo van (rental) from NY to AZ legal. I drove a Ford E250 van cross country on just maybe 30 hour’s driving experience (freeway driving has a much lower multi-point sensory processing requirement than city driving does). But after moving to Arizona, i was negligent in transferring my license from NY to AZ and I lost it on the bus and they wouldn’t give me a new license without a new road test. I had no car and I was insufficiently motivated to get a car so it wasn’t until I was 30 that I got license long-term and started driving regularly.

When my father offered to sell me his well maintained 1998 Honda Civic Coupe EX with 89000 miles for $5000 (he let me make non-interest payments of $1000 to start, $500/mo because I couldn’t get a 3rd-party car loan at less than 9% because of my mediocre credit), I got motivated motivated to deal with the MVD, go to the Stop ‘n’ Go driving school (driver-license mill – nobody fails – AZ allows 3rd party testing, NY doesn’t) and get a license and go through the insurance la-la land, which is easy now because of the internet. The internet is a super-crutch for me because I’m so terrible at doing beaurocratic processes through people. With the MVD it took me 5 trips to get a license because I can’t communicate / work beauracracy through people, I am a procrastinator (MVD closes at 4 but testing ends at 3), failed a written test for the first time (i’ve taken and passed almost a dozen written tests without studying, usually borderline-pass outside of VA), unaware of government agency holidays (rode bus for an hour on Saturday to an MVD (its DMV in most other states) that is open on Saturdays to find out it was closed because of memorial day weekend). The good thing with the MVD is that I need my glasses to pass the eye exam but they forgot the glasses restriction. I wear glasses when I drive but at least I have legal flexibility when I lose or forget them as my nearsightedness affects my driving only in unknown areas when I actually need to read signs and not just recognize their patterns.

I am also an Advanced certified scuba diver (PADI, which is equivalent to SSI’s level-2 as SSI has 3 levels of non-instructor certification). I went through classroom 3 times because the first two I never followed through to the open water dives because of lack of funding (1st time classroom was free through high school) or I was moving (2nd time; Moved NY to AZ). I can unofficially fly aircraft. I haven’t taken flying lessons yet and still rusty in non-GPS navigation and landing (because of lack of motivation to practice), but I can fly low and fly unstable aircraft fairly well. The Artificial Horizon is the # 1 instrument. Then probably the altimeter, Indicated Airspeed, and Angle of Attack. Then its probably the vertical speed, vertical acceleration (Orbiter only), Compass, slideslip indicator, and the Gas gauge. Then probably the GPS / Navigation, CHT, EGT, and RPMs. I probably can go to flight school and learn a significant amount but be lazy on the studying because I’m largely filling gaps, especially in procedure regulations as you don’t have to care about that in X-Plane as there is nobody to run into, it don’t matter if you’ll fry your engine in just a few dozen hours, and nobody will arrest you no matter what, where or how you fly.

Autistic people almost always suck in sports because they are slow movers (physical and sensory-interface), have poor gross motor coordination, cannot process multiple external events at a time (mostly team sports + wrestling), and can’t handle pressure and urgency (mostly team sports + wrestling). Most autistic participation is almost always a charity case that grows as you increase in level. The charity-case sacrifice is modest at modified (7th-8th grade) and junior varsity, and it grows to significant at the varsity and non-NCAA college level and is prohibitive at any NCAA college level because of the focus on winning whatever the cost (which is why it is so high-level) and the financial bottom line (Training advanced athletes isn’t free or cheap and people do want to get rich or get richer). The only exception, which is usually a mild to moderate negator of the charity case, is if you can find and exploit a niche skill, especially if it is connected to a savant (rare), and work with the team chemistry to prevent the overall autistic handicap (AS, HF PDD-NOS, HFA) from neutralizing that niche skill (usually focus-oriented such as hitting and possibly pitching in baseball or shooting in basketball or 1-on-1 ball-stripping in soccer/basketball). So basically if the coach likes your kid for some unrelated reason or the coach is charity friendly then you’d probably get your autistic on the team. Otherwise your are limited to the handicap Olympics or other disability-friendly activity where your kid will probably learn nothing (unless significantly self-motivated to learn) beyond basic routines as far as the sport goes, but will probably be happy and that’s probably good enough.

My niche isn’t really that focus oriented, but it is turning on a dime. I’ve only become aware of it since 2001 with the MetroStars. I think it is a carryover from swimming as I have often been labeled as a ‘beach wale’ in my late-teens because I can easily and effortlessly turn underwater with just my kick, without fins. I don’t think I developed it playing any sports. ‘Turning on a dime’, which I think is turning in place 90 degrees or more, or something looks like one of those Ronaldo moves, is probably a combination of knee-rotation control and calf strength (to lock the foot or to lift weight off the foot and, with the quadriceps, to stabilize a slightly flexed, unstable knee, which is the most rotation-friendly position). My cousin Harley (father’s side) is also a major underwater swimmer, with better breath holding ability (mine is above average, his is better), but more ear infections (I don’t get ear infections). Another niche is my big calves which was largely developed from doing jobs (lawn mowing graded lawns and hauling loaded wheelbarrows up steep driveways) and riding my bike up steep hills to feed my video game obsession in my teenage years. I was a good ball stripper in soccer in early high-school but I can largely only can do it to ball-hogging dancer-type dribblers, and compared to higher-level players I really am not that good at all. I am a terrible hitter in baseball but can achieve mediocrity if I swing gently with focus solely on technique. It is difficult for me to get technique burned into any low-level automated intuitive brain process unless there is a lot of vestibular or tactile feedback. I am a mediocre shooter in basketball (bad if under pressure or urgency). I am fairly surprised that I can pass fairly well on auditory information alone (heel pass behind you to a teammate calling for the ball without seeing your teammate). The only possible niche I may have is that I am partially ambidextrous. But I can soccer pass (low-med power), wield a hockey stick, dial a phone, operate a cash register, and use a mouse with above-average off-hand (or foot), but not full competency. I am strictly right-handed for throwing, hitting, basketball shooting and writing though.

I probably don’t care about protecting sources as much as having the videos) in my hoard. So I would copy it a few times and then turn it in and do what I please with my copies. The law currently not adapted to such acts especially with my autistic-obsessive hoarder psychology. I would slip through the cracks in this case as they seemed to be looking for evidence more than containing a possibly containable leak. If I happened to not like the video though I probably wouldn’t have blogged it but I would also probably have dumped the leaked tapes, probably by putting it on top of the mailbox or where somebody can pick it up as it would be a ‘one persons trash is another’s treasure’ type of item.

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My Verizon Phone upgrade is early January of 2007. My mother recklessly runs up $5-15 every month of downloads and only remembers about a fourth of them without significant digging or research when I ask here how she ran it up. I hate Verizon Wireless’s ‘Shopping Mall’ business model that resembles CompuServe of the late ’80s and Early ’90s and I refuse to participate in it and don’t like my mother or sister being suckered into it either. I only ‘tolerate’ it because I get to abuse my bandwidth on my BroadbandAccess/NationalAccess with 24/7 Emule P2P Filesharing. If I can’t get a phone that lets me play at least no-DRM MP3s and no-DRM JPGs that originated from my computer that originated from god who knows where (most probable – Emule P2P, Web, Self-ripped CD), I will probably just get a cheap Nokia brick again (even the cheap Nokias have cameras now). Also I will still never buy an IPOD. I will only buy a hard-disk portable unit (whatever it plays or records) that supports USB OTG. Simple USB-mass storage accessibly is all I need for lower-priced solid-state devices (mostly just generic hard-disk enclosures, memory cards and thumb/pen drives)

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Proxydom.com or FireWallDown.com will get you in. There are hundreds of proxies owned by a few dozen companies/people, all linked together through proxy topsites (a whole array of buttons below the search box that is at least 2/3 links to topsites). You can’t login through the web proxies but you’ll at least be able to view profiles.

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Copy my damned hard drive within the time it takes to process everything else and I’d probably wouldn’t care. I Share it up on emule and have other copies. No containment can occur. But if you ain’t got no money, then you do prefer them to copy rather than seize. If you really need to cover up evidence and did it preemptively, and relatively full hard disk and a regularly scheduled defrag can be almost as good as a disk wiper (better on areas with high-turnover). Plus you keep your hard drive going fast . Wipe-disk / disk-defragging works on seizure/lab forensics too (a forensics-grade image that is just about as good as having the actual HD – might be better because they can copy that image multiple-fold and try to crack passwords especially for NTFS encrypted files). Remember that portable forensic hard disk copiers do a low-level read-only copy into a forensic image-file, and can do it by USB-booting into the forensic copier. If you disabled USB booting and passworded your BIOS you can probably expect a seizure instead whether it is a border inspection or a house/office search warrant, and it can take months for you to get your machine back if you get it back at all because they have beauracracy and also assume that you probably have organized crime, terrorist, or foreign-goverment backing of funds.

I support this cheap laptop. I prefer mass retail/discount/wholesale availability over socialist distribution in the schools though. The Commodore 64 was $150 and people were happy with it. 7″ VGA or SVGA screen, basic 2D video acceleration, and only a 300MHZ processor (very-low-consumption though)? For $150 that will play my SNES ROMS, play old shareware games or older commercial games, word process, and do basic web surfing very well. I want to see this for $125-$150 at my local Wal-Mart. Then offer it through the socialist channels. And Yes I agree to keeping to open-source Linux over anything proprietary apple. Actually I may prefer this over the oragami (Microsoft’s ultra-portable laptop), but it needs to play DVDs via external drive (powering of external drive is not required at this price), Read Ebook PDFs, Play MP3s, Play NES/SNES/GBC/GBA/N64 emulator ROMs with available Linux emulators, interface with external hard drives (doesn’t have to power them for only $100-150), and play XVID files (wherever they are stored) with universal codec packs, and interface (but not necessarily power beyond 100ma) with any USB mass-storage device I may plug into. If this super-cheap laptop can do these things, it might be why Microsoft and Intel hate this. Microsoft and Intel might get wal-marted down.

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This would appeal to file sharers who like to read books and play emulator ROMs, like me, if it don’t cost too much for its hardware beef. A 4-pound mini-fijutsu tablet-laptop may be better though as the non-keyboard controls won’t be compatible with VisualBoyAdvance, Project64, ZSNES, or FCEUltra.

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I like non-totalitarian goverments who promote open source software.

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Seems right. Indiscriminate and childish use of virii weapons of mass destruction by big-ego genius pre-teens, teens, and young adults / college kids transitions to organized crime with a goal and a mission beyond knocking your rival out of a IRC chat room (or better yet his internet connection). That is why the virii and worms these days are very controlled, regulated, and stealthy now, and far more robust than the virii of the late 90s which would bog down your computer as it infects every file in your system in less than 2 hours. There is a lot of psychology behind it now too now that the mob mostly runs this stuff now rather than egotistical teenagers playing with destructive power they don’t understand and effectively aim and control. It is like a teenager using a 10+ megaton nuke central warhead with bio-nuke perimeter MIRV warheads to spread smallpox or a sci-fi like disease with the nuclear shockwave to knock-off his online enemy vs a mob gang using self-replicating, fully automated stealth drones equipped with 0.01 kiloton clean laser-fired micronukes, or cleverly crafted metamorphosis nanoviruses to knock out their organized enemies or to socially engineer people into fraud.

I won’t miss Kazaa either. I was casual at best when I was using Kazaa. Limited MP3 and occasional GBA rom downloading (GBA ROMs only after the GBExtreme website went down). Kazaa is slow, unstable, and I can’t search for archives. It is leecher-friendly (a bad thing) and simply is outdated (especially with no incomplete/part-file sharing / swarming). I didn’t become a hardcore P2P user until Emule. Though I was a bit obsessive with Napster but it took Books, RPGs, Warez, and ROMs for me to become overly obsessive. Actually now, I hate Kazaa because of their lawsuit with P2PNet. But FastTrack as an free-for-all network that is 95% illegal content (Emule is about 85% illegal content the best out there I think except possibly Gnutella and Private BitTorrent trackers) will still live on because I’m pretty sure 2/3 of all Kazaa users use Kazaa lite Resurrection and not the original Kazaa media desktop. Kazaa will probably have to rename its network and lock-out the Kazaa Lite Resurrection clients via major protocol changes. FastTrack will probably be dead as a free-for-all filesharing network in a few years, but I could care less and wouldn’t miss it.

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The ‘Illegal pirated software’ is on media meant to be sold (Bootlegging/counterfeiting for profit). It is not the same as free-warez (P2P filesharing or friend giving copies to friends).

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The ‘CAM’ police gathers into the newest releases and goofs off in front of the theater. The one theater is actually better CAM patrolled than having one guy that didn’t goof off at all, but other theaters are left unguarded. I hate CAMs anyway. I’d rather get a screener, and will wait for the DVDrip if there isn’t one. I think the law is stupid though. Its probably ok for movie theaters to not want cameras but it should be an ejection without refund (very probable) or maybe a misdemeanor for the non-cooperatives or repeat offenders (the equivalent of throwing things into the field or excessive profanity/disturbance at a soccer stadium).

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I think I may put the insider-screener XVID in my Emule download queue (paused/stopped). I’m pretty sure if and when I start it, perhaps a year from now, It will still be on Emule and well sourced too. My friend Rick got me into movie theaters for free and he only worked at the mall where the theater was at!!! 3rd-hand freebie! I’m pretty sure, if he still worked there, he could get me screeners to share too. He is a well connected socialite, and Movie theater people aren’t paid or even trained that well. If rick worked at the mall right now I’d probably be able to get screeners just as well as free movie tickets.

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RIAA Loses another one (Not Hogan). The RIAA’s win/loss record is not looking good….

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Background knowledge is definitly very helpful in issuing a fair judgement. I think that recess or deferment to research and learn would be more appropriate response than just ‘denied’ though, but the law probably has no accomodation for it.

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More articles on Shawn Hogan standing up to the MPAA. I hope Shawn wins and he probably will because the RIAA / MPAA often only has file name(s) and an ip address(s) for evidence and the IP Address could be dynamic. The ownership backing of legit product probably will have no effect on the case as current law could care less.

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Emule and BitTorrent do not allow disabling of sharing of the incoming or incomplete folders. Kazaa does allow disabling of sharing of the incoming folder and it cannot share partial / incomplete files. That aside from it’s hack-ability and the lack of ability to search for archives (for warez and romz) as a file type is why Kazaa sux so much. Plus you’re lucky to get 2 days of continuous uptime max and is a pig and it has spyware. Emule, with at least a somewhat up-to-date ip blocker data, can easily run for 20-60 days at a time, which is window’s XP’s stability limits largely. It is always the noobs and leeches that get sued because they are the ones who are stupid and/or lazy, and Kazaa is buggy, exploitable, and has a much smaller learning curve than Emule (Emule is the geek’s dream once you learn the in’s and out’s) and an interface more aimed for computer-dummys than geeks.

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Some more articles over the Pirate Bay and the Swedish Pirate Party.

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I really hope that the Swedish pirate party gets seats in the parliament. I tried to change my voter registration to the PPUS but they ‘rejected’ my political party change – my new voter registration card has my previous party on it – Libertarian.