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I wouldn’t say the the MPAA has surrendered. Just that the MPAA is a sucker for ass-kissing. If you can run a part that is legal and ass-kisses the MPAA (and maybe the RIAA too), then you can run another half that isn’t quite so legal and get a way with it. The ass kissing is a lot of work though… The main difference between Guba and YouTube is that Guba is scraping usenet with very little filtering, and that Guba is offering in concurrency, legal DRM video download rentals (YouTube does neither). There doesn’t seem to be much filtering for copyrights, so the MPAA is probably being well bulshitted on the ‘content filtering’. Dowload while you can! The episodes will last much longer on Emule though, so if it ain’t blocked, just use Emule because it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon and will most likely outlive YouTube.

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I don’t care for skype. Skype uses Kazaa’s P2P methodology, mostly revolving around the supernode topology. Kazaa / fastrack has poor bandwidth control and it is easy to hack and exploit. If the RIAA can easily plant fake files, currupt files and virsues into existing file shares on Kazaa, then think of what they and other people like the goverment may be able do to your phone calls. But if I were a student, i’d want my uber-cheap (or free) long distance phone calls, and if Kazaa is all there is, then Kazaa (Skype) it is.

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Just a little bit over a 50% response rate? Actually that isn’t to bad sinc the RIAA can barely reach 60% with intimidating, threatening collections calls from the Settlement Support Center.

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Is Apogee just responding to and passing-through DMCA letters from the RIAA or BSA or are they acting proactivly on their own? They are suposedly the ISP college dorms’ internet access. I wonder how long I would get away with using Emule at this school? I think InfoServices can track OurTunes and MyTunes just as easily as an ordinary network share after just a little bit more initial effort. Worse, I don’t see the ability to password-protect your Itunes shares because SUNY Tech expressly forbids un-passworded network shares, no matter what the content. This rule is actually not primarily motivated by anti-piracy, but from the child porn bust that happened the previous year that did significant damage to the school’s rep - child porn was being shared on an un-passworded share. I was sharing my entire MP3 and ROMs collection unpassword though and most of my own acquisition was scanning the network machine by machine for MP3s.

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Fight back at the RIAA, fight! fight! WAR!! (Just not too preemptively) Who gonna pay them lawyers though?? ???Defendants admit the allegations of the first sentence of paragraph 41 of the Complaint. Defendants deny the remaining allegations of paragraph 41 of the Complaint but admit that the LimeWire software application can automatically launch upon start up of a user???s computer for Windows versions only, unless the user designates otherwise.??? (Slyck article) Is a boo boo. “Sound recordings” is only a logical subset of the amount of files made available on Gnutella/LimeWire. Not the only type of file made available as the RIAA’s paragraph wants to make the judge/jury to think. Actually, the Gnutella network is the leading scource of leaked goverment classified documents…. Gnutella is optimized for small files after all… I download album archives and discographies from Emule, as Emule is optmized for big files. The RIAA hasn’t caught up with the times yet to monitor compilation archives effectivly, though they do plant a lot of fakes in the form of mass-seeding passworded archives though, but the preview feature will tell me if an archive is passworded before I get 20% of the file. Emule has enough individual song files (popular radio hits usually) to decide if I want to go grabbing at the albums or the discoagrphies.

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This reporter needs to populate Emule’s IP blocker. His server list is full of fakes, many run by the RIAA. I can tell by this — “However, with the servers reporting over 18.3 million users logged on and 2.2 billion files shared at the time of press”. The ED2K network is running between 3.3 and 4.2 million simultanous users right now (4M is usually late night weekends, usually not over 3.6M on weeknights). This guy is probably getting pounded half to death by NetSentry right now.

It appears that Microsoft has pulled the ability for the end user to back-up their DRM usage rights data with Windows Media Player 11. They put in an ‘on-line’ restoration system that works only some of the time to compensate, and generally tells those who lose their data and can’t work the online restoration that they are ’shit out of luck’. I don’t rip CDs with Windows Media player, so I don’t have to worry it about it planting DRM into the audio files. I use open source CDEX to rip CDs, which happily makes unprotected MP3s (anything you have a codec for). I will not use Windows Media Center Edition (or Vista Home Premium or Ultimate) to record TV shows. I don’t think I ever had a microsft-DRM-ed file on my hard drive ever.

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I like this — “Luckily, if you ignored the law, you can enjoy Zune to the fullest.”. Microsoft is looking to exploit both the law abiding by ripping them off with incompatible DRM versions, and the law breakers by competing with the generic players in the MeritLine.com category above. At least you know the MS is looking for the most profit, on both sides of the law, regardless of whether the law is good or bad for the consumer (the Anti-DRM cracking part of the DMCA is bad). None of the MeritLine devices has a screen though. They have to be hooked up to a TV or monitor.

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Bad news, it looks like Zune will practice ‘viral DRM’ - all 3 days / 3 plays (whichever is hit first), even on unprotected content. The ‘viral DRM’ kicks in if you do a player to player transfer of content. It doesn’t seem to actually DRM the file itself, so the scope of the DRM is limited to the wi-fi transmission recipient’s player only. So the user could maybe bypass it by copying out the file and then copying it back in? This is probably lawsuit paranoia with a nice exploit of a loophole in the creative commons license, and still fits the profit motive pattern.

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This proprietary DRM is STUPID. I bet the RIAA loves Apple for setting a pioneer’s exmple of their proprietary ways. Standardized DRM would at least prevent this (and why the RIAA doesn’t want it probably in agreement with Apple) - Microsoft will bear the consumer’s burden of re-purchasing songs to convert a customer from IPod to Zune (or at least make the customer use both devices concurrently)!!! I bet Apple will do their best to fight Microsoft’s scanning of Itunes. The RIAA tough, will lavishly accept Microsofts re-purchase payments though, so at least this may create a further rift between Apple and the RIAA on top of the pricing disputes (The RIAA wants to charge more for popular tracks and leave the less popular rather than charge less for unpopular tracks and leave the popular ones), but probably not. Then again, most customers rip CDs or download from P2P like Emule. So far it looks like I don’t want a Zune, either, especially if the price markup is going to be higher than even Ipod.

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People HATE DRM. DRM-free download sites will flourish when the unprotected, rippable CD becomes obsolete, if the RIAA can ever manage that. THe RIAA Pulling non_DRM CDs right now is an immediate death sentence for the recording industry and they know it. The extinction of the unprotected CD would multiply piracy rates by 10 with the remainder going to the independant indie lables, with only the stupidist or the most subjugatable buying the DRM. The MPAA was saved only by De-CSS.

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The MPAA is training and recruiting ‘pirate DVD’ dogs? I wonder how they differentiate legit-stamp, pirate-stamp, DVDs with XVIDs, burnt DVD-video, and DVDs with misc data? Maybe they are targeting the scent of certain types of pirate pressing equipment? Most counterfeiting is going to the burners these days, so the dogs are obsolete already if specific pressing equipment scents are being targeted. If people who don’t want to pay for shit (or can’t due to legal / trade restrictions) would just download their movies for free from Emule, then the counterfeiters would be all out of business anyway.

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“The reason it’s bad for content providers is because typically a DRM ties a user to one hardware platform, so if I buy my all my music on iTunes, I can’t take that content to another hardware environment or another operating platform”. They’ll eventually standardize DRM accross multiple OS’s and hardware platforms. I’m surprised they havn’t already. Then again, with apple being first-in, and apple always having been highly proprietary, everybody stupidly follows apple’s example. It is obvious that BitTorrent is mostly loyal to the MPAA now, mostly out of fear I presume. At least BitTorrent itself remains open source. Maybe, like Guba.com, BitTorrent could get away with running a PirateBay like index with minimal filtering, maybe also scraping usenet and also several torrent sites rather than its current moderated submission only search engine?

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Well I ain’t ever going to subscribe to HDNet. Mark Cuban showed himself as a DRM lover who wants to be on the throne. I do agree that most viral marketing isn’t going to spread. If the commercial sucks, and most do, it ain’t going to spread. The ‘Go Daddy Girl’ spread really well. Many Adidas and Nike (especially the Joga ones) soccer commercials do really well. I have hoarded about 2-3 GB of commercials off of Emule.

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It appears that FairUse4WM will coincidentially crack Zune DRM because Zune will use Windows Media 10/11 DRM. DRM is pointless. Anti-DRM sentiment is greatly supress by the abundance of unprotected audio CDs. Things will only get worse, going by that fact the microsoft is already switching to an outside warfare domain - civil courts. Eventually it will be cops, jail, and guns, because nobody can beat the hackers.

Martial law is coming! George Bush wants the throne but he probably won’t get it, but he is driving more momentum for this country to become a tyrannic despotic/corporate fascist state. Rex84 would definitely kick off if and when the YellowStone caldera erupts, or if the USA goes to war with China and decides to crack down on P2P file sharing (and BitTorrent and the darknets) to curb espionage and embargo violations, or if simply mass protests and some rioting start incase these new rules on detainees spread to citizens combined with Bush or a future president like Bush’s war-making. The releaser group courier population alone will fill a few of the concentration camps. The stubborn portion of the P2P population will probably fill another dozen or so. They are really meant for large sums of looters, rioters, and maybe all of the peaceful protesters if rioters/looters are among them and the protest is ‘undesirable’. But some of the camps are already handling overflow population of some military and civilian federal prisons though.

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These two articles are mostly opposite, except the deliberate, overt, chronic, and very deceptive defamer in the 2nd article is not doing it online. P2PNet is indirect via readers and reply-article, neutral/apathetic (doesn’t care if it libelous or not), and is not chronic or overly deceptive.

I wish China would be democratic before conquering the world. They may conquer it more easily and I would actually would support chinese domination of the world if they had a free goverment. China has been wanting to economically assimilate latin america alot for a decade actually.

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Way to go Wal-Mart! $4 for most generic drugs. $4 even if the insurance co-pay is more (usually $10-20). Compate with those foreign web sites!!

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Looks like a cool game. Another way to satisfy humanity’s (2x for the white/caucasian race and its hybrids) need to dominate and win without any real killing and violence.

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It only shows that America’s ambitious successful people are among the most evil in the world. I wonder if disaster enough to cause basic needs to not be reliably net occurs, which country will fall into the worst barbarism? My dad says that southwestern indian tribes are the worst of all, but I’m pretty sure that white americans that don’t have low self-esteem will be a close second - more cruel, vicious, and less helpless (whites must have power and dominance). My dad said that in the prisons, whites by far dominante in the category of the ‘cutters’ (and he is still somewhat anti-black bigot though it has diminished with age).

I was a reject more most of my pre-high school childhood also. This school is worse than Minisink, but better than Safford.

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Definitly an aspie with a stable family, but a somewhat negligent upbringing and ended up having the News, R-Movies, and violent video games being the dominant moral influence. I think Autis and Aspies have a much higher degree of influence from TV, movies, and music than normal people.

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Me and Chris Bennet were so bad that our special ed teacher, Mrs Rampe quit. We were the worst complete jerkoffs imaginable. Chris Bennett got sent to BOCES to separate us. It was him rather than me that got shipped out probably because my grades and standardized test scores were higher than his. Had a 3-4 month sub, which I turned into half-ass work shoveller and spoiled-brat whiney video game addict (I become addicted even to educational games on the apple — mostly ones that sim stuff or have a RPG-like feel), then the disciplinarian Mr. Thorely came in. I was his biggest challenge. I got mainstreamed more (math and art/music/gym all year, but social studies, science, and technology was added while Thorely was in charge), custom tailored to my interests, and then he used it for leverage on discipline like making me sit in the hallway instead of going out to math or science (nearly all day one day) when I was bad. He leveraged the commodore 64 for positive reinforcement, the only non-gifted classroom to have a computer in it full-time (this is 1987), and the only classroom total of which kids had full-day access. I was actually becoming ‘good enough’ to get a lot of time on the computer, and I had enough time to learn how to pirate disks and two of the kid’s positive reinforcement was compromised because they had C64s at home and I taught them how to copy disks he he… Oh yeah Another kid, a girl named Sabrina, got shipped off to BOCES between the time Mrs Rampe left and Mr. Thorely came in, when Mrs Shoemaker was long-term subbing. The difference between me and Chris Bennett vs. Sabrina and that we were mostly verbal and non-threatening but majorly insultful and disrespectful and behaving disruptivly (nobody can make better fart noises than Chris Bennett). Sabrina was constantly aggressively talking back and threatenly arguing at the teacher.

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“The child’s home district pays tuition of $50,000 to $80,000 a year for these programs — plus busing” That’s too much. Costs need to be kept under 50,000-60,000. Early intervention does work well though. My early intervention was at age 3-4 plus BOCES (not autism dedicated - class had cerebral palsy, blind, deaf added up to 1/3, retarded added up to 1/2, and autistic the rest probably) at Minisink at age 6-7 1/2 (following year was had less cappy-ness - LD mostly).

This APC article has a direct link to an unsecured MS page allowing you to download vista! If your company blocks P2P (protocol obscufiation helps, but having outgoing connections blocked on BitTorrent, Emule and Emule’s default ports and a LowID - incoming connections blocked on nearly all ports - = much fewer peers) and you have no broadband at home, here’s your chance to leech it from work!

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Lots of leakage! Why do they need to keep all this secret (The titles and basic details at least)?? Well hopefully a few of the downloaders immortalized the leak on Emule or BitTorrent. Emule is more effective in immortialization because things stay on this network longer. I probably will not indulge in the leak as I don’t hoard game art very aggressivly, considering that the leak archive is a whole 2GB.

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I wished the Soren Johnson guy would leak more. I hate that word, ‘IP’. Just charts, diagrams, some screenies if not ugly, and detailed descriptions. The 2GB archive full of source art and maybe source code is nice, but not neccesary, at least for me. But I don’t benefit from source art than some others might though.

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The First ZDNet Article forgot to mention 3-days/3-plays hardware-DRM. For wi-fi beamed songs. Even on non-DRM mp3s and AACs. Easy to crack though. Copy-out and copy-back in for non-DRM, copy-out, fairUse4wm, copy-back in for the DRM songs, assuming Zune’s software doesn’t have library-level supplementary DRM (by reading the wi-fi flag from the zune itself and setting the flag in the ‘music library’).

I assume Zune will not be accessible as a USB mass storage device (like pen drives and generic external hard drives).

I don’t think I want a Zune, either. I’ll stick with the generic jukeboxes (none have screens yet, just a/v outs which can connect to headphones, and have no battery or inferior battery life, but no DRM!!).

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Hmm looks like a 42% false-positive rate with WGA. Looks like many are cause by program incompatibilities, especially registry cleaners that delete keys that WGA is looking for. I have an idea for the non-profit, just to cause trouble fraudsters that have internet access inside jail and lots of time — use your harvested credit cards to the WGA failure page (Try changing Error=8 in the querystring to Error=1 or 3,9,11,13) ! That will stir up lots of trouble. Microsoft largely follows Rule of Acquisition #1 - Once you have their money, never give it back, and #19 - Satisfaction is not guaranteed. MS don’t follow all the ferengi rules, but enough to make me think of them.

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Alienware 7700/9700 and Dell XPS should switch to NIMH. Current XPS notebooks is 9 cells - 3 banks of 3 cells, and Alienware is 12 cells - 3 banks of 4 cells.

NIMH AA-size cells are 2800mah x 1.2V and Lithium-Ion AA-size cells are 750mah x 3.6 v. Scale both to 3 cells, and it is 2800mah @ 3.6v for NIMH (series) vs 2250MAH @ 3.6V (paralell). NIMH has 24.4444% more power density!

Using the same ratio and up-scaling to 14500 sized cell, the 14500 is 2200mah, and Li-Ion is 8200mah. 3 banks of 3 or 4 2200mah Li-Ion cells is 6600mah (depending on voltage needed). 1 bank 9 or 12 of scaled-equivilant 18500-size NIMH cells is 8200mah!.

NIMH would need 1 bank of 9 cells for Dell XPS and 1 bank of 12 cells for Alienware, the same exact count, but NIMH would provide more power density. Great alternative if the new zinc technology doesn’t work out! I think Li-Ion 18500 batteries are the same radius as C / LR14 batteries but are longer, but I can’t find any equivilancy comparisons between the size systems. But either way, NIMH is not toxic in landfills, and they tend to explode less when shorted, and don’t need protection ICs.

I took this Autism Quotient test and scored a 41 out of 50. The score is higher than the Aspie average but not very close to the maximum relative to the aspie average though. Notice that I took it via a flash .swf file through Media Player Classic, which is included in the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack! It plays anything that you got the codec for! And it plays more .swf and .flv files than flash’s own external offline player does! Media Player Classic may be splicing into Internet Explorer middleware code that is embedded into windows to do this though. It does the same with RealPlayer and Quicktime, whether the real actual RealPlayer or QuickTime or QuickTime alternative or the Real alternative (QuickTime and Real Alternative are included in K-Lite Mega Codec Pack)!

Oh yeah CodecGuide.com also has FileSharingGuide.com, which has some dated information and guidance on filesharing, but it also offers a customized installer for the official Emule client that has a pre-configured, IP Blocker, something that only mods normally do, an altered ‘optimized’ default configuration, extra hashlink site data, and a couple of plugins such as MediaInfo pre-installed.

If you want, you can take the AQ test through the embed below the two screenies or just download it, take it home, and give away copies. I ripped it from MSNBC NewsWeek. I think NewWeek ripped/licensed it from elsewhere. I either assemble URLs and download them with GetRight, or with FireFox, I save the page in ‘web page, complete’ mode, depending on how easy it is to get the full url (web page saves a bunch of extra junk that need to be cleaned up).

Full screen grab - 1680×1050 278KB

Just Media Player Classic running the Autistic Spectrum Quotient test flash - 782×700 62.5KB

Take the autsim quotient (AQ) test here (Flash)!


Or Just Download It (26.7KB .swf)!

The is an image I montaged from my favorites from the t-shirt image choices at The Pirate Bay’s store, the Pirate Shop or Piratshoppen. It is desktop size, between 1024×768 and 1280×960, but not sized or aspect-ratioed for full-screen wallpaper.

The full size image is a 256-color PNG, 1000×864, 78.1KB

Here is a really good ankle anatomy map to supplement These more detailed, color coded pics. This one has a more 3D look and itemizes the individual bands of the deltoid ligament (Anterior / Posterier Tibiotalar, Tibiocalcaneal, Tibionavicular), though it doesn’t designate which are superfiial layer and which are deep layer. It shows the lateral side (anterior / posterior talofibular, Calcaneofibular) and shows intact and torn versions. I ripped this from a coaching magazine PDF article about basketball injuries.

Click for full size - 518×540 93KB

They used to just include the CD with the paper / book maps. Now you have to order it and pay shipping. But the system has a gaping hole! You can get free thomas guide CD’s (actually $2.95 for shipping plus sales tax on that for about $3.15 ; online only ; need credit card / visa check card) wihtout buying the paper maps! The digital editions are far better than the paper map, if a PC is handy. They have serial numbers and CD-dongles (need CD in drive), but this exploit bypasses the need to crack that (incase you downloaded it from Emule)! They don’t verify anything on these links! They do seem to limit one CD of each map per shipping address or login though, but you can get phoenix and LA and san deigo, or even one each of everything they offer!

Here is the scan for proof of the offer. The pattern for ‘Phoenix’ and ‘Los Angeles & Orange Counties’ was http://www.randmcnally.com/cdxxy where ‘xx’ is two letters from the first region (’ph’ or ‘la’) and the ‘y’ is a single letter from the second region (’t’ or ‘o’).
Phoenix = cdpht = http://www.randmcnally.com/cdpht,
LA = cdlao = http://www.randmcnally.com/cdlao.
How’s that for hack-free exploitation of loopholes?? Unfortunatly I couldn’t apply the pattern to Vegas, San Jose, San Diego, Ventura County / Lompoc, or San Barnandino / Riverside.

Feel free to try to brute force it and publish the results. That is deeper into the grey zone of hacking that I would largely myself reserve for warez distros (before the days of Emule). You can ’shop’ for your free Thomas Guide Digital Editions here at Amazon.com - Search ‘Thomas Guide 2007 street’

FullSize is 1.56MB, 870×1627, scanned at 150dpi.

These Pizza Hut coupons are for Arizona, but it doesn’t say on the coupon that they are only valid in AZ. Chain restaurants tend to vary pricing and promotion by region, if not by state. Some of these coupons are killer deals (though not the best I’ve seen)! The best coupons I’ve exploited was 2 large any way you want them pizzas for $16.99 (doesn’t exclude stuffed crust), 1 large any way you want it pizza for $9.99 (doesn’t exclude stuffed crust), and 2 orders of bone-in Wingstreet wings for $7.99. These 3 ‘best’ coupons were on Pizza Hut’s online ordering system, but they ‘expired’ / got taken down a few months ago. I put up my VIP free side coupons too. They never check the coupons where I live so I never bother printing them out. You should be able to print as many copies of these coupons as you need for the all but the VIP free side coupons if the drivers check coupons more often where you live at. I put the full-size image file sizes and dimensions on top of the thumbnails because they are much larger than the Emule screenies that I put up.

Regular coupons that came on posterboard with a magnet on it. FullSize is 1.93MB, 1554×1009, scanned at 150dpi.

Free side VIP Coupons. FullSize is 473KB, 1253×381, scanned at 150dpi. Higher probaility that the ‘free side’ coupons will be checked and taken though. Web site allows online code to be used only once.

I forgot to reconnect my Emule to a server or KAD after moving my cellphone modem card to my Alienware for 15-20 minutes to have its Boinc turn in / get new work units, and I forgot to reconnect Emule to a server or kad for a whole 2 1/2 hours! Emule kept the movie downloads going for a whole 2 1/2 hours on purely P2P client to client source exchanges. And it was uploading to full capacity, but in a bittorrent fashion rather than prioritizing my permashares. Actually it would’ve gone longer, a day or longer, I just only noticed that I wasn’t connected to a server or KAD for 2 1/2 hours. I took these screenies prior to reconnecting, on 2006-08-31.

Servers Screen

Statistics Screen

Transfers Screen - I am downloading ET, Goonies, GhostBusters 1+2, Die Hard 1+2, Gremlins 1+2 and Hackers.

This pic shows me downloading all 10 star trek movies (Motion Picture, Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, Voyage Home, Final Frontier, Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis) and is showing a large sum of Chinese in the upload list, and many downloading biblical material. It was taken on 2006-09-22

It isn’t that much of a deal. The ‘regular’ price is a rip-off compared to Amazon. You can get A thumb-tab indexed, full genuine-leather (not hand-wrought though - not worth price premiums in my opinion; and I’m actually happy with fake plasti-leather) study bible with full concordance and commentary for less than $65! Go get your bibles cheap here on amazon (Ignore the Lumina Software gimmick - its a non-time restricted, limited content demo):

I found the previous threats to cancel crusades on lack of funding intimidating. Benny Hinn should switch to a HondaJet. That thing rocks and costs a lot less compared to a LearJet or GulfStream. Might not be feasible because pacific flights require a lot of range, and fuel stops (the extra guzzling from the extra takeoff and landing and the stopping / airport costs) aren’t cheap either. Maybe cheaper, but still comfortable clothes and less than luxury hotels will help too (Benny Hinn appears far more spoiled than MLS players). But excessive costs from legalization polo-tricks and venue licensing probably outweigh everything else. As for private aircraft, I wonder if a piston-driven many-bladed with curved/swept tips (propfans driven by piston rather than turbine engines) powered aircraft with could be had for under a million, while keeping the turbofan-liek performance and turboprop-like fuel economy? I like HondaJets in the interim for now. Its fuel efficient, has laminar flow virtually everywhere and not just the wings, and hopefully as problem-free as my Civic. I actually don’t even know if Benny Hinn’s private jet is a business jet or a 737 to handle his whole crew! 737s don’t have the range for transpacific flights though. I am fairly ignorant on Benny Hinn’s travel operations, so I can’t be too opinionated, but I hear a lot of whining over his private jet.

I don’t think Benny Hinn is totally fake, but he is spoiled to a very high standard of living. Also a lot of the wheelchairs are PAD (peripheral artery disease), RA (rheumatoid arthritis), or OA (osteo-arthritis — Ankle Hip or Knee). These can have pain/symptom suppression without any direct healing from god from just being in the holy spirit environment, much of it a psychological symptom of the anointing. A true paraplegic, or even a quad getting out of their chair would be different. For the RA, god has to heal both the underlying autoimmune disorder, and the currently accrued joint damage. Paraplegia and quadriplegia have not only the spinal damage to heal, but also severely atrophied bones and muscles, and possiblly nerves too, and motor and sensory areas of the brain that may have been re-wired to work for something else (it happens with the blind often) — there should be visible change as it is obvious to differentiate weak legs or arthritis from paraplegia from the level of atrophy (skiiinnnny legs). I think Benny Hinn is an authentic channeler of healing from God, but I think there is a lot of temporary phsychological and a lot of placebo effect at the crusades at the same time.

I was hanging out with the MetroStars team (now Red Bull NY) in the week of 9/11/2001. I didn’t lose anybody I knew so I was lucky. The coach was a little paranoid that I’ve might have decided to visit the towers that Tuesday though. I was hanging out for a combination of a possible IT contract for the Youth Academy and for just being a avid pet fan. I wasn’t allowed to participate in any of the training in NY. That was only in LA where the practices were lighter, but I was never permitted in the scrimmages though. I still went to the practices in NY despite not being allowed any participation.

I got stuck at Port Authority when the planes hit, after missing the 8:30 113 bus because I got absent-minded and went to the wrong section of the bus station (All regional NJ transit busses north of Newark run in a star-topology with Port Authority at its center). I waited until 11:00 for the 9:45 bus to not show up because once the first plane hit, all the bus service was shut down. I got a hint of something wrong at 10:30, but didn’t become aware that it was actually true until a little after 11:00. Port Authority is the only bus station that I know that is like an airport. Then Port Authority got evacuated around noon, about 15minutes after settling on a plug in a coffee shop to play Star Trek Birth of the Federation (as the Ferengi on a used Toshiba laptop. The security guard was claiming a ton of C4 was found within the port authority station to prod people to evacuate. I’m not sure if that was actually true because there was no news backing (the explosives on the George Washington bridge WAS on the news), or it might just be classified, so who knows.

As NYC was in total lockdown to at least 1pm (some troops with MACHINE GUNS below 24th street), I just hung out on the steps in front of the bus station’s main entrance. I was ranting that we were lucky it wasn’t a nuke, because I’d be dead if it was so I might have attracted attention. But I was having fun having sabotage-spies planting and detonating nukes in enemy cities in Civilization II a week before, and the WTC disaster is eerily similar in concept. I became aware of the emergency ferrys for New Jersey people at 2pm so I went i online there. Took only about 1 1/2 to two hours to get on the boat, but the line was three times longer when I got on the boat than when I got in line myself. After that it was very boring. Go where they tell you, go to a strange place in NJ, then find your own transportation back to where you live or are staying. My transportation was splitting a cab with somebody that was below 16th street that had to go through decontamination — foamy stuff and frozen cold high pressure fire hoses in a business suit. He was worse off than me but not dead or anything. He got majorly dusted when the towers collapsed. I finally got back to my hotel room at 4-5pm and was cut off from the team for two days.

I went to practice on Thursday, but that was it. All remaining games and practices were canceled for the rest of my stay. I only had to stay one extra day because of the flight blackout. They wouldn’t continue my $35 rate that I got on priceline (normal rate was $120) so I moved to the econo-lodge by the Newark airport ($60). But at least I got back on a 2pm non-stop flight instead of the 3-hour layover in the early am in St. Louis flight that was booked on PriceLine for $200 r/t (I can get that w/o priceline now with Southwest). I got to hang out with the team a-lot during the 2001 playoff games in LA, possibly because of 9/11. It was also the first time I was allowed to ride the bus with the team.

The top category is ‘misc’, caters mostly to Dish Network telemarketing victims. Most of the overall traffic is Emule / P2P File sharing releated, which is not surprising. Two high ranking posts involve both Emule and church, which was a little surprising. The third place category (P2P Filesharing is 2nd) is Government/Corporate Paranoia, which has very few independent posts - almost always crossing with politics or P2P filesharing. The leading minority categories are Computers & Technology and Politics. Computers & Technology has a lot of independant posts. The stats came from a WordPress plugin called BAStats. It tracks searches too, but it is a bit buggy with that - A site that gets 110-160 page views per day cannot have over 400 searches for ‘866-668-8047‘ (The caller ID when Dish’s team of telemarketers harasses their customers with premium movie package offerings) in one day.

Type	Page	Count
Misc	/blog/	379
Misc	/blog/index.php/feed/	323
Category	Misc	230
Page	Emule IP Blocker Hits 09/10/2006	172
Month	2006 August	163
Category	P2P File Sharing	160
Post	The desolate third world downloads my Bible shares! Plus other rare country & file Emule stuff.	115
Post	Lets go to Church on Emule!	113
Page	My Emule Usage Statistics - 09/10/2006	107
Category	Government / Corporate Paranoia	98
Post	P2P FileSharing News Comments 2006-07-24	85
Post	Beware of new Fake Servers! IP Blockers.	76
Post	Damn, Dish Network must be doing some very aggressive telemarketing (Caller ID 866-668-8047) !!	74
Post	America??s Hate-List, Middle East, and Rare and Very-Rare Countries Blog 2006-08-05	73
Post	Here??s Another Nationality Breakdown of my Known Clients in my Emule P2P File Sharing	73
Page	My full PermaShare list 08/27/2006	71
Category	Computers / Technology	69
Post	My Company??s MySpace block lasted less than a week.	68
Month	2006 July	65
Month	2006 June	60
Month	2006 May	59
Post	P2P File Sharing and Paranoia News Comments 2006-06-29	58
Page	My Top Emule PermaShares 08/29/2006	54
Category	Politics	53
Post	Paranoia & Technology News Comments 2006-08-09	52
Month	2006 April	52
Post	Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-07-26	49
Post	P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-09-01	49
Category	Autism	47
Post	My Autism and Autism Knowledge	44
Category	Church/Bible	43
Post	America??s Hate-List, Middle East, and Rare and Very-Rare Countries 2006-08-29	43
Post	GalCiv2, Emule and Piracy	39
Page	Full-Match World Cup 2006 ED2K Links - Group Stage	38
Category	Science	38
Month	2006 September	36
Post	My Ankle Injury in October of 2003 - A no-fracture medial-lateral ankle sprain with a deep-deltoid tear	35
Post	Autism News Comments 2006-09-15	35
Category	Soccer / Football / Futbol / Futebol	33
Page	About Me	32
Post	Nationality Breakdown of my Known Clients in my Emule P2P File Sharing - 7/16/2006	31
Post	News Comments - P2P Filesharing 2006-07-10	31
Post	Non-P2P DRM / Copyright News Comments 2006-09-01	31
Post	P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-08-09	30
Post	Computers & Technology News Comments 2006-09-01	29
Month	2006 March	29
Page	Full-Match World Cup 2006 ED2K Links - Elimination Stages	29
Category	Health / Medical	28
Post	Global Warming, Gasoline / Hydrocarbon Combusion, People + Animal + Bacteria Respiration, Hyper-Efficient Solar Powered CO2 Processors / Artificial Photosynthesis	28
Post	Another Country Roundup for Emule	28
Misc	/blog/index.php/comments/feed/	26
Post	Nationality Breakdown of my Known Clients in my Emule P2P File Sharing - 6/20/2006	26
Post	Nationality Breakdown of my Known Clients in my Emule P2P File Sharing - 5/31/2006	25
Post	My Emule Share Stats by Category and Country Breakdown for PermaShares 2006-09-02	25
Post	Nationality Breakdown of my Known Clients in my Emule P2P File Sharing - 2006-08-05	25
Post	Misc News Commments 2006-09-01	25
Post	Yeah! To The Demotion of Pluto, But not why??	24
Post	America??s Hate-List, Middle East, and Rare and Very-Rare Countries Blog 6/20/2006	24
Category	Astronomy	23
Post	Gadgets for your Data / Multimedia Copying, Hoarding, Transport, and off-PC Indulgement needs	23
Post	Watch out for Viruses But Emule far better than Kazaa (FastTrack) and BearShear (Gnutella)	22
Post	Autism News Comments 2006-09-01	21
Post	Go directly to Microsoft non-genuine error pages!!! And other comments to ZDNet??s WGA (Windows Genuine dis-Advantage) Image Gallery.	21
Misc	/blog/index.php/page/2/	21
Post	Direct to Nike Site Web Download Links for Nike Eric Cantona Joga Bonito JogaTV World Cup 2006 Commercials / Pubs / Spots / Adverts	21
Post	Who Cares about Edonkey. I use Emule and its GPL Open Source -)	20
Post	Laminar Research X-Plane is ??FAA-Approvable?? and Learning to Fly With It!	19
Post	Here is my country breakdown on Emule	18
Post	Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-08-23	18
Post	The German Emule P2P Filesharing Raids	18
Post	Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-09-01	18
Post	More Rare and 3rd-World Countries on Emule	17
Post	Al-Qaeda (Al-Quaeda, Al-Queida) Terrorists vs DVD Bootleggers with Stolen Corporate bandwidth	16
Post	Emule Country Breakdown with less mainstream downloads	16
Post	News Comments - Goverment / Coporate Paranoia 2006-07-10	16
Post	My Austistic Adult Challenges	15
Post	America??s Hate-List, Middle East, and Rare and Very-Rare Countries Blog 7/16/2006 Gathered off and on over over about 21/2 weeks	15
Category	P2P File Sharing	15
Post	Beware of Emule.net, Emule.org - Fake Frauds	15
Post	My Autistic Driving	14
Post	FBI Busts EliteTorrents - a Warez Group that uses BitTorrent trackers for their Distros	14
Post	P2P FileSharing News Comments 2006-07-24	14
Post	America??s Hate-List, Middle East, and Rare and Very-Rare Countries Blog 5/31/2006 Gathered over about 10 days	14
Post	Chronicles of Narnia on Emule	13
Post	P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-08-15 - RIAA	13
Post	P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-06-13	13
Post	P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-06-21	13
Post	The RIAA don??t want you publishing your videos (or karaoke MP3s) of you dancing or singing to your favorite songs online!	12
Post	Telepathy, Mind Reading, Mind Melds, Telepathic Dreams, Neural Interface enabled Telepathy / Mind Melds, and Holy Rolling Tongues and Prophecy	12
Post	Room-Corner Automated DVD Duplicator / printer factories	12
Post	Shawn Hogan the Hero! Standing up to the MPAA and has the money to put up a fight! LET THE NUKES FLY!!!!! Enemy pushes button first	11
Post	P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-08-02	11
Post	It really sucks that nearly half of the ED2K servers are in the Netherlands	11
Post	Some More Rare Countries and Countries on America??s Hate-List on Emule	11
Post	DRMd P2P and Ripped off by ISP becuase of goof-off using Emule (or even crappy Edonkey)	11
Post	Autistics in Athletics and My Autism and Sports	11
Post	Autism & Misc News Comments 2006-08-09	10
Post	Non-P2P DRM / Copyright Related News Comments 2006-08-23	10
Post	Nationality Breakdown of my Known Clients in my Emule P2P File Sharing - 2006-08-29	10
Post	Deluxe AICH + Full Hashset + Nike Site Emule P2P Filesharing Web Source ED2K Links for Downloading Nike Eric Cantona Joga Bonito JogaTV World Cup 2006 Commercials / Pubs / Spots / Adverts	10

A new Official Emule version has finally come out! New versions of the MorphXT and Extreme mods have come out this month as well, though they havn’t merged with Emule Official 0.47b yet. The donkey servers were upgraded to make Emule’s obscufiation work with them also (Eserver 17.13). Blocking or shaping Emule’s default ports will still affect 70% of the clients on the network regardless of encryption of obscufiation because 70% of Emule clients on the network are left on their default ports. Also most ‘default port’ clients have badly outdated IP block data, or more likely none at all, so the RIAA and MPAA can still have a field day sueing people and sabotaging client connectivity with basic outdated automated monitoring and sabotage (IP blockers are a very basic protection originally designed for noob spammers, spyware, and viruses).

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I have a copy of the ShareReactor database at the time it was shut down. Havn’t done anything special with it though, and i downloaded it close to two years after they actually went down. It is just sitting in the haord.

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Looks like ShareReactor is back, under new ownership and management, but largely un-currupted.

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Hey look! Emule and various multimedia web sites render TV obsolete! If you have a super-fast connection that is. I actually watch TV a lot less because of Emule. Haphazardly watching the Discovery channels, Sci-Fi, or Soccer Games (Fox Soccer, GolTV, MLS Direct Kick PPV)

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uTorrent is to LoopyNES as Azureus is to Nesticle (BitTorrent in 2005-2006 vs NES emulators in 1996-1998). uTorrent doesn’t offer source code? Isn’t that a GPL violation??

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I think the rapture / second coming / tribulation thing will happen before this, but I wonder how the world will react if people had the ability to manufacture anything they could imagine (or at least download the schematics for or ’scan in’) that would fit in a modern microwave oven? 5 years in prison for replicating begels, fried chicken, binoculars, mp3s, or batteries anybody?? Watch Star Trek Next Generation, Depp Space 9, or Voyager if you are not familiar with replicators.

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I think Scott is going to get 1 to 2 years in a low security (’white collar’) prison, 10 to 20 grand in fines, and 3-5 years post-release probation. The Warez on his site (it is a minority though) doesn’t help. Being in an large organized warez group don’t help either. Having no priors is helpful though. Don’t sweat about federal prison too much. Especially white collar prison. Federal prison takes care of you like no other, in a homeless person’s point of view, and my father’s who worked in federal prisons all of his life. White collar prisons are like college dorms that you can’t leave, but family and friends can load you up on TVs and computers (no internet though, and probably no in-cell phone either) and PlayStations, and you can play them all you want. Federal prisons (even higher security ones) have better health care than any other jail facility, state or county. The food is better than most jails also. Homeless people ask for longer sentences, (they usually end up in medium security prisons).

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Don’t buy pirated software. Buy some legit and download the rest for free. I could care less that this guy is going to be in jail for 8 years. My father worked in federal prisons all of his life. Unless you are in a white collar prison (Danbury, CT) with people who will bring you stuff, its just like a regular jail (Not Maricopa County), but more institutionalized, assuming low or medium security (Otisville, NY and Safford, AZ are medium security). You are well better fed and you get far better health care in federal prison (USA) than almost any other type of jail though, even in the high security prisions (Lompoc, CA). Being in white collar federal prison with good friends on the outside that are financially well-off to bring you stuff is almost like a college dorm with no classes or homework, but with a lot more rules. Homeless / welfare recipient’s dream come true, barring drug addiction.

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Emule (Both official and mods) has had a web-based remote-control interface for a few years now… Some mods have a WAP interface for cellphone mobile web too.

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This BitTorrent Simulator is really cool. It seems to be BitTorrent’s actually logic running dots instead of network packets.

The RIAA definitly likes Alabamba. Shows that the RIAA is streaming their lawsuits instead of flooding now. Settlement ratio is about 40%. Alabamba is a poorer, less educated state, so there are more users using shitty Kazaa or using Emule or BitTorrent without any IP blocker. NetSentry’s bots have been very aggressive lately, Though Cyberverse is worse, but less spread out than NetSentry. Cyberverse is MPAA I think. 70% of users on Emule are not using IP blockers and NetSentry can hit a client over 50,000 (adding all the NetSentry entries together) times in a week. CyberVerse goes over 200,000 hits per week.

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Edonkey going away will barely affect the network. ED2K is 90% Emule, and most of the remaining 10% are not original EDonkey cleints. Edonkey clients (EDonkey Hybrid in the stats) make up about 2% of the network. Shareaza and MLDonkey, both open-source multi-protocol (ED2K, BitTorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2 for Shareaza, Overnet for MLDonkey) clients, both each outnumber EDonkey Hybrid clients. The court order is impossible to comply with. Lugdunum controls the servers now. What are they going to do? Revoke the license? Well Lugdunum is concerned about being legal, but reverse engineering the orginal metamachine dserver wasn’t legal to begin with. They just let him have a license (possibly a permanment partial or complete rights waiver with no revokation clause) because they knew they were being negiligent on server development in favor of developing overnet. Open source Emule took over Metamachine Edonkey and the Lugdunum Eserver took over Matamachine’s DServer. The ED2K network is here to stay. Overnet was a very abusable network. KAD is better. Plus, with well sourced files, one can operate soley on source excanges for a day or longer, and there are a few Emule mods that will operate only on source exchange (pure client-to-client source queries) and ad-hoc server UDP source requests (Regular Emule already does this to query sources from servers other than the one you’re conencted to), though these tend to work poorly with rare files. These are generally considered bad mods because they don’t publish upload lists to anywhere because it doesn’t connect to KAD or to a server and are hence tend to be leeching mods.

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The RIAA doesn’t want anything to do with Sharman. They only care for AltNet. But they’ll get all the money they can. They continue sueing to IT execs despite Sharman already having paid their settlement in full. The banks that financed Sharman’s debt are sooo screwed. The RIAA could care less. And they want more. And they want to steal the patents for the Global File Registry after they use Altnet as research puppets to complete it. The RIAA is EVIL. Except, maybe… Warner music (open sharing agreement with YouTube) … BOYCOTT the RIAA! Especially Universal Music Group!!

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Let’s make the RIAA’s Compaus Downloading propaganda program as expensive as possible! Order lots of DVDs and put them to frivilous uses!! The article also demonstrates the RIAA’s own encouragment to exploit P2P networks to save on shipping and bandwidth costs!! The suggested use in a classroom is a demonstration of “examples of deceptive advertising and propaganda”.

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More RIAA not having enough trial-grade evidence. This time they were faced with a counter-suit and they wanna run, and not pay the lawyer fees.

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Fairly informative… Confirms RIAA’s chronic lack of court-suitable evidence. The lawyer seems to lack deep knowledge on how various P2P clients / networks work though and had difficulty with tough ‘is it legal’ questions, but is knowledgable in general. The lawyer definitly is open to the option of ‘defaulting’ — ditching court on a civil summons. I think it would depend on how garnishable you are, and how agressive the RIAA is in post-judgement garnishment, and how the individual state’s laws allow garnishment. I only know AZ’s garnishment laws — wages (which usually results in termination unless it is a middle class or better job and you have a near-perfect employment record), bank accounts (including CDs and money-market), and most registerable assets like cars, boats, houses, public stock. And it requires a 2nd trip through court, taking 2-4 weeks after judgement usually, usually slow enough to find better people to ‘loose’ your more liquid assets too (and there are lots of ‘ugly houses’ cash buyers too), such as open source charities and electronic toys (if you don’t own a house). Also non-small claims civil summons have to be hand-delivered through the sherrif’s department. Small claims summonses are $24 and don’t need to be hand delivered, but still costs $6 to send through registered-confirmation mail (total of $30). Hand delivery of a civil court summons through the sherrif’s department is a few hundred dollars.

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Further proves that the RIAA is doing a bulk operation that relies on scare tactics used by their outsourced collections agency counterpart, ‘The Settlement Support Center’. When the Settlement Support Center calls, no lawsuit has been filed in court yet, just like defaulted credit card debt collections. The lawsuit has only be ‘filed’ with the law firm (with a big call center of non-lawyers and probably not even paralegals). The RIAA may revise their system and not so quickly jump to the actual lawsuit, because I think the first court apearance is only a week or two after the inital summons, and the RIAA obviously has shown that their bulk automated system doesn’t get trial-grade evidence. It gets Just enough for the debt collector / telemarketer fear tacticians to use to intimidate people into settlement. I’m pretty sure the lead acquisition are outsource to NetSentry, lead discovery, which is ISP subpoena backed up by finding contact info and other personable identifiable info linked to the IP from the web such as ‘logged ips’ from message boards (Neither work well in the case of dynamic IPs! Especialy of ISPs that automatically disconeect after a period of time to reduce bandwidth hogging or commercial abuse) and then reading the poster profile, is probably outsourced too, and then the lawsuit is handed to ‘Settlement Support Center’ for settlement, and then if the settlment is overtly refused (and maybe wishy-washy refused in the case for some debt collectors, so don’t answer the phone if you don’t recognize the caller id), then it goes back to the RIAA for litigation.

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Looks like the record companies are hypocritcally ordering radio stations to use P2P to get their ‘licensed copyrighted songs’ to save on shipping and employee salaries.

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P2PNet fabricated this to project the RIAA’s business practices onto the newspaper industry. Considering

Looksl ike the ESPC is following the RIAA’s example, but making it worse! “The ESPC says they are just following what the music industry has been doing to those who download copyrighted music,”. The example-warping may be from downloaders being sued by the RIAA because of the mandatory sharing of the incomplete and incoming folders in Emule and BitTorrent. It is quite a lucrative legal-loophole legalized racketeering thing! Grannys who unknowningly buy pirated embroidary design CDs off of ebay are getting legal letters to pay up $300 or else…

I like this reader comment — “Granny had better make sure that those cookies are based on a recipe from a legally purchased cookbook; or, have her attorney do a patent/copyright search to make sure that her original family recipe doesn’t infringe someome else’s. And, if the recipe is from a cookbook, she’d better check to see if her “license” allows distribution of the cookies outside her immediate household.” This one is cool too - “And my initials would be F & Y. And I would enclose $300 in monopoly money.” ‘Monopoly Money’ is the fake money in the monopoly boardgame. Color photocopies of the fake monopoly money might be cooler

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I think its that the university doesn’t want the professor collecting revenue outside of the institutionalized system of the school and that some of the target audiance is chronic class ditchers. They may also be concerned with people who havn’t paid thousands of dollars to North Carolina State University’s bursar’s office getting free or low-cost lectures. I think, being a state school, that the primary fear is insurance rules & premiums and civil liability / litigation / lawsuits. Definitly citing a partial target audiance of chronic ditchers raises a liability concern - sueing the school after he fails using the reason that ‘I recieved a license to ditch’. I wouldn’t be concerned that the .mp3 lectures would be a license to ditch class in itself. I’d fear piracy only modestly. But it only takes one or two big lawsuits, and you’re out of business. The lectures may be back up after a big ol’ liability waiver and intellectual property license agreement is drafted by the legal agreement, and it will probably be for current students only (maybe not neccessairly enrolled in his class), and free (possibly with Schrag recieving a small grant or bonus from the institution). If it is locked to be internall access only, hopefully the students and put them up on Emule. Emule doesn’t have that many university lectures outside of special lectures from very famous figures. I would love to be able to pirate college for free. Web classes at MCC aren’t that much better than feeding off o