P2P File Sharing News Comments - non-RIAA 2006-09-20
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 Also most ‘default port’ clients have badly outdated IP block data, or more likely none at all, so the RIAA and MPAA can still have a field day sueing people and sabotaging client connectivity with basic outdated automated monitoring and sabotage (IP blockers are a very basic protection originally designed for noob spammers, spyware, and viruses).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.
