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I agree with TechDirt - Massive infringment, and being negligent about it - continuing development despite knowing 90-95% of shared content is copyright infringing, is not active inducement. Inducement would be in the program’s interface, the hosting website, the marketing, or even the tech support. The LA Times article mentioned tech support inducement. That would fit the supreme court ruling. I bet it was a evidence-collection motivated prank by the RIAA (like the fake Emule). I think for the tech support to be inducing, it would have to be explicit, not generic, like “if you want more elvis on the network, you have to share more elvis”, or tutoring the user to make a more intelligent search specifically for elvis, rather a generic ‘what is on the network is only what other users share” or a generic, context-less search tutorial. A denial of support if the user wants help specifically about a copyrighted item would help a lot. Open source P2P file sharing is very resistant of being nailed on tech-support inducement because their usually isn’t much, if any at all, developer-direct tech support. Well it seems that the RIAA / MPAA has reduce their standards to fighting the ability to run a legit, profitable business off of file sharing. And the non-profit sector who either refuse and resist or just hand-off the code to somebody else, continue to make P2P that transfers whole movies and discoagrphies without error and is resistant to RIAA / MPAA / mob hacker / leecher curruption.

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BitTorrent has a lot of potential for bandwidth abuse. They need to look out for AMule, Lphant, and MLDonkey clients also. The people using BitTorrent to leech appear to be most of it. Some host trackers files explicitly illegal or legal. Moderation overhead is too high to control the abuse. The abuse is hogging all the bandwidth. Enough clients and especialy trackers and pig the CPU off of a shared server also. They shuld only allow standalone trackers and not clients, and they have to be remote seeded. I can’t think of a way to specifically enforce that though. They probably should just run one or more of their own private tracker servers and allow only customers to seed it. I don’t know if you can make trackers accept torrent seeds with a password without passwording all access though. I guess a local link to the file will have to be sent to an administrator for seeding on the tracker and then he’ll reply back with the .torrent file.

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Get looking on Emule!

This is really good expample a enefficieny of HFOG (’Heavy Foot of Goverment’) and HFOG boosting effect of cranking up the opressometer (security at the expense of freedom). The site’s target market is ‘over the air’ movie censors (profanity, nudity, gore, time limitations). Mixing with copyright and the fact they didn’t give a location to get the original, and probably didn’t inform end users of the editing, and the lack of quality of the censorship (mid-sentence cut off, dead air), I think I would agree with the studios beating down on ClearPlay. Now they exploit a copyright loophole, requiring additional effort, and ‘Cuts inc.’ is born. Hopefully the censoship is higher quality, and there is information given to the end viewer about the censorship.

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I like this - “In its battle for truth, justice and bigger revenue stream” he he.. Looks like the doggies can only smell the presense of polycarbonate, which is what DVDs are made out of, not specific pressing plant scents or burned media ink. The doggies might also smell polycarbonate safety goggles and eyeglasses with polycarbonate lenses (lighter and scratch & break less) and point out as DVDs. With the rate of theft of small, portable valuables (A case with 32 dvds with can be sold for $100-200 and cost 400-600 to buy legit) from luggage, I wouldn’t want to put DVDs in my checked luggage if I paid for them though. Maybe the dogs are trained only to point out a certain minimum strength of polycarbonate scent so that bags with only a few DVDs in them won’t get searched. But a few dozen (including full portable CD/DVD cases) or more, would get searched, and possibly stolen.

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Microsoft must either be passing it around in its internal bureauracracy or have provided links, but made them very obscure and convoluted that few will find it. Maybe the APIs will be on Emule before Norton and McAffee gets their legal copies? Norton and McAffee should look on Emule for the APIs. Maybe Microsoft wants them to get them from P2P (like the RIAA does to the radio stations - ’shipping’ music via limewire) so they can turn around and sue them for breach of contract/copyright rather than being sued for anti-trust violations.

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He’s going to get sued for the reverse engineering of FairPlay instead of DRM cracking. I don’t know if copyright can ban reverse engineering (Patents definitly can). Business profits only make him more sue-able. He needs to crack them Blu-Rays for us.

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Copyright law serves publishers and labels more than consumers and artists. That was probably ok when home mass-production of copies didn’t exist and the internet didn’t exist and the publisher was absolutely neccesary to sell more than a dab of copies and it took a major investment to make money off of counterfeiting (printing presses). Copyright in its current form is obsolete, DRM’s permant nature (in the case there isn’t any hacker motivated to crack it), and the anti-DRM circumvention clauses of the DMCA and its clones make it all worse. Copyright needs to be a default of a copyleft (GPL, DSL, CC), which protects free distribution and the actual ‘intellectual ownership’, but doesn’t protect revenue strreams. Full protection should require registration. DRM should be legal, but it shouldn’t be illegal to crack it. It should be required to provide DRM strippers for a DRM-ed work when its full-copyright expires or the courts won’t hear any infringement cases on your other copyrights. The term of full protection should only be 5 years with possible 5-year renewals to 20 years that are not guarenteed. When a full copyright expires, it reverts back to a basic copyleft. Basic copyleft would last the durations that current copyrights do now.

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Put the speech with all the hacker techy stuff into a PDF and share it on Emule! I have several shares that get more traffic on Emule than they do on the web, and they mostly game addons are authored by me. Most notable is my X-Plan popular mechanics design contest submission. It got disqualified and ‘normal’ (people with pilot licenses and fly real planes) pilots in the X-Plane circle can’t fly it, but pleny of ‘wierdo’ (bedroom geeks with no pilot training and only know things about airplanes and ony fly in video games) pilots can fly it as it has over 15 complete sources much of the time and it is my second most downloaded perma-share despite all the other seeds. So share it on Emule. File Sharers won’t give a damn what apple says or think.

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Galactic Civilizations II DOES have copy protection. It has activation. I havn’t messed with it to know if they have a phone activation exploit (it is neccesary for offline folk, but then again they are selling expansions online-only) or if a activation-keygen is available. People HATED activation in Windows XP (and Vista). Doesn’t seem to be complaints here. What sets GalCiv2, and X-Plane apart is the ability to copy and plant copies of the installed game directy and have it just work. Most games don’t do this! Where they differ is that X-Plane has a CD-dongle and GalCiv2 has activation. GalCiv2’s activation has less lasting inconveniance than X-Planes CD-Dongle, but X-Plane’s DVDs are easily copied. X-Plane is updated too frequently for NoCD cracks to keep up. I havn’t tested to see if a GalCiv2 installed with a keygen-generated key will pass activation. They don’t with MS WinXP because MS keeps a database of issued keys (WGA adds continual monitoring for invalidated keys). StarDock is pushing bulshit that it doesn’t use copy protection. They chose to use activation. They chose to do away with mandatory use of installer (copies of installed games just work and upgrade patches work), CD-Dongles and CD-copy protection. X-Plane uses CD-Dongles but not with mandatory use of installer, activation or CD copy-protection. Most games use CD-Dongles and mandatory use of installer. Some also have CD-copy protection. Hardly any games require activation

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Looks like the European Pirate Parties are banding together to try to influence EU-level elections. Good look! I support the action but don’t think they will get far.

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People pay out of their asses for skins and objects for the Sims and Sims 2. People will buy sony’s shit too. They are complete idiots. I won’t though. For game addon content, it is either Legally free (Emule or web), Illegally free (Emule), or I won’t get it at all.

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It appears these are MP3s in the .asf container that can be downloaded by basic mms:// capable downloaders (ones that don’t hack into your NIC or proxy through IE). The .asf encapsulation appears to be easy to remove to expose a bare .mp3 file. I’ll just look on Emule.

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Another somewhat cool feature bites the dust. All the more reason to get a DiY DVR system for your PC and to use open source DVR software

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I like this. Imagine scaling to a multistellar environment with a pan-galactic cybernet with Star-Trek style replicators that can materialize copies of almost anything from downloaded, scanned-in, or self-made schematics:

“The lowest common denominator will look like a community-based wireless network. Each house will have a cheap tin can antenna ($3 to $7), which will participate in mesh networking of every neighbor’s computer, and giving everyone broadband access that is 10 times as fast as the telco/cable monopolies’ offerings.

VoIP, videoconferencing, telemedicine, and all the other services anyone wants, will be freely available.

P2P networking will thrive and become as ubiquitous as email. Independent Artists are now uploading and making their live concerts, gigs, and songs in video formats. They’ve found that using unencumbered (by patents) file formats such as .ogg, they can guarantee their creative works will live on, in spite of any corporate threats to make them illegal.”

The american millitary is far worse… Drugs, sex everywhere. Power curruption.

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I’ve lost my bag with my ID in it by forgetting it in a bus stop in Spokane in 2005, but it is good that I’ve already read a lot of articles like the above and several blogs about flying with no ID. The key to flying without ID is the fact that you will not get your boarding pass without the confirmation number and correct answers to one or two questions about your itinerary if you don’t have ID (I only know Southwest airlines’s no-ID boarding pass rules; other airlines may vary), and that you will be screened and searched like hell at the checkpoint. Your Boarding pass will also have ‘No ID’ or a different sticker than the ID passes (depends on the airport) on it, written either by the airline person that gave you the boarding pass, or by the TSA ID pre-checker in the checkpoint line. You will also get color coded (Orange in Spokane) cubby bins instead of normal gray ones if you either have no ID or they somehow deem you an elevated risk even with ID. Spokane airport (GEG) did not allow a queue bypass for no-ID passengers. They just check the boarding pass two or three times (they do in phoenix also) as you pass through the stages in the checkpoint. I think the best thing is to do it like brazil - passengers are allowed to carry small caliber pistols (9mm or less i think, maybe <9mm) onto the planes! Pilots should carry large caliber pistols in open holsters (they are current required to go through half-ass sky martial training and to go through special concealment and inspection procedures). No band of 4-5 guys with kitchen knives and pocket knives is going to hijack an aircraft with two high-caliber armed pilots and 20-30 passengers (and probably flight crew also) also packing some iron. The terrorists (or even classic ransom hijackers) will quickly die (probably along with a quarter to a third of the passengers) without achieving their objectives.

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Once you are done with being able to scan for nukes after the ship pulls into port, now prevent nukes from detonating while the ship is pulling into port! I had a bad dream with 12 white mushroom clouds in major American ports several months ago. These DIY freelancers might have the technology to spot nukes (possibly only poorly concealed ones) 10-20 miles out at sea. I think while false alarms are low, they are very decoy-able, and maybe could still get false alarms from legal lab equipment or something. The gamma-ray detector pillars should be mandatory to pass through, and be able to keep speeds up. Traffic jams are bad. Also it appears in the article that intellectual property concerns are greatly affecting contract decisions. Thank you Apple! Thank you RIAA! You all suck! We need efficient, smart security that minimizes the impact on civil liberties or the flow of business and doesn’t cost too much. Poor track history so far, though TSA at airports doesn’t seem too bad though, but I am clueless of costs. Everywhere else, forget it.

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They divert flights over old hags having an anxiety attack with some contraband hand-cream. She probably got put in the nuthouse. Out within a month with an incompetancy label (like a felony with a very short prison term) and some free disability checks. Most nuthouses is too full of people who don’t responed to the quick-fix drugs or who have gotten more crazy from the side effects of the quick-fix antipsychotic drugs (sorta like brain-fry from weed and booze, but more of a different kind of psycho than just fried). Probably mixing some of the nut-drugs with street drugs (especially ectasy, shrms, and acid/LSD) probably turn the whole brain into meaningless mush.

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I don’t think he ever intended to or actually did take control of the aircraft. He botched up an attempt to get attention via exploiting anti-terrorist paranoia / procedures. Ge deserted from the turkish army and wanted to defect to and get ayslum from albania. They probably can’t even get hijacking charges on him. He will probably get more time in Turkey for the desertion. Real prospective terrorists should take example from the first half-hour of ‘Chronicles of Riddick’ (Drop, slide, climb, bop from under, quick move, fighter pilot not paying attention, panics, and ejects) and start practicing it with the X-Plane-Freeware Project’s uber-realistic 737 addon in X-Plane. It is probably why the USA uses 2 F-16 escorts and not just 1 escort like Greece did with the Turkish defector.

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This article is meant to lower anxiety on being killed by terrorist attack. Numbers are for America, not Iraq, Indonesia, etc..

Damn apple is really using it’s iron fist. If they think they can win, sue, if not, bribe, but if they don’t take the bribe, then they sue anyway. The ‘engadget store’ is a more valid trademark violation. Apple is leveraging its lawyers against free content podcasts. They seem to be just downloadable .mp4 files (sometimes you have to hack through raw xml to get .urls to feed to GetRight (a download manager), other times it is direct), but Itunes probably can just ferry it directly and automatically to the Ipod and has automated publicity in the Itunes store. Some of these guys are so scared that they ask permission to scan the legal letters and put them online! The pirate bay doesn’t bother, and they ridicule them too. They probably make paper airplanes or other funny things if once they have scanned to paper threats he he…

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Looks like the MPAA is emphasizing ‘jobs’ and ‘tax revenue’ now. If they want judicial and legislative decisions in their favor, then need to try to research and pre-choose judges, house reps, and senators, who aren’t themselves downloading all kinds of Moviez, Muzic, Bookz, and Warez (or even clazzified secretz) themselves at home he he… if they can (I don’t know how the courts work). Goerge W Bush seems to do this well with is congressional posse (even has a minority of democrats!). P2P filesharing in itself, specially ones with open source authorship, is a threat to capitalism at its foundations. Capitalism works well when volume capable home personal production factories (Today, the PC, way future tomrrow, nanofacs or even trekky replicators) with cheap raw materials (network bandwidth or blank writable media) is not feasable. P2P is far more socialist than capitalist, but people-centric and libertarian rather than goverment centric and totalitarian (communism).

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Yeah, Sony can take their hack-job battery factories and shove it up their ass. Sony laptops break twice as often as HP and Dell laptops at work. Sony Tivos’ modems break within 6 months. Sony has a subsidiary movie company that is a member of the evil MPAA. Sony is also has a subsidiary that is a member of the ultra-evil RIAA that also tried to put viral DRM in their music CDs. The PlayStation 3 also appears to have a looming major DRM fiasco. They want to sell gutted PS3 games and then charge your huge sums for the content (with a somewhat cost effective bundle being included in a premium edition). Then watch the PS3s have exploding batteries, flaky RAM chips, and Blue Laser LEDs that last an average of 6 months (Blue LEDs in LED Christmas lights start going out after 3 onths of always-on and 2/3 of them will be out within a year, while the rest last like the redder LEDs).

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Hey the crinimals will have the hackers tools anyway. There is no sense in completely banning them. The crinimals will have more defensless victims to attack. It is just like the guns. At the very least, allow legal possesion with a license and make up a good working system with consistent and clear, but not too restrictive, criteria in obtaining and keeping such a license. That may reduce the fringe script-kiddie hackers, but not criminalize the security review firms and good-natured hackers.

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The ZDNet is twisting Vista activation to be like a WGA ‘kill switch’. The XP activation had a much harder ‘kill switch’ than what is planned with Vista. What Vista is doing is integrating WGA into the activation process. Adobe Photoshop has done this long ago, with less information to the consumer! It checks the validity/stolen tag of the serial upon initial activation if it is done online and not via ‘phone’,which most activation keygens exploit, and also periodically whenever the machine is connected online. XP w/ WGA and Vista will inform you if your serial is rejected. Photoshop just devalidates the activation if you used a serial-keygen and a phone-activation-keygen (which is why warez-archives with bundled activation cracks are better than activation keygens - bundled or separate) and makes you activate again and will immediatly expire the trial period if it hasn’t elapsed yet. Photoshop has a ‘kill switch’ and I don’t hear any bitching about it. You should either get coding with the crack or just switch to linux or just eat it.

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Apple is threatening to stop selling DVDs if the studio lets Apple and it’s DRM undercut DVDs? Why doen’t the studios just make DVD supply-costs cheaper? They don’t wanna do that… Isn’t lowering prices and undercutting competitors supposed to be the wal-mart way? It sounds hypocritical when they bitch and whine when somebody may undercut them. I want my $4-6 new-release hollywood DVDs at my local Walmart! Old DVDs for $1-3! The package is already over-elaborate. Slim platic cases with basic labels (like music CDs without the credit/lyric books inside) are just fine with me. Wal-Mart does have $1 DVDs, package is just fine though the content really sucks. Most of Wal-Mart $5 DVDs suck too (B and C often family/educational movies). The good non-new release movies are $10-14. Superman Returns is being sold at an MSRP of $1.75 (basic) or $2.75 (special) in China. It is to be $30 or $35 in America. I want Wal-mart to have it for $5! Profitably!!

I hate the MPAA! “Customers who throw a disc in their shopping carts spend an average of $75 per trip to the store “. I fit this category of customers, though I probably wouldn’t buy less if I didn’t get any DVDs. I am a major single-store (per trip with loyalty tendancies) deal hunter and sale-leprechaun (big sale — really cheap price as opposed to a gimmicky yellow tag on an elevated regular price = major stock up). I am mildly prone to impulse shopping, which is the worst at Wal-Mart. The MPAA charges Wal-Mart $17 per disc!. That means Wal-Mart sells many DVDs at a significant loss! Fuck the MPAA!! I can’t enjoy wal-mart cheapness without knowing that they are losing money over it! Smart cheapness is being cheap with profit! Wal-Mart can stop selling DVDs for all I care! I can get my movies from Emule!!

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Sue Sue Rob Streal Lawyer Litigation. The United States is crumbling. Sue everybody you can imagine as even remotely connected, taking example from the RIAA and the other big corporation USA falls into great depression and mass bickering and rioting, and China is just waiting to pounce and pounce. Oil Oil Oil gimme gimme gimme mine mine mine (i’m like that with file sharing I admin but I don’t need to kill, rape, or rob to get my files). You do what I say or I’ll sue or bomb you. No only if the communist goverment can fall and the country become more christian (non-religion-currupt) before the Chinese do rule the world so the world won’t be under iron hand rule. This music is over 20 years old and the statute of limitations is only 3 years! ‘I never heard of the music (lie), I’m sueing anyway!’.

Wash she actually web surfing from the space station? Way cool if she was? How fast is it? Can I use Emule from the Space Station? Or was it just a proxy-blog through the Russian space agency? Most of Russia’s space secrets are already busted, most non-hardware through Orbiter, so there isn’t much to keep. So she probably was unmoderated wheter she blogged direct or proprietary computer, radio, and/or ground controller proxy.

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My RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Roller Coaster (Vertical Drop Roller Coaster), The Abyss has a peak 0-G of a little over 10 seconds and a minimum 0-G of 5 seconds, with 16 ‘parabolas’. The initial drop is 173 meaters, 70 of the meters is underground. Only half as good as the vomit-comet or other parabolic flights, but $2 sure the hell beats $3000!!! Not recommended for medical or any other scientific experiments though, but for a basic thrill and $2, its a killer deal! Ride can shovel 144 guests on the track at time. Its the Wal-Mart 0-G coaster that also tunnels deep below the lake (hence the name Abyss). I’m working on the overall theme park right now. Probably will be released in 1-3 weeks.

Quite the opposite in arguement (pro infant-labectomy vs anti-infant-circumcision). Arguing pro for either is on the same reasoning - more hygeine (less bacterial havens) and less sexual desire opportunity. Neither site is christian. Half of the reasoning in the laws of the old testament are hygiene related. The additional disadvantage of labectomy over circumcision is that labectomy damages appearance more than circumcision, and it is in a very visible area! Also penile foreskins are probably way more emulate-able via sex toys than lips are!

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The snorkel goes into the mask (the hand, which also keeps water from going up the nose, hides the snorkel’s mouth-end), wraps around to the back of his neck, down the back of his shirt, through the side of his shorts, and out the back of the leg, and then snaked out over the edge of the foot-end of the bathtub. There is about 2 ft of pressure difference, but breathing is still somewhat reasonable. It is definitely a concealed snorkel and not a pressurized air source within the mask. Rebreathers and other closed circuit systems are too bulky to conceal and other breating systems emit exhaled bubbles. Try putting that snorkel into some deeper water If you must do it in a bathtub, make sure somebody is there to pan the camera and make sure the person is not ceoncealing a snorkel (and to save him if he passes out), and that the person is not wearing a face-mask and is naked or at wearing spandex so that a snorkel hose will be quite visible.

I probably won’t get it and wait for a laptop Blu-Ray burner. I probably won’t buy movies on either Blue-Ray or HD-DVD until the DRM has reliable and universal crack tools available, but I do prefer Blu-Ray’s superior capacity for blank-disk burning.

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I am leaning toward a WII. PS3 better have some damn good games that fully exploit that powerful hardware with no bugs. XBox360, blaahh.

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I agree with “P2PNet - Zune to end file sharing war” somewhat. It won’t end the war, but i may get some of the leechers off the network. If Zune’s Wi-Fi transfer hardware-DRM is cracked via a bootleg firmware update, it will definitly “scare Apple to the core”. Otherwise the Wi-Fi DRM knocks out most of what it would make it better than apple - the social networking.

Aggragate Stats of PermaShares by Directory / Category

Notes:

• These stats were gathered on the evenening of 10/2/2006
• The Assimilation folder is an unshared folder tree filled with stuff that I pull from the incoming directory promptly rather than allowing it to seed. They stay there until I clean out this old machine’s hard drive and actually assimilate the downloads into the hoard.
• The Session Stats are on my current Emule Up-Time of 18 Days + 2 Hours
• For the full list of my file shares, either all, grouped by priority, or a ‘leader board’ format, go look at the page list on the right.
• In the Bible Category, 2 files - Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? - Audio Bible - New Living Translation NLT - New Testament - Dramatized - Mp3.rar (ED2K Link) and Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? - Audio Bible - New Living Translation NLT - Old Testament - Dramatized - Mp3.rar (ED2K Link) - Make up 4.3GB of the 5.47GB total in the category
• In the Books Category, the file Penton Media VIP Super Master CD - SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator - Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm (ED2K Link) - Make up 406MB of the 751MB total in the category
• The Books category lost a lot of cumulative requests/bytes because I removed Penton Media VIP Super Master CD - SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator - Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm (ED2K Link) as a PermaShare.
• The Books Category is Dominated in only cumulative bytes transferred by former PowerShare Penton Media VIP Super Master CD - SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator - Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm (ED2K Link) - With 9.42GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred out of 11.52GB.
  
• The FileSharing Category has the cumulative stats depressed by replacements by newer versions of the filesharing client and server software.
• The Pictures Category is Dominated in session and cumulative bytes transferred by current PowerShare (it’s in-and-out of PS) Area 51 Groom Lake AFB Pictures 156 Pics - 1959-2005 Aerial & Satellite 5-15 MP - Maps Diagrams Panorama Photos - Top Secret Black Project UFO.rar (ED2K Link) - Which has ~2.750MB out of 3154 (Sorry forgot to get the file’s session bytes before upgrading to MorphXT 9.0) Session Bytes Transferred and 15.12 out of 28.8 Cumulative Bytes Transferred.
• The Pictures Category has 1 Church / Bible related file and the Movies Category has 5 Church / Bible Related Files, all Power-Shared, but with only a modest amount of tranfer volume relative to their categories.
• The Warez Category is Dominated in only cumulative bytes transferred by former PowerShare (curently non-PS high) Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Ed. 2006-05-04 060504 - Base + SDK + Planet HiRes + Earth L10 + Mars L10 + DeltaGlider HTex + DragonFly HTex.rar (ED2K Link) - With 10.31GB out of 20.13GB Cumulative Bytes Transferred

Country Breakdown for people in my upload queue requesting a Perma-Share. (Does not include Incoming folder tempshares or incomplete part files)

I am at the waning end of a start trek movie DVD leech-a-thon. The first sample had 4 xvids left to download (all 80+% completed). At the second sample, there is only one and it is amost done, 98%. In the third sample, all the DVDs are finished and Emule is mostly uploading permashares and incoming-tempshares only. The Upgrade from MorphXT 8.10 to 8.13-8.14 (all 3 based on Emule 0.47a) increase my average upload speed from 9KB/sec to 12KB/sec. 8.14 to 9.00 (9.0 is based on 0.47c) has increased it to just under 15KB/sec. The Country count stats are Maximum of the Mornings of 10/3/2006 to 10/4/2006 and the Evening of 10/3/2006. The file request summary is the intact sumary for the number that actually got used.

Argentina            8  - 1 Other Warez, 1 RPG Book, 2 Orbiter,
                          1 Physics Books, 1 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs
Australia            2  - 1 RPG Book, 1 GBA ROMs
Austria              1  - 1 SNES ROMs
Bangladesh           1  - 1 Physics Book
Belgium              2  - 1 RPG Book, 1 Orbiter
Bolivia              1  - 1 GBA ROMs
Bosnia & Herzegovina 1  - 1 GBA ROMs
Brazil               17 - 2 Area 51, 1 Misc Warez, 3 RPG Books, 1 SQL Book,
                          1 Physics Books, 1 Bible, 5 GBA ROMs, 3 N64 ROMs
Canada               2  - 2 Physics Books
Chile                2  - 1 GBA ROMs, 1 N64 ROMs
China                6  - 4 Bible, 1 GB ROMs, 1 Other Warez
Columbia             1  - 1 N64 ROMs
Croatia              2  - 1 RPG Book, 1 FileSharing
Denmark              1  - 1 RPG Book
Ecuador              1  - 1 Physics Books
Estonia              1  - 1 RPG Book
Finland              2  - 1 GBA ROMs, 1 FanFilm
France               24 - 1 Misc Movie, 1 FileSharing, 1 Physics Books
                          1 SQL Book, 1 Other Warez, 1 Pictures, 5 Orbiter,
                          10 GBA ROMs, 1 SNES ROMs, 2 FanFilms
Germany              11 - 1 Misc Movie, 1 Physics Books, 2 Pictures,
                          2 RPG Books, 1 SQL Book, 1 GBA ROMs, 3 N64 ROMs
Greece               3  - 2 Physics Books, 1 FanFilm
Hong Kong            1  - 1 N64 ROMs
Hungary              1  - 1 Orbiter
India                2  - 1 Physics Book, 1 SQL Book
Islamic Repub Iran   4  - 1 Physics Books, 1 RPG Book, 2 SQL Books
Isreal               8  - 2 Physics Books, 1 Misc, 1 RPG Book,
                          1 SQL Book, 1 SNES ROMs, 2 FanFilms
Italy                31 - 2 Area51; 1 Misc, 2 RPG Books, 1 Other Warez,
                          3 FileSharing, 1 Pictures, 5 Orbiter, 1 SQL Book
                          10 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs, 1 SNES ROMs, 2 FanFilms
Japan                1  - 1 Bible
Lithuania            1  - 1 SQL Book;
Malaysia             3  - 1 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs, 1 SQL Book
Malta                1  - 1 Orbiter
Mexico               5  - 1 FanFilm, 1 SQL Book, 1 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs
Netherlands          3  - 1 Misc, 1 RPG Book, 1 SQL Book
Netherlands Antilles 1  - 1 SQL Book
New Zealand          1  - 1 SQL Book
Norway               2  - 1 Physics Books, 1 Orbiter
Not Applicable       6  - 3 Physics Books, 1 Pictures, 1 RPG Book, 1 GBA ROMs
Pakistan             1  - 1 Physics Books
Panama               1  - 1 Orbiter
Paraguay             1  - 1 Bible
Peru                 2  - 1 SQL Book, 1 Physics Books
Poland               8  - 1 Other Warez, 4 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs, 1 SQL Book
Portugal             4  - 1 RPG Book; 1 Orbiter, 1 SQL Book, 1 GBA ROMs
Republic of Korea    6  - 5 Bible, 1 Physics Books
Romania              2  - 2 Physics Books
Russian Federation   2  - 2 Physics Books
Serbia Montenegro    1  - 1 AbandonwareGame
Singapore            2  - 1 Orbiter, 1 GBA ROMs
Slovenia             1  - 1 Bible
Spain                43 - 1 Other Warez, 2 Area51, 4 FileSharing, 3 Physics Books
                          1 RPG Books, 1 Pictures, 5 Orbiter, 1 Misc, 1 Bible,
                          18 GBA ROMs, 1 GBC ROMs, 3 N64 ROMs, 1 SNES ROMs, 1 FanFilm
Sweden               3  - 1 Physics Books, 1 Bible, 1 GBC ROMs
Switzerland          1  - 1 SQL Book
Taiwan               4  - 1 Other Warez, 1 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs, 1 N64 ROMs
Turkey               2  - 1 Other Warez, 1 GBA ROMs
Uganda               1  - 1 Bible
Ukraine              2  - 1 FileSharing, 1 SQL Book
United Kingdom       7  - 3 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs, 1 GBC ROMs,
                          1 FanFilm, 1 WebRip
United States        25 - 6 RPG Books, 3 Physics Books, 5 SQL Books,
                          3 Orbiter, 3 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs
                          1 N64 ROMs, 2 SNES ROMs, 1 Other Warez
Uraguay              1  - 1 N64 ROMs
Venezuela            2  - 1 SQL Book, 1 SNES ROMs

Fake Servers

2 new fakes with UK (United Kingdom) IP Addresses just popped up about a week and a half ago. They should be in bluetack by now. The Morph list (better than BlueTack, has a lot of bluetack in it) should have it in its bi-monthly to monthly update. Here is a fake server list in ascending chronological order (oldest first):

IP Start, IP End, Security Level (typically 0), Description
212.150.248.0 - 212.150.248.31, 0, Isreal Fake Servers
72.34.98.1 - 72.34.98.23, 0 , USA Fake Servers
209.204.61.0-209.204.61.191, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.35.78-72.51.35.78, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.37.104-72.51.37.111, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.37.237-72.51.37.237, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.38.136-72.51.38.143, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.39.144-72.51.39.159, 0, New USA Fake Servers August 2006
81.3.87.170 - 81.3.87.171, 0, United Kingdom / UK Fake Servers Late Sept 2006 - Nederlands Geslacht and SexyBitch.nl

Oh yeah, on a tangent, their is a donkey server in Iran (Iranian IP Address) that is fairly consistant! It is called PersianMule (I don’t know if it is legit or fake). It appears to be on an old windows box running eserver 17.10. The user count and user limit are in the hundreds and the # of shared files is 1500-2000.
ed2k://|server|82.99.247.19|4230|/

IP Blockers

The easiest broad defense against fake servers is to use an IP blockers! Use Protowall or just populate Emule’s built-in IP blocker with data. It will also keep centralized, automated evidence collectors from connecting to you. If they get a file chunk from you go into a lotto drawing for an RIAA lawsuit. Publishing your share list to a fake server (share publish is automatic upon connect) has the same effect. The odds of an actual lawsuit once in the pot is still only about he same as 4 figures or better on a scrather lotto though. The cumulative lifetime probability of death by external causes (fire, flood, car crash…) is higher. If you live in China or the like though, then you have more than just the RIAA to worry about. Less than 30% of emule users are blocking IPs from hostiles like NetSentry and Cyberverse and fake servers. If your emule is showing more than 6 million users on the network, then you have shit load of fake servers in your list.

Here is a list of download / page links:

Oh yeah, to effectively use Emule’s built-in IP blocker to block fake servers, the ‘Filter Servers Too’ checkbox must be checked in the IP filter sub-section of the Security section of the Options (Options button -> Security Section -> IP Filter sub-section on top -> Checkbox is on top of the IP Filter section). This has a negative side effect of blocking all DynDNS servers as well, but people wanting secure/private servers with just friends on them should to switch to a darknet anyway.

If you want to further reduce fake servers (new ones that aren’t on the blocklists yet), disable ‘Update ServerList when connecting to a server’ and ‘Update ServerList when a client connects’. These are in Options->Server->2nd & 3rd checkbox. Doing this will substantially reduce the number of small servers on the list and can hamper rare file hunting a little bit. If you hunt rare files and keep your IP blocker up to date, then leave these on, otherwise turn them off. Another option that is good to turn on is ‘Autoconnect to servers in static list only’ and make the big trusted servers like ‘DonkeyServer No #’ static (select servers in the servers screen and use the right-click menu). There a several fakes with the same name, so use the IP blocker and even better, get a mod like MorphXT or Xtreme that supports country flags.

Updated 10/4/2006 — Added two paragraphs at the bottom.

I think the overal status of this hurricane Katrina internment is that it was largely voluntary, with some modest deception similar to the level of “30 day trial with automatic billing if you don’t call to cancel in time, and cancelling will be somewhat difficult (very long hold time, sales pitches, poorly trained rep)”. I think the high-level executive-level thinking motive of the program was to get as many of the helpless, often poorly educated, and sometimes riot-prone people out of the way so they won’t interfere with the goverment programs (which are highly inefficient) and ambitious people with cleaning up and rebuilding the area. As far as the Katrina people being able to leave the camp, I think they can leave (Article mentions it but sorta hides it), but they have to go through some red tape with some chance of refusal, usually for medical reasons. The decision to leave is irreversable, and will recieve no help once outside, not even transportation, and the camp is in a very isolated area. Most people will not want to leave. However, people cannot simply ‘come and go’. It is stay ’sheltered’ for 5 months or you are not coming back.

The middle to high level management of federal prisons (foreman general to warden) operate largely on a goal and psychology of containment, not punishment or rehabilitation. Thos who will not conform to society go to prison, those who can not conform go into mental institutions according to my father. Prison is meant to keep dangerous people off of the street and to tuck them away so that cannot present a further danger to society. He got up to facilities manager but refused promotions into assistant warden and ended up being transferred to the Federal Bureau of Prisons central office in Wasington D.C. to do high-level prison system wide transportation management. I will assume if that these concentration camps are activated for non-voluntary occupation, these will be operated as containment facilities also — containment with a secondary emphasis of propaganda/psy-op slurred voluntary labor. I don’t think they will ever by death camps or full-fledged labor camps (or labor until your too sick and then you get gassed as in the halocaust - or in commy-Russia they just let you die of exchaustion/starvation/dehydration in your labor post). In case of a racial/ethnic internment or mass unrest, the higher risk inmates go to the limited prison space while the medium and low risk inmates (which include most of a racial internment if one happens again), including pre-existing prision inmates will go to the camps. The mentally ill (probably the drug addicted, emotinally distressed and the mildly autsistic also) will probably go to the huge camp in Alaska. That place will probably be not pretty, if it is true. I think the supergiant Alaska facility will be a biological attack quaranteen facility rather than a giant mental institution, however.

Any ‘forced labor’ will probably be operated outside of FEMA in a similar fashion as when the great depression accured - exploit economic disperity and use promising propaganda generate ‘volunteers’. Their will probably also be volunteer labor programs within the concentration camps also, operating on a combination sweatshop and jail psychology. Basic supplies needed for survival are free, anything else is not, wages are low, but overtime is volunteer but has no limitations. Many junk luxeries will be offered at high prices. The cabins obviously look like they will be half-way between Tent City and Durango/Estralia dormroom jails in Maricopa county. Estrallia and Durango jails are extremely crowded bunkrooms and are loaded with bugs and rats and many people choose Tent City with no A/C or heat (in the AZ desert!) and nastier gaurds volunteerily even without a 2-for-1 incentive (Not all sentences are eligable for time reduction deals, depends on wording). Most of the camps will be a probably more sanitary version of the estralia / durango jails with smaller, often donated or siezed housing units (cabins), with better trained but hopefully not cruel gaurds.

Links from previous ‘Politics / Parania News Comments post’

Martial Law is coming. What will trigger it depends. It could be rioter (probably with much mis-labled innocents) + racial/ethnic internment from a major middle eastern war eruption (likely to be initiated by the United States - a controlled operation turns into chaos). It could be a yellowstone caldera supervolcanic (supervolcano VEI 8 or more) eruption and the internment of rioters and looters and the petty crinimal / welfare helpless (like Katrina but national). Or it could be china commencing their biological cleansing of the United States and resulting bio-bomb surviving contaminated + looter/rioter + racial internment. It could also be just unrest by some future president finally deciding it is time to at least partially declare himself emporer (overstaying term, giving unconsitutional executive orders) and the unrest outpaces any remedies of the outrage. There is actually a potential for Goerge W Bush to overstay his term and to at least partially get away with it, if he decides to invade Iran and manipulates and times the retaliation right, but I don’t think Bush has the IQ to pull that off, though his staff may. I know he has the desire though. If people in the Military has such desires too, the president would be out-witted and pushed from the throne easily, so I don’t think he will try to pull anything off, but he thoeretically could. But at least these camps will be well-run low-medium security prison overflow centers (They were when the japanese were interned and the way federal prisons are currently operated, it is consistent).

The Epoch Times - War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the Chinese Century

I sent him this email with the subject “Meadow trial / double jeopardy acquittal appeal’. I think it is worth repeating here. I largely used question asking to attempt to fill-in gaps in my legal knowledge, which are fairly large. Knowledge vacu-sucking can be assisted by offering up knowledge or secrets in return, but I don’t think I have much to offer other than tangent-leads.

Here’s the body:

I got some things you may want to look up things on for helping figure out what loophole your opposing lawyer may be exploiting:

???which cannot be appealed by the government in the U.S. because of double jeopardy protections??? ??C Does ??government of the U.S. include any subset government of the US ??C State, County, City/Municipal?

What is the penalty of a guilty verdict? Is it a sizable fine and easier pathway to a civil lawsuit victory? Oh yea, is the case criminal or civil? Most HOAs file civil suits after extended non-compliance, which losing means garnishment of non-exempt assets, which usually include houses (for ‘legal and court costs’). A municipality is obviously not an HOA though, but yours seem to surely act like one (that caters to ??investment??? homeowners). Acquittal on a civil suit is more difficult than criminal suit though and ??beyond a reasonable doubt??? suggests that your case is criminal.

If it is criminal, does double jeopardy / no appeal, assuming it covers county / municipal jurisdiction, apply to all trials, or only jury trials? Your trial was obviously a bench trial. Maybe a bench trial acquittal is equivalent, or manipulate-able to be legally a dismissal? Maybe, municipal criminal trials may be considered civil for purposes of appeals / double jeopardy as municipal penalties usually cannot be more than civil violations? I know that double jeopardy doesn’t apply to civil lawsuit trials.

I???m pretty sure, whatever it is, it isn’t over your meadow. Your meadow is just an exploit to get rid of you. You have the looks of an undesirable stereotype (long hair, metal-head-ish look), you deliberately don’t belong, and you are big-time open source, and you author P2P software. If you win in court over the meadow, or get rid of the meadow, they will probably just find something else. Your enemy could be the lawyer himself, or some of his friends, ranging from a group of religious nuts, greedy homeowners, to even the RIAA.

I also like these links that I picked out of this guy’s site:

He is a bit over idealistic wanting everything public domain. Copyleft is better. People will take your work and sell it as their own (or just integrate many works and sell it) if it is Public Domain. No-litigation (notice/humilation only for violators) Copyleft doesn’t eliminate it but it does reduce it.

The dominant theme of this batch of downloads are all 10 of the Star Trek DVD movies, of which 8 of the 10 have completed. I am tempsharing a large MP3 archive and several PDFs of christian texts, most revolving around the book of revelation and the rapture, tribulation, trumpets and stuff. The LightHouse publishing ones are Jahova’s Witness I think.

Here’s the country breakdown of my Emule’s known clients (Max of night of 2006-10-02 and morning of 2006-10-03):

 Argentina           10
Australia           10
Austria             2
Bangledesh          1
Belgium             4
Bolivia             2
Brazil              24
Canada              22
Chile               4
China               29
Columbia            1
Costa Rica          1
Croatia             2
Czech Republic      4
Denmark             7
Dominican Republic  1
Ecuador             1
Estonia             6
Finland             3
Former Yogoslav     1
France              38
Germany             27
Greece              10
Guatamala           1
Hong Kong           1
Hungary             3
India               2
Ireland             2
Islamic Repub Iran  4
Isreal              23
Italy               34
Japan               8
Lithuania           2
Luxemburg           1
Malaysia            5
Malta               1
Mexico              3
Netherlands         9
New Zealand         2
Norway              3
Not Applicable      16
Paraguay            1
Peru                2
Phillipines         1
Poland              34
Portugal            18
Republic of Korea   8
Romania             9
Russian Federation  5
Saudi Arabia        1
Serbia Montenegro   2
Singapore           3
Slovakia            1
Slovenia            12
Spain               58
Sweden              3
Switzerland         4
Taiwan              8
Turkey              9
Ukraine             1
United Kingdom      34
United States       55
Uraguay             1
Venezuela           3

Here’s what I allowed to linger 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:

Here’s all the files that are in my unshared ‘Assimilation Chamber’ folder tree: