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Look out for the movie, Legion. It looks like satanic deception. The scheduled release date is 1/22/2010 ( http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=legion10.htm ).

This is the a leaked plot synopsis ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038686/plotsummary ):
After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity’s last line of defense when they discover the diner’s young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.

If this rumor is true, you can munchkin right around utilizing P2P file sharing. Chinese internet censorship is very ineffective with P2P.

Plenty of ED2K links at my download page . You can also use the built-in search engine. Burn CDs and DVDs with chinese-language bible addons for e-sword and sword project, or just use the standalone .chm files. Burn audio bibles to CD or DVD! Burn the Jesus Film Project XVIDs to CD or convert them back to MPEG2 for DVDs!

If the chinese censors block audiotreasure.com (or you just don’t want to download individual mp3s chapter-by-chapter), I PowerShare a consolidated archive on the eDonkey P2P netowrk (ED2K link on my site or just search for ‘audio bible audiotreasure.com’. I also got DVDRips of the Jesus film project in multiple chinese dialects. There are 3 other users in the UK that are devoting lots of bandwidth, so you will get decent speed smuggling contraband bibles into China! Piracy is a menace in China. Lets exploit it to spread the word of God! Even if it has to be the street vendors selling copies of audio bibles for a buck. Or maybe a brave athlete or coach person can risk arrest and torture and hand out free bible CDs and DVDs. If you can’t get em’ on the plane, you can use the internet, and proxy sites or P2P or anti-TCP-reset software can bypass the censors.

Expect to be billed as a patient being treated. $550 abouts in the city of Pheonix, AZ for a standard ambulance. The cost will be more if its an ICU ambulance or chopper. It doesn’t matter if its your kid that is riding either.

Larry Williams at work is dealing with this problem right now. Escalating to a commissioner or something like that. His daughter rode with her car accident victim friend, named Linda, and he got a $537 bill and a collections referral threat. She was compeletly ignorant of any intention to bill also. They reversed the bill but he had to go through some phone red-tape with much assertiveness to achieve that.

So I would expect the same if your wife or your friend or your kid gets hurt any you want to ride along in the ambulance, at least in Phoenix AZ.

As long as the goverment and the people keep thinking this way, this country is doomed.

President Bush- It Ain’t Gonna Work

The government doesn’t want us to bank that money or use it to pay off debts. It believes we will go out and spend the money, and that will make our houses worth a lot again. The idea is this: Say, for instance, I got $600, and I spent it on strippers. Those strippers would then buy clothes at Bebe, and the person who owns Bebe would buy the crappy house I overpaid for and get me out of the financial predicament caused by unscrupulous mortgage lenders and not by my addiction to strip joints.

This might soften the recession if Milton Friedman hadn’t proved 50 years ago that most people base spending decisions on long-term income projections. Only poor people immediately spend checks they get in the mail. And if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that poor people aren’t going to save the economy. Also, if I know anything about the workings of the federal government, the process of writing and sending a $600 check is going to cost about $600.

President Bush, it ain’t gonna work. Priming the pump isn’t very useful when the well is dry. Until “produce and earn” replaces “borrow and spend”, we aren’t going to “recover from this period of uncertainty- no matter how fast Congress cuts that check

An Engadget article chronology of the DRM wars on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. My Opinion: Use eMule / BitTorrent or just go without, or else you will be buying a new player every year or two. Plus your many of your legal discs will eventually be stolen (TSA from luggage; house burglary). If copies are stolen, then who cares??

Got some shady curruption-exposing footage that may violate national secrets or trade embargos? Or just make a politician uneasy or worried for his career (power)?

Well if you don’t need profit (unlike Michael Moore), send it straight to the P2P networks (Emule, BitTorrent)! Then there is no need for stashing in foreign countries to protect from containment-confiscation. Moore was lucky because he’s famous enough for enough movie pirate to be interested in his footage to leak a DVD screener (DVDSCR; generally privileged people only like media critics, which would be a small subset of the pirate population).

Well, it would seem his concerns are no longer warranted because a DVDSCR of the film, the most magical download of them all(Oscar season anyone?), has appeared on BitTorrent tracker sites for all the world to see.

So now, even if the Treasury Dept does decide to seize his film, it looks like there will be plenty of copies to go around.

Oh btw, I don’t think the US goverment staged and masterminded the 9/11 attacks. But I do believe that the USA may have been aware, but over-classified thought-out scenarios and possibly even drills. and that George Bush possibly abused his power as president to double-cross prior business arrangements with al-queada types in Pakistan, helping to instigate the 9/11 attacks.

Claim homosexuality! You don’t have to be gay for real, just let go of your pride and munchkin-exploit the social stigma! When it stops working partially (homosexual sex testing), it would be good to have a close same-sex friend to have one-time gay sex with. When that stops working (they start permitting homosexuals, likely with segragation), dodging the draft works well too. Some dont’t make very good fugitives though, including me (though I may be able to exploit mental-illness cop-outs due to autism but its not gaurenteed as I am independant and high-functioing). Then you either serve, or go to jail (two possible paths).

My father, with both navy (Electrician on the nuclear torpedo USS greenfish) and high-ranking federal (electrician->foreman->Foreman General->Facilities Manger->Central office Transportation Mangement) prison management experience, says it is far better to be in federal prison than in the military. If you can handle a nastier jail (maricopa county jails or worse) with possible beatings you could report for boot camp and insubordinate (court martial, fe months military jail time, dishonerable discharge) for less time in jail, but you still get the felony stigma.

Oh yeah the induldgance in the piracy and secret-buster circles probably will render you completely unable to get a security clearance, which could ruin your ability to be drafted (without the need to deal with a homesexuality stigma) My father had to get a top secret clearance just to be an electrician on a diesel sub! Most knowledge of missions is probably classified confidential or worse and even if kept in the dark, one easily can munchkin it out of somebody (analytical brain required usually because leaking is often vague or general) or just eavesdrop it.

Oh going to college no longer munckins you out of the draft automatically. So one must accept a stigma or record or spend some time in jail to not get their head sawed off or not get blown up by a roadside or become one of those Vietnam basketcases from a guerilla (terrorist these days) grenade attack (Metallica – One video).

Well ZDNet’s primary reason for not having DRM is non-interoperability. Looks like South Korea is not affected by Apple’s tyranny or example, but still affected by the RIAA. But interchangable DRM that works and isn’t buggy may sway me because I am relativily lazy and undisciplined. But I need to be have more than 1-3 copies (Home, possible 2-3rd home, Work, 2-3 laptops, multiple portables) though and shouldn’t have to pay for 1-3 copies. And I still like free-for-all sharing on Emule.

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Hey Bill Gates admitting that DRM is bad. Suggest buying CDs and ripping them. Works at least while non-DRM CDs last. Doesn’t affect Windoze at all. I dare him to say ‘buy a DVD and rip it’. Oh no! That requires cracking the CSS. Oooh illegal by the DMCA. Of course people are going to do it anyway

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The copyright mafia are getting their way so much that it may eventually turn into a world that a public library would have to pay a royalty every time a patron takes out a book or photocopies a page of an article. Hey come let eMule be your library. Unlimited take out, unlimited borrow time, book always available (no more reserving books), and NO FINES!. FUCK THE LAW!!! The MAFIAA owns and controls the law now!. eMule is easy. Have it in 20 minutes! Faster than going to the store (or library)!

That looks lucrative. Buy stolen identy-pieces from phishers and database hackers, assemble them to complete stolen identities and then resell them to illegal immigrants or to their smugglers / smuggling rings.

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Looks like the Pirate Party USA (PPUS) wants to get into the elections. Looks like you can become a ‘card carrying’ member of the party now. Not sure what that means. The only official party membership I know is that party’s name being stamped on your voter registration, which I was unable to do..

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It appears that the new e-Passport’s RFID scanning range is more than an inch or two and people have already figured out how to hack them with a nearby laptop! I think RFID should be limited to 5 centimeters / 2 inches and no cheating allowed (dumbing down receiver sensitivity), because this is how hackers get to read them from a foot or two away. Still better to hack poorly secured databases if you need bulk, but their is some need for some need for targetted identity theft. Likley people to go through the effort of eavesdropping your RFID are political or personal enemies, goverments, the mob, and private investigators.

5 Months in a minimum security prison camp. No county-jail contract for his short sentence (it is common practice for <12mo sentences). He gets to self-report to prison. Has to wait for a letter and then has a 10-day deadline. The letter can take up to 6 months to arrive as he has to wait in an anti-overcrowding queue, (I think only low and minimum security prisons get this privilidge). Then he has 5 months of home confinement, which is like minimum security prison, but with much more plentiful visitation. Then 2-3 years of federal-probation (supervised release). I don't know how easy it is to get violated in federal probation compared to Arizona or New York probation (Arizona is easy to get violated and overbooked).

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3 Months for this one. This is in Hong Kong. Just a major uploader as opposed to a major operator of a large semi-private piracy group and BitTorrent tracker/index.

“not much of a difference between Chan’s uploading the movies and someone manufacturing and distributing illegal DVDs.” — The difference is Piracy-4-Money vs Piracy-4-Free. Piracy-4-Money has a higher lost-sale ratio than Piracy-4-Free.

Well people do steal IP addresses. Either shady business (shady is relative to oppressiveness of resident country’s government), or unavailability (resident country’s government refuses to give you IP address or they just don’t have any left), or just don’t want to pay for the IPs. You can configure your computer to use any IP address you please. If you are in another country you can just use a black-market region-free icann-ignoring router, if you even need one. Just if somebody else is using it, you’ll knock both yourself and the other party offline! But if the IP’s owner isn’t using it and hasn’t used in awhile and won’t use it for a long while, he’ll never know!!

I wonder, why are this ‘bogons’ (unassigned or well-known unused ip address ranges) are so aggressively blocked by bluetack, which (hopefully) work for the security and well-being of P2P filesharing users and common-civilian users in general? Do national governments steal IP addresses? Of course the mafia would use stolen IP addresses for their virii and botnets and spam networks. Does the RIAA and MPAA themselves steal IP addresses for monitoring and sabotage?

Either way I get far more hits from NetSentry than I do from MediaSentry. I get the most from cyberverse online, which is MPAA I think. BayTSP uses packet sniffing and seems to have shifted to high-profile, high quality high-price, such as corporate trade secrets and really high-end, high-priced products like $50,000/copy medical records software. BayTSP uses deep-packet sniffing, possibly licensed from CacheLogic. MediaSentry and NetSentry spider the P2P networks with mutant clients and servers.

Kazaa is a thing of the past.

Ah good on Chinese Communist Party Tyrants Censoring Away and Boosting Piracy

Emule and BitTorrent exempt. Not by chinese censor desire though Censorship will foster more piracy though

So:

Unblock all the damned imports. This is preferred by me and maybe the RIAA and MPAA too because it means more $$$ for them and possibly substantially less piracy due to availability of legit product. China will very likely NOT do this. Mafia / black market pressing plants / Piracy-4-Money will probably be vastly affected so they won’t like it.

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Block Emule and BitTorrent and make it a chore to hack unlike the web censorship. Fits China’s tyrannical nature better. RIAA / MPAA probably indifferent – piracy somewhat curbed but no $$$ from legit sales either. Definitely the preferred choice for the piracy-4-money folk and the mafia in addition to the communist party too.

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Unblock all the damned imports, but block P2P. I wouldn’t like it. I’m an Emule Addict. The Mob wouldn’t like it – availability of legit product affects them more than file sharing. The RIAA / MPAA’s dream come true!!! China would be wishy-washy, especially if they learn of the politically sensitive material on the P2P networks. They may non like sex and porn, but they hate things that encourage resentment of the party’s tyranny more than any actual moral value.

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Just leave things as it is. Indifferent choice to me. The MPAA and RIAA definitely won’t like this – No $$$, rampant piracy amplified by lack of legit product supply. The mafia and illegal pressing plants are impacted as well but at least legit product is still scarce so they still have a market. The communist party will probably be content with this too.

in summary:

Unblock legit product imports & stop censoring:  Me +1; Mob -1; RIAA/MPAA +1; China -1 = +1 / 0 / +1 /  0
Keep censoring and black out P2P:                Me -1; Mob +1; RIAA/MPAA  0; China +1 = -1 / 0 /  0 / +1
Stop censoring but black out P2P:                Me -1; Mob -1; RIAA/MPAA +1; China 0 = -1 / -2 / -1 / -1
Keep censoring and leave P2P Alone:              Me  0; Mob  0; RIAA/MPAA -1; China +1 =  0 / 0 / -1 /  0

Winner (Me only): Unblock legit product imports and stop censoring
Winner (Me+Mob): No Winner; 3-Way Tie
Winner (Me+Mob+RIAA/MPAA): Unblock legit product imports and stop censoring
Winner (Me+Mob+RIAA/MPAA+China): Keep censoring and black out P2P

So Fuck you China-Gov!! ??Unblock legit product imports and stop censoring??? wins in 2 out of 4 scenarios! (Freedom 2; Tyranny 1; Status-Quoe Polarity-Reversal: 0; Status-Quoe: 0). Now this isn???t fair because I didn???t do all 16 combinations of the superset (Me, Mob, RIAA/MPAA=MAFIAA, China commy anti-god bio-terrorists), but I really don???t give a damn about china???s communists, or the RIAA / MPAA to give them their fair share.

Found static html dump archives for wikipedia! The december version of the english wikipedia isn’t out yet. I’m going to wait for that. I’m pretty sure it can be run locally in a web browser, but it may need an external laptop drive all to itself when unzipped! They are in .7z archives. .7z is for 7-zip. It is open source / GPL. I encourage those who want to contribute the bandwidth, to share a copy on Emule!! And rename the files so they are searchable. wikipedia-en-html-1.7z is only mediocre on searchability. Add ‘dump’, ‘offline’, ‘backup’, ’static html’ to the filename will help. Oh yeah china blocks the wikipedia, probably partially because of these dumps, so get them up on Emule! China does not block Emule (Plenty of HighID chinese users)!!! So chinese can get their tibet massacre or pro-democracy crap off of Emule or BitTorrent while the commy-party thinks their ’subjugated’ citizens are mostly pirating away at american movies (encouraged by import restrictions). Oh yeah, Iran doesn’t block Emule either.

Hey, despite being in with the tyrrany, at least he isn’t a hypocrit. I bet the kids got grounded for at least a week when they got busted, and they probably were like most users who get sued — leeches who don’t manage their incoming folder (which modern P2P applications exploit to foster the health of their networks) and neglect the ip blocker.

Like this bit from the TinyMixTapes article:

Dad: Son?
Son: Oh… ummm… I was just finishing up an, uh… Excel document so I cank eep track of all my ponies.
Dad: Oh no! Oh God, no! Did I just see SoulSeek up on your screen?
Son: (Looks down) I???m sorry dad. I mean, you give me all these free CDs from Warner, but frankly, your music sucks.
Dad: I???m so disapointed in you, son. You are taking an artist???s intellectual property, you know that, right?
Son: I know, I know. I???m really sorry… Uh… dad, how much do artists make off of cd sales?
Dad: Uh, way less than 10 percent. muHaHahaha!!!
Son: More ponies for us, eh?
Dad: Yeah, more ponies.

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Hey it looks like the MPAA and RIAA copyright mafia have rigged the ‘Nike+iPod Sport Sport Kit’ to be a ‘Nike+iPod Sport Spy Kit’ to combat F2F trading over short-range Wi-Fi.

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Way too much sueing. It may appear to be pro-P2P, but it is not. It is definitly anti-RIAA so the RIvTP lawyers gladly help. It may affect open-source P2P like Emule even after a shutdown or hand-off if any of the individual developers has an expensive car or house and it would be a RIAA victim sueing instead of the RIAA.. I wouldn’t be surprised if the RIAA lawyers pitch-in with legal help to help their own victims take down P2P developers. Great RIAA (both the music pirate supsect and the RIvTP and other lawyers) pawns in their attacks against the developers.

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He’s Piracy-4-Money, so I really don’t give a damn. I like the ‘laughing all the way to jail’ part though he he. Sounds like the Pirate Bay ‘legal threats’ page.

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This one is an inital Piracy-4-Free release, followed by Piracy-4-Money. It involved screeners. Wish he didn’t sell them. Pre-Theater-Release Screeners are wickedly cool.

Apple is trying to patent a menuing scheme!! Don’t expect me to buy an Ipod. I guess that, if the patent is issued, you can expect to hear from apple’s lawyers if your software uses a menuing scheme with a similar flowchart and involves automated transfer of content between devices.

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I really don’t care if the allofmp3.com site lives or dies. AllOfMP3.com is Piracy-4-Money, unlike the PirateBay who is Piracy-4-Free (Their donation income bobs above and below their operating expenses).

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Lawsuits against linkers to pirated content is not new. It appears the rate of secondary scatter-sueing over copyright infringement (sueing linkers to a host of infringing conent) is on the rise. I’m not sure if P2PNet is being threatened over links to a site with warez or links to a site with a commercial product that is accused of infringing copyright or maybe just to a site or article accused of libel or something? Only details given is “In August, a heavyweight associated with a major Canadian political party threatened p2pnet with a nasty lawsuit unless we took down links to a site mentioned in another law suit. This person also demanded information about the publishers of the site we’d pointed to.”. The rest, including the reference links, is just tangent-filler. It does appear to be libel or political rather than piracy, patents, and copyright by this – “p2pnet refused to cooperate. We can’t for the moment go into more detail because we haven’t yet had a response to our refusals and we mention it only because demands being made by individuals and companies wanting to censor the Net by forcing sites to take down links look like becoming a major issue.”. They are probably better off not responding to the ‘legal threats’ and throwing them in the garbage. Look at the Pirate Bay. They ridicule them and then put them up in a mockery exhibit (‘the legal threats page’). I’d probably publish them with less mockery if i’m not lazy, otherwise just thow them away, but either way never actually officially reply.

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They cracked TivoToGo’s DRM!!! Yeah! If you didn’t have DRM in the first place (A custom PC-DVR kit) you wouldn’t even need to crack the DRM to begin with! PCSurveillance is just from a quick google search. I didn’t do any price shopping yet. These guys appear to sell spy cameras (cops / PIs / digruntled spouses / paranoid people) too and the DVR cards are design for security camera footage, but they should work for DRM-free TV-Ripping too though I knot sure if these hardware-compression hardcore cards will work with PVR/DVR tv-guide software. But if normal PC-PVR cards will be forced to listen to broadcast flags, these security-camera designed DVR cards will be overlooked by the law.

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The only thing that the German and British Football authorities have to become as bad as the RIAA is to start sueing video posters, bloggers, and file sharers with an automated ’sue em all’ campaign with semi-precise targeting with no target circumstance discrimination (some signs of income discrimination though, prefering upper-lower to middle-middle class who both will be too collectable to let the case go to default judgment without fear and decent lawyers will be unaffordable unless very long payment plans are involved) with a totally currupt subpoena system (process of converting IP/Filename to name/address), followed by no-mercy pre-litigation settlement ‘collections’, and finally, no-mercy but bully-cowardish litigation (They quickly back down and run if anything that looks like a meaningful defense is demonstrated).

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Free (Beer + Freedom), Open Source. Good top 10. Creative Commons is not a software work though. They are an organization like the FSF.

Here is some software that might make it easier to cheat up-line firewall censorship (should work on corporate firewalls in addition to China).

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All the better reasons to stay away from MMORPGs. It was probably a good thing that I was taxed out of town in Star Wars Galaxies. I was obsessed for over a year. Protests only helped my Droid Wal-Mart business, but being in a town where new mayor (old mayor grew increasingly inactive on Bria and eventually stepeed down) was the only competitor was bad. I hope CopyBot can keep values down in Second Life for the IRS to stay away. I hate artificial scarcity.

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Iran is really jumping on the censorship wagon. George Bush’s desire for war will eventually ovcome him so he’ll probably be invading Iran, at least in the air, by the time he leaves office. I’d rather see mass defiance though with a flurry of black-market broadband connections from China and Russia, but I think Bush is going to drop the bombs nontheless (at $50,000 per guided bomb and $2 million per cruise missle). I really wish there would be more Iraqis on Emule though. I wonder how Iran’s censorship will affect Iranian Emule users? Emule is robust with 144k cellphone modems, and it will most likely work just fine with 128k connections and 28.8k / 33.6k / 56k connections as long as they don’t cut in/out or stall, as long as not too many downloads are activated at one time (I’ve download rather large files from an australian 56k user on Emule). China’s censorship obviously doesn’t work all that well on Emule and the ‘Great Firewall’ is easily bypassed with some easy to use script-kiddy tools.

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More countries trying to crackdown on ‘loose cannon’ bloggers. Added stuff on the ‘roll of shame’ / ‘enemies of the internet’ / ‘internet black hole’ from Reporters Without Borders, P2P (mostly quoting rsf.org), and Committee to Protect Journalists

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I get so many of these now (today), after the busts and extraditions, that I can’t be bothered with sending back terrorist buzzwords (Nuke, bomb, blow up, etc…) because it has gotten too boring to be a vigilante asshole with these anymore (The FBI has automated but highly lagged terrorist buzzword analysis systems and monitoring policies that could be exploited to help nail fraudulant spammers).

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It appears that the RIAA wants to sham artists some more using internet piracy for leverage! They screw both artists and consumers. This one is about the artist end.

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Hmm I wonder what my terror score is? Steve Jolley? Chungy (Mark Chung)? Landon Donovan and the rest of the National Team? My father (Served on the Nuclear-Torpedo USS Greenfish as an electrician)? How about Joe Eigo or Team Ryouku (Both in Toronto; Chungy has family ties in Toronto as well; All Asian at least partially)? I bet my Terror score may be a litte high from my vigilante asshole-ness with scam-spammers, my modest hoard of stuff on nuclear weapons, my dabblings with area 51, my bad attitude with government secrecy, piracy disposition, and I am probably being watched because I was stuck in NYC during 9-11 and I made disturbing comments about being lucky it wasn’t a Nuke (as in spies planting nukes in enemy cities in the game Civilization). Also I think people like airlines can’t differentiate FBI flags for piracy (50 burnt DVDs + 50 unburnt DVDs in luggage) vs terrorism (especially since the CBP is managing and using the ratings). I’ve flown in X-Plane in airports also. Playing Scorched 3D (3D tank-artillery game) in an airport disturbs some people also. Oh yeah my father also has top-secret clearance (I think he got it while in the Navy) but both he plus the rest of the greenfish crew and the public have been lied to like crazy while sub was in service and the warheads on the torps have no unintended detonation safegaurds and they hide it by only putting in the tube and it goes completly undetected because nobody looked for a nuke (imagine how easy it would be to float a nuke in on a container and detonate it on the ship while in harbor) and his bunk was right on top of one of the nuke torps (warshot) when it was in storage, and the torps were meant for harbor busting in addition to convoy (carrier group) busting.

Freddy Krueger: 1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you; 3, 4, better lock your door; 5, 6, grab your crucifix; 7, 8, gonna stay up late; 9, 10, never sleep again!

RIAA: 1, 2, The RIAA’s coming for you; 3, 4, better lock your connection; 5, 6, grab your IP Blocker; 7, 8, gonna manage my shares; 9, 10, never be sued!

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Nice spoof. Look out for these for the lack of links (not even to a comment to a prior story) in the ‘also see’ section or even an in-line link in the article. Claimed that the RIAA want to force libraries to only sell rather than lend out their DVDs and CDs ($1 per music track on a CD, $20 per movie on a DVD) because the patrons will only copy them to blank media before returning it back to the library. The gnu.org article has some actual really happening nasties flying around congress that can be the prelude to both the science fiction short story and the p2pnet spoof if they were to actually pass.

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He probably got bought… Can’t have him going off and creating a newer, better file sharing protocol & app (From the MPAA’s Perspective)….

#1 – Don’t Share Files — NO! That is leeching! The RIAA actually encourges this behavior because it is bad for the health of P2P sharing. It should be ‘Don’t be a leech, but know what your sharing’. Set up permashares (intentially designated marked shared folders) and put what you want to share in there and regularly watch your incoming folder. If you don’t want to share it, remove it from the incoming folder promptly. I have an unshared ‘assimilation’ folder placing these ‘don’t-want-to-sahre’ incoming files.

#2 – Rename your shared files — For the RIAA – it is better for the network to just share album and discoagraphy archives. THe RIAA currently is only monitoring for MP3s. Plus Emule and BitTorrent prefer large files.

#3 – Use and Site Fair Use — Don’t agree – it is not good to exploit ambigutities in the law to look legal. That is what the RIAA does to make their extortion seem legal. If it is a quote or modest excerpt, use and cite fair use, otherwise don’t bother, it ain’t worth the effort as it probably won’t work for you as you don’t have the lawyer cash.

#4 – Use Secure Internal Connections – I agree if you are paranoid about getting caught. Not enough people get caught to care, but legally hotter items than music and movies can be share, such as terror plots, pedoporn, and espionage. These defiintly should be shared on highly secured F2F darknets. Otherwise I prefer the open, free-for-all P2P networks.

#5 – Open Your WiFi – Bad Exploit. A dynamic IP address should be sufficient, as long as you have dial-up (it usually changes upon reconnect) or it changes on its own at least a few times aday.

#6 – Don’t Use P2P and Don’t Pirate Files – Well this is effective, but doesn’t match the theme. But the RIAA does sue on fair-use things too, though many fan-films use full songs, which really isn’t legal on my interpretation of ‘fair use’, but they shouldn’t be fussing over non-commercial uses like they are now.

Forcing a LowID with a firewall (blocking incoming connections) outside of student control will definitly curb file sharing as students are normally not allowed to host servers and stuff anyway. Blocking outgoing connections on the default ports of common file sharing programs will knock out non-veterans and limit veterans as well as 60-70% of clients on the whole network use default ports and these become unreachable. BitTorrent has more legit uses than pure P2P programs but it cannot function at all on a firewalled / lowID connection though. If you are a student and you want to use P2P on a poorly P2P-secured network but with harsh disciplinary penalties, then you best use an IP blocker and keep it up to date and be conscious of what you’re sharing (dilligence on the incoming folder while donwloading new-release and especially pre-release music and movies mostly) as IP blockers aren’t perfect. Regulating your bandwidth usage on Emule and BitTorrent will help too. Most schools appear to only reactively enforce anti-P2P policies out of liability-fear, so you getting busted often requires a DMCA complaint or you significantly adversely hindering the network for everyone else (shared bandwidth) for them to complain. Many research types are pro-P2P or apethetic (don’t care but positive tendancy) if no plagarism or commercial abuse is involved.

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Multiple Sclerosis is irrelevant with the RIAA’s system. She may be directly guilty (actual user they successfuly downloaded one or more songs from) or indirectly guilty (person they downloaded one or more songs from was not her but had her IP within 24hrs but she was using P2P also, though maybe not at or near the time of download), or innocent, but that doesn’t matter. It is obvious that the victims are only sometimes guilty and that the guilty (directly, which is rare, or indirectly) are often on the lower end of the computer literacy spectrum, and the subset of handcapped people has a majority overlap with the subset of low-computer litteracy P2P users, hence all the lawsuits on disabled mothers, young childeren, and the deceased.

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The Article is suggesting that the RIAA is targeting lower income victims so that they can’t fight back because they can’t afford their lawyer. This extort-them-all campaign is definitly meant for fear-tactic propaganda.

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Looks like the RIAA is trying to put a lid on the reverse-engineering and disclosure of their shady lawsuit practices.

Oh, BitTorrent’s video store is going to use Microsoft’s DRM? Happy cracking with FairUse4WM!!! This is probably what the delay is really over.

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I guess fans and players should boycott bayern munich if they start flinging out their lawsuits. Most of the infringing content is likely on Emule. YouTube is easily browser cache ripped also.

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DRM good for consumers because more selection will be available??? Yeah right. I won’t buy it. I never had any DRM thing on my computer ever except some SQL Server Zinio magazines. It had a 3-PC limit and the reader was slow and clumsy. Ordering or pirating a SQL Server Magazine Master CD is far better. Non-DRM .chm file.

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Better not be playing Nickelback or Disturbed on your guitar where neighbors can hear you or the RIAA’s thugs are going to have you arrested (after you ignore several cease and decist letters, a court order / injunction, and several more cease and decist letters)!!

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Piracy-4-Money sucks. The justification for the consumer paying the profit margin markup is the copied hollywood movies.

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The third-world low-income of asia is actually is what is allowing Piracy-4-Money (coounterfeit DVDs etc) to be more widespread over Piracy-4-Free (P2P filesharing, F2F sneakernet). Legal restrictions and red-tape promote all kinds of piracy, whether it is excessive tarrifs (import taxes), power or moral or import-regulation bans, or over-regulation. P2P file sharing and F2F darknets and F2F sneakernet over snail-mail will fill all supply-voids. Rich and middle-income countries have individuals using it (common citizen can afford PC and internet), while the rest have decentralized organized-crime doing it instead, and making profit off of the sales.

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RIAA CRAP! Next Halloween Wipe your ass with it and then TP the car or house with it! (Not worth the money if you don’t like egging / TPing on halloween)