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I think the AMT (Alternative minimum tax) should be the primary tax. Lower deduction (20-30K), lower percentage (15-20%) or non deuction and very low percentage (10-15%). Then the tax law will fit in a commoner-understandable 20-page pamplet rather than needing 3 laywers and a whole bookcase full of humoungous law-books. It appears that the AMT’s slowly lowering deduction allowance actually is the transition mechanism to make this the primary tax method.

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I could care less if EMI’s currupt and incompetant management drives the company so low that it goes bankrupt and ceases operations.

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Cool concept. 0.8 exchange rate ($1 = 0.8M$P). First create illusion of 79 cent songs with the exchange rate (stupid people will fall for it). Then add a minimum purchase block size of $5. Free loans in at least a collective total of $10 million (averaging $2 per user, 5 million users). Thats actually not much in MS’s scale though. In the P2PNet article I would alter #5 from “5. Say ’screw it’ and go buy an iPod.” to “5. Say ’screw it’ and go buy an generic portable MP3 player”.

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Law in the way from you getting your movie or song legit, whether it is against you or the company that wants to sell it? No problem! Emule (and BitTorrent) to the rescue!!

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Damn, refusing an EULA and actually getting a refund for it must be so difficult, that you’ll get news coverage if you succeeed!! The user here is a Linux user. My opinion — Too much effort.. Go download something else from Emule or share your copy on Emule or just don’t bother or do anything. Emule is easy. Linux users should refuse to buy any machine that has a Microsoft tax on it.

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I think a lot of plea bargains that still result in a lot of prison time involve the 10, 20, and 30+ year barriers. Remaining sentences of 10-19 years require a minimum low security prison, 20-29 medium, 30+ high (PMITA penintentiary). The higher the security, the more hardened the crinimals in the other inmates. For kiddy porn, the crime is on the lowest of the respect scale, so hardened criminals are more likely to beat and kill you regardless of you social ability and ability to adapt to prison culture. I think most non-murdering sex offenders end up in medium security, but white-collar-only sex offenders are often in low security prisons.

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An economy should not be dependent on housing inflation or the continued indebting and reckless spending of already indebted consumers. Minimal saving outside of productive investments and minimal debting is what an economy should depend on. I hope the housing market drops rock-bottom, and I hope that indebted consumers pay off their credit card debt. I hope they don’t go further and hoard money in a savings account though as most of that goes to house mortagaes and car loans (Many non-new-purchase mortgage procedes go to credit card companies, medical insurance middlement, and lawyers). Mutual funds and Stocks or starting your own business (if it doesn’t suck or rely on gambling, lottory, beer, liquour, ciggarettes, drugs, or welfare handouts) is better. Or donate to open source software projects or science research, or do self-funded research or write your own open source software. If you start spending more again, stay away from parties, impulse-services, and tourist-trips and buy durable toys (guns, bows, steroes, tvs, telescopes, computers, weight machines, home theater, independant renewable energy like solar panels and windmills) and actually keep them for awhile or have a hand-me-down or donation plan.

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This is the list of the internet censorship baddy countries. Belarus, * Burma, * China, * Cuba, Egypt, Iran, * North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, * Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam . Egypt was added in the most recent update, while Libya, * Maldives, and Nepal. The countries with a * had a solid triangle before the country’s name instead of a dash. The pattern seems to be how much of the internet is censored or how much of the population is banned from the internet alltogether, not effectivness or toughness of censorship or harness of punishment of dissidents.

I don’t really consider Wikis P2P file sharing, but it is still cool. They are using the open source WikiMedia software that powers the WikiPedia and many other wikis on the web.

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The MAFIAA strikes again! Universal studios flinging out letters to those who make fan art of the Serentity/Firefly movie and movie series. Looks like some revenue was being made though, probably at very little profit, however. This is funny – protect those who paid hefty fees to make official products. Universal apparently percieve fan-art as a threat to those licensees’s sales and willingness to pay such prohibitive fees, even if such fan art provides free marketing.

They were aressting people and all too. Oh well for the RIAA.

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Starfish seems like a cool analagy for open source P2P file sharing. I originally thought of scurrying, rapidly reproducing cockroaches as the analogy of open source P2P file sharing. Fully regenerative starfish is just as cool. And the GPL V2 was made up in 1992!! The cockroaches and starfish is only half of it though. The non-profit tendancy of open-source exploits the ultimate loophole of tort law – No money or assets to take in the first place!

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If you arn’t looking for standalone cracks, watching the file size is plenty sufficient to avoid malware. Legit standalone cracks (NOCD Cracks, keygens, PatchCracks) is often the same size as the malware, and virus scanners often don’t pick it up, even with up to date definitions, so you have to be careful when downloading these. Malware labeled as Sims2 No-CD Cracks has a particularly bad infestation of false-labelled malware.

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Uploaders are usually targeted for lawsuits and prosecutions, hence the appeal. Unfortunately, the target should be ‘long term seeders’ and ‘releasers’, as every non-harmful Emule and BitTorrent user is an uploader because of the swarming / sharing of completed chunks of an incompletly downloaded file.

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The BitTorrent in GetRight works well. Should work well in LimeWire also.

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Usenet is joining the bandwagon of encryption and obfuscation!

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“So how does a tax return document become indexed on, for example, the Gnutella network?” I agree with Slyck as one of the possibilities – Stupid, but generous users who just blanket-share their whole hard drives. There also could be malware that works like Antinny. This is the least probable, but AntInny worked well with the Whinny P2P client as it could interact with out out-of-process and randomly mark folders for sharing. There is also much malware that is distrubuted as fakes on the P2P networks, which mostly only stupid users would get as it is often detectable by the woefully small file size. Gnutella-fake spread spyware, once run, would independently scan for passwords and confidential docs and ship them to its master. Trajan/Spyware fakes are spread on BitTorrent and Edonkey (Emule) as well. The big archives are often clean, but their is no gaurentee – their are noob groups and individuals releasing files too. Looking for NoCD cracks is often a different story as they are usually in the same size-range as the malware.

Its a fair sentence I think. The max is way too high. Home confinement does allow having a job and stuff. I wonder what Scott McCausland will get? Probably something similar. I got my Star Wars over a month before its theater release, from Emule!! ElliteTorrents is like, uh nothing more than a large community sharing files. Oh yeah, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will often rent a bunk in local county jail for inmates sentenced for less than 1 year.

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Even these busts ain’t affect the concurrent user count on P2P file sharing that much.

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Still more shit going around by the IFPI’s glorious 8000 lawsuits. I actually think it is an attempt to make it seem that the lawsuits are conitnual week after week. Nope this is about the same 8,000.

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New strong-arm for the RIAA! James O’Neil, Former Attorney General of Rhode Island

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New type of helpless victim! A whellchair mother! I like the counter-claim he he…

They have left out the ‘news’ adjective inthe first paragraph. “Times have been slow in the file-sharing world.” should be “Times have been slow for news in the file-sharing world.” and “Ask any file-sharing veteran, and they???ll attest to the relative snails pace of P2P activity” should be “Ask any file-sharing veteran, and they???ll attest to the relative snails pace of new news for P2P activity”. The articles body has some valuable advice of stickig with open source P2P clients. One should use open source software in general, not just P2P, even if it takes the RIAA lawsuits against commercial closed-source P2P clients or extraodanairy software like OpenOffice.org to ween somebody away from MS Office.

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Bram probably got bought. It is turning corporate closed-source proprietary intellectual property. Stay away from further version of BitTorret. Use Azureus or uTorrent.

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I don’t mind the ratios but it should be global, not per-file. zzRatio in many Emule mods is global and in many it is conditional on leech-risk factors (powershare part files, session avg ul <10KB/sec, frindslots w/ max friendslot rate set over 3KB/sec, etc..) rather than always-on. There is no reason to 'patch' anything in open source software. The cheating clients are likely to be modded at the source-code level.

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Basically, Exetel is throttling the collective P2P (possibly only BitTorrent) traffic to 50% of it’s up-line bandwidth capacity, rather than strict 50% of the contract download capacity for the individual client during peak hours (12 noon to 12 midnight). So if P2P traffic hits 100% of their upline capacity, clients with active P2P traffic will be throttled so their collective usage drops to 50%. Since ISPs usually have downline capacities (sum of bandwidth allowances of their customers) of 5 to 15 times their upline capacities (their actual capacity), this can be substantial. They also appear to have static limits for each user, but it is very generous – 30GB per day! I have no idea if they will be throttling uploads or not. P2P is optimiallly syncrhonous with upload/download (leechers make legit users a moderately upload-heavy) and some people will leave their Emule or BitTorrent seeding when they have nothing to download for the current moment (even for a few days straight!).

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Here is a great individually itemized list of fake servers. There are many versions in the first mega-post. CTL-F Search for “Clean list for the main subject…” for the scrollable box with a list updated on 2006-10-07.

It also appears that the RIAA is adding a requirment to use their new DRM scheme, ‘Digital File Check’, as a standard condition along with the $3500-4500 standard protection payment to the settlement to their ‘extort ‘em all’ program.

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My total known clients for Singapore has always been 1-3, except on the individual 5/31 entry where it was 14. I havn’t seen any major changes in the patterns of singapore Emule clients. Oh well. Not even less currupt totalitarian goverments (that permit any civilian internet use at all) can control file sharing. Since the RIAA was at the helm, only strategic artists and albums were targeted. If it wasn’t ‘on the list’, it don’t matter, as the governments have so many police, judges, and even congresspeople themselves using file sharing to download copyright-illegal (and maybe other forms of illegal too), and legal content too (minority though), that no goverment that doesn’t clamp all internet use has really bothered to enforce copyright on their own accord, But then again, in the USA, I think only murder is prosecuted by the goverment on it’s own accord without ‘victim’ direction (if the ‘victim’ isn’t the government).

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It appears that the RIAA is expanding into Brazil, Mexico, and Poland with their silly and inneffective and often mis-targeted lawsuits. I wonder how accurate ‘uploaders’ are? People who never clean out their incoming folders maybe? If the ‘research’ is from a immobile cabinet in a datacenter with fixed IP addressess, the uploaders won’t be using ip blockers, increasing the probability that the ‘uploader’ is a stupid or lazy person who doesn’t clean out their incoming folder. Maybe the fake servers Nederlands Geslacht and SexyBitch.nl were used for the ED2K lawsuit victims? These servers claim that they are in the Netherlands, have consistent stats, but what gave them away is that their IPs are assigned to the UK. The IPs are 81.3.87.170 – 81.3.87.171 . Connecting to these servers will cause your shares to be published to the RIAA, BPI (RIAA Britain), or IFPI (RIAA I don’t feel like setting up an individual extortion satellite office in this [xxx] country). They were sluggish to be recognized as fake servers because only Emule mods that supported country flags would spot this discrepency easily (UK IP, Netherlands claim). Hey maybe the IFPI RIAA division doesn’t have any pedophiles on their legal staff he he….

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“The RIAA’s initial response to the summary judgment motion, prior to the dismissal, had been to cross-move for discovery, indicating that it did not have enough evidence with which to defeat Mr. Wilke’s summary judgment motion.” — This is all so typical. No evidence. You know what to do if you get a summons but happen to be garnishable! ****************************************

A RIAA admissions that the bulk of their lawsuit targets are on the less computer-literate of the P2P user stock. Emule and Azeurus do not automatically scan your hard drive for content. But many users are unaware that thir incomplete downloads and their incoming files are mandatorily shared combined with the fact that they never organize or move their downloads (worse with Emule than with BitTorrent). Also Kazaa shares its incoming folder by default, but can be disabled (bad for network), but only by completely disabling sharing altogether (even worse for network). I have never used the LimeWire, FrostWire, or BearShare Gnutella clients.

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Some older articles on some of the RIAA’s mis-targeting. A abandoned operational wi-fi router that got hijacked, and apartment tennant turnover (actual intendend defendant moved out)..

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Looks like the the grand LimeWire trial will be between Q4 2007 and Q2 2008.

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Looks like they got fines, but the loophole-lockout wasn’t completely sucessful. IFPI/RIAA is going to continue pushing because if they can bribe the prosecuter better (And making sure Mr. DA isn’t himself leeching away off of Pirate Bay torrents), they could get more than 4 shares (‘counts)’) prosecuted to try to get some jail time next time.

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Here is some detailed information on the behind-the scenes of the RIAA’s bulk litigation process. There is a lot of loophole exploitation to turn IP Address / filename pairs into names and addresses. Most lawyers and defendants are too ignorant to avoid default judgement for the ISP subpoena. There is a dire lack of notices to the defendant at this stage. The settlement part doesn’t describe the outsource process or who the contractors (such as ‘Settlement Support Center’) are, but the settlement amount is usually $3750. If you don’t settle they go to court. If you don’t show up, the average default is $750 per Exhibit A song. Exhibit A short-list will probably be no more than a dozen items as they have to have downloaded the entire file from you (if they do sue over archives, is it download a whole part or does it have to be the whole file,possibly fanned out over multiple bot-clients?). Exhibit B is mentioned as a screenshot. For Emule that is a maximum of 60 shares for 1600×1200. If they flip a wuxga screen to 1200×1920, they can probably squeeze 100 in. The word ’song’ is used a lot. Album archives and discoagraphy archives are probably completely overlooked. There is no mention on how agressive the RIAA is with post-judgement garnishment or if they persue those who agree to settle and then never pay, if it is at all possible (settlement may require immediate e-check or credit card payment like law-firm debt collections).

I just wish AllOfMP3’s prices could be legal. Even Wal-Mart and Best Buy are fed-up. $2-4 albums, 25c Songs. Oh well. Back to Emule.

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Some articles on the YouTube stuff. I want YouTube to stick around un-mutated. But Emule works just fine for homebrew short-movies too.

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I’ve seen the same thing happen with games. Someone buys a game and becomes mildly annoyed at having to have the disc in the drive each time the want to play it (even though all the game content is stored on their hard drive). They do a little research and discover a world of cracks and patches. All that it takes is someone being “mildly annoyed”. That, and the satisfaction of sticking it to the man and defeating a copy protection technology which cost the company a small fortune in a few seconds using free tools. That crack didn’t cost the games industry anything, but again it introduced a legitimate consumer to methods of acquiring games for nothing. That hurts the games industry.

I like this part of the ZDNet article.

“I understand that if we frustrate the consumer, they will simply pirate the content,” he said. “The issue we face today is that consumers are buying content that uses specific DRM and that, in turn, is gradually creating a world of separate DRM systems.”

He isn’t conceeding completely. Just on the proprietary nature of current DRM schemes pioneered by oh glorious (not) proprietary Apple. Even open, inter-operable DRM will frustrate some customers if the restrictions are too tight.

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Here is a nice comprehensive USA copyright term table (Reality not fantasy or wannabe).

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Only South Africa, Nigera and Algeria have much measurable presence on Emule. Get more Africans on Emule so piracy-4-free can put piracy-for-money out of business.

You think curruption and wast is bad with the farm subsidies? Before whining, go dig in to Medicare. It is far worse. Go dig into the great curruption and waste on the part of large organized charities, FEMA, and local governments with hurricane Katrina. That dwarfs most medicare curruption and waste.

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I am neutral with the gambling ban. Casino profit margins in online gambling is often higher than in brick & mortar casinos because software is more riggable than a table dealer or a fully mechanical slot machine (the fully electronic slot machines are no better than internet/PC-software slots). Gambling is an economic waste-away. But at the same time, it is limiting the freedom for somebody to wast away their life if they should choose. Putting the enforcement burden on banks has the effect of limiting internet gambling to overseas based internet gambling in addition to domestic. Oh yeah, Poker doesn’t have to use real money for the skill element, though real money does add motivation to developing and fully utilizing that skill. Poker is no different than blackjack for skill vs luck really. If you want more skill than casino table games, try Magic the Gathering. Be careful though, WoTC are intellectual property tyrants like the RIAA, but target consumers less especially with the OGL, more anticompettive IP tyranny – competing with the D20 system or Magic the Gathering.

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Looks like China is making spreading Rumors and posting defamitory satirical remarks or media clips an equivilant of a class B misdomeanor (1st offence non-extreme DUI). Wonder how consistant enforcement will be? China does not have a good track history. It is a tyrannical law, but both legit and tyrannical law enforcement in china fluctuates between non-existant and iron-fist, often just guided by intrique (Somebody wants to get somebody out of the way or just hates him) with the occasional crackdown. It probably means that for this law, a very chronic offender will have a 5-10% chance of getting busted over 5-10 years.

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Whine Whine Whine. If it costs too much, Don’t buy It! Buy it from the guys who are getting it cheaper if your vendor is undercutting you that much (or just don’t buy it all)! Buy IP tyrrany (copyright licensing – non transferrable clauses) may prevent that from being done legally though.

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RIAA + MPAA = MAFIAA! Wal-Mart pays $17 for DVDs and $12 for CDs! This is the studio’s take!! Wal-Mart buys direct from the stuios! They are barely budging with the music! I want $2-4 CDs and $3-6 DVDs!!! Special features and fancy packages are not neccesary. The Rolling stone article has an itemized excuse-breakdown from the RIAA on why they can’t lower the prices. Who gets paid Publishing royalties? Middlemen? The overhead features can be reduced. Wal-Mart definitly doesn’t need $3.89 retail overhead. Emule and YouTube can give free marketing.

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Hey this employee carelessness and inter-department non-communication is why they are being sued over their french fry advertising! All fits the same pattern. Poorly configured computer and reckless computer submits infected software image to flash-memory manufacturing. I do like McDonald’s Dollar menu (AZ version includes Big N’ Tasty, Sausage McMuffin w/ Egg, Big & Spicy Chicken, and Double Cheeseburger, some missing in CA, most in WA) though. Nobody should be running off with millions with this unless death or permanent disability is involved.

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You want $10mil in free money or at least some of it? Sue somebody out of state who don’t have a car and makes a low income!! This will have to be hate driven because you’re not going to get much from your garnishment efforts. You may only get vengeful ’satisfaction’ from having your victim be mentally distressed and constantly on the run because she is a collections fugitive (Like a at-large felon fugitive except they want your money/assets instead of you)..

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If a cover band tries to play songs in your eating joint without you having an extensive red tape, expensive prior agreement with the RIAA, call the COPS! Or the RIAA mafia is going to sue your ass out of business!!

My dad may have been on that submarine, if it is really the only submarine to have nuke-tipped torpedoes (‘WarShot’). He was in the Navy about 1968-1972 and he grew up in Connecticut. I’ll ask him if that was the sub he was assigned to. Great psuedo-clazzified warez if it’s true!. The Nuclear armed torpedoes would be launched from the two rear tubes. Only regular torpedoes were used on the forward tubes. He said that the nuke torpedoes were intended for busting carrier groups. My dad said that he slept on top of the torpedo’s nuclear warhead (the bunk was right over it I assume, deisel subs don’t have that much space). He said that the sub would be heading away from the target when the nuke-tip torpedo gets launched, granting a small chance of survival upon detonation, but the chance wasn’t really that good. The warshot was wire guided.

He also said, way earlier that their were 5 armed silos near the federal prison in Safford. It may be some of the ‘Davis-Monthan AFB’ Titan II silos, but they aren’t really that close to the prison. They are close enough for a military-target hit on the most northwest part of the silos to affect Safford though. Oh yeah PMTIA is a street-slang pun that is funny, but has very little actual relevance with inmates in federal prisons that are not a ‘high’ security level or who do not have a MAXIMUM custody level.

This is old news by the article numbers. Din’t know the RIAA went so far as to try to sue a 12 year old girl directly, bypassing her mother, exploiting some ‘legal gaurdian’ thing to do it. Looks like they are knocking over some kids with the BPI. One of the RIAA’s lawyers must be a pedoporn / kiddy porn pervert. RIAA pedophile lawyer: “I’ll drop the case if you let me put my big pecker up your little pussy” he he…

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The RIAA may start sueing people sharing music over a cell phone!

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Inaugeral RIAA Lawsuit / Prosection in Sweden!

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I like this: “MPAA+RIAA=MAFIAA” he he.

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I like creative commons. I prefere the Design Science license if the artists wishes to give away anything with ’source code’ such as the original music sheets. Creative Commons has no accomodation or source code or source scripts or source whatever.

I didn’t get my check card until I was 19 beause the first bank to offer them required me to have a checking account in good standing for 6 months before they would issue me one. A kid can get a VISA check card as young as 14 with parental support though. 16-17 without. Banks often require waiting periods for depositors with no history to go on.

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Looks like the BSAA doubled the standard piracy bounty to help motivate the people to can’t be bothered with all the bullshit red-tape required to claim the reward and not get screwed into reporting it for free.

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Nobody is going to mess with Google. he he.. Google is becoming more Microsoft-like though.

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YouTube is going to be A-OK, at least until they start sueing over the rampant cache-ripping (Viewing a cache-ripped video bypasses advertising). Then when they all sue YouTube into oblivion for that, then the Videos will only have Emule as a place to go.

Emule and BitTorrent piracy rates may go up a little. ITunes purchases in NJ will drop significantly though, which the RIAA will attribute entirely to piracy in their propaganda. The actual piracy increase will be majorly dampened by the plentiful availability of rippable music-CDs. Looks like the socialist republic of New Jersey is really having money problems.

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Why does Russia want the WTO membership so much? I dont know much about it. I should look it up. Are the benefits worth all the adjustments that have to be made? Is China in the WTO? Piracy is far worse in China than in Russia. Maybe the MPAA will have China kicked out if they are already a part of the WTO?

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The world is so evil. Following the RIAA’s example, McGraw-Hill (who’s SQL server books are merely mediocre, but have above-average file-sharing presense on Emule) is sueing around at everbody, including evil. Now come one, Google’s full-view books are all in the 1800s. This is really stupid.

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First, I don’t want to pay the costs of luxury customer service (cost is added to product price markups). Second I fully support Sainbury’s use of an automated system, if most or all of the cost savings are shaved off of the product prices. But their automated system DOES NOT WORK!! Then this Apple employee is too damned paranoid of getting canned for blogging about it using very general examples of his comany’s policy and he isn’t even bashing Apple or even close to leaking their stupid secrets! One does not want to work for Apple.

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If it was really 0.5 kilotons, I would think it would be a failed blast. Mini-TacNukes is like 3rd or 4th generation nuke technology. They could’ve stolen some of it from Russia though. Faking 0.5 kilotons with conventional bombs would be difficult underground I think. 500 tons of TNT is 1,000,000 lbs of TNT. ****************************************

Hey you could hang them up off the floor in chains and litterally turn them into punching bags! Especially the ones who have already had mental breakdowns. Make sure to use boxing gloves and to not obstruct their body’s ability to swing or you could get busted for murder if you make one hemmorage to death internally. Might as well if they gone so far as head bashing heads onto cell doors and ciggarette burning.

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Underoath uses file sharing ‘marketing’. “The six-member band shocked the music industry in June when its most recent album debuted at No. 2 on the nation’s pop charts despite zero airplay on mainstream commercial radio and no presence on MTV” – old fashioned copyright is for the days when only highly financed businesses could violate it enough to cause noticeable damage to a ’sale of copies’ business model, ie.. printed books before the 1990s and vinyl records before the 1970s.

“No, because the artists are making billions of dollars any ways.” – Correction (to quoted teen) – The artist doesn’t make the billions. The Record companies do. Majorly popular artists may get several million, but their record company is getting at least a hundred times that.

“Spread the Word vs “Thou shalt not steal” – Expand to: Encourage worship of God (or in case of the Bible, spread the Word of God or spread the gospel) vs not depriving publishers of the ability to get revenue from exclusive control of the creation and distribution of copies. In the bible, I know that the Amplified Version and the New Living Translation are full-restrictions (‘all rights reserved’) copyrighted at the isolated translated-text level. Most popular gospel music is published by RIAA-member labels and are full-restrictions copyrighted (legally, anyway)….

“The study shows that born again Christian teens are not much different than are non-born again teens in terms of holding an anti-piracy moral position. Just 10% of Christian teens believe that copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music downloading are morally wrong, compared to 6% of non-born agains (the four-point difference barely qualified as statistically significant). Also, the proportion of pragmatists was statistically equivalent – 64% of born again Christians and 66% of non-Christians.

One of the most troubling findings of the survey was the fact that most teens opposed to music piracy are not entirely convinced that their perspectives are correct. Just 1 in every 3 teens (36%) who take the piracy-is-wrong view said they feel very certain of that stance. That means just 1 out of every 50 American teens is strongly convinced that it is wrong to copy CDs for friends or to download music illegally. To make matters worse, two-thirds of those teens who embrace piracy (64%) are convinced of their views. “

I think downloading an individual mp3 song or album archive or discography archive from a P2P file sharing network is morally wrong if you never purchased a copy of your own before (even if it is a vinyl record, 8-Track, cassette tape, or DRM-download; doesn’t have to be function as long as it used to function) and if you have no intention in buying it, but would buy it if the pirated copy was not available. My violation of that is was at about 20% for music (same for movies, lower for PC games, higher for non-PC games, non-game software, and books), and increasing due to my resentment of the RIAA and MPAA civil-settlement extortion and deceptive propaganda programs. It is probably about 40-50% now. I do keep my two favorite artists – Sepultura and Soulfly (Sepultura only up to Dante XXI b/c of Igor Cavalera’s departure) – 100% morally right and 100% legal.

I think sharing a CD with or getting a CD from a friend is only wrong if the P2P moral is violated and the person I got the copy from isn’t a close friend or family member (such as classmates I barely know). I think it is perfectly ok to give away free CDs to your family and significant friends, though I know it is not what the law says, but the RIAA and MPAA are in control of the law these days.

“copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music downloading” in the survey is a boolean AND – both must be marked ‘yes’. Kids who answered yes to one and no to the other got put into the “pragmatists” category.

These ‘astonishing’ numbers just show how wrong the RIAA’s intent of total consumer control via monopolistic control of the supply of music is.

(Update 2007-03-28 — Fixed 3rd Link)

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!’.

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.