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I have no problems with judges using decision support systems. Doctors use them all the time. The problem is when the software (or data!) is buggy or when the person gets too dependent on it, or worse, starts winging it on the data entry. Also currupt judges can lie about some of the circumstantial data entered into the software. So it is best said that this type of software is best for improving already good judges that are competant, careful, and honest.

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To hell with the damn secrets. Copy the shit out of video. Share it up and Emule, and let the court have a copy. Better yet, give them an ED2K hashlink . Hey it doesn’t apear the the court ordered an exclusive copy of the video or have other order barring him from publishing out copies. He just don’t wanna give it out for some reason. Hey just share it. For free, complete and uncensored. No thousands of dollars from selling a censored version to select customers. Just as many people as possible having your footage. Maybe he already did? I never did search for it on Emule. Many violent protests can be found on Emule. Most are anti-police though rather than pro-police.

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Hey the settlement extortion and exploitation of default judgements on cloudy international jurisdiction are all great avenues of fraud. I’m surprised it isn’t explioted further. The ESPC seems to be learning. They should target low-income irresponsible folk, petty crinimals homeless, and handicapped people because they are far more likely to not show up for court. This will definitly rise dramatically if they legalize home invasion — ‘garnishment’ of furniture, jewelry, and durable electronic or hobby equipment (TV, computer, guns, stereo, telescope).

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Definitly George Bush desires to be despotic right-wing authoritarian (both wings are large, but the right is bigger) facist war-mongering dictator. I still don’t think he’s the anti-christ or anything. The USA isn’t currupt enough yet for an aspiring dictator to get power. But Bush is definitly challenging the system and exposing its weak points.

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Bush definitly wants more war…. And he’s determined to get it. Him and his dozen or two republican and half dozen democrat congress-puppets. Whatever it is I think this particular incident is meant for propaganda. I can see America at war with Iran by the time Bush leaves office, just because Bush and his cohorts wants it, and they are going to lie and deceive all they can to get it.

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If Iran ain’t making nukes with their enrichment, then they should refuse and resist to the bitter end. If what the UN inspectors saw isn’t a decoy, then they are probably not. I’d wait until Iran actually flings a nuke before going to war.

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Looks like a democraticly ellected but currupt prime minister is going to be replaced by a currupt military dictator… It appears that Leekpai was a quite currupt authoritarian type that the RIAA would probably love. The fact that they didn’t feel compelled to shoot anything that moved makes the millitary look like the good guys. But it is probably still evil vs evil.

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If you are a fresh middle eastern immigrant and America (or Canada) thinks you are a terrorist, usually on grounds of single conversations with sparse acquaintances, then this is what happens to you. They are afraid to do it themselves, so they hire it out to Syria, etc… They do it to american citizens too, if family/friend support is week or non-existant, but usually have more survailance before acting.

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Good thing the Onion is considered a satirical tabloid…

Pointless against the RIAA and MPAA’s millions. Probably better than no opposition at all though.

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If I was 6-12 years old and had the same income level when I was this age, but bumped it up to now, I’d probably be camcording movies for my own use and possibly release or sharing too, if I could get a cell phone. I audio taped theater movies a few times when I was really young (8-10), because it was a rare treat and some movies, more back then than now, I grew pretty obssessive over.

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“Making copies for your friends, giving it to them to copy…is just as illegal as downloading it. “. Probably just as illegal as selling the copies too. My mother says personal copy-giving is alright and it shouldn’t be illegal, and she’s a fear-driven law-obediance freak. She’d probably give in if it was enforced enough to be busted at least some of the time like actual shoplifting. She could be happy under Hitler rule if the propaganda was largely kept intact. She whined about a national geographic pic she paid $3 to download to her cellphone and couldn’t picture-message because of DRM. She ultimately gave in to agreeing with the law even though it was grudgingly, probably because of my inflammatory rebellious attitude.

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Looks like the RIAA’s outsourced automated evidence collection and outsourced litigation systems need a lot of work still… More dead people being sued. Maybe they will sue an infant next? Credit reports and packaged cusumer reports and packaged background checks can have unusual things on them sometimes…

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Hmm…. Outsource collections agency botches up the research (hey they only have an IP address! but IP->Message board or chat room or online game IP footprint -> Handle -> Real Name is usually the research path). She refuses to the collections agency (which is an immediate flag for the collections agency to go to the next step if they have a law-firm license), offers up all this help, and gets squat for reward, guilty or not. The RIAA tries gag-order her to keep her and others from getting free legal help (side-effect of publishing court documents online), they want to bog her down on red tape and make her anxious so she gives up and gets a judgement against her, which the RIAA will tout wildly on their mainstream media puppets as nasty propaganda. The RIAA may get any money for the judgement though, if any is successfully collected. It has been ’sold’ to the Settlement Support Center, assuming that isn’t a subsidiary of the RIAA or one of its big members. It may be a more complicated outsource agreement where the RIAA only gets the first $2000 of a settlement, but it reverts to a separate payment structure for cases that have to be actually filed in court (A non-small claims case hasn’t gone to court until you get a nice hand delivered summons!). Here’s what you do if a collections agency calls you (whether outsource RIAA lawsuit or some other ‘debt’): Don’t answer the phone if you don’t know the number in the caller ID! The wrong number trick doesn’t work well if the reps (collections or telemarketing) follow policy. What might work if you don’t want to ignore unknown numbers is counter-question then identity confirmation (such as what are you calling about), then say ‘he don’t live here no more’ on either success or failure. If they don’t answer your query, they are probably not friendly. I’m pretty sure my friend Rick (non-computer literate) may be able to work wonders on a counter attack, but unless you are an expert phone pranker like him, I wouldn’t suggest trying a deceptive counter-offensive.

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Crack down on the counterfeit sellers. I don’t care. Counterfeit sellers harm legit product far more than file sharing does. Don’t buy counterfeit music or movies. Download them for free instead, and buy your favorites. It is more difficult to actually buy some if you are paying a counterfieter…

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“The rich get poorer and the poor get richer. That???s what filesharing does for the music industry”. I like that phrase he he… Big artists already got big branding and the record companies pay for it all, so only lose from file sharing. Small artists have no record company backing, but are also free of their fraud and tyranny, and need free advertising, so they benefit from file sharing.

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Looks like Azuerus with only the option to run a private, decentralized tracker, and level 2 encryption (modest security, defeat traffic shaping), but it is further private by limiting seeds and peers to those in your contact list. Setting up the tracker may be much easier for non-geeks. As for the Slyck-AllPeers BlogWar, I think most ambiguity would be resolved by the concept of ‘quickly making deadlines and re-using as much BitTorrent code as possible. It’s use of the BitTorrent code is probably also the only reason it is open source, because of the Share-Alike provisions of copyleft licenses like the GNU-GPL (The full GPL is a upstream-viral share-alike license while the rest including the L-GPL are non-viral share-alike).

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Looks like tracker-only software that automates seeding of other public trackers and also has integrated torrent-site website software.

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I think it is a table-lookup based system that exploits the very small amount of unencrypted packet remaining. So it probably only be able to block and throttle the biggest, most popular torrents, which outside of Linux stuff, is mostly pirated anyway.

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Looks like Winny got ’sanatized’ with DRM CRAP. I don’t they it will be branded as Winny though.

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Looks like Sweden has to change their laws under american pressure in order for the MPAA to pull swedish prosecuter pupeteer strings again.

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Download DRM music for free, but you got to watch ads. And you STILL cannot copy it, not even to your freind, because we need you to keep watching our ads. And you have to check in and watch some ads for 15 minutes every month even if you don’t download anything new. I’ll stick with Emule. Its an improvement over Itunes though. I don’t mind the ads. I mind the DRM. Its more over the DRM than the 99c or the ads. 25 cents AND ads, but no DRM may win me over though. No Ads in the music though. And extra advertisement MP3 in budle archives is fine with me though. If the ad is cool, I may hoard it! No DRM in the ads, either, please.

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A movie deliberatly being released for free by a normally commercial movie company. Its not by a MPAA-company though. So it ain’t that good of news.

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I’ve been watching about a third as much TV since i’ve finally gotten into downloading movies and TV (mostly BBC documentaries) off of Emule. I think that has largely been triggered from the theft of two full 32-capacity DVD holders from my checked airline luggage by either TSA bag-searchers (had a notice) or SWA baggage handlers. I’m really have a loot of momentum now. I’ve downloaded at least 6 hollywood movie DVDrip-XVIDs in the past 2 months that I’ve never owned a real DVD before. I have never owned any BBC or Discovery Channel DVDs. I’ve been downloading them well before the DVD-luggage theft.

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Why universities hate BitTorrent and P2P: Hogs bandwidth and they don’t want to buy more just to accomodate P2P (class-relevant BitTorrent use can be kept on-campus). Lots of copyright complaints and they don’t want to deal with them. 90% of bandwidth hogged by P2P is pirated, so they are linked. About 80% of my bandwidth hogging is piracy – currently mostly books and RPG-books upstream and movies downstream

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More and more countries are passing anti-P2P laws and more and more of these laws that do nothing to stop it or slow it down much. Enforcement requires privacy invasions that create way too much unrest. Oh well. Share ahoy! And please help make more legal files available on Emule. Not just Moviez and Warez.

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They can always use more donations. Freenet looks to be great. I don’t know how I will be able to work it because I’m not very socially adept. I only have one current and significant friend that is computer literate (plus 2 more that are semi-literate), but he is all pro-open-source (and gay, of the genuine subtype, but has a committed partner). I was very hampered in using HotLine at school – a non-encrypted FTP-like social-environment type network. FreeNet is one of the ultimate networks to evade all forms and manners of censorship. It is optimized for contraband web pages (Chinese Tibet Independance) and message boards (Chinese Democracy) and piracy of smaller files (like MP3s of chinese police beatings or leaked bad-video or audio footage of area 51 like radio transmisions from the ‘fastmovers’). Cambodia / Myommar and several african countries are also non-free. South and central america has a lot of curruption that comprimise freedom also.

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This reporter is a whiner. The only public internet access which I was able to get a HighID (the ability to accept incoming connections via direct external IP or port-forwarding in the router/proxy) is at the Hilton Towers in downtown San-Jose. You get to hog a megabit of half-duplex bandwidth too! Everywhere else — Starbucks, airport, Spokane HotZone, Every other hotel i’ve been too…, it is LowID (no incoming). The best portable internet is Verizon Wireless BroadbandAcess. Not as much bandwidth – ISDN-like, sometimes braodband on web, but it is high-ID (accept incoming connections), and works wherever a cellphone works.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is still #1 on all charts!!!

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I’ve checked a few out. ‘Shakespear Romeo Juliet’ and ‘Astronomy’. By the nature of public domain allowing re-copyrighting and proprietarization of deriviative works (like new covers new illustrations, reformatting), all the books available in google are so damned old it ain’t funny. Google should start publishing some of the copylefted books. Even then, Emule (free, piracy, not legal unless PD or copyleft) and non-DRM PDF (legal but costs $$$) e-bookshops will be better. They need the downloads to work with GetRight (GetRight and ‘Save Link As’ is downloading web pages). In-line PDF viewing (which you would then use the ’save button’) is crashing Adobe Reader 7.08 almost all the time.

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How-To #1 is applicable to Emule as well. Emule doesn’t need hashlink or torrent sites, but they are helpful if you are seeking hot new release warez-games or pre-release or just released theatre movies. You are better off using BitTorrent for these because of the exceptional torrent site (BitTorrent doesn’t work well without them) support for hot mainstream pirated files. Emule is better for books, RPGs, backwater piracy, homemade, legal and rare files.

There is just way too much sueing going on. In the long run, the lawyers win, and the goverment tax coffers.

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Looks like a well-off small-timer. Don’t buy bootlegs. Free is better. Use Emule. And buy at least some of the stuff you download. Better donation turnout for open source / legally free stuff would make things a lot better.

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Some more brainstorming on how big music and get along with filesharing, hopefully without DRM.

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Screwing Consumers and Artists since 1952? Got that right. Now hopefully the beatles arn’t as evil as the RIAA itself.

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Old news, but RIAA got busted bribing radio stations and other forms of ‘payola’. All this crap and the attempt to eliminate filesharing is on the vision of sole monopolistic dominion of the entertainment industry and beyond. I wonder if the “nonprofit organizations that finance music education and appreciation” are going to be pupeteered into distributing intellectual monopoly propaganda??

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Bigger news than the Itunes crackers because it has prompted M$ to talk to the press. When the day comes that only DRM music downloads are available and nothing else, these will be more useful to me. And I am definitly one of those that will use DRM crackers on legitimately purchased products. I use No-CD cracks all the time with PC games and I pirate these less than any other time of piratable software or media. I don’t think I have ever purchased or acquired a DRM-restricted windows media file. Made in China! China is the king country of the world if you can toss out those communists!

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Itunes DRM crackers… I’m pretty sure Media Player Classic with the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (includes MPC) can play raw-AAC audio files.

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Guess its like the gun laws. The crinimals will always carry guns and the law abiding won’t be able to shoot back at the crinimal. Copyright laws also have the fringers and the ignorant too because hardly anybody gets busted outside the RIAA’s not-so-smart out-sourced, automated sue em all compaign and a very occasional FBI example-making. Worse penalties wont’ stray the apathetic and the fringers, even death or torture, but a higher bust rate definitly will. Even if filesharing did got busted at the same rate as shoplifting or drug dealing, the crinimals will still pirate stuff, and it will be more sales & bootlegging and not free-sharing.

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The swedish Pirate Party has made their election program official! TorrentFreak has the swedish PDF and inline english translation of the Pirate Party’s official manifesto. Can the USA pirate party get some seats in congress? Since the USA is regionalized and mostly two-party, it is pretty difficult. Probably the best way in is to find the most file-sharing savvy congressional districts (house) and states (senate).

Not suprising. Goerge W bush wants everything classified and is even re-classifying all kinds of shit (especially current and past american nuclear weapon stockpiles). Wordpress runs on MySQL, So you can make database backups. Plus you can web-rip the monthly archive pages. Take your rips and database backup and share them up on Emule. Chinese individuals and other residents of non-freedom of speech countries and organizations should do the same.

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Ban the internet! People leaking secrets! At least these are only embarrasments. You scared of YouTube?? Both YouTube and Google are easily rippable! And theres Emule and BitTorrent too! I want to see high quality UFO vids, spaceplane tests, and more (I will download obviously fictional ones too as long as they don’t suck)!

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Well designed databases are cool, if it’s well designed. I actually might like the system. I hate it that its so damned classified that they can’t even follow the law that everybody else has to though. Though the ‘federal registry’ law being violated is too red-tapey for my taste, after considering the mountains of bureaucracy that the FBI already has, it should be nothing to sweat over. It shows that the FBI is becoming more and more ‘above the law’ from need for increased secrecy deriving from Georgy Bushy’s desires for emporer-hood for himself or one of his kids (GrandKiddy-Bush) to become the first facist-dictactor dynasty of the United States and beyond. Most facist and communist states have very high opressometers. The opressometer is a concept for Master of Orion three that represents a continum of Freedom vs Security (Morale vs Security to the emporer). Higher opressometer settings also increase ‘Heavy Foot of Goverment’ (HFoG), a measure of bureaucratic inefficiency, inconsistancy, and curruption.

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Looks like crooked power-hungery politicians are behind VietNam net censorship. Why would a tyrant not want to filter porn?? Because it pacifies the commoner! Who cares about the moral thing. I’d rather have no censorship at all though.

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Video game bans, as well as age restrictions are uneforcable because of alternative demand fufilment via piracy on Emule and BitTorrent, both highly international environments.

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The exploited aid is probably federal subsidized stafford student loans within states that give a lot of state-level aid, like New York. $5,500 (max federal student loan per semester ) + $3000 (Pell+Tap per semester) – $5000 (Bursar’s bill per semester – tuition, fees, room, and board but not books, project expenses, trips, and partying) isn’t covered entirely by the financial aid, but that student loan has a bit of leftovers. My father paid the deficit for me but I had to get a loan to pay for summer school as my father wouldn’t pay for that. I know one kid who got a student loan soley for use in day-trading. Most get loans and have leftovers and use it to party. I guess some of the more dicsiplined could launder federally subsidized studnt loan money to terrorists.

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You can say whatever you want. As long as you don’t actually do it (although simply dwelling on it in thought, let alone speech & gossip, does increase the probability of you actually doing it). Can’t say it on the web? Then say it on Emule, Gnutella, or Freenet.

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The technology within the trash can’s themselves isn’t as bad as you think. I’m pretty sure the scale is on the truck itself, and not on the bin’s RFID. The RFID contains probably only a unique ID (int or GUID or some other unrecognizable value) or no more than what is on a credit card strip (Unique ID, account type, account #, cardholder name, city, state, zip), that can be read from no further than a few inches. The ID on the chip and the weight from the garbage truck’s scale (probably integrated in the picker-upper arm) is probably stored in a 1 to many relationship in the database, which is then cross-related to other useful bits of information. Thats the actually scary part, but it isn’t that bad. Its the intent of the whole program. Why do they want to weigh the trash cans and store the weights with the can’s unique identifier, possibly with one or more foreign keys to another table(s) with info on the house and/or the owner (This is in the centralized database system, not in the can or the truck)?

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So this means that Gearge Bush will invade Iran by the time he leaves office? Probably start WWIII if the Iranian invasion affects chinese oil too much and Bush uses miltiary force to deal with any possible chinese intervention. Their are neo-nazi nuts in China’s communist party who want to biologically sterilize the United States. Oh yeah I have a video praising a Chinese-Pakistani friendship. I’m pretty sure it will get very ugly as long America’s least-favorite war-mongering facist dictactor wannabe stays in office. Definitly count on the middle east blowing up into all-out war, Iran invasion or not.? Oh yeah, there are all kinds of Iranians on Emule.? They are gonna get stuff from me, sanctions or no Sanctions.? I don’t give a damn who gets shit from? me, as long as they wait in line just like everybody else, because it’s pretty long if they are not requesting a PowerShare.? I get stuff from them too.? Got a few parts of a Hackers DVD from one.

If San Bernadino were to succeed to become a mini-country, they would have to at the very least be able to survive a major embargo for several years. That means feeding and watering a million people or so independantly in a desert… I don’t think any country would be to fond of their neighbors simply dumping crinimals across the board. They’d be at war within a the year. And if they declare war with the USA over LA’s polution, where are the troops, weapons, and combat technology going to come from? Conscription alone won’t win a war unless you’re full of people like china that are used to tyranny (semi-tyranny from monarch then full tyranny from communism). This article is just humor over a typo though. Still cool.

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I get 150-200 spam comments filtered out by WordPress’s Askimet spam filter plugin. The moderation queue (first-time commenters and more than 1 hyperlink) turns off commenters. IP Blockers reduce your spamload a little bit but you have to be very careful and it only stops the noob spammers. 60% of my blog’s traffic are spiders of some sort (including the legit ones like googlebot + slurp (yahoo) + MSNBot, the market research google-search bots, and the comment spam bots). That’s pretty bad considering that I only get 100-120 visitors per day total. Why don’t the spammers spend their bandwidth downloading free moviez and muzic instead?? The Moviez, Muzic, Bookz, and Warez be worth less than the spam profits though because of all the stupid people out their clicking on the spam — you can buy everything you download and plenty left over for more from the spam profits. btw, I wonder if my large amounts of comment spam are spilling over into P2Pnet.net? As I do links to P2PNet alot

Hiring a “professional systems expert” when only a collections agency like company called ‘Settlement Support Center’ – is calling you is way too much money and effort that is only wasted. It means ’sucker’ to the rep. Easy commission. Guilty or not (especially when not guilty because of the fear tactics), throw all letters in the garbage, and ignore all calls with unknown or no-number on the caller-id.

The Settlement Support Center is obviously a type of company who buys lawsuits off of other people and litigates them in their behalf. If the Settlement Support center paid the RIAA $2500 for the lawsuit, then $3750 is a 50% profit for the “Settlement Support Center” collections agency. Being in a no or little garnishment state such as no car or used car with a lien (private-party is better), and being a renter, not owning stocks, bonds, no savings accounts, no IRA / 401K (these are very difficult to garnish but it can be done), and not being a too valued employee is very helpful, but for under $5000, an actual court summons is highly unlikely, at least in Arizona unless they can get it filed as small-claims because of the expenses involved.

Having unresolved ambiguous mailing addresses on your credit due to attempted, but unsuccessful identity theft attempts seems to help too. My background check is two addresses out of date because I’m too lazy to do any of the forwarding and updating stuff and it greatly cuts my junk mail down (I update my credit cards so it does go on my credit). My ambiguous address on my credit report from 2 of the 3 credit bureaus, which is actually listed as current with both, is actually to a former hammer / shot-put star in AZUSA, CA, which is probably more creditor-botchup than attempted identity theft. If you got weird crap on your credit but no weird accounts or unexplained derogatory items (from non-credit defaultings from services granted on the false identity such as apartment rental), don’t bother to fix it, as long as you don’t need significant credit (car loan, mortgage).

Guilt or innocence doesn’t mean anything to these people.? They bought a case from the RIAA, and they expect a profit, and they are getting profits, so far, with typical fear tactics and harassment.? This is despite the only evidence being offered are ip address and filename pairs from outsourced services NetSentry or BayTSP. If you refuse on the phone, you are going to court.? If you ignore calls and letters, you only ‘might’ go to court, and if you are ungarnishable, you can even ditch the summons!!

Go get your guitar tabs from Emule. You can’t share anything on the web anymore, legally. I hoard Sepultura and Soulfly’s guitar tabs just because I’m a big fan and I don’t know how to play guitar!

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I’ve used lyrics sites to predominiately find a title & album for a song i’ve heard on the radio and remember only highly repeated lyrics for so I can search for it on Emule. Lyric sites reveal some distrubing lyrics from songs that appear pretty ok at the surface. A lot of the songs I like are self esteem lowering songs (by example, not by attack), especially Hurt, Smashing Pumpkins, and Linkin Park. Also, Hurt is a bit anti-God in the same way that Soulfly is a bit pro-God. Wanting to ban lyric sites is mostly a power and control thing with a higher emphasis on greed.

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Hey, the law could get this bad. “Close down the instrument stores, I say! Make sure all music teachers have the appropriate licenses for the music they’re teaching their students! And make sure they’re buying only legit sheet music from sources known and recognized by the NMPA, and MPA! AND, force musical instrument owners to get a Concealed Carry license to ensure they’re qualified to carry and play an instrument in public, and are aware of the laws for failing to do so. (Venue must have ASCAP/BMI/SEASAC licenses, etc.)”. Now expand this to PCs, VCRs, DVD players, portable music and video players, …. Look out how the gun laws have progressed, especially in California in the 70s. First its registration, then its a ban or a difficult to get license (registration or permits are easy and free or very cheap, licenses have a lot of red tape and can be very expensive). Registration will mark you for enhance enforcement of a further ban or more resitrictive licensing. Lets not bother if they try to do this to computers or instruments.

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The file was ‘grey’. It violated copyright, but it isn’t sold in mainstream stores. Not catch him downloading ‘Pirates of the Carribean’ or something. It is difficult to be legal even with the grey areas (abandonware, advertising, homemade, small-timer, no-cost access public space like the web) though. Imagine having to pay for and possibly having to negotiate a license for EVERYTHING. Hopefully the copying and sharing technology will keep several steps ahead of regulation and enforcement technology.

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The BPI banned the girl’s Indie record company, effectively banner her (and numerous other artists), unless she is let out of her contract. It might be better to just self-publish, possibly in violation of the contract. The Indie Record Company, Flowerburger Records got banned for attacking the BPI (RIAA)’s sue em’ all campaign and generally supporting P2P file sharing, which sucks. Screw the RIAA and BPI. I don’t know what it means to have your small-time label banned from the RIAA or BPI. With Emule and the Internet in general it shouldn’t matter, as the advertising dollars were limited anyway.

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I would consider Macrovision’s analog copy protection (ACP) that puts noise in the vertical blank interval of analog signals as a copy protection measure, but it looks like the DMCA excludes analog copy protection from ‘technical protection measures’, which means an exploitable loophole, Especially since ACP provides very little protection against digital ripping/copying. I say Just release the ACP-defeater as open source onto the internet and who gives a damn about the law or any stupid loopholes. Open Source in itself is an exploit of the foundation of civil tort law, though it wasn’t designed as such, but it just happens to be one because of its non-profit nature makes the individual(s) or organization(s) difficult to sue and collect, and its source-inclusion and viral-share alike makes the possible infringments difficult to contain.

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Looks like Canada is working up a DMCA-like law. Looks like no address of their lack of fair-use provision. The RIAA is winning. Just give up on being legal if you want DRM-free music and movies. It will become impossible. Use Emule.

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I would pay more for no-DRM. Not THAT much more, THAT much being more than the brick and mortar version of the product, which for Itunes, it is already the same for DRM-ed versions. If its THAT much more, then i just turn to Emule. I happily pay the dead-tree price for a non-DRM ebook PDF, foregoing a 30-50% discounted price of the DRM competitors. One should analyze the P2P networks for piracy rates of a super-set combination of physical product supply and availability of non_DRM digital. None, difficult/short, common X None, DRM, No-DRM for a total of 9 combinations (No paper book because its banned, DRM-only PDF, Paper book plentiful, no PDF, Paper book plentiful, No-DRM PDF, etc…. I already see the difference with Steve Jackson Games books. Plentiful paper book supply + No_DRM PDFs = less sources on Emule. Supply shortages on the paper books GREATLY increases piracy (by # of sources on Emule) though. Somebody should do something more through and on more product types (Music by type, Movies by genre, etc…)

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I hate patents. There probably wasn’t even any reverse-engineering of TIVO hardware or code. I won’t miss Dish Network’s DVRs going away. My Dish-DVR’s hard drive crashed in late 2002. Now they want $5 per month for a service charge to work on program guide data that is already streamed for free. I am unwilling to pay it because TIVO has much better DVR software than Dish / Echostar in their DVR boxes (My TIVO’s modem broke in early 2002 though). I have a custom PC driven DVR system where I can copy and back up my TV shows and it will never listen to broadcast flags.

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I want to add RPGNow . The sell PnP RPG Book PDFs. No DRM or watermarking. They also have a sub-store dedicated to small-press RPG publishers called The Edge . RPGShop sells the dead-tree book versions.

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Don’t bother. If America uses a GPL / Open Source / Copyleft license item for killing people, so will China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Combodia, Al Qeida, Helzobah, etc…. And these countries (except sometimes China or Russia) don’t follow the law.

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Country #6 to get a Pirate Party! Hopefully this one isn’t tied to a commy party. One of these pirate parties is loyal to a communist party, but I don’t remember which. I prefer libertarian socialism, not authoritarian socialism (communism). I still like USA and Sweden better.

Well, It looks like Apple runs sweatshops too… And like Nike and Rebok, the Manufacturing is outsourced and the management has little control over standards outside of remote institutional policies. At least it appears that no childeren are being used in the sweatshop and that the violations are no where near as bad as Nike. An Ipod Sweatshop is just one of the better, more sanitary, less abusive ones. The sweatshop mostly employs desparate rural women working 15 hour shifts and paying 65-75% taxes (50% is room & board) out of their probably $2/hr wages in a corporate-socialist environment. I’m guessing the taxes are in the form of the ‘allowance’ portions of their wages. Apple’s policies are 12 hrs per day, 6 days per week, which is way long for many american jobs. But not Jobing IT, Graphics, and TV, and especially, Electronic Arts. But at least, if talented enough, you don’t get busted for refusing and resisting the hours, which the expectation is 50min, 60rms, 80peak usually, but is expressed as do what it takes to get it done, but it is still better than this iPod sweatshop. Most of the overtime at the Ipod sweatshop seemed voluntary and most of the volunteering was driven by the low wage (40 hrs/wk cannot pay the family’s bills even at a relativitly low standard of living), which was at the low, local minimum wage.

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Apple wants to own the word ‘Pod’ in reference to any portable electronic device. They are threatening companies who were around before the IPod came out. They may be fucked if they couldn’t get a registered trademark around their own, older name. Apple is EVIL, just like the RIAA.

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Until they start having legal home-invasions for colelctions/reposession, the best way to avoid post-judgment garnishment without giving it all away is to buy expensive toys that don’t need legal registration (computers, home theater, DVD factories, etc..), assuming you are an apartment renter and not a homeowner, otherwise they’ll probably reposess the stuff when they reposess the house unless you can move it all out pretty quickly. Also address/identity ambiguity on your credit report helps too (attempted identity theft or identity confusion with somebody with same first+last name), as long as their is no unrecognized accounts also. Private-party liens from buying stuff from family members having them let you make payments but put a lien on the title incase you wreck the car or default on the loan seem to provide some red-tape barrier protection for 4-figures collections amounts. The probably with ditching court is that if you don’t bother showing up, the plaintiff can pull complete bullshit out of their ass and they will get a default judgement no matter what the amount. Judgements clear the way to garnishments, not summonses, threat letters, or threatening phone calls from paralegals. Usually its 2-4 weeks between judgement and the first garnishment orders (wages, bank accounts, non-exempt assets like cars+houses+boats+investments+commodities). If the collections amount is under 20-50K and you rent and don’t own a car or any investments (probably 1 in 4 people in the USA), you’re not very sueable. If its more than 20-50K then you will only be able to live like an illegal immigrant – under the table work (easier in the east coast) and cash-only spending.

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Hey if the injunction looks imminent, dump the game and source onto Emule!

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I’m keeping my Wikipedia, and much non-cheat plagarism makes it past most college instructors. I’m more likely to get busted for using Wikipedia anyway by citing the source than I would for plagarizing it. Lie-credits from overlapping sources work well with all instructors that havn’t read the source themselves, even one like Ron Sarner at SUNY Tech, who is a anti-plagarism fanatic. Maybe people can make some wikipededia-proxies. Wikipedia will be banned eventually anyway, as the USA becomes more and more a facist police state.

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I don’t like deception. I agree with the article. However, propaganda can be embedded in regular TV shows, legit commercials, and legit movies, also.

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Why would I care if Tom and Jerry are smoking ciggarettes and using them to court females. This stuff was made ’60s and ’70s. Who cares. If they censor it, got get your uncensored episodes off of Emule and to hell with the regular TV.

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Bush will be determined to overthow that. He wants to be supreme dictator.

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Can you say hack job? Quick fixes fixes nothing in the long run. Wait until those recruits have to deal with the beauracracy from hell. At least FBIs too busy with terrorists will be too bothered with file sharers and warez groups (but hopefully they’ll have some time for the selling bootleggers / counterfeiters) and leave the RIAA and MPAA to their defective outsourced lawsuit compaigns.

The lawsuit campaigns work by using outsourced detectives like netsentry to spider for evidence, then the evidence, often only filename / ip address pairs, is sold to paralegal-heavy law-firm empowered collections agencies, probably for $2000 each. These cases have a high enough fear-tactic settlement ratio for this thing to be profitable for the collections agency to buy more cases from the RIAA. There are plenty of commercials on day-time TV that summer-vacation couch potato kids and the unemployed / disabled / retired would see that show companies that will buy your litigation claim and pay you a highly discounted sum up front with no obligation for victory. The main way that you actually personally be a victim of one of these collection outside a file share suit is a defaulted debt over $1000, but probably less than $10,000.

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Well any of you who have versions of documents containing some of these de-classified and then re-classified tidbits should be putting them up online and on Emule! Recompiling and re-organizing with emphasis on the re-classified bits would be nice! Lets exploit the internet to defy America Police-State becoming before it gets banned (Cuba-like because China’s method doesn’t work well)! I do have a web-rip of the Nuclear weapons FAQ. It pop up on the web and then has the life expectency of a crappy warez site (weeks to months). I’ll put it up on Emule this week.

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So much for the cease-fire. Maybe the Nukes will fly in the middle east? Probably a few big strategic ones and several dozen little tactical ones. Probably not by the ‘prophecy’ published by English.pravda.ru. Only got one day left for that. I wouldn’t mind Isreal as America’s 51st state though if America wanted to expand it might make more sense to take over Canada (Land), Mexico (Land), Peru (Oil), Venezuela (Oil), Brazil (Land, Oil), and the countries in the way first, assuming denying oil to China is not an objective in addition to hoarding/corning it, but it is.

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Hezbollah did start the war with the rockets and kidnappings. I guess he’s got his own, unrecognized by the world, country going there. He’ll probably conquer all of lebanon and then go from their. At least he ain’t got no nukes or bio-bombs yet and doesn’t have a nice bounty-fraud system like Pakistan’s to eventually be able to buy them, say, from Russia and Maybe China.

I think I would agree that talking on the cell phone while driving can be driving while tipsy or drunk (but not wasted), if the conversiation is requiring significant congnitive resources, such as debugging assistance, decision making, or an emotional arguement. I think I would support a ban of non-handfree cellphones, espcially for stick-shift drivers, and let it be an add-on charge for other stops (speeding, swerving, etc..), like how most seat-belt laws are enforced. They won’t stop you for no-seat belt, but if you’re stopped for speeding without a seat belt buckled, it’s an extra $50-100 fine on top of the speeding ticket. What’s worse than driving drunk or on a cellphone is driving while struggling to stay awake. Very bad.
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I’ve had DVDs stolen out of my checked luggage possibly by TSA. Clueless on whether it was airline baggage handlers or TSA bag searchers. The bag that the DVDs (2 cases full of 32 DVDs each; all primary movie DVDs no specials Disks) were stolen from had a TSA search notice in it. I fly Southwest. My sister worked customer support for America West and it is a frequent customer problem she had to deal with – theft out of checked baggage (baggage going underneath, in the hold).

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Asia is a rude continent! Narrow, culturally insensitive scoring parameters and undiversified testing locations in each city though.

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I would agree. Poor social interaction, poor processing of symbolic things, and sensory integration difficulties are all just symptoms of a brain-wide disorder.

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I was in boy scouts in 7th grade. At first i was in a ‘disability’ troop in port jervis but I only was a few meetings and 1 trip because of the transportation burden (it was about a 20 mile drive). Then I joined a regular troop on my own, mostly on Jamie Critelli’s influence that was local in Slate Hill. I didn’t do much though as I was more motivated to be with Jamie than anything else but I liked reading the books a bit. I doubt I would’ve been excluded from any of the functions provided that I met the prerequisites (merit badge / skill award / rank). I wasn’t very disruptive at the meetings either. Disruptive kids would get excluded from most anything, regardless of disability or the lack of.

I feel like a rebel although it is nothing now. I was old enough to comprehend the cold war pretty good though in the mid to late 80s (preteen to mid-teen). From communist state propaganda machine to a free-for-all mainstream, mid-line, and tabloid all-in-one.

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Looks like this one already got spoiled – Isreal agreed to the ceasfire and seems to be keeping it, so far.

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Never believe any ‘vision’ or ‘apporation’ unless you are sober and hopefully, somebody is seeing and interacting with it alongside you. Then at the very least you can have your best friend in the nuthouse with you, but more likely you’ll be more confident for yourself that you did not hallucinate or imagine the vision or apporation (those others may think you did), even if it is the devil.

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Hey they check their but-holes for actual anal-sexual activity. Not it only helps find the ones hiding their homosexuality, but it finds the one who don’t mind calling themselves faggots to dodge the chinese draft, which appears to be continual. I wouldn’t mind being a called a fag do dodge a draft into Iraq. There are 3 types of gays – The genuines, the high-libido bisexuals, and the disillusioned. I know one possibly genuine gay. Committed gay relationship. Don’t know if they have any oral or anal sex though. Know three kids who call themselves gay but are actually bi-sexual, because they do prefer women. But since they have to screw everyday and can’t get a woman everyday and seem unwilling to use prostitutes, they frequently masturbate each other and have oral sex. Then there are people who only think they are gay but have never done anything sexual with another person of the same sex. They may just be overly snuggly and be close friends, but no sex or hardcore pre-sexual romantic-necking. With a 7:1 to 20:1 male to female ratio in chinese cities, It is safe to assume that most chinese gays are of the ‘high-libido bisexual’ category. I wonder what happens to most of the chinese female childeren to create such a 7:1 to 20:1 male bias anyway? Abortions, abandonment, murder? Makes sense why they ban women and gays – sexual activity and excessive romance can comprimise dicsipline.

I probably don’t care about protecting sources as much as having the videos) in my hoard. So I would copy it a few times and then turn it in and do what I please with my copies. The law currently not adapted to such acts especially with my autistic-obsessive hoarder psychology. I would slip through the cracks in this case as they seemed to be looking for evidence more than containing a possibly containable leak. If I happened to not like the video though I probably wouldn’t have blogged it but I would also probably have dumped the leaked tapes, probably by putting it on top of the mailbox or where somebody can pick it up as it would be a ‘one persons trash is another’s treasure’ type of item.

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My Verizon Phone upgrade is early January of 2007. My mother recklessly runs up $5-15 every month of downloads and only remembers about a fourth of them without significant digging or research when I ask here how she ran it up. I hate Verizon Wireless’s ‘Shopping Mall’ business model that resembles CompuServe of the late ’80s and Early ’90s and I refuse to participate in it and don’t like my mother or sister being suckered into it either. I only ‘tolerate’ it because I get to abuse my bandwidth on my BroadbandAccess/NationalAccess with 24/7 Emule P2P Filesharing. If I can’t get a phone that lets me play at least no-DRM MP3s and no-DRM JPGs that originated from my computer that originated from god who knows where (most probable – Emule P2P, Web, Self-ripped CD), I will probably just get a cheap Nokia brick again (even the cheap Nokias have cameras now). Also I will still never buy an IPOD. I will only buy a hard-disk portable unit (whatever it plays or records) that supports USB OTG. Simple USB-mass storage accessibly is all I need for lower-priced solid-state devices (mostly just generic hard-disk enclosures, memory cards and thumb/pen drives)

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Proxydom.com or FireWallDown.com will get you in. There are hundreds of proxies owned by a few dozen companies/people, all linked together through proxy topsites (a whole array of buttons below the search box that is at least 2/3 links to topsites). You can’t login through the web proxies but you’ll at least be able to view profiles.

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Copy my damned hard drive within the time it takes to process everything else and I’d probably wouldn’t care. I Share it up on emule and have other copies. No containment can occur. But if you ain’t got no money, then you do prefer them to copy rather than seize. If you really need to cover up evidence and did it preemptively, and relatively full hard disk and a regularly scheduled defrag can be almost as good as a disk wiper (better on areas with high-turnover). Plus you keep your hard drive going fast . Wipe-disk / disk-defragging works on seizure/lab forensics too (a forensics-grade image that is just about as good as having the actual HD – might be better because they can copy that image multiple-fold and try to crack passwords especially for NTFS encrypted files). Remember that portable forensic hard disk copiers do a low-level read-only copy into a forensic image-file, and can do it by USB-booting into the forensic copier. If you disabled USB booting and passworded your BIOS you can probably expect a seizure instead whether it is a border inspection or a house/office search warrant, and it can take months for you to get your machine back if you get it back at all because they have beauracracy and also assume that you probably have organized crime, terrorist, or foreign-goverment backing of funds.

I guess Ladonia is a micro-state like the Vatican and that the internet is totally illegal in their territory. I wouldn’t want to blow them up or fabricate terrorism over it. I would support the citizens rebelling against the law by disregarding it and getting internet anyway and then only get violent only to defend against violent enforcement of the stupid anti-internet law.

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China is number two. Doesn’t adjust or reflect any zombienet factors. Says Russia is #1 for zombienet mob operations, which I would agree with. Looks like Asia has significant minority sources to be number one, but I also think that its not just oriental asia and southeast asia and includes Russia, India, and the middle east. I wouldn’t doubt that america leads for classic non-botnet spamming (individuals, small-businesses on diy systems), while western europe leads for botnet-originated spam.

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Hey they do this all over central and south america too. Kidnap and possibly beat or torture you and your family. I got a really nasty torture video from China that I downloaded from Emule. They were puting a needle through somebody’s skull on the side about a few inches from the eye and out the front the eye. Another scene where they were cutting up a woman and making her husband watch. ED2K Link to video.

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Hey that makes China’s firewall easy to hack around. I hope to see more Chinese on Emule! Though most of the chinese on emule are probably already using these hacks if there is any port blocking. If China blocks ports on international connections like my company does out of the office, how does one hack around that? Putting Emule onto port 80 only makes only a small few servers and less than 1% of clients connectable. China should probably do that. AES encryption would probably bypass that so BitTorrent / Azuerous would work at level 2 or higher encryption.

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Guess they didn’t want the sick and dying to be in the media spotlight. Columbia is still far worse when it comes to selective enforcement of tyrannical law, but China’s got the press and I hate China’s CommyGov too. I would love to see a democratic China culturally and economically conquer the world though.

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Some more various articles on Chinese Tyranny

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This is my favorite kind of leak!!!! Bush is whining like a stupid and spoiled child (video in ‘Surveillance Disclosure Denounced’ article) that aspires to be totalitarian dictator of the world! Might mean the end of freedom of press in this country, especially with the world ‘treason’ being flown around. The 4th amendment is already mostly annulled.

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P2PNet’s crimes are nothing compared to what other bloggers have done. The Forbes article linked above has tips on fighting back, which includes lawsuits.

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This article gives the view on both sides on Net Neutrality. I prefer Net Neutrality but I don’t want any laws that result on HFOG on people or companies unless it is to prevent deception or exploitation. Plus I would pay a premium for the right to abuse. $1/Gig is too much. But 0.10 – 0.20 per gig is reasonable (considering that there will still be fixed service charges). A 100% utilized T1 is about 950 gigabytes per month and you can get one for $350 to $400 per month. .025 per gigabyte on 950GB is $237.50. A SpeakEasy (Open-Policy DSL ISP) DSL line at 1536/768 is $80/month. 0.25 per gigabyte is $178 about. 0.10 per gigabyte would be 71.25 with 100% utilization on speakeasy. DSL isn’t full-duplex like a T1 though so you’d get about half that bandwidth utilization maximum with Emule (355 gigabytes per month) so it would be about $89/month at $0.25 per gigabyte of transfer, and $71/mo at $0.20 per gig. My web hosting account is $13/mo and I get 200GB of transfer!!! Great for file hosting. $0.065 per gigabyte! Only problem is that I am currently only using 1.5GB/per month and I would probably get shut down if I consistantly went over 100GB if it were mostly file and image hosting (only about 1/3 of my bandwidth usage is blog-related).

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France, Belgium, and Italy have pirate parties now… That makes 5 countries having ‘pirate’ political parties that want to abolish patents and nerf copyright.

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Matches my beliefs but I think instead of ‘public domain’ after registration expiration, it should be ‘copylefted’ for the current lifetime+ terms (Lifetime+70 in the USA, Lifetime+50 in Canada, 50 or 100 years total in other countries). If the John Hurt guy at The HTML Bible – Speaking Bible – Speed Bible was as evil as the RIAA, he could make proprietary packages out of the public domain bible texts, charge money for, deny permission to copy, and go sue people over infringement if he so wished. He would just have difficulty suing if people extracted only the strictly public domain text out of the proprietary packages. Fortunatly though, he is NOT evil and gives away the public domain portions for free (though he does’t have too – its not required by law if its public domain!) and the stuff he authored is being sold at very reasonable prices and probably also lossy shipping rates ($14.95 for ‘everything’ CD + $2.00 domestic shipping + $5.00 international shipping).

Copyleft protects against such ‘true intellectual property theft’ and while it doesn’t prohibit copying or distribution, it still requires credit/aknowledgement of the author and prevents plagarism, claiming as own work, DRMing, and proprietarization of the work itself and deriviative works.

So it becomes:

I would edit “a five-year term, renewable by the creators or their heirs (not previous copyright holders)” to “a five-year term, renewable by the creators or their heirs (not 2nd-hand or beyond owners incase the copyright is sold)

I Would also Edit “from the date of first publication for published works, or from the death of the creator for unpublished works.” to “from the date of first publication marked on published works, from the date of publication marked on the registration form, or from the date of the copyright registration, whichever of the three is earliest”

You can get links to warez sites on all search engines in america! Just a jurisdiction exploit to get rich on lawsuits and spread fear and dread of the allmighty and all-powerful RIAA that you much bow-down for your exclusive (wannabe) source of all your musical entertainment.

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So much bureaucracy that an FBI agent is worshiped rather than arrested by his immediate and semi-immediate peers for cracking classified systems because he shares the bounties of his hacks to help them get around the 9 layers of bureaucratic hell.

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So many people yes their way through WGA installation (IE mode, people with Firefox as their default browser get it served up as an automatic update) are suckers for this worm, and microsoft’s dreams of power and empire…

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Microsoft could care less if they could get away with it. They have no problem letting 20% of the false-positives (piracy) re-buy windows again for $100-200.

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Wonder if they are going to go after house-internet-cafes like they do with house-churches?? Whats china to do when broadband becomes as accessible as it does in america? You cannot control the internet. The internet is freedom. If you don’t want freedom, you have to supress and ban it, like Cuba. People are going to get their porn, democracy, and bibles anyway if they got internet.

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Thats the way to do it… Now make easy to use script-kiddy hacker tools so the average joe-smoe can hack around Commy-China’s tyranny. Then only a DMCA-like law enforced via martial law and on-the spot executions that sometimes makes the front page of ogrish.com would be the only way they could even try to control the internet without banning it (and if they ban it, people will get it anyway without tank-shock drag-out-the-door execution martial law)

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Ah, buggy censorship software. It was buggy in the opposite polarity too – failing to censor what was supposed to be censored. I wonder what would happen if 1000 people got into the commy-party hall with pro-democracy signs? Maybe the most graphic and bloody torturous mass-execution in history??

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RIAA so evil and tyrannical with copyright that they mis-target a departmental university server as hosting all kinds of mp3z? They are probably sending cease and disists using exclusively the results of an automated spider. Further action may not be soley on automated spiders but it may… It also may mean that if you got warez on your site and you have control over the internet connection, ProtoWall may keep the RIAA’s spidey’s out. You’d probably want ProtoWall anyway even you don’t have any cool music-warez as demonstrated in these articles. Blocklist Manger will help streamline and automate the updating of the dozen or two blocklists with over 100,000 block-entries. The only problem with protowall is that I can’t get it to work on eithe rof my machines.. The protowall service crashes on startup even on a fresh install and administrator priviledges! But I am using a cellphone modem internet connection also (goes through dial-up networking)

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Microsoft has the cash flow and/or cash borrowing capability to pay of such fines? I think they should just not pay the fines. Then it’ll be fun to see SWAT in the European MS headquarters kicking out all the employees and siezing the place. Then everybody can get their windoze from Emule and then are gradually forced to switch to open-source Linux (which will never be warez because its legal to pirate it).

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Propagandic education, propaganda powered volunteer spy-recruitment, price-fixing, bribery. RIAA seems worse… Corporate hitlers…

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Looks like the P2PNet Blogsuit is paranoia and political driven…. Looks like it fits the Sharman Nikki Bitch’s anxiety problems pretty well…

Abuse of power. Democracy and freedom is just a 20th century peak of a golden age of human civilization. The internet is its last major thread of freedom that only global disaster and the antichrist can break.

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Nearly out of business. Saved and kept in business by greedy lawsuit lawyers drooling over the sweedish state for their 25-35% contingency cut.

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P2P File Sharing is staying until the entire internet is globally nationalized and subsquently controlled, probably by the AntiChrist. Otherwise the death or near-death of P2P sites are nothing more than publicity garnishing matyres.

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Another article about hte Pirate Party raid and the spawning of the Pirate Party

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I don’t use YouTube or Google Video because I can’t download. I like

Completely agree. Filesharing hurts bootleggers/counterfeiters 3 times more than the corporate copyright holders and that the bootleggers/counterfeiters hurt sales 4 times worse than filesharers (lost sale average per pirated product offering per sale or download). Also private warez groups affect al-qeida terreros by out-hacking them to stolen corporate disk space and bandwidth.

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A new kind of profiteering piracy. Korean P2P providers charge money for downloads without any royalties. A user paying for a pirated good or download is far less likely to buy a legit version than one who downloads it for free.

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I think people should be educated on copyrights. Most are still outdated though, mostly involving plagarism and bootleg/counterfeiting (piracy for money). I think its ok for itellectual property to be in scouts, but it shouldn’t dominate. One-day lesson, backwater merit badge is fine. You can get merit badges for many unusual academic things. I don’t like that the RIAA/MPAA is at the helm at most of these copyright / intellectual properties education campaigns though. They emphasize hoarding, secrecy, power, control, and money money money. Copyleft gives freedom but protects against proprietarization (hoarding and secrecy for power, control, and profit), outright theft (claiming as own work), and plagarism.

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Found a new link on the USA Pirate Party. Reposted all the pirate party links. I hope the content on the P2P networks can become at least 50% legal by more people copylefting instead of copyrighting before the antichrist comes and shuts out freedom alltogether (I would think it would be after ameteor or comet impact and/or eruption of yellowstone possibly as a chain-reaction from an impact or nuclear detonation or just on its own).

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Need More! Need More like you!

Edit 7/28/2006: Bulleted the links

MoveOn Wants to save PBS

I don’t support this.

If you want to save PBS, DONATE TO IT!!. Companies can run or run more ads Start Donating or increaseing Donations enough for all the supporters to cover the drop in federal funding (or more)! Its the difference between ‘libertarian socialism’ or people-centric, goverment-free socialism (supported by donations rather than taxes or sales revenue) and regular, goverment-centric socialism of the pure left-wing.

Also I don’t see any paypal donate buttons (or anything else equally easy) on the PBS WebSite. If you don’t care to support actively through donations even with the ease of payapl (at least for the donator; donatee may be a different story) then why would you want to pay taxes for it? If you are middle class or better and don’t care give even $5-20 once a year, then you probably won’t be sweatting over PBS dissapearing at all especially after 6-12 months.

Pirate Party USA mentioned at Pirate Party Sweden
The Pirate Party of the United States

I think I will update my voter registration for the American Pirate party if they can get more organized, back up their data, and try to get hacked less. I may not completly agree with Swedish Pirate Party’s beliefs (maybe about 75%), but my beliefs are closer to what the Pirate Party believes than to whats in the law now.

Iran given “weeks” to mull atomic offer

‘Mild enrichment’? Looks like a hybrid light/heavy water ‘Advanced CANDU‘ reactor. India as mutated the CANDU design for nuke-bomb fuel though. So people think the same of Iran and are really scared over it (+Power +Oil -Oil4China). If I were Iran’s dictator and was really going for power I would tell the world to fuck off, but at the same time avoid the tempation to repeat what India did becuase of my bad rep. The incentive package supposedly includes some free light-water reactors. Who’s going to fuel them? As far as I know, light-water reactors require a lot of enrichment. I’d want independence for energy, not being stuck paying bills, navigation red tape, and kissing ass / being pupeteered for Importing enriched Uranium. There’s a possiblity of ‘Fourth Generation’ Reactors but I doubt it as the deal says ‘light water reactors’ and these GenIV reactors are not water-cooled or moderated at all. I say ‘refuse and resist’ for Iran and Hope that they aren’t really building nuke bombs. What about North Korea anyway??? No Oil? They’re enriching for nukes and flying fledgling ICBMs???

Pirate Party WikiPedia Entry
Pirate Party Official Site – English

I don’t completly agree with this party’s copyright beliefs. I like the GNU GPL and I rather have it that way have everything public domain. I would rather have default copyright protection reduced to copyleft like the GNU General Public License (Version 3 Draft), the Free Art License, Design Science License, or the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (Legal Code). The main thing I would want to change in these licenses is to also eliminate direct profitable sales off of the copies – selling a CD at or near cost of a retail game or more, requiring paid membership, or requiring paid admission beyond covering direct distribution or performance costs, but still allow other forms of commercial use such as use in advertising, catalogs, shopping venues, or product presentation, as long as it is easy to get to the source or original (if no source) – software sources, .psd file with all the layers and stuff, photography full-res original, autocad file, db-bak of source data etc…).

I would like it so that you can’t enforce a more restrictive license without a copyright office registration. I also think think the US goverment works should be under the same GPL-like copyleft license for default copyright. I also want patents, especially software patents banned. Only copyrights. If you need to make a living, be prompt and pay the $50 to 100 to register a copyright with a stock license (plus laywer fees if you want a custom license), otherwise it is gaurenteed freedom to acquire, copy, and modify copyleft. An entire project per registration such as a website and all of its images and subcompoents should be ok to control HFoG / red-tape as long as it is an easy to use access point such as a url or service account ID.

I think people who author stuff not-for-profit (kids, teenagers, retired people, hobbyists, and especially christians and other generous religions and charities) should be encouraged to share away with filesharing networks, websites, and automated DVD factories. There are many non-profit authors who go ‘mine mine mine’, ‘don’t rip’ and all that. I don’t like overt plagerism (outright claiming as own work) but i can generally tolerate passive plagerism (no credit) but do like credit and copyleft does cover that. I have no idea why people who do non-profit must have the only copy and distribution channel for their easy to copy stuff, and some of these sites dont even have ads!

For copyright terms I agree to 5 or 10 years similar to the pirate party but it should be renewable, only by the original copyright holder for full-on copyright protection for proprietary or commercial product restrictions.? Default un-registered copyleft-level protection should be the current 50 years, 100 years, 70 years after death, or whatever long duration currently exists for a given country (70yrs after death for USA).? If you let a registered copyright expire, your enforcability should revert back to the default copyleft-like provisitions, with maybe a 90-day grace-period for late renewal, but after that you can’t renew after expiration.

The Pirate Bay interview
Pirate Bay raid hits other sites
United States Pressured Pirate Bay Closure
ThePirateBay Strikes Back

Just use Emule. Don’t need an indexing site. Make a BitTorrent client that can search for files within a tracker (makes the tracker the equivilant of an limited-scope ED2K server with the addition of traffic management). I hate porn and reckless gambling but don’t think it should be banned. I hate HFOG (heavy foot of goverment) more.

I’m sure the next P2P breakthrough will have the best of Emule and BitTorrent at the same time. Smaller more granular servers like BT trackers (An ED2K server that works like a private BT tracker and indexes just a few files and cannot be seeded externally), big servers like Lugdunum EServer, P2P indexing like KAD, and pure P2P source exchange all at the same time. I think traffic management should be left to the clients. No need to obother with protocol encryption. ISPs will only switch their traffic shaping to ‘everything, including unnkowns, except this and this protocol’

I hope the PirateBay resists their opression, though I think they should remove the crinimal and piracy flavors from their branding and appearance. Freedom of information and creativity is much better.

I don’t think copyright piracy should be glorified as sailing ship pirates. Maybe keep the skull and crossbones because it rubs wrong with the law, but I think it should be portrayed against a factory or something that builds rather than a sailing warship or other military weapon that destroys. And do eliminate the skull and crossbones if you are pushing sharing of legal material or encouraging authors to offer things up for free (copyleft preferred).

And with the cops being indiscriminate with seizing everything in the datacenter, well I hope the other sites retaliate good. The search and seizure at Steve Jackson Games was still worse. And I’m pretty sure that both the suspects and non-suspects will either not get their stuff back at all or get only some of it back after a lot of red tape. Also with Steve Jackson Games their multiple search warrants that included personal homes. So you will need to put backups in many unusual locations, including Emule itself. A well spread file on Emule will defeat any array of search warrants, even of the FBI, KGB, and Secret Service, or Fedieyan Sadamm who don’t need or use warrants!.

Edit 7/11/2006: Fixed the Steve Jackson Games Secret Service link