Totally False Propaganda About File Sharing Being Given To Students As Educational Material
from the will-the-next-pamphlet-be-about-lying-to-students? dept
It's no secret that both the MPAA and the RIAA have created so-called "educational campaigns" for students about copyright. These educational programs are incredibly one-sided, of course, and it's amazing that many schools actually allow this sort of corporate propaganda to masquerade as educational material. Even more problematic is when an entirely separate organization, supposedly offering a non-biased educational campaign, starts parroting the propaganda. The nonprofit National Center for State Courts, whose charter apparently is as an "organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to court systems in the United States," has done just that. As part of that, it created a set of "graphic novels" (more like a pamphlets) designed to teach students how the court system works. Except the first such graphic novel actually teaches a bunch of RIAA propaganda about file sharing that is mostly flat-out false.Among the things that aren't true is a claim that file sharing is a city level crime that will get you arrested by the local cops, and that you can face a 2 year jail sentence and a criminal record for downloading songs. You would think that a pamphlet designed to teach kids how the courts would work would actually get the legal issues correct. But, instead, it's just a bunch of propaganda that is completely incorrect about the law.
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propaganda is part of college life
that's what college is for: getting drunk, finding outif you are a lesbian, and being exposed to people's propaganda.
the MAFIAA are just getting in on the act. if anything it opens the door for the pirate party to hand out it's own propaganda.
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How DL torrents 101
2- Always make sure you are behind a password protected router preferably wired.
3- Setup your torrent client and under the prefs. force stealth mode.
4 - Change your router dns settings to use open dns, with the following dns servers addresses:
208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
5- resart the router to ensure new settings are in place
6 - Go to www.thepiratebay.org, and browse the category of DL you desire.
7 - Click the seed tab twice to ensure the DL's with the most seeds are on the top.
8 - Scroll and DL torrents to your hearts content.
9 - Quit your browser (i like firefox) and open your torrent client.
10- drag your torrent files over the client window and it will ask where to put the DL. I use an external HD, actually many now since I have so many DL's.
11- That is the end of today's lesson. There will be a POT quiz tomorrow.
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they are not your ISP and won't be co-erced into monkeying with your DNS resolution. as dan kaminsky taught us, if you can trust DNS, you can't trust ssl, ssh, certificates, basically the entire network.
the only thing missing from the lesson is using (and updating!!!) peer guardian. forced stealth is nice, but seeing the blocked connections from media sentry and their ilk is even better.
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If you can't trust your ISP to not screw with your DNS, using OpenDNS (or trying to) is useless. Anyone who can see a DNS query packet can simply respond to it as if they were the target: no port or query number guessing necessary. It has been rumored that some ISP's are hijacking all outbound UDP port 53 packets from their customers, readdressing them to their own nameservers as a way to keep their typosquatting profitable.
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2. place a good strong kick in the .....
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Im Troy McClure . . . .
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ZeTron
But luckily I was caught. I say luckily because I don’t want to be someone who harms the music industry.
I thought illegal downloading and file swapping was a victimless crime.
I was wrong...
THE END
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I got this mail y'day
FU!!
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STUCK
It wouldn't let me go to the second question.
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Grammar 101
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straight out from the scifi books
brainwash and re-educate your potential customers into accept your out dated model.
sounds rather familiar.
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D.A.R.E
And we will always get these programs as long as education and state are one.
Schools are the new churches... And we are required by law, at least in Texas, to send kids to these places?
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I can see some advantages to home schooling.
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when did you figure that out?
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And by the way, the shift key on your keyboard seems to be broken.
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you just have to have them in *some sort* of schooling, doesnt have to be state sponsered
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Hrm
So, what else is new?
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Downloading illegally
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Depressing
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Those are almost all for actually *selling* copyrighted material, not for file sharing.
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California's statute is interesting (Section 653aa) because of a twist it contains. Generally, it requires a file sharer to provide an email address that can be read at the time of download and that identitifies the location of the file sharer.
Doubtless, "Hollywood" was behind its enactment, and that it is difficult to apply given what one can do with email addresses. However, if an address is not provided and "Hollywood" still finds you, the authority of the state can also be invoked to place a file sharer in even hotter "hot water".
The necessary elements of a particular crime vary from state to state, so what is criminal conduct in one may not be in another. The important point to note, however, is that file sharing is not necessarily just a matter of federal law.
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I do have to note that I have not made a comprehensive search of the laws of all states, commonwealths and territories of the United States. I will leave that to be performed at some future date by an academic who needs to publish something to add to his/her CV. I do believe, however, that the major lobbying groups for the "entertainment content industries" do have as one of their goals the lobbying of state legislatures to add matters such as unauthorized file sharing to the extensive laundry list of criminal conduct.
Merely as an aside, patent infringement is not a criminal act under federal law. Given how the federal courts have interpreted the issue of "federal preemption", I would not be surprised to see at some time in the future patent lobbying groups to urge such conduct be subject to criminal sanctions under state law.
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Knock-off Nigel
"He's the type of man who does things on the cheap, he gave his girlfriend a watch he found in the street. He buys knock-off DVDs, he'd rob his on gran, he scrounges his drinks what a grubby little man. He's a knock-off Nigel, he's a knoc-off nigel..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TbqBPmInjQ
You just have to chortle when you watch it, it really is quite good.
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@I got this mail y'day (#7)
If they are logging the quiz it will skew the results.
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"studens"
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Get it right
SSL and SSH exist specifically to deal with UNTRUSTED network infrastructure, including hijacked DNS.
Unless you deliberately bypass their protections (i.e. ignoring warnings about invalid certificates or unknown key fingerprints), you absolutely do not need to trust DNS to trust SSL and SSH.
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Re: Get it right
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Just wow...
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Password Protected Router
Obviously "admin" is an awful choice of password, but I've always heard that for WEP/WPA that leaving them off is a better choice because it is a possibility that someone hacks your network and then illegally downloads something. If it's encrypted, then you've got a lot harder case proving that it wasn't you.
The same goes if you're trying to get off the hook yourself - if it's unencrypted, it could've been anybody.
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They charge for this crap?
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The B Story
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phail
if the defendants don't fight, it makes it tooo easy for the RIAA/MPAA to win their case by their own cheating ways
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stealing
Copyright law exists to produce a market for copies: books, and recordings of various sorts: music, video, computer programs, and computer games.
The market has bee protected on purpose in order to encourage development and creativity in these areas.
Today there is a massive cry for a stampede to trample the copyright law into the dust.
an occasional illicit copy of a song or track here and there won't have much affect on the market, overall. But left un-checked, the massive distribution of books, games, audio and video files over the computer net will change the overall market for these items from a basically corporate controlled environment to a freelance paradigm.
there is no reason the freelance paradigm cannot co-exist with the corporate one. we are doing that now in the open-source software area. there is no reason that music and video cannot do the same
but whether to publish freelance or to publish commercially is properly left to the creative artists.
subscribers should respect their decisions
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I wonder why it is that MM posts replies when he believes that a commenter is wrong, but stops altogether when a commenter demonstrates otherwise?
Is it really that hard to admit that at least some portions of his posts may be incorrect? It is not as if the commenter is trying to get him to say "uncle".
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I'm more than willing to admit when I am wrong. I'm not engaging in the comments as much this week because I'm traveling.
I also haven't had a chance to look at the details of what you pointed to for the same reason.
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