first off, since when do people actually care about what happens via email?
crazy email from some fool on the internet is nothing to get worked up about. same with forum comments. if someone sends you something incendiary, just forward it to a couple of friends and have a good laugh, or post it to the web where other people can have a good laugh at it, or just delete it. no good will come from caring what people say electronically.
people on the internet aren't real. they don't have actual feelings that count for anything. honestly, if you show an ounce of human emotion on the internet you are begging for hassle and torment.
and for the jackass that sent professor alqaeda the email, haven't you heard of anonymous remailers?
you wouldn't make a crank phone call from your house (that's what burners and unsecured PBX's are for) so why would you send an email from a location that can be traced back you?
hell yeah. that's how the post intellectual property world works: it's ok if your stuff gets stolen, because you can just steal it back, along with everything else that belongs to your competitors.
your book gets made into a movie? fine, make your own movie from someone else's book. or write a new book that is a sequel to the movie. your song get sampled/remixed? make a hundred covers of other people's songs.
you can save a ton on research and development and legal protectionism, by just making marginal improvements on what's already out there. you can take small risks (selling marginally improved goods) and get small rewards, or you can take a big risk (invest in the development of something completely new) and get a big reward by having a jump on your competition. that advantage won't last though, cuz someone's gonna steal your idea.
wireless providers *could* be a source of competition, if they were spun off from their wire line providing overlords (verizon and at&t). a evdo/3g/edge router is called a stompbox, you can buy them online. all you need to do is get the wireless companies to market their services as competitive replacements for DSL and cable, which means raising the caps and upping the speed. using the now unoccupied 700mhz spectrum could help these efforts significantly.
municipal wifi and fiber rollouts could also be a source of competition, if the cable and phone companies would stop fighting their deployments at every turn.
floundering technologies like BPL and wimax could work if they were invested in and marketed properly.
the truth is that video and voice are going to "over IP" and the only service consumers will want is internet access. when that happens, cable, satellite, and telephone companies will be in direct competition, offering comparative products.
this is why the cable and phone companies are doing everything in their power to slow down their network upgrades and lying about the coming bandwidth crisis.
gamers and pirates are both young internet savvy people, and at the end of the day, it's being young and using the internet that is destroying movies, television, newspaper, music, radio... you know, america.
so you crazy kids with your intenets and xbox hulus! get off my lawn and stop using the intertubes! get a haircut and buy a newspaper and some CDs already!
"It is said that what is called the Spirit of an Age is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. In the same way, a single year does not have just spring or summer. A single day, too, is the same. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation."
At some point, there will no longer be a dollar to spend, not just to fight piracy but to create new content. Piracy advocates have to look past the ends of their noses to realize where this goes in the end.
yeah. there isn't any new content. nothing on youtube, nothing on myspace, no artists burning up twitter, no new shows. there aren't kids on the streets of london and kingston grinding out records like there was money in it. i didn't just pay $30 to go to ninja2009 and stand in the rain. i'm not going to vegas in august to sell CD's (yes, physical plastic CD's) for my favorite artist at a booth when he releases his new album at defcon. i won't volunteer to do this in exchange for a free CD and the opportunity to hang out with him.
get a clue. there is more new content out there now than ever before. it barely costs anything to make content now once you step out of the "industry".
No new money = no new big artist music.
i don't care about big artist music. in time no one else will either. the back catalogs are already available online for free so all that's left to profit from is new, independent music that costs little to make. big ticket artists with universal appeal will just get universally downloaded. they're a waste of money.
the world changed. the music industry was mortally wounded 10 years ago and we are all just waiting for the corpse to bleed out. the same is now or will soon be true of newspaper, film, and television.
The point isn't to win - the point is to make it hard enough,risky enough, or annoying enough to file share that the vast majority of users won't bother.
all it does is get easier. public trackers like TPB are easier to use than google. clients like utorrent are way easier to use than napster was. terabyte USB hard drives make trading whole collections a breeze. bits are never going to be harder to copy than they are right now, and with every bit copied the whole process just gets easier.
You will never stop it 100%, but if you take it from the current levels where some reports suggest 19 out of 20 songs are downloaded illegally and move that to 4 or 5 out of 20, that a is a huge difference for the music industry, and a huge difference in the public's comportment.
that might have been the case when it was just a bunch of broke ass college students trading top 40 tracks. but it's quickly becoming a political movement. like the hacker crackdown in the 90's and the subsequent free kevin movement, file sharing has taken on a political and philosophical tone that pulls in more and more people every day. file sharing is a youth movement. the pirate bay trial is galvanizing young people against media companies on a scale that makes the free kevin movement look like a blip on the radar. file sharing is quickly becoming how a generation defines itself.
these numbers just aren't sustainable. every dollar spent fighting piracy is a dollar wasted. as file sharing becomes more politicized, it gets worse. that dollar is not just wasted, it becomes a dollar invested in your bad image and disappointed customers. the content industry is not just wasting money, it is donating money to finance its own decline. the only weapon that media companies have in this fight is money. their enemies are using time and talent. one resource is finite and one is infinite.
Say what you will, but something akin to a POTS is not a bad thing for anyone at any age. In fact, I keep a POTS on hand in my emergency kit should storms descend upon Florida as was the case 4 years ago. Power was lost...so no cordless phones would work. Cell towers were damaged...so no cell service. What did work? That silly dinosaur known as a POTS.
the tone on the jitterbug is a form of comfort tone and not an actual dialtone. it's still a cellular phone with all of the zombie apocalypse vulnerabilities associated with cellular phones.
that said, i too am sort of a fan of oldschool phone gear. i just finished building a beige box and can't wait to clip into something :-)
Download, then extract, and hope it's the episode? I'll pass on chance.
it was like that 5 years ago, but the scene is way different now. bit torrent is a meritocracy. the good stuff gets seeded and the bad stuff dies on the vine.
pick a tracker that specializes in tv (like EZTV) and check it a few hours after the show aired on TV.
i do this, plus trade stuff with friends via USB hard drives.
just use really long passwords. they are easy to remember and nearly impossible to guess or crack.
a 32 character password that's all lowercase takes waaaay longer to guess/crack than an 8 character password composed of upper/lowercase characters, numbers, and symbols.
the problem of course is that many systems have a maximum length for passwords.
the best recommendation that i have heard is to take a line from a favorite song or quote from a favorite novel and switch out one word, or flip a pair of words, for example:
it was the best of times, it was the burp of times
it best the was of times, it was the worst of times
it was the best of worst, it was the times of times
was it the best of times, was it the worst of times
Even if 0.0005% of all downloaders / freeloaders would have bought the product, there is harm. The reality is that there is a lack of evidence that shows that there is no harm. Heck, Mike, you own numbers on conversion from free downloaders to buys the other day indicates that some of the people would be buyers.
the only way a buyer becomes a buyer is by buying. giving consumers a reason to buy creates more buyers.
there is no way to prove that a download is a lost sale. there is a way to prove that a download is a gained sale, because many artists give away free downloads and then see their sales increase. you can poll buyers and see if they downloaded something prior to the sale.
ha ha, someone from the music industry talking about morality. did he say that before or after snorting cocaine off the ass of a 14 year old hooker?
i love the moral argument. i love it because it is so irrelevant. it doesn't matter if piracy is right or wrong because it cannot be stopped.
personally, i don't think it's right that animals eat the smaller weaker animals (humans included), but it doesn't matter because there is nothing i can do to stop it.
so so rail away at piracy. enlist everyone who will listen to you to help you fight it. it won't make a single ounce of difference because piracy cannot be stopped.
On that basis, Mike's "free summit" is collusion by those who want to push free. Every industry convention, meeting, get together, or "where is our industry going" round table is collusion.
col⋅lude
/kəˈlud/[kuh-lood]
–verb (used without object), -lud⋅ed, -lud⋅ing.
1. to act together through a secret understanding, esp. with evil or harmful intent.
meeting in secret to discuss price fixing... sounds like collusion to me.
All that had to happen was some administrator - who never used a computer before Windows (which always baffles me) let alone using Linux command prompts now - saw him at some point typing into a terminal screen.
the way that piracy works is thus: first you come up with a revolutionary way of doing something (the player piano), then the established industry opposes it (Tivo, VHS tapes), then a blanket licensing deal is agreed upon (radio) and then new industries grow into large established ones (hollywood), and they shift focus from innovation (the sony walkman) to protectionism (sony rootkits).
Heck, if your opinion of Cuomo is that low and HE can figure out they are hookers, don't you think the very smart people at CL could figure it out too?
then why don't the cops just contact the posters via their ads, arrange a meet, and go arrest them?
the MPAA goons use public torrent trackers to gather info on potential infringers, so why can't the cops just use CL to collect info on potential criminals?
criminality of any kind is always about low hanging fruit. criminals flock to easy solutions. this is why credit carder stings work, and why you shouldn't shut down craigslist ads but use them as a tool instead.
you're neglecting the money that is saved by not having to create massive amounts of overhead trying to keep people from copying and distributing the music themselves, the money that is save on advertising (word of mouth is still king in many music circles), and the savings reduced for managerial staff that oversees all of the above.
let's not forget the free market research data. if people are coming to your website to download your stuff, you get to see where they are located, what site they came to you from, and if you do it right, what promotional campaign referred them.
you can also use torrent trackers to collect data on who is downloading/commenting on your stuff. trackers and bit torrent are way cheaper than hosting your own site for downloads.
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email is serious business
first off, since when do people actually care about what happens via email?
crazy email from some fool on the internet is nothing to get worked up about. same with forum comments. if someone sends you something incendiary, just forward it to a couple of friends and have a good laugh, or post it to the web where other people can have a good laugh at it, or just delete it. no good will come from caring what people say electronically.
people on the internet aren't real. they don't have actual feelings that count for anything. honestly, if you show an ounce of human emotion on the internet you are begging for hassle and torment.
and for the jackass that sent professor alqaeda the email, haven't you heard of anonymous remailers?
you wouldn't make a crank phone call from your house (that's what burners and unsecured PBX's are for) so why would you send an email from a location that can be traced back you?
On the post: Popular Band Claims Music Is Better Because Of Piracy
Re:
hell yeah. that's how the post intellectual property world works: it's ok if your stuff gets stolen, because you can just steal it back, along with everything else that belongs to your competitors.
your book gets made into a movie? fine, make your own movie from someone else's book. or write a new book that is a sequel to the movie. your song get sampled/remixed? make a hundred covers of other people's songs.
you can save a ton on research and development and legal protectionism, by just making marginal improvements on what's already out there. you can take small risks (selling marginally improved goods) and get small rewards, or you can take a big risk (invest in the development of something completely new) and get a big reward by having a jump on your competition. that advantage won't last though, cuz someone's gonna steal your idea.
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three sources of competition:
municipal wifi and fiber rollouts could also be a source of competition, if the cable and phone companies would stop fighting their deployments at every turn.
floundering technologies like BPL and wimax could work if they were invested in and marketed properly.
the truth is that video and voice are going to "over IP" and the only service consumers will want is internet access. when that happens, cable, satellite, and telephone companies will be in direct competition, offering comparative products.
this is why the cable and phone companies are doing everything in their power to slow down their network upgrades and lying about the coming bandwidth crisis.
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gamers... pirates... it's all the same
so you crazy kids with your intenets and xbox hulus! get off my lawn and stop using the intertubes! get a haircut and buy a newspaper and some CDs already!
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-- Hagukare
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Re:
everyone on the internet is 50 year old fat guy named morty. especially women.
On the post: UK ISP Boss: 'The Pirates Will Always Win'
Re: Re: Re:
yeah. there isn't any new content. nothing on youtube, nothing on myspace, no artists burning up twitter, no new shows. there aren't kids on the streets of london and kingston grinding out records like there was money in it. i didn't just pay $30 to go to ninja2009 and stand in the rain. i'm not going to vegas in august to sell CD's (yes, physical plastic CD's) for my favorite artist at a booth when he releases his new album at defcon. i won't volunteer to do this in exchange for a free CD and the opportunity to hang out with him.
get a clue. there is more new content out there now than ever before. it barely costs anything to make content now once you step out of the "industry".
No new money = no new big artist music.
i don't care about big artist music. in time no one else will either. the back catalogs are already available online for free so all that's left to profit from is new, independent music that costs little to make. big ticket artists with universal appeal will just get universally downloaded. they're a waste of money.
the world changed. the music industry was mortally wounded 10 years ago and we are all just waiting for the corpse to bleed out. the same is now or will soon be true of newspaper, film, and television.
On the post: UK ISP Boss: 'The Pirates Will Always Win'
Re:
all it does is get easier. public trackers like TPB are easier to use than google. clients like utorrent are way easier to use than napster was. terabyte USB hard drives make trading whole collections a breeze. bits are never going to be harder to copy than they are right now, and with every bit copied the whole process just gets easier.
You will never stop it 100%, but if you take it from the current levels where some reports suggest 19 out of 20 songs are downloaded illegally and move that to 4 or 5 out of 20, that a is a huge difference for the music industry, and a huge difference in the public's comportment.
that might have been the case when it was just a bunch of broke ass college students trading top 40 tracks. but it's quickly becoming a political movement. like the hacker crackdown in the 90's and the subsequent free kevin movement, file sharing has taken on a political and philosophical tone that pulls in more and more people every day. file sharing is a youth movement. the pirate bay trial is galvanizing young people against media companies on a scale that makes the free kevin movement look like a blip on the radar. file sharing is quickly becoming how a generation defines itself.
these numbers just aren't sustainable. every dollar spent fighting piracy is a dollar wasted. as file sharing becomes more politicized, it gets worse. that dollar is not just wasted, it becomes a dollar invested in your bad image and disappointed customers. the content industry is not just wasting money, it is donating money to finance its own decline. the only weapon that media companies have in this fight is money. their enemies are using time and talent. one resource is finite and one is infinite.
On the post: The Jitterbug Phone...Turns Out It's For Seniors
Re:
the tone on the jitterbug is a form of comfort tone and not an actual dialtone. it's still a cellular phone with all of the zombie apocalypse vulnerabilities associated with cellular phones.
that said, i too am sort of a fan of oldschool phone gear. i just finished building a beige box and can't wait to clip into something :-)
On the post: Cable Companies Aren't Immune From The Economy As More People Go Online-Only For TV
Re: Re: Re: My two cents
it was like that 5 years ago, but the scene is way different now. bit torrent is a meritocracy. the good stuff gets seeded and the bad stuff dies on the vine.
pick a tracker that specializes in tv (like EZTV) and check it a few hours after the show aired on TV.
i do this, plus trade stuff with friends via USB hard drives.
On the post: Encrypting Data Doesn't Do Much Good If You Tape The Password To The Storage Device...
Re:
a 32 character password that's all lowercase takes waaaay longer to guess/crack than an 8 character password composed of upper/lowercase characters, numbers, and symbols.
the problem of course is that many systems have a maximum length for passwords.
the best recommendation that i have heard is to take a line from a favorite song or quote from a favorite novel and switch out one word, or flip a pair of words, for example:
it was the best of times, it was the burp of times
it best the was of times, it was the worst of times
it was the best of worst, it was the times of times
was it the best of times, was it the worst of times
On the post: Since When Is Driving With Infringing DVDs A Crime?
sounds like
On the post: Gary Shapiro: The Copyright Lobby Is Restricting Innovation And It Needs To Stop
Re:
the only way a buyer becomes a buyer is by buying. giving consumers a reason to buy creates more buyers.
there is no way to prove that a download is a lost sale. there is a way to prove that a download is a gained sale, because many artists give away free downloads and then see their sales increase. you can poll buyers and see if they downloaded something prior to the sale.
On the post: U2 Manager: Free Is The Enemy Of Good; And It's Moral To Protect Old Business Models
money GOOD! internet BAD!
i love the moral argument. i love it because it is so irrelevant. it doesn't matter if piracy is right or wrong because it cannot be stopped.
personally, i don't think it's right that animals eat the smaller weaker animals (humans included), but it doesn't matter because there is nothing i can do to stop it.
so so rail away at piracy. enlist everyone who will listen to you to help you fight it. it won't make a single ounce of difference because piracy cannot be stopped.
On the post: Newspapers Gather In Secret (With An Antitrust Lawyer) To Collude Over Paywalls
Re:
On that basis, Mike's "free summit" is collusion by those who want to push free. Every industry convention, meeting, get together, or "where is our industry going" round table is collusion.
col⋅lude
/kəˈlud/[kuh-lood]
–verb (used without object), -lud⋅ed, -lud⋅ing.
1. to act together through a secret understanding, esp. with evil or harmful intent.
meeting in secret to discuss price fixing... sounds like collusion to me.
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Re: Command line
you can use putty full screen as well.
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Re: NFL Analogy
Could you explain this point further? I don't know what you are referring too.
hollywood was built by pirates, and copyright is based on government censorship. there are tons of examples, read here:
http://craphound.com/content/Cory_Doctorow_-_Content.txt
and here:
http://questioncopyright.org/faq
and here:
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
the way that piracy works is thus: first you come up with a revolutionary way of doing something (the player piano), then the established industry opposes it (Tivo, VHS tapes), then a blanket licensing deal is agreed upon (radio) and then new industries grow into large established ones (hollywood), and they shift focus from innovation (the sony walkman) to protectionism (sony rootkits).
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Re:
then why don't the cops just contact the posters via their ads, arrange a meet, and go arrest them?
the MPAA goons use public torrent trackers to gather info on potential infringers, so why can't the cops just use CL to collect info on potential criminals?
criminality of any kind is always about low hanging fruit. criminals flock to easy solutions. this is why credit carder stings work, and why you shouldn't shut down craigslist ads but use them as a tool instead.
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Re: Re:
let's not forget the free market research data. if people are coming to your website to download your stuff, you get to see where they are located, what site they came to you from, and if you do it right, what promotional campaign referred them.
you can also use torrent trackers to collect data on who is downloading/commenting on your stuff. trackers and bit torrent are way cheaper than hosting your own site for downloads.
On the post: We Need A Freedom To Tinker Law... Not Just A Right To Repair
Re:
and what happens when the car companies start issuing cease and desist letters claiming trade secrets or copyright violations?
if you buy a physical item, you should have the freedom to do what you want to it regardless of the seller's wishes.
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