Funny thing. I live in Europe and travel regularly between the UK and a number of other European countries, including France and Sweden, as a matter of work.
I go through a metal detector, pass my hand baggage through an xray machine, and if something comes up I get a pat down of my pockets (happened once in the many years I travel). While I'm sure there's profiling going on, there are no nude scanners, no invasive patdowns of my junk, no third degree like you get.
When you refer to "unprotected countries", are you referring to the third-world countries that initiate terrorist attacks? Is it a surprise that countries with political unrest are more likely to be involved in terrorist attacks?
The closest you'll get to metrics is if you look at Europe, which is not going overboard with stupid security measures but is still doing pretty well in terms of terrorist attacks.
The thing is, they don't need to take down ANY websites to "look for clues". They could have imaged the servers and walked out, but noooo that would have been too easy.
Also, the guy arrested in the UK is apparently just some kid that was running an IRC server that Lulzsec and Anonymous used from time to time. He was hardly a "ringleader" or even someone who would know the ringleaders.
Tbh, I bet they are all hiding using Tor, so the only way to track these people down is if they slip up in a big way.. like brag about the hacks on their Twitter or give out their personal info on IRC or something.
"Lulzsec and Anonymous (even if those two now hate each other)"
It turns out that isn't true. LulzSec flooded 4chan and some people in the media took that as a declaration of war on Anonymous. Both sides have said it was nothing of the sort.
According to this press release they now appear to have teamed up to hack even bigger targets...
Then how about they spin it off as an independent non-profit company? That would certainly piss off AT&T a little and it would definitely be pro free market.
"No, we do not. Each country will always serve it's own interest."
Makes no difference.
"Good luck with that :) Do you already have open source cars? How about planes? Guns? I see."
Just because you don't see a way of doing something doesn't mean it's impossible. We'll get open source cars and planes some day, just like we'll get ways to preserve digital culture.
"Do you have it for cars already? Ah, I see. People overestimate importance of this "software" thing."
What do cars have to do with this? Software is information, cars are cars. The way you preserve one thing is totally different from the other.
""Forever" is very long time. Nothing, absolutely nothing stay forever. However, writings from Dead See scrolls survived, so Google's datacenter may too."
You know perfectly well what I meant by "forever". If you have nothing to add, I'd rather you didn't reply to my comments.
"Do you agree the digital aspects of our culture should be better preserved?"
Absolutely, especially when today digital IS our culture. Consider that digital degrades a lot less gracefully than analog. Where old film reels are managing to last almost a century, a DVD lasts a decade before the data on its starts becoming corrupted. A lot of old computer games stored on floppies or magnetic tape have already been lost, and that trend will continue unless something is done soon.
"Should we have, maybe even one on each continent or in each country, a modern Library of Alexandria? (identical copies in different places to prevent 'a fire' from destroying it)"
That's the idea. There needs to be international cooperation to achieve that and copyright restrictions on archiving need to be removed. In fact, that may be impossible to achieve without taking away "automatic" copyrights and requiring that before any copyright is granted, the creator is required by law to submit to the copyright office a high-quality copy of the work in a standard format without DRM.
"What would such a world-wide archival effort look like, technologically?"
Simplest case, your typical big datacenters. Problem is, whatever we come up with should be able to survive the test of time, even if left in disrepair. Arrays of harddisks will fail fairly quickly if not copied every few months, as will optical media.
A more ambitious proposal would look to find a way to make copies of digital data that will last forever without maintenance. I don't know if such technology is available, so it may need to be developed. I think I read in Scientific American there have been moderately successful attempts at creating read-only holocubes with about a TB of data imprinted in them...
"What should we do about copyrights and patents (and DRM) that might get in the way of preserving our heritage?"
They don't matter. They are the opposite of preserving our heritage.
"How do we go about archiving software for a computer that's available only in a museum, to preserve interactive access?"
Create a unified emulation platform that contains the specifications of various system architectures and runs on a fully documented, open source virtual machine.
Bonus points if hardware and software developers are required by law to maintain the system and make sure their products are compatible with it.
Further bonus if all software developers are required by law to submit source code for archiving (but not necessarily public disclosure).
"What about the proliferation of file formats? Do we transform everything into a canonical form where we can, or do we store the original along with software to interpret?"
More and more new artists are keeping away from the labels, many existing musicians are dropping out. People aren't buying their releases and the size of the recording industry is shrinking even though there's demand for music the overall music industry is growing.
In your frenzy to stop unauthorized copies, you are buying laws that conflict with the privacy, speech and property rights of everyone and you are bringing internet surveillance and censorship through the backdoor.
You are trying to stifle a multi-trillion technology to sustain your ancient copy-selling business -- how long can that go on?
I'm pointing out the STUPIDITY and ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY of you wanting to control how others live their lives and do with their own stuff in their very homes.
So it's a copy of a song and not a chair - why should you be able to stop me from doing anything I want to do with it? Because you are an artist and you're "special", but the chairmaker isn't?
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I go through a metal detector, pass my hand baggage through an xray machine, and if something comes up I get a pat down of my pockets (happened once in the many years I travel). While I'm sure there's profiling going on, there are no nude scanners, no invasive patdowns of my junk, no third degree like you get.
When you refer to "unprotected countries", are you referring to the third-world countries that initiate terrorist attacks? Is it a surprise that countries with political unrest are more likely to be involved in terrorist attacks?
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What do I win?
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Also, the guy arrested in the UK is apparently just some kid that was running an IRC server that Lulzsec and Anonymous used from time to time. He was hardly a "ringleader" or even someone who would know the ringleaders.
Tbh, I bet they are all hiding using Tor, so the only way to track these people down is if they slip up in a big way.. like brag about the hacks on their Twitter or give out their personal info on IRC or something.
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EPIC FAIL!
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Him copying other people's articles? No problem.
But, others copying his articles? That'll be $150k, TYVM.
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It turns out that isn't true. LulzSec flooded 4chan and some people in the media took that as a declaration of war on Anonymous. Both sides have said it was nothing of the sort.
According to this press release they now appear to have teamed up to hack even bigger targets...
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Maybe they'll be tempted to replace the fake logos with real ones.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5110681/Copyright-law-will-not-change
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Makes no difference.
"Good luck with that :) Do you already have open source cars? How about planes? Guns? I see."
Just because you don't see a way of doing something doesn't mean it's impossible. We'll get open source cars and planes some day, just like we'll get ways to preserve digital culture.
"Do you have it for cars already? Ah, I see. People overestimate importance of this "software" thing."
What do cars have to do with this? Software is information, cars are cars. The way you preserve one thing is totally different from the other.
""Forever" is very long time. Nothing, absolutely nothing stay forever. However, writings from Dead See scrolls survived, so Google's datacenter may too."
You know perfectly well what I meant by "forever". If you have nothing to add, I'd rather you didn't reply to my comments.
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Absolutely, especially when today digital IS our culture. Consider that digital degrades a lot less gracefully than analog. Where old film reels are managing to last almost a century, a DVD lasts a decade before the data on its starts becoming corrupted. A lot of old computer games stored on floppies or magnetic tape have already been lost, and that trend will continue unless something is done soon.
"Should we have, maybe even one on each continent or in each country, a modern Library of Alexandria? (identical copies in different places to prevent 'a fire' from destroying it)"
That's the idea. There needs to be international cooperation to achieve that and copyright restrictions on archiving need to be removed. In fact, that may be impossible to achieve without taking away "automatic" copyrights and requiring that before any copyright is granted, the creator is required by law to submit to the copyright office a high-quality copy of the work in a standard format without DRM.
"What would such a world-wide archival effort look like, technologically?"
Simplest case, your typical big datacenters. Problem is, whatever we come up with should be able to survive the test of time, even if left in disrepair. Arrays of harddisks will fail fairly quickly if not copied every few months, as will optical media.
A more ambitious proposal would look to find a way to make copies of digital data that will last forever without maintenance. I don't know if such technology is available, so it may need to be developed. I think I read in Scientific American there have been moderately successful attempts at creating read-only holocubes with about a TB of data imprinted in them...
"What should we do about copyrights and patents (and DRM) that might get in the way of preserving our heritage?"
They don't matter. They are the opposite of preserving our heritage.
"How do we go about archiving software for a computer that's available only in a museum, to preserve interactive access?"
Create a unified emulation platform that contains the specifications of various system architectures and runs on a fully documented, open source virtual machine.
Bonus points if hardware and software developers are required by law to maintain the system and make sure their products are compatible with it.
Further bonus if all software developers are required by law to submit source code for archiving (but not necessarily public disclosure).
"What about the proliferation of file formats? Do we transform everything into a canonical form where we can, or do we store the original along with software to interpret?"
Open standards are the future.
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In your frenzy to stop unauthorized copies, you are buying laws that conflict with the privacy, speech and property rights of everyone and you are bringing internet surveillance and censorship through the backdoor.
You are trying to stifle a multi-trillion technology to sustain your ancient copy-selling business -- how long can that go on?
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So it's a copy of a song and not a chair - why should you be able to stop me from doing anything I want to do with it? Because you are an artist and you're "special", but the chairmaker isn't?
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