Since you bring it up, the copied Gutenberg bibles ran into some trouble initially, as well. When cartloads of them arrived in medieval villages full of ignorant peasants, they were sometimes burned and those delivering them killed. They believed that only the devil could have made such exact identical copies of the book and their souls were in danger.
"It's the typical "I am never to blame" mentality that most people have. You got your information stolen / lifted / copied, that is where the crime(s) started. You are resonsible not to go to somedomain.com/trickystuf/yourbank.com/security-update and type your information in."
You (and in the case of this skit, the bank) are automatically assuming that the individual was the one who went to the fake site and entered his/her information in. While that is valid in some instances, it certainly doesn't address all of the ways in which "identity theft" happens.
How often do we see data breaches involving thousands of people's information stolen through no fault of their own? Maybe the bank's systems were hacked. Maybe it was a retailer (TJ Max, amongst others). Maybe it was a credit processor that no one outside a specialized field has heard of, despite the fact they handle transactions for millions of people every day (Heartland). Any of those situations could allow an attacker to get enough information to open an account in the name of a random person who never had visited a bogus site or entered information on a malware infected machine.
Exactly my experience. Like many other previous commenters, the story is exactly how I found Techdirt. Linked to from somewhere else, but once I was here, I stayed because the content here is personally relevant to me.
It's been long enough ago that I don't remember what site linked me to Techdirt, and I may not even read that particular site any longer, but I read Techdirt every day.
I read through many of the posts on places such as Wired and Gizmodo most days as well, and follow the link in those stories. However, it is rare that I'll go back to any of those linked sites unless I find what the site offers compelling to me beyond that one story. If I do find that I'm consistently going back to a particular site, I bookmark it or grab the RSS feed and go to that site first before I head to any of the aggregator type sites.
3 days after the AP's system goes live, expect a lawsuit against Google because the AP landing pages aren't at the top of the list, because of course Google's algorithms correctly recognizes them as superfluous and useless.
I hate cliches, but game changing comes to mind for many "intellectual property" lawsuits if this every works its way to the national level.
Baseless patent infringement lawsuits? Show clear prior art, have the USPTO invalidate the patent, and bam, tables turned, now the patent troll has to worry about defending himself from criminal charges.
Baseless trademark infringement claims that clearly wouldn't pass the moron-in-a-hurry test? Gone if they sue for any amount of money (including lawyer fees)!
Too bad this wasn't around when SCO started their shenanigans.
"I am a contractor, Once I leave work, I do not answer calls, emails, texts etc until I return to work the next day. If they don't like it, HIRE ME AND GIVE ME HEALTH INSURANCE. or SHUT UP, Which they do, Shut up that is."
Exactly this. I'm also a contractor, and it seems far more prevalent in the last couple years than it previously had been. I actually work for IBM, but my paychecks come through a second company that is almost entirely contract workers. They have a small office somewhere, but most of their managers just have a desk in some IBM building where they manage a bunch of contract employees working for IBM. It is apparently cheaper to pay a company to do most of your hiring and firing instead of hiring people yourself and paying them well and providing benefits. Apparently paying for all the middle management and excess bureaucracy isn't a problem, though.
One of my duties used to involve setting up ActiveDirectory accounts for yet another company who contracted out much of their IT stuff to IBM, and at least 75% of the accounts I set up also were contractors! Sometimes when I talked to some of the people who had some problem with their account, the level of disconnected contact was almost amusing if it was depressing. Me, employed by company 1, contracted to work for company 2; company 2 was contracted to do IT work for company 3; company 3 used another contract company 4 to hire much of their workforce; person who had trouble with their AD account employed by company 4, talking to me.
I particularly enjoyed this quote from the story: "...the traditional business model has to change rapidly to ensure that our journalistic businesses can return to their old margins of profitability." The cognitive dissonance from that statement is staggering.
There was a roof leak in her apartment. She moved out and also sued the apartment company (no further info on what she sued for). The company then somehow ran across her tweet when researching the lawsuit.
The roof leak thing makes it highly unlikely in my eyes that this is defamation in any form. I think she should have her lawyer take a look for SLAPP laws that are applicable to her case.
Obviously his **publisher** doesn't want to bother with a potential battle - if the he and the publisher win, nothing would stop someone else from doing the same with some other piece of work the publisher controls! Because of the inanity of copyright, the publisher thinks it is less valuable to make money off the book and more valuable to try and squeeze something out of something they already "own."
As much as I hate what "intellectual property" has become in today's world, the original idea for promoting the progress of culture was a good idea. It just depended on copyrights (and patents, etc) being held by reasonable people for a reasonable length of time. We've reached the point where most copyrights and patents are being held by completely unreasonable corporations for excessively unreasonable time periods.
Things that make me go Hmmmm: article here http://techdirt.com/articles/20090714/0434585543.shtml about story on techcrunch from yesterday written by anonymous person, from a well known executive from a large site on the net.
Yesterday the anonymous post was calling for transparency in Google's search engine, specifically in regards to SEO. It seems like the anger expressed by SI.com is because HuffingtonPost beat them out of the traffic generated by their 'scoop' because Huffington had better SEO.
I think it would be fair to say that SI.com could fit into the category of a large internet site.
Anyone else thinking these stories are related? How about some "amatuers" do some investigative journalism and track down a link?
I play EVE, and aside from the inaccuracies of the BBC report, there's quite a few other things that have been overlooked, most likely because not many are actually familiar with the game, let alone EBANK.
First, EBANK, despite (probably) being the largest "bank" in the world of EVE, has very small assets compared to the entire EVE economy. The 200 billion ISK is pretty meaningless when an average player of a few months to a year could easily have control of a few billion in assets, in an economy where close to 100 trillion ISK changes hands regularly.
Second, EBANK and all other "banks" in EVE really aren't akin to banks in the real world, despite their names. They are entirely player run with no support from CCP (the company that runs the game). They are much closer to a private company with private investors and no government regulation in real-life terms.
Third, Ricdic, the player involved was the person most responsible for running EBANK. While there was some type of a board and other trusted players, he was the face of EBANK. This is just a guess, but a significant portion (if not all) of that ISK may of actually been his in the first place. In real life terms, this is more akin to something like a CEO cashing out all of his stock - though if not all of it was his, it is more like the CEO stealing money from the company and running off to Nigeria.
Fourth, this is unlikely to have any significant impact upon the EVE economy. Things like the territory wars out in nullsec space (where large alliance of players can "own" the space and its resources) have a much larger impact on the economy than a small corporation imploding however well known they were.
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Gutenberg
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You (and in the case of this skit, the bank) are automatically assuming that the individual was the one who went to the fake site and entered his/her information in. While that is valid in some instances, it certainly doesn't address all of the ways in which "identity theft" happens.
How often do we see data breaches involving thousands of people's information stolen through no fault of their own? Maybe the bank's systems were hacked. Maybe it was a retailer (TJ Max, amongst others). Maybe it was a credit processor that no one outside a specialized field has heard of, despite the fact they handle transactions for millions of people every day (Heartland). Any of those situations could allow an attacker to get enough information to open an account in the name of a random person who never had visited a bogus site or entered information on a malware infected machine.
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Re: How I found Techdirt
It's been long enough ago that I don't remember what site linked me to Techdirt, and I may not even read that particular site any longer, but I read Techdirt every day.
I read through many of the posts on places such as Wired and Gizmodo most days as well, and follow the link in those stories. However, it is rare that I'll go back to any of those linked sites unless I find what the site offers compelling to me beyond that one story. If I do find that I'm consistently going back to a particular site, I bookmark it or grab the RSS feed and go to that site first before I head to any of the aggregator type sites.
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Wait for it...
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Game changing
Baseless patent infringement lawsuits? Show clear prior art, have the USPTO invalidate the patent, and bam, tables turned, now the patent troll has to worry about defending himself from criminal charges.
Baseless trademark infringement claims that clearly wouldn't pass the moron-in-a-hurry test? Gone if they sue for any amount of money (including lawyer fees)!
Too bad this wasn't around when SCO started their shenanigans.
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Re:
Exactly this. I'm also a contractor, and it seems far more prevalent in the last couple years than it previously had been. I actually work for IBM, but my paychecks come through a second company that is almost entirely contract workers. They have a small office somewhere, but most of their managers just have a desk in some IBM building where they manage a bunch of contract employees working for IBM. It is apparently cheaper to pay a company to do most of your hiring and firing instead of hiring people yourself and paying them well and providing benefits. Apparently paying for all the middle management and excess bureaucracy isn't a problem, though.
One of my duties used to involve setting up ActiveDirectory accounts for yet another company who contracted out much of their IT stuff to IBM, and at least 75% of the accounts I set up also were contractors! Sometimes when I talked to some of the people who had some problem with their account, the level of disconnected contact was almost amusing if it was depressing. Me, employed by company 1, contracted to work for company 2; company 2 was contracted to do IT work for company 3; company 3 used another contract company 4 to hire much of their workforce; person who had trouble with their AD account employed by company 4, talking to me.
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Update
There was a roof leak in her apartment. She moved out and also sued the apartment company (no further info on what she sued for). The company then somehow ran across her tweet when researching the lawsuit.
The roof leak thing makes it highly unlikely in my eyes that this is defamation in any form. I think she should have her lawyer take a look for SLAPP laws that are applicable to her case.
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Publisher conflict of interest
As much as I hate what "intellectual property" has become in today's world, the original idea for promoting the progress of culture was a good idea. It just depended on copyrights (and patents, etc) being held by reasonable people for a reasonable length of time. We've reached the point where most copyrights and patents are being held by completely unreasonable corporations for excessively unreasonable time periods.
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Anonymous from yesterday outed?
Yesterday the anonymous post was calling for transparency in Google's search engine, specifically in regards to SEO. It seems like the anger expressed by SI.com is because HuffingtonPost beat them out of the traffic generated by their 'scoop' because Huffington had better SEO.
I think it would be fair to say that SI.com could fit into the category of a large internet site.
Anyone else thinking these stories are related? How about some "amatuers" do some investigative journalism and track down a link?
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Anyone notice...
Kind of amusing, since their primary product is ...copy machines.
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First, EBANK, despite (probably) being the largest "bank" in the world of EVE, has very small assets compared to the entire EVE economy. The 200 billion ISK is pretty meaningless when an average player of a few months to a year could easily have control of a few billion in assets, in an economy where close to 100 trillion ISK changes hands regularly.
Second, EBANK and all other "banks" in EVE really aren't akin to banks in the real world, despite their names. They are entirely player run with no support from CCP (the company that runs the game). They are much closer to a private company with private investors and no government regulation in real-life terms.
Third, Ricdic, the player involved was the person most responsible for running EBANK. While there was some type of a board and other trusted players, he was the face of EBANK. This is just a guess, but a significant portion (if not all) of that ISK may of actually been his in the first place. In real life terms, this is more akin to something like a CEO cashing out all of his stock - though if not all of it was his, it is more like the CEO stealing money from the company and running off to Nigeria.
Fourth, this is unlikely to have any significant impact upon the EVE economy. Things like the territory wars out in nullsec space (where large alliance of players can "own" the space and its resources) have a much larger impact on the economy than a small corporation imploding however well known they were.
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