I did not, though without a link to another computer capable of doing a full image, how would that have been possible?
You could have used a prepared boot disk with a lightweight OS and backup software (or even better sector copy software to make a duplicate image on a separate hard drive). However in most cases is would probably not be worth the effort. Even trying to get the attention of the FBI would take a pretty special case, or a few good friends.
You really do seem like a reasonably bright person, even if you don't use 'Reply' or adopt reasonable network management practices. Go put a password on your net or some netnick might just bring a passive wifi sniffer by your home and chew up your bandwidth riding the torrents.
I have done some pen-testing and have not have found a method that would reasonably be able to determine one of the 3 ip addresses sitting on my network (nor gain access without a valid one).
Sure I suppose they have a chance of guessing one of the three IP addresses. But its a class A NAT so thats a crapload of guessing. The DHCP server will not offer anything.
That's called security through obscurity (warning Wikipedia). And you're still looking a lot like a big juicy target for a netjacker.
yet its NOT yyour responsibility when it comes to someone using your unencrypted connection to download infringing works?
That's about it, yes. Infringement may have been committed, but not by the idiot with an unsecured network. The idiot is complicit only in being a twit.
My only bias is against mechanisms that allow the powerful few to filter the information available to the many and to restrict the conveyance of information to one another.
Spreading hate is a great waste of effort. However should we let the hatred of a few idiots create mechanisms that could likewise be used to prevent the spreading of peaceful and uplifting messages? (or information of any kind more to the point)
Western governments are trying to use enterprise (IP) and panic over child pornography to create mechanisms to stifle free speech. Same problem, different permutation.
Once you give the government the mandate... they will abuse it.
I wonder if you realise that Australia is one of the only countries left where it is actually mandatory to vote in all Federal, State, and Local Council (County) elections. In fact it is an offence with fines (and jailtime in certain circumstances) not to vote.
The same was true in the former U.S.S.R. What is the point?
Not that our system is that much different, the key to tyranny in the modern context is being able to define the candidates and the conversation.
You're right, however, it is more difficult to corrupt a closed system.
Theft has a moral heft to it, while copyright infringement leads to questions like, what is copyright, why do we have copyright, why does copyright last so long, isn't theft in the bible, is copyright infringement in the bible, was there a time when copyright didn't exist, etc.
Oh that makes sense then. Calling the Kettle a Kettle does not fit the Moral Panic campaign you're trying to get going because the sheep aren't hearing "Baaaa aaad".
Your share of modern tyranny is all you are asking for.
At least I now understand where you're coming from.
I note that ALL of you ignored the point he made about paying his employees and paying his creditors.
Non sequitur usually is ignored around here.
The relevant point is that the individual was calling his lawsuit campaign immoral for obvious reasons, not that he should be able to infringe at will.
Speaking like a lawyer, shouldn't you know that only the largest, most "in" corporations can get away with a campaign of social-engineering through civil action?
Who decided to wake Chartier up from a drunken stupor and tell him about the Internet anyway?
What makes you think the person who wrote the e-mail downloaded his film illegally?
The issue is not about the moral ills of downloading infringing content. The issue here is the moral and legal sewer being created by people like Chartier in response to the illegal downloads.
Everyone has a right to be an asshole, but shouldn't the public push back when someone takes a personal agenda and tries to tie up our courts with vindictive lawsuits clearly bent on social-engineering?
I thought that was supposed to be illegal...
By the way, the film sucks. There is no truth, and his characters are pinups tacked to a canvas of moral self-importance created sans experience --- yes... Hollywood.
even a moronic mismanaged isp can manage to handle that difference.
That's a nice fantasy. In reality the ISP would be dealing with IP-only restrictions within a single customer's address space. Soft filtering is, of course, easily mismanaged at the ISP level and even more readily defeated by relocation and proxy within the customer's network.
And, of course, soft-filtering is just another way to degrade the service for all of the ISP's customers, not just the PP. Blocked traffic still uses bandwidth on the ingress, and filters use CPU time on the routers.
BTW who is going to pay for all of the fantastical management software and unplanned capacity that the entertainment industry wants?
"The US Armed Forces is the biggest pirate I have ever seen".
Actually, I think the situation in the armed forces is a great case to illustrate the idiocy of the "lost sale" theory.
Unless the military has changed the pay-scale a great deal since the 1980's, my experience leads me to believe that the immense store, and use of "pirated" media your friend describes has caused zero lost sales.
This is a moot point given the AU (and every other) government's hermaphroditic ability to perpetuate it's policies, for ill or for worse, without any recourse offered that would factor individual rights against the tyranny-by-consensus-and-court-purchase regime.
Voting is obsolete and only practiced as a feel good ceremony for the ostensibly but not actually represented.
Re: Facebook, flashmobs in France, death of a drunken firefighter...
Thanks, Pierre. It is encouraging to hear that at least not all politicians are clinically insane.
Just be watchful of widespread reporting of this kind, as we should all be world-wide. I sometimes have my doubts that this is simply blatant ignorance. Being a tyrant is easy when a misinformed public becomes outraged at all the wrong things, for all the wrong reasons.
which is built using libraries others built that you can't control, which are in turn are being controlled by drivers the hardware manufactures wrote that may or may not do things differently, and your program is sharing time with other programs that may interfere with your ability to run your program successfully
Having seen my share of nightmarish kludge, a big part of me wishes there were some sort of enforceable liability (or, at work, "accountability") for code released into the wild.
However I have complete faith that the courts, which cannot reach consensus on the concept of copyright infringement, would be impotent at determining and defining standards for determining the root-cause of a catastrophic, system/data destroying crash.
AC replying to #1 illustrates the reality of programming in today's environment pretty well.
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You could have used a prepared boot disk with a lightweight OS and backup software (or even better sector copy software to make a duplicate image on a separate hard drive). However in most cases is would probably not be worth the effort. Even trying to get the attention of the FBI would take a pretty special case, or a few good friends.
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Re: Anyone else?
Technically, you could report this to the FBI.
Or you might file a report on the linked site with the CERT.
I hope it was actually RIAA.
Sorry about your computer :(
By chance did you backup or retain the disk in its corrupted/hacked state? It could be evidence if it's for real enough.
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Your IP = 10.I.got.hacked
Your MAC = Mmmm Big Mac
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You do realize they publish a book called Hacking Wireless Networks for Dummies, yes?
If your network is not authenticated, its a real easy pick.
Sniff sniff... I smell a free ride!
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It's too bad Aristotle was a heathen.
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That's called security through obscurity (warning Wikipedia). And you're still looking a lot like a big juicy target for a netjacker.
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Re: Hold on little mikee m and followers?
That's about it, yes. Infringement may have been committed, but not by the idiot with an unsecured network. The idiot is complicit only in being a twit.
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FTFY
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My only bias is against mechanisms that allow the powerful few to filter the information available to the many and to restrict the conveyance of information to one another.
Spreading hate is a great waste of effort. However should we let the hatred of a few idiots create mechanisms that could likewise be used to prevent the spreading of peaceful and uplifting messages? (or information of any kind more to the point)
Western governments are trying to use enterprise (IP) and panic over child pornography to create mechanisms to stifle free speech. Same problem, different permutation.
Once you give the government the mandate... they will abuse it.
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The same was true in the former U.S.S.R. What is the point?
Not that our system is that much different, the key to tyranny in the modern context is being able to define the candidates and the conversation.
You're right, however, it is more difficult to corrupt a closed system.
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Re: Re: Re: Black Kettle
Oh that makes sense then. Calling the Kettle a Kettle does not fit the Moral Panic campaign you're trying to get going because the sheep aren't hearing "Baaaa aaad".
Your share of modern tyranny is all you are asking for.
At least I now understand where you're coming from.
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Re: You're Missing a Point...
Non sequitur usually is ignored around here.
The relevant point is that the individual was calling his lawsuit campaign immoral for obvious reasons, not that he should be able to infringe at will.
Speaking like a lawyer, shouldn't you know that only the largest, most "in" corporations can get away with a campaign of social-engineering through civil action?
Who decided to wake Chartier up from a drunken stupor and tell him about the Internet anyway?
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Re: Missed Point
The issue is not about the moral ills of downloading infringing content. The issue here is the moral and legal sewer being created by people like Chartier in response to the illegal downloads.
Everyone has a right to be an asshole, but shouldn't the public push back when someone takes a personal agenda and tries to tie up our courts with vindictive lawsuits clearly bent on social-engineering?
I thought that was supposed to be illegal...
By the way, the film sucks. There is no truth, and his characters are pinups tacked to a canvas of moral self-importance created sans experience --- yes... Hollywood.
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Re: Re: Media exposure
That's a nice fantasy. In reality the ISP would be dealing with IP-only restrictions within a single customer's address space. Soft filtering is, of course, easily mismanaged at the ISP level and even more readily defeated by relocation and proxy within the customer's network.
And, of course, soft-filtering is just another way to degrade the service for all of the ISP's customers, not just the PP. Blocked traffic still uses bandwidth on the ingress, and filters use CPU time on the routers.
BTW who is going to pay for all of the fantastical management software and unplanned capacity that the entertainment industry wants?
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Re: Actually
Actually, I think the situation in the armed forces is a great case to illustrate the idiocy of the "lost sale" theory.
Unless the military has changed the pay-scale a great deal since the 1980's, my experience leads me to believe that the immense store, and use of "pirated" media your friend describes has caused zero lost sales.
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Voting is obsolete and only practiced as a feel good ceremony for the ostensibly but not actually represented.
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Re: Facebook, flashmobs in France, death of a drunken firefighter...
Just be watchful of widespread reporting of this kind, as we should all be world-wide. I sometimes have my doubts that this is simply blatant ignorance. Being a tyrant is easy when a misinformed public becomes outraged at all the wrong things, for all the wrong reasons.
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Re: Re: #1
Having seen my share of nightmarish kludge, a big part of me wishes there were some sort of enforceable liability (or, at work, "accountability") for code released into the wild.
However I have complete faith that the courts, which cannot reach consensus on the concept of copyright infringement, would be impotent at determining and defining standards for determining the root-cause of a catastrophic, system/data destroying crash.
AC replying to #1 illustrates the reality of programming in today's environment pretty well.
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If this is someone trying to steal TAM's credibility: you're pumping a dry well there, buddy.
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