that certainly does not make cyberwar any less of a threat. Whether they make money on it or not, the threat is still there and it is so much bigger than most people realize.
sure, Advanced Persistent Threats are real, but they are real in the sense that al qaeda is real... out there somewhere not having much effect on anyone not directly associated with the military.
as for cyberwar, it's pretty much like nuclear war... possible but highly unlikely.
now, for espionage and organized crime, this is not some threat that materialized from the internet itself, it's simply a matter of spies and criminals taking their acts online.
if you want to point a finger at someone, how about the governments that imprisoned hackers in the early to mid 90's? the big crackdowns then (operation sundevil and the like) resulted in a spike in crimes like identity theft in the late 90's as hackers entered the prison system and came into contact with real criminals. max "iceman" butler is a good example.
WAR: a place where it is legal to shoot people, but illegal to buy a dvd.
from apocalypse now: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
Then the studio asses will be all like whaaaa, whaaaa, all these little guys are suing us for using their ideas. Whaaa, whaaa, we need to change the system to suit us again.
the little guys can't afford to sue, which is why the system is set up this way.
the big corporations can do whatever they want, regardless of the law. it was set up that way on purpose.
From a purely business perspective I would think Sony is rather pleased with this. As far as I know, the actual hardware for all consoles is heavily subsidized by the manufacturers which then make up for the loss of revenue from hardware sales from the inflated prices of the games. All the research groups making clusters out of (relatively) cheap PS3s were not exactly the customers Sony was hoping for.
selling hardware at a loss is a stupid business decision. companies would engender much more goodwill if they ended this stupid practice.
but where will the content come from? if the income disappears, who will make the content?
there is tons of great stuff out there already and more will get made before it's all over.
piracy shines a bright light on hollywood's product problem: their stuff costs too much to make. they have marked up promotion and distribution in order to subsidize content creation. piracy fixes the promotion and distribution problem, leaving hollywood with their outdated, expensive productions.
sooner or later, production prices will fall in line with the market, and when it does, the people who can make quality content at a realistic price point will prevail.
will be all be stuck watching an endless loop of sita sings the blues and home movies of guys getting hit in the balls with plastic baseball bats? the stone does not fall in the pond without creating ripples, you need to consider what happens as a result, not just what you wish.
you probably think the independently made stuff that's out now is poor quality because you are too old or too out of touch to get it, but have no fear. at some point you will find something that will change the way you look at media and you will never look back.
once you find something that speaks to you, you'll get it. not just a book or song or movie that you like, but something that feels like it was created specifically for you because it was created by someone who is just like you.
As I approach the possibility of becoming a Daddy, I've been wondering about how that will work if/when little Johnnie/Janie's friends want to get a hold of them. Do current cell-only parents always act as proxies, or...?
i did this for like a week and got fed up real fast. i got a cheap VOIP service (500 min/month for something like $12 or so) and had everyone use that number. it was great for stupid things you need an extra phone for, like finding a lost cellphone when you are alone in the house.
it was a life saver when there was a family emergency and we were making making and we were on the phone way more than normal. my wife noticed we were close to going over our minutes so we used the ip phone and it worked out well.
it isnt fourth party liablity (nice spin there mike) it is secondary liablity on a company found liable. it isnt really any different from a landlord getting served because they continue to rent to people running a crack house.
you're missing something important: this won't have any effect.
seizing the servers shut the site down for a few days. getting their hosting shut down a couple of years ago shut the site down for a few hours. go ahead and pressure their provider, given the success rate of previous attempts, the shutdown will only last a few minutes.
Perhaps we need some form of VPN tunneling to a trusted portal/relay which would then give us unadulterated access to the Internet. This would thwart any deep-packet inspection or redirection. I guess there'd be a performance hit however.
you can tunnel just about anything over an SSH connection, all you need is a trusted host to connect to. i do this on untrusted wifi networks.
that said, this is something stupid that ISP's do with their DNS and it's uber easy to get around. just use a different DNS, like google mentioned above (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) or level3 (4.2.2.1-4.2.2.6).
i normally use them because residential ISP DNS is often unreliable.
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Re:
sure, Advanced Persistent Threats are real, but they are real in the sense that al qaeda is real... out there somewhere not having much effect on anyone not directly associated with the military.
as for cyberwar, it's pretty much like nuclear war... possible but highly unlikely.
now, for espionage and organized crime, this is not some threat that materialized from the internet itself, it's simply a matter of spies and criminals taking their acts online.
if you want to point a finger at someone, how about the governments that imprisoned hackers in the early to mid 90's? the big crackdowns then (operation sundevil and the like) resulted in a spike in crimes like identity theft in the late 90's as hackers entered the prison system and came into contact with real criminals. max "iceman" butler is a good example.
On the post: MPAA And Its Priorities: Asks US Gov't To Stop Soldiers From Buying Bootleg DVDs
Re:
from apocalypse now:
We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
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Re: Re: Makes sense to me
Holy Christ, am I ever white....
for real. it's called a burner.
On the post: Hollywood's Passion For Movie Remakes May Run Into Copyright Problems... Created By Hollywood
Re: I love it.
the little guys can't afford to sue, which is why the system is set up this way.
the big corporations can do whatever they want, regardless of the law. it was set up that way on purpose.
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Re:
selling hardware at a loss is a stupid business decision. companies would engender much more goodwill if they ended this stupid practice.
On the post: Hollywood Gets Injunction Against Pirate Bay Bandwidth Provider?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Which they didn't.
On the post: Hollywood Gets Injunction Against Pirate Bay Bandwidth Provider?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Which they didn't.
there is tons of great stuff out there already and more will get made before it's all over.
piracy shines a bright light on hollywood's product problem: their stuff costs too much to make. they have marked up promotion and distribution in order to subsidize content creation. piracy fixes the promotion and distribution problem, leaving hollywood with their outdated, expensive productions.
sooner or later, production prices will fall in line with the market, and when it does, the people who can make quality content at a realistic price point will prevail.
will be all be stuck watching an endless loop of sita sings the blues and home movies of guys getting hit in the balls with plastic baseball bats? the stone does not fall in the pond without creating ripples, you need to consider what happens as a result, not just what you wish.
you probably think the independently made stuff that's out now is poor quality because you are too old or too out of touch to get it, but have no fear. at some point you will find something that will change the way you look at media and you will never look back.
once you find something that speaks to you, you'll get it. not just a book or song or movie that you like, but something that feels like it was created specifically for you because it was created by someone who is just like you.
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Re: There ought to be a LAW!
"Protect the helpless telcos! By not having a landline you are in violation of the LAW!!1! "
How long before the DMCA/ACTA is subverted to protect this vanishing business model as well???
people without landlines are phone pirates.
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Re:
i did this for like a week and got fed up real fast. i got a cheap VOIP service (500 min/month for something like $12 or so) and had everyone use that number. it was great for stupid things you need an extra phone for, like finding a lost cellphone when you are alone in the house.
it was a life saver when there was a family emergency and we were making making and we were on the phone way more than normal. my wife noticed we were close to going over our minutes so we used the ip phone and it worked out well.
On the post: Hollywood Gets Injunction Against Pirate Bay Bandwidth Provider?
Re: Re: Re: Which they didn't.
a lot of people are buying. you know, record box office numbers?
On the post: Hollywood Gets Injunction Against Pirate Bay Bandwidth Provider?
Re:
you're missing something important: this won't have any effect.
seizing the servers shut the site down for a few days. getting their hosting shut down a couple of years ago shut the site down for a few hours. go ahead and pressure their provider, given the success rate of previous attempts, the shutdown will only last a few minutes.
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Re: But Mike!
you forgot to mention supporting terrorism and hurting the corn farmers.
On the post: Why IT Security Guys Now Also Need To Be Legal Experts
Re: legal woes.
On the post: Music Industry Lawyer Complains Both That Musicians Don't Get Paid... And When They Do
the next bob dylan
the dead kennedys said in like 1986 "if the doors or john lennon were getting started now, the industry wouldn't sign them in a million years".
no matter how hard you try, the music from the 60's isn't coming back, and the money from the 70's isn't coming back either.
On the post: ISPs Hijacking Browser Functions, Continue Proud Tradition Of Value-Free Added Services
Re: Tunneling
you can tunnel just about anything over an SSH connection, all you need is a trusted host to connect to. i do this on untrusted wifi networks.
that said, this is something stupid that ISP's do with their DNS and it's uber easy to get around. just use a different DNS, like google mentioned above (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) or level3 (4.2.2.1-4.2.2.6).
i normally use them because residential ISP DNS is often unreliable.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Pleeeeezzzz, Mike!
i see, just when jim has you on the ropes you start getting in to semantics.
On the post: World Of Goo (This Time With Four Friends) Tries The Pay What You Want Model Once Again
i just didn't like world of goo
i paid for crayon physics because it was that awesome.
On the post: German Court Now Rules That RapidShare Is Not Liable For Infringement By Users
Re: you use rars?
it's a scene thing, not a technology thing. the warez scene has used rars for so long that that's what everyone expects.
On the post: Kevin Martin Pops Up Again, And Surprise, Surprise, He's Going Against A Cable Company
i'm surprised
On the post: Cable TV Won't Lose To The Internet Because It's Making Too Much Money?
Re: Re: WTF is cable?
i prefer the term "digital delivery pioneer".
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