It would be easy to write a program that made minor modifications to file bits and titles and kept uploading files via Tor. Before long the poisoned files would vastly outnumber the real ones. It would take pirates many manual hours to identify the poisoned files and take them down.
it's been tried before, a couple of years ago, and it didn't work. they were fake torrents uploaded by no-name accounts. even though they had thousands of seeds, the comments were jammed by warnings that they were fakes. within a day or two the bad torrents just fell off the vine.
release groups have reputations to maintain and they take it very seriously.
Where I live it costs money to 'live for the internet'."
Where I live it doesn't cost all that much.
uh, dan bull hasn't died from starvation, so he clearly could afford food. he doesn't appear nude in any of his videos so he could clearly afford clothes.
if he can afford luxuries like food and clothing, why can't he help stop terrorism by buying software?
I'm certainly interested in real debate and discussion. A shame you never offer such a thing.
imagine the debate you want to have taking place in the mid 13th century between a church scribe and printing press operator over the future of the bible with regards to production.
i imagine that the church scribe and the press operator heard each others arguments for and against and in the end, the printing press won out. i see this debate ending in a similar manner.
nothing would make me happier than to have an affordable offsite place to stash all my warez. i have well over a decade's worth of media and even though i can just download it all over again, my collection represents a tremendous investment of time.
i can route around privacy and reliability concerns with block crypto for the sensitive stuff, and local copies for backup purposes.
i would love to have a copy of my NAS servers out there in the ether, off site, even if it was uber slow and really only meant it was useful for backups and not streaming.
the simple fact is that i have around 8TB of data, so even transfer in and out was free, at $0.05 per gig for storage, an online file locker would cost me $400 a month.
I'm hoping this succeeds. If it does, then a new internet will be born, over international waters, where no country's laws will work anymore.
there is a high probability that this is a joke. the acronym for Low Orbiting Server Station is conspicuously similar to the Low Orbiting Ion Canon of Anonymous fame. also, april first is in a couple of weeks.
TPB has done this before. in 2008 they started a rumor that they moved to egypt.
Because with wireless, you can easily intercept the communications stream with nothing more than a cheap smartphone.
yes, but the goal of the project is to produce encrypted speech tools for use in a political environment where the oppressive regime has complete control over the network infrastructure. tapping a network is really easy when the network provider is complicit, just ask any law enforcement agency in the united states.
wired or wireless, the security of the tool is at the application level and not the network layer.
Even if AT&T is the biggest dog in the yard, shouldn't we be focused on increasing their competition instead of regulating them?
*IF* AT&T's shareholders were to vote for net neutrality, *AND* AT&T were to tout its net neutrality as a value proposition for its customers, it could force other service providers to do the same in order to remain competitive.
i'm not optimistic, but at least there is the specter of possibility.
But as OK Go demonstrates, you don't necessarily have to be a great musician to have a career.
punk rock demonstrated that almost 40 years ago, and rhetorically, who cares?
You probably need to be good at something, but the music itself and your ability to create it could be secondary.
it's never been strictly about musicianship; it's always been about "the scene": stuff like girls, clothes, and venues. LP cover art gets replaced with music videos, but the effect is still the same.
In other words, we could say, "Want to be a successful musician? Then learn how to make clever videos."
i guess, if you want to be an OK Go clone.
without the recording industrial complex behind you, you have you find your own way. it requires original thought.
Sadly, cash cows pay bills, whilst "true art doesn't".
it's easier to pay bills (and turn profits) when the numbers are smaller. maybe hollywood could stop spending so much on production and create a product that works with the current itunes/netflix/amazon revenue model?
naw. better push for a reduction in civil liberties. that makes *way* more sense.
DRM only sucks when compared to breaking the law. Not shocking, is it?
DRM is supposed to stop people from breaking the law. DRM is not effective.
so if the DRM technology doesn't do what you want it to do (which is prevent illegal downloads) AND it makes your legitimate customers angry (and possibly increases illegal downloads) then why bother with the DRM technology in the first place.
paying for media is optional. people pay you because they feel they should, not because they have to. crappy services that limit choice and features erode that feeling of obligation that your revenue model is based on. this is the essential point that media companies cannot grasp.
"moneyhookers.com" Do they sleep with money? If not that name is extremely redundant.
you're confusing money hookers with hooker monies. money hookers is a service for hookers to collect money. it converts regular money into hooker monies, which hookers can then use to buy goods and services.
an excellent service for converting hooker monies back in to regular currency is hookermonies.com the also have an app store.
nintendo has never been able to compete with sony or microsoft due to it's [comparatively] small size. it's always tried to compete by using experimental hardware (gimmicks) and its exclusive titles.
nintendo's marketing model has pretty much always been: cheap consoles (i.e. parent friendly), tons of hardware accessories, marketed mostly at kids, featuring a huge roster of characters that are confined to nintendo hardware.
now that you're no longer a kid, i'm sure you feel like you're entitled to tell nintendo what you think. but i think that nintendo truly believes that it's primary user base is aged 8-14, not exactly the kind of folks you solicit for business advice, and not the kind of people who have traditionally had a strong need for online gaming.
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It would be easy to write a program that made minor modifications to file bits and titles and kept uploading files via Tor. Before long the poisoned files would vastly outnumber the real ones. It would take pirates many manual hours to identify the poisoned files and take them down.
it's been tried before, a couple of years ago, and it didn't work. they were fake torrents uploaded by no-name accounts. even though they had thousands of seeds, the comments were jammed by warnings that they were fakes. within a day or two the bad torrents just fell off the vine.
release groups have reputations to maintain and they take it very seriously.
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Where I live it costs money to 'live for the internet'."
Where I live it doesn't cost all that much.
uh, dan bull hasn't died from starvation, so he clearly could afford food. he doesn't appear nude in any of his videos so he could clearly afford clothes.
if he can afford luxuries like food and clothing, why can't he help stop terrorism by buying software?
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So if stopping piracy is not going to increase sales why are we spending money trying to stop piracy?
because fuck pirates, that's why.
i would pay good money for a game with that kind of filter
wait... what?
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Great, but what does that have to do with making a business investment?
Look, they're oly trying to ruin Diller's life. Is that so wrong?
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I'm certainly interested in real debate and discussion. A shame you never offer such a thing.
imagine the debate you want to have taking place in the mid 13th century between a church scribe and printing press operator over the future of the bible with regards to production.
i imagine that the church scribe and the press operator heard each others arguments for and against and in the end, the printing press won out. i see this debate ending in a similar manner.
the sheer size of my media collection
nothing would make me happier than to have an affordable offsite place to stash all my warez. i have well over a decade's worth of media and even though i can just download it all over again, my collection represents a tremendous investment of time.
i can route around privacy and reliability concerns with block crypto for the sensitive stuff, and local copies for backup purposes.
i would love to have a copy of my NAS servers out there in the ether, off site, even if it was uber slow and really only meant it was useful for backups and not streaming.
the simple fact is that i have around 8TB of data, so even transfer in and out was free, at $0.05 per gig for storage, an online file locker would cost me $400 a month.
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Which is longer, 12 minuets or 12 waltzes?
are you referring to a regular waltz or chopin's "minute waltz"?
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I'm hoping this succeeds. If it does, then a new internet will be born, over international waters, where no country's laws will work anymore.
there is a high probability that this is a joke. the acronym for Low Orbiting Server Station is conspicuously similar to the Low Orbiting Ion Canon of Anonymous fame. also, april first is in a couple of weeks.
TPB has done this before. in 2008 they started a rumor that they moved to egypt.
Re: Re: Re: In fact, given the poor security aspects of wireless ...
Because with wireless, you can easily intercept the communications stream with nothing more than a cheap smartphone.
yes, but the goal of the project is to produce encrypted speech tools for use in a political environment where the oppressive regime has complete control over the network infrastructure. tapping a network is really easy when the network provider is complicit, just ask any law enforcement agency in the united states.
wired or wireless, the security of the tool is at the application level and not the network layer.
Re: But isn't this the wrong issue?
Even if AT&T is the biggest dog in the yard, shouldn't we be focused on increasing their competition instead of regulating them?
*IF* AT&T's shareholders were to vote for net neutrality, *AND* AT&T were to tout its net neutrality as a value proposition for its customers, it could force other service providers to do the same in order to remain competitive.
i'm not optimistic, but at least there is the specter of possibility.
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You mean we need a ton of fake entries and if something is more than 5 years old, what is wrong with you for wanting it?
wow, you really suck at bittorrent.
Re: Re: Re: The music itself is largely irrelevant
But as OK Go demonstrates, you don't necessarily have to be a great musician to have a career.
punk rock demonstrated that almost 40 years ago, and rhetorically, who cares?
You probably need to be good at something, but the music itself and your ability to create it could be secondary.
it's never been strictly about musicianship; it's always been about "the scene": stuff like girls, clothes, and venues. LP cover art gets replaced with music videos, but the effect is still the same.
In other words, we could say, "Want to be a successful musician? Then learn how to make clever videos."
i guess, if you want to be an OK Go clone.
without the recording industrial complex behind you, you have you find your own way. it requires original thought.
Re: The music itself is largely irrelevant
In my mind OK Go is really a video development company. The videos are attention-grabbing, so they get hired for that.
who cares? they are making their art and money at the same time. that's all that really matters.
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Sadly, cash cows pay bills, whilst "true art doesn't".
it's easier to pay bills (and turn profits) when the numbers are smaller. maybe hollywood could stop spending so much on production and create a product that works with the current itunes/netflix/amazon revenue model?
naw. better push for a reduction in civil liberties. that makes *way* more sense.
Re: Re: Did you just skip over "Sounds bogus to me."?
reading the whole article is cheating.
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DRM only sucks when compared to breaking the law. Not shocking, is it?
DRM is supposed to stop people from breaking the law. DRM is not effective.
so if the DRM technology doesn't do what you want it to do (which is prevent illegal downloads) AND it makes your legitimate customers angry (and possibly increases illegal downloads) then why bother with the DRM technology in the first place.
paying for media is optional. people pay you because they feel they should, not because they have to. crappy services that limit choice and features erode that feeling of obligation that your revenue model is based on. this is the essential point that media companies cannot grasp.
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"moneyhookers.com" Do they sleep with money? If not that name is extremely redundant.
you're confusing money hookers with hooker monies. money hookers is a service for hookers to collect money. it converts regular money into hooker monies, which hookers can then use to buy goods and services.
an excellent service for converting hooker monies back in to regular currency is hookermonies.com the also have an app store.
Re: Re: Re: what no comments ???
So Apple, Linux, UNIX, VMS dont exist ?
they exist, and according to microsoft, they violate microsoft's patents. android too.
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Gimmicks like motion controls, two screens, 3D-without-the-glasses, and the Wii U's tablet controller won't save them.
nintendo has always been a hardware company that uses its beloved game franchises to sell people on it's unusual hardware.
nintendo has never been able to compete with sony or microsoft due to it's [comparatively] small size. it's always tried to compete by using experimental hardware (gimmicks) and its exclusive titles.
nintendo's marketing model has pretty much always been: cheap consoles (i.e. parent friendly), tons of hardware accessories, marketed mostly at kids, featuring a huge roster of characters that are confined to nintendo hardware.
now that you're no longer a kid, i'm sure you feel like you're entitled to tell nintendo what you think. but i think that nintendo truly believes that it's primary user base is aged 8-14, not exactly the kind of folks you solicit for business advice, and not the kind of people who have traditionally had a strong need for online gaming.