The fact that If im a programmer wanting to steal and modify sourcecode from other programmers, I can go get a copy of your program, simply change the name of the program and incidentals, encrypt it with my own personal encryption key and program, you have no way of knowing i just ripped off your data other than noticing icon similarities. Thier is absolutely
no federal regulation of watchdogging of this and were all expected to trust people like microsoft,etc. not to do this.
The other thing is all this infighting and encryption eventually
will entice hackers to start encrypting virus’s.

This means programers can easily use encryption to rip other programers off and simply modify programming code. Companies dont want to encrypt thier information if thier smart anyway as no one will be programming for you and stuff like adobe, autodesk, etc.
is based on building apps.

All encryption for piracy measures do is help support rich people who can afford good encryption measures, programming and technology should be for everyone and not socialy engineered to support a class of people (rich).

Another example of this is webbrowsing, where only popular companies are browsed first 9 (by popularity), making it impossible for new companies or new information
for that matter get ahead.

nice job and esp that microsoft is encrypting and developing a.i. technology with thier new xbox natal milo demo, that means as long as privatized education is supported
we could all wake up getting pwned
by a corporation or group of people.

educational information needs to be public, not privatized, otherwise we end up with the mess we have now with technology being geared towards rich people and rich companies.

Los puños van y vienen en la eterna guerra entre los defensores de los derechos de autor (y sus abogados defensores de las ganancias groseras) y los usuarios que comparten música en redes P2P, y si el último round fue a favor de las disqueras, ahora…

Back on topic… Good to see things heading in the right direction, hopefully as Norway will sell their products just well, then the rights holders might start to take notice that file sharing is not acctually the end of the world…

That is BRILLIANT.

Congratulations, you win an Internet.

” @66

are you serious?

maybe because the people posting First! all over the place look like morons, and normally turn out to be so.”

Unlike the scene groups that rush to be first to release something, only to have it nuked 15 minutes later because they screwed something up?

You should take a look at the Conference Board of Canada’s report.. Since it was only released last month or so.. Not only is it plagiarized they were forced to recant it.. Not only that they named authors who had nothing to do with the final plagiarized report and were forced to issue an apology.. This is how far your sacred anti-piracy tactics will go.. Conference board of Canada still refuses to name who the companies were that funded them for this study.. Which was a waste of money anyways considering the whole opening if not more is plagiarized from a previous MPAA\RIAA study….

“He fears that copyright holders will be completely powerless to stop illegal file-sharing”

as opposed to completely ineffectual at stopping illegal file-sharing as they are everywhere else

are you serious?

maybe because the people posting First! all over the place look like morons, and normally turn out to be so.

So there is the root for this funny behaviour LoL

I always thought it was because some people have attention issues LoL

The arguement that One count of unauthorised installation does NOT equal one lost sale DOES work… around 70% of my software is now either open source or a free alternative to the paid for versions. For example – rather than spend £100′s on M$ Office I now use Open Office. Rather than Photoshop I use GIMP, rather than Windows Server software, I now install linux based servers, the list goes on and on. If there were no piracy – I can simply use alternative software or not use it at all.

I do still pay for some software though – including software that is perfectly functional without having to pay – for example Sandboxie. So long as it is not a rip-off and it is useful, I will happily pay for it!

I no longer buy games before I have downloaded and tested the full version – I have been stung too many times by buggy / crappy games that I played only once or twice due to issues. For example – I bought Test Drive Unlimited – it was 6 months before it was sufficiently patched to play. I bought NFS Prostreet – it still runs like a bag of shite on my system to this day! (And yes – my system is easily powerful enough – I can virtually max out Crysis with no issues at all!)

talk.. whine.. scream.. cry all you want Neotroll.. YOU ARE A DINOSAUR. After all your BS is said and done, your out the window.. you cannot stop it.

You still think that all this can be reversed.. like this is some people ‘getting out of hand’ that need to be ‘handled’. Im very surprised that you cannot see that this is it, this cannot be undone.. the files are shared.. we haven’t even BEGUN to go underground.. you can still find WHATEVER YOU WANT in like 0.4 seconds and download it.. any noob can do it. I have been around since napster.. ive been in more underground networks then you have even heard of..

So what if they somehow manage to rid the popular sites.. THIS WILL NEVER STOP.. just like drugs.

If you think the war on drugs failed.. just wait till you see this one.

Well I say: Denied!

Should prolly read, “One can not deny Me the right to monitor and hamster IP addresses and all the information that goes with ‘em in this way!” he said. “How on earth am I supposed to protect my right to my revenue stream now, eh, tell me that?”

Correction.. they just did. Don’t let the door hit you in the arse on the way out.

Is there an anonymity service there?

It would be perfect for people from Scandinavia and Northern Europe —

Norway’s got super fast broadband and isn’t even in the EU.

I’d love to use a proxy server or VPN in Norway.

Copyright is there to guarantee the artist the right to be the only person to profit from the work.

The artist gives up his right by signing a contract for a media company to profit from the work.

So if the artist signed his right to copyright away then why is the work still covered by copyright law?

Interesting piece, even if you don’t obtain the actual paper.

O’Reilly publishing did this and found that their products get a second wind when put on p2p networks.

“Harvard Study Finds WEAKER COPYRIGHT PROTECTION Has BENEFITTED SOCIETY”

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4062/125/

Wrong again, as always. Or should I say, lying again. I wonder if you’re even *capable* of telling the truth?

Probably not.

No matter how many times theft is explained to you, and no matter how many times it’s explained to you that it’s factually impossible for filesharing to be theft, you continue to spin the reality-defying lie that P2P is stealing.

You can fling that bullshit around all you like, but at the end of the day, you can’t change the meaning of the word “theft” to encompass the act of sharing. How does it feel to know that every comment you make is futile?

Oops, forgot to add.

Also, for anyone who STILL needs more proof of what piracy does
http://global.bsa.org/globalpiracy2008/index.html

I look at the link and immediately know that the report is written by the Business Software Alliance. An organization with a commercial interest in fighting filesharing, just like the RIAA and MPAA. As such, you cannot trust the reports and figures they put out in order to try and justify their lobbying for anti-filesharing, just like with the RIAA and MPAA.

Find me studies from independent sources and maybe you’ll have ground to stand on.

The fact that you arent making money doesn’t change the fact that copyright holders aren’t. And that’s what makes it theft. You are robbing them of profits and potential to develop themselves.

Filesharing is not theft! How many times will people have to smash this into the anti-piracy zealots’ heads? Nothing is being taken from anyone because you can’t steal what someone would never have had in the first place. The “loss of a chance to make a gain” concept is bullcrap. You cannot lose a chance to make a gain. The copyright owners always have the chance if their products remain for sale; if they constantly had a zero chance, they would have zero sales. Which they don’t. Not by a longshot. Filesharing may reduce their chances to make a gain, but that is hardly justification for fighting filesharing, considering the huge benefits it brings the common man. “Oh, noes, we’re going to have fewer sales because people are free.” Flip that around and it’s “We depend on controlling human rights for our profits.” Evil, evil, evil.

People have a right to education. People have a right to access to the sum total of the knowledge of mankind. People have a right to share with each other; it’s one of the extremely fundamental concepts of our society.