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  • On the post: Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM: UltraViolet, Getting Slammed In Reviews

    chris ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 08:42am

    Re:

    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.

  • On the post: PayPal Freezes Diaspora's Account

    chris ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 07:38am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Use PayPal! (Eat At Joes!)

    "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.

  • On the post: Transparency Is Not A Zero-Sum Game… But Neither Is Intellectual Property

    chris ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 07:31am

    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.

  • On the post: Nintendo Fans Hijack Twitter Hash Tag Meant For Nintendo Of America CEO And Are Promptly Ignored

    chris ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 07:13am

    Re:

    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.

  • On the post: New Research Brings Much Needed Objectivity To Game Piracy Numbers

    chris ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2011 @ 10:09am

    Re: "majority of games ... had fewer than 50,000 unique peers"

    Taking a random survey on The Pirate Bay for the only game that came to mind, "Call of Duty", showed one torrent with 402 SEEDS, though only 140 leeches

    402 seeds isn't that many. it's more than enough to get reliable downloads, but it's nothing compared to something extremely popular and extremely current, like the season premiere of "the walking dead", which has over 17000 seeds:
    http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6749291/The.Walking.Dead.S02E01.HDTV.XviD-ASAP.[VTV].avi

  • On the post: What If A Court Gave An Important Ruling, But We Were Not Allowed To Know What It Was?

    chris ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2011 @ 12:21pm

    so when do we just switch to the tribunal process?

    an get all of that pesky bill of rights nonsense out of the way?

  • On the post: Why Can't PROTECT IP Supporters Just Admit That It's About Censorship?

    chris ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 12:55pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: *NO, I DO NOT CONDONE CHILD PORN*

    why don't you have a seat over there ->

  • On the post: Worst Kept Secret Now Confirmed: Government Was Very Involved Helping RIAA/MPAA Negotiate Six Strikes

    chris ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 12:51pm

    Re: Re: Surprise ?

    Moreover, you have to ask what the government's goal is.
    the goal of all public officials is to get [re]elected. obama and his boys have raised millions in contributions already and the campaign hasn't really started yet.

    I know that content is taxable (on all levels), and thus is a good source of government revenue - and a chunk of the economy.
    hollywood has supposedly been losing "billions" for over a decade. if you want to collect tax revenue and boost the economy you should probably get in bed with growing companies with products people want to buy, like apple, amazon and google, rather than "shrinking" companies like book publishers, movie studios and record labels.

    The short term illegal access to content is, well, not exactly taxable, is it?
    it's not, but the hundreds millions of consumers who pay taxes probably generate way more tax revenue than hollywood does, given its propensity for creative accounting.

    unless this is actually about campaign contributions, in which case, hollywood weilds way more power than the voting public.

  • On the post: Should We Pass A Law To Stop Yelp From Harming Chain Restaurants?

    chris ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2011 @ 09:32am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Yelp filter



    around here the difference between deadpan sarcasm and trolling is often hard to detect.

  • On the post: As Expected, Alternative DNS Systems Sprouting Up To Ignore US Censorship

    chris ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2011 @ 07:11am

    Re: Re: Re: Department of Redundancy Department

    humor. you don't haz it.

  • On the post: Should We Pass A Law To Stop Yelp From Harming Chain Restaurants?

    chris ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2011 @ 07:10am

    Re: Re: Yelp filter

    Or you could invest that 300 dollars in improving your service so that your reviews are good on Yelp

    that sounds like actual work. i'd rather not do anything of value but still get paid as if i did.

    people like you make me sick.

  • On the post: One Of The Most Successful NY Startups… Is Dedicated To Infringing Activities (According To The Entertainment Industry)

    chris ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2011 @ 12:36pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    I agree with this as well. Give me the content and only the content, no DRM, no spyware, no malware, no rootkit and no restrictions on when/where/how I view the content.

    what are you some kind of pirate?

  • On the post: CA Governor Lets Police Search Your Smartphones At Traffic Stops

    chris ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2011 @ 08:27am

    California ?ber Alles

    pretty sure the dead kennedys warned us about this in the 70's
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CR2rxRMcTE

    just sayin'

  • On the post: As Expected, Alternative DNS Systems Sprouting Up To Ignore US Censorship

    chris ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2011 @ 07:43am

    Re: Department of Redundancy Department

    it's probably something to do with the internet IP protocol.

  • On the post: University Police & Administration Freak Out Over Nathan Fillion Firefly Poster; Censor, Threaten Professor

    chris ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 12:39pm

    Re: Huh? What's Firefly?

    Would they have the same reaction to Harry Callahan holding his 45 and saying, "Go ahead, punk, make my day"?

    no. harry callahan was an american cop played by all american clint eastwood. nerds watch the sci-fi channel. the difference is pretty glaring.

  • On the post: Austin Police Planned… Then Postponed Wardriving Plans In An Attempt To Shutdown Open WiFi

    chris ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2011 @ 08:31am

    Re: Re: Unsolved rape, murder, arson, assault and kidnapping cases...

    you would think with all the complaining about illegal immigrants coming from Mexico into Arizona and Texas, they would have something else to keep them busy...

    ok smart guy, how do you know these illegals aren't coming into the country through these open wireless networks? FUD much?

  • On the post: Will California's Governor Outlaw Police From Searching Mobile Phones Without A Warrant?

    chris ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2011 @ 08:12am

    Re: Re:

    But, it doesn't help since when the phone is on the key is in active memory to decrypt the drive as you use it, thus they can just go around the encryption.

    why can't you just turn your phone off when you get pulled over?

  • On the post: The Democratization Of Culture: PressPausePlay

    chris ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2011 @ 08:36am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A question for you, Mike

    the idea of IPv6 is in part that every device can and will be given a unique IP within a network. That is to say that DHCP will not longer be useful (and may in fact be discouraged), because your individual devices (by MAC address) will always have the same IP within a given network (assign once, never have to reuse).

    again, that's a great theory, but the last 13 years disagree with you. the internet isn't flat. it's a network of interconnected networks, each with their own rules and configurations.

    also MAC addresses aren't as immutable as you make them out to be. even if mac addresses and ip addresses couldn't be proxied or faked, they're still not fingerprints or DNA.

    also, fixed IP addressing is a two-way street. if there is less churn in the assignment of IP's, that greatly improves the accuracy and maintenance of real time block lists like moblock and peer guardian. this is why encrypted tunnels aren't necessary, block list keep out prying eyes just fine.

    As for "licensing deals", there really is no licensing with "free".

    sure there is. a voluntary (not compulsory) blanket license would solve hollywood's problems without changing much of anything, other than the amount of money coming in. people pay for a license to do what they are doing right now, and hollywood leaves the people with valid licenses alone.

    people who don't want to pay for a license don't have to. they can keep doing what they are doing now. companies like media sentry can continue to spy on people and send nastygrams to ISP's.

    in fact, they might even be able to collect nielsen style ratings info, especially if more people can file share in the clear. this way, the drop in illegal piracy doesn't affect their bottom lines that much since they can collect and sell this 'market research data' to the people who buy that stuff.

    corrupt royalties groups like ASCAP can collect money from the voluntary licences and keep not paying artists, just like they're doing right now. the only difference is that there will probably be more money for them to take.

    the only thing that changes is that folks with licenses can register said license with their ISP and the ISP can disregard all cease and desist letters so long as the subscriber's license is paid up.

    i for one would be glad to pay a couple hundred a year to be able to run torrents in the clear.

  • On the post: The Democratization Of Culture: PressPausePlay

    chris ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2011 @ 09:11am

    Re: Re: Re: A question for you, Mike

    with the arrival of IPv6[...]Piracy is pretty much predicated on the anonymous nature of the net. Take that away, make it so people really have to share who they are as they share a file or as they download it, and you will see more people give it up.

    that's an awfully big assumption.

    1) i don't think IPv6 does what you think it does. ipv6 is an increase in the address space, nothing more. the networking world isn't going to suddenly move to all static IPs all the time and toss NAT and DHCP forever more. IPv6 is something like 13 years old, and we've supposedly run out of ipv4 addresses, yet IPV4, NAT, and DHCP still persist.

    2) even if the world switched to government controlled IPV6 static IP's, a static IP isn't a fingerprint or DNA evidence. there is plenty of anonymity to be had via tunnels, be they VPN, SSH, TOR, etc. that stuff isn't integrated into P2P tool set and enabled by default because it isn't necessary yet. pirates don't run into a problem and quit. this is why napster begat gnutella, and gnutella begat bit torrent. if the need arises, bit torrent will beget always on encrypted tunneling and the next round of the P2P arms race will begin anew.

    Most of the "new" business models are predicated on free distribution and building from there... when piracy of X is no longer a widespread issue, the actual market for X recovers to the point where it can be sold profitably again..

    the player piano was illegal until the legal system caught up. same with the radio, the phonograph, the cassette recorder, the VCR, and on and on. every time the establishment railed against a new technology, and ultimately cut a licensing deal and moved on.

    i'm not saying your theory is impossible --anything is possible and these are times of corporate welfare of epic proportions-- but history isn't on your side.

  • On the post: Wasn't The PATRIOT Act Supposed To Be About Stopping Terrorism?

    chris ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2011 @ 11:36am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    See:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Trafficking

    wikipedia supports terrorism.

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