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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Matt_H on January 26, 2012, 07:30:16 PM
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As the arrest of a former Amigan and closure of Megaupload remind us (http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2012-01-00050-EN.html), these filesharing sites are incredibly volatile and unsafe for permanent archiving. If you need to distribute (legit) Amiga stuff, put it on Aminet for posterity.
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One of the megaupload guys used Amiga?
FBI in Hong Kong, NWO, what?
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One of the megaupload guys used Amiga?
Mathias Ortmann was, I believe, the original developer of WinUAE.
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What a bunch of crap! It was just a file server, they didn't upload "illegal content" them selves, and besides the server sat in a country that A. Is not the united states. B. As far as I know, still has no copy right or piracy laws.
Boooooooo
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What a bunch of crap! It was just a file server, they didn't upload "illegal content" them selves, and besides the server sat in a country that A. Is not the united states. B. As far as I know, still has no copy right or piracy laws.
Boooooooo
I suppose it's much to do with the (U.S.A.) music and film industry, Uncle Sam is loosing revenue due to piracy.
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I suppose it's much to do with the (U.S.A.) music and film industry, Uncle Sam is loosing revenue due to piracy.
Yeah, this was "coincidentally" done shortly after the SOPA/PIPA protests that ultimately resulted in setbacks for both bills. (And, coincidentally, the same day that Chris "Head of the MPAA" Dodd went on the news and threatened to pull funding for legislators that didn't swing his way.) Retaliation much?
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I suppose it's much to do with the (U.S.A.) music and film industry, Uncle Sam is loosing revenue due to piracy.
Piracy is just an excuse to further erode the constitution and bill of rights.
As is plain to see, but the entertainment business owned news media fails to point out to those to lazy to seek out knowledge on their own, is that countries that refuse to place piracy laws or in some cases copy right laws are getting along just fine. Piracy literally hurts nothing because regardless of it, people still trained to shop and hord for happiness. Besides piracy is no more a threat than VHS recorders of yester year, or buying things second hand. Besides, Hollywood and the musick industry suck. There is little talent coming from them and 99% of it just seemed geared towards the purpose of desensitization, opinion making, and social engineering.
The attack on Megaupload RIGHT after SOPA got shot down is just another case of The Beast telling us that it is going to do what it wants, where it wants, how it wants, regardless of what the people want, because...
The beast knows what is best for us more than we know ourselves...
According to it. Indeed this is the new world democracy the protesters and riots are begging for, unbeknownced to them selves.
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I hate the US government for what they are doing. May they burn in hell.
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We can all point our fingers at government agencies and blame them, but everyone who downloads movies and music that they haven't paid for and then decide they're not going to pay for it even if they like it are the ones to blame.
I'll admit to using file sharing services and they have a legitimate use. I've downloaded CD albums to replace my scratched disks and I download TV shows after they air in the UK (I only got into BSG because I downloaded the pilot after hearing someone say how good it was and then I went on to but the complete series on DVD and then replaced that with a BluRay boxed set), however I always preorder the DVDs/BluRays from Amazon.
"Abandonware" is a different kettle of fish.
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One of the megaupload guys used Amiga?
FBI in Hong Kong, NWO, what?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Kim_Schmitz.jpg
Pic of Kim Dotcom (of MegaUpload). Look at the computer on the right ;)
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It was not done "coincidentally" "just after" SOPA/PIPA : this was part of a two year ongoing investigation.
This cat basically said "I make millions stealing IP, period." Mysteriously, MU could filter child porn out but they repeatedly told software companies, musicians, movie studios, etc. that it was "impossible" to check every file to make sure it wasn't copyrighted.
MU paid people to pirate. They had a habit of checking incoming files for quality and would actually ask uploaders to send improved copies out.
They were asked time and time and time and time again, "please take our IP down" and the requests were ignored regardless of how they were delivered.
I'm no fan of the MPAA and RIAA and how they manipulate the legal system into being their own private security force but this is the wrong person to champion. Shawn Fanning and Napster had "Well you know the law on this is kinda grey..." to hide behind in the late 90s and early 2000s, but this jackass knew precisely what he was doing and danced around showing his ass daring the law to do something to him. This whole "WELL HURF HE'S NOT A US CITIZEN" BS? Yeah, neither was Carlos the Jackal, members of the Medellin cartel (another Carlos, specifically) and OBL - doesn't make 'em right or heroes or not deserving of what they got.
Please, please, please champion a cause for electronic freedom. Yes, do protest Amazon shutting off Wikileaks' cloud access, do call for less draconian IP laws, do stop the MPAA and RIAA from holding back technology but for chrissake don't hold this guy's actions up like he's some kind of innocent martyr. If you want to argue that IP piracy isn't a violent crime and it hurts no-one, fine, but in this one case I think we can point to someone who actively sought to hurt people. He was a ****ing inside trader anyway - not some 99%er hero to anyone. The first thing he did when he moved into his "neighborhood" (his exclusive fortress built along a secluded beach that included a double panic room where apparently he was about to have a shootout with the cops when he got busted) was send out a smug little letter to nearby homeowners saying what a badass hacker he was.
**** this guy.
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Personally, I see software piracy as a marketing/sales problem: instead of asking "How can we get them to stop stealing our stuff?" they should be asking "How can we get them to buy our stuff?"
Point being, this kind of thing is going to happen - these sites are going to come down, be it for legal, business, or hackery reasons. They are not safe for long-term use. Read up about The Archive Team (http://www.technologyreview.com/article/39317/) to learn about the importance of institutionalized backups and archiving, and the danger of "the Cloud".
I've seen users here at Amiga.org post files to Megaupload and similar sites: programs they've written, scripts they've created, images they've made, formerly commercial software reclassified as freeware, document scans. All that stuff is lost now. Aminet is our best repository for preserving Amiga goodies.
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Aminet Forever!!!
But God help u if u try to upload a 1GB game :)
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We can all point our fingers at government agencies and blame them, but everyone who downloads movies and music that they haven't paid for and then decide they're not going to pay for it even if they like it are the ones to blame.
Look, I'm not going to defend acts of piracy, but there are already perfectly valid legal channels for going after pirates. Many non-cooperative sites have been shut down through perfectly legitimate legal means. The reason SOPA and PIPA are being put forward isn't because it's the only way to stop piracy, it's because the legitimate ways to stop it involve a certain amount of time and money, and rather than choose their battles and accept that a certain amount of small-scale infringement is going to happen, the content industry wants to be given the keys to the kingdom so that they can shut down infringers at whim (without burden of proof, due process, or chance of appeal.) It's a power grab, not just a collection of poor oppressed little businesses trying to look out for the defenseless artists they shelter from the bad, cruel pirates.
And while Megaupload may have been under investigation, I refuse to believe that the timing and scale of this ("this" being "a total shutdown of the site and the arrest of half a dozen foreign nationals in foreign countries for a foreign-based business") is not intended to send a message. (As indeed it has, with several significant file-upload sites knuckling under in the days since...)
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They were asked time and time and time and time again, "please take our IP down" and the requests were ignored regardless of how they were delivered.
**** this guy.
How do u know this to be true?
Are you now, or have you ever been an employee of Megaupload.com?
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megaupload was yesterday.
today it's rapidshare :D
Markus
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After Obama gets reelected he will also be shutting down DropBox and ThePirateBay. They have only a couple of years left.
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Aminet Forever!!!
But God help u if u try to upload a 1GB game :)
Does Aminet have capacity issues like that? (Is it slow? Or not possible?) Definitely something worth discussing (and resolving) to make it a more attractive archival repository.
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Wow, people stll believe in the official report through the corporate conglomeration known as the news media (always protective of it's merchandise,agenda, and those up top who help fund, promote, and protect them).
Shall I suggest reading The Media Monopoly? The Critical Warnings of Neil Postman? Shall I advise you to take heed to religion and the world's tribal ancestors who did not put the value of objects above freedom, tradition, culture, tribe, family, or the gods?
Have you lost your mind? :)
The necessity of civil government grows up with the acquisition of valuable property. Till there be property there can be no government, the very end of which is to secure wealth and to defend the rich from the poor. - Adam Smith
This is abot property and control, manifest destiny. nothing more, nothing less.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_and_society
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Look, I'm not going to defend acts of piracy, but there are already perfectly valid legal channels for going after pirates. Many non-cooperative sites have been shut down through perfectly legitimate legal means. The reason SOPA and PIPA are being put forward isn't because it's the only way to stop piracy, it's because the legitimate ways to stop it involve a certain amount of time and money, and rather than choose their battles and accept that a certain amount of small-scale infringement is going to happen, the content industry wants to be given the keys to the kingdom so that they can shut down infringers at whim (without burden of proof, due process, or chance of appeal.) It's a power grab, not just a collection of poor oppressed little businesses trying to look out for the defenseless artists they shelter from the bad, cruel pirates.
And while Megaupload may have been under investigation, I refuse to believe that the timing and scale of this ("this" being "a total shutdown of the site and the arrest of half a dozen foreign nationals in foreign countries for a foreign-based business") is not intended to send a message. (As indeed it has, with several significant file-upload sites knuckling under in the days since...)
Well said. I agree totally. After reading this, the movie quote: "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" comes to mind.
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We can all point our fingers at government agencies and blame them, but everyone who downloads movies and music that they haven't paid for and then decide they're not going to pay for it even if they like it are the ones to blame.
I'll admit to using file sharing services and they have a legitimate use. I've downloaded CD albums to replace my scratched disks
Under US law downloading CD albums to replace your scratched disks is illegal. Owning a licensed disk does not give you the right to download an unlicensed copy from another source even though you can copy the licensed disk for your own personal use.
I know that's ludicrous, but that's the law. So Darrin, you just admitted to being a music pirate on a public forum. Welcome to the NWO, sucks doesn't it.
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And now that public domain can be bought, hardware can still be considered property of it's maker regardless if you bought and paid for it, corporations have the same "rights" as people, and information (truth, evidence, and therefore the means to justice) can be owned...
How far do you think they are going to take this?
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Under US law downloading CD albums to replace your scratched disks is illegal. Owning a licensed disk does not give you the right to download an unlicensed copy from another source even though you can copy the licensed disk for your own personal use.
I know that's ludicrous, but that's the law. So Darrin, you just admitted to being a music pirate on a public forum. Welcome to the NWO, sucks doesn't it.
I don't condone piracy but if that's the Law then it is wrong. I've always abided by the same social law that if I have purchased something I own it or have title to it. Be it a music CD or a movie DVD.
Under Australian Law a product must be fit for the purpose for which it is sold for a period limited by warranty/guarantee. That's a fair Law.
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Here's one...
Piracy is not a crime, it's a life style choice and pirates should not be discriminated against for expressing their free will as they please.
;)
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Without piracy, ****ty music wouldn't spread as much :D
i gave up on replacing destroyed cd's with downloaded versions. Nowadays i try to find indie music or i'll just listen to the song on youtube (until they shut that down too).
Like xdelusion there I oppose patents and copyrights on a moral basis, though from the basis of being a communist, whereas he opposes them from the basis of spirituality.
Common ground and common sense.
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Kim Schmitz is a charlatan and career criminal/scam artist. This case didn't happen over night. The indictment paper is mile long. These guys are going to roast, and they deserve it.
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:)
Without piracy, ****ty music wouldn't spread as much :D
i gave up on replacing destroyed cd's with downloaded versions. Nowadays i try to find indie music or i'll just listen to the song on youtube (until they shut that down too).
Like xdelusion there I oppose patents and copyrights on a moral basis, though from the basis of being a communist, whereas he opposes them from the basis of spirituality.
Common ground and common sense.
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I read somewhere on a German news site, megaupload was planning to distribute music directly from the artists (for money), thus bypassing the music industry entirely. I cannot judge, however, how much truth is in this.
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Having spent 10 years in the music industry as an artist, I can tell you this...
Artists don't make much money from record sales, record companies do.
Record companies HATED cd's. They hate mp3's even more. All the power they once had is slowly eroding away, yet some of them still pump millions into promoting garbage to the masses.
Some large companies still do to a large extent control what people hear, and listen to the **** they try and pump into your head, its total garbage. I agree with a previous poster, I just listen to indie stuff mostly these days.
Previous to my time in the industry, I always bought cd's from artists I wanted to support, but little did I know those artists saw pennies from my purchases, if they were lucky.
At one point my "band" had cd's, t shirts, music videos, posters, the works.
What did I get? I got to live on a tour bus for years traveling all over the country doing concerts for next to nothing,while a record company was selling that stuff and making excuses for where all the money went. At the end of the contracts I quit, I barely ever saw a dime from all that.
Is my story unique? No way. I know hundreds of stories just like mine.
So don't for a second think your stealing from an "artist" if you download mp3's... Your stealing from the dirtballs ripping off that artist, period.
If you want to support an artist, buy stuff from their website, or from artists who sell their own mp3's or cds.
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i gave up on replacing destroyed cd's with downloaded versions. Nowadays i try to find indie music or i'll just listen to the song on youtube (until they shut that down too).
I just have to ask - what do you do to your CDs that means it's a routine thing for them to be destroyed and have to have to replace them with downloaded content. As they say, maybe "you're doing it wrong!" ;)
I always bought - and continue to buy - CDs of music I like, and CDs I bought 17 years ago still work perfectly. I know the artist doesn't get very much from the sale, but I like to have proper media anyway. Wherever possible I do buy the CD directly from the artist. It happens at a lot of indie gigs, you head up to the stage afterwards and ask them (or their roadies if they're lucky) and most of the time they'll have a few with them. I happily give them the €10 or €20 they ask, and leave with that warm fuzzy feeling from knowing that they're actually getting the money... Well, from that and beer ;)
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Having spent 10 years in the music industry as an artist, I can tell you this...
Artists don't make much money from record sales, record companies do.
Record companies HATED cd's. They hate mp3's even more. All the power they once had is slowly eroding away, yet some of them still pump millions into promoting garbage to the masses.
Some large companies still do to a large extent control what people hear, and listen to the **** they try and pump into your head, its total garbage. I agree with a previous poster, I just listen to indie stuff mostly these days.
Previous to my time in the industry, I always bought cd's from artists I wanted to support, but little did I know those artists saw pennies from my purchases, if they were lucky.
At one point my "band" had cd's, t shirts, music videos, posters, the works.
What did I get? I got to live on a tour bus for years traveling all over the country doing concerts for next to nothing,while a record company was selling that stuff and making excuses for where all the money went. At the end of the contracts I quit, I barely ever saw a dime from all that.
Is my story unique? No way. I know hundreds of stories just like mine.
So don't for a second think your stealing from an "artist" if you download mp3's... Your stealing from the dirtballs ripping off that artist, period.
If you want to support an artist, buy stuff from their website, or from artists who sell their own mp3's or cds.
I couldn't ****ing agree more. I tend to buy most of my music from indie labels too these days. I still dont condone piracy but this is the reason why bands like radiohead are releasing music themselves these days.
Unless your Metallica and get several dollars a cd sold from the record company the only way to make music as an artist is to tour.
There are quite a lot of artists that believe we need to take the power away from these record companies, give away all music for free and go to gigs.
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Without piracy, ****ty music wouldn't spread as much :D
i gave up on replacing destroyed cd's with downloaded versions. Nowadays i try to find indie music or i'll just listen to the song on youtube (until they shut that down too).
Like xdelusion there I oppose patents and copyrights on a moral basis, though from the basis of being a communist, whereas he opposes them from the basis of spirituality.
Common ground and common sense.
I salute you both. Sadly the reality is (as haywirepc has mentioned) that the record companies make all the cash, not the artists. I only pay artists directly. It's not too difficult for me as the bands I like all have websites that I can buy directly from.... ..for now.
One of the complaints about SOPA and PIPA was that the extra cost of maintaining a website so that is doesn't breach the proposed regulations is that it would make direct sale products more expensive (even amazon complained on these grounds). Not so surprising that the big record companies backed it then, they don't like direct sales by artists one little bit. Your supposed to like what they say you like and buy what they say to buy, behave like a good little consumer unit. It all makes me sick, some people have a great deal of animosity for the pirates but the biggest thieves around are running governments and banks. let's not forget that.
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I just have to ask - what do you do to your CDs that means it's a routine thing for them to be destroyed and have to have to replace them with downloaded content. As they say, maybe "you're doing it wrong!" ;)
I'll blame my wife for this one, actually ;)
Our collection of CD's was in the car and she wasn't good about not having them slide around the floor or whatever
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So don't for a second think your stealing from an "artist" if you download mp3's... Your stealing from the dirtballs ripping off that artist, period.
If you want to support an artist, buy stuff from their website, or from artists who sell their own mp3's or cds.
This is what I've heard from several different sources, and I can't say I'm surprised. It's why I do buy directly when I can (and the only other stuff I buy is vinyl, so the majority of it's bought used, anyway.) Mostly my problem is that hardly anyone makes the kind of music I really love anymore... (classic progressive rock, and no, prog-metal is fine but it's not at all the same thing...)
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Does Aminet have capacity issues like that?
No. For anything (significantly) bigger than 100 MB we'd like to get a short notice upfront, but there are no actual problems hosting big files.
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No. For anything (significantly) bigger than 100 MB we'd like to get a short notice upfront, but there are no actual problems hosting big files.
Good to know!
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I'll blame my wife for this one, actually ;)
Our collection of CD's was in the car and she wasn't good about not having them slide around the floor or whatever
Ouch :( Yeah, my sister does the same thing...
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I'll blame my wife for this one, actually ;)
Our collection of CD's was in the car and she wasn't good about not having them slide around the floor or whatever
Snap! Glad to see that it isn't just my wife who has issues with replacing CDs into their cases.
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Unless your Metallica and get several dollars a cd sold from the record company the only way to make music as an artist is to tour.
Metallica doesn't get that much.
The Grateful Dead was one of the most financially successful bands of all time and they encouraged people to record and trade their live shows, because they knew they would make more money from touring than from record sales.
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Having spent 10 years in the music industry as an artist, I can tell you this...
Artists don't make much money from record sales, record companies do.
Record companies HATED cd's. They hate mp3's even more.
Why did they hate CD's? Wouldn't the manufacturing costs of those be less than LP's and cassette tapes?
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I've always admired Chuck D of Public Enemy for the things he's done since his group broke away from the record company that once chained them and put tape over their mouth.
Going Independent or working with an Indy Label brings about freedom that a record company will not give you, plus it gives you a much better cut as well.
The trick though is that the Indy label you are working with has to have money to get you out on the road and touring, or if you are going without a record company you have to fund the touring your self, and know your own connections to get booked and what not.
Thankfully, with the current freedom of the internet, bands are able to spread awareness of their existence without going through all the usual networks as before. Granted one never makes much money through MP3/Flac/CD/Tape/ or Record sales, but the internet does at least allow people to get their stuff heard which in turn raises the chances that there will be a decent turn out when they do a live performance.
Though again as I said, touring has to be paid by the band itself or by the Indy label they are on. For this to happen, people got to work REAL JOBS and raise that money. Hardly anything in life aside of Life itself comes for free, so in the indy world, there is no opportunity to kick off your heels and slide under the boss' desk for a quick promotion. You gotta work hard, you got to develop your talent, and you got to make people hungry for more, without the aid of quick advert enticing promotions.
As for the touring itself, as Chuck D said, doing local tours is dead, they say the best way to make your money is to tour internationally as their seems to be a larger market for musical diversity and depth of lyrics across seas than there is here in America (we seem to flock towards empty fluff for some reason). So all in all, if someone wants to play musick for a living, they are going to have to work hard with or without the record company, but the upside of doing it without is that you get a larger cut of the pay (if not all minus expenses), and you do not have to worry about being censored, or having your own work stolen from you by the company itself, claiming it is their property and their work to be sold and used how they please...
Sort of like how ABC (or was it NBC) has the rights to Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches, for which reason we never see them played in full, because they have now become intellectual property. :/
No doubt, that's why the Prez never fully quotes King during Martin Luther King Day.
When information is owned, it can be more easily (legally) concealed.
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Also the record industry tends to convert all shared mp3s are lost sales. In reality there are kids who have 100's of GB of music in their iTunes and never listen to most of it. They just feel cool having it. If you really feel guilty about pirated music in your collection just join Apple's cloud service, they'll legitimise your entire collection for US$25...
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Heh, ya that's the other thing about the general nature of piracy...
People tend to be more about their collection than actually enjoying what they've got...
Always in the pursuit of more and more and more.
On the otherhand, those who do not have a touch of collector's obsessive compulsive disorder generally just buy the few albums, movies, or apps that they do use and have time for.
About a year ago a branch of the US government did a study on this, and like Sega of the Dreamcast era, deemed piracy to be less a threat and more along the lines of free promotion and publicity. In fact I've heard up and coming musicians thank pirates time and time again for making their work known.
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"Why did they hate CD's? Wouldn't the manufacturing costs of those be less than LP's and cassette tapes?"
Not especially cheaper than cassettes, and cd's provided a very easy means of making a perfect 1:1 copy, whereas tapes degrade in quality with each dub...
Digital copies are always the same as the original. I heard several record company guys tell me they liked tapes better because some people would copy a tape from a friend, but if they really liked the record they'd still buy a copy to get the better quality... but with cd copies its perfectly the same quality as the original so why still buy a copy?
Steven
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Cd's were supposed to be impossible for consumers to copy. Cheap cd burners and the mp3 shattered all control the industry had
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Cd's were supposed to be impossible for consumers to copy. Cheap cd burners and the mp3 shattered all control the industry had
so who made these cd burners so you could rip your cds to wav -> mp3... sony..... so you can say the music industry shattered all control them self...
and by the way acta have been signed and is worse than sopa/pipa, all behind peoples back....
read...
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/26/eu-signs-up-to-acta
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If I were to conspiracy theorize, I'd say they set up this whole debacle was deliberately set up so that "they" would have an excuse to deliver to certain dull minded people to give up their dreams of freedom in exchange for "security".
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. - Benjamin Franklin
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. - Chief Sitting Bull
so who made these cd burners so you could rip your cds to wav -> mp3... sony..... so you can say the music industry shattered all control them self...
and by the way acta have been signed and is worse than sopa/pipa, all behind peoples back....
read...
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/26/eu-signs-up-to-acta
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Snap! Glad to see that it isn't just my wife who has issues with replacing CDs into their cases.
No my wife does it with cds, dvds and xbox games.
I go mad, cds is bad enough, but disks that cost £30 a pop , not good
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Metallica doesn't get that much.
The Grateful Dead was one of the most financially successful bands of all time and they encouraged people to record and trade their live shows, because they knew they would make more money from touring than from record sales.
Metallica get much much more than most artists per cd sold, I have seen it quoted several dollars a sale.
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If I were to conspiracy theorize, I'd say they set up this whole debacle was deliberately set up so that "they" would have an excuse to deliver to certain dull minded people to give up their dreams of freedom in exchange for "security".
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. - Benjamin Franklin
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. - Chief Sitting Bull
are you drink or something?...
the first cd burner was made in 1988, in the 90's cd burners where everywhere to be bought(including sony selling them)...
acta protesters worldwide.... good to see people wake up...
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/288930/20120127/acta-protest-rally-world.htm
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We can all point our fingers at government agencies and blame them, but everyone who downloads movies and music that they haven't paid for and then decide they're not going to pay for it even if they like it are the ones to blame.
Many of them didn't decide to be poor, the super-rich did. Blame where blame is due!
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Many of them didn't decide to be poor, the super-rich did. Blame where blame is due!
Well put. People who steal do it for one of three reasons only:
1: Kleptomania - these people are mentally ill by definition.
2: Poverty, and in a society that continually uses the most advanced subliminal messaging it can in order to make them desire material things the poor could argue that they are brainwashed into the criminal act.
3: Greed - The very thing that drives politicians and bankers to rob us all through the expenses system, financial manipulation and even worse methods. Greed is arguably the biggest problem of them all as it's the one that creates the poverty.
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Cd's were supposed to be impossible for consumers to copy. Cheap cd burners and the mp3 shattered all control the industry had
At about £30,000 in the UK for a burner and software when CD's were new it was impossible for consumers to copy. It didn't take long for the prices to drop however. DVD was even quicker and tools like smart ripper even removed the Macrovision (after a certain person on this site, who shall remain nameless told them how to find it)....
..ahh, that brings back some memories.
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by the way acta have been signed and is worse than sopa/pipa
However, it hasn't been ratified as of yet. So, it may not be too late. While petitions hardly ever work, there's one to sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet_spread/
Here are useful links if you want to make a real difference:
https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA
http://www.edri.org/stopacta#do
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/acta:-signed,-not-yet-sealed-now-its-up-to-us
US citizens can also sign this petition: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/please-submit-acta-senate-ratification-required-constitution-trade-agreements/VgZJGZMt
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However, it hasn't been ratified as of yet. So, it may not be too late yet. While petitions hardly ever work, there's one to sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet_spread/
Here are useful links if you want to make a real difference:
https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA
http://www.edri.org/stopacta#do
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/acta:-signed,-not-yet-sealed-now-its-up-to-us
US citizens can also sign this petition: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/please-submit-acta-senate-ratification-required-constitution-trade-agreements/VgZJGZMt
Thanks Piru, signed.
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Personally, I see software piracy as a marketing/sales problem: instead of asking "How can we get them to stop stealing our stuff?" they should be asking "How can we get them to buy our stuff?"
Point being, this kind of thing is going to happen - these sites are going to come down, be it for legal, business, or hackery reasons. They are not safe for long-term use. Read up about The Archive Team (http://www.technologyreview.com/article/39317/) to learn about the importance of institutionalized backups and archiving, and the danger of "the Cloud".
I've seen users here at Amiga.org post files to Megaupload and similar sites: programs they've written, scripts they've created, images they've made, formerly commercial software reclassified as freeware, document scans. All that stuff is lost now. Aminet is our best repository for preserving Amiga goodies.
And that's why you don't use cloud storage for archiving (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/30/146082390/megaupload-users-may-lose-files-stored-on-service).
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It all depends..
Using cloud storage as a backup/archival can work..
Depending on the criticality of the data, the frequency of the need to write/read from that data, and the time required to recreate that data..
If you're storing something like PICs, and it's the ONLY place you are storing those PICs, that's a bad idea.. ;-)
If you are storing a copy of the PICs, then it's not too bad an idea per se..
If, assuming the worst and your data goes POOF, you can just copy them back up to another site, it's not too big a deal...
Cloud can have it's uses...
Just make sure you aren't depending on it always being there... ;-)
desiv
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Ukraine shuts down leading file-sharing site:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/1/ukraine-shuts-down-leading-file-sharing-site/
...The long arm of Microsoft law.
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I lost all my Amiga stuff that I wanted to share.
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Just noticed this...
People who steal do it for one of three reasons only:
2: Poverty, and in a society that continually uses the most advanced subliminal messaging it can in order to make them desire material things the poor could argue that they are brainwashed into the criminal act.
That's not a "reason," it's an excuse...
Big difference...
And as for brainwashing through subliminal messaging, I don't think so..
If that worked, we'd all be..
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Sorry, had to run out for a Coke.. Man, that's refreshing.... AH!!!!!!!
desiv
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The reason is POVERTY. Subliminal advertising just ups the pressure that people feel to compete with those that have. It's not a reason in it's own right but it is a factor, an added emotional push in the wrong direction.