Posts by Chris Campbell 22 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jun 2008
"I will put my hands up to being the occasional freetard, but with an ISP levy I'll be subsidising the more frequent freetards which isn't right. Also the non-freetards will be subsidising me, for something they never do, which is bang out of order."
I will put my hands up to the occasional visit to the hospital, but with my taxes going to the NHS I'll be subsidising the fatties and the clumsy people, which isn't right. Also, the really healthy/careful people will be subsidising me, for a service they never use, which is bang out of order.
Get the point? All taxes are the same, we all pay it, but don't all get equal benefit from it, sometime no benefit.
I'm still against a tax on ISPs (or anyone else) that is used to fund the music industry. My main issues with it are in the distribution of fund between artists, and that fact it will kill the genuine music business, because effectivly - through the tax - everyone has paid for every peice of music ever created in the past and present.
But then you'd be depriving Ferrari of a sale of their car that you couldn't afford and wouldn't have bought anyway!
"The Industry Trust has ditched an advert that carried the message "You wouldn't steal a car... piracy is theft""
Well, at least they have stopped lying in their adverts, copyright infringement and theft are not the same thing.
"It really is a cheek of another company to think they can just leverage off the work of others, lazy fucks, why don't they just fund and write an operating system themselves."
It really is a cheek of Apple to think they can just leverage off the work of others, lazy fucks, why don't they just fund and manufacture a CPU/Motherboard/RAM/Video card themselves.
If you think MS are using anti-competitive business pactices, then Apple take it to a whole new level.
We don't know how many times he succeeded with this tactic, so accepting 10 hours as an average isn't really a good idea. It's like rolling a dice once, getting a 6 and calling that the average roll of a dice.
Also, it goes both ways, it's theoretically possible to get it first try and succeed instantly, but it's also possible to go on for much much longer than 10 hours.
Something I haven't seen mentioned in the Phorm debate yet is that they are overwriting adverts in web pages with their own 'relevent adverts' so effectivly stealing the advertising space from the web host.
It's exactly the same as plastering your own poster up on a billboard over the top of someone elses, it's the digital equivilant of flyposting, which is illegal.
It's not easy to find, but it's listed as 200 miles on a full charge.
On 'Home' > 'Electric vs. Petrol':
"True to its name, the Lightning GT could be charged in approximately 10 minutes for up to 200 miles of motoring, which would make long journeys a breeze."
Not sure long journeys would be 'a breeze', my daily commute is 120 miles...
"for accessing protected computers without authorization"
The above quote appears a lot in the things she was charged for, and the basis for saying she accessed computers without authorisation is that she had violated the myspace ToS, therefore losing her permission to access/use the myspace website.
At least this is my understanding from the coverage I've read.
Quoting from other register articles on the subject:
"prosecutors charged Lori Drew with conspiracy and hacking for violating MySpace terms of service that, among other things, forbid the creation of fictitious accounts"
"The indictment charges Drew, a resident of O'Fallon, Missouri, with three counts of unauthorized access by violation of MySpace's terms of service and one count of conspiracy."
Although, if they were wrong then I appologise, since I haven't checked any other sources...
She is being prosecuted for breaking the myspace Terms of Service, not lieing (although lieing what what broke the terms of service, she's not being prosucted for that specifially).
So this doesn't criminalise lieing on the internet, it criminalises breaking Terms of Service on the internet, which is much much worse IMO. I'm sure most internet users have broken some of the terms of services that they've blindly aggreed to at some point, this would effectively make anything someone rights in a Terms of Service aggreement legally binding with a possible 20 year prison sentence!
Glad I don't live in the US....
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