until the courts are desensitized and sites are blocked 'on the nod'
At which point 'sites' will disappear and the whole thing will move onto what ever edonkey morphs into.
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I've posted this story before but it bares retelling here.
When I was a youngster The average price of a game for my ZX Spectrum was £5.
The Hobbit adventure game was released and retailed at £20.
My self and 3 friends clubbed together to get a copy that we copied and shared among our selves.
If we had not been able to club together and buy one copy between the 4 of us the non of us would have bought a copy.
So copying the game lead directly to one additional sale, where as according to the maths of the RIAA etc I caused 3 lost sales.
However, according to their Twitter feed the hackers gained access to Foxconn’s systems via an “outdated vulnerability” in a version of Internet Explorer which was being used internally by the company.
So they are using IE6 and Active X in the management suite then?
Unfortunately the Active X bit is likely to be true, as historically, this was the preferred login mechanism for East Asian banks.
Who in their right mind would ever install their software knowing that a hacker will be able to pull apart the software and pick over all the holes?
Me, 'cause I run Linux.
Oh you meant 'Who in their right mind would ever install their software knowing that *only* a hacker will be able to pull apart the software and pick over all the holes?'
EU rules apply apply to companies trading in the EU no matter where the data is held
Foreign subsidiaries of US firms are subject to the US PATRIOT act.
So if you are a foreign subsidiary of a US company and your parent company is ordered to hand over all personal data of your customers with out notifying them, what do you do?
I worked for the press association during that period. I had to write a custom XML Parser to convert the feed from the CG to the format used by the PA because the XML data being sent from the CG was not valid or correct.
Nor did it match the spec I had been given.
I spent several late nights tweaking the script I had written as the CG feed constantly changed.
Instead of getting an injunction at the start of the process, you collect the payment through to the end. This means that the person you are accusing of infringing has an incentive to get the case over with as fast as possible so as to limit their liability.
You would also need to ensure that the accused needs to be able to say that the accuser is dragging their feet and they want a guillotine on any payment.
So, if I've contributed articles to Wikipedia, some guy gets to decide whether or not they can be read, depending on whether or not he has a beef about a policy of a particular government.
No, wrong, but thanks for playing.
This is a *DISCUSSION* on weather or not to take the proposed action. If you can gather enough support then the close down will not happen.
Any way this will only be for a day if it does happen if you really want something to complain about, go and find out the opening hours of your locale library, if you still have one that is.
The storage cost was not the problem.
Tape was ridiculously expensive in those days and reusing it was standard procedure, add the fact that most TV iwas broadcast live, with some OB tape thrown in to the mix when a major costume change was needed, and a lot of the early TV has gone missing.
I do however like the fact the the BBC keeps appealing for people who illegally copied the programs to come forward and help fill the gaps in their archive.
News of the Screws knew that they where telling porkies when they said the hacking was down to a rogue Reporter
The Police knew that News of the Screws where telling porkies when they said the hacking was down to a rogue Reporter.
The ICO knew that News of the Screws where telling porkies when they said the hacking was down to a rogue Reporter.
The only people who didn't know where the people being hacked, the general public, oh and apparently James Murdoch and his Dad.
In stead of sucking up to these Media Barons, the MP's should have been hauling them off to the Tower of London.
1) Rip off your customer base with overpriced tat for 10 + years.
2) Set up a charitable foundation.
3) Ensure that all donations by said foundation mean that the recipients have to buy more of your tat.
4) Claim the donations back as tax deductible allowances, thus ensuring that the people receiving your larges are in fact the ones paying for it.
5) Get a PR company to leak to the waiting press stories about how much good you do, but you are too modest to talk about it.
Cynical, moi?
Meanwhile, the site's owners have been instructed to stop using the Chanel trademark or similar, confusing, trademarks in the domain's name extensions, meta tags, website source code, ad links, search engine databases or caches.
How the hell are you supposed to be able to remove the offending data from all the worlds, DNS, proxy and browser caches as well as the wayback machine and anywhere else thatstores data of the net.