Posts by Danny 35 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jun 2007
hmmm, and now to see how long it takes them to find out just how free "free" software really is....
don't get me wrong, if they have good and affordable support in place it may work, but i highly doubt that's the case.
on top of that, their migration is going to be hell, i wouldn't be in charge of that one for sure
okay Lee, i'll take up the discussion.
how's about the fact that most people downloading wouldn't consider buying the product even if they couldn't download? how about all those people that will buy a product after downloading it because they like it?
Piracy has been around for many many years, but only in the last 5-10 years has the recording industry claimed to be hurt by it, we had internet before that time and we all downloaded stuff, what changed?
even musicians are turning their backs to the recording industry because they think they're being treated unfairy, the products they make are WAY too expensive.
to top it of, what will this ruling really mean? even if the Swedish supreme court finds them guilty, will that change anything?
and what about gaming? an industry that has long been plagued by piracy, they're doing great, why is that?
with his action, he has now technically made it legal to download and upload the album, since he used a P2P client, he was sharing the album the second he started downloading it. i may be mistaken, but if the owner of an album shares it in public, then anyone can legally get a free copy.
yeah i know, probably a bridge too far, but a funny thought nonetheless.
just for the record, in the article you state our bodies are good conductors because we're mostly made out of water. that's both correct and incorrect. water in itself is actually one of the worst conductors in existence, but the minerals in our bodies that pollute it are actually making it conductive, hence it is not the water in our bodies that make us conductive, it's the minerals.
also, how is this news? you can't tell me nobody thought of running copper/aluminium wires through clothes? hell, I'VE thought of that before and 'm not THAT smart.....
Paris because even she could've invented this.
what the apeal of the IPhone is? somehow half the world population seem to think it's the nest best thing since sliced toast, yet i am unable to grasp what it is that makes this phone so much better then any other (specially with the hefty price tag it has). i have a Samsung U900, which i bought from a friend, it does everything i need.
i don't know if it's my unnatural aversion against apple, but i just cannot understand what the big deal is.
@Albert Stienstra
go back to sleep sir, this topic is obviously WAY over your head.
@paul
i agree with you about that horrible itunes thingy, which is one of the reasons i chose not to use it. although i have little problems with Microsoft software, it's quite clear to me people don't really have that choice when it comes to picking an OS.
i've had many a conversation with a person who's language i didn't speak with the help from Babelfish. just be sure to use complete words and carefully check the grammar and you'll be just fine (try and translate "you'll" to Dutch, it wont give you a proper respone. "You will" however, will translate just fine).
there's several alternatives nowadays though, most perform much better (can't seem to remember which ones though).
"When encryption is used to cloak torrent traffic it tends to be to hide something, and attracts greater attention for that reason. If certain ISPs are experiencing disproportionately high volumes of encrypted torrent traffic we expect it is partly in response to a combination of effective ISP abuse teams the enforcement efforts of the police and industry."
This is pretty funny in itself, are we back at the "if you look suspicious, you're probably guilty" way of going about things? if the data's encrypted, they can raise their attention as much as they want, i believe they're not even legally allowed to try and decrypt the packages anyway.
being an ex employee, i couldn't help but laugh out loud when i read the company finally hit rock bottom. i worked for them for 6 years, which was a complete waste of time. management was horrible back then and if they keep going the way they did, they'll kill themselves once again. i feel justice is served :D
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Scranton's director of public safety Ray Hayes disagreed, saying that these things are not always "as cut and dry as they originally appear. Freedom of speech is not an unfettered right"
now call me stupid, but isn't America usually making a point that freedom of speech *is* an unfettered right?
@Smell my finger.
Do you have any clue as to what it takes to hijack a domain name? the domain is *registered* on their name now, which cannot be done by illegal means. to "steal" a domain name, you'd have to be able to make alterations on root DNS servers, which would be quite the acomplishment (and something i'm sure is beyond the scope of the capabilities of the people behind the pirate bay)
Pretty funny they got the domain handed to the, looks like someone may have some egg on his/her face :D
i can't help but laugh here. after the stunning success of the Wii, Microsoft was actually pretty quick to congratulate Nintendo, while Sony didn't even consider doing the same, all they did was take shots at Nintendo, not once admiting the Wii was a masterfull product. now they're seeing with their own eyes that their PS3 can't match the Wii
Would've been better if you had added the fact that left wing politicians where outraged by what they called was nothing more then a raid. Those people where crying that this approach was inhumane and that agreements where already in place which would prevent raids of this kind.
I'm personally stunned by these comments, i'd give the policemen and women who worked on this case a pat on the back, yet many politicians where not so kind when speaking of this matter.
Am i stupid here?
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