DRM is really bad at foiling pirates. It only takes one to break the DRM and share the content around the world to render the DRM ineffective.
However it is really good at inconveniencing legitimate consumers. Some DRM schemes have been so annoying to customers that getting a pirated version makes for a better user experience.
At 90MB for the whole site what are the authorities going to do when thousands of us are mirroring TPB on a dedicated Raspberry Pi each?
Security guards are complaining that builders have started putting locks on the doors of new homes rendering the security trade obsolete.
Diddums, poor little things.
You don't know any countries that import water?
In the UK Evian and Volvic are two popular brands of bottled water that come from France. I've even seen bottled water from Fiji, despite having a plentiful supply of water ourselves.
Check the water shelves next time you're in a supermarket. I bet there are foreign brands there.
Are you missing Cowboy Neal? I am.
Please correct me of I'm wrong, but an open mesh network would completely decentralise internet connectivity leaving the Government with no way to implement website blocking and three-strikes laws etc.
While a truly democratic government would support open mesh in the public interest I doubt our lot would approve it.
While we're at it - why do red antique phone booths represent the UK?
For the same reason that Malt Shops represent the US.
Ignorant foreigners picking up on something that used to be a part of the nation but have long since passed into obscurity.
The whole world knows that here in Scotland EVERYONE plays the bagpipes.
What makes for a free society? One where each of us is free to murder and imprison each other, or one where the only restriction on your personal freedom is that you may not restrict the freedom of others?
I prefer the latter social paradigm.
That's why I prefer GPL.
There is clearly a conflict of interest here. Two groups of people are paying these companies.
Their customers are paying for net access and don't want someone else getting more bandwidth than they are because of their choice of websites / software.
But then others come along and say we'll pay you to prioritise our traffic.
These ISPs should decide who their customers are.
My Birthday is always on Boom-Time. That's the best day of the week for me.
Symantec and Snoop Dogg are birds of a feather.
Running any Symantec software on your machine makes it sluggish, unresponsive and causes it to behave obnoxiously.
Listening to Snoop Dogg does the same to people.
Sure stealing is wrong, but copying data is not stealing. If I take code written in house for in-house use from one employer to another how has the old one lost anything if the new one starts using it in house?
My own fall back is that some useful software that I have written for my current employer is now GPLed because I asked them if it could be. If I ever lose this job I'll be hawking my skills in setting up that software from one end of the country to the other.
We don't expect to get a seat in this election. It is enough that we get publicity. However in 2011 we have the Scottish Parliament election. This election is a proportional representation system. Us pirates in Scotland plan to fight this one hard.
If you fail to plan, plan to fail.
