Thermit
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LOS ANGELES Dec 14, 2004 — The U.S. film industry is preparing to sue computer server operators in the United States and Europe who help relay digitized movie files across online file-sharing networks, a source familiar with the movie studios' plans said Tuesday.
The lawsuits are aimed at disrupting the unauthorized distribution of movie files through BitTorrent and eDonkey, two popular online file-swapping services, the source associated with the effort The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Calls to the Motion Picture Association of America were not immediately returned Tuesday. The trade group was expected to formally announce the lawsuit campaign at a news conference in Washington scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
BitTorrent and eDonkey work differently but both enable computer users to share music, film, software and other files.
Both services have steadily gained in popularity after the recording industry began cracking down last year on users of Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster and other established file-sharing software.
To disrupt BitTorrent users, the movie studios' lawsuits will target U.S.-based tracking servers that help direct how the bits of data move between users, the source said.
Similarly, the film industry's litigation will target eDonkey servers in Europe that also help relay data between computer users, the source said.
It was not immediately clear how many server operators would be sued or when the lawsuits would be filed.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=328977
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Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:34 pm
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Euler
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
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I strongly disagree with piracy. I hope the artists get paid. I do not download or watch pirated movies. In fact, I wish I had the luxury of spare time for other kinds of technical leisure.
But I have to laugh at the denial, willful ignorance and desperation that plagues the motion picture industry. You could put a bullet through a torrent primary server and it won't affect any downloads. In fact, by demonizing (lionizing) the act of piracy, the MPAA is feeding its own monster.
Look at the War on Drugs. Did Drugs lose? The War on Terror. Did Terror lose? Pirates ain't losing either. In all of these cases, the increased risk brings its own new economies to the problem. The crimes are exacerbated.
I appreciate the fact that the MPAA has to defend their IP (or at least look like they are). But to ignore the power of Capitalism and rely upon the nanny state to chase your best potential customers is idiocy. Fear-based idiocy maintained by ignorant old techphobics.
They should go after the pirate markets with new pricing models using technology that's a PITA to fuck with. Because that's what pirates are. Very cheap markets. To fail to see that is to fail to see the customer. And that is a deadly mistake to a corporation in a free mkt.
I just wish our nanny state would stop retarding the action of the hemlock the MPAA is drinking.
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:36 pm
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Thermit
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Very insightful.
May not be a perfect parallel but your "War on X" comments remind me of something from The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment...
All conceivable universes in all conceivable dimensions exist in the One Mind as pure idea or archetype. When any of us withdraws from a willingness to create any aspect of that, we drop to a lower vibration level. For this illustration, imagine we are a great number of energy beings who are indifferent to the idea of Pluto the Dog. Since we are denser than space beings, they would propel us, and we would appear in space as a flowing, flashing image of Pluto the Dog, looking like a fireworks display, perhaps.
Imagine, then, some of us, more than indifferent, who deny the concept of Pluto the Dog, withdrawing to the mass level. Our mass, being even denser than the energy, is compelled to take the form denied, and behold the physical manifestation of Pluto the Dog. In this manner, what is denied on the conceptual level, the space level, becomes manifest on the physical plane.
http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/lazyman/lazyman.html
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:07 pm
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Euler
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
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Aha... now there's a blast from the past. The LMGE. Wow. I remember the day I laid down my copy of Be Here Now eyeing that pamphletish sliver of a book. "And now", I thought, turning the book over in my hands, "...enlightenment will be MINE!"
Heh. My best LMGE story: My uncle was an outspoken Ayn Randian. Nixon supporter. He believed our fight against Communism pleased God. Guess what he received for Xmas 1986? Yep. The Guide.
What a strange juxtaposition. This man was a representative of the generation that watched WW2 grow cold, that huddled in shelters during the Cuban Missile Crisis, that struggled with Rosa Parks and killed a US President.
This man receives a pamphlet from a disaffected teen telling him that enlightenment is easy. That indeed "The universe is an infinite harmony of vibrating beings in an elaborate range of expansion-contraction ratios, frequency modulations, and so forth."
Watching him read the inside cover of it - thinking about how it must appear to him. The moment was probably more enlightening for me than any of Golas's strained metaphors.
And speaking of old Ram Dass - his website (ramdass.org) certainly is NOT enlightened unless enlightenment entails fucking up my status bar. No hippies in the status bar please!
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:46 pm
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