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- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+78My name is 127.0.0.1 :)
- Roulette, on 10/12/2007, -7/+81The RIAA can kiss my sweet ass.
- xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+67Nice to meet you both. I'm 255.255.255.0
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+73The RIAA can kiss ^ that guy's sweet ass.....don't even get near mine you *****.
- BostonVaulter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+67Hi 127.0.0.1
my name is 192.168.1.1 - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -6/+57I am not a number. I am a free man.
- martinus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+49You should not have posted your IP. I have just hacked into your computer (it was sooo easy) and am deleting all your files.
- albinoMithos, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46127.0.0.1, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.1.1you have all just been sued for illigal file sharing. Have a nice day :).
- computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44Hi. I'm localhost. Nice to meet you all.
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40ya'll behind the times.. oh btw my name is 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35Don't waste the tor network with file sharing. Its set up for far more legitamate purposes, and donors the the EFF are footing the bill for your sharing.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -17/+49Remember, Digg rule #2, posts claiming that the article is a repeat will get dugg down beyond belief.
- mikenemat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25You know that running at 251mW actually makes it HARDER for people to use your wifi because people try to use it outside of their card's transmit range...
That is the TRANSMIT power only, this way your router spews beacon frames much further than the distance which 99% of wifi cards on the market can respond with an association request or any packet for that matter. What you have in result is a client that can receive from the router, but has nowhere near the necessary power to transmit, effectively confusing any client who is not within the range of the default power setting of the router. Most wireless cards transmit at 14 to 20mW, having a router that transmits at 251mW is plain and simply useless as clients cannot send packets back over the same distance as their radios are nowhere near as poweful.
Increasing the transmit power of the router is only effective if you increase the transmit power of the client card as well, or if you have high-powered wireless cards to begin with. Oh and this is totally ignoring the enormous increase in heat output of the router's radio chipset which will dramatically reduce the lifespan of the router, as well as the added signal noise, which will dramatically drop your signal-to-noise ratio, resulting in serious packet loss especially at long distances. - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Do not use Tor for p2p.
To quote... myself: http://www.digg.com/tech_news/3500_Arrests_in_Biggest_Single_Action_Against_Music_File_Sharing#c1783317
"Asshat. Encurage the death of successful anonymous networks why don't you?
Why do some people feel the need to flood anonymous services with massive bandwidth-eating p2p? Oh yea... because they don't give a damn. Tor has a great many uses - none of which should be as a mask for bit torrent or other bandwidth intensive p2p services.
Sure, you alone can't bring down Tor, but if everyone does it, or even a rather small percentage, then Tor is no more. It would be crippled under the weight of that much bandwidth.
Go ahead, abuse and misuse every free service on the web until it becomes impossible for such services to exist. Then perhaps you'll understand.
While your at it, order a few thousand Ubuntu CD's (hey, they're free) just to have the free paper CD cases.
Pull your head out of your ass, and stop encuraging people to destroy some of the best free services on the web." - phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26@P3ST4: Thats why hes my identical twin brother. Duh.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I have my Wifi hotspot open to neighbors and thanks to open-wrt I am running at 900% broadcast power, 251mw
- shoota, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17@darkzen I do believe that the FCC is the organization that oversees radio frequencies, rather than the FAA which governs aircraft.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I love the title. I don't know why. It's just awesome.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20"here's the eqiuv of an internet condom against RIAA, MPAA, and many others:"
Thanks! Now I can hardly feel the internet! How was it for you? - G00mper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16You don't need to tell people you're not a lawyer; it's obvious you have no idea how the law works.
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -13/+27"Remember, Digg rule #2, posts claiming that the article is a repeat will get dugg down beyond belief."
That made me laugh, and it's so so true. No one gives a ***** about whether or not it's a dupe. I've said that countless times.
This article is awesome though. - CJz44, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17And my name... Well it's just 10.1.1.11
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20For all those who still haven't heard of it, here's the eqiuv of an internet condom against RIAA, MPAA, and many others:
http://wiki.phoenixlabs.org/wiki/PeerGuardian_2:Manual#Introduction
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13If the RIAA pigs try to bust me for sharing an MP3 file, I'll just point out that I was merely sharing a number, a very large one -- in the quadrillions, but it happened to be in binary form.
All numbers belong equally to everyone. Thus, sequential, digital / binary files are not copyrightable!
How can you claim copyright ownership of a file that is just a very large, base-two number, bitches?
Remember the digg article about the first illegal prime? lol - xose, on 10/12/2007, -9/+211.3.3.7 over here. Come sue me RIAA! :)
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Music shouldn't be about the money. It should be about getting your music heard and liked. Money is just a bonus.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15This is what neighbors' routers are for.
- Kanundra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12They will try and find a "way" around this, because we all know they are greedy and won't keep dropping cases, but for the moment this is great news because people are starting to call their bluff.
- daddyfizz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11good way to blow up your router considering the WRT54G's run really hot with anything over like 85mw... :)
~Fizz - elusive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Does AlmostHeadline.com just steal stories from other sites without giving credit?
That article was taken, word for word, from here:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20060727/1131227.shtml - glafira, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8See the problem is we allow there to be an RIAA, someone should start a petition to boycott theses old diaper wearing polo playing sons of bitches. I sign it, anybody else?
- SpeedyG, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10The combination is... 1.2.3.4.5.
Come on RIAA, I dare you to get in my luggage! - cwalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I have a couple of questions.
If you claim to have wifi running through your house, do you have to provide any evidence to back it up? What about if someone is sued today for downloading a song six months ago, how can the RIAA possibly dispute the fact that the same person may have been running a wifi connection at the time it happened? Does anybody think that the RIAA would care enough to wardrive past the residence of the person they are suing to check? - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I want to know what they'd say/do if you told them you'd pay the fine, IF it ALL goes directly to the artists, who they claim their life's were destroyed by downloading all those songs, since thats what their aparently doing is suing you to conpensate their artists.. But I'll bet around.. zero percent of the money directly goes to the artist.. Which leaves an obvious question : Where is the money acctually going?
- Ben - arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"now if they had the mac address then your screwed..."
Not really. Mac address can be spoofed quite easily. My cheapo Belkin router allows you to specify the mac address it advertises to the outside world. - techmonkey4u, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Hi, RIAA. I'm 146.82.174.13.
What's that? ...the same IP as your webserver? What a coincidence! - Krovvy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I thought of this the first time I heard of an RIAA case. I kind of had to, considering I am wearing a tin-foil suit, and carrying a lightning rod in this thunderstorm.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I REALLY think Tor should add something that says its useless for filesharing at the top of the main page to keep people from doing it. Most of the people that stumble onto it and don't know what it is just see "anonymous internet", and see that as parallel with "you won't get sued" so they use it. I tried it once, to be honest. If you think its slow running regular internet pages, my god try a file-sharing program on it. Back in the horrible days I had AOL, that was faster. Its useless for file-sharing, they should mention that on the main site, because not doing so is shooting themselves in the foot.
- dougbdl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"I believe that the majority of "pirates" aren't doing it to "steal" music, they are doing it as a protest to the ***** that's getting pushed on us every day."
I believe that people just want free *****. - fauxXenophanes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nice thought but, wrong issue.
The issue is PIRACY, not sharing, and not about money for artists!
The artists are RIAA property. - nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Instead, RIAA will drop pants and point at another person.
- tehJR, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6127.0.0.1 and localhost, you guys got some 'self-loving' file sharing going on.
- tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Woa!! You're 127.0.0.1?? But that's my IP address! How can this be!?!?
- DarkZen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@shoota
Thanks for correcting me on that one ;) honestly i dont know how i made such a big fubar. Ill make sure to look over my post's much better ;) hehe and maybe get more than a hour of sleep every 24 lol...
Thanks again ;)
HB - khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@kd1s
Yea, but in order for microwaves to even cook you, you gotta doa little math.
At 1 watt per hour (assuming) is about 859 calories. A calorie is basically the amount of energy required to heat 1 cubic centimeter of water by one degree Fahrenheit. so 859 cubic centimeters per hour - your body would absolutely fail to cook under such low power. you'd need at LEAST 5 watts per hour from a microwave tansmission to even heat your body above 102 degrees after four or five hours.
Hoo-ray for conversion tables and physics class!
PS And the irony of this post is the "code" to post was "co0kd" - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Writing music is very time consuming and requires intense dedication. To write GOOD music you have to pursue it as a full-time occupation, not something you do once in a while in a garage with your drunken friends. So how do you support yourself if you have to spend so much time writing music and practicing? You need to get paid for it somehow.
That doesn't even include equipment costs, studio rental costs, etc. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6No, Bush loves piracy and theft of all kind, especially of taxes.
http://www.bushtorrent.com/ - Ikioi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@chrono13
As a tor user, you have sharing of your connection off by default. If you want to share, but don't want exposed to abusers, just share an internal link. This helps the masking ability of Tor. If you have some bandwidth, and aren't afraid of a little excitement (as in you are the kind of person who doesn't mind sharing your wireless router), open up some external ports.
As for file sharing, unless the proper ports are open, you can't use it to file share at all. And, those who open up those ports, well... they know exactly what they are in for. This is also why port 25 is turned off even in full open sharing unless explicitly turned on, to prevent Tor from being used by anonymous spammers.
Many Tor operators allow port 80. Some allow 6669 and other IRC ports. Fewer offer some non-standard ports, including file sharing.
It's all completely in control of the outbound Tor node which services they will allow you to use on their connection. After all, that's why it's THEIR connection. ;)
I run Tor in two ways, intralink connections (I don't want directly exposed, not with commercial broadband... would violate the TOS) and a public proxy. I let people use the Tor network on a site I run without installing it, but running a public proxy webpage (SSL encrypted) that routes all connections through the Tor installed on my server.
There's a lot you can do to help things like Tor without exposing yourself to litigation. God bless the brave outbound nodes that aren't afraid to take a chance so that others might have a breath of truly free air. I only wish I had my own Russian T1 to do the same with. ;) - joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll second that. If everyone just pirates the music from all labels that are members of the RIAA it would take away its money and as such its power... If only you could rally that many people. Then again, the RIAA would try to recoup its losses and stay alive just through lawsuits.
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm doing it because theres no way a college student can fund a 7,000 song collection. Rather than just listen to radio, and still not put money toward labels, I buy the CD's i really like (that i first check out through illegal means), and the rest I pirate.
Ethical/Legal? Perhaps not. But they aren't making any more or less money off of me regardless of whether or not I pirate. So why should they care? Personally, I don't even share the music I download. I share other things to compensate.
If you were an artist, would you rather have 10,000 people buy your CD and no one else listen to it, or have 10,000 buy it, and 100,000 listen to it illegally, and then eventually have some of those 100,000 who would otherwise not known of you show up at your concert?
Long story short, the music I buy is all I would buy on my budget. So no ones getting hurt. And if there weren't soooo many people leeching off the products produced by musicians, then thier music wouldn't cost so much in the first place. Which means more sales. And less overpayed industry excecutives. -
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