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15 years ago @ Big Government - Anchorage CBS Affiliat... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well, Fortunately for the CBS station, if it's true, they've not technically done anything wrong. Thanks to a trial about 10 years ago, in Florida, the FCC's requirement that news be factually based was found to be irrelevent. The case centred on an investigative journalism piece for the Fox affiliate over Bovine growth hormones in milk, The company being investigated was a major advertiser and had words with the station, who turned the story around and changed it (lied). The reporters (a husband and wife team) went public and were fired. They sued under the whistle-blower statute, and won. Then Fox appealed, and most of the other news channels and networks supported fox, and it was overturned on appeal. The court's said the FCC's requirement was not an enforceable rule, and didn't qualify for whistle-blower protection.

News reporting in the US nowadays doesn't have to have a single factual basis. It only has to be careful of libel. Everything else is fair game. (case is Akron V Fox, look it up). Don't you just love it.

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - Why the IFPI/Eircom An... · 1 reply · +1 points

can't speak for everyone else, but you've mentioned two hurdles there.
Not everyone will have 40Gb available
not everyone has 100KB/s upload

Personally, with all the PDFs and other documents i get every day I'm lucky if I keep 5-10Gb free, and 100KB/s upload is twice what my ISP offers at most. Such restrictions won't endear these sorts of networks to most people.

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - DRM Jams the Gears of ... · 0 replies · +1 points

You know, no matter how many times you post it's 'not DRM', the fact will still remain that it was.

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - DRM Jams the Gears of ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I will say this once mire, since it was clearly ignored earlier.
It IS DRM. It is an attempt to MANAGE the RIGHTS of someone using a DIGITAL file. DRM does not just mean 'copy protection', strange as it might seem. The easiest and most common example of non copy-protection is on DVDs - Region Coding.

It's certainly not the first time someone's attempted to play down DRM as not being DRM, and it won't be the last.

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - DRM Jams the Gears of ... · 1 reply · +1 points

What does the certificate do? It manages the rights for the users to use a digital file. That's Digital Rights Management, or DRM.

Other games in the past have used methods to check for cheating, but they only kick in in instances where it's an issue - playing online for instance (the delta force games of 10 years ago is an example I remember well)

When a certificate even prevents you from opening the level editor, that's a bad DRM issue, and it IS DRM. DRM isn't something that restricts for the purpose of restricting, it's using technological methods to control what someone can do with what they've purchased.

Also, if it's easy to patch, why, after 2 days, had they still not managed to work out how?

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - US Pirate Party Docks ... · 3 replies · +3 points

I don't know Shantih (aka Roze) but a website notoriously run badly isn't it. Perhaps news reports, or TV segments (like this one on the US G4 - formerly techTV - flagship show from 2007 <a href="http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/679293/..." target="_blank">http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/679293/...

BTW, what have I told you about sockpuppeting?

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - DRM Jams the Gears of ... · 0 replies · +5 points

If it were for multiplayer, it wouldn't be blocking off the editor as well, which by all accounts it does.

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - US Pirate Party Docks ... · 6 replies · +4 points

There was a wikipedia page, it was later delated and folded into the single main page. The German pirate party (piratenpartei) doesn't have a page either, and they've run in several elections.
Wikipedia is not the sum of all knowledge, just the sum of the knowledge of the people that have time to waste on it, is my opinion.

BTW, over the last 3 years, we've exposed mediadefender's shady practices, initiated FCC hearings into comcast, given the only reliable coverage of the oink case, exposed buckcherry's publicity stunt, Encouraged Toyota to u-turn and fire a lawyer and many more and we've barely got more than a stub.

Wikipedia is usefull for many things, but a measure of notability is it not.

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - US Pirate Party Docks ... · 0 replies · +4 points

Talking to them (I've known the former US party chairman, now international coordinator for many years) If you want to see about starting a state party in other states, just contact them, and see about working on it together.

17 years ago @ TorrentFreak - Government Refuses to ... · 1 reply · +3 points

No, the ratonal that they're 'safer' is that they're hidden communities, that investigators can't get onto. Utter hogwash, as if you can get onto it, so can they, and they can probably do it easier, with their greater resources. Also, the nature of private sites just makes it easier to gather evidence, so they're easier targets that way.

Safer? nope. For all you know, the tracker might be run by a media group. Honeypot systems have been done before, with scene FTPs you know.

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