Don't forget the people who make the resistors in the first place because they might be used in a device that promotes piracy.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2012 10:42, Nicholas Meredith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicholas@udhaonline.net" target="_blank">nicholas@udhaonline.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's even stupider than past cases, as I see it now it's even more perplexing; court rulings I read about for British Telecom placed them, BT (the ISP), as responsible for wearing all costs of implementing a (likely flawed) site blocking solution; all to protect somebody else's copyright. Surely it is the copyright holder's responsibility to enforce their rights, not innocent 3rd parties. Next I suppose we will see TV stations and content creators outright billing device manufacturers of Free-to-air HDTV receivers, because viewers might have recorded transmissions using them?<br>
<br>-ndm <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Mark Newton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org" target="_blank">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:07:22PM +1000, Nicholas Meredith wrote:<br>
<br>
> I really don't understand how a directory service can be held responsible<br>
> for the bad actions of one or more of it's listings. It's just a phone<br>
> book for torrents, both good and bad, what nonsense.<br>
<br>
</div>It isn't even that anymore.<br>
<br>
Protocols morph in response to threats.<br>
<br>
Napster was attacked, which begat Gnutella.<br>
Gnutella was attacked, which begat eDonkey.<br>
eDonkey was attacked, which begat Kazaa.<br>
Kazaa was attacked, which begat BitTorrent.<br>
<br>
BitTorrent was attacked by DPI, which begat encrypted bittorrent, DHT,<br>
BT-over-IPv6, and various other variations to the protocol which are<br>
too numerous to mention.<br>
<br>
Updated BitTorrent was attacked through legal means, which begat<br>
BitTorrent "magnets" to eliminate centralized trackers altogether.<br>
<br>
As of right now, we can all download our own copies of the entire<br>
TPB site onto a USB stick and run our own local mirrors.<br>
<br>
20th Century Fox, owners of Star Wars, appear to have never<br>
heard of, "Strike me down, you will only make me stronger."<br>
<br>
Disney, owners of Fantasia, appear to have never watched the<br>
scene where Mickey Mouse attacks mops with an axe.<br>
<br>
In aggregate, they've all spent hundreds of millions of dollars to<br>
test and strengthen p2p distribution networks, which now have a<br>
magnificently effective immune system against the attacks they've<br>
had to face.<br>
<br>
Doesn't sound to me like it's working out very well for them.<br>
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- mark<br>
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