Posts by Mark Harris
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why don't you outline just for interest and arguments sake what you with your superior knowledge think would happen in the event of access being granted at ip level? what advantages might that get for media owners? you seem to be inferring none,
I can't answer your question because it doesn't make sense. What do you mean by "access being granted at ip level"?
Oh, by the way, I don't give a rat's arse that someone who doesn't post under his own name has heard of me or not. Though it does give you an advantage in claiming experience and knowledge that I can't verify.
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They aren't valid points.
When you are using a program yourself, you are self-selecting. You go out looking for a particular file, and use that as your basis point to find more information about files with the same name/profile.
What you're asking is that ISPs should do this for all their traffic. How long did it take you to find out about 1 track? Multiply that by the millions of files being shared daily over an ISP's links. And there is no automated way of ascertaining whether a file is copyrighted or not, or whether the creator of it cares whether it is shared, whether it is being shared legally through a contracted arrangement. All these things need people to do research - lots of people. And all ISPs will have to do this.
Your mate who downloaded the AVI that started playing before it had finished loading had to download enough packets to make that possible - probably around a few hundred kilobytes, maybe even a meg. The packets we're talking about are a fraction of that size. They vary, depending on the transmission method (http, ftp, or proprietary protocols, VPNs etc all have their own standards). BitTorrent doesn't change this, it merely changes where your system finds them, wraps a little more info around them so that the packets can be downloaded out of order and then reassembled into a copy of the original file. Some files won't be usable until all the packets are assembled, especially material that's been compressed. Some files won't work at all because a vital packet is missing or has been corrupted in transmission. Just because it happened with one file doesn't mean you can extend the example across the entirety of the net.
A programmer can write a program that would find all instances of a particular file name. Wouldn't be hard, it could roam the net autonomously and send reports back of the existence of such files. BUT to verify that the file is indeed being shared illegally, the ISP would have to download it themselves (thus breaking the copyright if it exists), run it (to ensure it wasn't a case of fair use and that the material did in fact infringe) and then block it from their network. And they would have to do this for every file that fits the profile. Pretty soon the percentage of traffic purely related to examining potentially illegal files would rise to be a significant proportion of total traffic, slowing and even blocking the delivery of legitimate information.
You've demanded in the past that I have to accept what you and Simon say about the music business because of your experience. It works both ways. I first wrote a computer program in the 70's at school, bought my first comp in '85, have been working in the industry since '89, and specifically in the internet industry since '96. I've been a councillor of the Internet Society, I've run the Government Information Managers Forum, I've been the IT manager for a Government Ministry and I've worked in the area of e-government since 2000. I know how this stuff works and, to be candid, your posts show that you don't. So you're just going to have to accept that your idea is not feasible, technically or economically.
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but I had to add extra spaces to stop it attempting to mate with the next word
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And in post
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I've also noticed that the italic formatting no longer works in quoted text.
Except that it does in preview. WTF?
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...although, as Freudian slips go...
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/Taker /Baker
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She's bloody great.
Actually, no. While not the complete disaster predicted, she was still bloody annoying with moments of "not bad" tossed in occasionally. Her finest moment IMHO was her last episode, when she -- oops, you may not have watched that one yet. (I've been a weekly watcher since the Hartnell days and I'd like to nominate Tennant as the best Doctor of all. My previous best was Troughton, and I hated Tom Taker, so there you go)
The new boy has big shoes to fill.
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I can't do that obviously cos i'm not a computer programmer but it wouldn't be hard for someone who is to do it.
Yes.
it.
would.As you are not a programmer, you're just going to have to take the words of those of us who are. What you can do with your little computer is irrelavent to what ISPs would be required to do in this scenario, not only in the actuality of what you want, but just in the sheer volume of work required.
Get over yourself, rob. You don't know what you're talking about and it just pisses people off (me and Sacha, at least - I think we're still people) when you pontificate from such an invincible position of ignorance. You're effectively PA's personal copyright troll.
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Just while the trend is for threadjacking, I'd like to point people at http://useloos.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4393 which I've just watched twice with a huge grin on my face