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Re: <nettime> Earth Station 5 Declares War Against The Motion Picture Carl Guderian <carlg@vermilion-sands.com> t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com> Carl Guderian <carlg@vermilion-sands.com> Are Flagan <areflagan@transcodex.net> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:18:22 +0000 From: Carl Guderian <carlg@vermilion-sands.com> Subject: Re: <nettime> Earth Station 5 Declares War Against The Motion Picture auskadi wrote: > > Nettimers, > > I love the rhetoric here but need to play with it to see if it lives up > to the job in practice. > > http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK2.story&STORY=/www/story/08-19-2003/0002003023&EDATE=TUE+Aug+19+2003,+06:14+AM I'd love to see some hard data on this. Some (other) paranoid friends looked it over earlier in the week and the address and whois seemed to check out, but they didn't have the resources (or connections) to really go in depth. No points for suggesting Mossad Trojan Horse (for zombifying your PC to blast local pro-Palestinian websites offline), or pointing out that Palestinian enclaves aren't usually associated with burgeoning software industries or high bandwidth and have enough enemies to add the RIAA and WIPO to the list. How anyone can keep Terminator 3 on a server that's constantly in danger of being shelled or bulldozed is beyond me. But I wouldn't go around installing strange executables on my PC, even from ideological fellow travelers. Maybe somebody can take it apart and see what makes it tick? Carl -- Games are very educational. Scrabble teaches us vocabulary, Monopoly teaches us cash-flow management, and D&D teaches us to loot the bodies. -- Steve Jackson - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:58:49 -0400 From: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com> Subject: Earth Station 5: \/|_Tr4 |<-r4|> '1337 |<3\/\/|_!!! auskadi@tvcabo.co.mz (Thu 08/28/03 at 02:35 PM +0200): > I love the rhetoric here but need to play with it to see if it lives up > to the job in practice. i love: (1) the byline: ('JENIN, West Bank, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ --'? uh, yeah) (2) FREE *EVERYTHING* except 'nelson mandela' (but they do include sex) (3) the idea that this 'service' is operating out of the gaza strip and jenin, where we all know broadband is *really* taking off and the lines are buzzing with talk about how great americans are (4) the well-established reputations of 'ras kabir' and everything else about it: the 'about section' of the site, traceroutes, etc, etc. < http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=FJ%25Ka.6756%24v71.4168%40nwrddc01.gnilink.net > cheers, t - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:01:21 +0000 From: Carl Guderian <carlg@vermilion-sands.com> Subject: Re: <nettime> Earth Station 5 Declares War Against The Motion Picture auskadi wrote: > Nettimers, > > I love the rhetoric here but need to play with it to see if it lives up > to the job in practice. This guy swears it's RIAA spyware. Truth or black propaganda? Nobody knows until we see the source code: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=FJ%25Ka.6756%24v71.4168%40nwrddc01.gnilink.net Slashdot post from 14 July degenerated into the usual trollery and no actual info. Carl sticking with earthbound P2P -- Games are very educational. Scrabble teaches us vocabulary, Monopoly teaches us cash-flow management, and D&D teaches us to loot the bodies. -- Steve Jackson - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 01:32:28 +0200 Subject: Re: <nettime> Earth Station 5 Declares War Against The Motion From: Are Flagan <areflagan@transcodex.net> Re: 8/28/03 14:35, "auskadi" <auskadi@tvcabo.co.mz>: > Nettimers, > > I love the rhetoric here but need to play with it to see if it lives up > to the job in practice. It's apparently a Trojan Horse full of spyware. Company claims and server locations do not pan out etc. It may actually live up to _some_ job in practice. The integrated dating service is rumored to have been initiated to easily add to the 8000+ list of lawsuits the RIAA is filing; the proxy servers hosted by the company allegedly serving as MPAA sponsored honeypots (not privacy shields). I, too, love the rhetoric. -af - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net