As is the title... Filesharing is becoming somewhat of an 'issue' with the public nowadays... mostly because bands or there record companies are trying to squeeze that extra dime into their pay. I personally believe that this is one of the stupidist of crimes and only shows that avarice(greed) is controlling our world now. This must be stopped soon, and I'll try to explain why throughout this.

Firstly, Filesharing is defined as 'the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks' [Wiki]. This process is seen as stealing intellectual property and copyright infringement to many artist's Recording companies. The Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA) is the major  opponent to free filesharing among individuals, this is the company that pronounces records 'Gold', 'Platinum', and 'Diamond'. They have pressed charges against some twenty thousand individuals, and have settled about twentyfive hundred of their cases, claiming that filesharing causes musicians and record companies a loss of approximately 4.2 Billion dollars each year. My question, why do they need an ADDITIONAL 4.2 BILLION dollars?

Several Companies have stood against this unrighteous suing of citizens for downloading music, some of these include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the American Civil Liberties Union, claiming that the RIAA has no right to 'strip Internet users of anonymity without allowing them to challenge the order in court'. The RIAA finds these suspected 'cybercriminals' by their IP address. This means that if an individual views the webpage, they can be traced by the logs kept on the server. These logs are simply a list of activity that goes on with the website, like the logs that a truck driver or ships captain would keep, recording their journey, and are meant to be seen only by the administrators of said site, to keep updates on errors and misuse of the site. These IP addresses offer little information other than what computer is used and who would own it, but a little digging must be done to discover this.

Here are examples of the stupidity involved with the RIAA's blind suits:
A lawsuit against a dead grandmother
A lawsuit against an elderly computer novice::no knowledge of filesharing::
A lawsuit against a woman with multiple sclerosis
A lawsuit against people with no computer at all??
A lawsuit against a man who died, after the death the RIAA offered a sixty day grieving period, before placing charges on the deceased's family
And lawsuits against children... some of which are as young as twelve.

Thankfully some have stood against these 'rash' decisions made by the RIAA. The RIAA attempted to brute its way into Verizon's systems based on a subpeona to get Verizon to compromise the identities of many filesharing individuals. The RIAA based their claim under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which, the court ruled only covers ISP's and not Verizon. This led to a modification to the DMCA which makes it much more difficult for companies like the RIAA to get the information on an IP address..Thank you Verizon for standing up to the Tyrants.

And at least one band has stood against all the litigations of the RIAA, Disturbed.

'Disturbed's frontman recently became involved in the music filesharing controversy by publicly speaking out against the RIAA's lawsuits against filesharing individuals, despite the fact his record label is a member of the RIAA.

"This is not rocket science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet. For the artists, my ass... I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection." - David Draiman ^[8]

Draiman also told NYRock:

"[I'm] Very positive about the internet, Napster. I think it's a tremendous tool for reaching many more people than we ever could without it. When you release music you want it to be heard by people. Artists really want to have their music heard. They want to have their creation heard by people. Nothing is going to do that better than Napster. I can't tell you how many kids have come up to me and said, 'I downloaded a couple of tunes off Napster and I went out and bought the album.' Or they say, 'I want to come see you play.' I don't really make money off of record sales anyway." - David Draiman

[from Wikipedia]

As long as individuals have access to information, they will obtain it by whatever means necessary, and as long as someone fights for us, The RIAA will not succeed in their quest to put a price tag on everything. Stand Strong.

Informationen zu den Massen
'Information to the masses'
R£v£r£nd §altí
Ten Thousand Fists in the Air
'Stand Together'

Yup another one of these... any response in red or in bold... or both, are my own ^_-

""""

Why do people commit suicide?
because they cant take what life gives them... not true for all cases


Why do people cut themselves?
to have a physical pain that they can show rather than an emotional on that they cant...


Why do girls become anerexic and belimec?
usually because someone has told them their whole life that they are overweight or not good enough... they want to fit in


Why do kids bring guns to school?
several reasons... 1) to kill someone 2)to look cool 3) because they wanted to


Why do kids get depressed...so they start using meds, and abusing them?
because depression happens to everyone... some just cant take it


Why do girls feel the need to act like sluts to impress guys?
they dont NEED to... they do it for the attention... or other reasons.. lack of male figures..etc leavin that alone mostly


Why cant people show their sexuality freely, without worrying about being judged?
Because God said, one man, one woman for life... through MARRIAGE not outside of it

In the Bill Of Rights, it says we have FREEDOM OF SPEECH! So why are we so afraid to speak up for ourselves?
because slander and hate are not covered and thats all they are spreading


I KNOW WHY! obviously he doesnt...

Cliques nope... its because people ARE NOT EQUAL that causes cliques

"Gangstas"

"Preps"

"Nerds"

"Goths"

"Emos"

"Scene//Hardcore kids"

"Punks"


^^^AND THATS NOT EVEN HALF OF THEM!

Society in general


We live in a world where if your not skinny, not beautiful, not sexy, not straight...your tortured, abused, and humiliated. We say that we are all equal but, there is still racism, sexism, and people judging others based on there religion, color, size, heritage, ect.

IS THIS AMERICAN?




IS THIS THE NATION WE LIVE IN AND FIGHT WARS TO SUPPORT?



I AM SICK OF IT!
Stereotypes, and everything else.
I want to live in a good place, without suicide, rape, murder, and JUDGEMENT!



IF THIS HAD ANY AFFECT ON YOU REPOST IT!

No, a ghost will not rape your dog.
You wont have relashionship problems
No you wont die in 7 days.
BUT you will have the guilt on your shoulders that you didnt try to get the message across.
I want to stop the madness.
If I only reached out to 1 or 2 people thats fine.
At least MY concience is clear...HOW ABOUT YOURS?

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Okay all the underlined stuff... is explained below VV
"Society in general" is part of humanity. it is one of the four basic principles that EVERY person is wired to need/want more than anything else... people NEED to be accepted in order to be happy..

Is this American... Yes as a matter of fact it is... America has been like this since the beginning its nothing new.. the FREEDOM OF SPEECH is alotted only here.. as the most powerful... wealthiest nation on the planet... we have developed many biased opinions about others... way to go.


If you were truly sick of this country... you wouldn't be here... think of where else you could be... There is nowhere else where you have even remotely the freedoms that you do here... if you can't put up with a little peer pressure thats your problem not everyone else's

Obviously... your conscience is clear because you are ignorant to what you have and take no notice of what anyone outside of this country lacks... you have become spoiled and oblivious to the outside world.. my suggestion take a trip to Peru or something so you realize just how good you have it here.

Don't post stupid things like this.. especially when you don't know the half of whats going on

peace ^_^ Vm
Saltí

The physiological needs of the organism, those enabling homeostasis, take first precedence in life. They are the basic needs that need to be met for any individual. These consist mainly of:

* the need to breathe
* the need to drink water
* the need for sleep
* the need to regulate body temperature
* the need to regulate homeostasis
* the need to eat
* the need to dispose of bodily wastes
* the need for sexual activity

If some needs are not fulfilled, a human's physiological needs take the highest priority. Physiological needs can control thoughts and behaviors, and can cause people to feel sickness, pain, discomfort and in extreme cases, Death.

This is a speech by a good friend New7yp3 in an IRC chatroom about the Anti-Security Movement...
His Screen Name in the IRC is Strayfe:
The tags are voided out by the stupid filter so I'll only show N3w7yp3s speech... the questions will follow

strayfe: okay
The speech is starting now
Okay, to quickly recap some definitions
For the duration of my talk, the following definitions will apply:

Whitehat: works for the security industry, gets paid to legally hack in into systems, may also audit code for a company like CORE SDI, ISS, etc.
I'd like to amend that by saying they also post exploit code on sites like milw0rm.packetstorm/securityfocus/etc/etc

Blackhat: someone who hacks for a hobby, does not post exploits publically, does not work for a security company

Now, the security industry is evil.
They lie to their clients, the public and the media
They don't care about computer security at all; they just care about money.
They *want* the world to be insecure.
After all, if the world was completly secure, they wouldn't have a job now would they?

---N3w7p3 is distracted by idiots---

So, as I was saying, if the world was prefectly secure, they're out a job.
They'd have no place in the world.
They directly contribute to insecurity and they feed the script kiddies.

Look at it logically. The whitehats post fully functional exploit code to widley known web sites, exploit code that can be downloaded by anyone and immedatly used to start owning boxen.
If the whitehats would stop doing this, the script kiddies would have *far* less ammo then they used to.
They'd eventually die off (even though very slowly)
Now, the whitehats don't want this to happen.
Because, again, they'd be out a job.
So, the whitehats perpetuate the cycle. They work to get the exploits into the hands of script kiddies, so a lame company get a box or two owned, and then call a security company to get a pen test done.
And the security company walks away with a new bundle of cash
Eventually certain people got tired of this.
And they started what's known as the anti-security movement.

---More stupid Crap...prolly distracting---

The idea here was to stop posting exploits, stop feeding the whitehats, and stop all communication between what was left of the hacker "underground" and the security industry.
Bear in mind this was circa 2000ish, when there actually still was a very active "underground"
The anti-security movement was intended for people who took the moderate stance. People who didn't like how things were working out, and wanted to try to change things. Oddly enough, some whitehats even adopted it, seeing the truth behind it.

There was another idea that also started however. It's a bit more widley known. pr0j3kt m4y3m was started by el8 in an attempt to destroy the security industry.
To destroy it by force.
The idea was to own all the whitehats you could, drop their d0x, steal their 0days (if they had any) and rm their box.

After all, if a whitehat can't protect their home LAN (which one would expect to be a bastion of security), who would hire them for a pen-test and expect them to do a good job?
pr0j3kt m4yh3m was intended to shake the confidence of the IT industry in the security industry.
Eventually it moved away from el8 and spread to #phrack@EFNet after #phrack@EFNet was taken over by a group calling themselves the Phrack High Council
They were sort of a front group for pr0j3kt m4yh3m, publicly prompting it's values through their site phrack.ru (which as down now as crg gave the domain to shiftee and xtx has to get it back)
Jim Jones picked up on pr0j3kt m4yh3m and spread it to the hack.co.za channel #darknet
later Jim Jones changed his nick to The_Unix_Terrorist, left #darknet and became affiliated with GOBBLES. Hew gave the famous "wolves among us" speech with GOBBLES and silvio at DEFCON X
For a speech that essentially made all the points I made earlier about whitehats, it was quite well received by the audience, most of whom were in fact security professionals themselves.
Today, in many sites like HTS, HBH, etc etc, blackhats are regarded as script kiddies, while it's cool to be a whitehat and they're regarded as the "real hackers"
Why should we all become whitehats? What has the security industry ever done to benefit the internet at large? They post public exploits for the script kiddies, they spread lies and propaganda about hackers, they've turned a fun hobby into a get rich quick scheme were if you have a CEH people think you're qualified, and they work to destroy the underground that gave birth to them.
Look at the Honeynet Project for a moment.
The idea is to set up networks of "research honeypots" to entrap the blackhat community and "study" their motives and tactics.
All the honeynet project catches are the really dumb, lame script kiddies
the kinds who have trouble with ./configure && make
Really, who else goes around mass brute forcing SSH logins or scanning /8's and /16's for vulns that are 3 or 4 years old?
they catch kids who still use that old rpcstatd overflow FFS
They never produce anything worth reading and yet the beg for funding and complain when they can't get it.

Hmm, I wonder why? It's such a feat to catch botnet herders from the .ro or .br.
Take a look at Phrack magazine really quick. While it is getting better, for a while every article in an issue was written by a corporate whitehat.
Phrack founded itself upon the principles that it was "for hackers by hackers"
How do things like sebek fit into that category? sebek is intended to spy on hackers, and while it can be subverted to be a rootkit in the traditional sense of the word, there are better ones avalaible.
But yea, sebek was the the honeynet project's idea to spy on the hackers they trap. Too bad it was easy to detect for any one who had a small understanding of computers.
It hooked the read and write syscalls, and replaced them with it's own versions. It also messed up the distance between them and it was easy to write a small C program to detect sebek.
So much for their "undetectable" solution.
The worst are the people that were "underground" hackers at one time and then turned their backs on the scene and their friends and sold out to the corporate side

They work against people who are exactly like they are.

They decry people who illegally enter systems when a few short years ago they were doing exactly the same thing.

They work against their former friends. They ruin perfectly good exploits by thoughtlessly posting them on Full-Disclosure in an attempt to make a name for themselves.

They post crappy code in the public domain in an attempt to make a name for themselves.

what they used to do for free they put a price tag on.

They sold their souls for money.

The security industry is the single biggest fear mongering market on the planet.
They use fear of hackers to motivate people to buy their services and products.
Now, a lot of the bigger companies like Symantec, CORE SDI, ISS, etc etc have active 0day research and development teams
They have teams of highly skilled individuals who audit code for a living, finding vulns in popular applications that are in the public domain.
Things like Apache, OpenSSH, the Linux kernel, IIS, etc etc
They then use these exploits in what special "0day penetration tests"
After they own the clients network they impress upon them the fact that it was very easy to do so and that there are 0day exploits actively circulating amongst the blackhats, and they could just as easily own the network.
They charge a huge amount of money for 0days tests, usually at least $15,000
When it comes time for their mitigation report, they have to offer a solution besides "don't use the vuln service"
Usually it's along the lines of "buy this product of ours, for a mere $20,000 you can be completely protected"
Then they go a publish a new vulnerability, come back and tell the client "oh yes, a new exploit was discovered and is public, now you need to pay for a service upgrade."

It all comes back to the fact that they don't want secure computers.
They thrive on a state of insecurity and fear.
Every new major exploit (recently safari and IE exploits) and very new worm or virus undergoes the predictable media hype

they just care about the quarterly return.
the share holders
and the vacation homes of their CEO

Why should you help those who don't help you?

Why help those who want to destroy you?

Why help those who would love to use you as an example to strip up media hype to drive up their quarterly gains?


:::::QUESTIONS:::::
Revolt: hasn't the phrack magazine ended?
strayfe: no
phrack 64 was just released recently
Revolt: ah ok
and project mayhem?


asdf: strayfe, is project mayhem still active? (cba to type it out with numbers and shit)
Revolt: did they get a load of whitehats?
strayfe: yes and yes


Revolt: 1 more question
strayfe: yes
and go ahead
Revolt: you said the underground was active at like ~2000
isn't it very active now?
and if not..do you know why?
Strayfe: not compared to what it once was
because of the whitehats.
sites like HBH tell people it's evil to go actually hack
and they listen and never develop and real skills.
Revolt: i c



lesserlights: so could you name some groups that were active in the underground ~2000 and some active currently, for comparison?
Strayfe: They never delve down into the lower levels of programming and learn about things like adjacent memory overflows, and innovate new techniques

The Theory of Evolution of the Coca Cola Can.

Billions of years ago, a big bang produced a large rock. As the rock cooled, sweet brown liquid formed on its surface. As time passed, aluminum formed itself into a can, a lid and a tab. millions of years later, red and white paint fell from the sky,an formed itself into the words "Coca Cola...12 fluid ounces."

Of course my theory is an insult to your intellect, because you know that if the Coca Cola can is made, there must be a maker. If it is designed, there must be a designer.The alternative, that it happened by chance or accident, is to move is to move into an intellect-free zone.

The banana -- An Atheist's Nightmare

Note that the banana:
1. Is shaped for human hand
2. Has outwars indicators of inward contents: Green-too early yellow-just right black-too late
3. Has a non-slip surface
4. Has a tab for removal of wrapper
5. Is perforated on wrapper
6. Bio-degradable wrapper
7. Is shaped for human mouth
8. Has a point at top for ease of entry
9. Is pleasing to the taste buds
10. Is curved toward the face to make eating easy

To say that the banana happened by accident is even more unintelligent than to say that no one designed the coke can.

Do you know any building that has no builder?
Or a painting that has no painter?
Even a car that didn't have a maker?

I suppose the leading theory on how we all got here, is that God created us. This is fine and all, but I have a problem accepting that. There's simply not enough proof. Then there's the Big Bang Theory, which is fina and all, and there's a bit more evidence to support it. All galaxies are moving away from each other, suggestion that they originated from a single point. It's just, I don't believe all the matter of the universe could have at one time been compressed to anywhere near the size of an egg. Even if it could have, there's still one problem, how did that egg sized compressed matter get there in the first place? This is also the problem with God, we are to believe he has always existed and doesn't have a begginning. Well, here's my theory.

We have an empty universe, absolutely nothing exists. Time however, does exist. Time isn't an object, so it does exist, but at this point can't be measured.

Now, according to Einstein and most other scientists, it isn't possible for matter to travel faster than light. As an object goes faster, it's mass increases, requiring more energy to accelerate it further. E=MC^2. I don't know why they chose the speed of light for the cut off point, but whatever. I believe that it is possible for matter to go faster than the speed of light, but since it's most accepted, this theory doesn't require matter to go faster than the speed of light, only energy, which many scientists believe may be possible.

So, the speed of light is approximately 186,000 miles per second, or 300,000 kilometers per second. Now let us assume there is a such thing as the speed of time, and let us also assume that it is sevel hundred times the speed of light. Let's say the speed of time is 200 times the speed of light, or 37,200,000 miles per sec (600,000,000 km per sec). The speed doesn't really matter, only that it does exist and may some how be achievable.

So, back to being empty space... It's completely empty, nothing is happening, then, all of a sudden, energy appears. From this energy that has just appeared, maybe the big bang begins, all that matters is that there is energy here to become matter and begin everything.

So where did the energy come from? It can't just come from no where? It comes from the future. In the future, energy some how reaches the speed of time, and goes even faster, traveling back in time. As it goes further and further backwards, it slows down, eventually slower than the speed of time again, and stops going backwards. According to the big bang theory, after it exploded, the energy traveled at super high speeds, creating matter. My theory works well with this.

The biggest problem with my theory, is how can the energy come from the future, when the future hasn't happened yet. It can't. But, energy in the future, can go back in time. So, how did that energy in the future first happen? Same way. No matter how far back you go, energy will always come from the future to the past. It's a bit of a paradox, but we don't know much about time. Time didn't have a beginning, it's not a physical object, it technically doesn't exist.

Also, for deja vu, let's assume it actually remembering an event when it hasn't happened yet. While it is more likely that it's just a malfunction in the brain, let's assume it isn't. Or even if it is, this is a theory about how it may be possible to see into the future.

We know that the brain operates on brain waves, when you sleep, there's plenty of em. Let's say that when you sleep, your brain may some how be able to pick up that energy traveling back through time, and that it can some how be used to see what was happening. It wouldn't really be seeing the future, but seeing the past, which was at one time the future. The future isn't written, it's just what happened. What happened before, may not work out the same way in the future. So seeing it and changing something won't tear a big hole in the universe. That's nonsense.

And while I'm at it, there's no proof for multible demensions. There is 2D, 3D, and so there must be more? Maybe, but there's no evidence to support that.

Anyways, there's quite a bit of flaws in my theory, and alot of assuming. But at this point, I nor anyone else can do much to proove it. Same as it can't be disprooven at this point. It can be argued that the accepted theories would have to work alot differently for my theory to happen, but that doesn't make it wrong. They are just theories, nothing has yet been prooven.

Let me know what you think, and I know I might not have done the best job at explaining, let me know what you don't understand and I'd be glad to explain better.

Andrew

3. ONE WORLD CURRENCY... in the end of times, before the mark of the beast is required to buy or sell all of the world is said to change to one currency..heres proof of that progression...

Welcome to the European Union's website on the euro, Europe's single currency.
The euro is the currency of 13 European Union countries: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia and Finland.
http://ec.europa.eu/euro/entry.html

4. ONE WORLD RELIGION... In addition to the one world currency that is spoken of there is also to be a 'tolerance of religions' or a one world religion.. evidence thereof


NEWS BRIEF: "Interfaith Meeting Gives Birth to United Religions", by Richard Scheinin, Mercury News Religion and Ethics Writer, Mercury Center, San Jose Mercury News

United Religions Initiative - Youth Global Network Symbol For New Global Religion

http://www.united-religions.org

"Nearly 200 delegates wrapped up a week-long interfaith meeting at Stanford on Friday, predicting they had given birth to a movement as well as a spiritual institution: the United Religions. The 'spiritual United Nations', as some have referred to it, would be a world assembly for humanity's myriad spiritual traditions. The international 'summit conference' brought together delegates from every continent to inaugurate formal efforts to figure out the organization's structure and mission and launch a charter-writing process. After several years of talking, the initiative's planners had finally gotten down to business."

" 'You are deputized!', the Rev. William E. Swing, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, told delegates as they prepared to go home. 'Tell the people that there is a United Religions, and that somewhere in the world, it is beginning to happen: that the religions are going to have an oasis where they can talk about peace.'[This conference was held June 23-27, 1997] "
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1094.cfm

1. THE MARK OF THE BEAST... the mark of the beast, during the tribulation is required to buy or sell legally... if found without it you were either forced to have it or beheaded... evidence that its coming

According to the Global Monetary website: "The IDchipTM implant is a very small electronic device that is painlessly implanted into the tissue of your right palm. It leaves no scar and is not visible in any way. You will not be able to feel it in your hand, as the device is mostly soft, flexible plastic. It will never need to be removed as it is continually recharged by the proprietary mouse." The computer mouse "interfaces directly with the electronic implant in your palm, thus establishing a foolproof electronic ID system for e-commerce over the Internet and in stores... Once operational, you will be able to purchase everything without the need of cash or even a credit card !"

On top of all this, we are told: "Global Monetary is very active in the world community and is an avid supporter of and contributor to the United Nations." Being big fans of the UN, Global Monetary even offers a computerized link to the organization's website and a gallery of photos and information about recent wonderments of global intervention performed by the UN.

Of course, it is not real. The website is part of an intriguing project run by Bill Cross. He wants to record a glimpse of how humans will react when such chip technology actually becomes available in the 21 st century.

And according to him, visitors are signing up for his imaginary implants in droves. Cross is totally confounded that so many people are willing to receive the "Mark of the Beast".

(Source: From a commentary by author Jim Keith, at website , August 1999)

2. CROSSING THE EUPHRATES... The armies of the Antichrist are said to cross the riverbed of the Euphrates river in the battle of Armageddon. This would call for the river to be dry.

More recently, Turkey has used a variation of the so-called Harmon Doctrine to justify damming the Euphrates River to the detriment of its downstream neighbours, Syria and Iraq. The former Turkish president, Suleyman Demirel, said those countries had no more right to claim Turkey's water than Turkey had to claim their oil.
But if this law of finders-keepers were applied to the Nile basin, "you would have to ask, why did God create Egypt?" says Prof. Luijendijk. "It cannot have more water unless it takes it from somewhere else, and there is nowhere else."
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14364&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html