Qwest Suspends Grandma's Internet Connection

[TheDuke]

this is terrible
let the elders live their lives enjoyably.

 

[rhino13]

Time for the elderly to learn to lock their wi-fi!

 

[techguy911]

[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]Time for the elderly to learn to lock their wi-fi![/citation]

Problem is any form of encryption on wifi can be hacked by anyone you can point and click on hacking websites and download a program to do it for you there are plenty out there.

 

[830hobbes]

[citation][nom]AMW1011[/nom]As long as bull shit like this continues and the MPAA's and the RIAA's rain of being complete ass hole bastards that deserve to be stoned, I will continue support the artists and the artists only, not them.Go to a concert, buy a shirt, use iTunes, don't help these pieces of shit take away personal freedoms of people all across the globe because of some tiny profit loss. It all comes down to the fact that they find it cheaper to sue good people for costing them less than a 10% profit hit than adapt to the internet and make their money with the consumer like iTunes.The MPAA and the RIAA are what are known as corporate terrorists. They spread fear and limit personal freedoms to feed their greed and allow their CEOs to make more millions of dollars, because tens of millions of dollars a year just isn't fucking enough for them.[/citation]

*reign

 

[830hobbes]

[citation][nom]zingam[/nom]BTW this is called FASCISM[/citation]
While this is absurd, it definitely isn't fascism. It doesn't help anything for anarchist teens to yell about anarchism on the internet. Learn a thing or two about it and have an educated opinion.

 

[zzz_b]

Make all material copy-protected if you do not want illegal downloads. If you are not smart enough to do it, than you have to suffer the losses!
Personally I just hate all the so called "stars", and the last time I went to the movies was in 1988. You will not get a penny out of me, I have the time to wait and watch the movie when is available on the local channels.

 

[Hilarion]

This is what happens when this power is granted without proper oversight by a court of law rather than the ISP acting as a cop for the MPAA and RIAA. This kind of misdirection is a fact of every computer network. And it is also why the ISP's should not be hi-jacked by the entertainment industry.

 

[Honis]

Moral of the story, have someone "compromise" your network or do it yourself. Download whatever to your hearts content. Blame hackers when you get caught. Become absolved. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Hilarion]

[citation][nom]zzz_b[/nom]Make all material copy-protected if you do not want illegal downloads. If you are not smart enough to do it, than you have to suffer the losses!Personally I just hate all the so called "stars", and the last time I went to the movies was in 1988. You will not get a penny out of me, I have the time to wait and watch the movie when is available on the local channels.[/citation]
As has been shown over and over, copy protection is no protection. Just another tool to beat up legal users without putting any damper at all on the "illegal" users.

What RIAA and MPAA and others are trying to achieve is to convince the courts that they "OWN" whatever it is that is copy-protected/EULA click wrapped and that everyone else is only "renting" it. They are telling the public that they don't "own" what they buy. And we are being stupid enough to let them get away with this.

 

[Learn_w_Graffix]

As much as I favor copyrights and copyright protection, technology has overtaken the situation. Efforts to protect copyrights have become more obnoxious and illegal than the copying! Wouldn't it be better just to say, "The time for authors, artists, production studios, etc., to make huge profits has come--and gone!"? Until the last century, performing artists generally were not wealthy. The situation reminds me of blacksmiths making horseshoes once automobiles came on the scene.

 

[lightzy]

[citation][nom]Hilarion[/nom]What RIAA and MPAA and others are trying to achieve is to convince the courts that they "OWN" whatever it is that is copy-protected/EULA click wrapped and that everyone else is only "renting" it. They are telling the public that they don't "own" what they buy. And we are being stupid enough to let them get away with this.[/citation]


Of course they own it. they hold the copyright which you're only licensing for personal use. if it was yours then everyone would have to pay you royalties.

 

[traesta]

So if I ever get busted downloading shit online, all I have to do is disable the password on my wireless router and blame it on someone else in my apartment. Me +1 MPAA 0

 

[Hilarion]

[citation][nom]lightzy[/nom]Of course they own it. they hold the copyright which you're only licensing for personal use. if it was yours then everyone would have to pay you royalties.[/citation]
A book is "copy-righted" but when I buy a book I have the right to sell that book without paying the copyright holder a single penny. Under copyright law it is called the "right of first sale" which is being taken away from us by these companies. So, in effect, they are breaking the law by not granting me the right that is granted by the very law they are trying to use to keep me from exercising my right of first sale. This same rule applies to anything that is "copyrighted."

You have fallen for their bullshit.

 

[millerm84]

It makes me sick to think an ISP has the right to sift though my internet traffic. The FBI has to get a warrant to tap or pull my phone records but the "industry" just has to threaten to sue the ISP to know where my PC has or hasn't been. Every person who has been sued by these corporations needs to file a class action lawsuit against their ISPs for invasion of privacy and violation of 4th amendment rights. Make the ISP fear the consumer more then the RIAA and MPAA and let this crap end.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]Hilarion[/nom]A book is "copy-righted" but when I buy a book I have the right to sell that book without paying the copyright holder a single penny. Under copyright law it is called the "right of first sale" which is being taken away from us by these companies. So, in effect, they are breaking the law by not granting me the right that is granted by the very law they are trying to use to keep me from exercising my right of first sale. This same rule applies to anything that is "copyrighted."You have fallen for their bullshit.[/citation]


Except, EULA. Idiot.

 

[drip50291]

UBER H4X 1
PWNGRANNY 1
ISP NOOOOOOOBSSSS 0
who the fuck is quest?

 

[fracture]

LoL, Terrorism schooling at work here. Spy on your neighbors, friends, brothers and sisters. If they're doing anything suspicious narc on them. Brought to you by our Government's Homeland Security.

 

[Hilarion]

[citation][nom]kami3k[/nom]Except, EULA. Idiot.[/citation]
This is just an attempt to end-run around the copyright protections that belong to the buying public. It's just another way for them to say that you, the buying public, don't own what you, the buying public, have purchased. Again the buying public is being stupid enough to fall for it.

 

[Guest]

OK please hear what i have to say..Even if she did down load movies how is it that Qwest can spy on here internet activities in the first place? that means they can watch your every move that is a violation of our rights.And if it is an ill-eagle act then it is up to the proper authorities to do something about it with a warrant 1st. or rather the site ware she or they download movies from would have to be under instigation then track people that are going there downloading...needs to be a warrant for that also.but really we have no more rights it seems guilty until proven Innocent.and they can track our every move by camera by credit cards.internet without due-process next our phones.. i could go on and I will I have been working on a book that will blow everyones minds away My e-mail is glennkelley1968@hotmail.com