Just don't worry about it. Only a dumbass would worry about legality of his music. If you're listening to it, it's yours.
I think he isn't worried. He just didn't have the balls to ask directly: Is it possible to detect by software (implies remotely) whether my mp3 files are pirated or not.. That's a good question.
Smartest question I've seen on
If you yourself can't determine the legality of the (music) files you possess, how can the RIAA? a court?
I agree completely. I also think it's a joke (or well, kinda sarcastic). I never heard of RIAA knocking on someone's door who is not a file sharer. Mr Anonymous Reader is "obviously" not sharing any files on the net, that would piracy, and our good citizen would never do such thing. In fact, he is worried about possessing a few mp3 files that might be "pirated". Right. I believe the real question is: "can they detect if an mp3 file is pirated or not?". A GOOD QUESTION!
And yeah, I enabled geolocation - not allowing it doesn't make me any safer. The information is NOT shared with the world by default, but it helps with weather apps, and targeted ads in the few ad supported apps I have. And I do prefer those to random shit from accross the world... So, as I said, just use it, the Market is pretty safe, but don't install just released apps mindlessly (you won't need to anyway, the quality of apps in the market has increased dramatically since I started using my Nexus last August).
That said, I never ever do anything like online banking on my phone. I have a PC and a Laptop (well, slate actually) for that. I entered my password for sync (gmail/picasa/calendar/etc) when starting up the phone the first time. So even if some app installs a secret keylogger (very very unlikely with the above common sense measures) what can they get? My text messages? I'm not in the habit of writing lenghty emails on my phone either... So never type sensitive passwords (banking, cc numbers, passwords) - and that's about it. If you need apps that want some password (Skype, YM, whatever) install them first before installing anything else. And just enjoy your phone, don't be too paranoid - I'm very very satisfied with my Nexus (ran cyanogenmod for some time, but switched back to stock, running Gingerbread 2.3.3 now + Go Launcher) - it's a very well built, sturdy little thing.
That's like putting a steel door on a straw house...
That's not Funny (mods!) that's accurate. You set all your privacy settings to friends only. You refuse all app invitations by default. And yet, your email address and every detail you publish will be handled to spammers on a silver platter by a single person who clicked on the "who viewed your profile" scam. Facebook is becoming MySpace - a platform for spammers, scammers and virus writers, not to mention Facebook's shady partners (Zynga & Co). I quit - I still have my profile, but left a message, a note and a short blurb on my profile info with links to my blog where I explain in detail why I left and encouraging others to do so. The final straw was when a lady accused me publicly (ie on my wall) of stalking her. Had no idea who she was actually (I probably knew her - friend of a friend of a friend or sth, I never accepted friend requests from complete strangers) - probably my name was chosen randomly from her contact list when accepting one of the "who viewed your profile" invitations. I think Facebook is past its peak - it was ok and useful, but now it's more trouble than it's worth. And we do have plenty of alternatives for keeping in touch.
If I'm asked what word I think of when I hear "Sony" my answer is "Proprietary formats" and then I would trail of by saying something like "... Wait... that is two words?...".
I actually surprised myself when I bought a Sony PRS-350 eBook reader. For my purpose it is optimal; small (5"), well build (aluminum) good screen. No darn keyboard, supports almost all known eBook formats, and best of all - is fully supported by the open source http://calibre-ebook.com/ eBook management software... I haven't installed Sony's own software...
I fully agree with you. I wanted to comment about their readers here - I think the ebook reader division is the only one that puts out respectable products. I bought the PRS900 Daily Edition, and it reminds me of the true SONY quality of the 80s. Surprisingly, there is no DRM, it reads everything I throw at it, works well with calibre as you suggest, and it comes with many accessories. A nice leather-like cover, a really good quality case, and generally the build quality is very very sturdy. I'm looking at ASUS for my next reader though, but I would still recommend SONY readers (for those of us who are fans of e-ink) over the competition.
"2) Your phone is not pre-tapped, the database cannot be accessed on the phone without hacking/jailbreaking"
Apple can access it any time (there is no evidence though that it does, except copying it all over the place). They could have issued an iOS update that made use of that data at any time in the future... And since intentionality of this database is well established now, it just makes sense that they actually wanted to do so. It sounds unreasonable that they just collected the data to have it sit around on every iDevice you have without using it. I think, as many speculate (and this is not far fetched at all) that this data could be used as a selling point to ad partners - I mean not even Google has that kind of info on you, and unlike Apple, you have full control over what they have and can clear it if you wish so.
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