Not in the USA.

See 17 U.S.C. Â109(b)(1)(A)

The operative term here is "my house." Do it basically anywhere besides that and it is a public performance.

Yeah, and do you work on classified documents at home? No.

You can haul as many strangers around in your Honda as you want and charge them as much money as you can convince them to pay for the privilege. You can't legally charge anyone to listen to your CD and you certainly can't play it for a crowd of strangers even if they don't pay you a dime.

If you bought music from musicians that are signed to a MAFIAA record label it doesn't matter what country you bought the music in. The chance that the MAFIAA isn't getting a cut of the regional licensing deal is practically zero.

I'm pretty sure you missed the point. If you had a gap, you don't know who has been through it. If you only look for introduced malware when you know somebody has been through the gap, then you are only half-assing your security.

Those actions and associated costs are not the result of having your network broken into. They are the result of being told your network is vulnerable - even if you have no knowledge that the network was actually broken into.

Yes, in fact I make suire to rape and mug every chance I get!!

The fact that you have to make such an absurd argument ought to be a clue that you have misunderstood the original point.

Really? That is such baloney. Total cop-out. Education means an increase in knowledge and skills and that universally means more than just technical school.

And yet as a proportion of the population, they are still quite small and quite new. You don't get political change until you get at least a sizable minority interested in change. Come back in 2 generations and you will be eating crow, and I don't mean chicken feet.

Well, at least one difference is that when a website gets hacked it is almost always the people visiting the website who are the target because the goal of the hacker is either to grab information about those users from the hacked system or to use the hacked system to distribute exploits to anyone that browses there.

While when a house is broken into, it is basically a problem for the owners of the house and not really anyone else.

So publishing a list of vulnerabilities on websites serves the purpose of shaming the website operators into better protecting their users.

Well, if that's the case, you clearly aren't worth a tenth of a penny to an advertiser anyway so why should your opinion count?

Still not applicable to the topic at hand.

Ah, now at least you have a relevant point. I disagree though. I'd say that sort of problem goes away as the general population becomes more educated. When everybody is a starving, illiterate peasant then there isn't much ability to take a larger view. Fortunately, most of the people affected are no longer starving and education has become exceptionally important in China over the last decade+. Even if it is more of a technical nature than most western educations it is still a huge step forward in the average citizen's ability to comprehend cause and effect and their place in the larger world. I don't expect change to happen over night (it didn't happen overnight in the west either), at a minimum the majority of the last generation still has to die off or otherwise get out of the way.

Do you understand that that sort of callusness was not uncommon in the US during the industrial revolution? Don't make the mistake of assuming that being on different places on a developmental timeline means that they are headed in a different direction.

You seem ignorant to the fact that this over-borrowing in US culture is new in the last 35 years or so. Certainly was not the case during tthe industrial revolution. And I still don't see what that has to do with legislative fixes to problems brought on by the industrial revolution.

So what does that have to do with laws like cleaning up the environment, food quality laws, and labor laws like safe working conditions?

No, I am afraid it is you who is being obtuse. You are so convinced of the correctness of your argument, that you can't make your argument in a convincing fashion.

So what? Really, you are claiming something is self-evident and I don't see it. I see a minor difference in the valuation of family members, but it is still the valuing of family.

Yes, six-strikes is basically the MAFIAA's gift to the VPN industry and the "web locker" industry.

I've been looking at VPNs for a while, but I haven't found one that hits all of my requirements. Maybe people here can make some recommendations.

1) At least 3 devices - my home router and the smartphones of me and the wife. I'd really like to see 5 devices just so I've got enough of slop that I don't have to worry about keeping track of what is VPNed and what is not.

2) High throughput

3) Multiple egress points in multiple countries

4) Unlimited switching between egress points

5) Good pricing

6) Reliable - not some fly-by-night looking to cash in on the MAFIAA's indulgence