hihi,
we are still in Perth. it's now almost 3am and really cold. we had some
nice warm sunshine earlier today though.
looked through the art mags & journals in the Curtin library just now. wow,
so much to read. i went on a copy spree; luckily, 10 cents a piece is still
affordable.
there's an article in ST (17 Nov) about the new copyright laws in Singapore
- be careful now! you can read it (quick, not sure how long it'll be
there): 'Copyright pirates may be put behind bars'
http://www.straitstimes.com/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,285456,00.html?
here's a hot recent topic related to copyrights - something those of us who
are serious about art should start thinking about - the Creative Commons site:
http://www.creativecommons.org.
also, check out Kingdom of Piracy, the umbrella project that BURN by Shu
Lea Cheang (currently in MAAP at SAM) is under: http://kop.fact.co.uk/burn.
'Tough action under new law to protect rights of creative community', reads
the subheading of the ST article. is that it, really?
Jen.
Singapore will not be as advance and prosperous without all the pirated software and all the photocopy books!
ReplyDeletePing
wah lau so cheezy I want to cry
ReplyDeletebut got to say --------
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal."
-- Pablo Picasso
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steal from 'artists' outside western civilisation
one doesn't have to acknowledge them becuase they have not developed (never) the concept of 'art'.
Is there stilll a distinction between western and eastern? believe that is not the issue here. however, the impact of FTA agreements is being felt between different sides of the coin.
ReplyDeletePicasso sucks anyway! (creatively) but a very shrewd business man.
Tan Swie Hian rocks.
Hi all, anonymous people... Just found another one close to the heart of the topic. >> talking about the 'disappearing' p2p - not. scenario.
ReplyDeleteSee below> transmission out! Tien
http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2004/p2p-dying/
Is P2P dying or just hiding?
Presented at Globecom 2004 in November-December 2004
Thomas Karagiannis
University of California, Riverside
Andre Broido, Nevil Brownlee, kc claffy
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis - CAIDA
San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California, San Diego
Michalis Faloutsos
University of California, Riverside
Recent reports in the popular media suggest a significant decrease in peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing traffic, attributed to the public's response to legal threats. Have we reached the end of the P2P revolution? In pursuit of legitimate data to verify this hypothesis, we embark on a more accurate measurement effort of P2P traffic at the link level. In contrast to previous efforts we introduce two novel elements in our methodology. First, we measure traffic of all known popular P2P protocols. Second, we go beyond the "known port" limitation by reverse engineering the protocols and identifying characteristic strings in the payload. We find that, if measured accurately, P2P traffic has never declined; indeed we have never seen the proportion of p2p traffic decrease over time (any change is an increase) in any of our data sources.