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I been mirroring things.
We have fission, etc- everything to SBF (Saved my ass, laptop broke- had to use someone else's- I enjoy my fast as hell easy to use repository )
So anyways then I read about new full SBF isn't released yet because of it's motorola proprietary code?
In that case I'll probably start a droid repo only on servers in a country without DMCA laws
Let me know- and if some guys want to set up and have access to publish files on this node I'll give certain people access. I don't have a PC setup yet but you can email me at chris aaaaat evilpuma.com
I've donated dozens of terabytes over the years, don't thank me but assist me in helping others. Tis was a pain in the arse to even get the SBF files the first time- glad I mirrored it.
(Sidenote since I'm sure devs only wont read: I don't want to host copyrighted apk's and what not. Not because I can't but because it's rude to the nice people who created that software. Get those apk's that cost $$$ from google and save them on your SD card- never need to DL again )
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I been mirroring things.
We have fission, etc- everything to SBF (Saved my ass, laptop broke- had to use someone else's- I enjoy my fast as hell easy to use repository )
So anyways then I read about new full SBF isn't released yet because of it's motorola proprietary code?
In that case I'll probably start a droid repo only on servers in a country without DMCA laws
Let me know- and if some guys want to set up and have access to publish files on this node I'll give certain people access. I don't have a PC setup yet but you can email me at chris aaaaat evilpuma.com
I've donated dozens of terabytes over the years, don't thank me but assist me in helping others. Tis was a pain in the arse to even get the SBF files the first time- glad I mirrored it.
(Sidenote since I'm sure devs only wont read: I don't want to host copyrighted apk's and what not. Not because I can't but because it's rude to the nice people who created that software. Get those apk's that cost $$$ from google and save them on your SD card- never need to DL again )
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SBF 2.3.20 is out.
I been going forum to forum, so it's not copyrighted?
Sorry I read that it can't be released fully, so the full SBF is out?
My question is it legal to host SBF's in USA or not (& wheres the 2.3.2 at, MDW?)
thanks echo- been kinda out of the loop. Glad to see fissions hit 2.x!
cmanns said:
I been going forum to forum, so it's not copyrighted?
Sorry I read that it can't be released fully, so the full SBF is out?
My question is it legal to host SBF's in USA or not (& wheres the 2.3.2 at, MDW?)
thanks echo- been kinda out of the loop. Glad to see fissions hit 2.x!
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Yes MDW. They have it linked to a megaupload. Check your pm.
Ah yes thats where I was reading bout it needing permission to be released haha
It technically is copyrighted and does contain proprietary code. However, the internet is flooded with SBF/SHX files from motorola as well as their RSDLite, RSD General, and other softwares, and I never once heard of anyone or any site getting a take down for having or posting them. Motorola generally plays nicely with the modding community (aside from locking down their phones).
Now, LG on the other hand...
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It technically is copyrighted and does contain proprietary code. However, the internet is flooded with SBF/SHX files from motorola as well as their RSDLite, RSD General, and other softwares, and I never once heard of anyone or any site getting a take down for having or posting them. Motorola generally plays nicely with the modding community (aside from locking down their phones).
Now, LG on the other hand...
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Generally speaking, there is lot's of proprietary Motorola stuff everywhere, but Motorola is not "playing nice" with the modding community at all.
RootzWiki received a C&D for posting SBF files and MDW also was served with a C&D for posting the 2.3.9 OTA update.zip a month before it was released.
They are very serious about protecting their IP and doing everything possible to make all of what has been done so far on DX and D2 useless or of very limited value going forward. That is why they are including a new bootloader with every release now to prevent going back to prior versions.
Blanket statements about their willingness to allow such things to be posted are not valid unfortunately.
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Generally speaking, there is lot's of proprietary Motorola stuff everywhere, but Motorola is not "playing nice" with the modding community at all.
RootzWiki received a C&D for posting SBF files and MDW also was served with a C&D for posting the 2.3.9 OTA update.zip a month before it was released.
They are very serious about protecting their IP and doing everything possible to make all of what has been done so far on DX and D2 useless or of very limited value going forward. That is why they are including a new bootloader with every release now to prevent going back to prior versions.
Blanket statements about their willingness to allow such things to be posted are not valid unfortunately.
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Historically, it's never been motorola against the modding community. If we're gunna point fingers at those responsible for the current closed model push, I think we need to start with the carriers...
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Historically, it's never been motorola against the modding community. If we're gunna point fingers at those responsible for the current closed model push, I think we need to start with the carriers...
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History unfortunately does not reflect the current situation.
I have always felt that there was tacit support from inside Motorola for the modding and hacking community. I don't know if that was actually the case or if it was simply lax security and apathy, but it all changed when Sanjay Jha took over a saved Moto from oblivion. He is a former Qualcomm exec and is by nature extremely security conscious and this new push for control and lockdowns of the new phones is entirely his initiative and not coming from VZW at all.
He is committed to this new regime and sees protection of Moto's IP as key to the future success of the company. They are trying to establish themselves with a secure platform for enterprise use and wrestle that market away from RIM. The coming move to LTE will only solidify this position and all of these new methods they are using are just a prelude to even more ironclad security measures for those devices.
There is a lot more to it than I have touched on here but I have it on very good authority that this is how it's going to be for the foreseeable future.
We will have our hands full trying to keep up I am sure...
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History unfortunately does not reflect the current situation.
I have always felt that there was tacit support from inside Motorola for the modding and hacking community. I don't know if that was actually the case or if it was simply lax security and apathy, but it all changed when Sanjay Jha took over a saved Moto from oblivion. He is a former Qualcomm exec and is by nature extremely security conscious and this new push for control and lockdowns of the new phones is entirely his initiative and not coming from VZW at all.
He is committed to this new regime and sees protection of Moto's IP as key to the future success of the company. They are trying to establish themselves with a secure platform for enterprise use and wrestle that market away from RIM. The coming move to LTE will only solidify this position and all of these new methods they are using are just a prelude to even more ironclad security measures for those devices.
There is a lot more to it than I have touched on here but I have it on very good authority that this is how it's going to be for the foreseeable future.
We will have our hands full trying to keep up I am sure...
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Seems consistent from what I've read and heard as well.
Really, all you have to do is read the lawsuits over patents and positioning of IP BS - "we made this and you didn't" vs "well we made this and you can't use it" - to see that these companies have all mapped /flex to their spacebar.
cellzealot said:
Generally speaking, there is lot's of proprietary Motorola stuff everywhere, but Motorola is not "playing nice" with the modding community at all.
RootzWiki received a C&D for posting SBF files and MDW also was served with a C&D for posting the 2.3.9 OTA update.zip a month before it was released.
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So generally speaking it'd be good to start a mirror in this 3rd world country server location for SBF's and such?
Considering I can host windows iso's publicly... I don't know what I couldn't host there LOL
I've not got a C&D from my mirror of 2.2.2? sbf but I havent pushed that file around much.
Are they getting a C&D for posting link or hosting? I dislike that sorta thing, I don't mind putting up a lil battle but I'm def going to host these files non-usa then.
I posted this thread so whoever has access that wants me to setup a safe repo I can do so and give them/group access
As most of you would know, we have learned quite a bit about Defy bootloader during the last week.
We always thought that Motorola don't have a method to unlock production defys (defys shipped to end users). Well we have sufficient information now to prove that Motorola have a method, and that it converts production defys to engineering defys (Phones used by Motorola engineers to make ROMs and other stuff)
This is actually better than a simple unlocked boot-loader because eng defys have unlimited applications (because we have direct access to MOBO/CPU) like overclocking gpu, installing other OS like Ubuntu, Debian, WP7 etc. into NAND and a lot more.
So the problem here is that the tools required for ENG switch is only available to Motorola employees. Till now we have no further information on it. The tools are TI OMAP BOARD CONFIGURATION TOOL and a 16MB .bin file. Other significance of this method is that it might also unlock other phones with OMAP(3xxx/xxxx?) board. Also this method seems to be very stable.
So the good news is that this software is available for most Motorola repair centers. That means it would be easier to get a leak. Of course the highly paid Motorola engineers with 6digit paycheck wont leak it but we should consider low level repair executives (they already leak sbfs and RSDlite).
So my suggestion is we start a bounty thread in XDA to tempt them.
If you have a solution and if you are concerned about anonymity, please PM me.
PS : There are lots of bounty threads in xda.
Hi,
Setting a Bounty would be cool, but is legal ?
Cause it is not like "I pay you a lot of money if you steal this software for me"
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Hi,
Setting a Bounty would be cool, but is legal ?
Cause it is not like "I pay you a lot of money if you steal this software for me"
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hmm. It depend's on which country you are from.
I'm quite on it. Minimum/maximum fee could be set (like US$2 min and 20 bucks max, or anything like this). And someone with access to Motorola's employees (I think the user racca works on a Moto distributor, but I'm not sure of it, I think he mentioned it in some thread a few months ago) could rush and "bribe" them. If people could be a bit more clear about which kind of employees should have access to this software, I could try and convince one of them (you know, people here in Brazil aren't that much into honesty, but are a lot into money) about heading us a leak from TI's software. I'll have to take my phone to MOTOAssist soon ("menu" and "back" keys' backlights are weaker than normal), so I'd have at least an actual reason to talk to an assist technician (assuming they have access to the board configuration tool).
Yet, since I'm no hacker (yet, I'm planning on getting a Nook Color - which community here in XDA seems to provide all you need to start your own ROM - and starting messing around with it) nor coder (know only a little about C programming), I would not try and mess around with TI's software, but only upload it somewhere and give you guys a link for it.
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I'm quite on it. Minimum/maximum fee could be set (like US$2 min and 20 bucks max, or anything like this).
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We could even promote it with ads. The best way would be to set up our on website, maybe in Brazil(or with some webhost who would like to host this) where you could bribe your way out and then promote it with ads. There is a remote chance that XDA might not approve a bounty thread here (of illegal implications), but we could publish the website here and all other major forums (chinese forums as well).
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We could even promote it with ads. The best way would be to set up our on website, maybe in Brazil(or with some webhost who would like to host this) where you could bribe your way out and then promote it with ads. There is a remote chance that XDA might not approve a bounty thread here (of illegal implications), but we could publish the website here and all other major forums (chinese forums as well).
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Dunno, since it's illegal, it may not be the best option to promote it. Obviously, it's still not immoral, but we all know that morality and law often do not converge, so it may be better to go rogue, talking in private with motoassist technicians and stuff like that, because, even if we're just fighting for our rights, we're still using non-legal ways, and risking to be sued for it.
I don't think promoting a website is illegal. What's illegal is hosting an illegal one.
Promoting a website who promises cash for employees of a corporation who leak internal software used by that corp. might be considered illegal in most places. Fortunately (or not, I'll explain why), we have jurisprudence to embase of: in september 1st, last year, a judge here in Brazil condemned Moto to update a customer's Dext/CLIQ to Android 2.1 (Moto did not provide this update here in Brazil, even though it did in many countries) without voiding the warranty.
I know it's just one case, in just one country, and updating an android version is way different than providing unlocked bootloaders (or the tools for users to do so). And, yes, I agree with placing a bounty at the tool. Yet, if we get caught, Moto can still argue that we had other ways to pursue our rights, and we should have used the justice system to do so, if we believed we were that right. Yet, they're a multimillion-worthy company (even bigger after being purchased by Google), and we're a bunch of broke users, at most devs making a couple thousand dollars, and would have little chance against their lawyers. Last, but not least, employers who help us may get caught and fired because of us, and I sincerely want nobody (ok, maybe a few of the highest executives) to get fired just for me to get an unlocked BL.
So, my point is: let's make this a stealth action. Get a reason for your phone to be taken to Motoassist (no intentional bricking, please! You must flash an official SBF before taking it there! - at least if your phone is still under warranty), get to talk with one of their technicians, and mention - indifferently - that some guys are giving alway big money for any Moto employee who leaks that TI OMAP software. Something like this: "hey, did you hear that crazy devs at this dev forum are paying the first moto technician to hand them some sort of software? Something OMAP-related, I don't know for sure. All I know is that the reward is some nice cash."
When the word spread, we could have an unlocked bootloader within a month.
Yet, we got a single issue to deal: how to ensure the person who gives us the SW first will actually receive the cash? I've seen a few bounties here before, but them all were settled by XDA devs (so the bounty keeper could just donate the sum to that dev), never saw something like paying "outsiders".
One of my friends (Defy+ user) has a contact with a Motorola service guy. He says that that guy knows everything about Motorola software and he's with us because he himself uses custom ROMs and controls an entire service center. He's ready to take my device under warranty though it's rooted along every single hack/MOD for Defy installed
Will try contacting him
And let's post this in the forums of all other locked Motorola devices with OMAP 3xxx chips.
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One of my friends (Defy+ user) has a contact with a Motorola service guy. He says that that guy knows everything about Motorola software and he's with us because he himself uses custom ROMs and controls an entire service center. He's ready to take my device under warranty though it's rooted along every single hack/MOD for Defy installed
Will try contacting him
And let's post this in the forums of all other locked Motorola devices with OMAP 3xxx chips.
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Talk with this guy. If he has access to a copy of TI's SW, and handle it to us, I'm pretty sure we could him get a nice reward. Not as high as if putting a bounty, but definitely enough to make the effort worth it.
I mean, supposing that this is actually gonna help unlock EVERY OMAP 3 (and possibly all OMAP-based phones) out there, and that this way the process is reversible (at least to me, it looks like no eFuse is being blown there, you know, assistance technicians can't just blow eFuses like that - taking the phone to the assistance under warranty shouldn't void it, and that's what a blown eFuse would do), loads of people would help. Imagine a single dollar from every OMAP 3 XDA user (take a look here for an INCOMPLETE list of OMAP 3 devices with ~30 ANDROID ONLY phones/tablets), that would make a lot of money.
this is good....and i think it will be best to not mention the location,identities,or any hint of similarities of the perosn source once you guys get contacts & manifests from that guy(source). so as not to compromise his profession.
he could be fired & worse can be sued by leaking private details.
best discuss it in private,after getting in touch w/ him...
just a tought of CAUTION...
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this is good....and i think it will be best to not mention the location,identities,or any hint of similarities of the perosn source once you guys get contacts & manifests from that guy(source). so as not to compromise his profession.
he could be fired & worse can be sued by leaking private details.
best discuss it in private,after getting in touch w/ him...
just a tought of CAUTION...
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Yeah we would ensure him that.
I'll help u out....juzz tell me what to get from moto officials
hemil said:
I'll help u out....juzz tell me what to get from moto officials
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do u know motorola mobility service center in mbai?
we only hav private shops with motos certificate...
i dont think they can help...
all they say is we'll send it to factory(?)
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@hemil Please pm me.
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I'll help u out....juzz tell me what to get from moto officials
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Hey buddy... just wait for my call today...
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Putting up an ads offering money for violation the law may be a bit problematic. No website will be excited to host it. Another issue is that in the end someone will have to actually post it, someone in particular. And that one person will be in danger of being a subject of interest of various law enforcement agencies. You know, at the end of the day they always want someone to put the responsibility on, the culprit, a scapegoat. So you make heat and you put some particular person into it even before there is any result.
I would prefer to focus more on personal face to face private communications with the service guys. It's harder to prove and if something goes wrong (the guy records it etc.) our guy can always say he was just kidding, bullshitting, bigmouthing.
Anyway, if you are thinking about this seriously, here are few remarks.
don't offer the particular sum, it's not tactical; not even here should be mentioned any particular number; instead, let the service guy ask his price
if the first contact with a potential source is established, ask first for a proof; specify what the proof is supposed to be (a screenshot? a video recording of the software in action?)
figure out a way how to actually collect the money; people are willing to donate but they will not donate to anyone, only to someone trustworthy (but Epsylon will surely want to have nothing to do with everything even remotely questionable, let alone illegal); the "collector" will be under the lights, he may get attention of people we don't want to deal with
who actually will be allowed to donate? anyone? how to avoid an agent to donate and then simply track where the money is going?
figure out a way how to actually make a safe and smooth deal (money <-> software); will it be in person or electronically? how to verify we are given what we paid for? classical problem: no one of both parties is willing to make his move first, but we can't give away the money for a software we would start verifying not until the money is gone
figure out how to avoid being robbed (fake offers from people who would want to grab the money and run away) as well as being caught (fake offers from the dummy guy - LE agent); in both cases the correct proof might be given, though, but the intentions are wrong
For the particular mechanics of the exchange in person, one of numerous possible ways may go like this:
our guy comes with an intentionally bricked Defy repairable only with the software in question together with the ordinary USB cable (or without, if special USB cable is needed; in that case the cable must be part of the deal), and with an empty flash drive recognizable at the first sight; no money on him
our guy passes the flash drive and the Defy (and the USB cable, if no special cable is needed) to the "source" and watches closely
the source copies the software onto the flash drive, runs the software from the flash drive, connects the Defy via the cable provided and actually unbricks the phone (this must be more elaborated on; what if the software uses some libraries from the windows directories etc. which are not copied onto the flash drive? he may or may not have the installer, but just copying the installer isn't enough, he would have to copy the installer on the flash drive, then run the installer from it and install it back onto the flash drive and run it from there)
our guy gets the phone (and the cable) back, the source unplugs the flash drive and keeps it for now, our guy watches the flash drive is not connected to anything from now on
now the software is copied onto the flash drive and verified it's working, thus ordinary hand-to-hand exchange may proceed; our guy didn't bring the money to avoid being robbed, they both now may go grab the money or our guy may call his buddy with the money etc. (also needs to be heavily elaborated on)
Sensitive parts must be detailed in-depth, I am just indicating the outline, one of many possible. Still it's very far from perfect.
As you can see it's not that easy and there are many potential points of failure so this action may never really come to the practical realization.
What about a little bit different or alternative ways? Are there any? It would be useful to ask Epsylon what he would actually wish for the most - had he been able to wish for anything.
isn't it illegal to post copyrighted stuff and also its against forum rules..
i mean that if someone gets his hand on that super tool, then how can he shares it with us???
rishi2100 said:
isn't it illegal to post copyrighted stuff and also its against forum rules..
i mean that if someone gets his hand on that super tool, then how can he shares it with us???
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huh !! think about moto when they actually ditch us with promises ? whats wrong if what we are screaming for last 1 year . and didnt get any updates ? huh think about tht before u speak about illegal stuffs . if moto is doing all sought of ways to keep us away from our rights . what we do undercover to get us right can no way be questioned when we have told thousands of times that we need updates .
more over the authority can question us only and only when they are themselves self guilt free .... but instead they are pretending to be saint sitting behind the curtains and doing all sought of locking stuff to deprive us of our rights
@jhonsmithx Let's not get ahead of ourselves. First of all lets concentrate on getting the source. Also I urge users to use a bit of social engineering to do that(using fb/g ). We'll put together a plan according to the situation after that. Also note that this is a pretty long shot. We might not get a source after all.
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isn't it illegal to post copyrighted stuff and also its against forum rules..
i mean that if someone gets his hand on that super tool, then how can he shares it with us???
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I could think of atleast 10 ways to share anonymously. Though I wont be posting them here.
Ok, so Megaupload has been seized by the Feds, and now other file sharing sites are withdrawing access, how is this going to affect Custom Rom Development?
SOPA is dead and nothing to do with Megaupload being shuttered. Fewer file sharing sites might mean developers having to look for alternative hosts for their ROMs, but it won't affect development.
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SOPA is dead and nothing to do with Megaupload being shuttered. Fewer file sharing sites might mean developers having to look for alternative hosts for their ROMs, but it won't affect development.
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SOPA was only an initiative by the US Senate. Other countries around the world have their own versions of anti-piracy laws that could in the future make development illegal. Also, SOPA is not dead it is only being delayed, it will rear its ugly head around sooner or later unless the members of Senate involved in this are voted out in the US 2012 election.
I have noticed that many links from Multiupload are now dead, as in there are other sites that have stopped people being able to share the files they've uploaded. I think the loss of MegaUpload will be an inconvenience, but nothing more - there are plenty of other options out there for hosting ROMs, APKs, etc.
Life itself doesn't like void - when something needed/useful disappears, new thing appears somwhere else.
I think you don't have to worry
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SOPA was only an initiative by the US Senate. Other countries around the world have their own versions of anti-piracy laws that could in the future make development illegal.
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Open source licenses like the GPL allow freedom to share and modify software, they're not about protecting copyright and will not be affected by SOPA-like anti-piracy laws.
Also, SOPA is not dead it is only being delayed, it will rear its ugly head around sooner or later unless the members of Senate involved in this are voted out in the US 2012 election.
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That's doubtful now. The debate has boiled down to Silicon Valley versus Hollywood, and ultimately Silicon Valley weilds more power and is more attractive to politicians, especially to Republicans thanks to the perceived liberal Hollywood bias.
I think everything will be fine.
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I doubt it.
Although Megaupload is down for good and other hosters like Filesonic, Wupload and many more have stopped their services, there are still several functioning filehosters such as Rapidshare and Mediafire.
Yea exactly plus i prefer mediafire
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SOPA was only an initiative by the US Senate. Other countries around the world have their own versions of anti-piracy laws that could in the future make development illegal. Also, SOPA is not dead it is only being delayed, it will rear its ugly head around sooner or later unless the members of Senate involved in this are voted out in the US 2012 election.
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VOTE any politician that supports this SOPA/PIPA iniyiatives out in 2012.I'm so sick and tired of all this big government,big brother crap.They are coming after everything now from sports nutrition supplements to light bulbs to the internet. This madness got to stop!
Vote Everybody out and give a bunch of new people the chance to mess things up. Congress needs some house cleaning anyways.
Well if we could do away with congress altogether it would be fantabulous,But in all seriousness if the people don't rise up and make their voice heard this abuse of power will continue.
Think about it the government is regulating almost every aspect of our lives,and more and more regulations are issued almost every day.It wont be long before they will control how and when we use the internet.
The owner of megaupload I heard is facing 50 years while murders and rapist get 15 to 20 what a [email protected] joke. So who do I need to vote for or against to get the people out of the office that are pushing the SOPA idea
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The owner of megaupload I heard is facing 50 years while murders and rapist get 15 to 20 what a [email protected] joke. So who do I need to vote for or against to get the people out of the office that are pushing the SOPA idea
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Well it's hard to say for sure,but basically the more liberal/left leaning the politician,the more likely he/she is to push for bigger,more intrusive government and more regulations.(Exmp. the so-called fairness doctrine)
Usually libertarians and small government conservatives are for less government intrusion and more individual liberty.You just have to listen to what they say and also examin their record on similar issues.
Here is a neat little site that shows who is for/against SOPA/PIPA type laws.
http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/
Look for your member of congress there and VOTE accordingly.
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As everyone is aware of, Regardless of whether or not SOPA / ACTA passes the government doesn't need any of that to shut down file sharing sites, or at least spook them into shutting down before the feds get to them.
A lot of the XDA developers use Multiupload.com which, for those who don't know simultaneously uploads the ROM, Kernel, whatever to a multitude of file sharing servers at once. However, today while going to download a ROM for my Optimus One, myself and I'm sure others across the board have found that the site is now 404'd and none of the links to any ROM hosted on that site work.
My question is - Could XDA implement it's own file sharing server similar to this but dedicated solely to Open Source Mobile software / Roms/ what have you from recognized developers? That way there is a solid and completely functional file sharing network where XDA users can find and upload their own work without worrying about another file sharing site going under?
I know that some people use the forum attachments to upload ROMS, but I think that it is really slow and doesn't offer a great alternative.
Possibly a cloud service would be the best option next.
Such as Microsoft's, because the feds aren't just going to shut down something run by a big company so easily.
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I Am Marino said:
Possibly a cloud service would be the best option next.
Such as Microsoft's, because the feds aren't just going to shut down something run by a big company so easily.
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What are the main cloud services other than Skydrive and Dropbox
Any proof that it actually got "shut down" by the feds?
Like a news article?
Maybe it's just down?
Does the FBI logo show up when you go to multiupload?
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Android311 said:
Does the FBI logo show up when you go to multiupload?
NookColor ICS 9 Nightly "Overclocked"
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Nope.
Connection just times out. So servers are definitely down. And have been for at least 3 hours from what I know.
Ok cause I've seen some FBI stuff and kinda scares me lol makes me wonder if they r gonna track me down
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It's been down since atleast yesterday morning (GMT) when I tried to access it.
http://www.downornot.com/multiupload
This just checks if the servers are down, and according to it they have been since yesterday, as I said.
Google has a cached copy from 9 Feb 2012 09:15:31 GMT so it wasn't down then.
Grab your Guy Fawkes masks...
Cant believe it. Multiupload is down! Whatever next...
What about all those ppl who use it for a legitmate purpose??? Like us???
you can switch to netload.in its a good filesharing provider too.
And netload is still online.
MFG Failforce
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What are the main cloud services other than Skydrive and Dropbox
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Box.net
and Google is also heavily rumored to have their own competitor to all these coming out soon called "Google Drive"
I got the FBI mess when I was trying to get an mtz off there a few days ago. I always use dropbox for hosting files for others to download though.
Yall may want to talk with xRepinsSporx ans see if mire people can use androidfilehost.com its pretty stable and fast
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ive used...
erm both 4shared and mediafire are quite reliable...
half the time the reffered downloads on multiupload never worked for me...
4shared, mediafire, they both have internal file organizers...
letitbit works. slow. and always when im downloading from there i need scroll down or my mum prolly will ask what im doing...
If 4shared and mediafire go down, I will be thoroughly pissed.
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still no news on multiupload .. I think that that is because of this law.
OK good news
First off, if you don't see that ICE image, the site has NOT been taken down by the US.
Second, use this instead of multiupload.com, 85.17.76.195/, then put in the download alphanum code eg.
85.17.76.195/KV4NKMZFLC
Works 100%!!
A lot of sites are going down because they're afraid of the government.
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I Am Marino said:
Possibly a cloud service would be the best option next.
Such as Microsoft's, because the feds aren't just going to shut down something run by a big company so easily.
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Yes, because microsoft is in the governments pocket and gives the feds full access to everything on its servers.
That being said, roms arent illegal. if xda were to set something like this up, it would really benefit the community.
im sure theyd have to implement a premium member system and throttle the hell out of non members to break even....
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As most of you are aware it has recently become illegal to unlock carrier branded phones purchased after January 26th of this year. This is a petition to the White House to repeal or amend that decision. There are three days left to garner another 1500 signatures. Please take the time to create an account and sign this petition.
http://wh.gov/yA9n
Thanks
I've already signed it for myself,and for my wife. Now, if only my 3 friends on Facebook and g+ would follow the link I posted back when I signed, we'd only need 1497 more signatures. Lol
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bps119 said:
I've already signed it for myself,and for my wife. Now, if only my 3 friends on Facebook and g+ would follow the link I posted back when I signed, we'd only need 1497 more signatures. Lol
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It's all good. Just hit 105,500. So at least the government will take a look at it. 115,000 wouldn't hurt though.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/white-house-must-answer-for-ban-on-unlocking-cell-phones/
"The White House is going to have to provide answers on whether it thinks cell phone unlocking should be illegal. Unlocking cell phones unties them from specific carriers, allowing users to switch to a different cellular provider. This was legal until recently, when the Library of Congress decided not to renew the Digital Millennium Copyright Act exemption for unlocking.
Outraged cell phone users filed a White House Petition demanding the reversal of this policy. The petition was filed just days after the White House said petitions would only get an answer if they received 100,000 signatures within a month, rather than the previous threshold of 25,000.
The cell phone unlock petition passed 100,000 today, two days before the deadline. You can still sign it if you wish."
I sure I am not alone in feeling as though this is absolutely unacceptable, and hope the unlock law gets changed. It is understandable for the courts to try to help prevent or at least try to stop piracy and other unlawful acts, and to try to protect the carriers from exploitation, but for the very act of performing an unlock to now be a punishable crime is just terrible. I commend all of you who are part of the petition, or just against ethis new ruling and trying to get it changed. Good luck to you all in this endeavor.
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While I agree that it should be changed, I think the law is more aimed at less than reputable carriers (Cricket comes to mind in Phoenix, at least) that will unlock and flash any phone to their network, regardless of its status (stolen, etc).
For that reason alone I would support the law, but only if it included a provision for allowing the legal owner to unlock the phone at his/her discretion.
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For anyone who hasn't seen yet:
http://www.androidcentral.com/white...uld-be-legal?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=twitter
liquidzoo said:
For anyone who hasn't seen yet:
http://www.androidcentral.com/white...uld-be-legal?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=twitter
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Sweet, so only a couple of years of bureaucratic crap to jump through and we got it!
There's no way in hell they're taking away those rights. I love modifying and adding meaningless crap to my phone, changing its values and maxing/undering whatever I want. It's an addiction really. It's no different than buying a car at a dealership. Are there laws and rules to what you can and can't add to your car? Sure, but none that really matter. If I was to add a body kit to the new lancer I'm buying this year and the government says "Uhhhh yeah, you can't do that because (insert meaningless reason here) and (more crap here)" then I'm going to tell'em to suck it :angel:
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There's no way in hell they're taking away those rights. I love modifying and adding meaningless crap to my phone, changing its values and maxing/undering whatever I want. It's an addiction really. It's no different than buying a car at a dealership. Are there laws and rules to what you can and can't add to your car? Sure, but none that really matter. If I was to add a body kit to the new lancer I'm buying this year and the government says "Uhhhh yeah, you can't do that because (insert meaningless reason here) and (more crap here)" then I'm going to tell'em to suck it :angel:
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This has nothing to do with rooting glad to see you're uninformed.
It's about carrier unlocking which from a business perspective i can understand but i don't agree with it.
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