Are they blocking by IP or just DNS? Are you guys typing just domain names, or are you trying the IP addresses too?
Add a line to your HOSTS file and see what happens:
74.113.233.128 vimeo.com www.vimeo.com
I find it more likely that good songs are both pirated more and bought more, rather than that the piracy increases the sales. Correlation, not causation.
For me, yes. I had an extremely shitty undergrad in EE. I wanted to do C.S. (to put it bluntly, I didn't know shit about programming) and Math and basically crammed in as much of a B.S. in Math/C.S. in those 2.5 years of Masters. Moving from being unemployable to employable is a definitely boost.
If you want some interesting precedent, do some research on "Internet2" and the testimony of the RIAA to legislators.
Do you know what a LAN is? It is an evil invention to share copyrighted works. It must be stopped.
If you want a better understanding, read everything you can find on UDP, Ethernet, firewalls, NAT and encapsulation, in that order. I would suggest not to waste time trying to figure out "pre-packaged" peer to peer software solutions (i.e. all the different approaches people have taken, e.g., aeroFS, Kicksend or whatever). They often include far more complexity than you need to accomplish peer to peer. As such, they won't help you much to understand the basics: how connections are made.
The indian govt is trying to get the UN to regulate the internet with help from countries like Russia and some Arab countries . Its trying to form a 50 member UN Committee called the Committee for Internet Policy . They re saying its to end the US dominance over Internet Policy .. Im suspicious..
Poland is quite good, but we have to be wary of our government as it tends to pass laws that we just hate (and they wonder then why tens of thousand ppl are on the streets protesting against those laws [they worry more about being reelected next time than about IP rights so they take them down]). But we are also most invigilated country in entire European Union. Though who knows what will be happening soon, as it seems that we will once more end up on US Watchlist (this time because of big pharma).
From what I know Iceland is very good place in this regard.
In Germany, there is also an army of lawyers working for the content industry. They'll have your traffic monitored and if you happend to get caught torrenting an mp3 or movie, they'll try to extort about 1,000 Euros per instance from you. That this is legal tells a lot about that country.
42B API requests / month = 42000000000 / ( 86400 * ( 365.24 / 12) ) => 15971 req/sec. From the graphs in the talk probably peaking to 30,000 req / sec.
Remember there are a billion nanoseconds going by every second.
I'd say no. There's massive hype and arguments going either way but for me two points stand out
1) FB total valuation compared to there income/profit is way way below what your getting at google. Google in my opinion is the closest comparable match.
2) 900M users to date. How many possible users do you think there are in the world? how much possible expansion and growth does that leave?
2.1) Are you willing to gamble china opening up 1-2 billion possible users to facebook?
Sorry its a scattered response, getting to the end of an 11 hour shift at work and im shot.
You seem to be confusing change with sticker prices. Have you ever bought stuff at the supermarket as opposed to, say, shopping for merely single items? You'll find that it is incredibly rare to have the total come out at x dollars and 99 cents or some other marketing sticker price.
