Author: Maëlys McArdle

  • EYNTO Progress…

    Completed Chapter 10 of the EYNTO Show. It is approx. 7 minutes long which translates into about 21 hours worth of work. I am now half-way into editing Chapter 11, which is on the topic of Download Types (ISOs vs. Rips, etc.)

    What is left? A segment on troubleshooting downloads (chapter 12), ripping DVDs (chapter 13), then a section on installing computer upgrades w/ shopping tips (chapter 14&15) and the end credits (chapter 16). The show is already 40 minutes long as is. I’m almost finished…

    Post-production, I will author a DVD and create a director’s commentary.

    UPDATE: Just completed Chapter 11. Now onto Chapter 12 and download troubleshooting.

  • Ottawa Wifi Map!

    So I went out today with my wifi-enabled PDA at 30 locations across the downtown core of Ottawa. My objective was to identify the wireless networks in the area, which would then be placed on a map with further information.

    I sniffeed each sample area 5/6 times and wrote the results on paper. Once all the data was gathered I produced a map of the location using Google Maps and Photoshop. Finally, I created the HTML backbone that would provide you with information on each location (imagemap, JS database).

    The result:
    http://www.maelys.bio/hosting/wifiottawa/

    Note: The webpage will not work with Internet Explorer as it cannot properly render .png images (or much of anything else). It does work correctly with Firefox.

  • New Site Addition

    If you look to the right under the “Pages” header you’ll notice a new link to a Web Proxy I am now hosting. Feel free to use it to surf truly anonymously over the Internet; or to circumvent local web filtering (ie. Websense).

    This is hosted by me; so please do not abuse the service. Keep also in mind that I have only so much in bandwidth per month and that you may not be the only one making use of the proxy. Abuse of the service will mean that the proxy will be taken down.

  • 725 more file sharers sued; 10,037 total (!)

    Making up for March’s skipped litigation, the RIAA filed a second round of April lawsuits this week against 725 file sharers for copyright infringement. Perhaps answering my question from earlier this month, the latest press release no longer mentions that only university students are being sued.

    The total number of file sharers sued has now broken the five-digit barrier, coming in at 10,037 people sued by the RIAA since September 2003. This is an astounding figure. I just checked the Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics and found that this one wave of litigation represents 2.3% of all civil cased filed in federal court. (The average number of civil lawsuits filed per month for 2003 and 2004 was 21,363; in the 20 months since the RIAA began suing file sharers, the recording industry filed 502 lawsuits on average each month.) And given the news reports of $3,000 average settlements, this means the RIAA’s probably collected over $30 million from individual file sharers.

    These lawsuits must be moneymakers for the RIAA or else they wouldn’t have gone on for so long. But will they become a standard feature of our online society for years to come? Or will the RIAA give it up some day? I mean, given that there will always be some file sharing, at what point does the RIAA say that it’s won?

    http://sharenomore.blogspot.com/