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Post by jhanschoo »

kriro wrote: post #171

What I don't get is...why don't governments simply declare that all research at publicly funded universities must be made available to the public. It's seems so trivial. You pay the researchers, you get the research results, you make it available for all citizens (or the world). Companies do this, they keep the research results of their employees.

If you google "open access eu", you'll find a lot of articles reporting in 2016 on an EU initiative to have all its funded research open access by 2020. I wonder how that has come along since...

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Post by paulmd »

progval wrote: post #259
paulmd wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tapes are only good for offline storage. > If you want online storage, you'll need one drive per tape, No, tape libraries exist, and would be considered 'nearline' storage. https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape/library > and you would get huge lookup times Yes. This is not a good system for random access.

Indeed. But the initial investment is very expensive.

It depends on your financial scale. A fancy tape library, sure, but if your company is in-sourcing hundreds of TBs of backups surely you are not destitute. Glacier is always cheaper.

On the other hand I paid $185 for a LTO-5 drive a year or two ago (no library, manually operated). 1.5 TB on a $20 tape is still pretty good in my book.

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Post by kevingrahl »

acqq wrote: post #82
kevingrahl wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell that you’re not from Germany or know anyone from here that pirates. There are special law firms (Waldorf Frommer comes to mind) specializing only on sending out cease and desist letters carrying fines of around 1.000€ per infringement (mostly movies and tv shows). ISP’s willingly hand over any customer data to those firms. Of course the only one benefiting from this is the law firms not the copyright holde…

So what did you do after you received such letters? It seems you haven't paid. How?

I paid a small number of those, appealed others in court (sometimes going through multiple instances) and the last years just kept ignoring the few letters that still come from time to time until they sue me or try to freeze my accounts. I think they have me tagged in their system because they give up pretty quickly as soon as I actively communicate with them. Might have to do with some small won cases against them. Maybe I’m not worth the risk to them anymore. Plus my VPN-fu is strong now.

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Post by kevingrahl »

slrz wrote: post #246
kevingrahl wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell that you’re not from Germany or know anyone from here that pirates. There are special law firms (Waldorf Frommer comes to mind) specializing only on sending out cease and desist letters carrying fines of around 1.000€ per infringement (mostly movies and tv shows). ISP’s willingly hand over any customer data to those firms. Of course the only one benefiting from this is the law firms not the copyright holde…

Still a long shot from black helicopters and cops kicking your doors in.

This is Germany I’m living in not the USA..
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