Ten thousand, two hundred and fifty three.

That's how many times .htaccess has so far been downloaded from the the Techfocus home site.

Techfocus interviewed EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) spokesman Fred Von Lohmann and the RIAA liked it so much that they used carefully chosen chunks to back up a couple of thoughts they were going blind trying to put across.

Read all about it here.

In the meanwhile, Techfocus' Bill Royle tells us the campaign to keep the RIAA and MPAA off the site was so successful that it's now become a full-blown project where the objective is to, "To block MPAA, RIAA and third-party enforcement, discovery and research affiliates from entering websites which oppose their presence.

"License: Open-source. License to be determined by the development team. There will be no charge for this technological measure, as we are striving to freeze out the RIAA, MPAA and third-party enforcement, discovery and research affiliates from the WWW."

There's a lot more and if this looks like the kind of thing you'd like to get into, go here.

Yay for Techfocus

Tip of the hat,
Captain C

Glad to hear you all are enjoying the files! Here's the link to the project draft plan:

http://techfocus.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=26

We'll see how it goes! Thanks to Jon and Bill here at Boycott-Riaa for helping get the info out!

-Bill

Ok, how exactly do I rename the file to block access to my site? I'm not sure I did it right. The only reason I'm denying em access is because I hate them.

Looks like people are starting to get really pissed off, if they haven't already...down with the terrorists!

I am not really tech savy, but I have a basic site. I have downloaded the htaccess file and rename it, but I don't understand what they mean by dropping it in by the root of the file. Please help.

While I'm not wiz, they probably mean the root folder?

Put the .htaccess file in the htdocs folder.

Usually its

c:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs

You're no geek...... those are windows instructions.

Windows doesn't like to let you rename htacess.txt to .htacess. It says that's not a valid file name. No problem. Just download the current .htacess file from your website. Make notepad save the htacess.txt as .htacess in the file folder you downloaded it to. Now upload.

Here's some pending legislation. Look this one up "Code", what do you think?

H. R. 2517
Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003

and here is what it does:
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall--

(1) develop a program to deter members of the public from committing acts of copyright infringement by--

(A) offering on the Internet copies of copyrighted works, or

(B) making copies of copyrighted works from the Internet,

without the authorization of the copyright owners; and

(2) facilitate the sharing among law enforcement agencies, Internet service providers, and copyright owners of information concerning activities described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1).

The program under paragraph (1) shall include issuing appropriate warnings to individuals engaged in an activity described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) that they may be subject to criminal prosecution.

We are talkin Felony, and the FBI would be going after the sharers/downloaders not the RIAA.

Is there a program that you can download or whatever that will protect your computer from hackers.. i know there are tons.. but will it protect you against the evil demons of the RIAA.. i have zone alarm pro..trial run and i wanna know if i should by it or just download the standard one. thanks

RIAA COMMITS ACTS OF TREASON!

Some more:
Section 301 clarifies that the uploading of a single copyrighted work to a publicly accessible computer network meets the 10 copy, $2,500 threshold for felonious copyright infringement. Section 301 simply brings the law into accord with the reality that uploading a copyrighted work to a place from which millions can download it is equivalent to the distribution of 10 or more copies having a value of $2,500 or more. This clarification is necessary because some prosecutors appear skeptical that they can successfully pursue cases against many uploaders of copyrighted works. Even though uploaders are the real culprits in the illegal distribution of copyrighted works, it is downloaders who make the vast majority of copies of the uploaded work.

And for those of you who like movies:
Section 304 deals with the growing phenomenon of copyright thieves who use portable, digital video recorders to record movies off the screen in theaters. While not of pristine quality, once one ``camcorded'' movie appears on the Internet, it quickly proliferates onto the P2P networks and back onto the street in the form of unprotected DVDs. Thus, even one camcorded movie can effectively defeat the best efforts of movie owners to protect their multimillion dollar investments against illegal distribution.
Section 304 makes it a Federal criminal offense to, without authorization, camcord a movie in a theater. Section 304 mirrors legislation in several states, but will be far more effective by having a national impact.

Just a follow-up on thanks... as the articles the folks here do show up on multiple sites, thanks also go to p2pnet.net, gnutella, gnutellanews, and Dmusic!

In terms of the renaming issue, safeTsurfa provided this info on our site:

"...I use TextEd instead of notepad, which allows you to save as .txt, .htm, .log, .bat and "any" file type. That program will save it as .htaccess which Windows then identifies as an .HTACCESS file type.

The most important thing, it MUST be uploaded as an ASCII (text based) file, get that wrong and it may indeed not work. For the member having problems with the first period, TextEd is happy to accept a period as the start of a file name when you save the file. You can get TextEd free (no spy/adware or banners/nag screens), from www.greenhousemm.com or sites like Cnet etc. Use it as a replacement for notepad.

Another tip, you can use .htaccess files anywhere within a site. So you can set the site-wide rules at the root level (where index.html is located), then use other .htaccess files inside sub folders to add in special rules for that area of your site. Ex. I make my logos accessible WWW wide so I can link to them outside my domain, but use an extra .htaccess file in my /Images folder with a special rule set to prevent hot linking to those as they are copyright photographs."

Surfsude:
It's great you brought this one up...great work...the fact is, until we (those of us who still understand that freedom is something that is not supposed to be a faraway dream) constitute a critical mass to effect political changes , especially by voting this administration out of power, we are going to get more and more of this crap...which is just one more step along a continuum of what I term the felonization of America. Right now, in prisons, there are prisoners working for pennies on the dollars producting furniture, refilled laser toner cartridges, and are undercutting other companies on bids and companies are going out of business. I do not feel very sanguine tonight about our short term chances for freedom. Bush has over 60 countries on his "hit list" and we are examining the possibilities of war with Iran and North Korea. All of this is tied together...it's no big surprise that an underling of Bill Frist was picked by the RIAA, a guy who is with the repubs and can grease legislative skids. You can bet the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA are meeting with law enforcement. When Ashcroft was there talking about the Patriot Act, one of the little toadies was pressing him about why he wasn't getting the FBI going after copyright infringers.
They are going to try to get magic lantern on your computers next to monitor your box...and Longhorn/Palladium/Windows Media Center edition, are just channels to Redmond Washington to rat you out, regardless of the naysayers who allege no real indexing of your hard drive is done during the assessment of your machine for fitness for these automatic updates...
Sorry kidz..I'm disheartened tonight....
~~~code

sorry surfside...can't even spell straight tonight

jonle1
Zone Alarm Pro is the best..some like blackice, but sometimes it conflicts with XP...if you are on a cable modem ...i would get a router...it offers NAT (network address translation) and frustrates hackers...
also, stealth all your router ports, including the ID port...
~~~code

sleestack...cool name..
LAND OF THE LOST RULES!

jonle1 ...you can get your computer tested online for vulnerability at www.grc.com (Steve Gibson's site)...it's great...has some good downloads..xpdite, unplug and play, and others...make sure you do the port scan test...shows which ports are vulnerable to attack!
~code
(hope I am not posting too much, I got a talking too earlier today for too many comments )

Wouldn't it be loverly...if I could find a specific set of instructions on getting htaccess to WORK!!!!!!!!!!

TO ALL!!!!
SBC IS SUEING THE RIAA!!!!!!
Check yahoo NEWS!!!!
They are suing for similar reasons that VERIZON had!!!!
I LOVE SBC!!! I have it at work.

In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for
the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they
came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up. *

Martin Niemöller 1892-1984.

This was written about the Nazis...nazis/riaa close enough...but it does illustrate the need for everyone to stand up and be heard....EVERYONE...this is my first post here, and id like to say that although we aren't affected yet, many canadians are backing you up...I am personally not buying another cd until they drop the lawsuits against the individual users...and im prepared to never buy another cd(or other media which gives money to the RIAA) ever...they will never see another penny from my pocket, nor my families pocket....I will not give them money to make every american a criminal...

Oh yeah and im also telling anyone that cares to listen, and so far im getting a small following

code
I can't seem to get to www.grc.com they must be experiencing the boycott-riaa effect. lol

for the kat that wanted stuff on the htaccess and how it works go here http://techfocus.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20

also im all over this and will be updateing my htaccess file,with everyknow baytsp ip that i can find...they hammered one of my machines around 3am this morning.

now i wouldn't usually mind getting hammered,but i don't download/share music on my machine's

Our beloved boycott-riaa site made it in this mornings copy of USA Today!
HOORAY!!! Check it out!

KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE BOYCOTTERS AND SUPPORTERS - Our street team will be holding our protest on Cumberland Avenue in front of UT campus ("the Strip") at 12 noon on Saturday. Come out and support us by holding up a sign or handing out flyers. The local media
have all been alerted. Only if it is raining cats and dogs or something will we postpone.

Support Local and Independent Music

Shmoo, of Electric Gypsy
http://electricgypsy.iuma.com

try again or do a google search..
gibson research
htp://www.grc.com

independentm...we deeply appreciate your example...it's like the old days of this republic..we have the 32nd regiment...the Knoxville Tennessee volunteers moving on their ass....getting them in a classic pincer movement!

MetalRaven- I had posted Martin N.'s famous quote here before, but it needed repeating...i have a printout of it on the side of my monitor....
thanks
~code

directive ...got any links on the SBC story?
thankx in advance
~code
PS..I'm blacking my site tomorrow and putting in big red letters....
BOYCOTT THE RIAA TERRORIST NETWORK!

SERAPHIELX..i had my machine trying to contact a place that i have banned....
make sure your firewall blocks outgoing connections....

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030731/APN/307310517
PAC-BELL sues RIAA (the SBC suit)
"Pacific Bell Internet Services jumped into the contentious
music-downloading fray late Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the
recording industry and questioning the constitutionality of the
industry's effort to track down online music sharers."
I have SBC..need to write and thank them.
~code

And they sued the toadies (2 of em)
too...YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
"The suit also named two other companies, Mediasentry Inc. and IO Group
Inc., as defendants. Mediasentry does business as MediaForce, a
Georgia-based corporation which offers services to copyright holders
to detect unauthorized uses of music, software and other content on
the Internet.

IO Group does business as Titan Media, a San Francisco-based purveyor
of pornography. Titan served a subpoena on SBC's San Antonio offices,
but later withdrew it when PBIS said it would challenge it.

PBIS claims that more than 200 subpoenas seeking file-sharers' e-mail
addresses were issued from the wrong court of jurisdiction. Moreover,
PBIS said the recording industry's demand for information on multiple
file-sharers cannot be grouped under one subpoena, and that the
demands themselves are overly broad."

MORE GOOD NEWS FROM USA TODAY!
"ACLU sues over Patriot Act seizures provision
By Toni Locy, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The ACLU asked a federal judge Wednesday to declare unconstitutional a section of a post-9/11 law that allows agents to secretly seize a person's records and belongings during foreign intelligence and terrorism probes."

oh it didn't get in or out....

Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:26)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:27)
07-31-2003, 02:26:28, 217.125.0.22
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:2
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:2
07-31-2003, 02:26:28, 68.45.39.144
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:2
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:2
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:2
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:2
Rejected: 62.42.7.46 - BayTSP - Known RIAA Agent (07-31-2003 @ 02:26:2

and it is not in sygates log file for traffic so i think im kool.

i traced the ip address to telia iberia,s.a
[norg-3855401]

av. europa,4 parque emp. la moraleja
28108 alcobendas spain

with a domain name of www.nominalia.com

and reported it to there isp

oh and that is just some of the log...not all of it,i was just stressing on the times of the "attack"


get neotrace loaded on one machine and a ping -t running on another...hope they like 768k packets boging there connecting

USA TODAY SAYS:
"Boycott RIAA
Fed up with the Recording Industry Association of America's heavy-handed pursuit of file sharers? The Boycott RIAA site might be right up your alley. Word of warning: This sites seeks to unspin the spin and to represent the consumer and independent artists' positions on the battlefield that copyright has become. But even if you're not so passionate about your downloading, file-swapping and copyright beliefs, you might find window shopping the anti-RIAA products and reading up on the facts of the matter a productive way to spend your free time... if you're not too busy making MP3s."

oh i think its fucking on.... i got 2 768k sdsl connections where im at right now (don't ask) so time to do some trace's

seraph...YOU ROCK!
I won't say the site that my machine was trying to connect to...but it was one you DON'T want it deciding to connect to..but to a subnet other than the ones i had blocked..trying to connect for no reason..when I opened a normal piece of mail...
Also, for everyone...Google keeps a list of your IP and what you search for..and there are humans there at Google who sit there and watch the stream of searches and your IP address...please start using
http://www.google-watch.org/cgi-bin/proxy.htm ...they don't track and maintain records....a word to the wise for privacy advocates!

Crime Week has an interesting story and poll going..see it off to the side there at this address http://crime.about.com/library/blfiles/blcrimeweek.htm

more stuff to beware of..try to avoid Dirt and Magic Lantern...It is said Symantec has agreed NOT to detect the magic lantern virus..

"DIRT, a program being marketed to law enforcement as a remote key capturer
and file grabber (http://www.codexdatasystems.com/) has been "released" to
the public. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24433.html)

Functionally similar to Back Orifice, DIRT was nabbed a few days ago -
today the same sites which have been mirroring the borrowed software (which
required a key) also have working versions for download - hence the
"release" of this little toy.

Most troubling for SysAdmins is the debate brewing over "detectability" of
DIRT. Some claim the codebase of DIRT and the FBI's "Magic Lantern" is
similar and not by accident
(http://cryptome.org/dirty-lantern.htm). Although the major anti-virus
vendors have said that they will detect and clean Magic Lantern, some
analysts doubt their sincerity
(http://netsecurity.about.com/library/weekly/aa121901a.htm,
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48648,00.html,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A3371-2001Nov22&notFound=true).


In other words, the worry was that an alleged back door set up for use by
the FBI might be exploited by others misusing Magic Lantern or using tools
with signatures similar to Magic Lantern - and one of those tools (DIRT) may just have entered the wild."

http://www.robertgraham.com/journal/020110-magic-lantern-position.html
a must read boyz and girlz:
"Position on Magic Lantern
Magic Lantern is the rumored tool whereby the FBI hacks into desktops and monitors what a user types. Symantec (Norton Anti-Virus) and McAfee made the news claiming that they weren't going to detect it. Companies based outside the United States (like Sophos) made the news claiming they would try to detect it. I work for a security company (ISS -- formerly Network ICE), and many have asked me whether we would try to detect it. This isn't the official position of ISS, but it is likely to reflect that official position"...much more in article!

http://www.kaspersky-antivirus.dk/artikler/artikel171201.htm"In November, it became known that the FBI had developed a Trojan program for the tracking of suspects. This "classic" Trojan, christened Magic Lantern, intercepts all keystrokes a suspect makes, copying them to a secret file. Later, the received data can be used to decode and decrypt sent e-mail and provide evidence against said suspect or suspects.
On December 3, Paul Bresson, spokesman for the FBI, during an interview with the magazine Information Security, confirmed the development of the Magic Lantern Trojan. However, at the behest of the US government (or at least the strong "suggestion"), will anti-virus developers not include means for detecting such a Trojan in their software? McAfee and Symantec have already confirmed that they won't include detection measures for Magic Lantern - is this the beginning of a user exodus to other anti-virus products"

Let me get this straight because this is the first I've heard of this...the RIAA is now attempting to scan webservers for vulnerabilities to find illegal copies of mp3's on them? Please tell me I'm wrong....please!

running pc-cillin any clue where they stand?

code so if you work for ice is that meaning that you have the uber firewall running

Just read about this Magic Lantern Trojan. Again WTF? Is the US turning into a wholly communistic state? Are we denouncing democracy for socialism? Big Brother is watching....America is slowly fading....what is happening to us?

code doesn't work for ice..he posted that from a guy's site that does work for ice...
pc cillin (trend micro) and all the major anti-vir are believed to be going to cooperate...thus, Magic Lantern will be invisible on your system... and then there's echelon and carnivore and others too...
-the BULKERASER...
making blanks out of 1s and zeros

haha i should have read it better...

i dont know much at all about computers ijust downloaded the htaccess what do i do with it