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From He Who Controls the Bootloader : End of an Era :

• "it became clear that Microsoft had no intention of co-existing with a rival OS vendor peacefully, Gassée recanted, saying, "I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it.""
• "...the "Windows License" agreed to by hardware vendors who want to include Windows on the computers they sell. This is not the license you pretend to read and click "I Accept" to when installing Windows. This license is not available online. This is a confidential license, seen only by Microsoft and computer vendors. You and I can't read the license because Microsoft classifies it as a "trade secret.""

Be's complaint :

• BE INCORPORATED, Plaintiff, COMPLAINT AND JURY DEMAND vs. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Case No. 02837MEJ Defendant.

From Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret :

• "The OEM allegations are supported by the findings in United States vs. Microsoft, specifically the findings regarding the coercion of OEM manufacturers not to change the web-browser. However, the findings regarding the installation of another OS are only vague with regard to "modifications of the boot-up sequence" (which is necessary in order to install another OS), and a lot of relevant material is redacted from the transcripts."

First, see http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php?title=AT RAC3&printable=yes ... they have a good breakdown on some of the problems with Sony's portable devices.

That said, I don't know who could enjoy Sony's MiniDisc system. I spent more than 20 hours two years ago trying to get that damn SonicStage software and that garbage ATRAC3 format (or even just copying from CD) to work. And when I picked up a slightly used Sony Clie I was shocked they were using the same ungainly software.

I just had to post that -- I couldn't disagree more with the idea that Sony is anywhere near the creature that came up with the WalkMan so many years ago.

Links:
Latest Hydrogen audio listening test
Old but respectable: German computer magazine c't listening test

The US government has a long history of supporting anonymous proxy. They opened up one many years back and ran it for a while. It shut down. We found out it was CIA ran I believe, and they then went after child porn abusers.

I forget the name of the website they used. It has been years ago.
I think this article is what I am talking about;
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj /browse_frm/thread/b8c7111cec05014a/347138f9f5be3c e2?lnk=st&q=anonymous+web+sting+internet&rnum=6&hl =en#347138f9f5be3ce2

Read that article all the way through. Now read what they are doing today. They are up to the same tricks.

Articles of US supporting anonymous proxy;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08/29/us_sponsor s_anonymiser_if_you/

Read what this says about that service;
http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Anonymit y

Other articles of what they do;
http://castlecops.com/a4498-Police_to_Launch_Inter national_Cyber_Child_Porn_Sting.html

I have children. I am in no way supporting any of these illegal activitys. My concern is that the US is looking more and more like the USSR looked in the 80's. And my public education taught me to despise a country where you had to have your papers with you at all times, a country where you had to be carefull what you said because you may get reported and taken away to far away prisons where you had no trial.

Doesn't that sound like where President Bush is leading us? And I voted for him twice. Thank God he can't be re-elected. Things will get better.

[ Amendment IV ]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Want to read my stuff? Go ahead and crack it - no warrant necessary.

Get the rabbit installed on a machine behind your firewall
==> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Faster than freenet
==> http://www.i2p.net/
Encrypt Jabber
==> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html
Onion Routing
==> http://tor.eff.org/
Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
==> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
Free Internet telephony
==> http://skype.com/
GNU-ified P2p
==> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/


DO NOT DENY yourself about 2 hours @ InfoAnarchy.org
OMG! ==> http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e
LearnLearnLearnLearn ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

=================EMAIL ENCRYPTION===============
GPG (Free PGP)
==> http://gnupg.org/
Integrated with Thunderbird
==> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Mutt can't be beat as a mailreader and integrates GPG wonderfully.
==> http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
==> http://www.mutt.org/links.html
==> http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?UserPages

!!! Please do not immediately send newly created keys to the keyservers (as many HOWTOs instruct new users to). They are already overflowing with "test keys" and other people's experiments from over the years THAT HAVE NO EXPIRATION and will never be deleted. These keys are "orphans" and most will never be used. As keyservers sync together, and most keys are never deleted once submitted - GET YOUR KEY SETUP CORRECTLY AND HAVE PRACTICE WITH IT BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO THE KEYSERVERS!!! Otherwise storage requirements will continue to grow and using these in the future will become more difficult FOR ALL. Please, if you are just starting out with PGP or GPG or GnuPG or anything similar (the last two are in fact the same thing) use manual key distribution to begin (ascii armor your public key with


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org

and copy and paste it into an email body or attach it to an email


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org > myPubKey.txt

to gain practice with GPG before uploading your key. This way if you need to create another you won't have uploaded your mistakes. Many choices need to be made and it's worth getting things right before "going public" with your new digital ID. Experiment with yourself and a few different email accounts or with some friends first.)

SET AN EXPIRATION OF 2-5 YEARS OR SO AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PREFERENCES THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM BEFORE SENDING TO A KEYSERVER! Better yet is to HOST YOUR

[ Amendment IV ]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Want to read my stuff? Go ahead and crack it - no warrant necessary.

Get the rabbit installed on a machine behind your firewall
==> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Faster than freenet
==> http://www.i2p.net/
Encrypt Jabber
==> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html
Onion Routing
==> http://tor.eff.org/
Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
==> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
Free Internet telephony
==> http://skype.com/
GNU-ified P2p
==> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/


DO NOT DENY yourself about 2 hours @ InfoAnarchy.org
OMG! ==> http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e
LearnLearnLearnLearn ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

=================EMAIL ENCRYPTION===============
GPG (Free PGP)
==> http://gnupg.org/
Integrated with Thunderbird
==> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Mutt can't be beat as a mailreader and integrates GPG wonderfully.
==> http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
==> http://www.mutt.org/links.html
==> http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?UserPages

!!! Please do not immediately send newly created keys to the keyservers (as many HOWTOs instruct new users to). They are already overflowing with "test keys" and other people's experiments from over the years THAT HAVE NO EXPIRATION and will never be deleted. These keys are "orphans" and most will never be used. As keyservers sync together, and most keys are never deleted once submitted - GET YOUR KEY SETUP CORRECTLY AND HAVE PRACTICE WITH IT BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO THE KEYSERVERS!!! Otherwise storage requirements will continue to grow and using these in the future will become more difficult FOR ALL. Please, if you are just starting out with PGP or GPG or GnuPG or anything similar (the last two are in fact the same thing) use manual key distribution to begin (ascii armor your public key with


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org

and copy and paste it into an email body or attach it to an email


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org > myPubKey.txt

to gain practice with GPG before uploading your key. This way if you need to create another you won't have uploaded your mistakes. Many choices need to be made and it's worth getting things right before "going public" with your new digital ID. Experiment with yourself and a few different email accounts or with some friends first.)

SET AN EXPIRATION OF 2-5 YEARS OR SO AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PREFERENCES THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM BEFORE SENDING TO A KEYSERVER! Better yet is to HOST YOUR

If only someone would code this idea.

Public Patent foundation knocked out the Pfizer patent Look at the guy who is taking on the Amazon "One Click" for example http://www.infoanarchy.org/section/features http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051130/1243250_ F.shtml http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/12/4/45354/8981 http://igdmlgd.blogspot.com/ etc

You must have slept through the anti-trust trails. You know, where everyone and anyone in tech testified how M$ constantly fucked with them. As much as you would like to pretend otherwise, M$ is paranoid and breaks software on their platform all the time. They have been doing it since the days of DOS. Here's a short list of dead competitors:

• DRDOS
• OS2
• Netscape
• Word Perfect / Corel

This news has NO implications for FOSS on Windows. ... - this just standardizes it and provides centralized downloading and key storage.

You must also not know about Paladium/NGDRM or whatever they are calling "trusted computing" these days. They have already used "security" to break software. Having a central place where M$ decides if you can trust your software means M$ can stop any piece of software from running. That's what DRM is to M$, they are trying to put it in the BIOS, not that flaky BIOS as an anticompetitive trick is new. M$ is freaky and evil. They will use this against free software because they can.

For something to enter the public domain today, it must've been created around the early part of last century.

Not true. Consider this, or this, or this.

If you're implying that works without a copyright symbol attached are in the public domain, you are mistaken.

No, I'm implying that works that are explictly placed into the public domain or are produced by an employee in the US government as part of her duties is in the public domain.

This isn't very effective, as 10.4 has just about permanently broken ogg support in iTunes, by upgrading Quicktime to version 7. Sure, if you're NOT using 10.4, you can downgrade quicktime from version 7 back to 6.5.2, but that downgrade doesn't run on 10.4. Hence, brand new Mac = no ogg support, make sure you re-rip all your music in aac, since that is apparently what Jobs wants anyways. For being the self proclaimed elistist OS and hardware platform, they sure don't want the best audio format do they?

Since "intellectual property" is being treated by the law more and more as if it were physical property, then perhaps it should be taxed like physical property (real estate tax, etc.) too. An interesting discussion of this can be found at Copyright Term Reform/Taxation. I doubt the movement to reduce copyright terms will have any effect, so this seems like the next best thing, which (because it would mean more revenue for the government) might have a tiny chance in hell of actually happening. The idea of yet more taxes doesn't particularly thrill me in and of itself, but read this article and see what you think.

This idea has been thought of before. Read Copyright Term Reform/Taxation for a somewhat more reasoned discussion than what you will find under this slashdot thread.

there is also a recent MUTE paper about anonymous search:
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2005/3/24/174447/ 205

"It is technically possible for a manufacturer to install any number of operating systems on a computer. The user then has to choose which operating system to use during the boot process (after switching on the machine). However, Microsoft OEMs are only allowed to install Windows. No machines with both Windows and, for example, the free (!) operating system Linux, can legally be sold by OEMs."

Doesn't sound especially fair to anyone but Microsoft, that. Remember who the convicted monopolist is?

People have the right to know about it and, if necessary, fork the project or experiment on their own. Im my opinion that is why Freenet became to be in such a sad state of affairs, people were discouraged from forking it (at least one project I know of) and had a restrictive mentality with regards to how things are to be done. Hopefully I2P will not develop this mentality as well.

As well, it is more than a little ironic that people try and stifle information about this project whose purpose is the free flow of information. If the develops are so concerned about people not knowing about it they will not participate with the 5th most active project on Sourceforge Azeureus, (I2P functionality is included and mentioned is in the release notes), and try to block the coverage currently on infoanarchy, and release only inhouse beta versions if the publically available copies are not meant for the public at large.

"Second: who's going to be responsible for doing the valuations, and how much will it cost?"

Let each copyright or patent owner value their own asset.

Oh, but they would value it to low.

Well, we handle that with compulsary licenses and forced buy outs.

Set the value at X and set a useful lifetime. Anyone can license the patent at X/y or the copyright for X/z. What should y or z be?

Plus, if the value is X, anyone or group can give you X adjusted downwards by the percentage of useful years used/left to go and copyleft the "property" or put it in the public domain. Or they can give you twice that amount and buy the remaining useful years from you.

"And there's one other BIG problem that I can see: every single creative work is automatically copyrighted, under the Berne convention."

We need to change this so the default for non-marked works is a copyleft license. Doing that will probably be very hard. Ideas anyone?

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

"The point is that most intellectual property has NO value, or at least doesn't have value in the definable sense, for much of its' lifetime. Stephen King sat on the manuscript for "Carrie" for years before finally getting it published, when it turned out to be worth bazillions. How can you possibly value something like that properly?"

Might have to treat copyrights and patents differently, which should not be a problem as they are treated differently now in any case.

Copyrights? No need to value or pay tax until "published."

Patents? No need to value or pay tax until patent is granted, or "product" based on patent goes to market, or until a license to the patent is "sold".

Somethink like that might work. Right?

all the best,

drew

"We need to write these ideas down."

Try collecting some here:

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform

Try that link and post ideas.

There are some good ideas in this thread that should not be lost.

I honestly find it hard to believe that a single entity can maintain control over such a large part of the Internet for so long a time; in the net's early days, a centralized domain registry might have been acceptable, being that it was a small thing and the overhead to implement anything more advanced would've outweighed the benefits. Now, though, with the Internet the size it is, I honestly think that something better needs to be in place: get rid of this central-domain-registry crap. Whoever's in charge of it--Verisign, Microsoft, even Google--is going to profiteer to some extent, simply because that is what companies do.

If you ask my opinion, a decentralized system would make much more sense here. Store addresses in a Kademlia network or something; allow anybody to register a domain name, and it'll propagate as it's accessed. With a PGP-like trust system implemented, there need not be a central registry anywhere. The only way to prevent abuse of such a large monopoly is to prevent any single entity from controlling it, and the only way to do that is to decentralize the process.

There are several ways to securely wipe files when using journaling filesystems:

Store data that needs to be wiped on a partition (slice, volume, or drive) that uses a non-journaling filesystem. For example, users of Windows can use a Z: drive formatted with FAT32, and users of GNU/Linux can use a partition formatted with Ext2.

Store data that needs to be wiped on a partition that is encrypted using Hard Disk Encryption. This eliminates the need to use a secure wiping mechanism for individual files.

Store data on a temporary partition using any journaling or non-journaling filesystem. When it is time to wipe all files, use a tool such as Eraser or Wipe to securely wipe the entire partition.

Physically destroy the hard drive after use by melting the hard drive. (Passing a magnet over the hard drive will not work.)

So, basically... there is no proper way of protecting yourself from undelete data recovery methods, if you use a journalled file system, aside from keeping some thermite handy!

If you ask me, we should all be encyrpting our data partitions by now!

[ Amendment IV ]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Want to read my stuff? Go ahead and crack it - no warrant necessary.

Get the rabbit installed on a machine behind your firewall
==> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Faster than freenet
==> http://www.i2p.net/
Encrypt Jabber
==> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html
Onion Routing
==> http://tor.eff.org/
Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
==> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
Free Internet telephony
==> http://skype.com/
GNU-ified P2p
==> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/


DO NOT DENY yourself about 2 hours @ InfoAnarchy.org
OMG! ==> http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e
LearnLearnLearnLearn ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

=================EMAIL ENCRYPTION===============
GPG (Free PGP)
==> http://gnupg.org/
Integrated with Thunderbird
==> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Mutt can't be beat as a mailreader and integrates GPG wonderfully.
==> http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
==> http://www.mutt.org/links.html
==> http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?UserPages

!!! Please do not immediately send newly created keys to the keyservers (as many HOWTOs instruct new users to). They are already overflowing with "test keys" and other people's experiments from over the years THAT HAVE NO EXPIRATION and will never be deleted. These keys are "orphans" and most will never be used. As keyservers sync together, and most keys are never deleted once submitted - GET YOUR KEY SETUP CORRECTLY AND HAVE PRACTICE WITH IT BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO THE KEYSERVERS!!! Otherwise storage requirements will continue to grow and using these in the future will become more difficult FOR ALL. Please, if you are just starting out with PGP or GPG or GnuPG or anything similar (the last two are in fact the same thing) use manual key distribution to begin (ascii armor your public key with

$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org

and copy and paste it into an email body or attach it to an email

$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org > myPubKey.txt

to gain practice with GPG before uploading your key. This way if you need to create another you won't have uploaded your mistakes. Many choices need to be made and it's worth getting things right before "going public" with your new digital ID. Experiment with yourself and a few different email accounts or with some friends first.)

SET AN EXPIRATION OF 2-5 YEARS OR SO AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PREFERENCES THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM BEFORE SENDING TO A KEYSERVER! Better yet is to HOST YOUR KEY ON YOUR WEBSITE (or try using http://biglumber.com/ instead to host your key and help c

[ Amendment IV ]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Want to read my stuff? Go ahead and crack it - no warrant necessary.

Get the rabbit installed on a machine behind your firewall
==> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Faster than freenet
==> http://www.i2p.net/
Encrypt Jabber
==> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html
Onion Routing
==> http://tor.eff.org/
Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
==> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
Free Internet telephony
==> http://skype.com/
GNU-ified P2p
==> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/


DO NOT DENY yourself about 2 hours @ InfoAnarchy.org
OMG! ==> http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e
LearnLearnLearnLearn ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

=================EMAIL ENCRYPTION===============
GPG (Free PGP)
==> http://gnupg.org/
Integrated with Thunderbird
==> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Mutt can't be beat as a mailreader and integrates GPG wonderfully.
==> http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
==> http://www.mutt.org/links.html
==> http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?UserPages

!!! Please do not immediately send newly created keys to the keyservers (as many HOWTOs instruct new users to). They are already overflowing with "test keys" and other people's experiments from over the years THAT HAVE NO EXPIRATION and will never be deleted. These keys are "orphans" and most will never be used. As keyservers sync together, and most keys are never deleted once submitted - GET YOUR KEY SETUP CORRECTLY AND HAVE PRACTICE WITH IT BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO THE KEYSERVERS!!! Otherwise storage requirements will continue to grow and using these in the future will become more difficult FOR ALL. Please, if you are just starting out with PGP or GPG or GnuPG or anything similar (the last two are in fact the same thing) use manual key distribution to begin (ascii armor your public key with

$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org

and copy and paste it into an email body or attach it to an email

$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org > myPubKey.txt

to gain practice with GPG before uploading your key. This way if you need to create another you won't have uploaded your mistakes. Many choices need to be made and it's worth getting things right before "going public" with your new digital ID. Experiment with yourself and a few different email accounts or with some friends first.)

SET AN EXPIRATION OF 2-5 YEARS OR SO AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PREFERENCES THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM BEFORE SENDING TO A KEYSERVER! Better yet is to HOST YOUR KEY ON YOUR WEBSITE (or try using http://biglumber.com/ instead to host your key and help c

As long as you're using the school's network, you have to abide by the school's policies.

There are alternatives though.

At my school the IT department recently decided to disallow "all illegal p2p" use under penalty of being permanently banned from the network. This is being carried out by someone just shutting down the port of anyone who trips the schools IDS (snort) or a second system that detects several p2p programs. Needless to say there are tons of false positives.

After numerous written and face to face requests for clarification of the nonexistant policy, attempts to explain legitimate uses, requests to know specifically what we where doing that was illegal, and even asking for a refund on our tuition fee, it became apparent that the IT department just doesn't care.

So for better or worse a number of other ways to circumvent or change these restictions where found:

Prevent them from identifying your traffic. This can be done by setting having friends at other schools set up proxies. These include socks with "ssh -g" on http://cygwin.com/ along with socks-cap or tsocks, individual ssh tunnels, or vpn.

If they cite excessive bandwith caused by p2p make your point by having everyone use a lot of legitimate bandwith with http://porntoolkit.sourceforge.net/
for example.

Here they got frustrated with not being able to identify traffic, so they just started shutting off people for excessive bandwith. The solution to this is to use onion routing like http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Tor or a similar method within the schools network so that the load of bandwith leaving or entering the network is distributed evenly between many people. I couldn't find too many solutions for this that I liked too much, but a couple hundred lines of python did the job.

Finally, especially if the blocking is being done by hand, you can do some less nice stuff ranging from overloading thier logs with thousands of palse positives to filling the lan with random mac addresses and doing banned stuff with spoofed IPs. This, however, is probobly a bad idea and rather script kiddiesh.

Additionally you may be able to unblock yourself with "ifconfig hw ether NEW_MAC_ADDRESS_HERE" on linux or http://ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/etherchange/ on windows.

So there are alternatives to just living with it if all reasoning and begging with your school goes nowhere. And remember, if all else fails there's always usenet over ssl! Good luck.

"That is a modern trick."

I don't know how modern it is, I will leave that up to others with knowledge in the area, however, it certainly is a trick and a dirty one at that.

Most often seen around here with the words:

Thief
Stealing
Pirate
Piracy

To fight back, I suggest we start calling the big media companies who have been caught price fixing and/or writing dirty contracts so as to turn copyright law which they claim is to protect the artists to their benefit and to the ruin of many of their "beloved" artists...

Rapists

Does one good dirty trick deserve another?

I would prefer it if someone had a more gentlemanly idea as to how to counteract these memes.

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Meme_development

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Taxation

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Taxation

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=JohnConst antakisdrewRobertsRainwaterBlues&PHPSESSID=c3cb624 17e961e49576b2e5cfdc92b9a

"That is a modern trick."

I don't know how modern it is, I will leave that up to others with knowledge in the area, however, it certainly is a trick and a dirty one at that.

Most often seen around here with the words:

Thief
Stealing
Pirate
Piracy

To fight back, I suggest we start calling the big media companies who have been caught price fixing and/or writing dirty contracts so as to turn copyright law which they claim is to protect the artists to their benefit and to the ruin of many of their "beloved" artists...

Rapists

Does one good dirty trick deserve another?

I would prefer it if someone had a more gentlemanly idea as to how to counteract these memes.

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Meme_development

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Taxation

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Taxation

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=JohnConst antakisdrewRobertsRainwaterBlues&PHPSESSID=c3cb624 17e961e49576b2e5cfdc92b9a

"That is a modern trick."

I don't know how modern it is, I will leave that up to others with knowledge in the area, however, it certainly is a trick and a dirty one at that.

Most often seen around here with the words:

Thief
Stealing
Pirate
Piracy

To fight back, I suggest we start calling the big media companies who have been caught price fixing and/or writing dirty contracts so as to turn copyright law which they claim is to protect the artists to their benefit and to the ruin of many of their "beloved" artists...

Rapists

Does one good dirty trick deserve another?

I would prefer it if someone had a more gentlemanly idea as to how to counteract these memes.

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Meme_development

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Taxation

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Taxation

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=JohnConst antakisdrewRobertsRainwaterBlues&PHPSESSID=c3cb624 17e961e49576b2e5cfdc92b9a

"That is a modern trick."

I don't know how modern it is, I will leave that up to others with knowledge in the area, however, it certainly is a trick and a dirty one at that.

Most often seen around here with the words:

Thief
Stealing
Pirate
Piracy

To fight back, I suggest we start calling the big media companies who have been caught price fixing and/or writing dirty contracts so as to turn copyright law which they claim is to protect the artists to their benefit and to the ruin of many of their "beloved" artists...

Rapists

Does one good dirty trick deserve another?

I would prefer it if someone had a more gentlemanly idea as to how to counteract these memes.

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Meme_development

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Taxation

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Taxation

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=JohnConst antakisdrewRobertsRainwaterBlues&PHPSESSID=c3cb624 17e961e49576b2e5cfdc92b9a

"That is a modern trick."

I don't know how modern it is, I will leave that up to others with knowledge in the area, however, it certainly is a trick and a dirty one at that.

Most often seen around here with the words:

Thief
Stealing
Pirate
Piracy

To fight back, I suggest we start calling the big media companies who have been caught price fixing and/or writing dirty contracts so as to turn copyright law which they claim is to protect the artists to their benefit and to the ruin of many of their "beloved" artists...

Rapists

Does one good dirty trick deserve another?

I would prefer it if someone had a more gentlemanly idea as to how to counteract these memes.

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Meme_development

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Default

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Taxation

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Taxation

all the best,

drew

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=JohnConst antakisdrewRobertsRainwaterBlues&PHPSESSID=c3cb624 17e961e49576b2e5cfdc92b9a

"What I don't get is why so many slashdotters are AGAINST the use of IP law as it stands.

It is the only thing that protects you when you write code and release it as GPL."

As it stands? I don't think so, it could be changed a LOT and made much more sensible and still the GPL would work.

For instance, get rid of the JAIL threats. I mean, the corporations to violate the GPL can't be sent to jail anyway, why should humans face jail? Unless you like this idea:

http://slashdot.org/~zotz/journal/101428

We could probably remove the statutory damages and not hurt the GPL as well.

We could also reduce the term limits to say 14 years and the GPL would still be fine.

Hey check this link:

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

We could do something like that and still not prevent the GPL from working now couldn't we?

Do you see how we can oppose copyright "as it now stands" without calling for scraping it completely?

all the best,

drew

[iPods don't come with free songs anywhere. So I don't think you're being "ripped off."]

Are you sure about this?

I am not being ripped off as I didn't buy an ipod, I am holding out for a nice player that does oggs at a reasonable price.

That being said, a good friend comes back from Miami/Ft Lauderdale and shows me an ipod his wife got him for a present. He tells me it came with an offer/certificate for $10 or $20 with of tunes. Was he wrong?

If not, is this not ripping off people in my country? One of the beefs a lot of us here have is that we are basically an extension of the US for a lot of purposes even though we are a different country. However, supposedly, we can't legally buy direct tv, xm etc. Personally I think our government ought to tell copyright holders that if they will not sell to us from US sources at US rates, they get no copyright protection in this country.

We have something similar but unrelated (to copyright) that happens to us as well. Many manufacturers insist on placing us under canada, or latin america. We are an english speaking country sitting on the doorstep of the US - something like fifry miles away at the closes point. We probably get most of our supplies from or throught south florida, yet are reps in panama and argentina etc of ten speak non-fluent english at best. Often, no matter how many times we complain, we get sent spanish product brochures and no english ones, etc. No fun.

What about that pepsi promotion I seem to remember something about? Weren't there some free itunes songs in there somewhere.

However, if I am wrong or misinformed, I am happy to be corrected.

People here import cokes and pepsis from the US even though there are local bottling companies for brands.

all the best,

drew

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

Have you actually tried mono?

I haven't, but I have tried JAVA and it sucks in a Free Software environment. All the Free java compilers and class libraries are buggy in incompatible ways.

This quote from the freenet developers made me laugh. "Some perceived minor irritations may arise due to the implementation of Freenet in Java. Java is not like C, so some porting issues are bound to arise. Porting is hard sometimes."

There you have it. C is write once run anywhere. java is a pain the butt. With mono at least there is only one open source implementation so potentially it might be useful where java currently is not.

"What does this mean? The GPL applies to the original code, but it can only apply to the new code if the deriving author says so."

OK, and if he distributes the code, can the original author imply that the total work is GPLed as he has issued no other license under which the work could be lawfully distributed? (Seperately, especially in the case of an interpreted program?) Or would the first author have to sue for copyright violation and proceed from there?

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Default

all the best,

drew

"For instance, when Microsoft charges for Windows, the amount of effort gone into making it is only about 10% of the value."

Microsoft is dealing in copyrighted "goods." They have a government granted monopoly on the "goods" they sell. By definition, this is not a free market.

all the best,

drew

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Cop yright_Term_Reform/Default

" Profit is selling something greater than what it is worth (ie. what it cost to do).

Therefore, as there must be a buyer and seller, there is one earning more than it cost to make (making a profit) and one making a loss (paying more than it cost to make)."

The world does not work like this as we are not all equally skilled in all areas.

Therefore the correct profit calculation for me is not that I paid you more or less than it cost you to make, but if I paid you more or less than what it would have cost me to make.

This is one area where the potential for profit arises.

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform

all the best,

drew

"Your rights to property are determined by the society you live in. They are NOT absolute or inherent."

Don't give in to the intellectual property meme. Resist. A monkey wrench once in a while may help as well.

Push for intellectual property tax here and there. Don't have to let on if you are serious or not. Just the thought of it probably makes some quake in their boots.

http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Copyrigh t_Term_Reform/Taxation

I didn't write that by the way.

all the best,

drew

It appears you want a wiki that discusses the same topics you find discussed often on Slashdot. If you like Slashdot, and you like Wikipedia, then you might also enjoy the patterns wiki, the meatball wiki, or the infoanarchy wiki.

For detailed analysis of the morality of patents in the worst case, and a moral justification for ad hoc patent revocation, see Totally Evil Patent.

Seems he really was arrested according to that article (in German). There was even a Swiss or German newspaper mentioning that as well, but i don't have the link handy.

What you remember is a conspiracy theory which may or may not be true. Here's it. Judge for yourself. Me, i think its fairly easy as *AA (or local variant) to get such 'rumors' started, which may or may not be partly true, and which may or may not be part of a deal. But who am i, and how can i proof...

another article for the apologist.

another article for the apologist.

I've made the point a few times that the USA is now engaging in a War on Copyright Infringement in the same way it is engaged in a War on Drugs.

If you google for 'mldonkey', end up here, and read under "Clients", you'll find no less than FIVE clients for MacOSX. I bet each and every one of them does what you ask for.

"It looks like Europe is leaning toward at least minimizing -- if not eliminating -- software patents"

It's not happening yet. Meeting on 14th December

Scanned text of the letter, timetable, maps, and a fax'd form if you'd like to attend

Here is a Coral Cache link.

Sure, Snopes seems to think "Happy Birthday to You" is still copyrighted and owned by Time Warner. But it may not be different enough from an earlier song called "Good Morning to All", whose U.S. copyright has already expired, to be considered a distinct work worthy of a separate copyright.

Vorbis fork AoTuV scored the highest and ranks as the winner together with open source contender Musepack closely followed by Apple's AAC implementation and LAME MP3, which improved markably since last year thanks to further tunings of its VBR model done by Gabriel Bouvigne. Sony's ATRAC3 format ranks last after WMA on the third place.

• Depending on the bitrate, the best codec isn't the same.
• Open-Source codecs (Ogg Vorbis and MP3 Lame) did improve a lot over time. for exemple, compare conclusion from oldest studies : "Vorbis isn't mature enough", with latest : "Ogg+AoTuV is the best"
• WMA plain sucks, it's only advantage is that it comes pre-installed with Windows on the largest part of all PCs.

Anyway, how do we watch the trailer on linux?

Seems to me that you should be blaming the film makers, not Apple, but you could look here to start with.

What I haven't figured out is how the heck these people (if you can call them that) can claim to be representing THEIR constituents with bills like this. California legislators (especially those in Southern California districts) I can understand, and maybe some of the New York ones...but as far as I can tell, Utah is about as dependent on Big Media for their economy as South Carolina (i.e. Fritz Hollings) is...This particular senator's wild-eyed berserk enthusiasm for grossly overeager "Copyright Protection(tm)" particularly baffles me in light of the fact that it puts him AGAINST the "Clean Flicks"** people in their case, and his state especially seems to like those.

Is it really just that "The Two Parties(tm)" really ARE the Disneycrats and Ruperticans* as I've been calling them for the past several years, run by their respective media masters?

(* - as in Rupert Murdoch/Fox Network, in case anyone didn't guess that...)

(** - "Clean Flicks" is a company that buys original media, then edits out the "objectionable" parts that might offend the delicate sensibilities of viewers, especially in the Utah/Idaho area, such as naked people, discussions of icky things, and bad words. While my personal feelings towards this attitude range from contempt to disgust to anger, it is for philosophical/artistic reasons, and I nonetheless think that they are FIRMLY within what ought to be obviously legal actions within the doctrines of "Fair Use" and "First Sale" to anyone that isn't being paid off by media lobbyists...or at least that's my opinion.)