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If the system is called "Asterisk", I hope that they are prepared to be sued by overzealous, dyslexic Frenchmen!

That *cocksucker* was Mr. Bad at Pigdog who put it together to confuse the RIAA attack dogs who were trying to eradicate deCSS from the internet.

Here.

G-forces? Whoopty-doo. When are they going to take action against the true danger to people on roller coasters, the geese? Fabio still has nightmares.

MY GOD MAN!!! Do you realize what you're doing? DO you? What kind of HONEY BITCH TOOL have you become? Have you no shame? None at all?


Look at you. Look at yourself. Look at what you've BECOME. Your job is writing code to BREAK PEOPLE'S COMPUTERS if they dare to put a CELINE DION CD into their disk drive. Is this what you always wanted? Is this what you went to school for? Is this what we've all -- all of us, every other hacker and programmer and geek and computer person -- is this what we've all helped you to do?

Do you really think that you don't OWE us anything? That you don't owe anybody anything? That what really matters is that you get some of Celine Dion's FILTHY CANADIAN LUCRE? Hell, man, I'll pay you out of my OWN POCKET to quit your job right now. What kind of job is that? What kind of man, or woman, are you?

I know you didn't start off like this. I know that you're like me, that you're like all of us. That you love these things called computers, that your fingers itch when you're away from them, that your whole essence pours out of your fingertips into the keyboard when you make that system DO YOUR MAGIC. It's incredible, it's power, it's a tradition that goes back centuries, and it's flowing through you right now, right this very second.

And you're BETRAYING it. You're standing on the shoulders of giants and SHITTING on them. For something you believe in? For something you're PROUD OF? Or for the dollars of Sony Megacorp and the opportunity that that brings?

Who the HELL are you? What the FUCK has gotten into you? Just in case you didn't notice, this recession is OVER, and there are a JILLION jobs out there for you to take. Jobs that make people's lives easier, jobs that OPEN DOORS onto a new plateau of human awareness that the people we owe our livelihoods to only DREAMED of. Jobs that could make this world a PARADISE instead of the shitty money-grubbing craphole it's been since the dawn of time.

And instead you choose to take a job fucking up people's IMACS. For NO GOOD REASON.

It's really not too late. You can stop RIGHT NOW, you can get up and walk out the door and turn your back on the forces of REACTION and of GREED and of SMALL-MINDED CONSERVATIVE ASSHOLISM that say that the most important thing in the world is keeping some tweaked housewife in South Dakota from sharing a goddamn CELINE DION TRACK with her mom or friend or neighbor. You can stop. You can do it. YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS.

For the sake of everyone who ever helped you with your homework. For the sake of everyone who answered your plaintive and ignorant plea for help on Usenet or some mailing-list. For the sake of every person everywhere who wrote a driver or an app or a goddamn EXAMPLE PROGRAM to show you how to make these machines sing like angels under your hands. Pay us back. Stop this crap. Stop this humiliating bullshit and stop being a tool of The Man.

pigdog

Um, it would take *alot* longer than 10 years for that to happen. Remember Yugoslav? If the EU can't even take care of a problematic country in their own back yard, how the heck are they going to project their power anywhere?

For example, a great deal of America's power comes from its Aircraft Carriers. It would take them alot longer than 10 years to build anything equivalent to our fleet. And even, they tend to do stupid things like spend billions on a carrier that isn't even long enough and broke its port propeller on its first long-distance trials:

http://www.romanchess.com/DeGaulle.htm http://www.pigdog.org/auto/laughable_technology/li nk/2357.html

Pigdog has the story here here

...from way back in 1973 according to this page [pigdog.org]. That explains why the author (who passed away in 1984!) seems not to have heard about the Concorde or Airbus.

I did the google search myself and found the same huge number of copies of this same editorial.

Disclaimer: I am not a Canadian. Nor am I a jingoist.

Pigdog journal coined this term during their interview with Stallman that I think describe him very accurately.

Pigdog journal coined this term during their interview with Stallman that I think describe him very accurately.

Someone already wrote a program to strip Cascading Style sheets and called it DeCSS for this very reason. http://www.pigdog.org/decss/.

There are any number of independent Web magazines still producing valuable daily content. Pigdog Journal is one. Others can be found at, say, the Webzine 2001 site. Indymedia is another great resource.

Zines, of course, don't have the reach or breadth of a well-funded media company. This is a feature, not a bug. By focusing on particular issues, and by giving a particular point of view, zines as a whole are able to give a more truthful and deep view of the world than the watered-down mutterings of any given mass media publication.

Not to be too harsh, but suck and feed were fairly light and fluffy as far as magazines go. Suck published a single article each day. Feed maybe got one out a day, maybe. This is not the foundation of a healthy independent media, folks. Really, in the big picture, they won't be missed.

Finding, using, and reading zines is harder for the average person than getting spoon-fed conglomerate media baloney. But those who think that media diversity is important should take the time to focus on, and support, independent publishers, rather than decrying their insignificance.

Situationist
Adbusters
CorpWatch
AllYourBrand

etc.:
Independent Media Center
Metropolitic.net
You May Be An Anarchist And Not Even Know It (I too thought the "anarchy movement" was a load of crap from bored aggressive adolescents (they really spoil it for everybody don't they?) until reading this and realizing there really is a legitimate coherent philosophy behind it)
Mother Jones
In These Times
Poliglut
Protest.net (yes, sometimes there are actually legitimate reasons to protest)
PigDog journal
Unabomer Manifesto (he may have been labeled a wacko, but read it - he's not stupid and he does sorta have a point.)

http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/197 9.html

"Yippity doo dah fuck! AOL and Time Warner, two of the world's largest producers of shoddy and biased information, today announced that they would merge together into one giganto-hugic mound of bullshit-producing crap. Look on, ye mighty, and despair!"

"...This will mean more of the same time-honored traditions of AOL such as overselling bandwidth now in the form of cable modem networks instead of telephone lines, overcharge the customer for services they don't really need or could get free somewhere else, and further make individual's computers infected with the virus of AIM, AOL 6.0, and Microsoft Windows."

"Yippity doo dah fuck! AOL and Time Warner, two of the world's largest producers of shoddy and biased information, today announced that they would merge together into one giganto-hugic mound of bullshit-producing crap. Look on, ye mighty, and despair!"

"...This will mean more of the same time-honored traditions of AOL such as overselling bandwidth now in the form of cable modem networks instead of telephone lines, overcharge the customer for services they don't really need or could get free somewhere else, and further make individual's computers infected with the virus of AIM, AOL 6.0, and Microsoft Windows."

"Yippity doo dah fuck! AOL and Time Warner, two of the world's largest producers of shoddy and biased information, today announced that they would merge together into one giganto-hugic mound of bullshit-producing crap. Look on, ye mighty, and despair!"

"...This will mean more of the same time-honored traditions of AOL such as overselling bandwidth now in the form of cable modem networks instead of telephone lines, overcharge the customer for services they don't really need or could get free somewhere else, and further make individual's computers infected with the virus of AIM, AOL 6.0, and Microsoft Windows."

No, it is completely NOT necessary with css.

Unless you're selling DVDs, you don't have to worry about CSS issues.

Oh, that CSS. Cascading style sheets. The one that crashes Netscape 4.x, one of the most popular browsers on the Net (because Mozilla won't run well on their 32 MB machines). If you're using CSS layout, you may want to use a DeCSS filter to remove the formatting for those who are behind Nutscrape.

1. Search engines are starting to ignore text drawn in the same color as the background, so that "xxx xxx porn free sex" type stuff doesn't spam the listings.
2. MPAA uses CSS (content scrambling system) to hide movie data from us. Think about it, the author could have chosen to use CSS (cascading stylesheets) to hide the DeCSS (content scrambling system) code from casual users, requiring the Other DeCSS (cascading stylesheets) to retrieve it.

In the RMS sense of this, it's wrong, but most people don't fully agree with his philosophy so that wrong can be ruled out. Plus, if you really want to stay on top of things, the Netscape release is simply a commercial version of web browser that you can grab for free minus commercials at that well known site

So what's the fuss? You don't have to use NS6, you can simply use mozilla. Plus that claim that IE doesn't pat itself on the back and feed itself by providing links to other sites for doe is bullshit, try a default install of IE sometime. It has the nerve of asking you if you want a free hotmail account before you can load it, plus making it nigh impossible to delete the Links section out of the favorites menu bar. At least netscape allowed me to completely wipe my bookmarks with relative ease [i hate any bookmarks, especially ones that aren't mine].

I guess this means we're all going to have to start mirroring this program now.

Pigdog DeCSS is a filter that removes CSS-2 from a web page.

...DeCSS Distribution Center

Actually I thought that DeCSS was a program for stripping cascading style-sheets from html pages... ;)

...but what do I know.

This is coming from Singapore, half-way across the globe for most of you. I have a personal perspective to share with you.

I don't call our favourite OS "GNU/Linux". I say "Linux", only because it takes fewer syllables. As RMS said in an interview, it doesn't matter much when you are talking amongst us, but it matters a lot when you talk to others.

Why? I started using computers and programming seriously about 8 years back, in school. At that time, I started off using a lot of GNU tools - Emacs, GCC, etc. Yet, I had not even heard the word "GNU". About three years after that, I started playing with Linux. And I still had not ever heard about RMS or GNU. In 1998, when RMS visited Singapore, I finally heard about RMS and GNU.

And since then, I've learnt a lot. I now insist on explaining what the "free" in "free software" means, to people who are still largely apathetic. Why is this important?

Well, until now, people in Singapore have had no need to distinguish between "free as in beer" and "free as in speech". This was (and to some extent, still is) a pirates' haven, and you could get MS-Win2K-Enterprise for about US$5. There was no need to worry about licensing issues or copyright. Now, with the pressure from MNCs mounting, the government has started to crack down seriously on illegally copied software. People are feeling it. Few people want to pay US$50 for a CD.

Now is the time we really appreciate how much RMS and others have done for us. By allowing us to copy and share, free software lets us maintain our cost-of-living. People need to be told of this difference. When they see me with a CD-R with "Red Hat" written on it, they ask me, "Ah, pirated software, eh? Where did you manage to get it?" (now that it's becoming increasingly difficult to get illegally copied software). I tell them, "No, this is not pirated. Yes, it's not original Red Hat, but free software lets me copy and share". Then they pay attention when I tell them, "GNU/Linux can never be pirated, because it's always free."

Hmmmmmmm... glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed that point

According to that all I have to do is put a link to a search engine on my site, or link to a page that links to a page, that links to a page (that links to a page, and on and on...), that links to a search engine of some sort, and BANG! I've just created a series of links that allows the downloading of DeCSS.
I haven't checked the links the MPAA has on their web site, but I'm sure you can eventually get to the DeCSS code from at least one of them, may take a while but I'm sure you can... Personally, I'm waiting for them to go after Yahoo and the likes, after all they ARE linking o sites that provide DeCSS or links to sites that link (and so on...)

On a not quite so related note, I personally think it would be funny if a significantly large number of people provided links to this DeCSS (don't worry, nothing illegal about it) and just create a little background noise for the MPAA to have to sort through to get the sites that link to the other/real DeCSS.

-GreenHell

OK, so it's illegal to mirror and link DeCSS?
No problem. Let's all mirror and link DeCSS.

After a little searching, I found a site that has developed a nice smokescreen. It's a program, called DeCSS, which removes Cascading Style Sheets from HTML pages. Comes complete with a mirror and linking kit. Nothing illegal about that.

Check out my site for a DeCSS mirror and instructions.

-Todd

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Pigdog Journal DeCSS Distribution Center

You mean like this ??

It's just a very handy utility for web developers: http://www.pigdog.org/decss/

We *all* need post DeCSS on our severs. Everyone. That means you! The only way we can combat harassment and restriction of legitimate free speech is if there are more of us than their money and time can reasonably assail. I do not think I am the only one who feels strongly about this (but I am one of few who is doing anything). Once you have posted DeCSS, link it as a reply to this message. You can find it on my web server in the clouds. If mine is shut down try gnutella. Resistance is indispensable.

If you really want to confuse people post the other DeCSS too.

There's an absolutely fabulous and revealing interview with Richard Stallman from a couple weeks ago up on Pigdog.

Kevin Fox

There's an absolutely fabulous and revealing interview with Richard Stallman from a couple weeks ago up on Pigdog.

Kevin Fox

June 30, 2000: MP3 Summit Ian at MP3 Summit webcast
You can find Ian's hour long talk at the MP3 Summit about 1 hour 8 minutes into the Wednesday webcast.

June 16, 2000: Guardian Free market fight for music moguls
Interesting article in a British national newspaper.

May 27, 2000: LA Weekly Genie 1, Bottle 0
Very amusing article on Freenet and copyright. Highly recommended.

May 24, 2000: Channel 4 News Hackers stay one step ahead
A very cool news item talking about recent attempts by the British government to censor the Internet and how Freenet will make this very difficult. Includes text and streaming video of the item.

May 23, 2000: Libération L'anarchie est au bout du clavier
An interesting French article about Freenet, concentrating on the freedom of information aspects of the system rather than just copyright.

May 12, 2000: National Post Napster secured page in Internet history
Interesting description of why Freenet is not vulnerable in the same way that Napster is, although I must say that their "final thought" is slightly perplexing!

May 12, 2000: O'Reilly Network Gnutella and Freenet represent true technological innovation
A nice article concentrating, for a change, on the technical side of Freenet and Gnutella. Reasonably accurate, although it understates the efficiency improvement that Freenet should provide (describing it as of comparable efficiency to the WWW where it should be much more efficient).

May 12, 2000: Het Nieuwsblad Vrijheid van downloaden
A Belgian article about Freenet.

May 10, 2000: Houston Chronicle Software developer pledges to foil all intellectual property watchdogs
A version of the article below, doesn't require that you register.

May 10, 2000: New York Times The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival
One of the better articles; concentrates on the copyright issue. Requires free registration.

April 27, 2000: PCFormat Daily FreeNet
A brief article on Freenet.

April 27, 2000: Heise News-Ticker World Wide Anarchy: Netz ohne Kontrolle
A German article on Freenet.

April 26, 2000: CNET.com Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net
Entertaining article with some nice quotes.

April 17, 2000: The Irish Times Anarchy Rules Alternative Web
A rather amusing article on Freenet.

April 16, 2000: Freshmeat Client As Server: The New Model
An interesting article discussing distributed systems and how systems like Freenet are actually in a similar spirit to the original Internet.

April 13, 2000: El País Freenet propone una red sin censuras, alternativa a la WWW
A Spanish article about Freenet.

April 10, 2000: Slashdot.org FreeNet's Ian Clarke Answers Privacy Questions
A very informative interview conducted by the readership of SlashDot.org, probably the closest thing to a FAQ, aside from our faq.

March 25, 2000: ABC News Freedom on the Net?
A rehash of the New Scientist article below, but likely to reach a much larger audience.

March 25, 2000: New Scientist Out of control
A "big bad Internet"-style article, but it is reasonably well researched and seeks the opinions of those who might be considered Freenet's opposition.

March 23, 2000: Heise.de Ein Netzwerk, das Zensur unmöglich machen soll
A German article on Freenet.

March 14, 2000: OLinux Freenet, a polemic concept to deal with WWW
An English translation of a Brazilian interview with Ian Clarke. Focuses on the technical aspects of Freenet, and goes into a reasonable amount of detail as to how the system works.

March 10, 2000: Webwereld Anoniem Freenet ultieme schuilplaats voor piraten
A Dutch article on Freenet. My Dutch is a little rusty but it looks like it is primarily inspired by the Wired article below.

March 8, 2000: no spoon FreeNet : le réseau anonyme distribué qui supplantera le Web
An excellent French article on Freenet, draws an interesting parallel between Freenet and the writings of Neal Stephenson.

March 3, 2000: Need To Know sufficiently advanced technology: the gathering
A brief but excellent article again approaching Freenet from a pro-freedom standpoint.

February 24, 2000: PigDog Journal Get in on the Ground Floor of Freedom
A very positive little article describing Freenet and why they think it is interesting using some rather "colorful" language.

August 14, 1999: Brave Gnu World FreeNET
One of the first articles about Freenet back when it was 100% theory. Still an excellent introduction to the way Freenet works.

What indeed? Let him be caught surfing for pr0n by all means ;)

That doesn't work.

1. Some people are required to take users' privacy into account. "Let skript kiddiez read his mail, he's just an ignorant user" doesn't work with responsible sysadmins, and neither should intrusive tracking.

2. When Doubleclick gets big enough, it can buy Congress and get ad filtering banned, (It worked for the MPAA.)

Dan,

Good points and it doesn't need to be done in the browser. It can be done in several different places -- the browser, web proxy, router, name server -- and others linked to from other posts in this thread, like the Microsoft Windows Registry or /etc/hosts. Any one of them works.

Discussions like this one get technical people to block Doubleclick for others -- maybe regular users don't care about privacy, and ISPs won't do anything about it, but you can bet that company sysadmins are paying attention. Confidentiality and paranoia are all in a day's work for them. And considering that many of Doubleclick's client web sites depend on traffic from people who are supposed to be working...well, it's not too long before some of them start dropping Doubleclick. Even if a relatively small number of sites block effectively, the content providers will be increasingly motivated to switch.

And that leaves Doubleclick stock in the shitter, and sysadmins looking from banner site to banner site, saying, "who's going to try it next?"

"No inter-site tracking" will become as much an accepted net business practice as "no spam." Isn't having a villain handy?

If Doubleclick starts hiding behind hostnames in many domains, the cookies from doubleclick.foo.com won't go to doubleclick.bar.com, and they can't track. They have to use one domain to get their cookies back. And that makes them vulnerable even if you don't have an armored backhoe to dig up their net connection.

So, it's not like ESR just got invited out of the blue to join the PTO advisory board. It took a lot of work from Open Source and Web freedom advocates.

Check out especially this page on BurnAllGifs.org and this article on Pigdog Journal. Cool groups like RTMark also got into the fight.

Of course, this story was submitted several times to Slashdot -- BEFORE the nominations process was over -- but apparently it wasn't important enough then to cover. And now that it's a done deal, it's covered here like it was an effortless thing.

Too bad Slashdot is doing such a bad job covering the important movements that are changing the face of the Internet. Just remember: for every rotten turn of events you read about on Slashdot, there's a group of dedicated people somewhere working to fight it. Too bad /. can't help you find them and work for freedom, too.

Then remove the stylesheet markup with DeCSS :-)

System administrators are responsible for protecting user security even if users don't understand the security threat. For example, we don't let users read each other's mail, even if they want to.

Part of protecting user security is blocking the worst, most intrusive web tracking. See this 5-minute privacy tweak to disable doubleclick.net tracking for your entire site, and this article for more good reasons why.

Wow! I cannot believe that this kind of story is more important to slashdot.org editors and staff than the chance to get an Open Source advocate on the Patent Public Advisory Committee!

The US Patent Office is starting a Public Advisory Committee to "review the policies, goals, performance, budget and user fees of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with respect to patents." Can you imagine what could happen if Tim O'Reilly or Richard Stallman was on that committee?

This is so important for the future of the Internet and Free Software, and we have a chance to make a big difference. Make your voice heard! There's a deadline of 4/28/2000 for the nominations. See this Pigdog Journal article or this Burn All GIFs page for more information.

To qoute: "And you have to stop meeting behind closed doors, too. It's dark in there and there might be spiders."

It's fast, it's easy, and it protects your whole network, not just your one brower. It's the Pigdog DoBBS (Denial of Big Brother Service)

Pigdog Journal

Net Flotsam

Stop the Decade, I Want to Get Off
Reported 1999-07-16 11:35:42

by Mr. Bad

Man, I just don't know what to say. The megalomaniacs of the Dumb-Down Bundt have declared this "The Slashdot Decade." Christ!
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Pigdog Journal

Net Flotsam

Stop the Decade, I Want to Get Off
Reported 1999-07-16 11:35:42

by Mr. Bad

Man, I just don't know what to say. The megalomaniacs of the Dumb-Down Bundt have declared this "The Slashdot Decade." Christ!
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The link to the Boston Globe is dead. Check out an article from Pigdog Journal about the exact same topic. It also has a link to a BBC article about it.

Web Search Engines Are Falling Down on the Job!
1999-07-07 18:18:38

The link to the Boston Globe is dead. Check out an article from Pigdog Journal about the exact same topic. It also has a link to a BBC article about it.

Web Search Engines Are Falling Down on the Job!
1999-07-07 18:18:38

Have you seen this article? Sl ashdot.org = SELLOUT.ORG! Crazy!

Click here for details. :^P

Don't forget Pigdog Journal, the weblog of bad craziness...