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Re:Windows 2000 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-12-06 04:59 · Score: 1 · on Sony Pursues New Digital Display Technology

Already being hacked in: See this site.

Re:Nader's ideals vs. Nader's methods by mooredav · 2000-10-31 04:40 · Score: 1 · on The Full Nader Plus a Taste of Bush and Gore

How will a political party go about accomplishing [environmental issues]? By LAW. By FORCE. Laws telling you and your business what resources you can use and how you can use them.

Yes, indeed. Protecting the environment is one of the major reasons why we must have government action today. Pollution is an example of a socialized cost that is passed off to everyone else while the polluter has no incentive to clean up. Such socialized costs are the major reason that libertarians have no case. I've never read any decent libertarian solutions to the pollution problem (besides denial). For example, how would the libertarians have cleaned up General Electric's mess?

Here's a mirror by Prolog-X · 2000-10-21 00:33 · Score: 2 · on Microsoft's First Ad Targeting Linux

At Virtual Avenue. I don't know how long it will hold up, but get it while you can.

Re:A few questions by kris · 2000-10-17 22:06 · Score: 2 · on Mueller-Maguhn On Internet Governance

See
Anschlag auf den Knast Weiterstadt for more information about the blown up concrete prison (german language).

© Copyright 2000 Kristian Köhntopp

Re:Length? by skoda · 2000-10-03 22:00 · Score: 1 · on Government Responds To Microsoft's Appeal Process

Sadly, Bob Ross no longer rules (but he did rule!). He passed away July 4th.
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D. Fischer

Re:Strange by Scrag · 2000-09-29 04:54 · Score: 1 · on Inside the CueCat Hardware

I'm waiting for them to send me one. After all the stupid sites they've gone after, I can't imagine them not coming after mine. After all it has pictures of their product.

If I get a cease and decist letter, there is no way I am taking my site down. I'm not worried about a letter from them.
What would effectively shut me down is if they told my isp/webhost that I was in violation of their agreement. They wouldn't want to be part of a legal problem, and would most likely pull the material. Other than that, I can see no reason why anyone should remove their CueCat site.

Re:Strange by Scrag · 2000-09-29 04:54 · Score: 1 · on Inside the CueCat Hardware

I'm waiting for them to send me one. After all the stupid sites they've gone after, I can't imagine them not coming after mine. After all it has pictures of their product.

If I get a cease and decist letter, there is no way I am taking my site down. I'm not worried about a letter from them.
What would effectively shut me down is if they told my isp/webhost that I was in violation of their agreement. They wouldn't want to be part of a legal problem, and would most likely pull the material. Other than that, I can see no reason why anyone should remove their CueCat site.

Re:Could someone explain to me... by Scrag · 2000-09-26 04:55 · Score: 1 · on CueCat At It Again

I find it interesting that the only use people have mentioned for the cuecat so far have been making databases of their items, and using the normal CueCat service.
There is so much more you can do with it... You can have your computer do things other than record data when you scan a barcode, especially if you print your own.
My friend had the idea of printing a sheet of barcodes, and having each one correspond to a playlist for XMMS. Just scan the barcode, and it starts playing.

I thought about this idea a bit, and realized I could use it for the arcade I am building. I wanted to keep the user as far away from the OS as possible, to preserve the arcade "feel". The way I hope to accomplish this is with a CueCat and a catalog of barcodes for each game. Just scan the barcode, the current game will stop, and the new one will start. It keeps the user focused on the games not the details of switching between them. I'm sure there are hundereds of other uses, just waiting to be thought up.

In regard to Digital Convergence monitoring flyingbuttmonkeys.com, they have also been monitoring my page. They would probably send me a cease and decist letter also, but they can't find my address.

Digital Convergence just needs to realize that they made a mistake, and that most people WILL use the CueCat for it's intended purpose. There is nothing they can do about it now... they are basically screwed and need to realize it before they get themselves even more messed up.

Re:Wow. by Scrag · 2000-09-18 11:18 · Score: 1 · on Digital Convergence Changes EULA, and Gets Cracked

I know I didn't click an agreement... They didn't even get my address.

You can read about all my experiences in getting the CueCat here.
Warning: Pictures may load slowly on non-broadband connection

README and INSTALL by bfree · 2000-09-12 01:17 · Score: 2 · on Linux Ported to Cisco Routers, BSD chosen by router manufacturers

uClinux-cisco2500-0.1.tar.gz is 1169524 bytes
INSTALL is 13164 bytes
README is 254 bytes
linux.bin is 1071900 bytes
uClinux-c2500-uClinux-2_0_38_1pre7.diff is 4351814 bytes

Wristwatches, Routers and what next?
Personally I like the idea of being able to hack anything you want into the router....let it be FREE, but I wonder at the potential havoc that could be caused by bugs in these if it ever adopted in volume (what's cisco's record like at security and bug fixing and will any GPL/OS solution be any better)? I also agree with a previous poster that Cisco are not going to be happy with this if it is viable for production systems. I can forsee the DoJ anti-trust case where Cisco are taken to task for hacking their routers and engaging in anti-competitive practices to maintain their monopoly.....oh dear, somethings never change.

README and INSTALL by bfree · 2000-09-12 01:17 · Score: 2 · on Linux Ported to Cisco Routers, BSD chosen by router manufacturers

uClinux-cisco2500-0.1.tar.gz is 1169524 bytes
INSTALL is 13164 bytes
README is 254 bytes
linux.bin is 1071900 bytes
uClinux-c2500-uClinux-2_0_38_1pre7.diff is 4351814 bytes

Wristwatches, Routers and what next?
Personally I like the idea of being able to hack anything you want into the router....let it be FREE, but I wonder at the potential havoc that could be caused by bugs in these if it ever adopted in volume (what's cisco's record like at security and bug fixing and will any GPL/OS solution be any better)? I also agree with a previous poster that Cisco are not going to be happy with this if it is viable for production systems. I can forsee the DoJ anti-trust case where Cisco are taken to task for hacking their routers and engaging in anti-competitive practices to maintain their monopoly.....oh dear, somethings never change.

Irish Music Rights Organisation gets Legal too by bfree · 2000-09-07 19:36 · Score: 3 · on Lawsuits Suck

Their Legal Claims basically amount to all workplaces will buy a licence from them for any music.

OT: Irish Music Rights Organisation gets Legal by bfree · 2000-09-07 06:11 · Score: 2 · on Judge Orders MP3.com to Pay $118M Damages

I saw an envelope in my parents house today with "KEEP (re jargon!)" handwritten on addressed to the Company Secretary, My Father's Name, His Address...No company mentioned. I had to peek inside (they often leave computer related junk mail around for me to see/dump) and saw it was from the Irish Music Rights Orgainsation. Now my father's main business (based at home) is software development and has family members as occassional employees beyond himself. I just had to include the full text/html (all emphasis theirs) of the two pages because they are such incredible reading but in brief summary they are requesting that as public music in work requires a licence, they want a declaration on music use in the place of business and the equipment (including private)......Read on...

Re:DeCSS? by Scrag · 2000-09-05 10:38 · Score: 1 · on Barcode Maker Responds After Forcing Drivers Offline

No this won't end up like DeCSS. They are at least getting around some encryption. These can be easily decoded by hand. Here's how:
CueCat output:
[junk].C3nZC3nZC3nZE3z3ChDYCNnY.fHmc.DhT3Chr1DxPYD xnW.
The first field can be ignored. The second field is a unique identifier for your cuecat. That can also be ignored. The third field (fHmc) is the barcode type. The final field is the barcode number. To decode the output, split the section you want to decode into 4-byte chunks. Each character in this chunk should then be converted into a corresponding 8-bit number from the following set: "abc...ABC...0123...+-" with 'a' being 0, and '-' being 63. Remove the first 2 bits from each byte, then recombine them into 3 8-bit numbers. XOR each of these with 'C' (67), and the result is 3 decoded ASCII characters. Repeat this process for the rest of the numbers.
I made a program that did this for me, but I did do it by hand first, to see if it worked. I won't be releasing the program or source for obvious reasons, but it took less than an hour to make.

You can see my experiences with the CueCat HERE
Sorry about the large pictures, I don't have time to thumbnail them.

And lastly:
PEOPLE FROM DIGITALCONVERGENCE ARE READING EVERY COMMENT ON SLASHDOT
I have had 3 seperate hits to my cuecat page from the digitalconvergence.com domain. They read all the comments yet they still wont answer our basic questions... Remember this when posting comments.

Re:Being proactive... by Scrag · 2000-09-01 09:07 · Score: 2 · on Linux Drivers For Free Barcode Scanner Cease-And-D...

RadioShack is not the problem at all. They just hand them out to people. You can read about my experiences with the CueCat HERE
Sorry about the big pictures, I didnt have time to thumbnail them.

Cuecat Experiences by Scrag · 2000-09-01 08:56 · Score: 1 · on Linux Drivers For Free Barcode Scanner Cease-And-D...

My experiences with the CueCat can be found here: CueCat Experiences
There are pictures of the product in the packaging it came in, and the license agreement.

Re:This is just stupid by Scrag · 2000-09-01 08:55 · Score: 1 · on Linux Drivers For Free Barcode Scanner Cease-And-D...

I don't think that stopping people is legal. My experiences can be found here: CueCat Experiences
There are pictures of the product in the packaging it came in, and the license agreement.

Here's something the MPAA's CEO said: by Nic-o-demus · 2000-08-30 01:16 · Score: 4 · on More Threats From The MPAA

"If we have to file a thousand lawsuits a day, we'll do it. It's less expensive than losing control of your creative works."

--Jack Valenti, President and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America

I got the quote from here. I don't know where he got it..

Re:Not yet... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-08-30 00:26 · Score: 3 · on More Threats From The MPAA

Re:OpenNap Servers by PsycoticHamster · 2000-07-27 10:09 · Score: 1 · on Napster Shut Down Until Trial

Yep, TekNap is BWap's new name. I haven't noticed any really big changes, but it seems to be fairly stable at least for me. Here's another site on BWap/TekNap (if you can bear the colors).

PsycoticHamster
aka. Trilobyte on OpenNap

Pokemon weirdness isn't exactly subliminal... by TheDullBlade · 2000-07-08 03:41 · Score: 2 · on Anime Moves To DVD

Case in point. The one one the right is James, a male character. More info here. And here.

This was from episode #18 of the original Japanese series. Oddly enough, this episode never appears in the English dub broadcast in the USA...

Ruling is unfair by Jokey/xero · 2000-06-07 06:35 · Score: 1 · on Justice Department Decides To Break Up Microsoft

Don't know if this has been discussed in the comments yet, I'm too lazy to read them all, but I believe the ruling is unfair.

Well, not the whole ruling, but a part of it. Basically this is my understanding of a part. Microsoft can not share information with itself, unless it shares it with the world. Since Microsoft will be two companies now then I believe they should be treated like two companies. All other companies in the US can share information with each other without having to make that information public. Just because Microsoft has the money of a few countries doesn't mean anything. Throw all their power and money aside and you still have a company trying to turn a profit just like any other company.

For an example, say Valve and Interplay hooked up. They could share all their information without having to give any information to another company, including Microsoft. "Trade secrets" I guess. Anyway, if Microsoft wanted to hook up with Valve and share source codes with them, Microsoft would then have to offer those same source codes to the public (i.e., Interplay, id, Microprose, some dork in Idaho programming missle plans for blowing up Cuba). Also, when divisions of Interplay, which act as individual companies basically get together on a game they don't have to offer their source codes to the public. However, if the software division of Microsoft wanted to borrow some codes from the OS division of Microsoft (two different companies actually) they couldn't. The OS division would have to either open source the codes or sell a copy to the software division.

I can NOT see how this is fair to Microsoft as a company. If I am wrong then so be it, whatever, just let me know.
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Jøkey/xero
xerotek

Stupid Users by Compenguin · 2000-06-02 02:52 · Score: 1 · on Is Virus Spreading Criminal?

Alot of the blame should go to idiodic users. Any user who executes a vbs virus (like iloveyou) should be executed!!! you can look at the source but the stupid idiots open it anyway.
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Re:What about Trojans? - Defintion of a virus by Compenguin · 2000-06-02 02:38 · Score: 1 · on Is Virus Spreading Criminal?

Stealth Mode is only on option, it doesn't have to be left on
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Finally... a story where this is *not* offtopic... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-05-19 20:38 · Score: 5 · on Oxford Yanks Student Page Over Spoof DeCSS

and I'm asleep at the keyboard. Doh!

Oh well... here it is.
Add your own, and spread this far and wide:

This announcement brought to you by the DeCSS Polar Bear.

Re:I suppose I'll add my two cents here by Compenguin · 2000-05-10 02:23 · Score: 1 · on LAME *Is* An MP3 Encoder

left bracket `<' is `<' right bracket `>' is `>' and if your wondering `&' is `&'
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

What about script kiddes? by Compenguin · 2000-05-08 02:14 · Score: 1 · on On Usage of "Hacker vs. Cracker"

`VANDALS
By the way, purists have argued that if you launch an attack against a Web site without actually busting through a security wall you're not really a cracker since you haven't slipped inside. So if you aren't a cracker, and don't qualify as a hacker, what are you? A whacker? Or maybe just wacko? Some people have suggested vandal, which is fine since they're all dead and won't write any e-mail complaints to the CBC. (Vandalism comes from the word Vandals, who were members of a Germanic tribe that invaded Western Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries.)'

I see script kiddie fitting that bill. Which reminds me its 3:00 and all the script kiddies are out of Middle School now.
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Dinsdale! by MayWeekend · 2000-04-30 09:27 · Score: 1 · on Linux Game Tome Returns!

Dinsdale!

Re:Japan and China by Compenguin · 2000-04-20 04:08 · Score: 1 · on Japan Makes Linking Illegal Material Illegal

Wasn't it the MPAA that was anti-DeCSS and the RIAA was anti-Napster and they both hate gnutella cause they cant do anything about it
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Re:MI15 was real nice... by Compenguin · 2000-04-18 22:34 · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Milestone 15

The splash screen is great I use it as my wallpaper.
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

MI15 was real nice... by Compenguin · 2000-04-18 09:44 · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Milestone 15

MI15 was real nice, jpeg support built in. I remember many of the nightly builds but i like tonights build MI16 better.
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Re:Even Better Jeeves Easter Egg... by Compenguin · 2000-04-18 09:12 · Score: 1 · on AskJeeves Interview

"What is the meaning of life?" takes you to a hg2g site
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Re:Fun question for Jeeves by Compenguin · 2000-04-18 06:05 · Score: 2 · on AskJeeves Interview

I should note that it actually links to Ned Fielden's Personal homepage. Under his personal Section's "Habits, Eccentricities, Salacious Gossip" http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~fielden
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Re:hmm... by Compenguin · 2000-04-17 07:49 · Score: 1 · on Star Wars EP1 On DVD Confirmed By Lucas

It wasn't raciest, people are easily offended these days. Also, sure the Niemodians might sound a little like Koreans but just go to a few starcraft message boards and ask for Opinions on Koreans. You wont hear very many good things but starcraft and Battle.net arnt considered racist.
-Compenguin
The Jedi of the Prequels

Time for Slashdot to take a stand... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-04-05 03:12 · Score: 4 · on MPAA Files Another Injunction Against 2600

The following is a list of all the mirrors from the 2600 site.

cphack and decss mirror by jadin · 2000-03-29 14:01 · Score: 1 · on Cphack, the GPL, And So Much More

download it here or here

Above links analyzed... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-03-25 07:58 · Score: 0 · on Latest Toy: One-Man Helicopter

The SkyRider seems to be vapourware based on the Moller Skycar (well, maybe not complete vapourware, but they're 5 years from producing anything, Moller has prototypes done and is seeking legal stuff).

The Hiller flying platform is a historical curiosity, and the Hummingbird is the current implementation (and is selling kits).

There's also cheaper (and larger) small helicopter produced since 1971.

-- Ender, Duke_of_URL

Re:30000 USD only ? by Maurice · 2000-03-25 00:04 · Score: 1 · on Latest Toy: One-Man Helicopter

Here is a link to a description of the helicopter I described.

You can do it too! by superid · 2000-03-21 21:21 · Score: 2 · on IBM Creates New Fastest Beowulf Cluster

I really think that more attention needs to be payed to clustering technologies. I first got started with my cluster about 18 months ago. Beowulf was fairly new, and almost considered to be a black art. After reading and tinkering for a few weeks, I was amazed at how easy it actually is to get things running in parallel. Now, don't get me wrong, like many things its easy to do but hard to do *well*...nevertheless, I'd sure like to see more activity in this area. (IMHO, SMP is going to run out of steam quickly)

All you slashdotters with three or more systems in your basement! Go! Get them networked! Load MPICH or PVM! This should be your mantra:

"If SuperID can do it, then I certainly can"

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-19 02:42 · Score: 0 · on Corel Draw 9 for Linux Needs Beta Testers

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Jan 19, 12:13am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

We apologize for the length of time between updates. This list has gotten quite large and thus more difficult to maintain.

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-16 07:10 · Score: 0 · on New DVD Lawsuits Filed by the MPAA (UPDATED)

Note: This mirror list has been copied from http://www.humpin.org/decss/, on January 2nd 2000 13:13 GMT

Mirrors since 28-Dec-99 added by me.
To my main DVD page (containing list of lists of mirrors) Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Fri, Dec 31, 8:18pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

Re:Any movie plans for this book ? by pez9000 · 2000-01-14 01:51 · Score: 1 · on Childhood's End

Actually, there have been rumors.. but I haven't heard anything lately.
"Childhood's End (Universal Studios)" was listed under "Optioned" in a list of future projects.. recieved from Mr. Clarke after my dad wrote him a letter.. check it out:
http://pez9000.virtualave.net/scifi.html

pez9000

Who needs a desktop? by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-03 06:34 · Score: 0 · on The ROX Desktop

Actually, this thing looks pretty neat, but I don't really like the concept of desktops. All I need is a plain and simple wm. flwm works best for me. I somewhat mutilated it and I have my version here. It has a built in command line which I find pretty handy. hehe </plug>

OOPS - Trying Humpin list again by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-30 11:08 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-29 06:42 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble?

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Dec 29, 3:14pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

A different list of mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 02:48 · Score: 0 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

Here is the most recent version of the css-auth CVS code as well as DeCSS. Please mirror & redistribute.
This page was originally a mirror of http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/, but then rhythm.cx was forced down.
So I've taken it on myself to keep a list of mirrors. I try to update and check the status of the listed sites at least once per day. If you know of any mirrors not in my list, if you wish to mirror this page, or if you find that any of the listed sites went down, then contact me.

you can download the following three files from here:
DeCSS.zip - DeCSS
css-auth.tar.gz - CSS authentication source
LiVid.tgz - Linux DVD Code

MD5 Sums:
d0aff684327a5c7bf110951e42ec3cae DeCSS.zip 8653090161e8f287d365132acb098581 css-auth.tar.gz a940de43a3c20895cf56bbca75c6d7a7 LiVid.tgz

Known Mirrors (as of 17/Nov/1999, 08:30 GMT):

Sites that copied this site (lemuria.org): http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~davi d/dvd/
http://www.c0ke.com/DVD/
http://209.68.37.134/decss/
http://rockme.virtualave.net/
http://caspian.twu.net/dv d/mirrors/www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/

http://www.homestead.com/avoid erman/files/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/avoiderman/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business /avoiderman/
http://www.intelcities.com/Main_ Street/Avoiderman/
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
http://members.xoom.com/lkjhgfdsa2/

Other sites where DeCSS, css-auth and/or LiVid are mirrored: http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip and http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/ (very slow - 33.6 line)
http://members.tripod.co.uk/bap/css/cs s.html
http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz
http://www.dvdlinks.co.uk/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd/

http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip

Mirrors that appear have gone down since 12/Nov/1999: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.xs4all.nl/~predator/freecss/freecss.htm l
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/DeCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/css-auth.tar.g z ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/ http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip

The following site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consortium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/
Local Mirror: /DeCSS/crypto.gq.nu

You can contact me at tom@lemuria.org if you have any questions regarding mirroring, or want your mirror added here.

Note to lawyers and other scum:
This information is widely available by now, and no matter what you do, you will not be able to supress it. It was the DVD consortium that f***ed up, and now you're trying to solve a technological problem with threats and legal action?
If there were fines on stupidity, yours would cover the national debts of most western countries.

I am the government's tool by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-22 20:58 · Score: 0 · on Results From "Jam Echelon Day"

The government are inside my head... here's proof!

Re:so, so true :-( by umoto · 1999-08-05 23:12 · Score: 1 · on Programmers Ain't Gettin' Any

This thread cracked me up, you guys/girls. The best part is that it's all public and you can't retract ANYTHING!! :)

I noticed your sig includes the name "Skywalker" and I'm curious if you've heard of the Mark Hamill Entertainment Site maintained by my sister. Probably not--I know there are lots of MH fan sites, but who knows?!

Name one thing - the movie by ch-chuck · 1999-03-18 00:40 · Score: 1 · on Bill Gates & his 12 Steps

Jeez - this is so funny - it's just like the old
Monty Python movie "Life of Brian" where the Israel zealots were having an underground meeting and John Cleese shouts, "Name one thing that the Romans have ever done for us!" and one by one people get up and say, Roads, the Aquaduct, currency, sanitation, military security, etc :))

The Holy Sandal!

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