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Sklyarov Case Exposes DMCA Contradictions
aePrime writes: "This article on the New York Times describes how the case against Dmitri Sklyarov is bringing up some contridictions within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One is allowed to bypass security measures to backup data, but one is not allowed to write the software to bypass the security. It mentions how this first case to be prosecuted under the law may indeed cause changes to the law." A lot of bad laws have stuck around for longer than the DMCA has yet, but the more this kind of analysis is seen, the sooner sanity can be restored.
Yeah, I know they recanted after the EFF pointed out to them that this fracas has made people all over the world hate them, but god DAMN it, they caused this mess and the very least they could do if they were serious about making amends is PAY FOR DMITRY'S DEFENSE.
Until and unless they do something more than say, "Oops, we're sorry we called in the jackbooted thugs, but it's of our hands now, and gosh, we really wish they would just let him go!", I say Adobe deserves to be on all of our shit lists, even above MicroSquish.
Would someone please re-post the names of the perps who fucked Dmitry over? Let's start with that incompetent prick who decided to call in the thugs instead of FIXING the crypto in his pathetic excuse for a product.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Getting your IP banned from time to time is almost impossible to avoid if you're posting regularly, even if you're not trolling. Some dickhead moderator will occasionally mod you down just for the fun of it.
As a result I've started posting on Slashdot exclusively as an AC and via anonymizer proxies (to save my own IP from getting banned).
heh
So CmdrTaco et al. won't ban your IP permanently? I find that hard to believe...
Free him, and don't buy Adobe Anything Version whatever. When there's free and opensource image editing programs available why even deal with Adobe, and we all know the popularity of eBooks... PDF's... wow. that's something to sue over.
- tre
http://piclabs.com
Hey does anyone out there have a link to the provisions/highlights of the DMCA? I'm pretty ignorant of just how 'insideous' it is
We dance to all the wrong songs.
--Refused.
you jackass, its defense contractors convention, not "script kiddies hack atms convention."
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That was NOT a troll. I am completely sincere in this, and I will not be doing ANY business with Adobe until they have made amends. As far as I'm concerned, they have a long way to go to make up for the damage they've done.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I've been banned dozens of times. How can he ban an IP permanently? It's so easy for most of us to just get new ones.
saru mo ki kara ochiru
Would someone please just let this poor guy go home to his wife and kids and sort this all out later?
It's irrelevant to me. Once you start posting at -1, no one moderates you down no matter how much you troll. You should just give into the dark side.... lemme relate to you my own story....
I was once a prominent slashdot poster. My karma was never higher than 20 but I always posted good comments and tried to do my best to be a good slashdot user. I appeased the moderators and editors. I never made fun of Jon Katz or that censor michael. I was rare modded down and regularly modded up. I moderated every week myself, for god's sake! Then, I woke up one morning and began to ask myself, what kind of a man am I? All those times I could have said a biting remark... I hesitated because of my precious status. I could NEVER join the ranks of the trolls. Or could I? They seemed to be having so much fun. I was getting bored with slashdot. It was turning into a kiss-ass fest and we all were invited. We only flamed eachother about BSD/Linux, Windows/Linux, Mac/Everyone else, because it was the thing to do. Deep down we all wanted to be accepted by each other and have the approval of the great CmdrTaco. Oh, to have your name on the front page and being submitted by the mexican dish himself... it was an honor. It was enough to make you orgasm with delight.
But I was questioning the whole culture. And so were others. Others that were with we since the beginning. We mostly were introduced to slashdot in the summer of 97. Slashdot invented the troll. No, it molded the troll, it elvolved it to a super being. The troll made you think twice about clicking that link. the troll made you question if this comment is for real. The troll started OWNING the whole universe of slashdot. We infested, infected, dominated, sometimes shut it down. We all remember osm, Jon Erikson, spiralx. They have passed on. Evolved into super beings that don't even exist in our dimension anymore. In the year 2000 I began trolling. I experimented under the AC guise. I trolled for Scooby doo. I then trolled for goatse and comp-u-geek. I experimented with logged in accounts. I have seen many trolls come and go. I have seen many change their names but I recognise their writing style. I know it's a troll by the first 3 words. It's second nature now. Be afraid of what you can become. But don't deny it.
The world of the dead is a lonely place for the living. We don't belong here, but there's no way to avoid ending up here. In the end, we all surrender. We all surrender. Surrender.
saru mo ki kara ochiru
poop on you