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DMCA Attacks: NAI Tells Sites To Remove PGP (Updated)
daecabhir writes: "I am on Declan McCullough's excellent policy and technology mailing list, and received this article on Declan's Politech web site. Basically, Network Associates now appears to be using the DMCA to force sites that provide access to the "free" versions of PGP to cease and desist, if this is any indication. Unfortunately, I think that Network Associates may well be within their rights with regards to 'their' intellectual property, even if I disagree with the manner in which they are going about things." Update: 05/22 13:55 GMT by T : Looks like this wasn't the whole story, and in fact NAI was only objecting to a site with the commercial version of its software -- read below for more.
Grant Bayley writes: "The hype being generated by the "NAI pulls out the DMCA stick" postings and the spectre of PGP being "removed from the Internet" is entirely
bogus, and provably so with a little bit of fact checking.
Looking through the Google cache, it becomes very clear very quickly that crypto.radiusnet.net was hosting a copy of the commercial version of the software - not a copy of the PGPi (aka freeware) version of the PGP product. Given that this is the case, NAI is well within their rights to demand the removal of the files.
You can confirm this in the Google Cache.
Another for you today!
Thanks in advance.
A professor at the University of Mississippi is giving a
lecture on the supernatural. To get a feel for his
audience, he asks: "How many people here believe in
ghostses?" About 90 students raise their hands.
"Well, that's a good start. Out of those of you who
believe in ghostses, do any of you think you've ever seen
a ghostse?" About 40 students raise their hands.
"That's really good. Has anyone here ever talked to a
ghostse?" 15 students raise their hands.
"That's great. Has anyone here ever touched a ghostse?" 3
students raise their hands.
"That's fantastic. But let me ask you one question
further... Have any of you ever made love to a ghostse?"
One student way in the back raises his hand.
The professor is astonished and says, "Son, all the
years I've been giving this lecture, no one has ever
claimed to have slept with a ghostse. You've got to come
up here and tell us about your experience."
The redneck student replies with a nod and a grin, and
begins to make his way up to the podium. The professor
says, "Well, tell us what it's like to have sex with
ghostse."
The student replies, "Ghostse?!? From ah-way back there ah
thought yuh said "goatse."
I just heard the news on Talk Radio - Geologist/Natural Historian Stephen J. Gould died in his New York home earlier this week. Even if you didn't read any of his books, you probably evolved from monkeys. Truly an Evolutionistic icon. I'm sure we'll all miss him.
~~~
Don't you kids ever get tired or trolling?
These kids today, they think that because they can post a page-widener or a goatse.cx ascii-art, that they know how to troll. Why in my day, we'd regularly bait Taco himself into responding, and he'd like it too! He'd get pissed that we were rambling on about why the US should just go ahead and nuke Portugal, basque seperatists be damned! To this day, the poor man goes into an insane rage anytime someone calls him a Basque sympathizer... I sort of regret that. And the trolls were always funny too, we'd get modded up to 946 regularly, and alter IRS databases so that any moderator stupid enough to mod us down would be audited for years to come, US citizen or not! Kath herself would send me steamy love emails, she was so hot for me and my suave trollish looks! These kids today barely even see Taco post, and they call themselves trolls? I s'pose times are different now, with your bigtime fancy-schmancy troll scripts, and disgusting ascii art porn. In my day, we had to get by with links to disgusting porn. When you saw goatse's rectum, by god it was a disgusting pustulated pink color, not some T's, %'s and {'s arranged in an approximation... and poor old Oog, he actually suffered a occipital stroke attempting to claim the title as the most posted troll ever. 29,478 posts in under 53 minutes, without automated scripting! These pansy-assed troll wannabes aren't half the troll he was. They should be ashamed of themselves. Even today, impotent, senile and hobbled by gangrenous flatulence, the two of us could out-troll any 50 of these crapflooders with both arms tied behind our backs.
*muttering* *muttering*
If I ever catch you, I'm gonna smack your ass with my cane, slow down so I can catch you in my wheelchair...
*muttering* *drool*
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