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World of Spectrum gets a Visit from the IDSA
Dasaan writes "the
World of Spectrum
, a site that legally archives old Sinclair Spectrum games, has been accused of distributing copyrighted material by the
IDSA
.
The list of games supposedly being offered on the site include titles such as Soldier Of Fortune and Barbarian. And a quick search of the site shows that these titles are indeed being offered, however they are the original versions that were released many years ago and have now been officially made legal to supply by the current copyright owners." Their correspondence is also available.
Punch the wallnut donkey style! M U L E!
First Racist/Anti-Semite Post!!!! Bitch!!!
Come on, burn your mod points! Throw them away! And Fuck France!
Hey, has anyone else noticed IDSA can be rearranged to spell AIDS, which, as we all know, is the cure for Fags... And Dark-Skinned Savages.
Come on, burn your mod points! Throw them away! And Fuck France!
device, extracted from your .asp
... ®
good luck on that won.
Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software
By John Leyden
Posted: 28/02/2003 at 10:49 GMT
Evidence obtained by German hardware site tecChannel suggests a list of software installed on an XP machine is sent to Microsoft when users run Windows Update.
When patches are downloaded, a few kilobytes of data are sent in the opposite direction over a secure SSL channel.
Because the data is encrypted a simple packet sniffer can't be used to see what this data contains.
However tecChannel's tecDUMP utility takes advantage of an undocumented WinInet API, enabling an examination of the data before it becomes encrypted.
According to tecChannel, the information sent to Microsoft includes details of all the software installed in a machine, not only Microsoft applications.
The latest version of Windows Update Privacy Statement (which dates from last October) states: "Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer".
This configuration information includes OS version number, IE version number and "version numbers of other software for which Windows Update provides updates" along with plug and play ID numbers and regional settings.
But there's no mention of collecting data on software from other vendors running on a machine. And this software can't be updated using Windows Update. So why is Microsoft collecting this data?
One for the conspiracy theorists
If you don't make, sell or distribute illegal copies, then you will never get in touch with that kind of people.
Such organisations as BSA, IDSA have legal and moral grounds to defend the products or services of their members.
It's like taking drugs, everybody knows its illegal (in most countries) but a lot of people still use it. Why? Well if you are careful, if you don't have a great mouth then chances that the police will arrest you are rather low.
But if you create a website, where you approve using drugs, where you explain where you can get what, then don't start crying if the police caught you. In that case you are a naïve daydreaming idealist or just plain dumb.
Those so-called patriotic god blessed Americans just love it to force their legal and moral laws, regulations and restrictions to other people, but keeping on track of their own laws, woosh, that's difficult, in that case everybody has to fuck off.
If you don't agree with the current laws, then get enough people on your side and push your politicians, but stay between the borders of the law in the mean time. If you can't do that last one, no problem, but don't start crying when you're busted.
defeated again.
lookout bullow. don't come crying to US when there's only won channel left.