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Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering
zurab writes "A federal judge in Boston threw out a challenge to the DMCA brought by the ACLU for a Harvard Law School student. Ben Edelman decided to ask court's permission to reverse-engineer the Internet filtering software made by N2H2 in fears of being sued by the company. Of interest is a quote from the ruling: "there is no plausibly protected constitutional interest that Edelman can assert that outweighs N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted material from an invasive and destructive trespass." Full story on Yahoo."
I know. Those assfarmers. Like there's ever any damned bad language in this craphole.
I never see any fucking vulgar language on Slashdot. Those cuntbags must just be fucking out of their fuck-ass mind.
BTW, I actually am at a school that uses Bess, an N2H2 product. It banned Slashdot for being a "Message Board." I have a good mind to go there and give those networking bastards a piece of my mind.
and I can post it on Slashdot right now,
right after I answer the knock at the door...
Cheers, Joel
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am i still allowed to mention the RIAA?
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uses a filtering "service" that's always down. The NT4 proxy servers only resolve an ip correctly two tries out of three.
It's not too bad, because they have an 802.11b net my Zaurus and iBook can access as well as a "secret router" on 10.0.0.3 that I'm not supposed to know about.
BTW, the NT4 proxy is sp2; I made a single URL that can crash the proxy if entered on any school computer. They really should fire the techies and let me do the job for a gym credit.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Sure enough, I can now play flash flash revolution during those boring high school comp science classes.
Huh? They let you hook headphones and a 3 by 3 foot DANCE PAD up to their computers and jump around on it during class? At my school, I could only connect a dance pad to an institute-owned machine during meetings of DDR club.
If you're going to dance with your fingers on the keyboard, you might as well play Konami's official version of DDR on a Game Boy Color system.
Will I retire or break 10K?
There is discussion on Slashdot?? Where?? And why wasn't I told about this?
Vistaboy: I actually am at a school that uses Bess, an N2H2 product. It banned Slashdot for being a "Message Board."
connsmythe96: Actually, I think the block on message boards has the same purpose as the block on chat sites and that is to prevent kids from talking to strange people on the internet who may be stalkers/pedophiles.
You mean I can pick up primary school girls on slashdot? Man, have I been missing out!
Hey, little girl, would you like to come back to my place and see my Mandrake 9.1 CDs?
No wonder your teacher won't move for you if you're putting Mussolini's death during WW1...
:)
Hint: look for the other world war
Better get your timeline straight, boy! Or you may never get that password!
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The judge somehow figured out what has been happening in a case? Sounds like a bit of non-technical reverse engineering to me.
That's an easy one. The company has to be trusted to be filtering things correctly. If, by reverse engineering, they are found to be doing shady things (blocking competitors, etc), the company's customers no longer trust them. Without that trust, they have no customers.
What I might be trying to say is that the software must be trusted by either hiding the bad practices and using the law to prevent that information from being leaked, or by doing it right in the first place. Guess which one they apparently chose?
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Well, what the hell were we supposed to do with our kids all day once they banned child labor? Take them to the bar with us?
Milo