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Information Preservation and Data Havens?

Posted by Cliff on from the diving-in-the-denver-deep dept.

tiltowait asks: "An interesting story on LISNews.com this morning about savvy U.S. students photocopying textbooks in Mexico then returning them for refunds got me thinking about data havens. There's already few places on the web where you can exploit countries having different copyright durations and eligibility. On the flip side, there's restrictions such as broadcast blackouts and country-wide firewalls. But just as the rich can use of international tax loopholes and in light of the recent file-sharing victory, are there any projects out there, beyond the P2P networks, to distribute possibly-protected information by any means necessary? For example, your company may already outsource labor, but what about an off-site backup in case of an FBI raid?"

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  1. i'm anal-retentive about data backup by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and after i got a usb watch for xmas last year, i have gotten into the habit of archiving all of my company email every 3 monhhs, and walking out with the archive on my wrist

    i always wondered about the constitutionality of that... it's not really MY email, even though, for all practical purposes, the content of it is more important to me than my company (records of who said what to whom, my ideas, my code, etc.)

    we live in a day and age where corporate rights encroach on individual rights more and more

    i think we should all do our best to fight that, in big ways and small

    walking out with "corporate intellectual property" on my wrist is my way of doing that

    --
    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  2. Off-Shore Network Storage? by Hiigara · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I seem to remember reading that some organization was setting up servers on abandoned oil rigs in international waters for just such a purpose. I don't know what happened to them. Something about a giant squid maybe?

  3. Offtopic... by nkh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not american so I don't understand this: what kind of books are you supposed to buy? I'm in college and all the books I would ever need are available at the library (In fact, all my courses are done without books). I only bought two crypto books (Schneier and Zémor) because I told my teacher I wanted to have fun at home.

  4. Re:Raid? by Alan+Cox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are lots of legitimate businesses and parties who need strong crypto, offsite data for protection against raids etc - journalists in many countries, unpopular but legal organisations who will be raided just to put them out of business by the powers that be (or by the powers that be on behalf of their paying customers like the IPR businesses)

    One of the cutest I've seen was RAID5 over network block device (encrypted) with the disks all in different legal jurisdictions.