Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack

An anonymous reader writes "Internet radio station Atlanta Blue Skye LLC has warned a Romania-based technology enthusiast that his blog has been 'copied' and turned over to its lawyers. The issue stems from his posting of a widely known workaround for bypassing JavaScript functions that try to disable a mouse's right-click context menu functionality, and the radio stream information gathered from the Properties function of Windows Media Player."

Comments

They broke the law

[Anonymous Coward]

They copied his blog? That's copyright infringement - and that's against the law. It's no different to walking into a store and stealing a CD.

"Hacker Calisthenics"

[The Wicked Priest]

Possibly the best thing to come out this will be the complainant's phrase "hacker calisthenics". Let's all use it!

"Enthusiast"

[antic]

"Romania-based technology enthusiast"

Is that what we're calling them now? ;)

Hey, let's all do the time warp...again!

[XahXhaX]

What year is this, 1998? Trying to block right clicking as a means of 'protection'? That puts you on par with Geocities members pre-2000, and about one minor step above using js to spoof the status bar or hide the address bar. I suppose next they'll be petitioning the ISPs for surveillance to see who's been viewing their page source, claiming it as violation of 'trade secrets'.

Re:Hey, let's all do the time warp...again!

[Ajehals]

I suppose next they'll be petitioning the ISPs for surveillance to see who's been viewing their page source, claiming it as violation of 'trade secrets'. FBI -> ISP: We need information on any individual who has had access to the html or js source of these websites
ISP -> FBI: Well, ahem, everybody who views the site has access to the html or js source
FBI -> ISP: Everyone?
ISP -> FBI: Well yeah, you see when the user visits a site the browser requests the page, and the server hosting the page will send the html source, then the browser will render the source to look nice for the viewer... you can hide some of the logic with php, jsp or asp and other server side...
FBI -> ISP: But if they can see the source then could they make copies...?
ISP -> FBI: Well yes but...
FBI -> ISP: They would know all the secret techniques used to make the site?
ISP -> FBI: Well yes, but as I was going to say...
FBI -> ISP: Well that makes it easier thanks. Bye

1 week later:

'The BBC has learned that a large number of extradition requests from the US government relating to British subjects and other non US-nationals breaching Trade Secret, Copyright and Terrorism laws, this is after it was alleged that people are illegally viewing web pages.

This comes after the US issued Arrest Warrants for 3.7 billion individuals globally on Monday. A Spokesman for the DHS is quoted as saying:

  "Well if everyone can see how stuff works, they could copy it, and if they copy it they could use it, and if they could use it they could mislead people. Misleading people is not nice and causes angst, angst is like fear, and fear is a bit like terror. Terror is caused by terrorists, therefore viewing web pages is terrorism. Also children may be harmed in some way."'

What the... heck?

[ZorinLynx]

You'd think a station would be all for something that brings it more listeners and thus more advertising revenue.

Are they completely out of their minds? If someone told me that the way my site is implemented prevented some people from listening, the FIRST thing I would do would be to fix my site, and the second would be to thank the person for getting me more listeners!

Idiots. Yet I'm still listening to their station, on my Mac, because they're actually playing pretty good music. :)

-Z

Re:Attention Americans:

[Joebert]

Dems fightin' words !

Re:Romania?

[Joebert]

Is that like one of those less known states in the USA?

Kinda like Idaho, but with lettuce instead of potatoes.

Right mouse button?

[noidentity]

What's this "right mouse button" you speak of?

Sincerely,
Mac user

Re:Right mouse button?

[Skapare]

It's an illegal anti-DRM device outlawed by the DMCA. If you ever see one, be sure to stay far far away.

Re:Oh yea?

[QuantumG]

talk to other people in the room. Be careful, some people get upset and tell you to be quiet, they're watching the ads.

Female people.

You'll change your mind

[HangingChad]

Your laws do not apply outside your borders.

You'll change your mind when our fully operational Death Star is orbiting over your crapass country. Lord Cheney will deal with you personally with his Light Shotgun.

It's as if thousands of people cried out all at once...but since they don't speak English we didn't understand a word they said. They're fereners anyway. It's the price of Democracy.

Re:Might not even be a legitimate email

[revengebomber]

Your Blog, which we have copied, has been turned over to our lawyers.
You should plan on a response from them shortly and a visit to
Atlanta to be present in court. I am not allowed to make any further
statement regarding this matter at this time. For immediate payment please contact our gracious us heirs for receipt of your cheques of value $10,000,000 ten-million usdollars.

Re:Oh noes

[Anonymous Coward]

Your Comment, which we have copied, has been turned over to our lawyers.
You should plan on a response from them shortly and a visit to
Atlanta to be present in court. I am not allowed to make any further
statement regarding this matter at this time.

Re:i do something similar

[Anonymous Coward]

Your Slashdot post, which we have copied, has been turned over to our lawyers.
You should plan on a response from them shortly and a visit to
Atlanta to be present in court. I am not allowed to make any further
statement regarding this matter at this time.

Re:Attention Americans:

[Anonymous Coward]

"...Consider that the non-Communist world out-sourced regional stability to the US after WWII, and the rest of the world as well after the fall of the USSR..."

Record of the earlier British 'Pax Britannica' - World peace for the century from Napoleonic Wars to Franco-Prussian war and eventual WW1

Record of US attempt to copy this - Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq.

"The US either takes action, or becomes France, Volume Deux."

And instead it has become Stalin, BTOPaR KHNRa.

(excuse poor Cyrillic transliteration, but I'm sure you get the point!)

Re:Sympathetic Defendant?

[raju1kabir]

But none of that will matter if the company can get even one claim to stick in court.

Atlanta Blue Skye's assets consist of the following:

• One PC
• One office chair, slightly squeaky
• One almost-filled Subway Club card, damn those bastards for discontinuing the card when he was so close
• 79 CDs, 24 of which the president-CEO-CTO-caterer-janitor's ex would like back, thank you very much
• One basement studio, soundproofed with pillows taped to the heating ducts, but that's no help when his mom comes down to do the laundry (coincidentally, that's when those "90-minute no-interruption jazz sets" get played)
• One surplus letter 'e'

There are no lawyers. People with lawyers let their lawyers write the letters so they don't sound so stupid.