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China's 'Green Dam' Software Program Near Collapse
katarn writes "Apparently domestic and international pressure, security vulnerabilities, and a $2.2B lawsuit over alleged stolen code have taken their toll on China's Green Dam software censorship program. Green Dam is a separate program from the 'Great Firewall of China,' which remains firmly in place. According to Green Dam program partners, funding for the project has not been renewed. The project development team has been shut down and the installation and aftercare team is facing closure. Unsurprisingly there has been no official comment from official Chinese authorities."
Not only was it a 2.2b lawsuit, but it was brought on by US Software Firms.
US software firm sues China over Green Dam piracy
~Mekkah
Actually, the government did try to respond, but unfortunately Green Dam blocked it. Some sort of obscenity issue, apparently.
Who handles these kinds of cases?
I seriously have no clue how international law (especially with copyrights) work.
I hear Massachusetts is in the market for a green dam of their own - Bean Dam maybe. Perhaps they can sell it to MA.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/13/1837227/Massachusetts-Bids-To-Restrict-Internet-Indecency
Hope is the currency of fools
According to WIPO, China is a signatory, and the treaty is in force, which means there is domestic legislation in China, and it would be via this that I'm assuming software makers would be suing.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Link is here: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=16
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
**** China **** green **** software sirs.
China green software? What is this supposed to mean? I don't understand. Are you saying I should uninstall Green Dam?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
In most places that would mean it was out of business. In China it means that, tragically, the developers died in a plane crash after forgetting to put fuel in the tank.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The project doesn't need funding; the developers will work for the good of the people. That's what Mao would have wanted, right? He was an OSS kind of guy.
All continental China authorities are unofficial. The official, legitimate government of China is the one in Taipei.
Circumcision is child abuse.
It wasn't just a "US Software Firm" it was the infamous Solid Oak, the makers of Cyber Sitter. I just had someone's comp have Cyber Sitter version 10 (the version they ripped off to make Green Dam) blow itself up and removing manually it is an unbelievable pain in the ass. The LSP's regenerate themselves if all pieces of the software aren't deleted at the exact same time. So needless to say, it probably would have worked well which is why they stole it. The funny thing is, it's a pretty poorly rated program compared to others. They should have ripped off Net Nanny, the current highest rated internet filter. I think Cyber Sitter might be the hardest to remove though. The good news in all of this is maybe Cyber Sitter will get a sizeable chunk of that 2.2 billion and finally be able to afford some damn technical support! In fact, it's so awful and the product ratings are so far in the toilet, China stealing their code for Green Dam may actually save their entire company because they're not doing so well lately. Just thought that little back story on who's behind this might be interesting.
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