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Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case
An anonymous reader wrote in with an update in the long drawn out legal proceedings between the DVD CCA and Kaleidescape, a manufacturer of a video jukeboxes. Despite a victory by Kaleidescape in 2007, they ended up back in court in November 2011. The DVD CCA insisted that ripping a DVD was in violation of the license granted to Kaleidescape; Kaleidescape disagreed since their jukebox made a bit-for-bit copy of the disc rather than first decrypting the contents. Unfortunately, in a preliminary ruling, the court agrees with the DVD CCA. Kaleidescape has released a statement.
I invented a one-voice musical notation for LoseThos music. LoseThos songs are CPP programs that can make graphics in addition to sound. God made my melodies and I put lyrics on my hymns. Files are compressed, not encrypted.
God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\QUIX.TXT
d knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, who has commanded
me to present myself before your Grace, that your Highness dispose of me
at your pleasure'?" Oh, how our good gentleman enjoyed the delivery of
this speech, especially when he had thought of some one to call his Lady!
There was, so the story goes, in a village near his own a very
good-looking farm-girl with whom he had been at one time in love, though,
so far as is known, she never knew it nor gave a thought to the matter.
Her name was Aldonza Lor
The predecessors to the TSA have long taken a dim view of bomb, gun, and other "terrorist" jokes. I've known people who missed meetings due to being overheard joking by the wrong airline staff member.
Why would "overhearing" a public twitter post be any different than overhearing a wisecrack between passengers in a lineup?
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.