If a legal person, corporation or not, is suspected of breaking the law, they can and should be served with a subpoena/warrant just like us flesh and blood schmucks.
The Heretic CD used an almost identical scheme to protect encrypted versions of other games.
The activation/decryption process effectively hashed the hard disk contents to come up with a unique serial number, which you converted into a key by calling Id, paying for the game, and getting back the key. If it validated, the program would decrypt the game.
Of course eBay will follow through on a requested takedown, that's exactly what the friggin law says to do.
At least Google doesn't take it lying down.
Google is just as quick to comply with takedown requests no questions asked, however they have posted such takedowns on chillingeffects.org, which suggests that they comply with some takedown requests under protest.
Why would they do so grudgingly if they even had the option to not do so in the first place?
I must admit that while I do remember seeing such an unholy alliance of sorts between blackhats and security co's, I have to concede that my swiss cheese memory fails me on getting a specific source.
Although I did see a chat log between Blue Security bigwigs and Pharma Master...does that count?
WHy does the frame plugin need to get an explicit opt-in request from the page?
Presumably, it could be said that the end user has implicitly opted in by virtue of having installed the plugin.
That, and the fact that opt-in can be made explicit with a prefix, seems to leave little incentive for a site to add the tag, especially since said tag will have ZERO effect when one uses IE without the plugin.
First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak, because I was not a jew...
yada yada yada
Letting a crook get away with fleecing one person may seem like justice...until they go after your grandma.
Not to mention that the more that crooks suck out of the economy, the less there is going to legitimate uses, and that drives up costs much like how shoplifting forces stores to raise prices.
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If a legal person, corporation or not, is suspected of breaking the law, they can and should be served with a subpoena/warrant just like us flesh and blood schmucks.
Actually DRM has nothing to do with being able to enjoy blueray.
What's stopping blueray from being DRM free is a patent on blueray that you only get a license to use if you agree to implement DRM.
That's possibly because you haven't read the fine print yet.
Bear in mind that most legislators are lawyers and we ALL know what kind of stuff those guys can hide in writing.
How the hell can a web page control screen flicker?
That's a uber deep setting buried in the X config or the device manager.
Good point.
Also note that access to government sites isn't the only benefit that taxes pay for.
I would surmise that bringing a complex website into compliance for the blind would constitute an "undue hardship".
Case in point: Youtube.
Ironically enough I created a facebook account for the sole purpose of protecting my online identity.
Now it won't be as easy for someone to impersonate me.
That's {{fact}}
Which RENDERS as (citation needed).
Geek card please!
What's impressive to me is that we were even aware of the multi-million design bill.
Airing out your dirty garbage does stink up the place for awhile, but in the end it keeps things fresh.
Who wants to bet that the publisher's lobby is going to have this bill killed?
Which is probably why he's being sneaky by going to a federal court that he's *not* disbarred from.
The Heretic CD used an almost identical scheme to protect encrypted versions of other games.
The activation/decryption process effectively hashed the hard disk contents to come up with a unique serial number, which you converted into a key by calling Id, paying for the game, and getting back the key. If it validated, the program would decrypt the game.
Kudos to the judge in this case having his head on straight.
What I'd really like to know though is which numskull over at the PTO issued the bogus patent in the first place.
Of course eBay will follow through on a requested takedown, that's exactly what the friggin law says to do.
At least Google doesn't take it lying down.
Google is just as quick to comply with takedown requests no questions asked, however they have posted such takedowns on chillingeffects.org, which suggests that they comply with some takedown requests under protest.
Why would they do so grudgingly if they even had the option to not do so in the first place?
I must admit that while I do remember seeing such an unholy alliance of sorts between blackhats and security co's, I have to concede that my swiss cheese memory fails me on getting a specific source.
Although I did see a chat log between Blue Security bigwigs and Pharma Master...does that count?
The DMCA has nothing to do with First Sale.
Circumvention is still unlawful.
Having said that, the inability to exercise first sale rights MAY constitute a breach of the implied warranty of merchantability.
And conveniently enough, eBay's TOS allows them to delist any auction for any reason, and likewise to ban any user they see fit.
So if someone accuses you of infringement, you're screwed. Even if you do a counter-notice, eBay is under no obligation to let you back in.
It is a racket. There have been cases of security companies having collusive relations with malware authors.
WHy does the frame plugin need to get an explicit opt-in request from the page?
Presumably, it could be said that the end user has implicitly opted in by virtue of having installed the plugin.
That, and the fact that opt-in can be made explicit with a prefix, seems to leave little incentive for a site to add the tag, especially since said tag will have ZERO effect when one uses IE without the plugin.
What I'd like to know is why upper memory, which btw is easily accessible in real mode, requires a fancy device driver like EMM386.
If it were up to me I'd just as soon followed the toolbox principle of "every program should do one thing and do it well".
I would rather write a UMB.SYS to handle the grunt work and factor that out of the expanded memory manager.
Apparently he's not smarter than a fifth grader.
So it's actually closer to insurance.
That would only apply if he was a low level grunt.
This guy was high on the food chain...and presumably there could be some difficulty in having him disciplined.
NSF is a government agency.
Presumably the exec could be dinged, or maybe even arrested, for misappropriation of government resources.
First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak, because I was not a jew...
yada yada yada
Letting a crook get away with fleecing one person may seem like justice...until they go after your grandma.
Not to mention that the more that crooks suck out of the economy, the less there is going to legitimate uses, and that drives up costs much like how shoplifting forces stores to raise prices.
And that DOES affect you.