What would you do if there literally was a CongressCritter Verizon however!?
That can't happen for at least the next few years. Verizon Communications is the married name of Bell Atlantic, daughter of AT&T, born in 1984. Under the U.S. Constitution, Article I, House members must be at least 25 years of age (section 2), and Senate members must be at least 30 (section 3).
Both the DMCA and the Bono Act were passed by a "voice vote" aka "unanimous consent" in both houses. Because the U.S. Constitution lets 20 percent of a house force a roll-call vote, this means that both bills had at least 80.1 percent support in both houses, which is well over the 66.7 percent needed to override a presidential veto. Therefore, had President Clinton vetoed the DMCA and the Bono Act, he still could not have stopped them from becoming law.
I would have used Madonna instead; though she's 0wn3d by Time Warner, I couldn't find anything on Google indicating that she has voiced support for copyright term extension or for a ban on circumvention of fair use denial mechanisms.
Please do not use Cher as an example. Like Jack Valenti, Cher has voiced her support for copyright terms as arbitrary close to perpetual as possible, stating that she'd accept "forever less a day" to fit in under the U.S. Constitution.
You claim that those who can't find alternatives to lousy major-label music are "part of the problem." Well, how do you expect anybody to solve it? If you expect people to write and perform their own music, how do you expect amateur songwriters to make sure that they don't make the same mistake George Harrison made?
Baby #1 is born with a defect that leaves him crippled for life.
Some birth defects don't pose a practical problem. Even being born without legs may not; there exist numerous adaptive devices in today's world.
Baby #2 is born normal.
Define "normal". The only objective definitions for "normal" that I can think of are the orthogonal vector to a surface and the Gaussian statistical distribution.
Whether or not it costs them money is only part of the problem. The bottom line is that it's their content
* WARNING * IANAL * Oddball legal theory follows *
The fact that it doesn't cost the author money would seem to weigh heavily in the consumer's favor in fair use laws. An example of a fair use law in a country chosen at random is 17 USC 107, which bases the determination of fair use partly on "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." It may be possible to argue that by not selling copies of a work in a particular geographical area, an author admits that there exists no "market for or value of the copyrighted work."
Another argument is that if you don't get the content through satellite, and it's important to you, then you'll rent/buy DVDs.
And if the author doesn't sell copies of the work in DVD, VHS, or any other popular video format, then it could be argued that the author admits absence of a "market for or value of the copyrighted work" in any popular video format.
if they are just going to use blizzard's servers, then what's the point in making a server?
The traffic to Blizzard's servers associated with key verification would be much smaller than the traffic to Blizzard's servers associated with both key verification and game play.
Opening up a service to validate keys provides a possiblity for someone else to use that service (whose calling protocol would be in the source code) to do a keyspace search for valid keys.
What about blocking an IP for 24 hours after x requests?
Finally if the service requests can be intercepted (with documentation of the protocol) then there is a not insignificant possiblity of key capture (for which of course Blizzard would be blamed).
I am not a cryptographer, but I have a feeling this can be fixed cryptographically.
So, it would be a violation of your Universities AUP anyway. So, it's probably good that you can't play, instead of getting banned from using the Internet.
It's only a violation of Rose-Hulman's AUP if the game traffic crosses the Internet connection. LAN games are perfectly OK. That's where a local bnetd comes in.
Maybe BNetD shouldn't have violated the EULA which says that you are not aloud to reverse engineer their protocols
For one thing, residents of in some countries aren't allowed to contract away the right to reverse engineer mass-market software. For another, where's the "consideration" that Blizzard gave up to make a valid contract?
I truly believe that Blizzard went after bnetd solely to stop software piracy. The online CD key system
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
There are some cases (DeCSS) where a free alternative is desperately needed
And for those behind university firewalls that don't allow traffic on Battle.net ports across the connection from the university LAN to the Internet, how is a free alternative not desirable?
The problem with uploading to Gnutella1 [compared to Gnutella2] is that the other people downloading the file have a harder time getting it
Then how does one distribute programs designed for platforms other than Microsoft Windows using the Gnutella2 protocol, which (last time I checked) only Windows-platform Gnutella clients support, and which Windows users are unlikely to download and share?
I linked to the wrong stage of Bender v. West. This is the right stage, in the Southern District of New York, which gives the fair use analysis in Bender's favor.
In the case of Lexis/Westlaw the presentation *is* the original work, no?
No. The existing work is the opinion of the federal court, and adding page numbers does not constitute sufficient originality to create a new work. See the Second Circuit case Bender v. West, citing Feist v. Rural.
Politicians do ultimately listen to votes, not dollars, but as long as people like yourself remain inactive dollars will equal votes.
Voting for candidates doesn't work if neither major party candidate represents my views ("don't blame me; I voted for Browne"). So how do I get one or more of the congressional candidates in my area to adopt any of my pet issues as a plank?
I'd like to see a car MP3 player that exposes a secure FTP interface over 802.11*. Upload music while the car is in your garage, and then drive off with tunes.
After the injunction, West and Mead settled their case out of court. Out-of-court settlements, like any other contracts, do not create precedent except possibly in some limited applications of antitrust law. However, does a grant of a preliminary injunction create a binding legal precedent, or does that require a final judgment on the matter? In any case, does West v. Mead outweigh Feist v. Rural?
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What would you do if there literally was a CongressCritter Verizon however!?
That can't happen for at least the next few years. Verizon Communications is the married name of Bell Atlantic, daughter of AT&T, born in 1984. Under the U.S. Constitution, Article I, House members must be at least 25 years of age (section 2), and Senate members must be at least 30 (section 3).
Both the DMCA and the Bono Act were passed by a "voice vote" aka "unanimous consent" in both houses. Because the U.S. Constitution lets 20 percent of a house force a roll-call vote, this means that both bills had at least 80.1 percent support in both houses, which is well over the 66.7 percent needed to override a presidential veto. Therefore, had President Clinton vetoed the DMCA and the Bono Act, he still could not have stopped them from becoming law.
I would have used Madonna instead; though she's 0wn3d by Time Warner, I couldn't find anything on Google indicating that she has voiced support for copyright term extension or for a ban on circumvention of fair use denial mechanisms.
Even better: Prince. His name is Prince Rogers Nelson, but he goes by his first name as a stage name and for a while used the unpronounceable[1] symbol O(+>. And he has voiced support of marketing big-label music through online downloads.
[1] Some people pronounced O(+> as "Frog".
For more information about this joke, read the truth about Penis Van Lesbian, or rather Richard Wayne Van Dyke.
But then Cher has done well
Please do not use Cher as an example. Like Jack Valenti, Cher has voiced her support for copyright terms as arbitrary close to perpetual as possible, stating that she'd accept "forever less a day" to fit in under the U.S. Constitution.
You claim that those who can't find alternatives to lousy major-label music are "part of the problem." Well, how do you expect anybody to solve it? If you expect people to write and perform their own music, how do you expect amateur songwriters to make sure that they don't make the same mistake George Harrison made?
Baby #1 is born with a defect that leaves him crippled for life.
Some birth defects don't pose a practical problem. Even being born without legs may not; there exist numerous adaptive devices in today's world.
Baby #2 is born normal.
Define "normal". The only objective definitions for "normal" that I can think of are the orthogonal vector to a surface and the Gaussian statistical distribution.
You: It's elementary that the sample must be random
Celandro: The validity of a random statistical sampling
Celandro's phrasing itself implies that the sampling is random.
Then move.
What's the fastest way to immigrate legally?
Whether or not it costs them money is only part of the problem. The bottom line is that it's their content
* WARNING * IANAL * Oddball legal theory follows *
The fact that it doesn't cost the author money would seem to weigh heavily in the consumer's favor in fair use laws. An example of a fair use law in a country chosen at random is 17 USC 107, which bases the determination of fair use partly on "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." It may be possible to argue that by not selling copies of a work in a particular geographical area, an author admits that there exists no "market for or value of the copyrighted work."
Another argument is that if you don't get the content through satellite, and it's important to you, then you'll rent/buy DVDs.
And if the author doesn't sell copies of the work in DVD, VHS, or any other popular video format, then it could be argued that the author admits absence of a "market for or value of the copyrighted work" in any popular video format.
You want a Blizzard game, but you don't want to pay for it.
What if the monopoly ISP in your geographical area is not compatible with Battle.net?
if they are just going to use blizzard's servers, then what's the point in making a server?
The traffic to Blizzard's servers associated with key verification would be much smaller than the traffic to Blizzard's servers associated with both key verification and game play.
Opening up a service to validate keys provides a possiblity for someone else to use that service (whose calling protocol would be in the source code) to do a keyspace search for valid keys.
What about blocking an IP for 24 hours after x requests?
Finally if the service requests can be intercepted (with documentation of the protocol) then there is a not insignificant possiblity of key capture (for which of course Blizzard would be blamed).
I am not a cryptographer, but I have a feeling this can be fixed cryptographically.
if they were able to see how the CD verification system worked
They wouldn't need to; they'd use Blizzard's servers.
An AC mentioned replay attacks, which can be countered cryptographically with challenge/response.
So, it would be a violation of your Universities AUP anyway. So, it's probably good that you can't play, instead of getting banned from using the Internet.
It's only a violation of Rose-Hulman's AUP if the game traffic crosses the Internet connection. LAN games are perfectly OK. That's where a local bnetd comes in.
Maybe BNetD shouldn't have violated the EULA which says that you are not aloud to reverse engineer their protocols
For one thing, residents of in some countries aren't allowed to contract away the right to reverse engineer mass-market software. For another, where's the "consideration" that Blizzard gave up to make a valid contract?
I truly believe that Blizzard went after bnetd solely to stop software piracy. The online CD key system
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
There are some cases (DeCSS) where a free alternative is desperately needed
And for those behind university firewalls that don't allow traffic on Battle.net ports across the connection from the university LAN to the Internet, how is a free alternative not desirable?
The problem with uploading to Gnutella1 [compared to Gnutella2] is that the other people downloading the file have a harder time getting it
Then how does one distribute programs designed for platforms other than Microsoft Windows using the Gnutella2 protocol, which (last time I checked) only Windows-platform Gnutella clients support, and which Windows users are unlikely to download and share?
I linked to the wrong stage of Bender v. West. This is the right stage, in the Southern District of New York, which gives the fair use analysis in Bender's favor.
In the case of Lexis/Westlaw the presentation *is* the original work, no?
No. The existing work is the opinion of the federal court, and adding page numbers does not constitute sufficient originality to create a new work. See the Second Circuit case Bender v. West, citing Feist v. Rural.
How many people use VMWare?
Now watch residential ISPs ban VMWare along with VPN and VNC.
the icons of our culture (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer IIRC, and certainly Micky Mouse et. al.) are all privatly owned, copyrighted material.
Really? Here's why Mickey Mouse may have fallen into the public domain, not through copyright expiration but rather through lack of proper notice when notice was required.
Politicians do ultimately listen to votes, not dollars, but as long as people like yourself remain inactive dollars will equal votes.
Voting for candidates doesn't work if neither major party candidate represents my views ("don't blame me; I voted for Browne"). So how do I get one or more of the congressional candidates in my area to adopt any of my pet issues as a plank?
I'd like to see a car MP3 player that exposes a secure FTP interface over 802.11*. Upload music while the car is in your garage, and then drive off with tunes.
RoadRunner Is not AOL.
However, it is sold by a company whose stock symbol is AOL. Should I have written AOL instead of AOL?
Just like Windows 2000 is not Windows ME, or SQL Server isn't Access 2000.
Microsoft doesn't sell a product called "MSFT" though.
Dislike for AOL is almost exclusively based on interface or user intellect.
Either that, or the money that Time Warner poured into the Bono Act and the DMCA.
I mostly use my burner for burning audio cds, will my car cd player play anything else?
I mostly use my tape deck for recording audio tapes, will my car tape player play anything else?
There exist car MP3 players. Time to upgrade... again.
After the injunction, West and Mead settled their case out of court. Out-of-court settlements, like any other contracts, do not create precedent except possibly in some limited applications of antitrust law. However, does a grant of a preliminary injunction create a binding legal precedent, or does that require a final judgment on the matter? In any case, does West v. Mead outweigh Feist v. Rural ?