I just checked the local library, and it in fact has a bigger collection than I had imagined. Thanks for the tip. Now I'll tell my friends to screw Disney by borrowing DVDs from the library.
It means that the "you may not circumvent copyright protections" rule does not apply if it affects defenses or fair use.
This isn't how the court in Universal v. Reimerdes interpreted things. Please read the opinion, especially the text around the words "horse and buggy". The judge who wrote this seems to think that pointing a camcorder at the screen is a "fair" way of making fair use.
Slow? On my Windows 2000 machine, IE 6 doesn't seem any faster than Mozilla 2003091704. Bloated? The Mozilla suite download is smaller than the IE 6 suite download. Bug-prone? Klez and friends propagated through an IE suite bug that allowed automatic execution of an attachment.
he talks about allowing other browsers back into the market by only enforcing his patent against Microsoft
If the Eolas fellow is willing to license the applicable patents royalty-free for use in any web browser technology other than MSHTML, could somebody please document this claim?
The use-it-or-lose-it rule is strictest for trademarks, but the privilege to enforce a patent can still be lost to laches. The first few results of this query should describe how the doctrine of laches applies to patents.
Does that mean that we may circumvent protection technologies if our reason is covered by fair use?
Hell no. Read subparagraph C. It means that every 3 years, fair users have to apply and re-apply to the Librarian of Congress to get their fair uses approved and re-approved.
if we have an established right to do something (namely copy the cd for backup/personal use)
We never had a right. Instead, we had (and have) a partial defense. Fair use (17 USC 107) is a defense, home copying of computer programs (17 USC 117) is a defense, and home copying of sound recordings (17 USC 1008) is a defense. Where do you see some affirmative "right" in any of the three sections I linked to? All I see is "not an infringement." An act can be "not an infringement" but still a prohibited "circumvention."
They pay no "rent" just taxes to the local government.
What is the essential difference between rent and property tax? No, it's not that rent is paid to a private entity, because a government can own real estate.
Read your Constitution again and find the article that describes the Supreme Court's ability to veto laws.
Look at the linchpin clause, which states that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. When paper laws conflict, who is supposed to sort it out other than a judge?
The problem with the word "invention" is that law professionals have co-opted the word to refer to a process or material composition that is the subject of patent claims.
Yes, I was comparing Fort Wayne, Indiana, an A-ball city of 200,000 residents, to major-league cities. I was guessing that public libraries in New York, L.A., and Chicago are much more likely to have larger holdings in general than libraries in cities of 200K.
I still won't be able to answer anything but speculation until tomorrow when I browse the stacks.
How do you afford to pay the songwriters? Or if you write your own songs, how do you afford to pay the musicologist to declare that your song isn't a subconscious copy of some song that was popular 30 years ago (as in Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs)?
The AHRA concerns only the offense of copyright infringement. The DMCA, on the other hand, creates a new offense, namely that of circumvention. The AHRA does not grant the owner of a copy any right to circumvent digital restrictions management measures.
Next the RIAA wuill try to ban "Audio Out" jacks at the back of stereo systems.
Not bloody likely. It's possible to get a roughly line-level signal out of a headphone jack. Even if the labels do manage to get RadioShack to stop selling 1/8" to RCA adapters, it's trivial to cut up a pair of headphones and splice it to half of a stereo RCA cable.
If the sound out port was turned off you couldn't listen to your encrypted song. How do you think the audio signal gets to your speakers? through the sound out port.
The audio signal gets to your speakers through the signed driver and the sound out port. A signed driver will disable all cleartext digital audio outputs when the Secure Audio Path is open, and if an app can't find a signed driver, it will display an alert box and not play the restricted recording.
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I just checked the local library, and it in fact has a bigger collection than I had imagined. Thanks for the tip. Now I'll tell my friends to screw Disney by borrowing DVDs from the library.
Getting a poster shipped is no problem. The vendor rolls it up, puts it in a postal tube, and ships that.
It means that the "you may not circumvent copyright protections" rule does not apply if it affects defenses or fair use.
This isn't how the court in Universal v. Reimerdes interpreted things. Please read the opinion, especially the text around the words "horse and buggy". The judge who wrote this seems to think that pointing a camcorder at the screen is a "fair" way of making fair use.
Mozilla is slow, bloated, and bug-prone.
Slow? On my Windows 2000 machine, IE 6 doesn't seem any faster than Mozilla 2003091704. Bloated? The Mozilla suite download is smaller than the IE 6 suite download. Bug-prone? Klez and friends propagated through an IE suite bug that allowed automatic execution of an attachment.
MS buying Eolas
Hostile takeovers work only when the target is a public company, which Eolas is not.
he talks about allowing other browsers back into the market by only enforcing his patent against Microsoft
If the Eolas fellow is willing to license the applicable patents royalty-free for use in any web browser technology other than MSHTML, could somebody please document this claim?
The use-it-or-lose-it rule is strictest for trademarks, but the privilege to enforce a patent can still be lost to laches. The first few results of this query should describe how the doctrine of laches applies to patents.
I have a degree in music theory.
So do you believe that a degree in music theory should be necessary in order for a songwriter to have his or her work published?
I have also studied law
My core question is this: When writing music, what steps do you take to prevent yourself from making the same mistake George Harrison made?
Does that mean that we may circumvent protection technologies if our reason is covered by fair use?
Hell no. Read subparagraph C. It means that every 3 years, fair users have to apply and re-apply to the Librarian of Congress to get their fair uses approved and re-approved.
if we have an established right to do something (namely copy the cd for backup/personal use)
We never had a right. Instead, we had (and have) a partial defense. Fair use (17 USC 107) is a defense, home copying of computer programs (17 USC 117) is a defense, and home copying of sound recordings (17 USC 1008) is a defense. Where do you see some affirmative "right" in any of the three sections I linked to? All I see is "not an infringement." An act can be "not an infringement" but still a prohibited "circumvention."
This is typical of Disney, which owns 80 percent of ESPN.
They pay no "rent" just taxes to the local government.
What is the essential difference between rent and property tax? No, it's not that rent is paid to a private entity, because a government can own real estate.
HBO could run its own service.
HBO's parent does run its own service. Last time I checked, Time Warner Cable wasn't any better than any other cable TV operator.
Read your Constitution again and find the article that describes the Supreme Court's ability to veto laws.
Look at the linchpin clause, which states that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. When paper laws conflict, who is supposed to sort it out other than a judge?
The problem with the word "invention" is that law professionals have co-opted the word to refer to a process or material composition that is the subject of patent claims.
This is XML as well, but is it any easier to pick apart once you've deserialized it into a tree?
Just having XML syntax just gives you a tree. You need some way to process Microsoft's model of something into a model your program can understand.
Yes, I was comparing Fort Wayne, Indiana, an A-ball city of 200,000 residents, to major-league cities. I was guessing that public libraries in New York, L.A., and Chicago are much more likely to have larger holdings in general than libraries in cities of 200K.
I still won't be able to answer anything but speculation until tomorrow when I browse the stacks.
Do the tracks still come out garbled if you Shift+insert the CD?
(I don't support them. I just make my own music.)
How do you afford to pay the songwriters? Or if you write your own songs, how do you afford to pay the musicologist to declare that your song isn't a subconscious copy of some song that was popular 30 years ago (as in Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs)?
Read it and weep. I've been told there is no solution.
The rights you have is the intersection between the rights granted by a purchase and those granted by a licence.
Did the U.S. Congress intend to allow the labels to grant only such an intersection?
The AHRA concerns only the offense of copyright infringement. The DMCA, on the other hand, creates a new offense, namely that of circumvention. The AHRA does not grant the owner of a copy any right to circumvent digital restrictions management measures.
Next the RIAA wuill try to ban "Audio Out" jacks at the back of stereo systems.
Not bloody likely. It's possible to get a roughly line-level signal out of a headphone jack. Even if the labels do manage to get RadioShack to stop selling 1/8" to RCA adapters, it's trivial to cut up a pair of headphones and splice it to half of a stereo RCA cable.
Next joke please?
If the sound out port was turned off you couldn't listen to your encrypted song. How do you think the audio signal gets to your speakers? through the sound out port.
The audio signal gets to your speakers through the signed driver and the sound out port. A signed driver will disable all cleartext digital audio outputs when the Secure Audio Path is open, and if an app can't find a signed driver, it will display an alert box and not play the restricted recording.
I've since sold my games, and thusly haven't tried it with a decent ripper [xtractor.sf.net]
I haven't heard of xtractor until now. What does it do that CDex doesn't?
Immigration is expensive.