But do you seriously believe that copyright holders who choose to encrypt their content are going to hand out 'circumvention devices' to everyone who has a fair use right to copy? i.e. everyone?
How about including a registration card which you return in exchange for your 'fair use key' or decryption device.
It'd also give the company a chance to collect info on who's buying their stuff, but the EU data protection act will limit what they can actually do with that data somewhat.
Well, the section that's highlighted in the article here actually says that the copyright holder must make available some means of making legitimate copies, and sites Educational use as an example. Presumably it would extend to other 'Fair use' circumstances.
>Did I hear somebody say steganography? Your data >may be encrypted or not, but if it does not look >like it's data it is unlikely anyone will every >ask you to decrypt it.
OK, but what if somebody comes along and says 'give me the key to the data encrypted in that image' You now have to prove that there's nothing there, or that you don't have a key.
** start quote ** BOLLOCKS! The cops will only ask if they have reason to suspect you, if they get it wrong they know you will be able to sue them, etc. The reason the majority of people don't care about things like this is because they know the cops will never have reason to ask after what they have on the computers (encrypted or not). ** end quote **
Hmm, well. In the UK suing the police is a non-trivial matter. And there's also the clause that says you are not allowed to 'tip off' anybody else that you have been asked for your key. I suspect that would be used to disallow any court case against the authorities.
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But do you seriously believe that copyright holders who choose to encrypt their content are going to hand out 'circumvention devices' to everyone who has a fair use right to copy? i.e. everyone?
How about including a registration card which you return in exchange for your 'fair use key' or decryption device.
It'd also give the company a chance to collect info on who's buying their stuff, but the EU data protection act will limit what they can actually do with that data somewhat.
Fair use? Educational purposes?
Well, the section that's highlighted in the article here actually says that the copyright holder must make available some means of making legitimate copies, and sites Educational use as an example. Presumably it would extend to other 'Fair use' circumstances.
If it's mission critical it should be on a UPS with controlled shutdown. No fsck on reboot.
If you're talking about the actual in-case PSU going pop, then reboot time is the least of your worries.
I thought that at first, but it's hidden away down in the specs section:
Rsync for Linux and Windows PC
>Did I hear somebody say steganography? Your data
>may be encrypted or not, but if it does not look
>like it's data it is unlikely anyone will every
>ask you to decrypt it.
OK, but what if somebody comes along and says 'give me the key to the data encrypted in that image' You now have to prove that there's nothing there, or that you don't have a key.
** start quote **
BOLLOCKS! The cops will only ask if they have reason to suspect you, if they get it wrong they know you will be able to sue them, etc. The reason the majority of people don't care about things like this is because they know the cops will never have reason to ask after what they have on the computers (encrypted or not).
** end quote **
Hmm, well. In the UK suing the police is a non-trivial matter. And there's also the clause that says you are not allowed to 'tip off' anybody else that you have been asked for your key. I suspect that would be used to disallow any court case against the authorities.