Download and install the Sun Java JRE or JSDK. Make a soft link in the mozilla plugins directory pointing to jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so . Restart Mozilla. Done.
Applying the DMCA on goods, rather than on information alone, gives non-US-based industry a great advantage over its US-based counterparts. As a European, I find this to be an excellent development and hope that Static Control's petition will be rejected.
The CoS won the case so far. The sequel is coming up soon at a theatre near you, namely at the Stockholm court of appeals on January 18-26 (in Dolby Surround[TM] if available). Exciting developments might be in store.
Legal stuff aside, the CoS lost in all practical purposes and intents. Their "secret scriptures" are all over the place by now, and the ghost can never be put back into the bottle. The CoS suffered a tremendous PR disaster through that lawsuit and has not sued a critic ever since. I think that the words "lost" and "won" somehow lose their meaning in this issue.
There is a very easy, simple and obvious solution to all this: ISPs should be regarded as common carriers. That would (a) rid them of responsibility for their customers' content and rid them of the need to have legal departments dealing with the one complaint after the other, (b) put the full responsibility for Internet communications and publications where it belongs, at the user and (c) force ISPs to behave like common carriers. The latter would mean that they can't refuse your content any more than the US mail can refuse your letter or the local telco can refuse you a phone line.
There has been an even more elegant proposal on how to solve this, basically suggesting that ISPs should be given the right to register as common carriers or abstain from it. That would allow them to opt for the common carrier's set of responsibilities and obligations or for the "traditional" set of the same. It would allow specialised ISPs, like for instance political and religious ones, to keep screening their customers while taking publisher's responsibility for the customers' content, while it would also allow those that want to operate freely without publisher's responsibility to do so. Unfortunately we are still very far from this ideal situation and the ISPs themselves are doing their best, by playing censors of their users, to get more responsibilities dumped on them.
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Download and install the Sun Java JRE or JSDK. Make a soft link in the mozilla plugins directory pointing to jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so . Restart Mozilla. Done.
Applying the DMCA on goods, rather than on information alone, gives non-US-based industry a great advantage over its US-based counterparts. As a European, I find this to be an excellent development and hope that Static Control's petition will be rejected.
Legal stuff aside, the CoS lost in all practical purposes and intents. Their "secret scriptures" are all over the place by now, and the ghost can never be put back into the bottle. The CoS suffered a tremendous PR disaster through that lawsuit and has not sued a critic ever since. I think that the words "lost" and "won" somehow lose their meaning in this issue.
Zenon Panoussis
There has been an even more elegant proposal on how to solve this, basically suggesting that ISPs should be given the right to register as common carriers or abstain from it. That would allow them to opt for the common carrier's set of responsibilities and obligations or for the "traditional" set of the same. It would allow specialised ISPs, like for instance political and religious ones, to keep screening their customers while taking publisher's responsibility for the customers' content, while it would also allow those that want to operate freely without publisher's responsibility to do so. Unfortunately we are still very far from this ideal situation and the ISPs themselves are doing their best, by playing censors of their users, to get more responsibilities dumped on them.
Zenon Panoussis