Who can explain what this 632305222316434 thing is about? It tells: "Everyone who disagrees with criminal behaviour of Russian president, government and all those rascals, must do that." but what does it mean?
>In Germany, newspaper publishers are lobbying for 'a new exclusive right conferring the power to monopolize speech e.g. by assigning a right to re-use a particular wording in the headline of a news article anywhere else without the permission of the rights holder
This is not quite true. The auxiliary copyright ("Leistungsschutzrecht", draft leaked: http://www.irights.info/index.php?q=node/880) is mostly aimed against big players such as Google (News) who systematically and continuously reuse headlines, snippets and images from publishers for their own profit (selling ads) without paying (in the publisher's mind: adequate) royalties. The average blogger commenting (and quoting) a certain news story is not meant to be affected... but, of course we know, laws like these tend to get out of hand.
> GERMANS risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday.
That is in the text of the proposed law, but(!) two years of jail are the _maximum_ punishment one can get for copying related crimes that are not done with commercial background (i.e. selling copies, where the maximum sentence is five years in prison).
Another thing that maybe will cost a lot of people a lot of money and time is the following: There is going to be passed another law in Germany that basically will give to the industry the power to request from ISPs costumer's data in any case of suspected terrorism... or data crime (yes, let this combination impress you for a second). Add to this either the already present offers of companies that automatically scan p2p-networks and file ten thousands of compensation lawsuits or nice lawyers who can easily earn 1-2 k by, well, reminding you that you are in some way illegally interfering with a client's business ("Abmahnung") and you have a nice system of money making by money taking with least effort. . .
Some years ago German SF-writer Andreas Eschbach came out with
a novel entitled "Eine Billion Dollar" (which actually means a/trillion/ dollar). It features the young son of a poor italian shoe maker, who suddenly turns out as the heir of a 16th century merchant (go igure: centuries are the time by which small fortunes grow into really big ones) and is meant to "change something". The novel, however, has IIRC not yet been translated into english.
heise.de has got an update verifying the information you gave.
A bit tricky is: krayon is *not* included in SuSE 7.3 although in the KDE-startmenu there is an entry for krayon and that seems already enough for a preliminary injunction. Software-"Company" Crayon Vertrieb GmbH i.G. fears that their name might be confused with krayon and therefore sent FvG as their lawyer.
The heise.de article is also starting to think about consequences out of such cases regarding other Distribution-makers such as Debian. These might face a significant amount of work in the future to make sure none of the thousands of packets included might be consfused with some registered brand.
these German "Abmahnungen" seem like a really bad idea as they can be abused by scum like this lawyer.
an idea that can be exploited is not necessarily a bad idea. Think of an idea just as a tool. Just because you can hurt someone with a hammer, a hammer is not a bad thing by design.
Why do they still exist?
An "Abmahnung" is intended to prevent a lawsuit. The idea behind it is, that company A shall be able to have a means against unfair competition done by company B without having to go to court and have a year-lasting lawsuit. At least that is what the means of "Abmahung" was developed for.
The problem is, that german jurisdiction tends towards the attitude that any online activity can be interpreted as "taking part in brand competition" and therefore "Abmahnung" gets applied to virtually everyone in the same way, be he a hobbyist, an university, an OS-programmer or a company.
The reason for this was that Germany has a kind "everything goes" rule after 11 PM.
It's really only "a kind of", because "everything" means the same as FSK18. FSK18 means the "Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle" (this is supposed to mean: "there is no such thing as censorship, only voluntary restrictions") says you must not see this unless you're 18.
FSK18-rated movies my be shown in Cinemas, on Public TV from 11pm to 6 am, on encrypted digital TV from 8pm to 6 am (FAQ de.rec.tv.misc). They must not be made accessible to children by anybody (in public) apart from their parents (but only in private).
FSK18 is the least restricted class of ratings that is available, but it doesn't cover everything. So there remain certain films,comics,games etc. which may neither be mentioned, nor be made commercials for, nor be broadcast in any media. They may be legaly sold "under the shelf", however, which distinguishes them from still another class, which is actually prohibited material (h*rdc*r* pron, hate speech...)
I am using a C466 adapted via a dual-doard-capable adapter to a Gigabyte Slot1-bx-board and I like it. I have had uptimes 30d+ so I can say it runs stable:-)
Seti@home does run about as fast as it would on a PII 300, it's even better for other apps.
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Another plus of German: You will finally understand those funny SAP variable names :-)
Who can explain what this 632305222316434 thing is about? It tells: "Everyone who disagrees with criminal behaviour of Russian president, government and all those rascals, must do that." but what does it mean?
>In Germany, newspaper publishers are lobbying for 'a new exclusive right conferring the power to monopolize speech e.g. by assigning a right to re-use a particular wording in the headline of a news article anywhere else without the permission of the rights holder
This is not quite true. The auxiliary copyright ("Leistungsschutzrecht", draft leaked: http://www.irights.info/index.php?q=node/880) is mostly aimed against big players such as Google (News) who systematically and continuously reuse headlines, snippets and images from publishers for their own profit (selling ads) without paying (in the publisher's mind: adequate) royalties. The average blogger commenting (and quoting) a certain news story is not meant to be affected... but, of course we know, laws like these tend to get out of hand.
> GERMANS risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday.
... or data crime (yes, let this combination impress you for a second). Add to this either the already present offers of companies that automatically scan p2p-networks and file ten thousands of compensation lawsuits or nice lawyers who can easily earn 1-2 k by, well, reminding you that you are in some way illegally interfering with a client's business ("Abmahnung") and you have a nice system of money making by money taking with least effort. . .
That is in the text of the proposed law, but(!) two years of jail are the _maximum_ punishment one can get for copying related crimes that are not done with commercial background (i.e. selling copies, where the maximum sentence is five years in prison).
Another thing that maybe will cost a lot of people a lot of money and time is the following: There is going to be passed another law in Germany that basically will give to the industry the power to request from ISPs costumer's data in any case of suspected terrorism
Some years ago German SF-writer Andreas Eschbach came out with a novel entitled "Eine Billion Dollar" (which actually means a /trillion/ dollar). It features the young son of a poor italian shoe maker, who suddenly turns out as the heir of a 16th century merchant (go igure: centuries are the time by which small fortunes grow into really big ones) and is meant to "change something". The novel, however, has IIRC not yet been translated into english.
A bit tricky is: krayon is *not* included in SuSE 7.3 although in the KDE-startmenu there is an entry for krayon and that seems already enough for a preliminary injunction. Software-"Company" Crayon Vertrieb GmbH i.G. fears that their name might be confused with krayon and therefore sent FvG as their lawyer.
The heise.de article is also starting to think about consequences out of such cases regarding other Distribution-makers such as Debian. These might face a significant amount of work in the future to make sure none of the thousands of packets included might be consfused with some registered brand.
-al
these German "Abmahnungen" seem like a really bad idea as they can be abused by scum like this lawyer.
an idea that can be exploited is not necessarily a bad idea. Think of an idea just as a tool. Just because you can hurt someone with a hammer, a hammer is not a bad thing by design.
Why do they still exist?
-alAn "Abmahnung" is intended to prevent a lawsuit. The idea behind it is, that company A shall be able to have a means against unfair competition done by company B without having to go to court and have a year-lasting lawsuit. At least that is what the means of "Abmahung" was developed for.
The problem is, that german jurisdiction tends towards the attitude that any online activity can be interpreted as "taking part in brand competition" and therefore "Abmahnung" gets applied to virtually everyone in the same way, be he a hobbyist, an university, an OS-programmer or a company.
The reason for this was that Germany has a kind "everything goes" rule after 11 PM.
It's really only "a kind of", because "everything" means the same as FSK18. FSK18 means the "Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle" (this is supposed to mean: "there is no such thing as censorship, only voluntary restrictions") says you must not see this unless you're 18.
FSK18-rated movies my be shown in Cinemas, on Public TV from 11pm to 6 am, on encrypted digital TV from 8pm to 6 am (FAQ de.rec.tv.misc). They must not be made accessible to children by anybody (in public) apart from their parents (but only in private).
FSK18 is the least restricted class of ratings that is available, but it doesn't cover everything. So there remain certain films,comics,games etc. which may neither be mentioned, nor be made commercials for, nor be broadcast in any media. They may be legaly sold "under the shelf", however, which distinguishes them from still another class, which is actually prohibited material (h*rdc*r* pron, hate speech ...)
> for the brasilian guy, hum ?
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Nope. 2.4.15 was released by Linus
al
> What is to stop someone from mirroring the sites?
Nothing / Noone. 'They' will just block the mirrors which will be mirrored which will be blocked...
> Sounds like this could balloon quickly out of proportion...
'They' don't care. They'd like to build 'internet-borders' around every country (just read this today, somewhere...).
alhague
I am using a C466 adapted via a dual-doard-capable adapter to a Gigabyte Slot1-bx-board and I like it. I have had uptimes 30d+ so I can say it runs stable :-)
Seti@home does run about as fast as it would on a PII 300, it's even better for other apps.