One problem I could see is that this method of distribution for data files (versus video and audio) wouldn't scale well. Imagine one site drops a packet. Well it can't very well start over, since that same packet did possibly reach all the other listening parties. They are all expecting the NEXT packet, not a retransmit.
Use RAIP (redundant array of inexpensive packets), such that many packets can be lost, but there is enough redundancy to recreate the lost packets from parity bits. If you spread the parity bits across packets, you can get very efficient results.
Broadcast the file continuously over DirecPC, @Home, and other cable/satellite providers. Have a CBS special 3AM movie, where the file is converted to video and broadcast on CBS at 3AM. Encode the file with an error correcting code (ECC) that allows a large number of bits to be garbled and still be corrected. Have a special unicast resume download site set up to pick up the few bits that still were garbled.
Under the conditions of the DMCA, if an Internet Service Provider (ISP) receives complaints of a copyright violation, the ISP is required to remove that user from its system. However, should that user believe that he or she has been wrongfully accused, the DMCA allows the submission of a legal counter-notification. The copyright holder then has ten days to take legal action against the individual user. If no legal action is initiated, the ISP must restore service to the user.
story here CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000--Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM - news), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Digital Island, Inc. The suit involves U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, entitled ``Global Hosting System,'' which issued from the United States Patent & Trademark Office on August 22, 2000.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
[...]
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Explain to me a situation where you would make changes to the source, distribute the binary, refuse to distribute the changed source, and have no commercial purpose?
According to the ISC Bind plans "Support for alternative back end database" is part of Bind 9. I hope that means I can add a MySQL database backend, and cgi the whole thing.
1) Well, it IS illegal.. and he WAS doing it... so what's the big deal?
Actually, if it was for non-commercial purposes, it is legal, and your post, being slanderous, is illegal. Should we now have the right to sieze your computer, too, since there is evidence you might have committed a crime.
2) Campus police.. are they 'real' police? Can they sieze things? (I honestly have no idea.. someone fill me in?)
RTFA. Everett Eaton, public safety director at OSU, said the department obtained a search warrant from the Payne County District Court in Oklahoma and seized the student's computer equipment.
3) [...]If his HD was encrypted (or at least the relevant portions), he would be in better shape.[...]
Not really, since in order to distribute the mp3s, the computer would have to be able to decrypt them automatically. Plus, the police don't need proof to confiscate things, just evidence. I don't even see anything about charges being filed, and chances are, they'll offer the kid a deal of some sort. Disciplinary probation, loss of housing, and charges dropped. That's what happened to people I knew at college who got caught with drugs, anyway.
This cannot be equated with distributing violations of the GPL, because there is no non-commercial reason to distribute a violation of the GPL. You are specifically allowed to distribute GPLed software in binary form only for non-commercial use.
Sure, Courtney Love doesn't actually own the copyright to her own music, but she does have a contract to make a certain monetary amount for every copy of her songs which is distributed. Since copies of her songs were distributed via mp3.com, and Universal was compensated for that distribution, she has a right to those additional royalties. She probably won't lose or win, but will settle out of court for some miniscule amount.
case 1 (open source):
search engine is written (1 year)
for (n=1;n<10000000000;n++) {
someone finds a way to spam it (n days)
search engine is fixed (n minutes)
}
case 2 (closed source):
search engine is written (1 year)
for (n=1;n<10000000000;n++) {
someone finds a way to spam it (n minutes)
search engine is fixed (n minutes)
}
A couple days after the Yahoo-Google story came out, I noticed 3 or 4 of my usual searches changed in order. But I would say this is probably more coincidence than intentional, Google's new code probably better filters out search engine spammers like Hardin MD.
Maybe next priceline will refund the difference between the price you agreed to pay for a ticket and the lowest price an airline was willing to sell it for. Oh, that would take away all their profits?
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One problem I could see is that this method of distribution for data files (versus video and audio) wouldn't scale well. Imagine one site drops a packet. Well it can't very well start over, since that same packet did possibly reach all the other listening parties. They are all expecting the NEXT packet, not a retransmit.
Use RAIP (redundant array of inexpensive packets), such that many packets can be lost, but there is enough redundancy to recreate the lost packets from parity bits. If you spread the parity bits across packets, you can get very efficient results.
Convert to audio and broadcast over radio stations late at night, when they usually play their public service shows. This can be their public service.
Broadcast the file continuously over DirecPC, @Home, and other cable/satellite providers. Have a CBS special 3AM movie, where the file is converted to video and broadcast on CBS at 3AM. Encode the file with an error correcting code (ECC) that allows a large number of bits to be garbled and still be corrected. Have a special unicast resume download site set up to pick up the few bits that still were garbled.
Sure, it might not scale as well, but I'd like to see napster survive RIAA's denial of service attack. Gnapster can survive the injunction attack.
Under the conditions of the DMCA, if an Internet Service Provider (ISP) receives complaints of a copyright violation, the ISP is required to remove that user from its system. However, should that user believe that he or she has been wrongfully accused, the DMCA allows the submission of a legal counter-notification. The copyright holder then has ten days to take legal action against the individual user. If no legal action is initiated, the ISP must restore service to the user.
uh oh, we better switch over to IPv6 before cisco starts enforcing the patent! :)
story here
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000--Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM - news), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Digital Island, Inc. The suit involves U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703, entitled ``Global Hosting System,'' which issued from the United States Patent & Trademark Office on August 22, 2000.
hehe, dump it off on a local charity, let them figure out how to recycle it.
This would suck all the car owners with a leaky oil reserve!
from the GPL:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
[...]
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Explain to me a situation where you would make changes to the source, distribute the binary, refuse to distribute the changed source, and have no commercial purpose?
According to the ISC Bind plans "Support for alternative back end database" is part of Bind 9. I hope that means I can add a MySQL database backend, and cgi the whole thing.
1) Well, it IS illegal.. and he WAS doing it... so what's the big deal?
Actually, if it was for non-commercial purposes, it is legal, and your post, being slanderous, is illegal. Should we now have the right to sieze your computer, too, since there is evidence you might have committed a crime.
2) Campus police.. are they 'real' police? Can they sieze things? (I honestly have no idea.. someone fill me in?)
RTFA. Everett Eaton, public safety director at OSU, said the department obtained a search warrant from the Payne County District Court in Oklahoma and seized the student's computer equipment.
3) [...]If his HD was encrypted (or at least the relevant portions), he would be in better shape.[...]
Not really, since in order to distribute the mp3s, the computer would have to be able to decrypt them automatically. Plus, the police don't need proof to confiscate things, just evidence. I don't even see anything about charges being filed, and chances are, they'll offer the kid a deal of some sort. Disciplinary probation, loss of housing, and charges dropped. That's what happened to people I knew at college who got caught with drugs, anyway.
This cannot be equated with distributing violations of the GPL, because there is no non-commercial reason to distribute a violation of the GPL. You are specifically allowed to distribute GPLed software in binary form only for non-commercial use.
Turn off all outgoing internet access. When people complain, refer them to whomever gave you this task.
Sure, Courtney Love doesn't actually own the copyright to her own music, but she does have a contract to make a certain monetary amount for every copy of her songs which is distributed. Since copies of her songs were distributed via mp3.com, and Universal was compensated for that distribution, she has a right to those additional royalties. She probably won't lose or win, but will settle out of court for some miniscule amount.
How is this different from distributing DeCSS knowing that people *might* use it to decode DVDs and copy them to another format?
it's not. both should be legal.
use TOC
case 1 (open source):
search engine is written (1 year)
for (n=1;n<10000000000;n++) {
someone finds a way to spam it (n days)
search engine is fixed (n minutes)
}
case 2 (closed source):
search engine is written (1 year)
for (n=1;n<10000000000;n++) {
someone finds a way to spam it (n minutes)
search engine is fixed (n minutes)
}
A couple days after the Yahoo-Google story came out, I noticed 3 or 4 of my usual searches changed in order. But I would say this is probably more coincidence than intentional, Google's new code probably better filters out search engine spammers like Hardin MD.
Maybe next priceline will refund the difference between the price you agreed to pay for a ticket and the lowest price an airline was willing to sell it for. Oh, that would take away all their profits?
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