Dividing between the succesful attackers makes
sense. Its a pretty good approximation to assume
the number of succesful hackers will increase
with the ease of cracking the system. Therefore
the more work thats involved the more you get payed.
Also, they don't have to sign all rights away.
The terms and conditions are quite reasonable really apart
from the small reward.
There's nothing preventing you from entering and
releasing the crack into the public domain
and then trying to claim the reward.
What lawsuits has Slashdot used against its competitors?
Lawsuits aren't the slashdot style. Instead yu get a lot of people to email them. dDoS by proxy. I do recall randomly looking through the archives and seeing a story bitching about someone hijacking the look of/. though.
Personally, I think that people who have ludicrously poor security should take some of the blame. Obviously the hackers are the problem, but its a lot harder to feel sympathy for people who take no measures to stop something that shuld be predictable.
I think you're getting these books mixed up a bit (Either that or I missed it in 2061). You're quite right that ACC came up with a diamond space elevator. I think the book was "The fountains of Paradise". The space elevator is also mentioned in 3001, with a comment about nanotubes in the appendix.
Let me guess - Its going to be a Euro-American co project, and Europe will start to speak metric, while the US will speak imperial.
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Coincidentally I am committing "more real action." Downloading as many MP3's as I can.
Seems like too much effort. I've just copied a lot of mp3's to my computer from my CD collection, and set up a script that copies them until they use up all the space. If the record industry is telling the truth (and would they lie?) then I'm costing them a fortune!
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I've written to my member of parliament but to no avail - didn't even acknowledge me
Ever though of visiting him/her? Announce your plan to visit about a week beforehand. I have no idea whether this would be successful, but it would certainly throw them off balance.
_I also support the death penalty for long-term congressmen.
This is the same sort of twisted logic as a spike sticking out a the steering wheel as a safety
measure isn't it. It would work in that anyone
who wanted to be a long-term congressman must
believe in what they are doing so much that its worth dieing for.
Or they're insane of course, but there's nothing
better than madmen in power to make politics more
interesting.
Grown ups can still buy games
The shops are showing "responsibility"
The pressure groups are happy
The shops have less hassle
Kids can still buy games (albeit in a roundabout way)
As a side effect, kids learn to work around inconvenient rules
All government officials who think this is a good idea should have all their web access logged and visible to the public. After all, if they misbehave online, the public has a right to know.
The cuecat. That they are claiming that their rights are being violated by someone who used the software. Cuecat took away the user's rights to use the hardware by the opening of the software. These right to the hardware existed prior to the software being opended
Yes... Anyone know how whether UCITA will allow this one?
Microsoft's clickwrap agreement works only one way. That they say you can return it if you don't agree, but when you try to get a refund
Sounds reasonable. They break the agreement. You get your rights back.
It strikes me that there are considerably more barriers to selling your soul to the devil than to a software company. And selling your sould to the devil usually results in the acquisition of something tangible and useful (if overpiriced)
RMS has an official stance that information and data should not be owned, controlled or restricted by anyone (Simplification, but essentially true). He seems to believe that the purpose of copyright should only be to give the creator credit, although would probably extend this to making sure that source code is available.
Actually though, I don't think he is quite that extreme. That seems to just be his starting position, to contend with the MPAA/RIAA's position of "We control all data. We control all movies/music. All data is licenced. Copies belong to us". He has a lot of arguments that seem to support reducing IP protection while still rewarding the creaator.
They know the following -
A barcode scanner is essentially useless
A barcode scanner is not something that people will pay for.
They have managed to nab the market for barcode scanner
Frivilous copyright actions irritate Slashdot
Geeks have a remarkable knack for coming up with uses for useless technology.
They realised that by giving the thing away, they would encourage some free open source driver development. Unfortunately nobody realised that they existed. They decided to advertise on Slashdot. But that costs money. They decided to get some free publicity by sending threatening letters to someone who would most likely mention it to Slashdot.
So this is just advertising. They'll probably say it was all a misunderstanding in a few days, and hope that we can forgive them.
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In 1995, I used the term "Deep linking" and I therefore must insist that you stop using my copyrighted work.
Anyone know how to arrange a public backlash against copyright, considering that the worlds most powerful media cartels have a capability to control public opinion, have a lot of money and are strongly in favour of strong copyright?
So? Windows doesn't come with a DVD player, why should Linux?
Because Linux isn't Windows. A lot of people get most of what they need from the distributions. Buying a CD is a lot easier than downloading everything I need. Especially since I don't need to know whether something exists to find it. Some people would probably still be surprised to find that it is possible to play DVD's under Linux (Although the MPAA's free publicity makes this unlikely)
May make things difficult in the US, but the DMCA isn't law in Europe.
Don't be so sure. The UK's copyright act has certain laws to prevent people from making devices for copying, which could be stretched to cover DeCSS. The law is very similar throughout Europe.
But if someone starts selling an unlicenced DVD player, that can only be used to watch DVDs, this may be a tougher case to win. Copyright law was never intended to award content manufacturers a monopoly over building the devices used to playback the material they generate.
This is kind of what I was getting at with my comment "And you can get aroung the GPL by writing a specification from it and clean room rewriting it". If DeCSS is legal, then making a DVD player based on it is also legal. If the source code is illegal, it probably makes construction of a DVD player where they are obliged to give away the code illegal. If the actual unauthorised decryption is legal, then this is a grey area. If reverse engineering is illegal then making an unauthorised DVD player is illegal. since it is based on information derived from doing something illegal.
Slashdot Mirror
I bet he would have won were it not for all the write in votes for Cthlulhu, Clhuthu and cthuhoola
Dividing between the succesful attackers makes sense. Its a pretty good approximation to assume the number of succesful hackers will increase with the ease of cracking the system. Therefore the more work thats involved the more you get payed.
Also, they don't have to sign all rights away. The terms and conditions are quite reasonable really apart from the small reward.
There's nothing preventing you from entering and releasing the crack into the public domain and then trying to claim the reward.
Not only are they being sensible, but they seem sto support freedom of speech. What did they do wrong in the first place again?
What lawsuits has Slashdot used against its competitors?
/. though.
Lawsuits aren't the slashdot style. Instead yu get a lot of people to email them. dDoS by proxy. I do recall randomly looking through the archives and seeing a story bitching about someone hijacking the look of
It strikes me as ironic that nobody has encoded it into a movie.
Personally, I think that people who have ludicrously poor security should take some of the blame. Obviously the hackers are the problem, but its a lot harder to feel sympathy for people who take no measures to stop something that shuld be predictable.
Being factual doesn't stop it from being flamebait
So the "For crist's sake its just a video recorder" argument didn't work then.
I think you're getting these books mixed up a bit (Either that or I missed it in 2061). You're quite right that ACC came up with a diamond space elevator. I think the book was "The fountains of Paradise". The space elevator is also mentioned in 3001, with a comment about nanotubes in the appendix.
Let me guess - Its going to be a Euro-American co project, and Europe will start to speak metric, while the US will speak imperial.
Coincidentally I am committing "more real action." Downloading as many MP3's as I can.
Seems like too much effort. I've just copied a lot of mp3's to my computer from my CD collection, and set up a script that copies them until they use up all the space. If the record industry is telling the truth (and would they lie?) then I'm costing them a fortune!
I've written to my member of parliament but to no avail - didn't even acknowledge me
Ever though of visiting him/her? Announce your plan to visit about a week beforehand. I have no idea whether this would be successful, but it would certainly throw them off balance.
_I also support the death penalty for long-term congressmen.
This is the same sort of twisted logic as a spike sticking out a the steering wheel as a safety measure isn't it. It would work in that anyone who wanted to be a long-term congressman must believe in what they are doing so much that its worth dieing for. Or they're insane of course, but there's nothing better than madmen in power to make politics more interesting.
Grown ups can still buy games
The shops are showing "responsibility"
The pressure groups are happy
The shops have less hassle
Kids can still buy games (albeit in a roundabout way)
As a side effect, kids learn to work around inconvenient rules
Everyones a winner!
All government officials who think this is a good idea should have all their web access logged and visible to the public. After all, if they misbehave online, the public has a right to know.
The cuecat. That they are claiming that their rights are being violated by someone who used the software. Cuecat took away the user's rights to use the hardware by the opening of the software. These right to the hardware existed prior to the software being opended
Yes... Anyone know how whether UCITA will allow this one?
Microsoft's clickwrap agreement works only one way. That they say you can return it if you don't agree, but when you try to get a refund
Sounds reasonable. They break the agreement. You get your rights back.
It strikes me that there are considerably more barriers to selling your soul to the devil than to a software company. And selling your sould to the devil usually results in the acquisition of something tangible and useful (if overpiriced)
Surely people in Hell don't want iced water. There's so much ice in Norway all year they're probably sick of the sight of it
RMS has an official stance that information and data should not be owned, controlled or restricted by anyone (Simplification, but essentially true). He seems to believe that the purpose of copyright should only be to give the creator credit, although would probably extend this to making sure that source code is available.
Actually though, I don't think he is quite that extreme. That seems to just be his starting position, to contend with the MPAA/RIAA's position of "We control all data. We control all movies/music. All data is licenced. Copies belong to us". He has a lot of arguments that seem to support reducing IP protection while still rewarding the creaator.
They know the following -
A barcode scanner is essentially useless
A barcode scanner is not something that people will pay for.
They have managed to nab the market for barcode scanner
Frivilous copyright actions irritate Slashdot
Geeks have a remarkable knack for coming up with uses for useless technology.
They realised that by giving the thing away, they would encourage some free open source driver development. Unfortunately nobody realised that they existed. They decided to advertise on Slashdot. But that costs money. They decided to get some free publicity by sending threatening letters to someone who would most likely mention it to Slashdot.
So this is just advertising. They'll probably say it was all a misunderstanding in a few days, and hope that we can forgive them.
What Intellectual property?
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/1 1/15/1120246.shtml gives a randomly chosen article from Nov 98
Follow the links. See for yourself.
As you can see on this map, Germany has a North coast. (Thats if you trust the CIA of course)
Fatbrain. Highly appropriate
In 1995, I used the term "Deep linking" and I therefore must insist that you stop using my copyrighted work.
Anyone know how to arrange a public backlash against copyright, considering that the worlds most powerful media cartels have a capability to control public opinion, have a lot of money and are strongly in favour of strong copyright?
So? Windows doesn't come with a DVD player, why should Linux?
Because Linux isn't Windows. A lot of people get most of what they need from the distributions. Buying a CD is a lot easier than downloading everything I need. Especially since I don't need to know whether something exists to find it. Some people would probably still be surprised to find that it is possible to play DVD's under Linux (Although the MPAA's free publicity makes this unlikely)
May make things difficult in the US, but the DMCA isn't law in Europe.
Don't be so sure. The UK's copyright act has certain laws to prevent people from making devices for copying, which could be stretched to cover DeCSS. The law is very similar throughout Europe.
But if someone starts selling an unlicenced DVD player, that can only be used to watch DVDs, this may be a tougher case to win. Copyright law was never intended to award content manufacturers a monopoly over building the devices used to playback the material they generate.
This is kind of what I was getting at with my comment "And you can get aroung the GPL by writing a specification from it and clean room rewriting it". If DeCSS is legal, then making a DVD player based on it is also legal. If the source code is illegal, it probably makes construction of a DVD player where they are obliged to give away the code illegal. If the actual unauthorised decryption is legal, then this is a grey area. If reverse engineering is illegal then making an unauthorised DVD player is illegal. since it is based on information derived from doing something illegal.