A website I frequent tried to use PNG. It came up as a big broken image. I downloaded it and looked at the header, since my image software said it was bad.
It had the LF replaced with a CR-LF! I kid you not! Just the sort of thing the magic header is supposed to detect.
They must've FTP'd it in ASCII mode (!) and didn't check the result.
They switched back to GIF.
I probably should've told them about the munged
PNG and it might've been fixed rather than replaced.
PNG was innocent, but looks like it got the blame for user error.
How the heck do they change your IP while your PPPoE session is running??
I didn't think PPP or PPPoE allowed an address change on the fly.
Are they just terminating the PPPoE session every so often? In a sense, giving you a micro-outage every so often (during which time they change the IP).
Another question for anyone that knows. Are any of these dynamic PPPoE ISPs limiting hours per month / refusing PPPoE reconnects at times?
What if the Department of Commerce has a hand in the new Internet, "blesses" it as being official, and criminalizes any open Internet or open wide area networks?
Such would be possible if the DMCA were expanded to cover any medium which had a significant amount of unauthorized intellectual property or access devices for such being sent over it. Or if it were treated as an unregulated public nuisance. Such as a person can get sued or jailed for intentionally leaving available things that can cause trouble, i.e. "attractive nuisances".
The gov't could very well argue, and the American sheep, uh people, accept, that "only criminals need an alternate Internet."
Don't say it can't happen. People like Judge Kaplan and his supporters, want it to. And they have more money. And money buys political influence in great part because it pays for political ads. Which seem to be the only thing many Americans vote based on - very few voters even know or care about the issues.
It is illegal to do it yourself undef the most strict, Kaplanesque interpretation of the DMCA.
Circumvention itself is now illegal too. Fair use is illegal unless the content provider decides to not stop you.
Fair use is kind of pointless if the content provider can make it illegal for you to engage in it, even the DMCA claims to not hurt fair use right in one of its clauses, but the fact stands:
At least one judge (Kaplan) won't let that inconsistency or the Constitution stop him.
And as a Federal judge he can get armed marshalls to enforce a judgement, and take almost everything you own. Or, if you "profitted", lock you away 5 years like Dmitry Sklyarov (in this case the US broke SEVERAL international laws in the process - just like our "enemies" are known for doing).
Someone just needs to write a program and distribute it.
Then quite possibly all the user needs to do is point and click.
As for the DMCA, there may be legal reasons why the copy protection method does not make such a tool illegal. There may be legal reasons that it does make it illegal. Even if legal, Judge Kaplan might still rule against you.
RIAA know they can't only win with technology, since any program can make a hard operation easy.
So they fight back with (unconstitutional) laws.
I am afraid, that if this hack is legal, that the DMCA will be tightened to outlaw it and anything similar.
Key words "if it can be show" (that the patent is on something already in use). Somone has to challenge the patent, and that means paying both lawyers AND THE GOVERNMENT to have it reexamined. Very little review goes into patents to make sure they don't have prior art or are even technically possible before they are granted. And reexams very often fail.
Look at patent #5,533,051. What it claims is impossible (compression of every file by at least one bit losslessly, including 2 bit files, i.e. mapping 00, 01, 10, 11 to 0 and 1 losslessly!).
It claims it works even for RANDOM data. Heck that violates laws of information theory regarding entropy and counting theory.
The record companies would not go under even if copyright were only 3 years. A GREAT deal of the money is made during the first 3 years. There wouldn't be less content due to lower incentives, there would be MORE content due to the need to actually work to maintain your revenue stream.
Under capitalism, you only need to give as much incentive as necessary to get the product to market - any more is waste.
That still doesn't compare to Rosa Parks. Now, for example, when some parent gets fined $2500 for reading aloud a passage from the e-book of Alice in Wonderland to her 4 year old daugther, THEN we will have a comparable case.
The DMCA is evil, but it will take a story much more convincing to the average American that his very freedoms are under attack than a case involving a Russian "hacker". Considering the prejudice against both Russians and "hackers", he may not garner much sympathy from the non-clueful masses.
By then, the oppression will be very strong, unfortunately.
We need a protest here in Las Vegas. He was arrested here, for speaking at a security conference (DefCon) here, and is being held here. The FBI has a field office here in Las Vegas too.
I hope everyone boycotts Britannica (no one should even dare to expect to make money in this world, especially not more than I). And finds an alternative: me!
I am going to release my own online encyclopedia. Now everyone in the world will get to hear my world views, and even believe them! This will be most
excellent!
It will take a little while since rewriting history is such a time consuming process.
I've just started the first article. It is about me and called "King of the World".
Some idiot who doesn't even know about accounts and the like, thinks the Internet is magical and the only thing he notices or cares about is that Internet Exploder and Outlook work.
Get someone to register a domain (or do it yourself in a way that won't be obvious to the thief), and have an email get sent to him saying he won something (money, car, etc) and just needs to reply to the email with his full name, address, phone number, SSN# (for tax purposes makes a good excuse). You get the mail, you call the cops and off he goes to prison!;)
Cable companies do something related to combat illegal access to cable service. They broadcast an ad that only the illegal boxes can get which says send in for a prize, says you won a contest, etc. Those that reply are prosecuted.
It is like a social engineering hack right on the thief's mind.
Remember, copyrights and patents are NOT pro-free market. Monopolies enforced by law are not part of pure capitalism. Something a lot of extreme pro-capitialist cheerleaders forget.
Free market means free for all, not just free for those in power.
If you'd like to "volunteer," violate the DMCA, flaunt it, and wait to be arrested.
One problem is that the groups of people who can do such a thing and those that would do not have much overlap. Most "revolutionary" types do not have the extensive knowlege required to actually commit a DMCA violation. Reverse engineering a copyright "protection" system is not trivial (I know that for some of you it may seem that way...).
How many people in any recent protest do you think even know what a hex editor is, much less how to use it?
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Those instances of reverse engineering do not seem to involve circumventing a measure which controls access of a copyrighted work, or the exercise of an "exclusive right" of a copyright holder.
Therefore the DMCA would appear to not in fact apply.
Ask a lawyer for real legal advice. A US lawyer.
Because you just never know... you might even get Judge Kaplan.
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It's smaller and it sounds better.
BTW: People are comparing it to PNG vs GIF and saying PNG hasn't displaced GIF. However, GZIP has displaced LZW compress. Just look around.
if they are songs he downloaded, what choice does he have?
How about go out and BUY the CD? (unless he's in Eastern Europe where they are copy-protecting them). Then rip it to OGG and listen to it on his PC.
Now if he paid for an MP3 he got ripped (pun intended) off, since the price isn't much cheaper than a CD and at a lower quality
A website I frequent tried to use PNG. It came up as a big broken image. I downloaded it and looked at the header, since my image software said it was bad.
It had the LF replaced with a CR-LF! I kid you not! Just the sort of thing the magic header is supposed to detect.
They must've FTP'd it in ASCII mode (!) and didn't check the result.
They switched back to GIF.
I probably should've told them about the munged
PNG and it might've been fixed rather than replaced.
PNG was innocent, but looks like it got the blame for user error.
Well if they have regular intentional outages by design, then their claiming that they offer 24x7 always on service could likely be considered fraud.
Do you ever get cut off, and it takes minutes or hours before it will allow reconnecting?
How the heck do they change your IP while your PPPoE session is running??
I didn't think PPP or PPPoE allowed an address change on the fly.
Are they just terminating the PPPoE session every so often? In a sense, giving you a micro-outage every so often (during which time they change the IP).
Another question for anyone that knows. Are any of these dynamic PPPoE ISPs limiting hours per month / refusing PPPoE reconnects at times?
Because the real Internet won't die.
What if the Department of Commerce has a hand in the new Internet, "blesses" it as being official, and criminalizes any open Internet or open wide area networks?
Such would be possible if the DMCA were expanded to cover any medium which had a significant amount of unauthorized intellectual property or access devices for such being sent over it. Or if it were treated as an unregulated public nuisance. Such as a person can get sued or jailed for intentionally leaving available things that can cause trouble, i.e. "attractive nuisances".
The gov't could very well argue, and the American sheep, uh people, accept, that "only criminals need an alternate Internet."
Don't say it can't happen. People like Judge Kaplan and his supporters, want it to. And they have more money. And money buys political influence in great part because it pays for political ads. Which seem to be the only thing many Americans vote based on - very few voters even know or care about the issues.
I'd say N'SYNC's "music" is abrasive too.
It is illegal to do it yourself undef the most strict, Kaplanesque interpretation of the DMCA.
Circumvention itself is now illegal too. Fair use is illegal unless the content provider decides to not stop you.
Fair use is kind of pointless if the content provider can make it illegal for you to engage in it, even the DMCA claims to not hurt fair use right in one of its clauses, but the fact stands:
At least one judge (Kaplan) won't let that inconsistency or the Constitution stop him.
And as a Federal judge he can get armed marshalls to enforce a judgement, and take almost everything you own. Or, if you "profitted", lock you away 5 years like Dmitry Sklyarov (in this case the US broke SEVERAL international laws in the process - just like our "enemies" are known for doing).
Most people will install anything they can get their hands on. I am talking about most computer users, not most Slashdot nerds.
Website/Friend/Enemy/Hacker/CDinmail: Look cool new program
User: Clicks setup and installs it.
Someone just needs to write a program and distribute it.
Then quite possibly all the user needs to do is point and click.
As for the DMCA, there may be legal reasons why the copy protection method does not make such a tool illegal. There may be legal reasons that it does make it illegal. Even if legal, Judge Kaplan might still rule against you.
RIAA know they can't only win with technology, since any program can make a hard operation easy.
So they fight back with (unconstitutional) laws.
I am afraid, that if this hack is legal, that the DMCA will be tightened to outlaw it and anything similar.
Key words "if it can be show" (that the patent is on something already in use). Somone has to challenge the patent, and that means paying both lawyers AND THE GOVERNMENT to have it reexamined. Very little review goes into patents to make sure they don't have prior art or are even technically possible before they are granted. And reexams very often fail.
Look at patent #5,533,051. What it claims is impossible (compression of every file by at least one bit losslessly, including 2 bit files, i.e. mapping 00, 01, 10, 11 to 0 and 1 losslessly!).
It claims it works even for RANDOM data. Heck that violates laws of information theory regarding entropy and counting theory.
Details here.
The record companies would not go under even if copyright were only 3 years. A GREAT deal of the money is made during the first 3 years. There wouldn't be less content due to lower incentives, there would be MORE content due to the need to actually work to maintain your revenue stream.
Under capitalism, you only need to give as much incentive as necessary to get the product to market - any more is waste.
That still doesn't compare to Rosa Parks. Now, for example, when some parent gets fined $2500 for reading aloud a passage from the e-book of Alice in Wonderland to her 4 year old daugther, THEN we will have a comparable case.
The DMCA is evil, but it will take a story much more convincing to the average American that his very freedoms are under attack than a case involving a Russian "hacker". Considering the prejudice against both Russians and "hackers", he may not garner much sympathy from the non-clueful masses.
By then, the oppression will be very strong, unfortunately.
We need a protest here in Las Vegas. He was arrested here, for speaking at a security conference (DefCon) here, and is being held here. The FBI has a field office here in Las Vegas too.
This is great news!
;)
I hope everyone boycotts Britannica (no one should even dare to expect to make money in this world, especially not more than I). And finds an alternative: me!
I am going to release my own online encyclopedia. Now everyone in the world will get to hear my world views, and even believe them! This will be most
excellent!
It will take a little while since rewriting history is such a time consuming process.
I've just started the first article. It is about me and called "King of the World".
;)
Some idiot who doesn't even know about accounts and the like, thinks the Internet is magical and the only thing he notices or cares about is that Internet Exploder and Outlook work.
Never underestimate stupidity.
That's about all a Cray is even worth today. ;)
Get someone to register a domain (or do it yourself in a way that won't be obvious to the thief), and have an email get sent to him saying he won something (money, car, etc) and just needs to reply to the email with his full name, address, phone number, SSN# (for tax purposes makes a good excuse). You get the mail, you call the cops and off he goes to prison! ;)
Cable companies do something related to combat illegal access to cable service. They broadcast an ad that only the illegal boxes can get which says send in for a prize, says you won a contest, etc. Those that reply are prosecuted.
It is like a social engineering hack right on the thief's mind.
Remember, copyrights and patents are NOT pro-free market. Monopolies enforced by law are not part of pure capitalism. Something a lot of extreme pro-capitialist cheerleaders forget.
Free market means free for all, not just free for those in power.
More on #1: A criminal hacker targetting a system could use the activation mechanism against a PC.
And #7. Potential for the US Gov't to get Microsoft to disable the PC of a "troublemaker" in real time.
$50 million is not a lot of money for a company as rich as Microsoft.
I hope not. If their servers are slower than Slashdot it is a wonder we didn't get defeated by Iraq. ;)
If you'd like to "volunteer," violate the DMCA, flaunt it, and wait to be arrested.
One problem is that the groups of people who can do such a thing and those that would do not have much overlap. Most "revolutionary" types do not have the extensive knowlege required to actually commit a DMCA violation. Reverse engineering a copyright "protection" system is not trivial (I know that for some of you it may seem that way...).
How many people in any recent protest do you think even know what a hex editor is, much less how to use it?
Those instances of reverse engineering do not seem to involve circumventing a measure which controls access of a copyrighted work, or the exercise of an "exclusive right" of a copyright holder.
Therefore the DMCA would appear to not in fact apply.
Ask a lawyer for real legal advice. A US lawyer.
Because you just never know... you might even get Judge Kaplan.
How about in Russia?
It is ironic that the US fought the Cold War against Russia in the name of freedom.