Get per-line caller ID blocking on that line or get that Radio Shack box that dials *67 (the caller ID blocker box) and put that between the TiVo and the phone line.
P.S. While you're at Radio Shack, you can get yourself a "wonderful":Cue:Cat too. Don't give your real address, and do use the Linux software for it;)
How about stop complaining and write your own legal dvd player and then you won't have to worry about lawsuits.
Writing your own DVD player is now illegal. The DeCSS case proved it. The MPAA and their friend Judge Kaplan said so. Unless you write one without CSS, which means every Hollywood movie turns into white noise and you can only watch a very small percentage of the DVDs that are out there.
P.S. You always have to worry about lawsuits. We've got judges issuing $100M plus in damages against companies that did nothing wrong (the decision against MP3.com for my.mp3.com).
Microsoft has bought the "right" to innovate, and we have not. Every "right" in our society now has to be bought. And even if you buy a "right" someone else can buy the right to deprive your of your right, as long as they have more money to pay a company, pay off a Federal judge, buy a Congressman, etc.
Now, if you don't believe that the oath is true, but you sign it, you may open up the patent to be completely unenforceable due to "inequitable conduct."
You may open up yourself to a perjury conviction! This is a Federal felony, 5 years in prison. But not signing it if you are required to could get you sued. See a lawyer.
I have a question. Could it be that one is required to hand over any patent, but not required to obtain or help in obtaining one? If the contract says one is required to hand over any patents, but does not explicitly say they need to help with applying for the patent, then isn't that a loophole? I guess it depends on the contract. I have heard that some contracts make explicit that one must help in any patent application, so perhaps that is the case.
Also, if the contract is for the duration of employment, could it not be binding anymore?
I am not a lawyer, and my advice to the original poster is to see a lawyer. I'm surprised your advice wasn't the same.:)
I agree with you that CSS is about controlling access, but your anology is flawed. Limiting the viewer of a DVD to white people is simply discrimination and thus a violation of Constitutional rights. The DMCA would be useless in the defense, because it is superceded (sp?) by the Constitution.
Yes, just like the DMCA is superceded by the First Amendment.
Oh wait, we lost the DeCSS case. The DMCA won over the First Amendment.
Judge Kaplan believes the DMCA takes precedence over the Constitution.
BTW, talking about bigotry, I hope you all read the judge's obviously biased statement about 2600, implying they are pro-theft and other such nonsense. And the MPAA calling all open-source programmers "pirates".
As far as the color of "white" light goes, ask any photographer what a pain that is.
Isn't "white" light defined to be something with the smae power spectral density of an object heated to a specific temperature? I thought it was 6304K (10888F/6031C), but I just looked at some stuff on the net, and now that number seems too high. 3500K seems to be defined as "white". Anyone know the real deal?
Why did Streambox give up? Also, why wasn't that enough? Why did they have to pay "protection money" to keep Real Networks from (legally speaking) coming and breaking their financial kneecaps?
Could it be a result of 2600, et all losing the MPAA DeCSS case and being required to pay the costs of the kangeroo court case against them?
People, we need to fight the DMCA. Write your Congressman, etc. It appears nowadays, when you lose, they aren't satisfied with getting you to stop, they want to steal your assets too.
It used to be the costs of hiring a lawyer were the reason to be scared, fighting it required being able to pay that. Some people could do that. If you could afford to fight them, you'd win. THat has changed. 2600, et all lost, even with good legal representation. With all these losses and settlements that demand financial pay offs, even if you can afford the lawyer you can go broke. They want more than just your profits but anything they can claim as damages and failing that, statuatory damages. I.E. even if you prove you didn't profit and did no harm they can still take your money. So much for legal principles of equity.
As far as Federal gun laws go, that Class One misdemeanor might as well be a felony. It is illegal for a person to own a gun if convicted of a crime with a maximum sentence greater than one year. The word "felony" is not used in the statue. 18 USC 922(g)
DMCA makes a circumvention device illegal. Code is at least possible to consider a virtual device. It does something. Okay, it really makes a real device (computer) do something, technically it is only instructions. But we think of it and use it as a device. We say the Linux kernel, for example, does something when a user makes a system call.
A printed version of the code does not act as a virtual device, it can't do anything or automatically make a computer or any other device do something.
Now it lets a person (or a computer with OCR) make a copy of the code, but the DMCA doesn't say instructions for making a circumvention device are illegal. Heck it doesn't even say a device that makes a circumvention device is illegal. (Although I wouldn't want to rely on that it court). They can hang a lot on the prohibition on "trafficing" in such devices.
In summary, there may be reasons a printed version is exempt.
Here is another difference, DeCSS is illegal, PGP wasn't, as far as export regs go. (the patent situation was a different issue). So copying it to paper and exporting that when that is legal under export laws is apparently a workable workaround. That might not work with DeCSS.
Umm I think patents prohibit the unauthorized making of an infringing item too. I am not a lawyer, but I think the above is true. Well if I'm wrong I won't get sued, but if you are you can. Any lawyers care to comment?
From their website, describing the "advantages" of their product:
Allows mainstream media to act as the filter, the portal, the direct
digital information point
Mainstream media is part of the problem in our society, not part of the solution. Seeing "mainstream media" and "filter" next to each other sends chills down my spine. This is so close to "1984" it is scary.
I'm very surprised they'd tout this is an advantage on a public website, do they think the people are so stupid as to think this is a good thing, rather than exploitation?
Scary thought, maybe about that they are right. Maybe the people are that stupid.
The alternative would be for there to be government-provided coding
licenses and prior restraints of what code you can write.
Government-provided coding licenses you say? There has been some serious talk from time to time about mandatory licenses for programmers. Have no license/lost your license and program - go to jail. Do something "annoying" (i.e. that hurts someone with power) and lose your license.
Now it is illegal for you to work in your field. Welcome to the world of fast food order taker.
Sounds like there might be some holes in the virtualization then. Some really tricky self-modifying code might be able to "realize" it is running under VMware. Anyone know if VMware is smart enough to catch 100% of the cases? That sounds way too close to those undecidable problems (such as the halting problem) we learned about in CS class. Is determining whether code is "safe" to allow to run on the CPU a decidable problem?
Use the DMCA to protect your website. Change every 'e' into and then say you are only licensed to decode it with a web browser if you agree to certain conditions. Bonus points if you write your own browser that enforces your conditions and get Netscape and IE banned as circumvention tools.;)
This is not that big of a surprise. One division of the company appears to be pro-linux and another division appears to be anti-Linux or Microsoft-exclusive.
When a company gets as big as HP, there sometimes isn't just one corporate culture, but many.
Fourth Amendment binds the gov't, not your employer. Unless your employer is the gov't. And maybe even then, it only applies in the context of gov't-citizen, not gov't-employee of gov't. Same with the Fifth Amendment.
Also, Fourth Amendment=search and seizure, Fifth Amendment=no self-incrimination.
And it comes out later that they were away from their desk and someone else visited that site from their PC, or someone sets their PC to the victim's IP when the victim's PC is down, or...
But you only need to buy a relatively cheap judge to get you off if you have a disclaimer. The judges that will let you off without a disclaimer are much, much more expensive.
The disclaimer is much more cost-effective, you see.
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P.S. While you're at Radio Shack, you can get yourself a "wonderful" :Cue:Cat too. Don't give your real address, and do use the Linux software for it ;)
Working around the "locked" disk is very likely a DMCA violation. Make sure you don't get tried in the Southern District of New York.
Imagine where we would be now if everyone had always followed the party line.
Writing your own DVD player is now illegal. The DeCSS case proved it. The MPAA and their friend Judge Kaplan said so. Unless you write one without CSS, which means every Hollywood movie turns into white noise and you can only watch a very small percentage of the DVDs that are out there.
P.S. You always have to worry about lawsuits. We've got judges issuing $100M plus in damages against companies that did nothing wrong (the decision against MP3.com for my.mp3.com).
Microsoft has bought the "right" to innovate, and we have not. Every "right" in our society now has to be bought. And even if you buy a "right" someone else can buy the right to deprive your of your right, as long as they have more money to pay a company, pay off a Federal judge, buy a Congressman, etc.
Does it support Linux?
You may open up yourself to a perjury conviction! This is a Federal felony, 5 years in prison. But not signing it if you are required to could get you sued. See a lawyer.
Also, if the contract is for the duration of employment, could it not be binding anymore?
I am not a lawyer, and my advice to the original poster is to see a lawyer. I'm surprised your advice wasn't the same. :)
Yes, just like the DMCA is superceded by the First Amendment.
Oh wait, we lost the DeCSS case. The DMCA won over the First Amendment.
Judge Kaplan believes the DMCA takes precedence over the Constitution.
BTW, talking about bigotry, I hope you all read the judge's obviously biased statement about 2600, implying they are pro-theft and other such nonsense. And the MPAA calling all open-source programmers "pirates".
Isn't "white" light defined to be something with the smae power spectral density of an object heated to a specific temperature? I thought it was 6304K (10888F/6031C), but I just looked at some stuff on the net, and now that number seems too high. 3500K seems to be defined as "white". Anyone know the real deal?
Could it be a result of 2600, et all losing the MPAA DeCSS case and being required to pay the costs of the kangeroo court case against them?
People, we need to fight the DMCA. Write your Congressman, etc. It appears nowadays, when you lose, they aren't satisfied with getting you to stop, they want to steal your assets too.
It used to be the costs of hiring a lawyer were the reason to be scared, fighting it required being able to pay that. Some people could do that. If you could afford to fight them, you'd win. THat has changed. 2600, et all lost, even with good legal representation. With all these losses and settlements that demand financial pay offs, even if you can afford the lawyer you can go broke. They want more than just your profits but anything they can claim as damages and failing that, statuatory damages. I.E. even if you prove you didn't profit and did no harm they can still take your money. So much for legal principles of equity.
As far as Federal gun laws go, that Class One misdemeanor might as well be a felony. It is illegal for a person to own a gun if convicted of a crime with a maximum sentence greater than one year. The word "felony" is not used in the statue. 18 USC 922(g)
A printed version of the code does not act as a virtual device, it can't do anything or automatically make a computer or any other device do something.
Now it lets a person (or a computer with OCR) make a copy of the code, but the DMCA doesn't say instructions for making a circumvention device are illegal. Heck it doesn't even say a device that makes a circumvention device is illegal. (Although I wouldn't want to rely on that it court). They can hang a lot on the prohibition on "trafficing" in such devices.
In summary, there may be reasons a printed version is exempt.
Here is another difference, DeCSS is illegal, PGP wasn't, as far as export regs go. (the patent situation was a different issue). So copying it to paper and exporting that when that is legal under export laws is apparently a workable workaround. That might not work with DeCSS.
I am not a lawyer, any care to comment?
Umm I think patents prohibit the unauthorized making of an infringing item too. I am not a lawyer, but I think the above is true. Well if I'm wrong I won't get sued, but if you are you can. Any lawyers care to comment?
Allows mainstream media to act as the filter, the portal, the direct digital information point
Mainstream media is part of the problem in our society, not part of the solution. Seeing "mainstream media" and "filter" next to each other sends chills down my spine. This is so close to "1984" it is scary.
I'm very surprised they'd tout this is an advantage on a public website, do they think the people are so stupid as to think this is a good thing, rather than exploitation?
Scary thought, maybe about that they are right. Maybe the people are that stupid.
Government-provided coding licenses you say? There has been some serious talk from time to time about mandatory licenses for programmers. Have no license/lost your license and program - go to jail. Do something "annoying" (i.e. that hurts someone with power) and lose your license.
Now it is illegal for you to work in your field. Welcome to the world of fast food order taker.
Sounds like there might be some holes in the virtualization then. Some really tricky self-modifying code might be able to "realize" it is running under VMware. Anyone know if VMware is smart enough to catch 100% of the cases? That sounds way too close to those undecidable problems (such as the halting problem) we learned about in CS class. Is determining whether code is "safe" to allow to run on the CPU a decidable problem?
Use the DMCA to protect your website. Change every 'e' into and then say you are only licensed to decode it with a web browser if you agree to certain conditions. Bonus points if you write your own browser that enforces your conditions and get Netscape and IE banned as circumvention tools. ;)
P.S. Aren't we supposed to be against user interface copyrights here? That's what they told me.
Then again, a lot of lawyers become judges, so much of what you said holds true in that case also.
When a company gets as big as HP, there sometimes isn't just one corporate culture, but many.
Also, Fourth Amendment=search and seizure, Fifth Amendment=no self-incrimination.
That is a risk. A possibly expensive risk.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules mandate some restrictions on e-mail for brokerage firms.
The disclaimer is much more cost-effective, you see.