Circumvention may be legal, but making a tool to do it is illegal and there is no exception.
A reverse loophole in the law.
Using the softwae might be legal, but making it would be illegal.
I am not a lawyer, but I have seen what the courts have ruled and what legal experts have said.
I can make a DRM tool that does x-> (x+1) % 256 for every byte and it will be illegal for you to make a decryptor for it to break "content" that I have "protected" with it.
DRM is technically breakable. DRM + DMCA makes it illegal.
DRM is like a "key" which starts the DMCA "car", which runs you over.
The DMCA gives DRM legal powers, which are a lot harder and riskier to break than technical powers.
The jokes about prison life are real. Unless perhaps you get sent to Nellis Federal Prison here in Las Vegas, but you likely will get sent somewhere really bad because you annoyed the wrong people (costing rich people money).
And even if you avoid it, kiss your rights goodbye. And no politicians will even listen to a convicted felon.
Then Linux gets ruled a circumvention device (like DeCSS) was and it becomes a felony to traffic in it.
Giving a friend a copy of linux would be as illegal as giving him an ecstasy pill.
Linux user: Officer, that's X windows, not X-tasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)! Officer: That's even worse! 5 years in FEDERAL PRISON, NO PAROLE. Linux user: I should've just been a drug dealer instead - probably get a couple years in STATE prison and get time off for good behavior, parole, or perhaps even a suspend sentence and probation. Well at least Perl 6 will be out by the time I get released.:)
DRM is more about activating DMCA provisions than it is about actually technically protecting content.
rot13 and XOR 67 are viable DRM systems for that reason. Both were actually used. The Adobe e-book "protection" that got Sklyarov arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada at Defcon and the Cue Cat.
Just like the door to one's house, it is easily circumvented, but doing so is illegal.
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Lovely Firefox says telnet is not a registered protocol.
Good work Mozilla.org, your software doesn't even know what TELNET is.
Just take out support for everything but HTTP/1.1 and be done with it - you're already on that road, file urls don't work when clicked, gopher gives empty pages, telnet is unknown, just go whole hog., lose ftp, then anything but http, then version 0.9 (if you even support it), then 1.0 (since all the 31337 people use 1.1) then we can get on making it only work with Linux Apache sites...
(the following flame is not directed at the poster, but at the Mozilla people)
Lovely Firefox says telnet is not a registered protocol.
Good work Mozilla.org, your software doesn't even know what TELNET is.
Just take out support for everything but HTTP/1.1 and be done with it - you're already on that road, file urls don't work when clicked, gopher gives empty pages, telnet is unknown, just go whole hog., lose ftp, then anything but http, then version 0.9 (if you even support it), then 1.0 (since all the 31337 people use 1.1) then we can get on making it only work with Linux Apache sites...
Turning them into forever depressed e-tards because their brains are fried doesn't sound like a good outcome.
X, aka E, aka Ecstasy is a very dangerous substance.
No, I'm not a DEA agent, heck, even many very "pro-drug" people are (rightfully) afraid of a substance which causes serotonin neurons to be so depleted that they suck up dopamine and die due to peroxide formation.
There are a lot of cautions on Erowid even about it.
Don't forget the 108 degree fevers either.
Or hyponatremia, which has left some people brain dead.
Neurotoxins are real, just look up 5,6-hydroxytryptamine, 5,7-hydroxytryptamine, 6-hydroxydopamine and MPTP for some very scary examples.
Also, X users say no high is as good as the first. Perhaps because some of the brain cells are dead?
The article you linked to talks about a police chief's group saying we should shoot suicide bombers in the head.
Would you rather them get killed by the cops or for them to blow up their bomb, killing themselves anyway, plus killing and maiming countless others and destroying infrastructure, etc?
I say shoot the terrorists.
That's not a police state, that's common sense.
Don't do anything really stupid around cops either, unless you want to win a Darwin Award and improve the gene pool.
In a post 9/11 world, we must never forget, that the battlefield is everywhere, even in our own cities.
Require all pornography sites to operative via name-based hosting, where the default server (read: the server that matches the IP address) does NOT contain porn or any information that can be used to reach porn.
Even Google contains "information that can be used to reach porn" as it is a search engine. So does this post, since it mentions you can go to Google. So does Slashdot because it has this post. You need to lose that last phrase there - it is WAY too encompassing.
Actually, the same rules do apply already. There's already law that requires that US commercial pornography sites are required to have the user sign an electronic waver stating their date of birth under penalty of perjury.
If they are underage, committing a crime like perjury is a lot less serious.
And there is a question of whether lying to a website is perjury at all.
Do I commit perjury if I tell Firefox to tell a website it is IE? Slippery slope.
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Circumvention may be legal, but making a tool to do it is illegal and there is no exception.
A reverse loophole in the law.
Using the softwae might be legal, but making it would be illegal.
I am not a lawyer, but I have seen what the courts have ruled and what legal experts have said.
I can make a DRM tool that does x-> (x+1) % 256 for every byte and it will be illegal for you to make a decryptor for it to break "content" that I have "protected" with it.
DRM is technically breakable.
DRM + DMCA makes it illegal.
DRM is like a "key" which starts the DMCA "car", which runs you over.
The DMCA gives DRM legal powers, which are a lot harder and riskier to break than technical powers.
And a geek won't survive long in a federal pen.
http://www.spr.org/
The jokes about prison life are real. Unless perhaps you get sent to Nellis Federal Prison here in Las Vegas, but you likely will get sent somewhere really bad because you annoyed the wrong people (costing rich people money).
And even if you avoid it, kiss your rights goodbye. And no politicians will even listen to a convicted felon.
Then Linux gets ruled a circumvention device (like DeCSS) was and it becomes a felony to traffic in it.
:)
Giving a friend a copy of linux would be as illegal as giving him an ecstasy pill.
Linux user: Officer, that's X windows, not X-tasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)!
Officer: That's even worse! 5 years in FEDERAL PRISON, NO PAROLE.
Linux user: I should've just been a drug dealer instead - probably get a couple years in STATE prison and get time off for good behavior, parole, or perhaps even a suspend sentence and probation. Well at least Perl 6 will be out by the time I get released.
We could even make this thing called a "website" which would have links to other websites.
:)
Then we could make a website that has both links to articles and facilities for people to leave comments up on them.
And we could make one targetting to providing "News to Nerds".
The DMCA.
DRM is more about activating DMCA provisions than it is about actually technically protecting content.
rot13 and XOR 67 are viable DRM systems for that reason. Both were actually used. The Adobe e-book "protection" that got Sklyarov arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada at Defcon and the Cue Cat.
Just like the door to one's house, it is easily circumvented, but doing so is illegal.
Common courtesy plus trademark law. :)
Lovely Firefox says telnet is not a registered protocol.
Good work Mozilla.org, your software doesn't even know what TELNET is.
Just take out support for everything but HTTP/1.1 and be done with it - you're already on that road, file urls don't work when clicked, gopher gives empty pages, telnet is unknown, just go whole hog., lose ftp, then anything but http, then version 0.9 (if you even support it), then 1.0 (since all the 31337 people use 1.1) then we can get on making it only work with Linux Apache sites...
An open web where everyone can participate?
Ha!
How soon before someone embeds DeCSS or OT III in an image?
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Telnet to the Bit Bucket BBS!
(the following flame is not directed at the poster, but at the Mozilla people)
Lovely Firefox says telnet is not a registered protocol.
Good work Mozilla.org, your software doesn't even know what TELNET is.
Just take out support for everything but HTTP/1.1 and be done with it - you're already on that road, file urls don't work when clicked, gopher gives empty pages, telnet is unknown, just go whole hog., lose ftp, then anything but http, then version 0.9 (if you even support it), then 1.0 (since all the 31337 people use 1.1) then we can get on making it only work with Linux Apache sites...
An open web where everyone can participate?
Ha!
And after they come back, THEN we let them play video games.
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So lets ban it.
Not killing a terrorist will result in a far higher death toll (possibly in the dozens, hundreds or even more) that shooting an innocent jackass.
Turning them into forever depressed e-tards because their brains are fried doesn't sound like a good outcome.
X, aka E, aka Ecstasy is a very dangerous substance.
No, I'm not a DEA agent, heck, even many very "pro-drug" people are (rightfully) afraid of a substance which causes serotonin neurons to be so depleted that they suck up dopamine and die due to peroxide formation.
There are a lot of cautions on Erowid even about it.
Don't forget the 108 degree fevers either.
Or hyponatremia, which has left some people brain dead.
Neurotoxins are real, just look up 5,6-hydroxytryptamine, 5,7-hydroxytryptamine, 6-hydroxydopamine and MPTP for some very scary examples.
Also, X users say no high is as good as the first. Perhaps because some of the brain cells are dead?
Or a more technological solution
. htm
http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/english/mw-weapon
The article you linked to talks about a police chief's group saying we should shoot suicide bombers in the head.
Would you rather them get killed by the cops or for them to blow up their bomb, killing themselves anyway, plus killing and maiming countless others and destroying infrastructure, etc?
I say shoot the terrorists.
That's not a police state, that's common sense.
Don't do anything really stupid around cops either, unless you want to win a Darwin Award and improve the gene pool.
In a post 9/11 world, we must never forget, that the battlefield is everywhere, even in our own cities.
Wireless has:
Poor reliability
No privacy
Major interference problems
Wireless is NOT the way to go.
Why are you reading and posting to Slashdot at work in the first place? :)
I want a Perl interpreter in Perl!
Possession of child porn is a felony - no matter what.
So when Gateway took possession of the computer - they were possibly technically committing a felony of possession of child porn.
Reporting it was something they could do which would reduce their risk of prosecution.
But he can use DRM to do all those things for him and have the DMCA back him up with the force of law if someone circumvents.
:)
Just 1/2 kidding.
Surfcontrol filters on both.
I assume many others do as well.
If either the IP or the hostname is on a list the site will be blocked.
So it would need a new hostname and IP address.
The IP block is so people don't use the IP address in the URL.
God is real, your believing that he is not will save you just as much as believing gravity is a lie when walking off a cliff, i.e. not at all.
Lovely.
And if one of those domains gets blocked by filtering software (e.g. Surfcontrol, etc) so do the other 399.
Require all pornography sites to operative via name-based hosting, where the default server (read: the server that matches the IP address) does NOT contain porn or any information that can be used to reach porn.
Even Google contains "information that can be used to reach porn" as it is a search engine. So does this post, since it mentions you can go to Google. So does Slashdot because it has this post. You need to lose that last phrase there - it is WAY too encompassing.
It's only 90 degrees over in Gitmo.
v eler/local/CUXX0016
:)
:)
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstra
Bon voyage!
P.S. That's 7 degrees cooler than where I am right now.
Actually, the same rules do apply already. There's already law that requires that US commercial pornography sites are required to have the user sign an electronic waver stating their date of birth under penalty of perjury.
If they are underage, committing a crime like perjury is a lot less serious.
And there is a question of whether lying to a website is perjury at all.
Do I commit perjury if I tell Firefox to tell a website it is IE? Slippery slope.