If there is a combined CDPlayer and MP3 unit, the logical feature would be to ripping from the CDRom and play tracks as MP3. This not only saves power, but prevents skipping.
Moglen makes serious technical mistakes about CyberPatrol.
It is true that CPHack may allow a person to shut CyberPatrol on a system (if they go through enough hoops).
What Moglen fails to note is that most companies use The Border Manager and Proxy versions. Since this is on a server, nothing anyone can do with CPHack on their machine won't matter.
Moglen also forgets that ways to bypass CPHack have been around for quite a while.
There are two classes of police reports that I can think of not being public (or at least immediately).
1. Dealing with juvenile arrests.
2. Ongoing investigations, where the investigation may be harmed by disclosure. For example the drug bust that will happen tommorow, or an undercover investigation.
It startwith this cop geek. He builds a program that analyzes data, that has the personalities of all the great detectices inputted into it. He hooked it up to a holographic projector. Now, with enough power, the program becomes alive.
Automan has the ability to become as solid as needed. He has cursor which can draw. Of course cursor draws his car, which has no inertia. Cursor on occassion has redrawn the car into a jet and helicopter.
In the case of the police, they are working for us! We are paying them to do this job.
What would happen if your boss asked, "what did you do on your job today?" And you refused to answer.
What they are trying to do is to achieve a balance. While there are rights for the accused, the public is voyeuristic. In the United States, we decided that trials should be public. Keeping trials public is a way to keep some control on the courts and keep them honest.
In my case most of the libel issues in the case referred to non-computer related cases.
Censorship has been going on in the United States for over 200 years. That is why we have many first amendment cases. Libel and censorship cases go from old media to new media as the new media matures. Many of the libel cases went towards newspapers, then radio, then TV. Now, it goes to the internet.
Some of the limits of what public officials can say, is just a CYA move. Look at Richard Jewell. High profile cases can be harder to try, look at Louis Woodward.
But on the otherside of the coin, by seeing the accussed, others may come forward with information on the case.
In Boston, there is John TV. It is designed to discourage prostitution in Boston. They put the arrested Johns on the local cable network.
But what about the people who were not convicted?
For those not in the United States, we have laws against prostitution and a stigma attached to most things related to sex.
I watch (listen) to TV while on the computer. I have my TV on the right, OS/2 Desktop disply in front o fmy. WinNT notebook to the right, WinNT2k desktop behind me, next to my Linux server.
I'll be back right after these few words, Input, Input, Input! ---Johnny 5
Words are not copyrightible, but the selection and order of assembly.
The individual site on the list may not be copyrightable, but the list as a whole may be. The list is based on a selection criteria. Even if the application of 99% is automated, it may still may be protected.
It does not even say, that you can't distribute source code.
The injunction only applies to Jenson or Skala.
The injunction also prevents them from working with others to "Break" CyberPatrol or distribute the "source code and binaries known as CP4Break.zip" or cphack.exe". It does not include others not working in "active concert."
Of course, we don't know the private agreement that is between them.
Just based on the injunction, they could make aprogram that decodes and displays the list w/o breaking the product.
Based on the injunction, anyone else may break the product.
But of course, Mattel will probably try to sue anyone trying into oblivion.
And of course, these are my interpretations and you can't have them.
It's true that ticket Master will not make as much money, not getting hits on the pages with banner ads. But....
Ticketmaster makes money from selling tickets. They may not make as much money, but if they lose the sale, they lose more money.
What they can do, is on the response from the sale, reditrect them to the Ticketmaster homepage and tell them, they are better using Ticketmaster.com, not tickets.com. Or something like that.
CyberPatrol does not link to blocked sites!. CyberPatrol checks your site against the list to see if it's been rated as bad.
If your site is on the CyberNot list, and it should not be, then you should file a lawsuit against Mattel. Having thousands of such lawsuits may give them same feeling that they give people when they file their abusive lawsuits. But this would be legititmate
Some spiders will make an analysis of a page (and maybe generate a derivative work. Some will make copies.
A search engine (or the CyberPatrol spider) may read the page, checking keywords, and building an index or value table of sorts.
Other spiders will just copy. I had my resume, even though copyrighted and containing:
Note to recruiters: Do not send requests for more information! I would be interested in valid, open job requests. That means that you may send me information about an actual job opening to see if I would be interested in that job.
Any general recruiting requests will be treated as SPAM! It is not welcome. This is not an invitation for resume or job bank or any other services.
A recruiting company put this a database which they sell access for. Then I started getting spam from that company. Their spider made copies and stored in a database, making a copy.
I suspect that a legal delineation will be made. The type a spider for building an index, or for analysis will be allowed, but the other that just makes copies wil be tightly restricted.
Mattel's attorney may not submit the entire list to the court (in the public view), unlike other attorneys. They could always try to keep the filings under seal in the court. But their method is are not really secret.
Microsystems Software / Mattel talk about the review process on their website.
It misses two things: 1. The DMCA. 2. Composit work copyrights. Since the DMCA is new, there won't be much caselaw on it yet What counts in caselaw (usually) is what occurs at the appeal court level, not the trial court level. Though there is some exception. Website urls are not copyrightable in themselfs. What may be, is the composition of this list. I have read some earlier cases, which look at how much thought and analysis when towards the composition of the list. This analysis ruled that phone books and (the ProPhone CDs) were not copyrightable(but clickwrap won it for them). Then how much work was put in for the compilation (Motorolla v. NBA I think).
With the DMCA, there will be much litigation and abuse. It will be amended soon, if we fight!
I may hate you say, but I will defend your right to say it!
If ISPs and companies are sued for censoring, then the pendulum will swing the other direction. Then ISPs and companies may act in a more reasonable fashion as opposed to taking a knee-jerk reaction.
In some cases, it's just a knee-jerk reaction, in others it's malice.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder what the RIAA would say about it.
It is true that CPHack may allow a person to shut CyberPatrol on a system (if they go through enough hoops).
What Moglen fails to note is that most companies use The Border Manager and Proxy versions. Since this is on a server, nothing anyone can do with CPHack on their machine won't matter.
Moglen also forgets that ways to bypass CPHack have been around for quite a while.
If VCRs were not outlawed and blank tapes were not taxes, then they would go out of existence.
1. Dealing with juvenile arrests.
2. Ongoing investigations, where the investigation may be harmed by disclosure. For example the drug bust that will happen tommorow, or an undercover investigation.
It startwith this cop geek. He builds a program that analyzes data, that has the personalities of all the great detectices inputted into it. He hooked it up to a holographic projector. Now, with enough power, the program becomes alive.
Automan has the ability to become as solid as needed. He has cursor which can draw. Of course cursor draws his car, which has no inertia. Cursor on occassion has redrawn the car into a jet and helicopter.
What would happen if your boss asked, "what did you do on your job today?" And you refused to answer.
What they are trying to do is to achieve a balance. While there are rights for the accused, the public is voyeuristic. In the United States, we decided that trials should be public. Keeping trials public is a way to keep some control on the courts and keep them honest.
Yeah, I know Automan was not real smart, but it was funny.
He doesn't just have accidents.
But it was on Fox, but CBS.
In my case most of the libel issues in the case referred to non-computer related cases.
Censorship has been going on in the United States for over 200 years. That is why we have many first amendment cases. Libel and censorship cases go from old media to new media as the new media matures. Many of the libel cases went towards newspapers, then radio, then TV. Now, it goes to the internet.
Some of the limits of what public officials can say, is just a CYA move. Look at Richard Jewell. High profile cases can be harder to try, look at Louis Woodward.
But on the otherside of the coin, by seeing the accussed, others may come forward with information on the case.
In Boston, there is John TV. It is designed to discourage prostitution in Boston. They put the arrested Johns on the local cable network.
But what about the people who were not convicted?
For those not in the United States, we have laws against prostitution and a stigma attached to most things related to sex.
I was going to cancel my SCI-Fi channel. Now, if they pick up Strange Luck and bring back The Flash.
The individual site on the list may not be copyrightable, but the list as a whole may be. The list is based on a selection criteria. Even if the application of 99% is automated, it may still may be protected.
The injunction only applies to Jenson or Skala.
The injunction also prevents them from working with others to "Break" CyberPatrol or distribute the "source code and binaries known as CP4Break.zip" or cphack.exe". It does not include others not working in "active concert."
Of course, we don't know the private agreement that is between them.
Just based on the injunction, they could make aprogram that decodes and displays the list w/o breaking the product.
Based on the injunction, anyone else may break the product.
But of course, Mattel will probably try to sue anyone trying into oblivion.
And of course, these are my interpretations and you can't have them.
When you view a page, it is usually copied into a cache, but you don't sell copies of the cache.
Ticketmaster makes money from selling tickets. They may not make as much money, but if they lose the sale, they lose more money.
What they can do, is on the response from the sale, reditrect them to the Ticketmaster homepage and tell them, they are better using Ticketmaster.com, not tickets.com. Or something like that.
CyberPatrol does not link to blocked sites!. CyberPatrol checks your site against the list to see if it's been rated as bad.
If your site is on the CyberNot list, and it should not be, then you should file a lawsuit against Mattel. Having thousands of such lawsuits may give them same feeling that they give people when they file their abusive lawsuits. But this would be legititmate
Some spiders will make an analysis of a page (and maybe generate a derivative work. Some will make copies.
A search engine (or the CyberPatrol spider) may read the page, checking keywords, and building an index or value table of sorts.
Other spiders will just copy. I had my resume, even though copyrighted and containing:
A recruiting company put this a database which they sell access for. Then I started getting spam from that company. Their spider made copies and stored in a database, making a copy.I suspect that a legal delineation will be made. The type a spider for building an index, or for analysis will be allowed, but the other that just makes copies wil be tightly restricted.
Huh?? Why would Ticketmaster want to stop anyone from buying with them.
The case involves both issues.
Microsystems Software / Mattel talk about the review process on their website.
Is 007 the IQ?
It misses two things: 1. The DMCA. 2. Composit work copyrights. Since the DMCA is new, there won't be much caselaw on it yet What counts in caselaw (usually) is what occurs at the appeal court level, not the trial court level. Though there is some exception. Website urls are not copyrightable in themselfs. What may be, is the composition of this list. I have read some earlier cases, which look at how much thought and analysis when towards the composition of the list. This analysis ruled that phone books and (the ProPhone CDs) were not copyrightable(but clickwrap won it for them). Then how much work was put in for the compilation (Motorolla v. NBA I think).
With the DMCA, there will be much litigation and abuse. It will be amended soon, if we fight!
Boy, then life will really suck.
If ISPs and companies are sued for censoring, then the pendulum will swing the other direction. Then ISPs and companies may act in a more reasonable fashion as opposed to taking a knee-jerk reaction.
In some cases, it's just a knee-jerk reaction, in others it's malice.