Like those here on Slashdot who published copies of DeCSS in violation of the DMCA?
No, you don't understand. You see, Apple can do no wrong, and thus we must agree with this decision. DeCSS is a completely different issue because Apple isn't involved in that.
There is no property right at stake here. The first place you start is tortious interference with a contractual duty. Then you get into trade secrets and it gets a bit more complicated.
Tortious interference has to be one of the dumbest concepts I have ever heard someone try to justify on/. (and there is plenty of competition). Contracts should bind those that agree to the contracts, not third parties. If you break a contract then that is your responsibility, and yours alone.
This is a terrible day for anyone who thinks that being a "journalist" should give you a free ride to break any contract or trade secret laws you want in the name of "freedom".
Yeah, thank God someone is finally protecting those poor multinational corporations from those evil non-professional journalists.
What "public interest" does it serve to protect the guy who leaks confidential information about the next Power Mac revision?
It serves a public interest to protect journalists against getting dragged into court so that a judge can determine whether their speech is good enough to deserve first amendment protection.
Again you avoid the issue completely, this time resorting to a personal attack. I will leave it up to the readers and moderators to determine whose is the dumber comment.
It's not tainted because some people you don't like decided to use it.
The issue is not the people that used it, it is what they used it for, in that case it was to suppress information that was clearly in the public interest. I'm really sorry that I found a good example of someone using these dumb laws to do something evil.
And you say absolutely nothing about somebody's case when you draw such an unbelievably flimsy association solely for the purposes of inducing an emotional response.
Wow, the guy avoiding the actual issue and indulging in name calling is accusing me of trying to induce an emotional response. Pot, kettle, black, etc.
Yeah. That, and the small issue that they might have broken a law doing so.
If so, then its a dumb law that could easily be used to suppress legitimate journalism (and has been in the past).
Do you understand that NDAs or any confidentiality agreements would be meaningless if all you had to do was leak them to someone else, who in turn publicly leaks them, all with no repurcussions of any kind nor any recourse for the employer?
Do you understand that the person who signs a contract is the one who should be constrained by it, and punished should they break it, and a contract should not be binding upon anyone that hasn't actually agreed to it?
Please explain what NDA is signed by a journalist that receives information from someone that is violating an NDA by providing it, such that the journalist's freedom of speech should be constrained.
If you aren't going to do me the courtesy of responding properly to my comment, then I am not particularly inclined to respond to yours (although I do think its telling that Apple accused them of "tortious interference", the very same tool that the tobacco industry tried to use to suppress the 60 Minutes segment on Jeff Wigand, as dramatised by The Insider - go Apple!).
I must say I feel much more secure about freedom of speech now that only those deemed to be speaking in the public interest are permitted to disclose information that a corporation doesn't want them to disclose.
No doubt that still others will make claims that the very idea of "trade secrets" is wrong, and that the UTSA is unconstitutional. This, of course, completely ignores the basic ideas of property, including intellectual property, and good-faith agreements to not reveal your employer's secrets, not to mention fundamental ideas of ethics, and further ignores the idea that free speech is not, and never has been, absolute, in that it has ramifications.
Yeah, but this isn't about those that violated an NDA, it is about those who revealed information that they obtained from someone who violated an NDA. What property right justifies the application of restrictions imposed by an agreement on someone that never signed that agreement?
This is a good day for the fundamental idea of rights being couple with responsibility, and the fundamental concept that actions have consequences.
This is a terrible day for anyone that thinks freedom of speech should trump corporate interests.
Certainly nobody believes that "the press", in any of its traditional or more modern forms, has the unfettered freedom to publish private information, especially if the release of the information is potentially harmful to someone.
Yeah, thank God that the Washington Post wasn't able to publish that sensitive private information about the Watergate break-in which would have been terribly damaging to Nixon.
Get real, almost anything worth publishing will be damaging and considered private to someone.
...understand that most people outside the US view the refusal to accept that human activity causes global warming in much the same way that many within the US view the creationist argument against the teaching of the theory of evolution?
I mean, it isn't even a topic of debate outside the US, people accept it as fact.
I think I'd be happier with a torrent, everyone is used to Bit Torrent now, and you get more control over it, Dijjer seems to give me no GUI for configuring it.
Either did the first version of BitTorrent.
Another problem is that it seems to depend on the dijjer.org site to be useful
Nope, just uses that as a way to ensure that people are running Dijjer before they try the download. You can get any file direct by requesting from http://127.0.0.1:9115/[url]
Also depending on a certain local port is annoying, what if I absolutely positively need that port due to some other local port using app?
This is a nitpick, but in the unlikely event that you need to use a different local port, it can be configured through the command line.
Personally I think you're trying to use this dijjer thing for something its not really targetted at. I looked at the site and it mentions ipod casting, local http server makes sense in that case, but a gui or status page or something would be nice.
I can assure you that this is exactly what Dijjer is intended to do. One of Dijjer's advantages is that it works through standard HTTP clients, rather than needing a custom GUI like BitTorrent.
Oh, there is a status page http://localhost:9115/, still don't see any options to fiddle with:)
They are all command-line right now, we may enhance this in future (its open source so you are welcome to help implement this if you really want it).
Hmm, it got stuck at 47% downloaded 32% sent to client, I ended up getting the files direct.
Strange, we are still debugging, and the website was behaving weirdly which could have caused problems for Dijjer.
if this was bt I could close the torrent thats stuck, open reopen it on the direct download and help seed, just sayin
Dijjer supports file resuming. Don't worry about seeding, Dijjer doesn't work like that.
I am curious of how this initially seeds a file.
Its explained on the website, but forget BitTorrent, Dijjer works in a completely different way.
Bittorrent requires someone to run a tracker, Dijjer requires someone to run a root node. I don't see any big breakthroughs here.
Then you really aren't looking very hard.
The point with Dijjer is that the content distributor doesn't have to do anything to publish their content. The only purpose of the seed node is to bootstrap peers into the Dijjer network, once your peer starts up it doesn't need the seed node any more, irrespective of how many files you download. With BitTorrent, the tracker must be kept running by the content distributor for as long as they want to distribute their content.
Add to that the fact that Dijjer does automatic firewall penetration, that it can stream content straight to browsers (allowing media to be played back as it is downloading) and you really need to be suffering from some serious visual impairment if you can't see how much of an advance it is over BitTorrent.
There are a couple of cool movies on the site, but they are pretty big. To save the servers, here are some Dijjer links to them (be patient, Dijjer can take a while to get going, but then it speeds up):
Coral Cache is still essentially centralised (it consists of a number of centralised servers), meaning that its bandwidth is finite. This is presumably why they must limit file sizes to 50MB.
No doubt their top priority will be figuring out all the ways to prevent their customers from from using these disks in the way they want to use them. "Can't pause that there" "Can't watch that on that device" "No fast-forwarding through that" "Can't watch this in that country"...
Remember when technology used to be about enabling people, rather than disabling them?
Yes you are. The tide is really turning in the EU, there is scarcely an MEP in the European Parliament that isn't familiar with this issue, and even those MEPs that supported the initial pro-Patent directive now seem to understand what the problems with it were.
Of course, we can't let our guard down, but we have them on the run, and we have taught our politicians that there are two sides to the debate over whether Intellectual Property should be expanded.
This will give the EU a much needed opportunity to consider the issues properly with the benefit of major campaigning forces on BOTH sides of the arguments instead of just the big boys arguing for unlimited patentability.
Um, the big boys arguing for unlimited patentability are one side of this argument, even though they would deny that this is their true intention.
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Please explain what NDA is signed by a journalist that receives information from someone that is violating an NDA by providing it, such that the journalist's freedom of speech should be constrained.
If you aren't going to do me the courtesy of responding properly to my comment, then I am not particularly inclined to respond to yours (although I do think its telling that Apple accused them of "tortious interference", the very same tool that the tobacco industry tried to use to suppress the 60 Minutes segment on Jeff Wigand, as dramatised by The Insider - go Apple!).
Get real, almost anything worth publishing will be damaging and considered private to someone.
...to link to http://dijjer.org/get/http://www.rzuser.uni-heidel berg.de/~jknoblo2/LnL/lnluksm.avi?
Oh wait, we already have that.
Finally someone said it and managed to do so without getting modded as flamebait or trolling.
I mean, it isn't even a topic of debate outside the US, people accept it as fact.
The point with Dijjer is that the content distributor doesn't have to do anything to publish their content. The only purpose of the seed node is to bootstrap peers into the Dijjer network, once your peer starts up it doesn't need the seed node any more, irrespective of how many files you download. With BitTorrent, the tracker must be kept running by the content distributor for as long as they want to distribute their content.
Add to that the fact that Dijjer does automatic firewall penetration, that it can stream content straight to browsers (allowing media to be played back as it is downloading) and you really need to be suffering from some serious visual impairment if you can't see how much of an advance it is over BitTorrent.
Something closer to the mark would be Tierra developed in the early 90s.
Dijjer has no such limitations.
Download the Powerpoint through Dijjer by clicking here.
What a waste of space.
Remember when technology used to be about enabling people, rather than disabling them?
Of course, we can't let our guard down, but we have them on the run, and we have taught our politicians that there are two sides to the debate over whether Intellectual Property should be expanded.
The logical conclusion is that I'm not actually human. My girlfriend will be very upset when I tell her.
In this case the guy didn't even make content available, he just told people where they can find it.
The solution to DRM is not to buy any product that includes it.