it is the creation and distribution of DeCSS that may be illegal. Not its possesion or use for otherwise legal activities.
But here's something to think about as well. Personally I have a hardware decoder and two legitimately licensed software players. That means that, in fact, I *have* the legal right to use the decryption code to play DVD's. One could even argue I've already overpaid for that right.
The fact that, as delivered, that code will only run on under Windows has nothing to do with my payed for right to decrypt.
You might be tempted to say, "Oops, I did it again."
Ok, you can slap me now.
I must say though, my friends have always been more reliable at alerting me to things I might like than any program, and they're more, well, friendly too. I've never yet seen any automated system that didn't, sooner or later, get messed up. Which would be ok, except I've never known one to make particularly valuable recommendations when it *wasn't* messed up either.
Hey, you watched a car racing movie. Here's some other car racing movies you might like to watch.
Well, I *know* that you moron. I'm into car racing movies. Get it?
This whole thing is clearly a practical demonstration to inveterate mouse users of the kind of crap you put touch typists through when we say things like," But I don't care if it *is* a billionth of a second faster to use the mouse. I don't *want* to take my fingers off home base."
if we don't get this ruling then VoIP may well be blocked by the government. Voice bits, being inately fatter than data bits, can be,literally, screened out by the simple installation of a physical filter in the cable.
He didn't let the phyiscists who remained use what he termed "Jewish Physics." Which, as it happens, was the *correct* physics.
It turns out, according to documents that only came to light about 10 years ago, the Japanese were probably actually much closer to building a bomb than Germany because, even though they started late and worked slowly, they were heading down the proper path to pull it off.
You are simply unaware that Jefferson was, as Secretary of State and head of the patent board, the primary author of America's first patent laws, and America's first patent officer.
Deep under Cheyenne Mountain, and never come out. The probability of you dying in a plane crash is zero, but the odds of you dying by getting hit by an asteroid remain nearly the same.
Get it yet? Those odds apply to *someone,* not you.
Only Mr. J. Random Public need be overly concerned. You are a *specific* individual, which changes the rules, and the odds, entirely.
if we're about to be hit with an asteroid, and they won't tell us.
Watch the astronomers. If all of a sudden they start mortgaging their souls to buy Porsches and big mansions with hot and cold running hookers, look out!
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it is the creation and distribution of DeCSS that may be illegal. Not its possesion or use for otherwise legal activities.
But here's something to think about as well. Personally I have a hardware decoder and two legitimately licensed software players. That means that, in fact, I *have* the legal right to use the decryption code to play DVD's. One could even argue I've already overpaid for that right.
The fact that, as delivered, that code will only run on under Windows has nothing to do with my payed for right to decrypt.
KFG
pretty much *all* of them. Wouldn't you?
KFG
Oh no. You can't fool me. I'm too smart for *that* old trick.
KFG
You might be tempted to say, "Oops, I did it again."
Ok, you can slap me now.
I must say though, my friends have always been more reliable at alerting me to things I might like than any program, and they're more, well, friendly too. I've never yet seen any automated system that didn't, sooner or later, get messed up. Which would be ok, except I've never known one to make particularly valuable recommendations when it *wasn't* messed up either.
Hey, you watched a car racing movie. Here's some other car racing movies you might like to watch.
Well, I *know* that you moron. I'm into car racing movies. Get it?
KFG
This whole thing is clearly a practical demonstration to inveterate mouse users of the kind of crap you put touch typists through when we say things like," But I don't care if it *is* a billionth of a second faster to use the mouse. I don't *want* to take my fingers off home base."
KFG
would be ironic.
KFG
The music companies they represent are billing it back against the artists, just like everything else.
KFG
I was just about to take a temp job with a Fortune 1000 company just so I could sit around all day using the company computers to download movies.
NOW they'll probably impliment some sort of official policy of displeasure with such pursuits.
Damn you RIAA.
KFG
to simply purchase wealth, thus eliminating all economic inequities in the Brave New World of the future.
KFG
In fact, I'm still on 8. There's no accounting for taste though, and I don't really care for the XP desktop, actually prefering 98.
As such I get along reasonably well with KDE when working in GUI mode.
It takes all kinds to make a world I guess.
KFG
Possession of fingers isn't due to become legal grounds for suspicion of terrorist activity until *next* week.
KFG
if we don't get this ruling then VoIP may well be blocked by the government. Voice bits, being inately fatter than data bits, can be,literally, screened out by the simple installation of a physical filter in the cable.
KFG
who take the fun out of everything. Now I have to wait for a new story to get snippy over something.
KFG
The security of a lockable tower case can be broken with a common Sawzall.
Ashcroft declares possesion is a terrorist computer crime.
KFG
With their "Visual MyHeavywater.bomb.NET(tm)" product?
Hah. Fooled you. You thought I was going to invoke Godwin's law by making some comparison between MS and Nazis. Oh, wait. Shit. Screwed up again.
KFG
so he made sure Stalin and Mao got one too?
One must follow one's logic to its, ummmmm, logical conclusion.
Oh, wait. We're talking about *religion.*
Nevermind.
KFG
He didn't let the phyiscists who remained use what he termed "Jewish Physics." Which, as it happens, was the *correct* physics.
It turns out, according to documents that only came to light about 10 years ago, the Japanese were probably actually much closer to building a bomb than Germany because, even though they started late and worked slowly, they were heading down the proper path to pull it off.
KFG
The scientific method. Google on "N-rays."
KFG
You are simply unaware that Jefferson was, as Secretary of State and head of the patent board, the primary author of America's first patent laws, and America's first patent officer.
1 3/ 200Rprojs/jefferson_invent/patent.html
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~meg3c/classes/tcc3
KFG
a real estate agent who tried to sell him a 200 square foot condo for $750,000.
Ah, those were the days, back when Bay Area real estate was still cheap.
KFG
with MS Penny Blacks? Or do they appreciate as much in value if you hang onto them long enough?
Otherwise I'm not sure I'm interested.
KFG
Deep under Cheyenne Mountain, and never come out. The probability of you dying in a plane crash is zero, but the odds of you dying by getting hit by an asteroid remain nearly the same.
Get it yet? Those odds apply to *someone,* not you.
Only Mr. J. Random Public need be overly concerned. You are a *specific* individual, which changes the rules, and the odds, entirely.
KFG
if we're about to be hit with an asteroid, and they won't tell us.
Watch the astronomers. If all of a sudden they start mortgaging their souls to buy Porsches and big mansions with hot and cold running hookers, look out!
KFG
on a credit card.
KFG
because he was afraid to fly?
A plane fell on it.
KFG