There's much worse than that in Death Wish. Bronson walks around with a camera hanging from his shoulder, the target (a pickpocketer) runs from behind him, grabs the camera and keeps running in front of him. Then he gets his BIG GUN and shoots the guy DEAD IN THE BACK! How's that for punishment fitting the crime? I was expecting him to shoot his leg. Note, this is not just "shown", this is ADVERTISED AS THE RIGHT AND HEROIC THING TO DO!
The bait described in the article, on the other hand, is 100% correct and clean. I wish "real" cars had that too.
Naughty? Last time I checked selling used books is absolutely legal. The upside is, the authors' guild doesn't seem to be considering legal action. What they're doing ("let's give them the silent treatment") falls FAR short of the IP bullying we've been reading about elsewhere. Hope it ends there.
I don't think they'll resist the opportunity to market something costing $200 to people who absolutely cannot spend $2000 on a new TV. Unless they make it illegal.
Finally, Powell suggested rollout dates over the next four years for television manufacturers to step up production of sets that include digital tuners, as well as set-top boxes for older TVs that process the digital signal.
So I guess you'd have to buy one of those boxes for each group os TVs you want to tune independently. At most one for each.
But wait a minute! Wouldn't such a box be illegal under the CBDTPA??? Ha! They want to restrict so much it's starting to mess even their own plans!
My guess: he sent with attachments on purpose to get the messages blocked, in order to build the bogus "I was censored" argument. NOTE: this is an opinion, and therefore not suable. Besides, I'm in Brazil, and not planning to set foot in the USA anytime soon (never if the CBDTPA passes, but that's another story).
Exactly. Costs way more, takes a lot more time and hassle, and is not a "perfect" copy.
But if the book is out of print, it is the only recourse you have left. I have had this PITA lots of times in Engineering. The teachers just loved to select unfindable textbooks. Not nice.
What? You say that pine doesn't send return receipts? You say you can read/var/spool/mail/fred without altering it in any way? We'd better make Outlook the law!
However, fair use (as another poster asserts) is a post facto defence. If you can make a copy, then fair use allows you to do so in many cases. It does not give leverage to demand copyable media.
No need to. The developers of DeCSS and other CSS breakers didn't "demand" anything from anybody, they just went through a little more hoops to perform exactly what Fair Use defends: the right to copy. The publishers are the ones "demanding" things, not us.
And before I forget, IMHO and IANAL, but Fair Use rulings do seem to create an implicit right to copy. The DMCA clashes with Fair Use because it makes you punishable for copying, something Fair Use explicitly says is a no-no.
I see no difference between "you can't be prosecuted for X" and "doing X is legal".
a paper written by one of Napster's founding engineers
Just when they lauch their pay service. No, I assure you his/her analysis is totally and utterly impartial. Excuse me while I ask Bill Gates about the scalability of the Linux kernel.
"Red Carpet(TM) Express is a timesaving subscription service that provides end users with priority, high bandwidth Internet downloads and updates of Ximian(TM) and third party software hosted by Ximian."
I really, really hope this doesn't mean Ximian RPM releases will be delayed in the public servers. Narrower bandwidth, I don't mind much.
You know, it really looks like a good recipe for a legal "vaccine" against DMCA-like legislation. Let's say country Y decides to conform to the treaty by establishing an upping to copyright violation penalties IF circumvention measures were used in the process of violating (e.g. a pirate DVD ring that uses DeCSS to create nonencrypted versions of CSS-protected movies). Multiply penalties, say, by 1.5. Developing, using and distributing DeCSS, per se, would still be legal.
I could live with that.
(oh, and it's articles 11 and 12, not 10 and 11.)
Then again, the language of the treaty is scaringly vague. Countries CAN get themselves to comply without DMCA-izing themselves, but WILL they?
"In your opinion, what should be the right time for copyright expiration? And, in case you think the current time is just about right, will you be against an extension when Steamboat Wille is about to go to the public domain? (Let's suppose for the sake of argument that you're going to live that long)"
He didn't say he is against porting GNOME to proprietary systems. He explicitly said, lots of times, there can be Free Software running on proprietary systems and it'll still be Free.
On the other hand, I can see him disapproving of efforts like Wine, which have the potential of turning systems that already are 100% Free into less-than-100% Free. "Hey, MS Office runs in Linux now? Let's stop using KOffice!"
GNOME on the Mac, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite - it takes a 100% proprietary system and turns it into something part Free, part proprietary. This is a good thing, and I'll bet RMS would agree. A beachhead if you will.
Another interesting tidbit from RMS's responses is:
From time to time I face the ticklish task of asking a complete stranger to change the license of his software package. Making this request is like waking up a dragon to ask to borrow its hoard: the developer is likely to find the request impertinent and could easily get angry. Nonetheless, I succeed most of the time.
I wonder if he's had the opportunity to tackle Dan J. Bernstein yet. Although his terms seem to meet the Free Software criteria for me, I hear all the time that Qmail isn't free software.
Especially stuff relying on kernel-patches that didn't (yet) make it into the linus kernel (supermount, lm_sensors) will only work if you get the kernel-rpm, or apply the patches yourself
ext3 is not in the main strain either. I'm "make menuconfig"-ing 2.2.14 right now, with experimental options enabled, and it doesn't show up. Guess RH7.2 users like me will have to wait for -ac1.
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There's much worse than that in Death Wish. Bronson walks around with a camera hanging from his shoulder, the target (a pickpocketer) runs from behind him, grabs the camera and keeps running in front of him. Then he gets his BIG GUN and shoots the guy DEAD IN THE BACK! How's that for punishment fitting the crime? I was expecting him to shoot his leg. Note, this is not just "shown", this is ADVERTISED AS THE RIGHT AND HEROIC THING TO DO!
The bait described in the article, on the other hand, is 100% correct and clean. I wish "real" cars had that too.
Naughty? Last time I checked selling used books is absolutely legal. The upside is, the authors' guild doesn't seem to be considering legal action. What they're doing ("let's give them the silent treatment") falls FAR short of the IP bullying we've been reading about elsewhere. Hope it ends there.
I don't think they'll resist the opportunity to market something costing $200 to people who absolutely cannot spend $2000 on a new TV. Unless they make it illegal.
Article says:
Finally, Powell suggested rollout dates over the next four years for television manufacturers to step up production of sets that include digital tuners, as well as set-top boxes for older TVs that process the digital signal.
So I guess you'd have to buy one of those boxes for each group os TVs you want to tune independently. At most one for each.
But wait a minute! Wouldn't such a box be illegal under the CBDTPA??? Ha! They want to restrict so much it's starting to mess even their own plans!
My guess: he sent with attachments on purpose to get the messages blocked, in order to build the bogus "I was censored" argument. NOTE: this is an opinion, and therefore not suable. Besides, I'm in Brazil, and not planning to set foot in the USA anytime soon (never if the CBDTPA passes, but that's another story).
Exactly. Costs way more, takes a lot more time and hassle, and is not a "perfect" copy.
But if the book is out of print, it is the only recourse you have left. I have had this PITA lots of times in Engineering. The teachers just loved to select unfindable textbooks. Not nice.
What? You say that pine doesn't send return receipts? You say you can read /var/spool/mail/fred without altering it in any way? We'd better make Outlook the law!
Working on it.
However, fair use (as another poster asserts) is a post facto defence. If you can make a copy, then fair use allows you to do so in many cases. It does not give leverage to demand copyable media.
No need to. The developers of DeCSS and other CSS breakers didn't "demand" anything from anybody, they just went through a little more hoops to perform exactly what Fair Use defends: the right to copy. The publishers are the ones "demanding" things, not us.
And before I forget, IMHO and IANAL, but Fair Use rulings do seem to create an implicit right to copy. The DMCA clashes with Fair Use because it makes you punishable for copying, something Fair Use explicitly says is a no-no.
I see no difference between "you can't be prosecuted for X" and "doing X is legal".
How the hell are we going to draw square number -1 in the Periodic Table of Elements?
Ask Mr. Keller (the author of the rant) if maybe he's guilty of tinfoilhatism too. But be sure to have two bulky male nurses between you and him.
If I set up a MPEG4 streaming server in a country who does not recognize software patents (like mine ;) I can solemny ignore patent holders, right?
And if they complain that citizens of the USA can view my videos, I'll just say (or rather instruct my lawyer to say) "Do you... Yahoo?"
Oops. The date wasn't totally explicit, and the math went way over my head. I'll apologize if you apologize for the "moron".
a paper written by one of Napster's founding engineers
Just when they lauch their pay service. No, I assure you his/her analysis is totally and utterly impartial. Excuse me while I ask Bill Gates about the scalability of the Linux kernel.
Maybe they're waiting for MS to bet the entire farm on .NET and only then open-source Java?
If this is correct, you're saying Norway already has a (half-assed attempt at a) DMCA.
Then how the hell do they know it is a squid?
They telnetted into its port 3128.
Ximian sez
"Red Carpet(TM) Express is a timesaving subscription service that provides end users with priority, high bandwidth Internet downloads and updates of Ximian(TM) and third party software hosted by Ximian."
I really, really hope this doesn't mean Ximian RPM releases will be delayed in the public servers. Narrower bandwidth, I don't mind much.
You know, it really looks like a good recipe for a legal "vaccine" against DMCA-like legislation. Let's say country Y decides to conform to the treaty by establishing an upping to copyright violation penalties IF circumvention measures were used in the process of violating (e.g. a pirate DVD ring that uses DeCSS to create nonencrypted versions of CSS-protected movies). Multiply penalties, say, by 1.5. Developing, using and distributing DeCSS, per se, would still be legal.
I could live with that.
(oh, and it's articles 11 and 12, not 10 and 11.)
Then again, the language of the treaty is scaringly vague. Countries CAN get themselves to comply without DMCA-izing themselves, but WILL they?
And I suspect there were a bunch of arcade games that ran a Z80 besides PacMan.
A bunch? More like a truckload.
Article sez:
You dial by speaking the number aloud through a combination earpiece/microphone.
Who guarantees me these things won't silently store an identifiable sample of your voice in them?
Done. This is what I asked:
"In your opinion, what should be the right time for copyright expiration? And, in case you think the current time is just about right, will you be against an extension when Steamboat Wille is about to go to the public domain? (Let's suppose for the sake of argument that you're going to live that long)"
Will use Outlook only -- "Prayer will defend us from viruses", says school principal.
This will not do good for the acceptance of Linux in the Bible Belt -- Linux evolved through natural selection, while Windows was created by God.
He didn't say he is against porting GNOME to proprietary systems. He explicitly said, lots of times, there can be Free Software running on proprietary systems and it'll still be Free.
On the other hand, I can see him disapproving of efforts like Wine, which have the potential of turning systems that already are 100% Free into less-than-100% Free. "Hey, MS Office runs in Linux now? Let's stop using KOffice!"
GNOME on the Mac, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite - it takes a 100% proprietary system and turns it into something part Free, part proprietary. This is a good thing, and I'll bet RMS would agree. A beachhead if you will.
Another interesting tidbit from RMS's responses is:
From time to time I face the ticklish task of asking a complete stranger to change the license of his software package. Making this request is like waking up a dragon to ask to borrow its hoard: the developer is likely to find the request impertinent and could easily get angry. Nonetheless, I succeed most of the time.
I wonder if he's had the opportunity to tackle Dan J. Bernstein yet. Although his terms seem to meet the Free Software criteria for me, I hear all the time that Qmail isn't free software.
http://vivendi.isverybad.com
.net and .org TLDs) just for cases like that.
http://vivendiuniversal.isverybad.com
Kindly provided by yours truly. Let Vivendi claim they have a trademark on "is", "very" or "bad".
I registered those domains (along with "are" instead of "is", plus the
Especially stuff relying on kernel-patches that didn't (yet) make it into the linus kernel (supermount, lm_sensors) will only work if you get the kernel-rpm, or apply the patches yourself
ext3 is not in the main strain either. I'm "make menuconfig"-ing 2.2.14 right now, with experimental options enabled, and it doesn't show up. Guess RH7.2 users like me will have to wait for -ac1.