I got rather lost in the legalese, but it appears that in fact the jury did decide that this line had been crossed. This makes the Appeals Court decision somewhat unusual.
Easy. They did it to please Dubya and help their careers.
Marvelous land you have there, where decrypting a digital disc is illegal but encouraging murder isn't.
Well if there is and you want to buy used software and you live in the US, good luck getting it through customs. Or maybe I am completely wrong and you can do that with no problem. But I doubt it. Can anyone with customs experience shed some light on the subject?
BTW, I see a market for eBay translating its.jp page into English.:)
And,/. editors, this was deserving of front page. I mean, how often copyright-related good news shows up?
Speaking of "negative things", some MS exec (I fail to remember his name) said something to the effect that copylefting software (GNU, open-source, GPL, Free Software, you know the deal) is harmful. Do you have an opinion on that opinion? Are you free to state it here?
Why will people want to spend money to buy their CD playing equipment all over again just to protect the RIAA yet get nothing improved for themselves?
They think long term -- they're counting on the Third Law of Termodynamics as an ally. Entropy means in XX years all electronic devices in existence today will rot and become unusable. In the meantime, they try to ensure no new device which will allow copying will be ever built again, anywhere in the world. A near impossible goal, but they think they can do it.
When I say "near", I mean the only way they could possibly achieve such a thing is by turning this planet into a global China-cum-Afghanistan-cum-NSA-like police state. And make no mistake, they do want that. Rich people in Chile, for instance, tend to love Pinochet (former mass-murdering dictator).
I don't know how it is in the USA (probably varies state by state like most anything) but in Brazil consumers have a law-established unconditional right to return any kind of durable goods within 7 days of purchase, no matter what the warranty/policy says. To refuse is a violation of law. This law was passed a few years ago in order to curb rampant screwing of customers by stores and manufacturers.
Does any state in the USA have anything like that (or some other country for that matter)?
(For some reason every time I read/. the poverty, crime, excessive heat, lousy public services etc. around here slowly feel more and more bearable. We have a rather liberal immigration police by the way. Everybody's welcome -- except Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen of course.;-P)
Ah, but you aren't thinking far enough into the future, my friend. You see, the reason that this disc is Country is precisely because the record industries already know that all of us will go out, buy and attempt to break the protection scheme. So our best and brightest will quickly go utterly and irreparably insane listening to country music and will be unable to help us in our fight against the Evil that awaits in the immediate future.
*slaps forehead* Of course! The Mars Attacks Method!!!
Having two serial ports is useful when you have to use expensive software that requires a dongle, or you want to use your laptop as a debugger.
Aren't most dongles parallel? (Not that I'd touch dongled software with a 10-ft pole, mind you). Parallel seems to be the cascadable device of choice (zipdrives, scanners, external CD-R's...) before USB completely takes over.
...sucked but I liked it (as 12-years olds do). I used to run competitions with my cousins using the 25-15-10 points system -- usually involving running, a couple of board games, and soccer penalty kicks. I liked to be the Really Rottens.
Why I think Xbox will, sadly, succeed
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Even if 1.0 is a dog, M$ can afford to lose a horribly high amount of money in 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0, and come up with a really good product in 9.0. They'll brush it off with Windows/Office extortion racket^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licensing revenues.
This is how 99.9% of the mainstream news is. Even the weather is biased.
"Forecasts estimate a 35% probability of heavy rain at the time of the civil-rights demonstration scheduled for today in Sometown, Somestate. Wash away the commies, Lord!"
OK, let me suspend my disbelief a little and assume such a bill could become law...
Yes, OS-less machines should be exempt according to the phrasing. IMHO, another exemption should probably be computers set up for ISP that allow censored subaccounts (like, surprise surprise, AOL). There's no reason to believe an installed censorware would be more effective than an ISP-level one. One could just install CyberPatrol in Mr. Garcia's PC and show him the holes (in more ways than one).
Then again, his reaction should probably be outrage at the low quality of the software and demand 100% bulletproof porn blocking, with stiff penalties both for the censorware manufacturer, PC seller and...
The only real "solution" to the "problem" would be to outlaw the Internet in Texas. Shame because I communicate with some nice people in Texas (yes there IS such a thing, believe it or not. I was surprised too.)
Are all the good Christian people now sitting in Congress fully aware of how (C) law helps those cultist loonies at Scientology silence their critics? Coulnd't all these ugly cases be used as an efficient arguing point in Congress?
Their trademark is "The X Files". Now, does that cover "The*[Ff]iles"? If I have a cofee stand called "The Z Cofee", do I have the right to sue anybody called "The Best Cofee" or "The Genuine Colombian Cofee"?
the other sad point is that if you are a softeare coder, you'll be developing packages to work for it. you have to eat.
I'll change professions. Open a bar. Teach Math. Whatever. Heck, I'd rather live on 25% of what I make now than help murder people's freedom. I'm serious.
Story says, "this could land potential Jedi in hot water as those who record false information, don't fill out census forms, or destroy them, can be prosecuted."
How could they consider the Jedi thing "false information"? Reading your mind to prove you're actually Buddhist or something?
I coded frontends with the MySQL Win ODBC drivers (more than 1 1/2 year ago) and they did work as advertised. You'll be able to use the exact same frontend code either for MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle or.mdb tables. I suppose Postgres should work just as well, although I never worked with its Windows ODBC driver.
In other words: yes, go for it. It works. And in the meantime, try to convince your boss NOT to use Access as a frontend, but Visual Basic. You'll get a much leaner and meaner application, and it's just as M$. Access as a front-end is a dumbed-down VB.
They own all the copyrights to their sports events' recordings, so every time someone wants to show it in a highlight film or something, they get a cut.
Whoa. Isn't the use of snippets Fair Use? (as opposed to an entire copyrighted work, which would mean replaying the entire game)
The problem is, you're not truly "restricted" on what you can do on CPRM-enabled drives. You can still format it to whatever OS you like, and store whatever file you damn feel like. But some yet-to come, sociopathic software will have the additional capability of storing files in a way you can't get them back properly. Subtle difference.
From their site:
Our goal is to inform legislators and the Governor's office that UCITA is a bad law that is anti-competitive, anti-business and anti-consumer.
Lobbyst says: 'See, Governor/State Legislator, they're a bunch of liars. How can anything that is anti-competitive and anti-consumer be anti-business?'
Governor/State Legislator buys it. Everybody is screwed.
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Easy. They did it to please Dubya and help their careers.
Marvelous land you have there, where decrypting a digital disc is illegal but encouraging murder isn't.
BTW, I see a market for eBay translating its .jp page into English. :)
And, /. editors, this was deserving of front page. I mean, how often copyright-related good news shows up?
Speaking of "negative things", some MS exec (I fail to remember his name) said something to the effect that copylefting software (GNU, open-source, GPL, Free Software, you know the deal) is harmful. Do you have an opinion on that opinion? Are you free to state it here?
They think long term -- they're counting on the Third Law of Termodynamics as an ally. Entropy means in XX years all electronic devices in existence today will rot and become unusable. In the meantime, they try to ensure no new device which will allow copying will be ever built again, anywhere in the world. A near impossible goal, but they think they can do it.
When I say "near", I mean the only way they could possibly achieve such a thing is by turning this planet into a global China-cum-Afghanistan-cum-NSA-like police state. And make no mistake, they do want that. Rich people in Chile, for instance, tend to love Pinochet (former mass-murdering dictator).
(Closely avoiding Godwin's Law. Whew!)
Does any state in the USA have anything like that (or some other country for that matter)? (For some reason every time I read /. the poverty, crime, excessive heat, lousy public services etc. around here slowly feel more and more bearable. We have a rather liberal immigration police by the way. Everybody's welcome -- except Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen of course. ;-P)
*slaps forehead* Of course! The Mars Attacks Method!!!
Aren't most dongles parallel? (Not that I'd touch dongled software with a 10-ft pole, mind you). Parallel seems to be the cascadable device of choice (zipdrives, scanners, external CD-R's...) before USB completely takes over.
...sucked but I liked it (as 12-years olds do). I used to run competitions with my cousins using the 25-15-10 points system -- usually involving running, a couple of board games, and soccer penalty kicks. I liked to be the Really Rottens.
Oh, and you say "antitrust", I say "Dubya"!
"Forecasts estimate a 35% probability of heavy rain at the time of the civil-rights demonstration scheduled for today in Sometown, Somestate. Wash away the commies, Lord!"
Yes, OS-less machines should be exempt according to the phrasing. IMHO, another exemption should probably be computers set up for ISP that allow censored subaccounts (like, surprise surprise, AOL). There's no reason to believe an installed censorware would be more effective than an ISP-level one. One could just install CyberPatrol in Mr. Garcia's PC and show him the holes (in more ways than one).
Then again, his reaction should probably be outrage at the low quality of the software and demand 100% bulletproof porn blocking, with stiff penalties both for the censorware manufacturer, PC seller and...
The only real "solution" to the "problem" would be to outlaw the Internet in Texas. Shame because I communicate with some nice people in Texas (yes there IS such a thing, believe it or not. I was surprised too.)
Are all the good Christian people now sitting in Congress fully aware of how (C) law helps those cultist loonies at Scientology silence their critics? Coulnd't all these ugly cases be used as an efficient arguing point in Congress?
Their trademark is "The X Files". Now, does that cover "The*[Ff]iles"? If I have a cofee stand called "The Z Cofee", do I have the right to sue anybody called "The Best Cofee" or "The Genuine Colombian Cofee"?
Except one thing I think Linus missed: protesting the overly excessive copyright expiration times. I wouldn't call that "whining".
I'll change professions. Open a bar. Teach Math. Whatever. Heck, I'd rather live on 25% of what I make now than help murder people's freedom. I'm serious.
Formula 1 sponsorship. Barrage of TV ads. Insertion in major Hollywood flick (Inspector Gadget). This is WAY too much for a Web portal.
How could they consider the Jedi thing "false information"? Reading your mind to prove you're actually Buddhist or something?
In other words: yes, go for it. It works. And in the meantime, try to convince your boss NOT to use Access as a frontend, but Visual Basic. You'll get a much leaner and meaner application, and it's just as M$. Access as a front-end is a dumbed-down VB.
The left hemisphere supports CPRM.
They need help.
Because it's not encrypted and thus completely snoopable. Ease of use is other reason that springs to mind.
Ooooo, but I can think of many companies willing to tie their competitor's products/services to a virus.
Whoa. Isn't the use of snippets Fair Use? (as opposed to an entire copyrighted work, which would mean replaying the entire game)
The problem is, you're not truly "restricted" on what you can do on CPRM-enabled drives. You can still format it to whatever OS you like, and store whatever file you damn feel like. But some yet-to come, sociopathic software will have the additional capability of storing files in a way you can't get them back properly. Subtle difference.
Lobbyst says: 'See, Governor/State Legislator, they're a bunch of liars. How can anything that is anti-competitive and anti-consumer be anti-business?'
Governor/State Legislator buys it. Everybody is screwed.
Hm, it seems he and Fidel DO have something in common after all. Both are power-hungry vengeful megalomaniacs.
BTW, my spamproofing is that way because that's my surname. Really.