I think you're dead wrong. Even if this guy is a smart ass, a declaratory judgement is EXACTLY what is needed.
It is no so important which case continues, what is important is that one of them goes all the way to the supreme court to challenge to legality of the DMCA.
Unlike 2600, Felten represents, to the public, academia. Upstanding, a researcher, etc. He's an ideal person to challenge DMCA.
And I agree with the previous poster, that your post sounds like a press release from the RIAA, seems like a prepared statement from someones marketing dept. Mod parent down.
I think you're a total dumbass. You're in UTAH and you're surprised when they want to censor it?
You built it using their server, and their bandwidth, and now you're mad that they want to control it? IT'S A UNIVERSITY WEBSITE.
Next time pay for the hosting yourself, preferably in a state outside Mormon-ville, and chalk this up as a lesson to NEVER host anything important on your employer, or a university, webserver.
If you want it to be "yours", then put it on YOUR server that YOU pay for, work on it on YOUR time, and then there can be no question of ownership. Anything else is foolish.
P.S. I think it sucks that you could be expelled for this. Unfair. You're still a dumbass though.
It always makes me wonder when I read an article such as this - if you're working on something controversial, why would you host it on your University or Employers server? Cough up the money and get your hosting.
Come on, you're in UTAH and you're surprised when they want to sanitize your content?
It's "staple", not "stable". A stable is where you keep horses, or code that has matured to where you no longer just "hope" that it works. A staple is a metalic device used to combine pages into a single document, or a measurement of supply.
Actually, the original posters usage of "stable" is just fine. It has other definitions besides "where you keep horses".
In all seriousness, if I ever had the opportunity to meet Linus in person or via a call in show, I would ask what I personally can do to improve the ease of use of Linux, besides coding. (I'm not a programmer).
I would love to contribute, but right now, I can't write documentation or stuff like that, because Linux is still a little over my head. So I'd like his thoughts on that.
I can do a bitwise copy of a DVD, *without* cracking the CSS encoding, and still play it back on any DVD player
Not true. You can do a bitwise copy and play it back on any AUTHORIZED player - and that's an important distinction. Your perfect bitwise copy will not work in an ordinary DVD computer drive without authorized player software.
In a time of trouble (high school shootings, etc.) people will frequently look to something to blame... violent video games are just an easy target. Certainly video games affect youth... but so does everything else - the evening news, violent sports, the world wrestling federation, movies, parental attitudes, etc. It's foolish to ban access to video games when children can see worse by renting a tape from Blockbuster.
Video games aren't the problem. Easy access to guns for minors is the problem. I believe in the right to bear arms, but why is it so easy for America's youth to acquire firearms? That's the real problem.
Not true... we have GSM here as well (Pacific Bell Wireless in California, Nevada, Voicestream Wireless in many areas.) AT&T Wireless is TDMA, so not everything here is CDMA, although a lot of it is.
FYI, Ricochet just announced $44.99 "local only" (no roaming) service in San Diego and San Francisco.
I'm all over that - if they ever get around to offering it in Los Angeles. Right now we are stuck on $75 pricing plan - you get roaming, which I don't need... that's too much. I think a lot of people will bite at $40.
Hopefully, they will last long enough to start selling it here!
As usual, with anything regarding to cellular/wireless, the United States gets it last, primarily due to our refusal to choose a standard for cellular phone communication.
It kills me to think of how overcharged we are for cellular, considering how bad the service and equipment sucks compared to the rest of the world.
Sometimes, I think they take all the cool Euro phones that didn't sell that great and ship them to the US for us to use!
WRT to Linux, when I see "unsupported" I take that to mean that it may work but no guarantees. And you can pretty much expect that the documentation will NOT match what is necessary for those machines.
Their target is mac users, who by definition may not be as familiar with a command line, tweaking a system to get sound working, etc. They will NOT like "subscribe to this mailing list and ask" as a response to "why doesn't my sound work?" when they just plunked down $70.
Their page says "Why YDL 2.0? Wanting to spif up that PowerBook 3400? How about serve email from your 7200?"
Yet both those machines are on the "unsupported" list.
It's interesting that the place where Linux is most useful - older hardware that needs a new life - are frequently the machines that YellowDog won't run on. Is anybody actually going to run out and buy a new G4, with MacOS X included... and then put Linux on it? If you're shopping for new stuff to run Linux, would you even consider PPC hardware? The reason to buy a G4 is to get MacOS, otherwise, what's the point?
YellowDog would be great for putting those old 7200 era machines to work...but it won't run on them!
When will YDL 2.0 be available for download?
Monday, June 25th. Why the wait? YDL 2.0 was over a year in development. An expensive undertaking by any standards, we were determined to produce the finest PowerPC Linux distribution available with one of the easiest installers for any platform. And now we ask for your support. Please purchase YDL 2.0 from our resellers or our online Store when it becomes available on the 29th of May.
So... is that "legal"? I am not a programmer, but if I was, I'd be very upset that they are selling my work but not obeying the terms of the license I released under.
I know there is no requirement that they actually make an.iso for you, but don't they have to at least make the source available?
Hopefully they've improved their installer - I got nowhere with the previous version on a PowerMac 7200.
As noted in the recent article about Mandrake for PowerPC, most of the Linux distros for PowerPC have suffered from really bad installers - the LinuxPPC one in particular was SO slow on my machine with a really clunky interface. Hopefully YellowDog has improved the situation.
There's a great hole-in-the-wall Mexican food joint 2 minutes from my house, and I don't care how many McDonald's they open, that place is NEVER going out of business!
If anyone is beta testing, what are the system requirements? If it's like LinuxPPC, it should run okay on my 7200 I have laying around. Hopefully the requirements won't be too steep.
Perhaps AOL isn't switching to Netscape/Mozilla because it simply isn't good enough, and they realize it?
Compare Mozilla against IE, the current browser AOL supplies. Their customers would revolt if forced to switch.
The fact is, Mozilla is bloated, slow, and unstable, and even though I'm rooting for them, even an AOLer can see that IE is better. Maybe AOL just doesn't want to deal with a bunch of support calls...
No, region coding is not "tied up with" CSS. They are entirely seperate. Look for another post under this topic about this... it's entirely possible to author dvd's with one or both of region coding and css, or neither at all.
In fact the only DVD I have from a Canadian production is not CSS encrypted (thus not region coded either).
FWIW, the two are not "entwined" as you imply. You can author DVDs with region coding that are not CSS encrypted and vice versa. For example you could make a region free (0) DVD which still used CSS to prevent copying.
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It is no so important which case continues, what is important is that one of them goes all the way to the supreme court to challenge to legality of the DMCA.
Unlike 2600, Felten represents, to the public, academia. Upstanding, a researcher, etc. He's an ideal person to challenge DMCA.
And I agree with the previous poster, that your post sounds like a press release from the RIAA, seems like a prepared statement from someones marketing dept. Mod parent down.
You built it using their server, and their bandwidth, and now you're mad that they want to control it? IT'S A UNIVERSITY WEBSITE.
Next time pay for the hosting yourself, preferably in a state outside Mormon-ville, and chalk this up as a lesson to NEVER host anything important on your employer, or a university, webserver.
If you want it to be "yours", then put it on YOUR server that YOU pay for, work on it on YOUR time, and then there can be no question of ownership. Anything else is foolish.
P.S. I think it sucks that you could be expelled for this. Unfair. You're still a dumbass though.
Come on, you're in UTAH and you're surprised when they want to sanitize your content?
Actually, the original posters usage of "stable" is just fine. It has other definitions besides "where you keep horses".
yeah, I guess without a lower class, there can be no upper class. My question was serious though... any ideas?
I would love to contribute, but right now, I can't write documentation or stuff like that, because Linux is still a little over my head. So I'd like his thoughts on that.
Use your head, check out the director, producer, and cast, and make an informed decision.
By the way, if you're looking for something to see, consider "Memento" which is excellent and should be opening in more theaters now.
Seems like the best way to support them would be to buy their distribution, even though you can download it for free.
Not true. You can do a bitwise copy and play it back on any AUTHORIZED player - and that's an important distinction. Your perfect bitwise copy will not work in an ordinary DVD computer drive without authorized player software.
Video games aren't the problem. Easy access to guns for minors is the problem. I believe in the right to bear arms, but why is it so easy for America's youth to acquire firearms? That's the real problem.
Not true... we have GSM here as well (Pacific Bell Wireless in California, Nevada, Voicestream Wireless in many areas.) AT&T Wireless is TDMA, so not everything here is CDMA, although a lot of it is.
I'm all over that - if they ever get around to offering it in Los Angeles. Right now we are stuck on $75 pricing plan - you get roaming, which I don't need... that's too much. I think a lot of people will bite at $40.
Hopefully, they will last long enough to start selling it here!
It kills me to think of how overcharged we are for cellular, considering how bad the service and equipment sucks compared to the rest of the world.
Sometimes, I think they take all the cool Euro phones that didn't sell that great and ship them to the US for us to use!
Their target is mac users, who by definition may not be as familiar with a command line, tweaking a system to get sound working, etc. They will NOT like "subscribe to this mailing list and ask" as a response to "why doesn't my sound work?" when they just plunked down $70.
Yet both those machines are on the "unsupported" list.
It's interesting that the place where Linux is most useful - older hardware that needs a new life - are frequently the machines that YellowDog won't run on. Is anybody actually going to run out and buy a new G4, with MacOS X included... and then put Linux on it? If you're shopping for new stuff to run Linux, would you even consider PPC hardware? The reason to buy a G4 is to get MacOS, otherwise, what's the point?
YellowDog would be great for putting those old 7200 era machines to work...but it won't run on them!
So... is that "legal"? I am not a programmer, but if I was, I'd be very upset that they are selling my work but not obeying the terms of the license I released under.
I know there is no requirement that they actually make an .iso for you, but don't they have to at least make the source available?
4 posts, and their server is already crawling. Presumably, today would not be a good day to download the .iso's?
As noted in the recent article about Mandrake for PowerPC, most of the Linux distros for PowerPC have suffered from really bad installers - the LinuxPPC one in particular was SO slow on my machine with a really clunky interface. Hopefully YellowDog has improved the situation.
There's a great hole-in-the-wall Mexican food joint 2 minutes from my house, and I don't care how many McDonald's they open, that place is NEVER going out of business!
If anyone is beta testing, what are the system requirements? If it's like LinuxPPC, it should run okay on my 7200 I have laying around. Hopefully the requirements won't be too steep.
Compare Mozilla against IE, the current browser AOL supplies. Their customers would revolt if forced to switch.
The fact is, Mozilla is bloated, slow, and unstable, and even though I'm rooting for them, even an AOLer can see that IE is better. Maybe AOL just doesn't want to deal with a bunch of support calls...
No, region coding is not "tied up with" CSS. They are entirely seperate. Look for another post under this topic about this... it's entirely possible to author dvd's with one or both of region coding and css, or neither at all.
Nope.
FWIW, the two are not "entwined" as you imply. You can author DVDs with region coding that are not CSS encrypted and vice versa. For example you could make a region free (0) DVD which still used CSS to prevent copying.