Conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering - that's what the NSA is charged with....hang on. That's not right. The NSA hacks Americans but is charged with nothing.
These patents are great news for me. I hold the patent on the filing of patents which are so looney that, if the patent system where not so broken, would have absolutely no chance of sucess. I'll be contacting Sun on Monday. I expect the royalty checks to start arriving within a month.
A significant number of convicts sent to Australia by the British in the 19th century where political prisoners. These were mainly Irish "Ribbon Men" and Fenians, or English Chartists (i.e. democrats).
Many of these prisoners where given a fair amount of freedom in the colony in which they were transported to. There where a number instances where expeditions from the US to Australia were organized in order to rescue these prisoners and take them back to the US. One famous incident occured in about 1838 when a US ship picked up three Irish prisoners from Tasmania. Another was US organized breakout and rescue in 1876 from Fremantle, WA (known as the "Catalpa Rescue").
I seem to remember from high school history that the first governor of Montana was a rescued Irish political prisoner.
I think you are confusing the World Court and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The purpose of World Court is to arbitrate disputes between states in accordance with international law, relevent treaties and the like. It is not a criminal court. Lots of countries disregard the World Court rulings (although they should not IMO).
The ICJ is a criminal court. Its purpose is to try individuals for crimes against humanity if their own countries will not. It is the ICJ that is trying the ex president of Jugoslavia and Serbia, Milosovich.
Has there been a worm? Must have missed it. Nothing happened here. Can't be an "Internet problem". Possibly a problem with a particular OS?
Seriously, there is a very real possibility that governments will regulate the Internet down to Compuserve level simply because of a deficient OS and users who cannot organize their own basic security.
The Constitution of the United States commences with a preamble which reads:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Interestingly is does not say "We the suckers of the United States...." or "We the passive consumers of the United States....". Nor does it say "....promote the general Welfare and most especially the Welfare of our good buddies in Hollywood,.....". On the contrary the US, at the time of its founding, explicitly rejected the mercantilism of the Old World. This is one of the one bastions of the commercial, cultural an political sucess of the US.
The basis of the media companies arguement is that they have an absolute right to exist and it is up to the government protect them. But this is not true. They have the right to run a company and if it is sucessfull they exist.
It is true that there is the copyright clause in the Constitution and they have have that protection already in legislation. If they feel that, by releasing digital content, the legislation does not protect them then their course is clear. Either they should not release the content in that form or develope a business model that generates revenues in some other manner. However, if they require goverment to protect them by forcing me to give up my general purpose computer in favor of a video and audio reproduction machine even though I have no content of theirs, then they are a protected guild - a guild of very large media companies.
They will be thae tail wagging the dog. I (one of the people) will be surrendering some of my "Welfare" in order to bolster the companys'.
To tell the truth most of the junk they produce should not be released in analog format let alone
in a "high quality digital" format. That's just my opinion though.
The question is should the US develope and grow or should it rearrange itself in order to support and industry that otherwise might fail?
I think this should have read "We needed to balance the loads by connecting them with a high voltage link. Since we needed to dig a trench anyway why not drop a fiber in it and then we can have a common control system".
The power utility here (Perth, WA) is starting to lay fiber everywhere that they are kaying power. Fiber is cheap. Digging trenchs and right of way is expensive.
There is Internet censorship in Australia. I know of a couple of people who run club web sites (computer related) who have received take down orders from the ABA mainly because of content uploaded by others. These orders are arbitary, and possibly capricious. There is no "due process".
Given this and the lack of transperency by federal and state governments we may not be a fascist country but we are certainly an authortarian one.
Further there are the proposed SA and NSW state laws that make uploading certain content a criminal offense. In the case of SA the body that decides what constitutes illegal content are the police (i.e. a not very bright arm of executive government). If you live in SA I suggest you hurry down to your local police station and make a donation to the next police ball.
WRT the DMCA you should read the federal Copyright Ammendment Bill - Digital Agenda Act of 2000. This bill contains within it the key elements of the DMCA.
As an aside, we do hold foriegners without due process. I'll not try and defend the US in this matter (who, IMO, are in breach of at least the spirit, if not the lettter, of their own constitution) but I will point out that any people held are not being so as a result of the Patriotic Act.
Finally I am not American. I am Australian. I would like to be able to say that Australia is one of the most free nations on earth. The question is would I be telling the truth?
"Encryption is what protects DVD movie and video game software from piracy."
This is simply not true. Encryption requires a key to "play" the contents. In this case the key is provided by an "approved player". Any DVD which is a bit for bit copy of another will play in exactly the same manner as the original not matter by whom the copy has made. DVD encryption is simply a method of forcing customer to use approved players.
I wish we could slam dunk this idea that DVD encryption has something to do with copyright protection.
The engineering points are good ones. They are, however, not insurmountable. For an example see
http://www.transact.com.au/index.asp.
This company services the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) which is the Australian equivalent of DC. There system is a fiber to curb and DSL from the curb to office / home.
It is not clear to me why there are not more systems of this type being rolled out now. If telcos do not address the bandwidth avaliable to their subscribers they risk being irrelevent in 10 to 15 years time.
Of course all this is of no immediate use to the original poster.
This article is incorrect on one point. This is not the first challenge to the DVD zoning system. It has been a requirement in New Zealand that all players sold must be multizone for over a year now.
In the article the key point is the collusion between the studios and the movie makers. I presume that it is the ACCC's belief that this restricts competition.
In general agreements that have the purpose of reducing competition or price fixing, or have those effects are a no no in Australian.
The appropiate act is the "Trade Practices Act". This is a federal law. The easiest whay to see this is to go to http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/ and select "Popular Acts" in the left hand frame and scroll down to the "Trade Practices Act". The appropiate portion of this act is Part IV, Section 45, "Contracts, arrangements or understandings that restrict dealings or affect competition" etc.
I believe the comments regarding caching are the result of a reporting arror. This is not in the legislation. If you read the article and replace the word cache with mirror then you will get the correct sense on the law.
Slashdot Mirror
So does Micheal Rogers want to have sex with my wife as well?
Conspiracy, computer hacking, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering - that's what the NSA is charged with....hang on. That's not right. The NSA hacks Americans but is charged with nothing.
The Westminster democracy he is thinking of is Singapore.
These patents are great news for me. I hold the patent on the filing of patents which are so looney that, if the patent system where not so broken, would have absolutely no chance of sucess. I'll be contacting Sun on Monday. I expect the royalty checks to start arriving within a month.
A significant number of convicts sent to Australia by the British in the 19th century where political prisoners. These were mainly Irish "Ribbon Men" and Fenians, or English Chartists (i.e. democrats).
Many of these prisoners where given a fair amount of freedom in the colony in which they were transported to. There where a number instances where expeditions from the US to Australia were organized in order to rescue these prisoners and take them back to the US. One famous incident occured in about 1838 when a US ship picked up three Irish prisoners from Tasmania. Another was US organized breakout and rescue in 1876 from Fremantle, WA (known as the "Catalpa Rescue").
I seem to remember from high school history that the first governor of Montana was a rescued Irish political prisoner.
How times have changed!
I think you are confusing the World Court and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The purpose of World Court is to arbitrate disputes between states in accordance with international law, relevent treaties and the like. It is not a criminal court. Lots of countries disregard the World Court rulings (although they should not IMO).
The ICJ is a criminal court. Its purpose is to try individuals for crimes against humanity if their own countries will not. It is the ICJ that is trying the ex president of Jugoslavia and Serbia, Milosovich.
Has there been a worm? Must have missed it. Nothing happened here. Can't be an "Internet problem". Possibly a problem with a particular OS?
Seriously, there is a very real possibility that governments will regulate the Internet down to Compuserve level simply because of a deficient OS and users who cannot organize their own basic security.
The Constitution of the United States commences with a preamble which reads:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Interestingly is does not say "We the suckers of the United States...." or "We the passive consumers of the United States....". Nor does it say "....promote the general Welfare and most especially the Welfare of our good buddies in Hollywood,.....". On the contrary the US, at the time of its founding, explicitly rejected the mercantilism of the Old World. This is one of the one bastions of the commercial, cultural an political sucess of the US.
The basis of the media companies arguement is that they have an absolute right to exist and it is up to the government protect them. But this is not true. They have the right to run a company and if it is sucessfull they exist.
It is true that there is the copyright clause in the Constitution and they have have that protection already in legislation. If they feel that, by releasing digital content, the legislation does not protect them then their course is clear. Either they should not release the content in that form or develope a business model that generates revenues in some other manner. However, if they require goverment to protect them by forcing me to give up my general purpose computer in favor of a video and audio reproduction machine even though I have no content of theirs, then they are a protected guild - a guild of very large media companies. They will be thae tail wagging the dog. I (one of the people) will be surrendering some of my "Welfare" in order to bolster the companys'.
To tell the truth most of the junk they produce should not be released in analog format let alone in a "high quality digital" format. That's just my opinion though.
The question is should the US develope and grow or should it rearrange itself in order to support and industry that otherwise might fail?
I think this should have read "We needed to balance the loads by connecting them with a high voltage link. Since we needed to dig a trench anyway why not drop a fiber in it and then we can have a common control system".
The power utility here (Perth, WA) is starting to lay fiber everywhere that they are kaying power. Fiber is cheap. Digging trenchs and right of way is expensive.
There is Internet censorship in Australia. I know of a couple of people who run club web sites (computer related) who have received take down orders from the ABA mainly because of content uploaded by others. These orders are arbitary, and possibly capricious. There is no "due process".
Given this and the lack of transperency by federal and state governments we may not be a fascist country but we are certainly an authortarian one.
Further there are the proposed SA and NSW state laws that make uploading certain content a criminal offense. In the case of SA the body that decides what constitutes illegal content are the police (i.e. a not very bright arm of executive government). If you live in SA I suggest you hurry down to your local police station and make a donation to the next police ball.
WRT the DMCA you should read the federal Copyright Ammendment Bill - Digital Agenda Act of 2000. This bill contains within it the key elements of the DMCA.
As an aside, we do hold foriegners without due process. I'll not try and defend the US in this matter (who, IMO, are in breach of at least the spirit, if not the lettter, of their own constitution) but I will point out that any people held are not being so as a result of the Patriotic Act.
Finally I am not American. I am Australian. I would like to be able to say that Australia is one of the most free nations on earth. The question is would I be telling the truth?
In the article there is the comment:
"Encryption is what protects DVD movie and video game software from piracy."
This is simply not true. Encryption requires a key to "play" the contents. In this case the key is provided by an "approved player". Any DVD which is a bit for bit copy of another will play in exactly the same manner as the original not matter by whom the copy has made. DVD encryption is simply a method of forcing customer to use approved players.
I wish we could slam dunk this idea that DVD encryption has something to do with copyright protection.
The engineering points are good ones. They are, however, not insurmountable. For an example see http://www.transact.com.au/index.asp. This company services the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) which is the Australian equivalent of DC. There system is a fiber to curb and DSL from the curb to office / home. It is not clear to me why there are not more systems of this type being rolled out now. If telcos do not address the bandwidth avaliable to their subscribers they risk being irrelevent in 10 to 15 years time. Of course all this is of no immediate use to the original poster.
This article is incorrect on one point. This is not the first challenge to the DVD zoning system. It has been a requirement in New Zealand that all players sold must be multizone for over a year now.
In the article the key point is the collusion between the studios and the movie makers. I presume that it is the ACCC's belief that this restricts competition. In general agreements that have the purpose of reducing competition or price fixing, or have those effects are a no no in Australian. The appropiate act is the "Trade Practices Act". This is a federal law. The easiest whay to see this is to go to http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/ and select "Popular Acts" in the left hand frame and scroll down to the "Trade Practices Act". The appropiate portion of this act is Part IV, Section 45, "Contracts, arrangements or understandings that restrict dealings or affect competition" etc.
This law does not ban caching. It bans mirroring without permision.
I believe the comments regarding caching are the result of a reporting arror. This is not in the legislation. If you read the article and replace the word cache with mirror then you will get the correct sense on the law.
If it is possible to legislate in regard to a certain matter then that matter is political. Many political matters have a cultural dimension.
I think you are sadly mistaken if you believe that Australia is more democratic than the US. Its not even close!