Due to the Quantum nature of this project if we knew who funded it, that information would be disrupted (and someone else would claim to have funded it)
If they do the press will consider this newsworth enough to report. Not the "hold down the shift key" but the fact that the DMCA allows someone to be sued because they published the fact that you can "hold down the shift key".
If it were to happen, it would raise the visibility of the evil apects of the DMCA.
Unlike with our friends at the RIAA, they won't be able to buy legislation to prop up their failing business model.
I just had the horrific vision of a theatre full of people all strapped down like Malcolm McDowell in a Clockwork Orange and being forced to watch Gigli.
By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels. Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed.
huh, we'll all be running 2.6 by then anyway;x
Don't you see that your $699 ONLY covers 2.4 and 2.5... You will have to upgrade your license to run 2.6.
While this may allow others to download and listen to a song, then listen to it then notify snapster that they are done with it so that copy of it can can be "freed up", it does not allow the downloader to make a copy of a song.
If this was not a streaming only service then RIAA would argue that people are copying the songs, and thus violating the copyright, which is most likely what will be happening.
Another problem with is if I have a copy of a disc, and I register it with snapster so others can "borrow" it. If I dont get a notification that it is currently lent out I (or someone else) will be in violation if I listen to it. I can not belive that I will tell snapster every disc I bring into the car or play.
It's an intresting idea, but I dont think it will ever fly.
If they still used the name Santa Cruz Operation then I would believe that the City Councel would go after them. I dont know if they would have a legal leg to stand on, but I belive they would do it anyway.
But since they are now just SCO they cant really do anything.
Will having "Steamboat Willie" (or any other equally old work) in the public domain really hurt the copyright holder? Is there really so much demand for Steamboat Willie tapes, DVDs, T-shirts, cereal, and whatnot that if it was freely available it would really affect their bottom line?
While copies of Steamboat Willie leagally floating around does not directly scare Disney that much, it is the character of Mickey Mouse that does.
Today you cant use the Mouse's image without being hounded (and loosing to) disney's Lawyers. When the copyright expires, you will be able to use the image of Mickey Mouse (as he appears in Steamboat Willy) since that image is now in the public domain.
The potential loss of control of the Mickey Mouse Image is what gives Disney the Willies.
You should not that this is an extreme case, it is not just a story or song that is loosing it's copyright, but a Image that is close to, if not, a Trademark. I can understand why Disney wants to protect it, but extension of copyrights is not the right answer.
You dont want your main memory over PCI, plus I dont know if any mainstream OS supports this. On the other hand, if you could put a gig of sdram on a pci card and have it look like a 1GB hard drive.
Then you mount swap on it. This makes swapping very very fast. And increases performce once you start swapping.
I wonder who paid for this survey? Since they knew it was not going to be a pro-RIAA result, I have to belive it was funded by someone who has an intrest in copying cds, or is fighting some of the BS that is going on.
Slashdot Mirror
Due to the Quantum nature of this project if we knew who funded it, that information would be disrupted (and someone else would claim to have funded it)
I might have believed this if it had been done by the NetBSD "I want to run it on my toaster" folks.
This may have lots of physics geeks saying wow ...
But where are the Lava Lamps to get the mundanes interested????
Four of what? Loss leader Boxes or Karma points???
I think the idea of design by /. takes design by commitee to a whole new level.
God help us all.
He is a student of Felton at Princeton. If this was officialy sactioned work (of his professor) I am sure they will cover/act as his legal team.
The universities cant affort to allow the DMCA to stifle research.
As long as the media pushes the story that a company is defending a brain-dead security scheme via the DMCA there is no need for a counter suit.
... Best follow it.
There is a way to apeal things under the DMCA
DRM is not (necessarly) evil, but DRM via DMCA is just plain wrong.
If they do the press will consider this newsworth enough to report. Not the "hold down the shift key" but the fact that the DMCA allows someone to be sued because they published the fact that you can "hold down the shift key".
If it were to happen, it would raise the visibility of the evil apects of the DMCA.
Here is a little script that I whipped up to find out which TLDs have wildcard records.
p root.zone.gz
#!/bin/sh
rm -f root.zone root.zone.gz
wget -q ftp://ftp.internic.com/domain/root.zone.gz
gunzi
for i in $(grep ' NS ' root.zone | awk '{print $1'} | sort -u); do
host -ta "*.$i" 2>/dev/null
done
rm -f root.zone root.zone.gz
I just had the horrific vision of a theatre full of people all strapped down like Malcolm McDowell in a Clockwork Orange and being forced to watch Gigli.
While this may allow others to download and listen to a song, then listen to it then notify snapster that they are done with it so that copy of it can can be "freed up", it does not allow the downloader to make a copy of a song.
If this was not a streaming only service then
RIAA would argue that people are copying the songs, and thus violating the copyright, which is most likely what will be happening.
Another problem with is if I have a copy of a disc, and I register it with snapster so others can "borrow" it. If I dont get a notification that it is currently lent out I (or someone else) will be in violation if I listen to it. I can not belive that I will tell snapster every disc I bring into the car or play.
It's an intresting idea, but I dont think it will ever fly.
Only 7 replis and it's already /.ed ...
:-)
Anyone want to donate them a linux system with Apache or Tux on it
If they still used the name Santa Cruz Operation then I would believe that the City Councel would go after them. I dont know if they would have a legal leg to stand on, but I belive they would do it anyway.
But since they are now just SCO they cant really do anything.
Dr. Fun for 1995-07-13
IIRC, SCO is not going after IBM for patent infringment, since most if not all of AT&T's patents on Unix(tm) have expired.
They are going after IBM since they violated the NDA and/or Trade Secret agreement of the sysV source license.
A cleanroom implementation should not be bothered. The only question is if linux's sysV support is tainted (by IBM or someone else).
Lawyers
This is the fourth post of this.
It *WAS* funny the first time.
Have a option that allows a EBay member's feedback not to be displayed.
....
This is trivial, and it will allow other members to avoid these loosers
I know that I would not buy from or sell to anyone who blocked their feedback.
While copies of Steamboat Willie leagally floating around does not directly scare Disney that much, it is the character of Mickey Mouse that does.
Today you cant use the Mouse's image without being hounded (and loosing to) disney's Lawyers. When the copyright expires, you will be able to use the image of Mickey Mouse (as he appears in Steamboat Willy) since that image is now in the public domain.
The potential loss of control of the Mickey Mouse Image is what gives Disney the Willies.
You should not that this is an extreme case, it is not just a story or song that is loosing it's copyright, but a Image that is close to, if not, a Trademark. I can understand why Disney wants to protect it, but extension of copyrights is not the right answer.
I think that O'Really's Tracing Spammers says everything that we all think about these wonderful folk.
You dont want your main memory over PCI, plus I dont know if any mainstream OS supports this. On the other hand, if you could put a gig of sdram on a pci card and have it look like a 1GB hard drive.
...
Then you mount swap on it. This makes swapping very very fast. And increases performce once you start swapping.
Now all you need is a card that can do it
The difference is that (in most if not all markets) they dont compete with each other. Most people only have the choice of on cable provider.
On the other hand, you do have the choice of Dish vs. DirectTV no matter where you are.
I wonder who paid for this survey? Since they knew it was not going to be a pro-RIAA result, I have to belive it was funded by someone who has an intrest in copying cds, or is fighting some of the BS that is going on.
Why are you spoiling everything by bringing reality into the picture???