Yeah, it's always good to remember that project license != individual file license. Luckily there's an open source tool, which aims to help doing that inspection:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oslc
It really doesn't matter as long as the the domain names are not confusing with the real bank names. Or would you enter your pincode to Citybank to website, which address is www.royalscambankofnigeria.bank? In addition, with 50k registration fee there's enough resources to make very extensive checks to root out the obvious misleading domains - right?
the more civil society organizations, the better. the reason - every organization has typically one chance to speak and currently right holders dominate these sessions because of the excess number of their participating organizations.
FSFE is actually a bit late here, EFF and CSC are already full members and EDRI, IP Justice and the Union for the Public Domain have been observers for a while.
This is not so surprising and the trend is most likely going to accelerate thanks to the security worries. For example Cert-fi has send today out the warning that people should cease to use IE until the Iframe-bug is corrected.
Another very visible trend has been lately the success of Apple. Especially he laptops are currently very competitive and at least in my research unit nobody buys anything else if there's just enough budjet.
With all due respect, that's very dangerous bullshit. The killing element in car exhaust is CO (carbon monoxide), which is not totally removed by a catalysator . Yes, the amount is reducted (typically about 80-90%) but there's still plenty enough to kill you if you use the engine in a closed space.
EU is currenly planning 1-3 year mandatory data retention for all Internet traffic data. The process is right now at the member states' goverments (E.g. the Finnish goverment just decided to support the initiative but the parliament has to still agree..) So for all Europeans, contacting your MP would be a very good idea..
Nokia is right now dumping the original N-Gage. It's possible to get one in Finland with 105 Euros (not subsidized). Well, that's without games. That price is extremely cheap for tri-band series 60-phone with a radio and MP3-player...
Well,
this time it is possible to make a informed decision:
results
In short Finnish Greens and Conservatives (Piia-Noora missed the vote because of a traffic jam but she persuaded the rest to vote against..) + Seppanen + Thors voted against and SDP and Center party for the directive.
BS. You have been listening far too much RIAA / MPAA propaganda.
It depends very much in which jurisdiction you live in. If your country permits private copying, you are fine, because downloading means in practice that you are just making one (private) copy of the work to your hard disk (of course if you share it, it's totally different thing).
In certain countries there are no notion of private copying or the the source has to be the original work in order to be legal. If you happen to live in one these countries (Denmark for example), only then you are SOL.
Not the first time and it's getting worse
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Well,
This has happened before in the USA and other countries, too. For example Cult of Scientology used to be famous for its raids to the critics' homes (Zenon's case,other cases
The situation is also getting worse in Europe, because the upcoming IPR enforcement directive will greatly strenghen Anton Pillar orders in all member states (unless we will manage to mount enough public pressure to stop the process, which is unlikely but not totally impossible - contact your MEPS today!)
Please check this article from OSDN. Linux kernel developers are well known and actually SCO's definition for commercial software "built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers" describes better the reality of Linux Kernel development.
This section actually comes from much earlier EU software copyright directive, which was not changed by EUCD. The tricky part here is that sw-copyright directive applies to software only as copyrighted works, not as technical protection measures. So even if you don't break copyright by reverge engineering, you might do it by circumventing the technical protection measure.
I was there and was able to follow the process very closely.. The text is a compromize, which was negotiated between US, EU and Canada (and some African countries). It was actually first intented only for the action line section but was later used for the draft declaration because a compromize was needed. Even this was a hard fight because certain big country wanted first to remove all references to open source and free software based on "technological neutrality princeple" (a very hot buzzword at WSIS.)
Another thing: it is good to remember that the biggest Open Source companies are nowadays IBM, HP Oracle etc. which really have enough marketing muscle to fight against Microsoft in all fronts (expect in the US Department of Trade..)and in thus govermental intervetions are no longer needed.
It's even worse in ITU's World Summit on Information Society. The goverments are really fighting against each other on the governance of Internet and it's possible that it will be one of the topics, which will destroy the whole process (the funding for developing countries is still the best bet).
Register has a nice story about the Prepcom III, which ended up being a (almost) total distaster. (Anyway it was funny to participate and see f.ex. how the highly paid diplomats argue how spam should be spelled (SPAM/spam) etc..)
Slahdot-journalism at it lowest point ever. From FFII's PR:
FFII News -- For Immediate Release -- Please Redistribute
See
http://swpat.ffii.org/#news
Now we will have to see whether the European Commission is committed to "harmonisation and clarification" or only to patent owner interests.
Yesterday's threats uttered by Bolkestein against the European Parliament suggest the latter.
The detailed results are available on our site
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0923/
It will now be our job to help the European Parliament assert itself against attempts by Bolkestein and patent lawyers wearing the hat of national governments to crush the directive project.
The current text has some remaining contraditions in it, but basically the thrust has been turned around. It has become our directive which we must help the European Parliament to defend. This is also a question of the European Parliament's role in an emerging democratic Europe. On the whole this is very good news for the EU.
EU does not have so clean hands after all. The European Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions is rather horrible and the majority of member states have actually refused to transpose it. Unfortunately the new member states from Central/Eastern Europe won't have the same luxury because they have to accept everything without furher conditions (with certain very limited exceptions). It's not going to be a good time to be a farmer in Poland or Hungary, I believe..
This is not the only case going on right now - check this one out: Farmer sent to prison over cotton seed
I'm personally not against GM-plants because they can help reducing the enviromental load, but this kind stories are very scary. A typical farmer has similar chances as a snowball in hell in to win a case against a Megacorp like Monsanto...
DDOSing the RIAA corporate webside does not matter a shit, it does not affect their business at all. This kind of childish "capture the flag" mentality does not help in this fight. Instead, working for FSF or EFF in their campaigns for freedom might bring some positive results or, for example, supporting these guys might actually create some useful tools for preveting RIAA's illegal activities..
Not so surprisingly the other side is already monitoring the RIAA activities and in this case some of results are already in public. For example, Peer-Guardian tries to protect the P2P-clients from the hostile IP-addresses. There's a quite nice article about the topic in Security Focus.
There's some anti-virus companies, which do not really work in any other areas of software business For example, F-Secure gets practically all its income from its Anti-Virus package. This kind of companies do not have an option to sell out, because if their customers can't rely on their products to stop all malicious attacks, they don't have any customers very soon.
Also, F-Secure happens to be a Finnish company so it does not have to follow the US rules (as a matter a fact F-Secure / SHH Inc were both created more or less thanks to the crypto export regulations in early 90ties..)
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Yeah, it's always good to remember that project license != individual file license. Luckily there's an open source tool, which aims to help doing that inspection: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oslc
It really doesn't matter as long as the the domain names are not confusing with the real bank names. Or would you enter your pincode to Citybank to website, which address is www.royalscambankofnigeria.bank? In addition, with 50k registration fee there's enough resources to make very extensive checks to root out the obvious misleading domains - right?
Well,
the more civil society organizations, the better. the reason - every organization has typically one chance to speak and currently right holders dominate these sessions because of the excess number of their participating organizations.
FSFE is actually a bit late here, EFF and CSC are already full members and EDRI, IP Justice and the Union for the Public Domain have been observers for a while.
This is not so surprising and the trend is most likely going to accelerate thanks to the security worries. For example Cert-fi has send today out the warning that people should cease to use IE until the Iframe-bug is corrected.
Another very visible trend has been lately the success of Apple. Especially he laptops are currently very competitive and at least in my research unit nobody buys anything else if there's just enough budjet.
With all due respect, that's very dangerous bullshit. The killing element in car exhaust is CO (carbon monoxide), which is not totally removed by a catalysator . Yes, the amount is reducted (typically about 80-90%) but there's still plenty enough to kill you if you use the engine in a closed space.
Tame.
EU is currenly planning 1-3 year mandatory data retention for all Internet traffic data. The process is right now at the member states' goverments (E.g. the Finnish goverment just decided to support the initiative but the parliament has to still agree..) So for all Europeans, contacting your MP would be a very good idea..
More info here:
Statewatch - EU and Data retention
V.
Nokia is right now dumping the original N-Gage. It's possible to get one in Finland with 105 Euros (not subsidized). Well, that's without games. That price is extremely cheap for tri-band series 60-phone with a radio and MP3-player...
Correction:
Also Paasilinna ja Myller from SDP voted against the directive. (so actually the majority of Finnish MEPs were against! =)
Well, this time it is possible to make a informed decision: results In short Finnish Greens and Conservatives (Piia-Noora missed the vote because of a traffic jam but she persuaded the rest to vote against..) + Seppanen + Thors voted against and SDP and Center party for the directive.
It depends.
If you live in a jurisdiction, which accepts private copying, then you are fine (downloading == making one copy of the work to your hard drive)
In some counties the source has to be legit (Denmark) or there's no notion of private copying (UK). In these places also downloading is illegal.
BS. You have been listening far too much RIAA / MPAA propaganda.
It depends very much in which jurisdiction you live in. If your country permits private copying, you are fine, because downloading means in practice that you are just making one (private) copy of the work to your hard disk (of course if you share it, it's totally different thing).
In certain countries there are no notion of private copying or the the source has to be the original work in order to be legal. If you happen to live in one these countries (Denmark for example), only then you are SOL.
Well,
This has happened before in the USA and other countries, too. For example Cult of Scientology used to be famous for its raids to the critics' homes (Zenon's case,other cases
The situation is also getting worse in Europe, because the upcoming IPR enforcement directive will greatly strenghen Anton Pillar orders in all member states (unless we will manage to mount enough public pressure to stop the process, which is unlikely but not totally impossible - contact your MEPS today!)
V.
'Cos, AFAIK, European Patent Office didn't grant it in the first place.
V.
Oh well.
Please check this article from OSDN. Linux kernel developers are well known and actually SCO's definition for commercial software "built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers" describes better the reality of Linux Kernel development.
Well,
This section actually comes from much earlier EU software copyright directive, which was not changed by EUCD. The tricky part here is that sw-copyright directive applies to software only as copyrighted works, not as technical protection measures. So even if you don't break copyright by reverge engineering, you might do it by circumventing the technical protection measure.
(Starwreck T-shirt, not EFFI)
AFAIK she's Finnish. She's also starring in the film. Some more her pictures are here: Helmswoman.
Well.
Looks nice, but I'm pretty sure that this will be even better: www.starwreck.com
V.
Hmp,
I was there and was able to follow the process very closely.. The text is a compromize, which was negotiated between US, EU and Canada (and some African countries). It was actually first intented only for the action line section but was later used for the draft declaration because a compromize was needed. Even this was a hard fight because certain big country wanted first to remove all references to open source and free software based on "technological neutrality princeple" (a very hot buzzword at WSIS.)
Another thing: it is good to remember that the biggest Open Source companies are nowadays IBM, HP Oracle etc. which really have enough marketing muscle to fight against Microsoft in all fronts (expect in the US Department of Trade..)and in thus govermental intervetions are no longer needed.
Ville
Heh,
/spam) etc..)
It's even worse in ITU's World Summit on Information Society. The goverments are really fighting against each other on the governance of Internet and it's possible that it will be one of the topics, which will destroy the whole process (the funding for developing countries is still the best bet).
Register has a nice story about the Prepcom III, which ended up being a (almost) total distaster. (Anyway it was funny to participate and see f.ex. how the highly paid diplomats argue how spam should be spelled (SPAM
V.
Slahdot-journalism at it lowest point ever. From FFII's PR:
FFII News -- For Immediate Release -- Please Redistribute
See
http://swpat.ffii.org/#news
Now we will have to see whether the European Commission is committed to
"harmonisation and clarification" or only to patent owner interests.
Yesterday's threats uttered by Bolkestein against the European Parliament
suggest the latter.
The detailed results are available on our site
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0923/
It will now be our job to help the European Parliament assert itself against
attempts by Bolkestein and patent lawyers wearing the hat of national
governments to crush the directive project.
The current text has some remaining contraditions in it, but basically the
thrust has been turned around. It has become our directive which we
must help the European Parliament to defend. This is also a question of
the European Parliament's role in an emerging democratic Europe. On the
whole this is very good news for the EU.
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance
Well,
EU does not have so clean hands after all. The European Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions is rather horrible and the majority of member states have actually refused to transpose it. Unfortunately the new member states from Central/Eastern Europe won't have the same luxury because they have to accept everything without furher conditions (with certain very limited exceptions). It's not going to be a good time to be a farmer in Poland or Hungary, I believe..
V.
Hi,
This is not the only case going on right now - check this one out:
Farmer sent to prison over cotton seed
I'm personally not against GM-plants because they can help reducing the enviromental load, but this kind stories are very scary. A typical farmer has similar chances as a snowball in hell in to win a case against a Megacorp like Monsanto...
V.
Doh.
DDOSing the RIAA corporate webside does not matter a shit, it does not affect their business at all. This kind of childish "capture the flag" mentality does not help in this fight. Instead, working for FSF or EFF in their campaigns for freedom might bring some positive results or, for example, supporting these guys might actually create some useful tools for preveting RIAA's illegal activities..
V.
Well,
Not so surprisingly the other side is already monitoring the RIAA activities and in this case some of results are already in public. For example, Peer-Guardian tries to protect the P2P-clients from the hostile IP-addresses. There's a quite nice article about the topic in Security Focus.
V.
Hmm
There's some anti-virus companies, which do not really work in any other areas of software business For example, F-Secure gets practically all its income from its Anti-Virus package. This kind of companies do not have an option to sell out, because if their customers can't rely on their products to stop all malicious attacks, they don't have any customers very soon.
Also, F-Secure happens to be a Finnish company so it does not have to follow the US rules (as a matter a fact F-Secure / SHH Inc were both created more or less thanks to the crypto export regulations in early 90ties..)
And no, I don't work for them..