And it's also spreading, I think that that this is even better cartoon about the topic: Ghastly's Comic
V.
Re:They are irrelavent anyhow....
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Well..
US is definately important and your trade-policy is currently aimed to secure markets to Disney and Microsoft, what ever it takes. In this sense it's very important what happens in the "new continent".
Never the less, EU is still independent and currently there are some indicators that the wind is really changing here to more reasonable direction. For example European Parliament (which nowadays has even some political power) has taken so far a VERY interesting stance on software patents:
Anyway most of this laws are based on international treaties and unless the lobbying will start in WIPO and WTO, the fight is futile..
Ville
PS. We (European Digital Rights) are starting a campaign to minimize the damage coming from EUCD in Central and Eastern Europe. If you are from the region and want to actually do something, please contact me!
Re:The Upper House is effectively a formality
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>This means that other EU countries must have passed >similar laws over the past few months, can anyone >who knows comment on this?
You are right. So far Greece, Italy and Denmark has adapted their national copyright laws and others will follow. More info about the situation can be found from here: http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
We managed to postpone the implementation in Finland (the law was actually sent back from Parliament, party because it was very badly written, partly because it was over-reaching) but it will come back sooner or later. As long as the directive exists as today, there's not so much what can be done.
Ville
PS. We (EDRI) are starting a campaign to minimize the damage in Central and Eastern Europe. If you are from the region and want to actually do something, please contact me!
You are totally right. This is only a temporary delay, in the Finnish case most likely 4-5 months. But it still shows that the content industry can't anymore expect to get their all demands fullfilled. And it also shows that you can't buy all the democratic institutions.
The next step is to take the fight to the international level. Most of current IPR-regulations are based on international treaties and the fight on national level won't help much. It gives us at most some time to prepare for the next round, that's all.
Yeah. It was a very sweet victory indeed, especially because the content industry was very confident that the proposed law would pass.:-D
Unfortunately this is only a temporary relieve, the war against fair use will continue very soon and long as EUCD exists we are on the losing side. Never the less, the situation is now much more hopefull in Finland, because the public knowledge is now much better and also because the MPs seem to understand how important these questions are.
It's stil unclear if there's enough time before the elections to pass this law.
Unfortunately that is not the case with the national EUCD-implentation. The chairman of the committee of culture and education (Suvi Linden) has decided that they won't ask the opinion from the constitutional commitee, which would have taken too long to finish the law in time before the elections.
Electronic Frontier Finland is launching a last minute campaign to get certain improvements to the law and also the preserve the good parts like no protection for the DVD country codes and the legality of personal circumvetion. If you want to do your part, please join the effi-aktivistit mailing list!
The fight against EUCD has to be at the moment on the national level, because the member countries are implementing the law. Of course pan-European coordination of activies, lobbying and research would help. And yes, in the future the campaigning has to happen both in EU and national level to stop initiatives like Broadcast Flag, mandatory DRM and so on..
Unfortunately the copyright law is going to be changed also in Norway, based on EUCD. And it's going to be even worse than DMCA. So enjoy your freedom as long as you can!
Yes, Norway is not a member of EU, but they are still a member of "det Europeiska ekonomiska samarbetsområdet"(EES) or if you don't speak Scandinavian, The European Economic Area (EEA), which means that they implement all the EU-directives.
And no, the directive, which i quote, is not EUCD but the first copyright related directive from year 1992 (which harmonized the legal protection for software)
Anyway it's nice that you have also something going on in Sweden - our experiences from Finland seem to indicate that the fight isn't totally futile.
Ville Electronic Frontier Finland
Re:It seems that neither sides understands
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Oh well.
Unfortunately most of lawyers don't read Slasdot or any other tech-education site (it really is a problem, for example the Law School in Helsinki University had 2-3 voluntary short courses on these topics and most of students didn't take them.)
About reverge engineering, yes, it is allowed under quite strict circumstances, the EU-directive (Council Directive 91/250/EEC, it's the same in Norway and Germany) sets a 6 step test for decompilation:
Article 6 Decompilation
1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, provided that the following conditions are met:
(a) these acts are performed by the licensee or by another person having a right to use a copy of a program, or on their behalf by a person authorized to to so;
(b) the information necessary to achieve interoperability has not previously been readily available to the persons referred to in subparagraph (a); and (c) these acts are confined to the parts of the original program which are necessary to achieve interoperability.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not permit the information obtained through its application:
(a) to be used for goals other than to achieve the interoperability of the independently created computer program;
(b) to be given to others, except when necessary for the interoperability of the independently created computer program; or (c) to be used for the development, production or marketing of a computer program substantially similar in its expression, or for any other act which infringes copyright.
In this case the it's not clear if the information was readily available (from DVDCCA,NDA + price could make it possible to at least argue otherwise) and also it's unclear whether the reverge engineered software was legally bought or not..
This case is not based on US law and not even to EU copyright directive (because it's not yet a law on national level). Anyway this case has been on Finnish tech-media already quite well and Electronic Frontier Finland plans to write an open letter to the embassy of Norway to get some more exposure on it (unfortunately it's way too cold to arrange pickets in Helsinki at the moment..)
Luckily the case has practically no merit, the way the prosecutors are intepreting the law is very strange (you really can't break into your own DVD-discs because you have a legal access anyway and the law in question does not outlaw giving out anti-circumvention tools..)
Practically all European countries are members of the Council of Europe (which is not the same thing as EU) and thus bind by the The European Convention on Human Rights. Well, to be exact: in this case it's not the Convetion itself but the Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the death penalty.
It's not over yet as can been seem fron very resent Karin's post to Politech. This a very scary example how copyright has turned into a tool of censorship:-( Anyway the more people are exposed to the truth about Scientology, be harder job Scientology has to do to recruit new members.
If your defence lawyer is so ineffective that she or he can't prove that it was just a joke, you have very good bases for a malpractise case afterwards. It's nice that some people dare to use more colorful language because otherwise world would be extremely boring place. If everyone followed your suggestion "never mail anything which may be misunderstood in a theoretical court case", there wouldn't be any free speech left...
One might have thought,that you would have already learned the style Linus uses in his mails. He was JOKING and from time to time he uses quite strong expressions (we don't believe so much in political correctness in Finland..) And this wasn't any kind of official statement, just one of his hundreds mails to the list. Linus actually later also pointed out that:"I'm not a lawyer, and I suspect this may not be legally tenable advice. Whatever. I refuse to bother with the crap."
Linus has in other circumtances made his position on software patentents absolutely clear. Open Source / Free software movement has other persons who are not nearly as good kernel hackers or kernel "project managers" as Linus is - it makes more sense that these people do the political stuff.
SGI doesn't have to defend its patents, this is not a trademark-case. As other writers in this tread have already pointed out, SGI has been very helpful to the kernel-development even it has in practice hurted their busines.
This is utter crap, the knowledge of patents requires that the owner of the patent has specifically warned you about your infrigment or you can otherwise proof that you had the specific knowledge. The mere fact that you have stated somethere that you do not follow the patent databases most certainly does not cause this. Not in EU, not in USA. IMA(IP)L
But wait, this is not all:-) Communicator can also run games from ZX Spectrum (freeware)! If this is not the ultimate gaming phone, I don't know what is.
I'm still waiting for the first games, which support multiplayer-modes. Unfortunately this may require the GPRS version of Comminicator, which hopefully is out quite soon..
EU is preparing new legistaltion, which would make compulsory data retention possible forthe member states. The crusial vote on Directive on the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector is scheduled for 29 May. More detailed information about the directive and backgrounds can be found from here.
GILC members have launced also a lobbying campaing including an open letter, which can be signed here.
Here's also Marco Cappato's (the person in charge of the directive in European Parliament) press release about the situation:
PRIVACY/EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: CAPPATO (RADICALS) "PPE AND PSE TABLE IN THE EP THE COUNCIL PROPOSALS : IN THIS WAY EUROPE WOULD AUTHORISE DATA RETENTION OF EUROPEAN CITIZENS' INTERNET AND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS"
Brussels, 23 may 2002
European PPE (conservatives) and PSE (socialists) have tabled yesterday common amendments to the Cappato report on privacy in electronic communications, that take over the Council positions on all main issues. Their content is in striking contradiction with the EP first reading position as confirmed by the EP Civil Liberties Committee during the second reading. The discussion in the EP will take place on the 29th of May in Brussels, while the vote will follow on the next day.
Declaration by Marco Cappato, MEP of the Lista Bonino/Radical Party and EP draftsman on the EU Commission proposal on the protection of privacy in electronic communications:
"With these amendments, PPE and PSE have abandoned the stance that the EP had taken in first reading and confirmed in second reading in the EP Civil Liberties committee, without getting any politically meaningful concession from the Council. Ana Palacio Vallelersundi (PPE Spanish MEP), President of the Civil Liberties committee (and Spanish conservative Government representative in the Convention) has promoted the tabling in the EP of amendments that take over the (Spanish conservative) Presidency of the Council gaining the support of the Socialist group in the EP, with the only aim of avoiding the conciliation procedure between the Council and the EP and allowing the Spanish Presidency to close successfully the dossier. PPE MEPs, that had supported until now the freedom for Member States to decide on the regime to adopt on unsolicited commercial communications, opt-out on directories and cookies, now obey to the Spanish Presidency indications and unite with the PSE in supporting a European opt-in system - although in a softened version - in all the abovementioned cases. But the most controversial issue is that of the powers the Council wants to give to Member States to impose to Telecom and Internet service providers the retaining of data concerning citizens' communications, SMS, emails, Internet surfing. The PPE-PSE amendment (that goes beyond the legal basis of the directive, that is an internal market measure) inserts in the articles the possibility for Member States to provide for data retention, while guarantees for citizens' privacy are left to a reference to the general principles of community law and to the EU Treaty. The reference to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights is relegated in the PPE-PSE amendment in the recitals (while the EP had included it in the articles). I appeal to MEPs to ask them to vote following their conscience and not on a party basis, and to follow my request to delete from the articles of the directive the reference to data retention of citizens' communications."
For more informations: Marco Cappato offices: 0032 2 2847496 mcappato@europarl.eu.int www.radicalparty.org
As far as I know, their primary target is the Finnish audience. They have added features like Finnish spelling and the package has also Finnish menus etc.
This actually makes sense, many Finnish government agencis are currently considering switching to linux and the Finnish office software is something which is really requited. The Finnish Custon uses already Open Office btw.
Unfortunately there's too many patents in the field. It is impossible to create a software which doesn't violate at least some of them. For example color management is highly protected area. From this background it's pretty simple why there isn't any commercially viable open source options available...
..My conclusion is that modern encryption is predominately a privacy enhancing technology rather than speech. Although encryption might be regarded as a manner of speech, it is unlike other methods in that it contributes nothing to communication.
One implication of this interpretation is that regulation of encryption would not violate the First Amendment. Another is that restrictions on the use of encryption could not be used as a basis for prohibiting the use of an obscure foreign language or any other ordinary language.
"..The Clipper Chip and associated key escrow system is a technically sound approach for ensuring the security and privacy of electronic communications. Clipper's SKIPJACK encryption algorithm provides strong cryptographic security, and the key escrow system includes extensive safeguards to protect against unauthorized use of keys. The more advanced chip, Capstone, further provides all the cryptographic functionality needed for information security on the National Information Infrastructure."
And there's even more, go and see by yourself. I'm really waiting for the comments from the cryptograhical community on this systems..
Two friends of mine is working in that project. As some of the posters have already noted, it's aiming to be something different than current systems e.g. ultra-cheap transmitters, which uses as less energy as possible. They are not quite yet there (as the article metions), the first prototype is actually quite large and uses lot of energy, but on the other hand only it's aimed to be a "proof-of-concept"
Their current prototype has also a built-in MP3-decoder chip (really!) so it's possible that RIAA & CO will try to shut down the project with DMCA:-)
Slashdot Mirror
And it's also spreading, I think that that this is even better cartoon about the topic:
Ghastly's Comic
V.
Well..
US is definately important and your trade-policy is currently aimed to secure markets to Disney and Microsoft, what ever it takes. In this sense it's very important what happens in the "new continent".
Never the less, EU is still independent and currently there are some indicators that the wind is really changing here to more reasonable direction. For example European Parliament (which nowadays has even some political power) has taken so far a VERY interesting stance on software patents:
ITRE
CULT
Anyway most of this laws are based on international treaties and unless the lobbying will start in WIPO and WTO, the fight is futile..
Ville
PS. We (European Digital Rights) are starting a campaign to minimize the damage coming from EUCD in Central and Eastern Europe. If you are from the region and want to actually do something, please contact me!
>This means that other EU countries must have passed >similar laws over the past few months, can anyone >who knows comment on this?
You are right. So far Greece, Italy and Denmark has adapted their national copyright laws and others will follow. More info about the situation can be found from here: http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
We managed to postpone the implementation in Finland (the law was actually sent back from Parliament, party because it was very badly written, partly because it was over-reaching) but it will come back sooner or later. As long as the directive exists as today, there's not so much what can be done.
Ville
PS. We (EDRI) are starting a campaign to minimize the damage in Central and Eastern Europe. If you are from the region and want to actually do something, please contact me!
Yup.
You are totally right. This is only a temporary delay, in the Finnish case most likely 4-5 months. But it still shows that the content industry can't anymore expect to get their all demands fullfilled. And it also shows that you can't buy all the democratic institutions.
The next step is to take the fight to the international level. Most of current IPR-regulations are based on international treaties and the fight on national level won't help much. It gives us at most some time to prepare for the next round, that's all.
Ville
Hi!
:-D
:-D
Yeah. It was a very sweet victory indeed, especially because the content industry was very confident that the proposed law would pass.
Unfortunately this is only a temporary relieve, the war against fair use will continue very soon and long as EUCD exists we are on the losing side. Never the less, the situation is now much more hopefull in Finland, because the public knowledge is now much better and also because the MPs seem to understand how important these questions are.
Ville
Hi,
It's stil unclear if there's enough time before the elections to pass this law.
Unfortunately that is not the case with the national EUCD-implentation. The chairman of the committee of culture and education (Suvi Linden) has decided that they won't ask the opinion from the constitutional commitee, which would have taken too long to finish the law in time before the elections.
Electronic Frontier Finland is launching a last minute campaign to get certain improvements to the law and also the preserve the good parts like no protection for the DVD country codes and the legality of personal circumvetion. If you want to do your part, please join the effi-aktivistit mailing list!
Ville Oksanen
Vice Chairman, EFFI ry
Well,
The fight against EUCD has to be at the moment on the national level, because the member countries are implementing the law. Of course pan-European coordination of activies, lobbying and research would help. And yes, in the future the campaigning has to happen both in EU and national level to stop initiatives like Broadcast Flag, mandatory DRM and so on..
Ville Oksanen
Electronic Frontier Finland
Well,
Unfortunately the copyright law is going to be changed also in Norway, based on EUCD. And it's going to be even worse than DMCA. So enjoy your freedom as long as you can!
V.
Dear Anon,
Yes, Norway is not a member of EU, but they are still a member of "det Europeiska ekonomiska samarbetsområdet"(EES) or if you don't speak Scandinavian, The European Economic Area (EEA), which means that they implement all the EU-directives.
And no, the directive, which i quote, is not EUCD but the first copyright related directive from year 1992 (which harmonized the legal protection for software)
Anyway it's nice that you have also something going on in Sweden - our experiences from Finland seem to indicate that the fight isn't totally futile.
Ville
Electronic Frontier Finland
Unfortunately most of lawyers don't read Slasdot or any other tech-education site (it really is a problem, for example the Law School in Helsinki University had 2-3 voluntary short courses on these topics and most of students didn't take them.)
About reverge engineering, yes, it is allowed under quite strict circumstances, the EU-directive (Council Directive 91/250/EEC, it's the same in Norway and Germany) sets a 6 step test for decompilation:
In this case the it's not clear if the information was readily available (from DVDCCA,NDA + price could make it possible to at least argue otherwise) and also it's unclear whether the reverge engineered software was legally bought or not..
Ville
Electronic Frontier Finland
Well,
This case is not based on US law and not even to EU copyright directive (because it's not yet a law on national level). Anyway this case has been on Finnish tech-media already quite well and Electronic Frontier Finland plans to write an open letter to the embassy of Norway to get some more exposure on it (unfortunately it's way too cold to arrange pickets in Helsinki at the moment..)
Luckily the case has practically no merit, the way the prosecutors are intepreting the law is very strange (you really can't break into your own DVD-discs because you have a legal access anyway and the law in question does not outlaw giving out anti-circumvention tools..)
Ville
Electronic Frontier Finland
Well,
Practically all European countries are members of the Council of Europe (which is not the same thing as EU) and thus bind by the The European Convention on Human Rights. Well, to be exact: in this case it's not the Convetion itself but the Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the death penalty.
Ville
Electronic Frontier Finland
Well,
:-(
;-)
It's not over yet as can been seem fron very resent Karin's post to Politech. This a very scary example how copyright has turned into a tool of censorship
Anyway the more people are exposed to the truth about Scientology, be harder job Scientology has to do to recruit new members.
Ville
SP4 and and proud of it
Oh well.
If your defence lawyer is so ineffective that she or he can't prove that it was just a joke, you have very good bases for a malpractise case afterwards. It's nice that some people dare to use more colorful language because otherwise world would be extremely boring place. If everyone followed your suggestion "never mail anything which may be misunderstood in a theoretical court case", there wouldn't be any free speech left...
V.
C'mon.
One might have thought,that you would have already learned the style Linus uses in his mails. He was JOKING and from time to time he uses quite strong expressions (we don't believe so much in political correctness in Finland..) And this wasn't any kind of official statement, just one of his hundreds mails to the list. Linus actually later also pointed out that:"I'm not a lawyer, and I suspect this may not be legally tenable advice. Whatever. I refuse to bother with the crap."
Linus has in other circumtances made his position on software patentents absolutely clear. Open Source / Free software movement has other persons who are not nearly as good kernel hackers or kernel "project managers" as Linus is - it makes more sense that these people do the political stuff.
V.
Doh.
SGI doesn't have to defend its patents, this is not a trademark-case. As other writers in this tread have already pointed out, SGI has been very helpful to the kernel-development even it has in practice hurted their busines.
V.
How in earth this PoS get modded up to 5!?
This is utter crap, the knowledge of patents requires that the owner of the patent has specifically warned you about your infrigment or you can otherwise proof that you had the specific knowledge. The mere fact that you have stated somethere that you do not follow the patent databases most certainly does not cause this. Not in EU, not in USA. IMA(IP)L
V.
C'mon..
Ever read his mails? He was just joking, unfortunately his humor seems to be too harsh for some half-wits here..
V.
Yes, it does (Google is your friend :-)
F-Secure's version exists and there's also
(not so suprisingly SSH's version.
Ville
A totally working version of DOOM in your mobile phone and even in color!
:-) Communicator can also run games from ZX Spectrum (freeware)! If this is not the ultimate gaming phone, I don't know what is.
(actually there's even two versions, Hannu Viitala's CDoom (open source) and a commercial version by Wildpalm)
It has also other great games like Terra Force
But wait, this is not all
I'm still waiting for the first games, which support multiplayer-modes. Unfortunately this may require the GPRS version of Comminicator, which hopefully is out quite soon..
Ville
ps. I'm no way connected to Nokia or Wildpalm..
EU is preparing new legistaltion, which would make compulsory data retention possible forthe member states. The crusial vote on Directive on the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector is scheduled for 29 May. More detailed information about the directive and backgrounds can be found from here.
GILC members have launced also a lobbying campaing including an open letter, which can be signed here.
Here's also Marco Cappato's (the person in charge of the directive in European Parliament) press release about the situation:
PRIVACY/EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: CAPPATO (RADICALS) "PPE AND PSE TABLE IN THE EP THE COUNCIL PROPOSALS : IN THIS WAY EUROPE WOULD AUTHORISE DATA RETENTION OF EUROPEAN CITIZENS' INTERNET AND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS"
Brussels, 23 may 2002
European PPE (conservatives) and PSE (socialists) have tabled yesterday common amendments to the Cappato report on privacy in electronic communications, that take over the Council positions on all main issues. Their content is in striking contradiction with the EP first reading position as confirmed by the EP Civil Liberties Committee during the second reading.
The discussion in the EP will take place on the 29th of May in Brussels, while the vote will follow on the next day.
Declaration by Marco Cappato, MEP of the Lista Bonino/Radical Party and EP draftsman
on the EU Commission proposal on the protection of privacy in electronic communications:
"With these amendments, PPE and PSE have abandoned the stance that the EP had taken in first reading and confirmed in second reading in the EP Civil Liberties committee, without getting any politically meaningful concession from the Council.
Ana Palacio Vallelersundi (PPE Spanish MEP), President of the Civil Liberties committee (and Spanish conservative Government representative in the Convention) has promoted the tabling in the EP of amendments that take over the (Spanish conservative) Presidency of the Council gaining the support of the Socialist group in the EP, with the only aim of avoiding the conciliation procedure between the Council and the EP and allowing the Spanish Presidency to close successfully the dossier.
PPE MEPs, that had supported until now the freedom for Member States to decide on the regime to adopt on unsolicited commercial communications, opt-out on directories and cookies, now obey to the Spanish Presidency indications and unite with the PSE in supporting a European opt-in system - although in a softened version - in all the abovementioned cases.
But the most controversial issue is that of the powers the Council wants to give to Member States to impose to Telecom and Internet service providers the retaining of data concerning citizens' communications, SMS, emails, Internet surfing. The PPE-PSE amendment (that goes beyond the legal basis of the directive, that is an internal market measure) inserts in the articles the possibility for Member States to provide for data retention, while guarantees for citizens' privacy are left to a reference to the general principles of community law and to the EU Treaty. The reference to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights is relegated in the PPE-PSE amendment in the recitals (while the EP had included it in the articles).
I appeal to MEPs to ask them to vote following their conscience and not on a party basis, and to follow my request to delete from the articles of the directive the reference to data retention of citizens' communications."
For more informations:
Marco Cappato offices: 0032 2 2847496
mcappato@europarl.eu.int www.radicalparty.org
Well,
As far as I know, their primary target is the Finnish audience. They have added features like Finnish spelling and the package has also Finnish menus etc.
This actually makes sense, many Finnish government agencis are currently considering switching to linux and the Finnish office software is something which is really requited. The Finnish Custon uses already Open Office btw.
Ville
Well.
Unfortunately there's too many patents in the field. It is impossible to create a software which doesn't violate at least some of them. For example color management is highly protected area. From this background it's pretty simple why there isn't any commercially viable open source options available...
Ville
Some juicy bites from her publications:
..My conclusion is that modern encryption is predominately a privacy
Is Encryption Speech? A Cryptographer's Perspective
enhancing technology rather than speech. Although encryption might be
regarded as a manner of speech, it is unlike other methods in that it
contributes nothing to communication.
One implication of this interpretation is that regulation of encryption
would not violate the First Amendment. Another is that restrictions on
the use of encryption could not be used as a basis for prohibiting the
use of an obscure foreign language or any other ordinary language.
Testimony Before U.S. House of Representatives, May 3, 1994.
"..The Clipper Chip and associated key escrow system is a technically
sound approach for ensuring the security and privacy of electronic
communications. Clipper's SKIPJACK encryption algorithm provides
strong cryptographic security, and the key escrow system includes
extensive safeguards to protect against unauthorized use of keys. The
more advanced chip, Capstone, further provides all the cryptographic
functionality needed for information security on the National
Information Infrastructure."
And there's even more, go and see by yourself. I'm really waiting for the comments from the cryptograhical community on this systems..
V.
Two friends of mine is working in that project. As some of the posters have already noted, it's aiming to be something different than current systems e.g. ultra-cheap transmitters, which uses as less energy as possible. They are not quite yet there (as the article metions), the first prototype is actually quite large and uses lot of energy, but on the other hand only it's aimed to be a "proof-of-concept"
:-)
Their current prototype has also a built-in MP3-decoder chip (really!) so it's possible that RIAA & CO will try to shut down the project with DMCA
Here's the homepage of the project.
V.