Yes, but if you break CSS and, more importantly, put that code into the player you are breaking the DMCA. I bought the DVD therefore I have a right to view it.
If I buy a book with a lock on it I have a right to pick/break/remove that lock to access the contents of the book. I do not require a key from the publisher nor their consent to read the book under the stipulation that I must possess the original key. Even if I have a Xerox machine next to me. Just because I have the ability duplicate the work does not permit them to dictate how I can access it.
For grins once, I checked out a dictionary published in the 50s. One defination for piracy was copyright infringement.
I think that after 50+ years of common usage bitching that the term isn't accurate is pedantic. People here just don't like the connotation it carries. Get over it and find a better way to argue the point. Like calling the act "sharing" instead of usurping the copyright owner's distribution rights.
Stop that. You're confusing everybody with reason and obfuscating issues with researched facts. Next thing you know someone will propose the end to OS holy wars and the cessation of troll posts.
The DoD and GSA have joined as affilates. They get to read stuff, attend All Participant meetings twice a year to get updates and make comments on proposals. They have no vote on any technology, PR or policy decisions.
I don't see what the brouhaha is all about here. Not like they couldn't get their hands on the technology anyway. It is supposed to be an open spec.
Who cares who comes out with it? You could have multiple second-hand services out there. Wha? Napster was a microsoft project? Look at IM. Sure you have Yahoo and Messanger but you also have projects out there which are open-source and strive to work with the others. You even have competing solutions like Jabber.
And why are you freaking out about an encrypted section of your hard drive. FreeNet does that for crying out loud. The next generation of P2P software will probably have to do it as well along with providing encrypted data over the wire. How you equate that with losing more rights I don't know.
Digitally signing a AUP is actually an interesting idea. While it can't be the only mechanism in place to establish due care it is a good start. The other thing keeping people honest is the risk of losing your investment. Considering if you were actually caught red-handed, the store would notify the proper authorities.
My idea originally was like an alternative to Internet radio using second hand digital files. This scheme would make it legal to buy a piece of music and put it in a perpetual pool that could, within reason of supply and demand, be accessed at will. It would be actual file-swapping instead of the current, imho illegal, scheme of file distribution used by Napster, Kazaa and the like.
And finally, again, who knows and who cares about what platform it runs on. Fuck, you could have the backend run Oracle on linux or MySQL on OBSD for all I give a rip about. (jokes intended) Atm, the concept probably isn't even legal. and whoever helps develop it in the States probably runs the risk of being sued into oblivion.
It's called a pipe dream. Take a hit and quit stressing over the details.:)
I disagree. Boycotts are very American even in this case.
SCO could be legally right but ethically wrong and, if I believe that, I have every right to base a purchasing decision or make a recommendation on that viewpoint. I also have the right to state my opinion and try to sway more people into boycotting SCO.
Perfectly legal to use a technique to net tuna that catches and kills a dolphin here and there. Enough people got together because they felt it was wrong and due to a boycott and the publicity around it you now have dolphin-safe tuna being sold. Disney has subsidiaries that made films for a more mature and non-family oriented audience. Perfectly legal. Was the Christian Coalition wrong in boycotting them?
Number 3 is the kicker imho and what will probably kill this bill.
By combining digital first sale with the ability to crack the copy protection it is possible to forsee a new type of P2P infrastructure. A digital second-hand store (dss) if you will.
I buy my digital music and simply break the copy protection as this is legal now. I then participate in the dss. I only keep the songs I am currently using on my computer, any I don't want at the time I make available for upload. The program then deletes the song after someone uploads it. Of course, I can select from a pool of available songs.
Another way. I could take my digital copy and run it through some company's cracking program and then sell it to them for time on their service. The program audits the transaction. They keep track of the 2nd hand music they've gotten and only give out whatever many copies of the song they have in inventory. Again, I listen to said song and when done send it back to the dss.
I also wonder if I could do this with steaming audio. Basically I lock a copy of the song for my use and then unlock it when I'm done and want another song.
You obviously aren't from WI. Job security in state government is about to dry up like spit in the dust bowl. And considering that most other states aren't doing that much better it will be interesting to see how many follow Gov. Doyle's lead.
Somebody with more experience than me can correct me if I'm wrong, but any cisco router beefy enough to handle BGP can be accessed through ssh. Even if you can't, you can still put an access-group on the vty session and control telnet access through an acl. Configure AAA and you can have user accounts being authenticated through a RADIUS server with SecureID tokens.
I can see the possibility that the router could be compromised through a vulnerablity in snmp or http access. If the IOS hasn't been upgraded. But, if you have the resources, you can put some serious bumps in the road to prevent a script kiddie from accessing the router.
Hrmmm,let's see. Two thousand dollars... Do I get an HDTV or a tankless water heater? One let's me watch about an hour or two of higher visual quality shows a night. The other replaces that worthless electric tank I got when I bought the house. I may have to buy additional components down the road for the HDTV. My tankless water heater may pay for itself in about a year, definately two and will continue to save me money for about twenty years down the road. Depending on what the FCC and big media cram down my throat I may not be able to tape the shows I want to watch later. My tankless water heater will provide a hot shower even after a couple of loads of laundry and with a load of dishes running.
I can deal with my current sets. I'm going for the new water heater. When they switch in 2006 I'll have saved enough money to buy a set big enough to cover my living room wall and one for the basement to boot.
Since this episode happened only a day or two ago and is relevent....
I work the graveyard shift and occassionally take my son to daycare so I can catch up on some sleep. After a couple of night's of insomnia I try to catch up on some sleep and sure enough my head barely hits the pillow when the phone rings. It's a telemarketer. I figure no big deal. Ignore it and go back to bed.
The jerk procedes to keep calling every five to ten minutes for the next 45. I have to keep the phone on hook in case daycare calls about my son. In the end, this harrassment costs me two hours of sleep and I have to take my son to daycare the next day so I can try once again to get some sleep and be somewhat productive at work.
Fuck the telemarketing companies. Stuff like that messes with my livelyhood and I don't need to go through 50 calls a month telling each and every company who manages to get their mitts on my contact info to stop calling me. They don't have a right to one red cent of profit but I do have a right not to be harrassed and I shouldn't have to disable a basic service in my home to get away from it.
Well, that's my rant for the day. Thanks for reading it. I feel better now.
How can the linux code be GPL'd if it requires signing an NDA? I just can't get my mind around this point and it is majorly bugging me. You would think that the linux developers would be just as if not even more active in trying to coerce Sun into opening up their documentation as the OBSD team is.
Put a breath analyzer in it so first you have to blow it and get a drink.
IMHO, this is just another example of technology getting it wrong. The cute blonde should be the one I'm getting a drink and later it should be me getting the blow. But hey who am I to critique?
Even if it is sometimes used for fundraising, I see it as an opprotunity for the canidate/party to get their message out. I also have to consider in the past 7 years that I've had my current phone number I've gotten less than a handful of telemarketing calls that were political in nature. Compare that to the, at least once a week calls, I get to refinance my mortage or the near daily pestering I get regarding my phone service and this exemption doesn't even hit my radar screen.
Anyway, most political causes canvas door-to-door and I already have a bear trap by the front door for them and the Jehovah Witnesses.
I disagree. If gas went up to $2/gal the next president of the United States would be the one promising to get us out of the Kyoto agreements and provide us with cheaper gas.
Price increases wouldn't stop at just the pump. Industry would have to pass the cost along to the consumer which means produce goes up, UPS deliveries go up - basically most things that involve transportation. Maybe you don't, but I do notice five or ten cent increases when I go to the grocery store. And you know some special interest will spin all of that onto the increase in gas prices. I live in SE WI and have seen it done due to the cost increase in formulated gas. If it wasn't for the EPA sticking to their guns, voters would have moved to get rid of the requirement.
Could you spin this so Joe American would accept the situation as patriotic? Honestly, from my limited experience, I don't think so. I've tried that argument at the lunch table at work and it gets dismissed out of hand. There is always some activity that "justifies" the need for the SUV or monster truck.
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If I buy a book with a lock on it I have a right to pick/break/remove that lock to access the contents of the book. I do not require a key from the publisher nor their consent to read the book under the stipulation that I must possess the original key. Even if I have a Xerox machine next to me. Just because I have the ability duplicate the work does not permit them to dictate how I can access it.
Every one of these links refers to MS03-007 and not MS03-008.
This story isn't a week old. The postings for the advisories were issued on the 17th. The exploit has known to be out since last Wed.
For grins once, I checked out a dictionary published in the 50s. One defination for piracy was copyright infringement.
I think that after 50+ years of common usage bitching that the term isn't accurate is pedantic. People here just don't like the connotation it carries. Get over it and find a better way to argue the point. Like calling the act "sharing" instead of usurping the copyright owner's distribution rights.
Buy more ram.
Then where will /. be?
I don't see what the brouhaha is all about here. Not like they couldn't get their hands on the technology anyway. It is supposed to be an open spec.
Fate is a fickle mistress.
And why are you freaking out about an encrypted section of your hard drive. FreeNet does that for crying out loud. The next generation of P2P software will probably have to do it as well along with providing encrypted data over the wire. How you equate that with losing more rights I don't know.
Digitally signing a AUP is actually an interesting idea. While it can't be the only mechanism in place to establish due care it is a good start. The other thing keeping people honest is the risk of losing your investment. Considering if you were actually caught red-handed, the store would notify the proper authorities.
My idea originally was like an alternative to Internet radio using second hand digital files. This scheme would make it legal to buy a piece of music and put it in a perpetual pool that could, within reason of supply and demand, be accessed at will. It would be actual file-swapping instead of the current, imho illegal, scheme of file distribution used by Napster, Kazaa and the like.
And finally, again, who knows and who cares about what platform it runs on. Fuck, you could have the backend run Oracle on linux or MySQL on OBSD for all I give a rip about. (jokes intended) Atm, the concept probably isn't even legal. and whoever helps develop it in the States probably runs the risk of being sued into oblivion.
It's called a pipe dream. Take a hit and quit stressing over the details. :)
SCO could be legally right but ethically wrong and, if I believe that, I have every right to base a purchasing decision or make a recommendation on that viewpoint. I also have the right to state my opinion and try to sway more people into boycotting SCO.
Perfectly legal to use a technique to net tuna that catches and kills a dolphin here and there. Enough people got together because they felt it was wrong and due to a boycott and the publicity around it you now have dolphin-safe tuna being sold. Disney has subsidiaries that made films for a more mature and non-family oriented audience. Perfectly legal. Was the Christian Coalition wrong in boycotting them?
By combining digital first sale with the ability to crack the copy protection it is possible to forsee a new type of P2P infrastructure. A digital second-hand store (dss) if you will.
I buy my digital music and simply break the copy protection as this is legal now. I then participate in the dss. I only keep the songs I am currently using on my computer, any I don't want at the time I make available for upload. The program then deletes the song after someone uploads it. Of course, I can select from a pool of available songs.
Another way. I could take my digital copy and run it through some company's cracking program and then sell it to them for time on their service. The program audits the transaction. They keep track of the 2nd hand music they've gotten and only give out whatever many copies of the song they have in inventory. Again, I listen to said song and when done send it back to the dss.
I also wonder if I could do this with steaming audio. Basically I lock a copy of the song for my use and then unlock it when I'm done and want another song.
Would that be legal?
You obviously aren't from WI. Job security in state government is about to dry up like spit in the dust bowl. And considering that most other states aren't doing that much better it will be interesting to see how many follow Gov. Doyle's lead.
I can see the possibility that the router could be compromised through a vulnerablity in snmp or http access. If the IOS hasn't been upgraded. But, if you have the resources, you can put some serious bumps in the road to prevent a script kiddie from accessing the router.
I can deal with my current sets. I'm going for the new water heater. When they switch in 2006 I'll have saved enough money to buy a set big enough to cover my living room wall and one for the basement to boot.
Hey. As long as the French are not learning American English from old Jerry Lewis comedies I consider us all in a better, safer place.
I'll leave that as a start.
I work the graveyard shift and occassionally take my son to daycare so I can catch up on some sleep. After a couple of night's of insomnia I try to catch up on some sleep and sure enough my head barely hits the pillow when the phone rings. It's a telemarketer. I figure no big deal. Ignore it and go back to bed.
The jerk procedes to keep calling every five to ten minutes for the next 45. I have to keep the phone on hook in case daycare calls about my son. In the end, this harrassment costs me two hours of sleep and I have to take my son to daycare the next day so I can try once again to get some sleep and be somewhat productive at work.
Fuck the telemarketing companies. Stuff like that messes with my livelyhood and I don't need to go through 50 calls a month telling each and every company who manages to get their mitts on my contact info to stop calling me. They don't have a right to one red cent of profit but I do have a right not to be harrassed and I shouldn't have to disable a basic service in my home to get away from it.
Well, that's my rant for the day. Thanks for reading it. I feel better now.
But I will admit that Feingold is one heck of a senator and gives me hope for my kids' futures.
Admit it. You're just new here and bought that LinuxGeek account off of someone so everyone would defer to your fairly low user ID.
RTFA before making an inflammatory post? Bwaaha. You must be confusing this place with C.O.L.A..
How can the linux code be GPL'd if it requires signing an NDA? I just can't get my mind around this point and it is majorly bugging me. You would think that the linux developers would be just as if not even more active in trying to coerce Sun into opening up their documentation as the OBSD team is.
IMHO, this is just another example of technology getting it wrong. The cute blonde should be the one I'm getting a drink and later it should be me getting the blow. But hey who am I to critique?
Anyway, most political causes canvas door-to-door and I already have a bear trap by the front door for them and the Jehovah Witnesses.
Price increases wouldn't stop at just the pump. Industry would have to pass the cost along to the consumer which means produce goes up, UPS deliveries go up - basically most things that involve transportation. Maybe you don't, but I do notice five or ten cent increases when I go to the grocery store. And you know some special interest will spin all of that onto the increase in gas prices. I live in SE WI and have seen it done due to the cost increase in formulated gas. If it wasn't for the EPA sticking to their guns, voters would have moved to get rid of the requirement.
Could you spin this so Joe American would accept the situation as patriotic? Honestly, from my limited experience, I don't think so. I've tried that argument at the lunch table at work and it gets dismissed out of hand. There is always some activity that "justifies" the need for the SUV or monster truck.
A piddly little 42" monitor is nothing compared to the power of the dude in the red suit and his elven magi.
Which reminds me... Does anybody have some cannon on what exactly happens to Wesley after TNG?