We have a system for dealing with bad laws. These laws are challenged in court, and a judge or panel of judges decides whether the law should continue to apply, be narrowed in scope, or be stricken entirely from the books. Did the Playfair... what do you call it? Organization? Whatever. Did the Playfair Dude engage that system? Did they raise the level of debate, or seek restitution in a court?
Please tell me how this system of ours works when it's an individual that is challenging the law makers. Tell me about the time required. Tell me about the money needed. Tell me about the personal attacks the will be levied against this individual. The U.S. law makes martyrs out of heroes every day.
The bias is obvious, As a content producer (Apple) all you have to do is issue a C&D, and sit back.
The deck is stacked against the single person trying to exercise their fair rights.
Clearly, you are a person willing to take up the fight. Step up to the plate, mirror fairplay on your own personal site, and when the C&D's come in stand your ground. I'll be the first one to cheer you on.
Rather than working with Apple to try to resolve their differences, whomever is responsible for this little hack (the person or persons responsible refuse to attach their name to their work or their collateral) decided to just slip through what many perceive as a loophole in the law.
You are foolish to believe that apple would allow fairplay to be distributed under any conditions, and your classification of 'little hack' shows your bias.
This has nothing to do with apple, itunes, or ipod. This is all fair use vs. DMCA.
Call me crazy, but how, exactly, does ones MAC address end up being sent over anything but your local ethernet network?
Once that packet hits your internet gateway, the ethernet header containing your MAC is stripped, and an HDLC or FR packet is constructed from the ethernet payload and sent out over the WAN link.
Are they really embedding MAC addresses into the payload? This will only work if you actually have an ethernet card in your computer. So only those lucky enough to have broadband will be effected?
These fees are not as expensive as having your network crash because some zealot thought he could set up an equivalent network in Linux instead of Solaris
This used to be true, however, Sun dropped the ball big time with their UltraSparcIII. There was a bug in the CPU that caused "ecache parity errors". We had half a dozen E6500's loaded with as much memory and CPU's as we could. Each one of these boxes crashed at least once every week and a half! At first Sun blamed us! Our computing center had too little humidity, we installed the grounding strap improperly... Blah Blah Blah, none of it true. Finally they acknowledged the problem. It took them more than 6 months to work around the problem. Their workaround was a series of hacks and kludges (strange monitoring daemons and such).
We've migrated half of production to linux now. It's not perfect by any means, but we've lowered our harware costs by 66%, and increased job performance by 75%.
We're not looking seriously at Solaris in the future.
It's entirely possible that within the next couple of years the actual copyright holders could release a CD to stores with an emulator and a couple dozen of their old games. It'd be a revenue stream on old copyrights and old games which are still valued -- Williams has done this with a lot of their old arcade games, releasing new packages for the PSX and the PC... But still, people continue to claim them as free and post them wherever they want to....
I'd love it if more companies did this. I would buy each and every one of them. Right now if I want to play Donkey Kong my choices are either:
1. Not play because it would infringe
2. Play illegally
The real reason companies aren't doing what you mentioned is that once they sell me the rom image, I now have right to use any emulator to play them.
Ever try to install rpm's after an install, when they refuse to install because of dependencies, and you have NO IDEA where to get that package? Tell me Red Hat is easier to use....:/
I couldn't agree more. I've got a red hat box at home that's stuck on linux 2.0.34 (RH: 5.0). The thought of buying another set of cd's just to upgrade it makes me sick. I installed debian at work, and I love dselect. I'm converting the box at home right now! Long live Debian GNU/Linux
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DirectX would be a perfect name for a graphics library for X windows?
We have a system for dealing with bad laws. These laws are challenged in court, and a judge or panel of judges decides whether the law should continue to apply, be narrowed in scope, or be stricken entirely from the books. Did the Playfair... what do you call it? Organization? Whatever. Did the Playfair Dude engage that system? Did they raise the level of debate, or seek restitution in a court?
Please tell me how this system of ours works when it's an individual that is challenging the law makers. Tell me about the time required. Tell me about the money needed. Tell me about the personal attacks the will be levied against this individual. The U.S. law makes martyrs out of heroes every day.
The bias is obvious, As a content producer (Apple) all you have to do is issue a C&D, and sit back.
The deck is stacked against the single person trying to exercise their fair rights.
Clearly, you are a person willing to take up the fight. Step up to the plate, mirror fairplay on your own personal site, and when the C&D's come in stand your ground. I'll be the first one to cheer you on.
You are foolish to believe that apple would allow fairplay to be distributed under any conditions, and your classification of 'little hack' shows your bias.
This has nothing to do with apple, itunes, or ipod. This is all fair use vs. DMCA.
Yep, they fixed em.
Don't get me wrong, I used to love usenet. Then the spambots, and cancelbots came along.
I can't find anything on alt.binaries.* these days that forms a complete file set. Maybe it's just that uunet (my provider) is in bed with RIAA.
Ah, does anyone else miss that wonderful lyrics site?
I used to hear a song on the radio, remember the chorus, look up the title/artist at lyrics.ch, and then buy the CD (downloading at 28.8 sucked!).
Of course the RIAA/Harry Fox took down the site, and in protest I haven't bought a CD since.
However, if you're an ordinary person, then the school you attend is the only thing to make you stand out from the crowd.
Call me crazy, but how, exactly, does ones MAC address end up being sent over anything but your local ethernet network?
Once that packet hits your internet gateway, the ethernet header containing your MAC is stripped, and an HDLC or FR packet is constructed from the ethernet payload and sent out over the WAN link.
Are they really embedding MAC addresses into the payload? This will only work if you actually have an ethernet card in your computer. So only those lucky enough to have broadband will be effected?
the ignorance of the bulk of the world
These fees are not as expensive as having your network crash because some zealot thought he could set up an equivalent network in Linux instead of Solaris
This used to be true, however, Sun dropped the ball big time with their UltraSparcIII. There was a bug in the CPU that caused "ecache parity errors". We had half a dozen E6500's loaded with as much memory and CPU's as we could. Each one of these boxes crashed at least once every week and a half! At first Sun blamed us! Our computing center had too little humidity, we installed the grounding strap improperly... Blah Blah Blah, none of it true. Finally they acknowledged the problem. It took them more than 6 months to work around the problem. Their workaround was a series of hacks and kludges (strange monitoring daemons and such).
We've migrated half of production to linux now. It's not perfect by any means, but we've lowered our harware costs by 66%, and increased job performance by 75%.
We're not looking seriously at Solaris in the future.
Look out, I think this is an MS plot
First flood the root servers (running bind), cause them to fail, and then claim that if they ran MS-DNS, this wouldn't be happening.
We all know our elected officials answer to us, and not a set of nameless soft-money wielding multinational corporations, right?
This was hinted at by others.
Why not create a p2p service that only serves up css encrypted files, using a key that isn't distributed.
To use the files you have to get the DeCSS utility from a "pirate" web site.
Now nobody can verify the contents of the files without violating the DMCA!
Hitachi et al claims that Rambus should have disclosed their IP while
they were members of the JEDEC.
Rambus says they never mentioned or promoted their IP.
Therefore, the other committee members designed a memory technology in a
clean room environment that just happened to infringe on *pending*
patents.
This suggests to me that Rambus patented an *obvious* solution to
computer memory, and those patents should be revoked.
It's entirely possible that within the next couple of years the actual copyright holders could release a CD to stores with an emulator and a couple dozen of their old games. It'd be a revenue stream on old copyrights and old games which are still valued -- Williams has done this with a lot of their old arcade games, releasing new packages for the PSX and the PC... But still, people continue to claim them as free and post them wherever they want to....
I'd love it if more companies did this. I would buy each and every one of them. Right now if I want to play Donkey Kong my choices are either:
1. Not play because it would infringe
2. Play illegally
The real reason companies aren't doing what you mentioned is that once they sell me the rom image, I now have right to use any emulator to play them.
Bruce was lashing out against vendors who disclose a security expolit merely to plug their own product.
He clarifies this point, and promotes Full Disclosure in the next issue of cryptogram.
He also dismisses the points you made in your posting.
I couldn't agree more. I've got a red hat box at home that's stuck on linux 2.0.34 (RH: 5.0). The thought of buying another set of cd's just to upgrade it makes me sick. I installed debian at work, and I love dselect. I'm converting the box at home right now! Long live Debian GNU/Linux