I maintain that if DeCSS had made an actual DVD player instead of just something that removes the CSS encoding, they would have been okay, as obviously the main purpose is to play video...
Not in the EU, because "rightholders have complete control over the manufacture, distribution etc. of devices designed to circumvent anti-copying devices. A more flexible solution in this regard would have carried a greater risk of abuse and piracy".
I have the right to make fair use of the material that I own or have legal access to. I am therefore a rightholder in regard to all those DVDs on my shelf.
Another interesting fallout will be what sort of CSS-bypassing facilities the MPAA is going to ship over here to the colleges and libraries.
Nazis have. If you ask them, they would reply that they believe that their system of morality is entirely valid and acceptable. No society believes that it is evil. What you should have said is "don't people have the same morals as me?". It's the same kind of transformation as R.A.Wilson's "War on Some Drugs".
I was a big fan of 2000AD when I was younger, and I tried to find a picture of Cutie, the belt-computer worn by Sam Slade, Robohunter. No luck, and I'm normally quite good at net searching.
The Studios make much of the fact that Congress did not expressly write a fair use defense into 1201. This is correct.
They didn't? What does this mean then:
`Sec. 1201. `(a) `(2) `(c) OTHER RIGHTS, ETC., NOT AFFECTED- (1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
I keep getting virus warnings about plain text emails with no attachments containing viruses. They're coming from a C++ language discussion mailing list that automatically strips attachments and MIME. Duh.
In my view, this article is simply trying to elicit specific legal advice, as several other posts have done lately, and hence should never have been posted.
Sorry to flame off like this, I know you're just trying to help, and doing what you're professionally obliged to do.
The problem with this opinion is that many/.ers believe that the law just likes to make work for lawyers. IMO, if a law can't be comprehended by an averagely-educated citizen, then it shouldn't be a law. What's the point in there being thousands of laws that I am potentially violating? Are we all supposed to do nothing but read law books all our waking lives in order to avoid breaking one of these laws? At least we wouldn't have time to break any, unless we're so busy reading that we forget to open that jury summons or voting slip or whatever on the doormat. If I want advice, then I'll ask whoever I damn well please, and if that's my peers here on/., then that's my perogative.
PS. I think I know the heart of the answer to these rhetorical questions, being that any system with input and feedback tends towards complexity, chaos, and eventually emergent behaviour. It's not a bad thing, it's how life happened.
UK egghead Sir Clive Sinclair wanted to produce a clockless computer in the late 80's, I recall. It never came to anything, because his business acumen was always somewhat lacking.
It will be impossible for anyone to prove that my real intent was not simply to point to an informative site on the internet, but to point to a site that could point to a site that is illegal.
That depends on how much proof the judge decides s{0,1}he needs.
If I link to an "illegal" site, does that make my site "illegal" too? If so, what happens when you link to my site?
It depends. I think the pertinent criteria is intent. If it is demonstrable that your link is designed to helppeople get hold of copies of DeCSS, then you can be done for it. That's why google.com is not in violation, but a link to http://www.google.com/search?q=decss&btnG=Google+S earch or whatever probably is. Note that I'm not making any right/wrong judgements here, just trying to inject some sanity in a world gone mad.
Well, I have bypassed copy control mechanisms in the past, s I suppose I could be classified as a device that could be used for that purpose... but it's not really the primary purpose that I was created for.
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Another interesting fallout will be what sort of CSS-bypassing facilities the MPAA is going to ship over here to the colleges and libraries.
Nazis have. If you ask them, they would reply that they believe that their system of morality is entirely valid and acceptable. No society believes that it is evil. What you should have said is "don't people have the same morals as me?". It's the same kind of transformation as R.A.Wilson's "War on Some Drugs".
Sure as hell did! I had at least 4 people say to me "Hey, that's like Neo's 'phone", and ask to take a look at it.
I was a big fan of 2000AD when I was younger, and I tried to find a picture of Cutie, the belt-computer worn by Sam Slade, Robohunter. No luck, and I'm normally quite good at net searching.
I can just plug the cable straight into my java ring-piece!
I keep getting virus warnings about plain text emails with no attachments containing viruses. They're coming from a C++ language discussion mailing list that automatically strips attachments and MIME. Duh.
The problem with this opinion is that many /.ers believe that the law just likes to make work for lawyers. IMO, if a law can't be comprehended by an averagely-educated citizen, then it shouldn't be a law. What's the point in there being thousands of laws that I am potentially violating? Are we all supposed to do nothing but read law books all our waking lives in order to avoid breaking one of these laws? At least we wouldn't have time to break any, unless we're so busy reading that we forget to open that jury summons or voting slip or whatever on the doormat. If I want advice, then I'll ask whoever I damn well please, and if that's my peers here on /., then that's my perogative.
PS. I think I know the heart of the answer to these rhetorical questions, being that any system with input and feedback tends towards complexity, chaos, and eventually emergent behaviour. It's not a bad thing, it's how life happened.
UK egghead Sir Clive Sinclair wanted to produce a clockless computer in the late 80's, I recall. It never came to anything, because his business acumen was always somewhat lacking.
Done. It screws up the spacing, though. Hope it still works.
DMCA is nothing to do with EULA, I think you're thinking of UCTA.
Just to clarify the history, did IBM successfully block a functioning but non-clean-room BIOS from being used?
Sorry, I meant verizonsucks.org - currently owned by Bell Atlantic Trademark Services LLC.
If they can't own it, then they can't sue for cybersquatting.
Shit happens.
For all the harm that industrial society has done to the world, maybe it would be a good thing if we were knocked back into the stone age.
I thought it was "Steganography", but Google turns up loads of hits for each (but about twice as many for steganopgraphy as for stenography).
Mine hasn't, anyway.
Well, I have bypassed copy control mechanisms in the past, s I suppose I could be classified as a device that could be used for that purpose... but it's not really the primary purpose that I was created for.