> What restrictions were placed on redistribution by people who have already gotten their hands on the specs?
As long as they didn't sign any contract: None. Btw, you too can belong to the happy few to lay your hands on that precious documentation: go to that site, and just enter a random 4 digit number (such as 1111 for instance) as login and the same as password. Presto: instant access.
And if they close that down, there's always google's cache.
And by the time they've got around to coerce google into removing those docs from its cache, you'll be able to download them from thousands of mirrors worldwide...
> Funny sidenote: 7% of noamazon.com's traffic comes from www.amazon.com.
... and how many visits did you get from their lawyer's office? Watch out, these things can happen faster than you expect. Case in point: last summer, I put up a protest site against E*Trade for all the hoops that they made us open source programmers jump through in order to participate in the Red Hat IPO. And sure enough, in less than two week, I got frequent visits from lsglaw.com... They insisted for about two more weeks, until they got tired about the "interesting computing experience" that I inflicted on them using a.htaccess file
> Cobalt? To be honest, of all the Linux stocks I'd have to say I'm least interested in Cobalt. I'm glad they're doing well, but I think their business is a big yawn.
Cobalt is a great daytrading stock. I bought some end of January for 75 1/16, left for a skying holiday, and back home, I sold them for 120 1/8;-). Right now, it occasionnally drops back to 100 only to come back to 120 the day after. Great ride!
> Actually, RedHat reached a peak of $300. I think the prices you mention are averages.
Nope. Brento's prices are adjusted for the split that happened in early January. Those $45 were before the split and would be $22.5 split adjusted. Thus, even at today's pricing, that's still the triple!
> In the end it boils down to dividends...But if those companies keep year after year of steady losses and no dividends there's no way their prices will ever go up again.
Actually, not quite true either. There is one (in)famous company which never paid any dividends, but nevertheless gained value year after year. Yes, it is indeed that company that we all love to hate...
The "parade" at the bottom of the screen has a guy in a green wheelchair which has "eToys" written on its wheel. Not the 's'. If they didn't infringe the trademark before, they do now;-)
This could backfire...
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So, after zillions of people put up mirrors of the "real" DeCSS over the past several weeks, making it easyer and easyer to find it, now we start "diluting" by a namesake in order to confuse the lawyers. Only problem: this will also make the "real" DeCSS harder to find to legitimate downloaders, and thus might actually play into the shark's hands...
> The only way it would work is if a large number of people bought one share each, attended the shareholders' meeting personally, and raised hell. If you buy a large block of the company's stock, you raise its price -- and that is almost tacit endorsement of their behavior.
If you're concerned about losing your savings over this, or worse, of endorsing the bad guys policy by driving their share price up, how about this simple trick:
Use two brokerages!
At one of them, you buy the stock, and proxy it to the advocacy group. And at the other, you short it! Result: voting rights, but no risk exposition! If the stock tanks, you lose on the shares you bough, but you win it back on those that you shorted. And vice versa. Moreover, the transaction doesn't cause any extra demand (you buy and sell the same amount of shares), hence it should not favorably influence the price either...
And what about latency? And what if one of the middle machines is switched off? At least, back in the good ole days with coax you only had to worry about uplugged/unterminated cable, and not about switched off machines.
It's not like he can demonstrate any actual damage since he's the only one who knows what's on there.
Wrong. He could have digitally signed his data, or kept an md5 checksum. If the signature doesn't match, well, then it means it isn't his data... But then, the government could always claim that an "accident" happened with the drive, and that now there was no way to bring it back.
Or we could make it so that for the FIRST! 50 posts you can only moderate down. At least that would take care of the obvious use of mod points early in a thread...
> The web site is not the defective element in your unfortunate situation.
Read the damn post. Chris Elam, the Fool support person admitted himself in his reply to the complaint that they had deliberately configured their server to send this stylesheet to netscape browsers, and to netscape browsers only
Apparently, the plaintiff can request that the evidence is sealed, even if it is submitted by the defense.
But what would happen if somebody submitted it in an unrelated court case?
"Your honor, please enter this listing into the evidence. It happened to be lying on the backseat of my car when I got that pesky parking ticket. And btw, for the record, the cop's unlisted phone number is +352 758672, hehe"
Did they take all of his computers? I vaguely remember that they forgot one of the many they had. And then, he certainly has friends who would gladly lend him one...
redundant? Looks like a sound idea to me, and I don't think I have seen it mentioned before. In any case, if you want to help, but don't have the time to set up an organization, you can donate to the EFF
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After all, you also need some time to play pool, have a couple of beers, read the papers, surf the net, etc.
Well, technically, the MPAA did succeed in stopping 3 or 4 sites from distributing DeCSS (out of several thousands, hehe...).
As long as they didn't sign any contract: None. Btw, you too can belong to the happy few to lay your hands on that precious documentation: go to that site, and just enter a random 4 digit number (such as 1111 for instance) as login and the same as password. Presto: instant access.
And if they close that down, there's always google's cache.
And by the time they've got around to coerce google into removing those docs from its cache, you'll be able to download them from thousands of mirrors worldwide...
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online auctions? Or didn't they file one that yet?
Or shaped like an apple, rather than a business card
Cobalt is a great daytrading stock. I bought some end of January for 75 1/16, left for a skying holiday, and back home, I sold them for 120 1/8 ;-). Right now, it occasionnally drops back to 100 only to come back to 120 the day after. Great ride!
Nope. Brento's prices are adjusted for the split that happened in early January. Those $45 were before the split and would be $22.5 split adjusted. Thus, even at today's pricing, that's still the triple!
> In the end it boils down to dividends...But if those companies keep year after year of steady losses and no dividends there's no way their prices will ever go up again.
Actually, not quite true either. There is one (in)famous company which never paid any dividends, but nevertheless gained value year after year. Yes, it is indeed that company that we all love to hate...
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Except the very first one, which usually gets moderated down...
The "parade" at the bottom of the screen has a guy in a green wheelchair which has "eToys" written on its wheel. Not the 's'. If they didn't infringe the trademark before, they do now ;-)
So, after zillions of people put up mirrors of the "real" DeCSS over the past several weeks, making it easyer and easyer to find it, now we start "diluting" by a namesake in order to confuse the lawyers. Only problem: this will also make the "real" DeCSS harder to find to legitimate downloaders, and thus might actually play into the shark's hands...
If you're concerned about losing your savings over this, or worse, of endorsing the bad guys policy by driving their share price up, how about this simple trick:
At one of them, you buy the stock, and proxy it to the advocacy group. And at the other, you short it! Result: voting rights, but no risk exposition! If the stock tanks, you lose on the shares you bough, but you win it back on those that you shorted. And vice versa. Moreover, the transaction doesn't cause any extra demand (you buy and sell the same amount of shares), hence it should not favorably influence the price either...
And what about latency? And what if one of the middle machines is switched off? At least, back in the good ole days with coax you only had to worry about uplugged/unterminated cable, and not about switched off machines.
I guess you've never been to France during one of the many trucker's strikes. Or farmer's strikes.
Or we could make it so that for the FIRST! 50 posts you can only moderate down. At least that would take care of the obvious use of mod points early in a thread...
The government would get suspicious as soon as he asked for the files back. Indeed, what good would they be if he no longer had the key?
The data was encrypted, so their was no way to copy it. Or were you asleep when the DVD CCA explained this? ;-)
Read the damn post. Chris Elam, the Fool support person admitted himself in his reply to the complaint that they had deliberately configured their server to send this stylesheet to netscape browsers, and to netscape browsers only
But what would happen if somebody submitted it in an unrelated court case?
"Your honor, please enter this listing into the evidence. It happened to be lying on the backseat of my car when I got that pesky parking ticket. And btw, for the record, the cop's unlisted phone number is +352 758672, hehe"
Did they take all of his computers? I vaguely remember that they forgot one of the many they had. And then, he certainly has friends who would gladly lend him one...
redundant? Looks like a sound idea to me, and I don't think I have seen it mentioned before. In any case, if you want to help, but don't have the time to set up an organization, you can donate to the EFF
Or, maybe it's just that the MPAA goons won the moderation point lottery for once?