The FBI are not automatons, they do have personal discretion on what gets investigated and prosecuted and what does not.
Agents regularly decline to investigate or prosecute cases where their individual interpretation of the seriousness of a crime does not warrant "wasting their time", and this is a very subjective decision made by them.
Apparently the individuals at Adobe managed to convince this agent that the case was worth prosecuting under the DMCA.
Today the FBI arrested the infamous hacker
"sowbug" on a criminal complaint from 3com.
The FBI alleges that "sowbug" violated the DMCA
by reverse engineering 3com's "Audrey"
device.
A company spokesperson explained : "sowbug
violated the DMCA by bypassing our elaborate
security mechanisms to prevent unauthorized
access to the operating system. ingenuity
will not be tolerated. We intend to send a message
to the dangerous hacker community that using our
products in ways 3com never considered is totally
unacceptable."
Supporters of the DMCA are calling for the death
penalty, arguing "a mere 5 years imprisonment
is not a strong enough deterrent to free thinking
and research."
The REAL people responsible for this whole situation are the INDIVIDUALS WHO FILED THE COMPLAINT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
These people made a PERSONAL decision to prosecute Sklyarov, and it was their INDIVIDUAL decision to cry foul under the DMCA.
We have their names from the criminal complaint document, why hasn't anyone in the media contacted them?
The individuals responsible:
Kevin Nathanson - eBooks Group Product manager, complainant to the FBI. Daryl Spano - Adobe "Anti-piracy" investigator, also complainant to the FBI. Tom Diaz - Senior Engineering Manager for eBook Daniel J O'Connell - FBI agent who filed the complaint.
The media needs to put the spotlight on these I N D I V I D U A L S who are personally responsible for Sklyarov's situation.
> But I believe that pedophiles are, in general,
> worse than murderers.
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic, Mao Tse-Tung,
Kim Il Sung, Agusto Pinochet, Idi Amin,
Saddam Hussein, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson,
Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy,
Jeffrey Dahmer, Edward Gein, Ted Bundy, and
droves of thousands more...
I didn't write this, but I thought it nicely summarized the DMCA and why the DMCA sucks.
From: unruh@xxxxxxx.xxx.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 3 Aug 2001 01:38:10 GMT
Organization: ITServices, University of British Columbia
The DCMA has made it a crime. It is absurd and flies in the face of 500
years of law. You can patent-- but then you have to reveal. You can
copyright, but then only that particular expression is protected. You
can trade secret, but reverse engineering is specifically allowed. The
purpose of these laws is to reveal, to make sure that human knowledge is
advanced. That is the purpose of both copyright and patents. However
this law is one that not only hides, but then makes revealing that
hiding criminal. It is far far stronger than trade secret law, and
completely overturns copyright as it protects and hides the idea as well
as its expression. Anyone in the world would be a fool to use trade
secret law anymore. Just put in any laughable encryption and now claim
DCMA to prevent anyone from reverse engineering your product. And you
now have a monopoly forever, since even once the copyright dies in 75
years, you can still prevent anyone from reading it with criminal
sanctions.
You havent been watching closely enough.
There have been MULTIPLE instances of B).
Bowser's catapult (it broke!)
Brothers in Arms' cannon (kept jamming)
Three revs' flyer uh... didn't
No, it would make it a LESS interesting show
because theres little chance of them completing
their assignments at all.
What chance in hell are you going to have of
finding ROCKET MOTORS in a junkyard?
Give me a break.
They learned real quick in season 1 that cars
in a junkyard RARELY have working engines, so
the junkyard needs to be seeded. Just which
cars have the working engines and which cars
have the best working engines, the teams are not
told.
The teams arent GIVEN anything specific.
They have to FIND it.
The producers ask the experts what is needed to
complete the task, and the producers then seed
the junkyard appropriately with MULTIPLE instances
of the required parts. Some parts work better
than others. Some are duds and don't really work
at all.
Its up to the teams to find something suitable
and make it work.
1. the producers encourage different approaches, it makes the show more interesting. however the team captain is free to IGNORE the expert, as bowser did in the football-slinging contest.
2. did you see season 1 of JYW with robert? all dressed up mad-max style and doing "singin' in the rain"? puh-leeze. george gray wasnt NEARLY that annoying.
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The FBI are not automatons, they do have personal discretion on what gets investigated and prosecuted and what does not.
Agents regularly decline to investigate or prosecute cases where their individual interpretation of the seriousness of a crime does not warrant "wasting their time", and this is a very subjective decision made by them.
Apparently the individuals at Adobe managed to convince this agent that the case was worth prosecuting under the DMCA.
If I remember the DMCA was a rider on another bill, not a bill in and of itself...?
The usual porkbarrel politics...
We need term limits for senators and congresscritters, so that the dead wood is regularly weeded out...
"INFAMOUS HACKER SOWBUG ARRESTED BY FBI"
Tuesday, August 7 - Newswire
Today the FBI arrested the infamous hacker
"sowbug" on a criminal complaint from 3com.
The FBI alleges that "sowbug" violated the DMCA
by reverse engineering 3com's "Audrey"
device.
A company spokesperson explained : "sowbug
violated the DMCA by bypassing our elaborate
security mechanisms to prevent unauthorized
access to the operating system. ingenuity
will not be tolerated. We intend to send a message
to the dangerous hacker community that using our
products in ways 3com never considered is totally
unacceptable."
Supporters of the DMCA are calling for the death
penalty, arguing "a mere 5 years imprisonment
is not a strong enough deterrent to free thinking
and research."
The REAL people responsible for this whole situation are the INDIVIDUALS WHO FILED THE COMPLAINT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
These people made a PERSONAL decision to prosecute Sklyarov, and it was their INDIVIDUAL decision to cry foul under the DMCA.
We have their names from the criminal complaint document, why hasn't anyone in the media contacted them?
The individuals responsible:
Kevin Nathanson - eBooks Group Product manager, complainant to the FBI.
Daryl Spano - Adobe "Anti-piracy" investigator, also complainant to the FBI.
Tom Diaz - Senior Engineering Manager for eBook
Daniel J O'Connell - FBI agent who filed the complaint.
The media needs to put the spotlight on these I N D I V I D U A L S who are personally responsible for Sklyarov's situation.
Can someone explain why the HELL sci-fi channel
:-(
keeps pushing that "john edwards" crap?
It's called the "SCI FI" channel you fuckwit
scifi channel execs, not the "PSYCHIC HOTLINE
CHANNEL"!
Next think you know, they will be running an
hour of "john edwards" back to back with an
hour of "mistress cleo" in the smack middle of
prime time.
> Many murderers are not completely broken
> individuals incapable of someday becoming safe,
> productive citizens. Almost all pedophiles are.
How do you know this?
You are stating (as fact) that the recidivism rate of murderers is lower than that of pedophiles?
Do you have pointers to some peer-reviewed papers?
> Their crimes and motivations have little to do
> with the average murderer's crimes and motivations
And pray tell what IS the "average murderer's crimes and motivations", and tell us how you know this as fact.
Sigh. Missed it. Oh well.
I guess you've decided to stop sharing the files?
Your host drops the connection immediately after the gnutella hello packet "Failed (EOF)"
Searches for 'brasseye' on gnutella turn up nothing.
These files are nowhere to be found on gnutella, unfortunately. Gone. Totally. Poof.
Guess they must have cracked down on gnutella also.
It's not our fault that the celebrities have
NO CRITICAL THINKING FACILITIES WHAT SO EVER.
So you're revealed in public to be a complete
fuckin' idiot by the media. And this fault is the
media's???
Uh, whatever.
Maybe it will be a lesson to those empty-headed
celebrities to ACTUALLY FUCKING CHECK THE FACTS
FIRST before participating in these kind of
things.
But then, that would require them to actually
THINK. Which will never happen.
> But I believe that pedophiles are, in general,
> worse than murderers.
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic, Mao Tse-Tung,
Kim Il Sung, Agusto Pinochet, Idi Amin,
Saddam Hussein, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson,
Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy,
Jeffrey Dahmer, Edward Gein, Ted Bundy, and
droves of thousands more...
All thank you from the bottom of their hearts!!
I didn't write this, but I thought it nicely summarized the DMCA and why the DMCA sucks.
From: unruh@xxxxxxx.xxx.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 3 Aug 2001 01:38:10 GMT
Organization: ITServices, University of British Columbia
The DCMA has made it a crime. It is absurd and flies in the face of 500
years of law. You can patent-- but then you have to reveal. You can
copyright, but then only that particular expression is protected. You
can trade secret, but reverse engineering is specifically allowed. The
purpose of these laws is to reveal, to make sure that human knowledge is
advanced. That is the purpose of both copyright and patents. However
this law is one that not only hides, but then makes revealing that
hiding criminal. It is far far stronger than trade secret law, and
completely overturns copyright as it protects and hides the idea as well
as its expression. Anyone in the world would be a fool to use trade
secret law anymore. Just put in any laughable encryption and now claim
DCMA to prevent anyone from reverse engineering your product. And you
now have a monopoly forever, since even once the copyright dies in 75
years, you can still prevent anyone from reading it with criminal
sanctions.
And what's to stop them from lying?
Nope nope nope!
I just checked, the 3d driver source is there. They include it as one giant patch against the Mesa sources.
Sony's emotion chip unfortunately isnt a terribly good match for GL architecture, and the driver falls back to software rendering in many cases.
The fact it works at all is pretty interesting though ^_^;
Dont you just love lamers who setup quickie /. accounts just so they can post trolls and flames at score:1 ?
> China can't even allow it's people to worship
? God, as even the CONCEPT of a being higher than
> the State threatens their power.
And on the other extreme we have Afghanistan,
where worshipping God is a government mandate,
and you can be put to death if you're atheist.
> This is a country with leadership so devoid of
> ANY morality that they ordered tanks to roll
> over 20,000 peaceful protesters in 1989.
I sure hope you're not implying Religion=Morality.
Do I get to redeem my points for cash and prizes? Dont tell me you lost the tapes as well...
Battlebots is all about destruction.
Junkyard Wars is all about construction.
Battlebots is more like watching script kiddies duke it out.
Junkyard Wars is closer to the spirit of "true hackers".
I'll take Junkyard Wars thank you very much.
You havent been watching closely enough. There have been MULTIPLE instances of B). Bowser's catapult (it broke!) Brothers in Arms' cannon (kept jamming) Three revs' flyer uh... didn't
No, it would make it a LESS interesting show
because theres little chance of them completing
their assignments at all.
What chance in hell are you going to have of
finding ROCKET MOTORS in a junkyard?
Give me a break.
They learned real quick in season 1 that cars
in a junkyard RARELY have working engines, so
the junkyard needs to be seeded. Just which
cars have the working engines and which cars
have the best working engines, the teams are not
told.
The teams arent GIVEN anything specific.
They have to FIND it.
The producers ask the experts what is needed to
complete the task, and the producers then seed
the junkyard appropriately with MULTIPLE instances
of the required parts. Some parts work better
than others. Some are duds and don't really work
at all.
Its up to the teams to find something suitable
and make it work.
> ... interviewed Robert Llewellen for my radio
> show, and have exchanged emails with a few
> prior players.
And all this is available exactly where on your
website...?
1. the producers encourage different approaches, it makes the show more interesting. however the team captain is free to IGNORE the expert, as bowser did in the football-slinging contest.
2. did you see season 1 of JYW with robert? all dressed up mad-max style and doing "singin' in the rain"? puh-leeze. george gray wasnt NEARLY that annoying.