We really just need to publicize that it's Microsoft that got us into this mess. Microsoft can and should be cast in a negative light for their slipshod dedication to security. I mean, they knew about the hole they have had lots of major security holes in IIS. They do not have the appropriate attitude about security. They want to maximize profit by not spending developer resource on fixing things and pubs resource on getting the fixes out. In that sense, they are trading the profits and losses of companies using their product, for their own financial gain. (Monopoly behavior?)
So I say let IT keep fighting the worm and let's help them cry louder and longer about Microsoft to the media and their business executives. With any luck IIS will be tried, convicted and sentenced to death in the court of public opinion and we'll have one less security nightmare.
In the U.S. you cannot be prosecuted for an act committed before said act was prohibited by law. There's a latin word for it, what was it -- ex post facto I think. As bogus a law as DMCA is, since DeCSS was written before it was passed, it seems that should render DeCSS unprosecutable. But then, I suppose the thing "charge" thatis being brought against them is "trafficking" in circumvention technology.
Instead of pouring millions into a "copy-protection" scheme, why not use the money to teach people basics of copyright laws -- posters and ads in music stores and what not.
When you release a piece of music or software comercially, your revenue generation depends upon the honesty of the people to whom you release it.
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but in a manner characteristic of *HIS* minority group.
I'm offended that you assume that all minorities trying to do menial tasks are MEN!
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We really just need to publicize that it's Microsoft that got us into this mess. Microsoft can and should be cast in a negative light for their slipshod dedication to security. I mean, they knew about the hole they have had lots of major security holes in IIS. They do not have the appropriate attitude about security. They want to maximize profit by not spending developer resource on fixing things and pubs resource on getting the fixes out. In that sense, they are trading the profits and losses of companies using their product, for their own financial gain. (Monopoly behavior?)
So I say let IT keep fighting the worm and let's help them cry louder and longer about Microsoft to the media and their business executives. With any luck IIS will be tried, convicted and sentenced to death in the court of public opinion and we'll have one less security nightmare.
Just wondering how this applies.
In the U.S. you cannot be prosecuted for an act committed before said act was prohibited by law. There's a latin word for it, what was it -- ex post facto I think. As bogus a law as DMCA is, since DeCSS was written before it was passed, it seems that should render DeCSS unprosecutable.
But then, I suppose the thing "charge" thatis being brought against them is "trafficking" in circumvention technology.
The whole thing is just stupid.
Maybe you could trade computers with them
I'll trade you my pentium 75! for your ol' pentium 4. Isn't that a deal?
My parent deserves a higher score.
It's a M$ plan to force an upgrade. They've been known to do it.
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Instead of pouring millions into a "copy-protection" scheme, why not use the money to teach people basics of copyright laws -- posters and ads in music stores and what not.
When you release a piece of music or software comercially, your revenue generation depends upon the honesty of the people to whom you release it.