If you want to get rid of the DMCA, just break it. Wire your CD-Player up to your tape deck and then go to your local police station saying you've broken SafeAudio. Or claim that it was you who was responsible for ebook, not demitry. If everyone gets together wearing decss or 'how to crack rot-13' t-shirts you can demand that the fbi arrests you and gives you the minimum 5 years.
Most things get hacked, this wont be any different. The GPS tracker will let everyone know where your child is, and the colour-changing fabric will be changed every time you walk down the street. And companies will fight to gator your label-patch with their logo's. On the plus side, imagine - chicks, transparency setting-crack and bra-cleavage-adjuster-bug. And maybe someone will get around to fixing the bra_unhook interface..
It's been discovered that electronic mail, known as email, can contain an 'attached' file. "This file could contain anything, from a simple document to a dangerous virus." warned a computer expert. Software companies including Microsoft, are investigating. A spokesman said "The email can trick people with lower than average IQs to 'open' the attachment and run the file on their computers. In other news, the famous PDF format developed by software giant Adobe inc. has been found to contain a similar problem.
THIS JUST IN - scientists at MIT have discovered a new and dangerous way that virii can spread: the world wide web! Yes, you thought it was safe, but an investigation has revealed that files containing virii can be 'downloaded' onto users' computers from websites and ftp-archives. "All it takes," said a professor working on the investigation "is a website to tell you that you should download a program, that file could contain anything!" However, skeptics claim that computer virii can also be circulated through the use of computer disks, CD-ROMs, and other computer media. They warn users of particularly dangerous virii such as the "Microsoft Windows XP Trojan", a virus that claims to be an operating system, but in actual fact takes control of the users machine. Also a new virus known in the 'cyber' world as an "eBook" a scam that charges approximately a dollar to allow the user to download a book, which is subsequently deleted 10 hours later.
However, one man Jim-Bob Jones, has come up with a revolutionary method to banish computer virii to the history books. "It's simple", he claimed "All you need to do, is round up all dumb people, and shoot them!" This may seem Draconian to some, but as people battle to control their PCs, it may seem to be the only option.
I don't know who's dumber, Adobe, the Book company or the EEtimes.com... i'll let it go with the MPAA and the entertainment industry, they were on crack and they probably couldn't figure how dumb their ideas were. But for F*cks sake! it has been on the news around the world for weeks.. Do they not understand that the entire system that their business model is based has been hacked by skylarov? Can they not see that their company is going to _die_ within a week? Its a dumb idea in the first place - one that only a company exec. would be dumb enough to buy. It just proves that _EVERYONE_ who works high up in any company is also high up on crack (especially tech companies).
That is of course, unless, they are releasing the books on purpose so everyone can have free copies?...... nahhhhhhh.
An even better tactic would be to install an ad-busting proxy such as junkbuster. Now that _would_ spark complaints from businesses ROFL...
It would also be welcomed by the users, and it would be very amusing watching the entire online-advertising business go down over night.
Imagine the court hearing - "[X] company, you must cease and desist implementing the trojan in this software, and make all users uninstall their ad-busting proxies... weather they like it or not."
I love the way more and more companies are dropping the Digital buzzword into _everything_ Since when has music been non-digital? CDs and DATs have been around for 20 years.
I think, as with DVD, the new 'digital' word means 'we can control what you do with it'. The entertainment industry knows that CDs and Videos cannot be copy-protected (Macrovision), but DVDs, and 'digital' music (i.e tethered downloads) can. The whole idea of these online music services is to lower the cost (it's cheaper to sell data over the internet than press CDs) and raise the price to as high as they can get away with.
The point is, no dumb idiot is going to _pay_ for an inferior-to-cd-quality song, that has alsorts of dumb copy restrictions on it and will only work on their proprietary format (MS: we want to wean people off mp3 and onto wma for superior digital rights management lol). And especially when they can get it free off Gnutella etc..
That is, of course except for the dumb people that they can persuade that their way is better by saying 'ohhh its digital' and sh*t like that, just like with DVD. Oh, and maybe as a bonus (oh whoppie doo) they'll but some extra crap on the files like real-time lyrics and bios. (sounds even more like DVD as we go along)
The entertainment industry's marketing people are clueless.
-tfga
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Most of them do look suspiciously like adults.. umm ooops, i mean, i would think they do... not like i look at child pr0n.. oh dear i'll shut up now.
>"It was the most grievous breach of taste I have ever witnessed on TV," wrote a Mail columnist, Simon Heffer,
Obviously hasn't watched much tv, or typed: 'lolita hardcore torture' into gnutella.. lol
>"and a program that only a small percentage of the psychologically sick could have found enjoyable."
Oh dear, i'm very sick then...
The best thing is the fact that they repeated the show the very next night even after the news that day. And no-one complained when they showed 'Cartman joins NAMBLA' on the same channel... Oh well, it just goes to show how clueless our politicians and celebrities and general public and media are over here. I was looking forward to the next series, however i doubt he'll be working anymore...
>"Perhaps Channel 4, instead of apologizing, should have simply said, `We rest our case.' "
I agree
-tfga
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No, _you're_ wrong. The internet isn't some sort of evil robot that grabs children and puts them in porno films. Its just a place to view information that has already been acquired. When you solve a problem you don't attack it at the widest point. you attack it at a bottle-neck. The internet is the widest point where a large number of people view a relatively small number of things. If you want to get rid of child pornography, stop the _small_ number of people that create it not the _large_ number of people that host and view it.
OK Sorry guys, it seems ive been corrected - the only reason for going into politics is: Bribe money, Sex (bribes), and Power (i.e the power to blow up anything you want... hmmmm ahhhh ohhhh blooooow up bah ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa. Now all your base _are_ belong to us ^H^H me.
LOL, every man has his price. I would sell out at the drop of a hat - thats the only reason for going in to politics that i can see... that and Wilikins Bear of course.
Ohhhh... looks like someone didn't get their bribe from the record companies, so their gonna cause a bit of trouble. If this bill suddenly disappears in the near future, its probably because Boucher and Cannon have been paid to shut-up.
Its not really a big law. In fact lets face it, its a pile of BS. Who, to be honest really cares what happens to Britney Spears' rights as an artist or if Napster is getting bullied. The short fact is: If you want free music, you know where to get it. On the other hand, if your a record company and have a problem with people getting free music, you know where you can stick it.
Reading the BBC article i get a slight impression that this will be used by the big corps. for their advantage - Imagine, computer hardware sales drop and everyone uses dumb terminals connected to the 'grid'. Once all the leftover computers have become obsolete/broke, you will have no choice but to use the grid (unless you can build your own chip fabricating plant). Now they can sell you DVDs and Music and you can't copy something if you don't have a computer (they will change all sorts of specs and standards so you cant use your old system without _allot_ of work arounds)
I'm surprised that the slashdot readers here are so quick to believe this story. I think its very unlikely that you can send data to a cd player that will damage it... maybe if you turn the volume on your 500W amp and plug it into your little headphones, or if subliminal messages on the disk causes domestic animals to piss on the circuitry but otherwise you can take it with a pinch of salt.
All this BS leads me to the conclusion that everyone in the entertainment industry is high on crack and they are so desperate to keep their daily fix going they will pay poor engineers just out of uni ridiculously high prices to comeup with theses dumb ideas - Macrovison, CSS, AudioSafe etc. just so they can get that little bit of extra cash to get some blow. The engineers don't care if it can't be done - they're not dumb, they know that if you can hear it your can copy it, they all read/., but they are not going to argue with a big fat check.. lol.
The conclusion to both these subjects is - we don't need more laws, we need better software. Adverts could _easily_ be removed if the software publishers (yes you too microsoft) included builtin ad-killing in their browsers that defaulted to the 'on' position so everyone could enjoy it. These companies are quick to develop systems that piss us off (like the PIII s/n) that default to 'on' but they wouldn't want to upset the advertisers by pissing them off. The school network is famous for having crap security (the sysadmin couldn't get a better job). Maybe if they cared enough to set-up a decent and secure network and didn't tempt the kids by putting their registration data/grades etc (ahh, i remember that) on the SAME BLOODY NETWORK, and didn't advertise the teachers email addresses everywhere. They wouldn't have so many problems.
Wow, all the posts on this thread have been modded up. On behalf of the UK I would like to make it clear that we have _nothing_ to do with the europeans (its with a small 'e' not Europeans)... Infact we're not even part of europe. Its that bloody Blair, he loves them and he sucks up to Bush and Billy.G and insists that everything must be all milleniumy.
I'm just about to start my course (UK)... they told me there was a big shortage of engineers. There better be some good jobs for me when i get out 'cause i'm sure-as-hell not going to work at bu*ger king. lol
Arrrrrrr... do you want to come back to England... don't worry we'll let you keep the U and the A but change the S to a K. And if you make any comments on our gun laws we _will_ shoot you. Oh and by the way.. its the LEFT side of the road that you drive.
Apparently there was a law (very old) that allowed an Englishman to kill a Welshman with a crossbow on a wednesday (i think you had to be in a specific place or something) but no-one had gotten around to changing it because everything in politics takes years (except when theres a *financial* gain involved... cough _cough_ DMCA cough cough choke.. ahhhhhh i have something stuck in my throat
Blair: Ohhhhhh, but mummy, i want a Digital Millenium thingy law too...
Mum: No dear, you already have the millenium dome and look at it, you played with it for 5 minutes and now its just sitting in your city making a mess. We're not getting anymore millenium buzzwords OK?
Blair: Ohhh ohhh but please! pleaeeeeese! all my friends at school have their own copyright laws - look even canada is getting one. And Mr Gates and some people from the MPAA said they would give me loads of money if i got one.. and, and i promise to look after it and feed it lots of criminals.... PLEEEEEASE!
Mum: NO! we have enough laws already, look at that "killing welsh people on wednesdays with a crossbow" law, you _still_ havn't got around to clearing it up yet.
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If you want to get rid of the DMCA, just break it. Wire your CD-Player up to your tape deck and then go to your local police station saying you've broken SafeAudio. Or claim that it was you who was responsible for ebook, not demitry. If everyone gets together wearing decss or 'how to crack rot-13' t-shirts you can demand that the fbi arrests you and gives you the minimum 5 years.
-tfga
Most things get hacked, this wont be any different. The GPS tracker will let everyone know where your child is, and the colour-changing fabric will be changed every time you walk down the street. And companies will fight to gator your label-patch with their logo's. On the plus side, imagine - chicks, transparency setting-crack and bra-cleavage-adjuster-bug. And maybe someone will get around to fixing the bra_unhook interface..
-tfga
NEWS FLASH
It's been discovered that electronic mail, known as email, can contain an 'attached' file. "This file could contain anything, from a simple document to a dangerous virus." warned a computer expert. Software companies including Microsoft, are investigating. A spokesman said "The email can trick people with lower than average IQs to 'open' the attachment and run the file on their computers. In other news, the famous PDF format developed by software giant Adobe inc. has been found to contain a similar problem.
THIS JUST IN - scientists at MIT have discovered a new and dangerous way that virii can spread: the world wide web! Yes, you thought it was safe, but an investigation has revealed that files containing virii can be 'downloaded' onto users' computers from websites and ftp-archives. "All it takes," said a professor working on the investigation "is a website to tell you that you should download a program, that file could contain anything!" However, skeptics claim that computer virii can also be circulated through the use of computer disks, CD-ROMs, and other computer media. They warn users of particularly dangerous virii such as the "Microsoft Windows XP Trojan", a virus that claims to be an operating system, but in actual fact takes control of the users machine. Also a new virus known in the 'cyber' world as an "eBook" a scam that charges approximately a dollar to allow the user to download a book, which is subsequently deleted 10 hours later.
However, one man Jim-Bob Jones, has come up with a revolutionary method to banish computer virii to the history books. "It's simple", he claimed "All you need to do, is round up all dumb people, and shoot them!" This may seem Draconian to some, but as people battle to control their PCs, it may seem to be the only option.
-tfga
I don't know who's dumber, Adobe, the Book company or the EEtimes.com... i'll let it go with the MPAA and the entertainment industry, they were on crack and they probably couldn't figure how dumb their ideas were. But for F*cks sake! it has been on the news around the world for weeks.. Do they not understand that the entire system that their business model is based has been hacked by skylarov? Can they not see that their company is going to _die_ within a week? Its a dumb idea in the first place - one that only a company exec. would be dumb enough to buy. It just proves that _EVERYONE_ who works high up in any company is also high up on crack (especially tech companies).
That is of course, unless, they are releasing the books on purpose so everyone can have free copies?...... nahhhhhhh.
-tfga
An even better tactic would be to install an ad-busting proxy such as junkbuster. Now that _would_ spark complaints from businesses ROFL...
It would also be welcomed by the users, and it would be very amusing watching the entire online-advertising business go down over night.
Imagine the court hearing - "[X] company, you must cease and desist implementing the trojan in this software, and make all users uninstall their ad-busting proxies... weather they like it or not."
-tfga
>Digital Music
I love the way more and more companies are dropping the Digital buzzword into _everything_ Since when has music been non-digital? CDs and DATs have been around for 20 years.
I think, as with DVD, the new 'digital' word means 'we can control what you do with it'. The entertainment industry knows that CDs and Videos cannot be copy-protected (Macrovision), but DVDs, and 'digital' music (i.e tethered downloads) can. The whole idea of these online music services is to lower the cost (it's cheaper to sell data over the internet than press CDs) and raise the price to as high as they can get away with.
The point is, no dumb idiot is going to _pay_ for an inferior-to-cd-quality song, that has alsorts of dumb copy restrictions on it and will only work on their proprietary format (MS: we want to wean people off mp3 and onto wma for superior digital rights management lol). And especially when they can get it free off Gnutella etc..
That is, of course except for the dumb people that they can persuade that their way is better by saying 'ohhh its digital' and sh*t like that, just like with DVD. Oh, and maybe as a bonus (oh whoppie doo) they'll but some extra crap on the files like real-time lyrics and bios. (sounds even more like DVD as we go along)
The entertainment industry's marketing people are clueless.
-tfga
Most of them do look suspiciously like adults.. umm ooops, i mean, i would think they do... not like i look at child pr0n.. oh dear i'll shut up now.
>"It was the most grievous breach of taste I have ever witnessed on TV," wrote a Mail columnist, Simon Heffer,
Obviously hasn't watched much tv, or typed: 'lolita hardcore torture' into gnutella.. lol
>"and a program that only a small percentage of the psychologically sick could have found enjoyable."
Oh dear, i'm very sick then...
The best thing is the fact that they repeated the show the very next night even after the news that day. And no-one complained when they showed 'Cartman joins NAMBLA' on the same channel... Oh well, it just goes to show how clueless our politicians and celebrities and general public and media are over here. I was looking forward to the next series, however i doubt he'll be working anymore...
>"Perhaps Channel 4, instead of apologizing, should have simply said, `We rest our case.' "
I agree
-tfga
No, _you're_ wrong. The internet isn't some sort of evil robot that grabs children and puts them in porno films. Its just a place to view information that has already been acquired. When you solve a problem you don't attack it at the widest point. you attack it at a bottle-neck. The internet is the widest point where a large number of people view a relatively small number of things. If you want to get rid of child pornography, stop the _small_ number of people that create it not the _large_ number of people that host and view it.
-tfga
OK Sorry guys, it seems ive been corrected - the only reason for going into politics is: Bribe money, Sex (bribes), and Power (i.e the power to blow up anything you want... hmmmm ahhhh ohhhh blooooow up bah ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa. Now all your base _are_ belong to us ^H^H me.
LOL, every man has his price. I would sell out at the drop of a hat - thats the only reason for going in to politics that i can see... that and Wilikins Bear of course.
Ohhhh... looks like someone didn't get their bribe from the record companies, so their gonna cause a bit of trouble. If this bill suddenly disappears in the near future, its probably because Boucher and Cannon have been paid to shut-up.
Its not really a big law. In fact lets face it, its a pile of BS. Who, to be honest really cares what happens to Britney Spears' rights as an artist or if Napster is getting bullied. The short fact is: If you want free music, you know where to get it. On the other hand, if your a record company and have a problem with people getting free music, you know where you can stick it.
-tfga
DC... isn't that what transformers are for? Does the same apply to sound cards? can you give me a sample to prove it? do pigs have flight capability?
-tfga
Reading the BBC article i get a slight impression that this will be used by the big corps. for their advantage - Imagine, computer hardware sales drop and everyone uses dumb terminals connected to the 'grid'. Once all the leftover computers have become obsolete/broke, you will have no choice but to use the grid (unless you can build your own chip fabricating plant). Now they can sell you DVDs and Music and you can't copy something if you don't have a computer (they will change all sorts of specs and standards so you cant use your old system without _allot_ of work arounds)
I'm surprised that the slashdot readers here are so quick to believe this story. I think its very unlikely that you can send data to a cd player that will damage it... maybe if you turn the volume on your 500W amp and plug it into your little headphones, or if subliminal messages on the disk causes domestic animals to piss on the circuitry but otherwise you can take it with a pinch of salt.
/., but they are not going to argue with a big fat check.. lol.
All this BS leads me to the conclusion that everyone in the entertainment industry is high on crack and they are so desperate to keep their daily fix going they will pay poor engineers just out of uni ridiculously high prices to comeup with theses dumb ideas - Macrovison, CSS, AudioSafe etc. just so they can get that little bit of extra cash to get some blow. The engineers don't care if it can't be done - they're not dumb, they know that if you can hear it your can copy it, they all read
-tfga
The conclusion to both these subjects is - we don't need more laws, we need better software. Adverts could _easily_ be removed if the software publishers (yes you too microsoft) included builtin ad-killing in their browsers that defaulted to the 'on' position so everyone could enjoy it. These companies are quick to develop systems that piss us off (like the PIII s/n) that default to 'on' but they wouldn't want to upset the advertisers by pissing them off. The school network is famous for having crap security (the sysadmin couldn't get a better job). Maybe if they cared enough to set-up a decent and secure network and didn't tempt the kids by putting their registration data/grades etc (ahh, i remember that) on the SAME BLOODY NETWORK, and didn't advertise the teachers email addresses everywhere. They wouldn't have so many problems.
-tfga
but change to what???
Oh shit. :(
No-one will hire me for any job involving customer-interaction:
good afternoon sir, how may i help you?
(hello sir, do you realise your costing me my lunch break?)
- well i want to buy a computer.
ok, so what will you mostly be using the computer for?
- well i need it for work, and my kids will want the internet.
Ok, and what would you describe yourself as: a rich arab, a stupid manager with too much money and VAT-back, or poor scum?
-EXCUSE ME?!?
oh and will your kids be mostly browsing the porn sites or hacking?
And i'm not dumb enough to work in bugger-king. I refuse to do manual labour (i _will_ break both my legs if it will get me on disabled benifits).
What does that leave me?
Wow, all the posts on this thread have been modded up. On behalf of the UK I would like to make it clear that we have _nothing_ to do with the europeans (its with a small 'e' not Europeans)... Infact we're not even part of europe. Its that bloody Blair, he loves them and he sucks up to Bush and Billy.G and insists that everything must be all milleniumy.
I'm just about to start my course (UK)... they told me there was a big shortage of engineers. There better be some good jobs for me when i get out 'cause i'm sure-as-hell not going to work at bu*ger king. lol
Arrrrrrr... do you want to come back to England... don't worry we'll let you keep the U and the A but change the S to a K. And if you make any comments on our gun laws we _will_ shoot you. Oh and by the way.. its the LEFT side of the road that you drive.
Apparently there was a law (very old) that allowed an Englishman to kill a Welshman with a crossbow on a wednesday (i think you had to be in a specific place or something) but no-one had gotten around to changing it because everything in politics takes years (except when theres a *financial* gain involved... cough _cough_ DMCA cough cough choke.. ahhhhhh i have something stuck in my throat
Blair: Ohhhhhh, but mummy, i want a Digital Millenium thingy law too...
Mum: No dear, you already have the millenium dome and look at it, you played with it for 5 minutes and now its just sitting in your city making a mess. We're not getting anymore millenium buzzwords OK?
Blair: Ohhh ohhh but please! pleaeeeeese! all my friends at school have their own copyright laws - look even canada is getting one. And Mr Gates and some people from the MPAA said they would give me loads of money if i got one.. and, and i promise to look after it and feed it lots of criminals.... PLEEEEEASE!
Mum: NO! we have enough laws already, look at that "killing welsh people on wednesdays with a crossbow" law, you _still_ havn't got around to clearing it up yet.
Blair: Bloody monarchy
-tfga
>At the request of Rep. Waxman and Rep. Steve Largent
:)
:) Britney sucks.
Loosers
>the Special Investigations Division examined
A division to investigate special cases... like terrorism, homocide, bill gates etc... not pr0n
>a new and growing problem for parents throughout the United States:
We don't give a f*ck about anyone outside the US.
>Internet file-sharing programs
The internet _is_ a file bloody sharing program what do you want??
>that provide children easy and free access to thousands of explicit pornographic videos and other pornographic materials.
Like they couldn't get before?
>As Napster faces litigation,
We've just manage to screw napster and these c*nts come allong and spoil our day!!!
>Internet users are increasingly turning to alternative file-sharing programs such as Music City Morpheus, BearShare, and Aimster.
WHAT?! they have the nerve to use these things of the devil?!
>Pornographic files are widely available on these networks
Yeah! its great, i had to spend days looking for that sort of stuff, now i can find it in seconds!!
>and children can be unexpectedly inundated by files containing explicit content
If i type "Natalie Portman" i expect quality pics.
>for simple searches like "Britney Spears." Moreover,
What, you mean they searched for B.S and got B.S
>many popular parental filters do not block access to pornographic materials obtained through file-sharing programs.
Thats called cheap software, we get it all the time.
i was simply saying that people were tricked into buying it. obviously it can be broken but thats not the point. Its bad faith