This reminds me of a story I heard about CDC management in the late 70's early 80's. At that time, CDC owned the market for disk drives. In those days, the large multi-hundred megabyte disk drives were the the size of washing machines. A new executive arrived at CDC and questioned why they were spending $180 so much on R&D when they owned the market. He slashed it by 80%. The next year Fujitso came out with Winchester head technology reducing disk drives to the size of a toaster. CDC never recovered, and now they don't even exist.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is under the Department of Commerce. NIST does a lot of good, doing basic research on time standard (that benefits communications in a big way) and other metrology, fire retardants among other things which have a real society benefit.
> Can someone point out to me some examples of > > these violations?
Anybody who sees political advertisements knows about taking a snippet of someones interview and using it out of context to say something totally different to what was originally intended.
> I'd also like to see how stupid one has to be, > to confuse Random Joe's site with NPR's site.
You just need a clever person editing:
This is NPR...... Robert McDuff reports that the Irish are solving their population problems by eating their children....
What they are intending to prevent is the online analog of plaigarism and the use sophisticated tools tools to mislead viewers.
I hope they will realize that the analog of fair-use when it comes to the web is to allow deep linking and go after misuse the same way that plaigarism is discouraged.
Lets see is it a foreseeable possibility that someone would remove the guard? Yes. Did removing the guard render the machine inoperable? NO. Guilty - case closed.
Is it a possibility that someone would have could have circumvented the failsafe mechanism that prevented operation without the guard? yes!
When does this stop? Isn't there something about reasonable measures and precautions?
One difference between the previous situation with copy protected diskettes and the new copy protection schemes is that it is now illegal to traffic in cryptographic circumvention tools thanks to our largest corporations. Thus I don't imagine we'll see commercial software to break copy protection like we used to.
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What I really hate is when websites disable pasting the password from your password manager into the login field.
Colin Williams of D-wave spoke at Fermilab. His presentation was recorded http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/L....
This reminds me of a story I heard about CDC management in the late 70's early 80's. At that time, CDC owned the market for disk drives. In those days, the large multi-hundred megabyte disk drives were the the size of washing machines. A new executive arrived at CDC and questioned why they were spending $180 so much on R&D when they owned the market. He slashed it by 80%. The next year Fujitso came out with Winchester head technology reducing disk drives to the size of a toaster. CDC never recovered, and now they don't even exist.
Everyone save all your analog hardware!
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is under the Department of Commerce. NIST does a lot of good, doing basic research on time standard (that benefits communications in a big way) and other metrology, fire retardants among other things which have a real society benefit.
> Can someone point out to me some examples of > > these violations?
... ... Robert McDuff reports that the Irish are solving their population problems by eating their children. ...
Anybody who sees political advertisements knows about taking a snippet of someones interview and using it out of context to say something totally different to what was originally intended.
> I'd also like to see how stupid one has to be, > to confuse Random Joe's site with NPR's site.
You just need a clever person editing:
This is NPR
What they are intending to prevent is the online analog of plaigarism and the use sophisticated tools tools to mislead viewers.
I hope they will realize that the analog of fair-use when it comes to the web is to allow deep linking and go after misuse the same way that plaigarism is discouraged.
One difference between the previous situation with copy protected diskettes and the new copy protection schemes is that it is now illegal to traffic in cryptographic circumvention tools thanks to our largest corporations. Thus I don't imagine we'll see commercial software to break copy protection like we used to.