Still fun to pick on Disney, though:). Seriously, I'm glad the guy fought the charges. I wonder how many innocent men have allowed their lives to be ruined to spare their families a trial and themselves being raped in prison.
I don't know that I would cite Microsoft as an example of the effectiveness of the law against corporate interests. While I'm sure their wrist still hurts from the "Justice" Department's slap, I don't think it injured them significantly.
Sheesh. I guess by the time this kind of junk becomes standard practice, an ISP won't be much use anyway. Thanks for letting me know what the reason was!
As is usually the case with produces designed primarily for purposes of copyright infringement, DVD X-Copy was heavily protected. Nothing ironic about that--it's been the same since the 1980s. The best copy programs would copy anything. Except themselves.
Just when I think the world is going to eventually end, and the genie to be put back into the bottle, someone like you comes along with an interesting approach. It will take some time before even the mighty Bill can obsolete the venerable SB16.
DRM does extend that far--Windows ME an XP have Secure Audio Path with signed audio drivers. All a DRM-enabled player would have to do to defeat capturing the PCM stream is to require one of those signed drivers to play.
iTunes currently does not do this, but it would be a trivial change. And given Apple's propensity for starting with what they would like to appear as "kinder, gentler DRM," then turning the screws, I wouldn't be surprised to see that change come down the line--it would have the dual effect of reasurring the RIAA that their capos' music is "protected," while eliminating the ability to do things like copy RealAudio to iPods and run iTunes under Linux.
Same here. I bought both Unix and Windows licenses at 1.0, and upgraded to 2.0 for a reasonable price. I never upgraded beyond that once they yanked the non-commercial pricing.
Please. The target was an exempt employee. If the only way the agency could figure out whether or not he's doing is job is to have an "eye-tee professional" go on independent ops and spy on him, the management failure was a rung or two higher than that manager's.
This isn't a whistleblower case. This is a low-level grunt with a personal vendetta who made a grave miscalculation of his workplace's politics while revealing an appalling lack of ethics. I hope he goes to prison.
There's a big-assed difference between outright theft and playing a few games of solitaire. And before we trot out the "time theft" argument, it would be well to remember that "Bureau Chief" is most likely an exempt title.
This guy was the prototypical power-tripping network Nazi. We see these come out of the woodwork here now and then, too, particularly when someone gets fired for something they emailed or visited on the web.
The employer's ownership of the infrastructure doesn't give J. Random Admin authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner. I hope he gets to spend some time in the state pen for not being smart enough to drop it after he was rightfully fired.
There's a picture. A provost in pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Got any linkage for this incident? Or did the techz screw up the chain of custody so the provost got off (no pun intended).
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Oh, sure. And end up first on the list for the no-knock warrants when p2p is outlawed!
Maybe if the geek brought a pizza with the patch cables . . .
Still fun to pick on Disney, though :). Seriously, I'm glad the guy fought the charges. I wonder how many innocent men have allowed their lives to be ruined to spare their families a trial and themselves being raped in prison.
I don't know that I would cite Microsoft as an example of the effectiveness of the law against corporate interests. While I'm sure their wrist still hurts from the "Justice" Department's slap, I don't think it injured them significantly.
Actually, pretty low, since they generally make the law (q.v. DMCA, Induce Act, et al).
Point taken :). But whenever I try to blow karma, I usually fail. Though it probably helps that "Funny" mods don't count, but the down-mods do.
Sheesh. I guess by the time this kind of junk becomes standard practice, an ISP won't be much use anyway. Thanks for letting me know what the reason was!
That's common sense, man--you won't last long here posting stuff like that :).
What was their basis for refusing to sell? That your premises was a residence? That you didn't produce a business license?
So did every other Senator sitting at the time. It passed unanimously.
As is usually the case with produces designed primarily for purposes of copyright infringement, DVD X-Copy was heavily protected. Nothing ironic about that--it's been the same since the 1980s. The best copy programs would copy anything. Except themselves.
That would be reflected in the change of the GPS altitude measurement.
Just when I think the world is going to eventually end, and the genie to be put back into the bottle, someone like you comes along with an interesting approach. It will take some time before even the mighty Bill can obsolete the venerable SB16.
That's a good point--and I'm actually quite surprised there's a signed audio driver that works on VMWare.
iTunes currently does not do this, but it would be a trivial change. And given Apple's propensity for starting with what they would like to appear as "kinder, gentler DRM," then turning the screws, I wouldn't be surprised to see that change come down the line--it would have the dual effect of reasurring the RIAA that their capos' music is "protected," while eliminating the ability to do things like copy RealAudio to iPods and run iTunes under Linux.
Same here. I bought both Unix and Windows licenses at 1.0, and upgraded to 2.0 for a reasonable price. I never upgraded beyond that once they yanked the non-commercial pricing.
This isn't a whistleblower case. This is a low-level grunt with a personal vendetta who made a grave miscalculation of his workplace's politics while revealing an appalling lack of ethics. I hope he goes to prison.
There's a big-assed difference between outright theft and playing a few games of solitaire. And before we trot out the "time theft" argument, it would be well to remember that "Bureau Chief" is most likely an exempt title.
The employer's ownership of the infrastructure doesn't give J. Random Admin authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner. I hope he gets to spend some time in the state pen for not being smart enough to drop it after he was rightfully fired.
There's a picture. A provost in pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Got any linkage for this incident? Or did the techz screw up the chain of custody so the provost got off (no pun intended).
No shit. Natural selection at work here. Nothing to see, move on.
Hey, I screw it up once and nobody forgets :).
I'd like to think that He has unlimited mod points and the ability to resolve MD5'd IP addresses in His head.
Precisely. I'll consider e-books once they come with the same DRM paper books do.
What is it about all you right-wing crazies that think that trials like the ones at The Hague and Nuremburg are lefty show trials?