Replace "sites that have child porn" with "e-mail accounts that send spam" and all of a suddon it's something that most Slashdotters are gung-ho in supporting.
I could be wrong, but I think the difference is if you send something illegal through the mail, you get charged with a crime, not the USPS, post office, or mail carriers involved. So applied to this situation, the ISP is innocent and the content providers are guilty.
It depends. If the mail carrier knows that you are sending something illegal through the mail, then they are guilty too.
You are ASSUMING it is just child pornography that is being blocked.
Umm, because it is...
"the Attorney General of Pennsylvania has ordered all PA ISPs to block sites that have child porn."
How do you know? What if some site showing the current Governor of Pennsylvania's wife in a "compromising" position is also blocked?
Then the submission would have read "the Attorney General of Pennsylvania has ordered all PA ISPs to block sites that have the current Governor of Pennsylvania's wife in a 'compromising' position."
A firewire card is much cheaper than an IDE raid card. And by smaller drives I meant 200 gigs as opposed to the 1 tb that the other poster was suggesting.
IDE is limited to 4 devices, and only 2 of those devices can act simultaneously. RAID-1 'em up, and you only get 2 devices, one acting at a time. With firewire you don't have these limitations, and IDE drives can be used with low cost firewire adapters.
Plus there don't seem to be too many 1TB or more arrays of firewire drives out there for sale.
No, but you can put lots of smaller drives instead.
It's not that people are ignorant about the book - even most of the people who haven't read it know the jist of what it's about, it's just that they can't make the connection between the book and reality.
Remind them that 90% of the citizens were there proles, and were largely ignored by the thought police.
As if that message implies that whatever happened was just "good natured identity theft" or that there was no stress involved in the THOUGHT of losing his job.
Oh no. Thought crime. Give me a fucking break. If he's paranoid about losing his job, that's his problem.
I've had my ID stoled twice, the old fashioned way; my wallet (which was then used to obtain my pin for my credit card and subsequently used to make copious cash advance withdrawls)
You have your pin in your wallet? You deserve what you got.
It's kind of useless to have more tightly compressed data if your decompression software is much bigger, at least for a situation like this one where both have to fit on the floppy.
As mentioned by others, many server machines don't have a CD-ROM, but do have a floppy drive. Perhaps more importantly, many people don't have a CD-R writer, but do have a floppy drive.
You own the CD, but you do not own the content on the CD.
Obviously not.
You can microwave the CD if you so desire, but ripping the data from the disc ist verboten.
What about reselling the CD, such as is forbidden by the vast majority of OEM software.
What about running the software directly off the CD? What about installing the software, something which is expressly allowed under copyright law?
What about a CD which contains data which cannot be copyrighted, such as phone numbers? Then I still don't own the content, but neither does anyone else. It is public domain, for everyone.
I've never been sued or even been sent a cease-and-desist letter, but it has made a very real difference in the range of things I feel comfortable with discussing in public forums and on more than a handful of occasions I've cancelled out of a posting that was ready to submit or avoided programming projects because of this.
Just because you're paranoid...
Anyway, I was looking for actual infringement, not hypothetical infringement.
You eventually presented your paper on SDMI's encryption systems. You weren't arrested. You weren't sued. Your freedom of speech was preserved. Outside of hypothetical situations which never panned out in reality, can you point to any situations where the DMCA has been used effectively to infringe upon your freedom of speech?
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Child porn is illegal everywhere I am aware of. Why block the websites when they can be taken down like they should be?
Because some countries, like France, let child pornographers and rapists go free.
Replace "sites that have child porn" with "e-mail accounts that send spam" and all of a suddon it's something that most Slashdotters are gung-ho in supporting.
I could be wrong, but I think the difference is if you send something illegal through the mail, you get charged with a crime, not the USPS, post office, or mail carriers involved. So applied to this situation, the ISP is innocent and the content providers are guilty.
It depends. If the mail carrier knows that you are sending something illegal through the mail, then they are guilty too.
You are ASSUMING it is just child pornography that is being blocked.
Umm, because it is...
"the Attorney General of Pennsylvania has ordered all PA ISPs to block sites that have child porn."
How do you know? What if some site showing the current Governor of Pennsylvania's wife in a "compromising" position is also blocked?
Then the submission would have read "the Attorney General of Pennsylvania has ordered all PA ISPs to block sites that have the current Governor of Pennsylvania's wife in a 'compromising' position."
Oops. C is 12, not 13 :).
A firewire card is much cheaper than an IDE raid card. And by smaller drives I meant 200 gigs as opposed to the 1 tb that the other poster was suggesting.
IDE is limited to 4 devices, and only 2 of those devices can act simultaneously. RAID-1 'em up, and you only get 2 devices, one acting at a time. With firewire you don't have these limitations, and IDE drives can be used with low cost firewire adapters.
Plus there don't seem to be too many 1TB or more arrays of firewire drives out there for sale.
No, but you can put lots of smaller drives instead.
It's not that people are ignorant about the book - even most of the people who haven't read it know the jist of what it's about, it's just that they can't make the connection between the book and reality.
Remind them that 90% of the citizens were there proles, and were largely ignored by the thought police.
Saddam Hussein is Big Brother. George W. Bush is Immanual Goldstein.
Every time I read such comments about privacy, I wish that George Orwell's 1984 was made obligatory reading in schools.
Wouldn't that be a rather fascist thing to do? I'd prefer the freedom to read whatever I want to read, thank you.
As if that message implies that whatever happened was just "good natured identity theft" or that there was no stress involved in the THOUGHT of losing his job.
Oh no. Thought crime. Give me a fucking break. If he's paranoid about losing his job, that's his problem.
I've had my ID stoled twice, the old fashioned way; my wallet (which was then used to obtain my pin for my credit card and subsequently used to make copious cash advance withdrawls)
You have your pin in your wallet? You deserve what you got.
Are you kidding me? Firewire is very useful in building a fast, cheap, reliable server with a whole lot of hard drive space.
Then my identity got used for illegal purposes, which wasn't fun, and damn near killed my career.
Was there any actual harm, or just "damn near" harm?
It's kind of useless to have more tightly compressed data if your decompression software is much bigger, at least for a situation like this one where both have to fit on the floppy.
As mentioned by others, many server machines don't have a CD-ROM, but do have a floppy drive. Perhaps more importantly, many people don't have a CD-R writer, but do have a floppy drive.
Not to mention those used copies of Windows that keep getting taken off eBay.
You own the CD, but you do not own the content on the CD.
Obviously not.
You can microwave the CD if you so desire, but ripping the data from the disc ist verboten.
What about reselling the CD, such as is forbidden by the vast majority of OEM software.
What about running the software directly off the CD? What about installing the software, something which is expressly allowed under copyright law?
What about a CD which contains data which cannot be copyrighted, such as phone numbers? Then I still don't own the content, but neither does anyone else. It is public domain, for everyone.
Nothing is keeping you from turning your own physical private property into a coaster, tacky earrings or model rocket fins.
What about reselling it?
Aye, but, IIRC, EULAs can't be applied to physical property.
Physical property? You mean like a CD?
Is there an official way of pronouncing a hexadecimal number like CF9?
"Three thousand five hundred seventy seven."
I've never been sued or even been sent a cease-and-desist letter, but it has made a very real difference in the range of things I feel comfortable with discussing in public forums and on more than a handful of occasions I've cancelled out of a posting that was ready to submit or avoided programming projects because of this.
Just because you're paranoid...
Anyway, I was looking for actual infringement, not hypothetical infringement.
i thought you had to subscribe to access the ftp server. in any case, ftp is not secure.
Thousands hacked after a trojan copy of Red Hat was placed on a bitTorrent site.
Make sure you check the MD5, people!
There is an MD5 available somewhere, isn't there?
You eventually presented your paper on SDMI's encryption systems. You weren't arrested. You weren't sued. Your freedom of speech was preserved. Outside of hypothetical situations which never panned out in reality, can you point to any situations where the DMCA has been used effectively to infringe upon your freedom of speech?
It's logical because banks have to follow certain "Know your Customer" laws, but paypal doesn't.