...believes it could provide a free way to translate the many languages not included in existing online translators...
What's in it for the volunteers? Seems that novelty might bring experts in to volunteer short term, but when businesses, academics, etc. begin using the service in volume, it really will cry out for commercialization. The volunteers won't stick around performing translations gratis forever. At some point you have to pay them per translation or provide some other compensation (perhaps a/. like karma system?)
The related bigger question will be whether this model ultimately proves to deliver quality translations at a lower cost than a traditional translation service. I don't see how this could happen if you have to still have a language expert look at the full translation as a whole to ensure that contextual subtleties are not lost.
...usurping some of the functions built into popular browsers designed by Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications...
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Users don't have to download any software to set the process in motion.
Something's missing here... I haven't programmed for years, but seems to me you need something a leeeetle more intrusive than HTML or Java to change the UI. And IE may be full of security holes, but do you really think MicroBorg would make it that easy to play around with their UI?
"The conduct which underlies the indictment includes ElcomSoft's offering its AEBPR program for sale over the Internet, from a computer server physically located in the United States," the judge wrote. "Purchasers obtained copies of the program in the United States... Payments were directed to, and received by, an entity in the United States."
Seems that the jurisdiction argument is pretty weak. Just a smokescreen?
Elcomsoft is also claiming that enforcement of the DMCA violates the Constitutional right to free speech, and that the part of the DMCA which prohibits distributing devices which circumvent protection measures is so vague that enforcement of it violates the Constitutional right to due process under the Fifth Amendment.
Amen and hallelujah! There's a big difference between the manufacturer of a tool that can be used to break into cars and the person who uses that tool.
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"When he found himself with a homework assignment he did not understand, and no teaching assistants or professors available on a campus off-week..."
I don't think it was unreasonable for him to talk with another student.
Have things really gotten this bad? I remember being encouraged to work together back in my undergrad comp sci days.
What's in it for the volunteers? Seems that novelty might bring experts in to volunteer short term, but when businesses, academics, etc. begin using the service in volume, it really will cry out for commercialization. The volunteers won't stick around performing translations gratis forever. At some point you have to pay them per translation or provide some other compensation (perhaps a /. like karma system?)
The related bigger question will be whether this model ultimately proves to deliver quality translations at a lower cost than a traditional translation service. I don't see how this could happen if you have to still have a language expert look at the full translation as a whole to ensure that contextual subtleties are not lost.
Seems to be the approach that works best.
followed by...
Users don't have to download any software to set the process in motion.
Something's missing here... I haven't programmed for years, but seems to me you need something a leeeetle more intrusive than HTML or Java to change the UI. And IE may be full of security holes, but do you really think MicroBorg would make it that easy to play around with their UI?
Seems that the jurisdiction argument is pretty weak. Just a smokescreen?
Elcomsoft is also claiming that enforcement of the DMCA violates the Constitutional right to free speech, and that the part of the DMCA which prohibits distributing devices which circumvent protection measures is so vague that enforcement of it violates the Constitutional right to due process under the Fifth Amendment.
Amen and hallelujah! There's a big difference between the manufacturer of a tool that can be used to break into cars and the person who uses that tool.
Die, DMCA! Die! Die!