Hi, Aaron Swartz here. Project Gutenberg is about putting up text versions of out-of-copyright books. This project is about creating a catalog of _every_ book, with links to PG, scans, Amazon.com, PDFs, print on demand, etc. -- anything we can get our hands on. Gutenberg books are in our catalog, of course, but so are millions more.
The other side of the six-degrees of separation thing is that people will probably still be able to infiltrate the network. Your nephew will be friends with some kid at school whose dad works for the movie industry; that guy your friend's friend met at that bar got hired to do this as their dayjob. And if you use onion routing, figuring out whose fault it is will just be that much harder.
The MP3 player doesn't need to talk to your CD drive. Not participating doesn't make you a felon.
The special string is simply a way to vote on what artists should get paid. If you don't want to vote, you don't have to.
For example, he's done some excellent work on Proof-Carrying Authorization, where instead of relying on a server-side list of people who are allowed access, the client proves he should be let in based on a collection of signed statements.
Example: You said that any employee of a member of the Consumer Electronics Association could read this page. You said that IBM is a member. IBM said that everyone in the security department is an employee of IBM. The security department said I'm a member.
"US laws control the registrars of the.com domain, if not the content on those domains, correct?"
Not really. ICANN does, ane although it's a US corporation, it's not a big fan of following US law.
Title 17, 1201(a)(1)(A) says: "The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter."
The DMCA went into effect on Oct98. That means that the prohibition on circumvention didn't go into effect until Oct00, after the AC claims Livid was working.
But 1201(a)(2) which prohibits trafficking in circumvention materials, seems to still apply. Sorry, no such luck.
When I was at the argument, they made two people in the audience stop taking notes. (They didn't confiscate the notebook, though.)
Perhaps the thing you saw was before the guard caught the fellow, or from memory.
But the rule is enforced.
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I think he's on Slashdot too.
Hi, Aaron Swartz here. Project Gutenberg is about putting up text versions of out-of-copyright books. This project is about creating a catalog of _every_ book, with links to PG, scans, Amazon.com, PDFs, print on demand, etc. -- anything we can get our hands on. Gutenberg books are in our catalog, of course, but so are millions more.
In an ironic twist, the Demotivators website is hosted by Paul Graham's software, Yahoo! Store.
The other side of the six-degrees of separation thing is that people will probably still be able to infiltrate the network. Your nephew will be friends with some kid at school whose dad works for the movie industry; that guy your friend's friend met at that bar got hired to do this as their dayjob. And if you use onion routing, figuring out whose fault it is will just be that much harder.
The MP3 player doesn't need to talk to your CD drive. Not participating doesn't make you a felon. The special string is simply a way to vote on what artists should get paid. If you don't want to vote, you don't have to.
I suspect Felten was referring to his work on Secure Internet Programming.
For example, he's done some excellent work on Proof-Carrying Authorization, where instead of relying on a server-side list of people who are allowed access, the client proves he should be let in based on a collection of signed statements.
Example: You said that any employee of a member of the Consumer Electronics Association could read this page. You said that IBM is a member. IBM said that everyone in the security department is an employee of IBM. The security department said I'm a member.
"US laws control the registrars of the .com domain, if not the content on those domains, correct?"
Not really. ICANN does, ane although it's a US corporation, it's not a big fan of following US law.
The Free Software Foundation keeps a list of free books available -- please submit your books to them by emailing <free-books@gnu.org> I'm also going to see if we can start listing books with other licenses on the Creative Commons site.
The GPL (and, I believe, the LGPL) requires you release the source code for any modified versions you distribute. ShareAlike does not.
Edward Felten discusses this.
Title 17, 1201(a)(1)(A) says: "The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter."
The DMCA went into effect on Oct98. That means that the prohibition on circumvention didn't go into effect until Oct00, after the AC claims Livid was working.
But 1201(a)(2) which prohibits trafficking in circumvention materials, seems to still apply. Sorry, no such luck.
When I was at the argument, they made two people in the audience stop taking notes. (They didn't confiscate the notebook, though.) Perhaps the thing you saw was before the guard caught the fellow, or from memory. But the rule is enforced.
Only the Justice's names were added from memory. The rest, I'm pretty sure, is the official transcript.
You get no extra value, but it's unlikely the current system will change because the middlemen will lobby ICANN to ensure they still get their cut.