Digital rights doesn't scare me, and it shouldn't scare you. You have to think more fundamentaly, because of how big an issue this is, and about our liberties that are at stake.
Many people would say they are afraid because one day they'll have to pay for music. Others are afraid because their TV's are going to be replaced by Microsoft-endorsed products. There is a much bigger problem than this.
I'm afraid of a day when you buy black boxes. Hardware and software are seperate, if they become any closer, we'll see the biggest vertical monopoly ever. Previous attempts of this have failed. Look at Playstation, it got chipped.
One of the big "features" of Palladium is that Microsoft says that if you crack one secure OS, it will not help you crack another. I'm sure nobody wants us chipping away, giving millions to countries where it's legal to produce rogue chips.
The thing is, I liked my first computer (mac plus), where you could drop to a programmer's interface (debug screen) from anywhere. If you can't drop to debug level on your computer, it's not your computer.
Solution: Since Microsoft said that their system was never based around security (see the api messaging release) we need to trace the integration of hard/soft ware so we can hack it later. And I strongly support an open source project to compete!
I propose a solution to the problem of "un-warranted" proxy servers in general. Regardless of the ethics of such a notion, I'm expressing a way of attacking this:
I propose that to handle the distribution and maitenance of live/cached data, we resort to the P2P method. Persons from inside (china) will have self-propogating lists of servers that may get the information they need. "Pirates" that host tunnels and other exploits will be easily recognized as "super nodes" and free, external or "alternate configurations" of DNS server can be listed.
In overview, internal users, will be constantly searching for content cached on other internal users' computers, while live content will sucessfully seep through holes in the great firewall by means of private piracy and exploitable errors in the system. Moreover, this application would allow the fastest collaboration of network status's and trade instability for redundancy.
I hope this inspires a revolution to such an extensive feat of censorship.
Ever since Microsoft offered to buy Apple's Quicktime (and was shot down), they have started doing some mischeivous things with their own media player. This is one of two of my favorite examples. The other is as follows: in the WMP 7.x license agreement, the user agrees to allow Media Player to download binaries from Microsoft and run them; regardless of associability to WMP. This means that when MS decides to implement the Personal-Rights-Enforced Filesystem, WMP can automaticly install this software onto your (wiltel) box. If you read the WMP licence, you'll get a bad feeling about some of the things it assumes your consent on.
Suggestion: create a competing product to WMP, because the only reason people use it is for Burning CD's and looking at trippy visualizations - something I have seen in any other software.
Does anyone remember when you could go to the store and see two sets of AOL disks: The MSIE one and the Netscape one? I propose that now, out of contractual agreement, they re-adopt choice of the masses. This will make the transition hit from both sides (the user and the ISP), as well as let us see how everyone reacts in the real world.
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"coke is better than pepsi" - 194
"pepsi is better than coke" - 116
Many people would say they are afraid because one day they'll have to pay for music. Others are afraid because their TV's are going to be replaced by Microsoft-endorsed products. There is a much bigger problem than this.
I'm afraid of a day when you buy black boxes. Hardware and software are seperate, if they become any closer, we'll see the biggest vertical monopoly ever. Previous attempts of this have failed. Look at Playstation, it got chipped.
One of the big "features" of Palladium is that Microsoft says that if you crack one secure OS, it will not help you crack another. I'm sure nobody wants us chipping away, giving millions to countries where it's legal to produce rogue chips.
The thing is, I liked my first computer (mac plus), where you could drop to a programmer's interface (debug screen) from anywhere. If you can't drop to debug level on your computer, it's not your computer.
Solution: Since Microsoft said that their system was never based around security (see the api messaging release) we need to trace the integration of hard/soft ware so we can hack it later. And I strongly support an open source project to compete!
I propose that to handle the distribution and maitenance of live/cached data, we resort to the P2P method. Persons from inside (china) will have self-propogating lists of servers that may get the information they need. "Pirates" that host tunnels and other exploits will be easily recognized as "super nodes" and free, external or "alternate configurations" of DNS server can be listed.
In overview, internal users, will be constantly searching for content cached on other internal users' computers, while live content will sucessfully seep through holes in the great firewall by means of private piracy and exploitable errors in the system. Moreover, this application would allow the fastest collaboration of network status's and trade instability for redundancy.
I hope this inspires a revolution to such an extensive feat of censorship.
On a related note, the full history of the dogcow can be seen in Apple's tech support
Ever since Microsoft offered to buy Apple's Quicktime (and was shot down), they have started doing some mischeivous things with their own media player. This is one of two of my favorite examples. The other is as follows: in the WMP 7.x license agreement, the user agrees to allow Media Player to download binaries from Microsoft and run them; regardless of associability to WMP. This means that when MS decides to implement the Personal-Rights-Enforced Filesystem, WMP can automaticly install this software onto your (wiltel) box. If you read the WMP licence, you'll get a bad feeling about some of the things it assumes your consent on.
Suggestion: create a competing product to WMP, because the only reason people use it is for Burning CD's and looking at trippy visualizations - something I have seen in any other software.
This is the result of the DMCA, only now you have the option to turn it off. Soon this will no loinger be an option.
Does anyone remember when you could go to the store and see two sets of AOL disks: The MSIE one and the Netscape one? I propose that now, out of contractual agreement, they re-adopt choice of the masses. This will make the transition hit from both sides (the user and the ISP), as well as let us see how everyone reacts in the real world.
C'mon now - this has nothing nerdly.