Actually, there are two separate statutes for those two offenses in Ohio law. One requires you to disclose your name, address, and date of birth to a police officer under certain circumstances (ORC 2921.29). The other prohibits obstruction of official business of a police officer (ORC 2921.31).
Note that the guy was apparently charged under the Brooklyn city ordinance version of the state law.
It's not just a way to hide taxes from the public who ultimately absorb the costs. It's also a way to milk votes from the masses, since so many people subscribe to the "eat the rich" / "stick it to the man" mentality.
The US DOJ is not the only game in town, though. In many cases, a violation of federal law will also involve a violation of state law, so if the Feds won't handle a case, check to see whether the state or county authorities are interested.
Maybe they should do a movie set in the evil goatee universe. Those were consistently among the best episodes of every series they graced - in fact, the Enterprise evil goatee episode was hands down the best episode of that entire run, even if it was 90% fan service.
Helluva lot better than the stupid Temporal Space Nazis, anyway.
Your rights to fair use aren't legally revoked by the DMCA. If you can obtain the content in an unencumbered format without violating the DMCA, you can make fair use of that content without problems. The DMCA only provides the practical hurdle of obtaining the unencumbered content in the first place, wrapped up in a legal package.
You don't need a reliable method of killing off the ones you don't want. All you need is a little bit of selection pressure. In fact, too much pressure can be detrimental to evolution, as it can strip the population of diversity. A good method would probably be to vary the strength of selection pressures over time, to allow the population to diverge and then occasionally cull the low performers.
Could this be a reversal of Microsoft's prior stance on DRM, wherein they fellated the movie and music industries despite the consumer electronics industry being far larger and far more consumer-friendly?
Now imagine ream after ream of tractor-feed paper going through this thing at top speed. That's what would be required to faithfully follow the judge's order.
Sure, it's easy to just throw out barbs and generally make the guy feel hated. The MPAA makes it easy. But this is an opportunity to show Taylor, and by extension, perhaps the MPAA in general, that tech-savvy consumers are not copyright-hating anarchists.
Address concerns like the limitations put on consumers from making legitimate private use of the content they buy. Make it clear that you don't endorse copyright infringement, but also be clear that much of the content industry's DRM efforts haven't been about preventing infringement (user operation prohibition and region codes on DVDs, for example).
The more you make your discussion about things other than piracy, the more you'll get out of the discussion. Piracy is the red herring in the DRM debate, so steer the conversation away from technologies which are ostensibly there solely to prevent piracy. CSS and AACS are, IMO, the topics you don't want to get into.
But if you feel you've milked those topics enough, you can get into HDCP, the broadcast flag, OCAP, CableCARD, etc., all of which are technologies which place huge burdens on the legitimate TV-viewing public in an effort to prevent them from time- and space-shifting the TV that they watch, even though DVD sales of TV series have been highly successful in general, and PVRs have revolutionized (for the better) the way people watch TV.
The overuse of the term "rootkit" points to (at least) one thing: we've become so desensitized to security hazards that it takes a new buzzword for nefariousness to grab people's attention. Regardless of whether this is itself a rootkit or not, it's still a security hazard, and what's perhaps more ironic, that hazard was created in an attempt to effect "security through obscurity".
After all this time and all these spams, isn't it fairly reasonable to assume that nearly everyone who is going to get their box owned by the trojan already has?
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You might not be up on current law, but states can require you to provide your identity to a LEO under certain circumstances.
Actually, there are two separate statutes for those two offenses in Ohio law. One requires you to disclose your name, address, and date of birth to a police officer under certain circumstances (ORC 2921.29). The other prohibits obstruction of official business of a police officer (ORC 2921.31).
Note that the guy was apparently charged under the Brooklyn city ordinance version of the state law.
It's not just a way to hide taxes from the public who ultimately absorb the costs. It's also a way to milk votes from the masses, since so many people subscribe to the "eat the rich" / "stick it to the man" mentality.
If Caesar says he doesn't want to tax the money donated to churches, why should God argue with that?
The US DOJ is not the only game in town, though. In many cases, a violation of federal law will also involve a violation of state law, so if the Feds won't handle a case, check to see whether the state or county authorities are interested.
So what are they going to title the e-mail? I mean, they'll have to be really clever, to make sure the terrorists actually open it:
"dude! you'll never believe what Osama said"
"wow, I can't believe you haven't blown yourself up yet"
"this video has your 72 virgins in it!"
Stephen Hawking: Screw them.
Maybe they should do a movie set in the evil goatee universe. Those were consistently among the best episodes of every series they graced - in fact, the Enterprise evil goatee episode was hands down the best episode of that entire run, even if it was 90% fan service.
Helluva lot better than the stupid Temporal Space Nazis, anyway.
Why make billions, when we can make..... millions?
Ahh, okay. I guess I was speaking from my perspective as a researcher in genetic algorithms. Just two orthogonal viewpoints passing in the night ;)
Your rights to fair use aren't legally revoked by the DMCA. If you can obtain the content in an unencumbered format without violating the DMCA, you can make fair use of that content without problems. The DMCA only provides the practical hurdle of obtaining the unencumbered content in the first place, wrapped up in a legal package.
You don't need a reliable method of killing off the ones you don't want. All you need is a little bit of selection pressure. In fact, too much pressure can be detrimental to evolution, as it can strip the population of diversity. A good method would probably be to vary the strength of selection pressures over time, to allow the population to diverge and then occasionally cull the low performers.
Could this be a reversal of Microsoft's prior stance on DRM, wherein they fellated the movie and music industries despite the consumer electronics industry being far larger and far more consumer-friendly?
Nah.
The downside is that she doesn't sound like a chipmunk when she breathes in helium. Ah, well, you win some, you lose some.
...does he call it Hotz Wheels or the Hotzmobile?
Col. Mustard: What is J. Edgar Hoover doing on your phone?
Wadsworth: I don't know! He's on everybody else's. Why shouldn't he be on mine?
But basically it's the same deal, some organisation selling you heaven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_He_Knows_Me
Now imagine ream after ream of tractor-feed paper going through this thing at top speed. That's what would be required to faithfully follow the judge's order.
Damn Hippocrats, always ruining things for the rest of us.
I suspect they're going to pretend he's a prisoner or something. All it takes is some loosely-fitting wrist binders, you know.
Sure, it's easy to just throw out barbs and generally make the guy feel hated. The MPAA makes it easy. But this is an opportunity to show Taylor, and by extension, perhaps the MPAA in general, that tech-savvy consumers are not copyright-hating anarchists.
Address concerns like the limitations put on consumers from making legitimate private use of the content they buy. Make it clear that you don't endorse copyright infringement, but also be clear that much of the content industry's DRM efforts haven't been about preventing infringement (user operation prohibition and region codes on DVDs, for example).
The more you make your discussion about things other than piracy, the more you'll get out of the discussion. Piracy is the red herring in the DRM debate, so steer the conversation away from technologies which are ostensibly there solely to prevent piracy. CSS and AACS are, IMO, the topics you don't want to get into.
But if you feel you've milked those topics enough, you can get into HDCP, the broadcast flag, OCAP, CableCARD, etc., all of which are technologies which place huge burdens on the legitimate TV-viewing public in an effort to prevent them from time- and space-shifting the TV that they watch, even though DVD sales of TV series have been highly successful in general, and PVRs have revolutionized (for the better) the way people watch TV.
You'd have been safer saying 5 yards. After all, that's pie range ;)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294779,00.html
Hugs and kisses!!!!
The overuse of the term "rootkit" points to (at least) one thing: we've become so desensitized to security hazards that it takes a new buzzword for nefariousness to grab people's attention. Regardless of whether this is itself a rootkit or not, it's still a security hazard, and what's perhaps more ironic, that hazard was created in an attempt to effect "security through obscurity".
After all this time and all these spams, isn't it fairly reasonable to assume that nearly everyone who is going to get their box owned by the trojan already has?