I didn't suggest it. It was merely my initial response which has since been revised due to many good arguments elsewhere on this board. I just know that I've dealt with crappy copy-protection schemes in the past that have made my purchased product unusable, and the whole idea of outlawing DVD rippers is ludicrous. Upon further reflection, so is this.
That's the purpose of debate--to flesh out those problems. No reason to be rude and hateful. BTW, just because Carnivore is dead doesn't mean the governmaent isn't monitoring. They now use OTS packages. And that's not even taking Eschelon into account.
I am shocked by the lack of common courtesy and intolerance of dissent in this forum. So far I have been called stupid and deemed an idiot for not immediately jumping on the "MPAA is fascist" bandwagon.
Do I find this idea scary? Yes.
Do I think it has a chance in hell of working? No.
Am I willing to listen to reasonable alternatives to wholesale theft or blocking legitimate use? Yes.
Do I sympathize with the MPAA? No.
Do I believe in opening topics for intelligent debate? Yes.
So far, I have only been subjected to ad hominem attacks. No intelligent debate. I do not believe in this proposal. I am a member of the ACLU, LP, and EFF. However, I believe everyone has a legitimate right to invite discussion.
Who's the idiot? Apparently you did not read my reply above, so I'll post it for you, considering you neglected to read it:
Hate to break it to you, but they're scanning your traffic now. Never do anything online that you wouldn't do if your mother/wife/boss/local cop were looking over your shoulder. BTW, I didn't say I support the measure--I'm a Libertarian and card-carrying member of the ACLU and EFF. Just soliciting opinions.
There is no reason to resort to ad hominem attacks. As far as being an idiot? No, I have an IQ of 165 and 40 years of experience--the last ten of which in network security.
Hate to break it to you, but they're scanning your traffic now. Never do anything online that you wouldn't do if your mother/wife/boss/local cop were looking over your shoulder. BTW, I didn't say I support the measure--I'm a Libertarian and card-carrying member of the ACLU and EFF. Just soliciting opinions.
While I'm certainly no a fan of the **AA, and I don't believe we need any more legislation, this to me is the least offensive method of combatting piracy. Assuming the technology works properly, this stops the actual illegal activity (i.e., trading copyrighted material) rather than needlessly infringing upon your right to make a legitimate backup or degrading the image with copy-protection schemes.
I've long argued that such upstream measures are unfair. By moving the enforcement downstream to the proximate illegal act, we may be free to legally digitize our collections. Opinions?
I posted a reply to an earlier comment as an Anonymous Coward regarding trying to hit a 4-8 mm target with a ground-based laser pointer.
Think about it. Do you really want your pilot to wear goggles that would cut almost half of the visible spectrum? Last time I looked, most commercial planes have cockpit windows above the nose of the plane, making it hard to get a direct bead on a pilots pupil moving at 200-600 km/hr from a handheld device on the ground from hundreds of meters away. This is just a bunch of FUD.
'Parallels had been drawn between appropriating the "functional structure" of a computer system and commandeering the plot of a book...
Hmmm...I think I've read a few dozen that go something like this: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, some crisis draws them together, boy gets girl back. Doesn't matter about the pesky details, such as choice of words. All authors now owe money to Danielle Steele.
This is getting ridiculous!
Re:SCO does what no other vendor has ever done...
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How can any self-respecting geek work for that company. Maybe those SCO employees with a conscience can apply some internal pressure. "Come out of her, my people!"
GNU System V ?
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Wouldn't it be poetic justice if the courts find that contamination went the other way, i.e., that System V contains Linux code and must be redistributed under GNU as a Linux variant.
Just dreaming:)
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I didn't suggest it. It was merely my initial response which has since been revised due to many good arguments elsewhere on this board. I just know that I've dealt with crappy copy-protection schemes in the past that have made my purchased product unusable, and the whole idea of outlawing DVD rippers is ludicrous. Upon further reflection, so is this.
That's the purpose of debate--to flesh out those problems. No reason to be rude and hateful. BTW, just because Carnivore is dead doesn't mean the governmaent isn't monitoring. They now use OTS packages. And that's not even taking Eschelon into account.
I am shocked by the lack of common courtesy and intolerance of dissent in this forum. So far I have been called stupid and deemed an idiot for not immediately jumping on the "MPAA is fascist" bandwagon.
So far, I have only been subjected to ad hominem attacks. No intelligent debate. I do not believe in this proposal. I am a member of the ACLU, LP, and EFF. However, I believe everyone has a legitimate right to invite discussion.
Who's the idiot? Apparently you did not read my reply above, so I'll post it for you, considering you neglected to read it: Hate to break it to you, but they're scanning your traffic now. Never do anything online that you wouldn't do if your mother/wife/boss/local cop were looking over your shoulder. BTW, I didn't say I support the measure--I'm a Libertarian and card-carrying member of the ACLU and EFF. Just soliciting opinions. There is no reason to resort to ad hominem attacks. As far as being an idiot? No, I have an IQ of 165 and 40 years of experience--the last ten of which in network security.
Hate to break it to you, but they're scanning your traffic now. Never do anything online that you wouldn't do if your mother/wife/boss/local cop were looking over your shoulder. BTW, I didn't say I support the measure--I'm a Libertarian and card-carrying member of the ACLU and EFF. Just soliciting opinions.
While I'm certainly no a fan of the **AA, and I don't believe we need any more legislation, this to me is the least offensive method of combatting piracy. Assuming the technology works properly, this stops the actual illegal activity (i.e., trading copyrighted material) rather than needlessly infringing upon your right to make a legitimate backup or degrading the image with copy-protection schemes.
I've long argued that such upstream measures are unfair. By moving the enforcement downstream to the proximate illegal act, we may be free to legally digitize our collections. Opinions?
I posted a reply to an earlier comment as an Anonymous Coward regarding trying to hit a 4-8 mm target with a ground-based laser pointer. Think about it. Do you really want your pilot to wear goggles that would cut almost half of the visible spectrum? Last time I looked, most commercial planes have cockpit windows above the nose of the plane, making it hard to get a direct bead on a pilots pupil moving at 200-600 km/hr from a handheld device on the ground from hundreds of meters away. This is just a bunch of FUD.
Slap FreeDOS on them and check out the abandonware game sites. DOS on a 166 MHz rocks!
You are beeing a bit too gloomy. Here's my take:
Open Source will survive. I believe we have a 90% chance of getting SCO slapped down. If so, the community and GNU/Linux will thrive.
Long live Tux!
Yet another example of IPR gone awry. Anyone interested in starting a Sourceforge project for an open source classification system?
'Parallels had been drawn between appropriating the "functional structure" of a computer system and commandeering the plot of a book... Hmmm...I think I've read a few dozen that go something like this: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, some crisis draws them together, boy gets girl back. Doesn't matter about the pesky details, such as choice of words. All authors now owe money to Danielle Steele. This is getting ridiculous!
How can any self-respecting geek work for that company. Maybe those SCO employees with a conscience can apply some internal pressure. "Come out of her, my people!"
Wouldn't it be poetic justice if the courts find that contamination went the other way, i.e., that System V contains Linux code and must be redistributed under GNU as a Linux variant. Just dreaming :)