What this would seem to say to me is that in order to get to the point at which the protection measure is considered to be ineffective, you have to go through a point at which it is not widely available, and you're breaking the law.
Unless you can develop and distribute the countermeasure in a time (e.g. prior to the passing of the DMCA-like law) or place (e.g. Antarctica) where it isn't breaking the law.
Finland prohibits people, while standing on Finnish soil, from opening bottles containing genies. They don't prohibit a flock of unbottled genies from flying into Finland from the outside.
So everybody can circumvent CSS NOW, but back in 99, when it was difficult, it was still illegal...
No, in 1999, it was illegal in the United States and possibly some other countries, to do that. In 1999, it was legal in Finland, as well as most other parts of the world. No Finnish laws were broken; as far as Finland was concerned, it became widespread legally -- either by being distributed before it was outlawed in Finland, or by being widely distributed by people outside of Finnish jurisdiction. From Finland's point of view, nothing illegal happened at any time.
You have dozens of choices. You just talk yourself into believing that only two of them are for non-crackpots. Or worse: you let someone else talk you into it.
What if the person I voted for did not win the election?
Then vote against power, and convince others to do the same. If the feds stuck to implementing the powers in the constitution, there wouldn't be half a country of "losers" after every election. Make it stop mattering; the parties running for federal offices should be squabbling about nearly insignificant details that no one cares about.
I so want to tell you to go fuck yourself for saying such a vicious thing, but.. everything you're saying rings true, dammit. *sigh*
Writing blogging software is easy, and Google supposedly has smart people. Pay two or three of 'em 3 months of paychecks, and they ought to have something that kicks ass. Instead, they're buying outsiders' work. WTF?
Despite what you read on websites and blogs, newspapers and magazines, people on the whole aren't all that dissatisfied with Windows.
They can get pretty dissatisfied when they find out the shocking truth that viruses and spyware are not a normal part of personal computing -- that it is a situation that is pretty much unique to their single virus-friendly platform.
But that's not so much a Linux strength, as it is a Windows weakness; it isn't a reason to switch to Linux, it's a reason to switch to anything else. But hey, Linux is part of "anything else.":-)
Most people don't know that before they're exposed to greener pastures, or talk to someone who has been there.
People want certainty that hardware and software will work
That's a reason for switching from Windows to MacOS. Granted, it is a reason that Linux isn't doing well. But having software "just work" is pretty far from most Windows users' experience.
In an age where people find it hard to keep a few control key keyboard commands in their head for any length of time, the idea of switching to a command line system just doesn't appeal to many people
This is not relevant. Author earlier complains about "too many distros" but distro variety is exactly why millions of people could start using Linux today, without ever having to see a command line.
I'm only using crypto for email and secure file storage.
This is a poor way to describe applications. What you should say is, "I use crypto for telling family members that the front door's lock won't be fixed until Saturday" or "I use crypto to hide my kiddie porn from the government" or "I use crypto for my death star blueprints."
Or, as your followup suggested, "I use crypto to conform to minimum legal standards." (Thus, your question is really for lawyers, not security researchers.)
The point is, to evaluate your needs, you need to think about what you're encrypting, not the medium that it's stored on or transmitted over.
Why can't someone make a cell phone with mp3 playing capabilities?
Phone + PDA convergence made sense. Phone + music player does not, at least with current storage technology.
The problem is that a music player needs many gigabytes of storage. Currently, you just can't get a 100 gig drive that is small enough to not make a phone seem bulky. Maybe in a few years...
Then there are power issues. Music players use energy much faster than phones (unless you're talking on the phone all the time). So it would need a bigger battery. Fine a new way to store concentrated energy, and maybe you'll be on to a good idea. But, again, the technology just isn't here yet.
how ironic it would be to turn the DCMA against the rich people who are in power and would like to torpedo Mr. Kerry
Mr. Kerry was in the Senate when DMCA passed unanymously, thus he voted for it. Would it be ironic if a law that a senator voted for, turned out to be useful to him? Not really.
And as for contrasting "rich people" with Mr. Kerry, that's a very interesting spin you have chosen.
If the infringers took the photo illegally and digitally removed
the watermark, Croan says that in itself is a violation of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
No it isn't. (Though passing along such a derivative work may indeed be
a violation of copyright.) Unless the watermark effectively
limits access to the picture (and obviously, it doesn't), I don't get how
DMCA applies at all. DMCA is a nasty law, but it's not like it reads,
"Thou shalt not do anything we don't like."
That aside, though, this is a neat use of watermarks. Much better than
that stupid the-watermark-determines-the-restrictions crap that the music
companies were playing around with, a while back.
Bush is fortunate that there won't be any conservative candidates in the 2004 election, that he doesn't have to worry about Republican rivals.
Can you imagine what would have happened if, in early 2000 instead of early 2004, there had been hints about something like this in connection with Bush? Can you say, "President McCain?"
This is just another example of Republican betrayal and corruption. If you want small government, voting for Republicans isn't the way to get it. I used to think, "at least they're not nearly as bad as the Democrats" but after these last 3 years, I just can't see a difference anymore.
Once selected, the secure and encrypted TiVo recorded programs are moved to the PC, where the TiVo Content Security Key is used to unlock the files for playback or burning, preventing files from being shared online, outside of the user's home network.
The TiVo Content Security Key and the TiVo-enabled versions of Sonic Solution's MyDVD and CinePlayer applications will be sold as a bundle at www.tivo.com.
The encryption "feature" is not something that any Tivo user has asked for. Features that users don't want, are called "bugs." A rival product that does not include the feature, will be more attractive.
(And it doesn't have anything to do with piracy. It is perfectly normal for users to want to use all their usual standard apps to work with multimedia (to snip clips, burn to playback media, etc) instead of having to buy special tools.)
Writing your software to serve the interest of people other than the users, is a good way to guarantee that eventually, an open source/free software alternative will crush you. Tivo's product announcements bode well for the Freevo and MythTV teams.
Sell groups of 4 of these drives (RAIDed) inside of a small enclosure that has a total form factor of a 2.5" drive. Add a circuit board that handles the RAID and presents the drives to the host as a single drive, so that the host machine/OS doesn't even know it's an array.
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Is the Osbou-- um, I mean -- iPhone one even out yet?
Which is better: emacs or vi?
..someone introduces a display that is as thin as three razors?
Unless you can develop and distribute the countermeasure in a time (e.g. prior to the passing of the DMCA-like law) or place (e.g. Antarctica) where it isn't breaking the law.
Finland prohibits people, while standing on Finnish soil, from opening bottles containing genies. They don't prohibit a flock of unbottled genies from flying into Finland from the outside.
No, in 1999, it was illegal in the United States and possibly some other countries, to do that. In 1999, it was legal in Finland, as well as most other parts of the world. No Finnish laws were broken; as far as Finland was concerned, it became widespread legally -- either by being distributed before it was outlawed in Finland, or by being widely distributed by people outside of Finnish jurisdiction. From Finland's point of view, nothing illegal happened at any time.
I so want to tell you to go fuck yourself for saying such a vicious thing, but .. everything you're saying rings true, dammit. *sigh*
Writing blogging software is easy, and Google supposedly has smart people. Pay two or three of 'em 3 months of paychecks, and they ought to have something that kicks ass. Instead, they're buying outsiders' work. WTF?
They can get pretty dissatisfied when they find out the shocking truth that viruses and spyware are not a normal part of personal computing -- that it is a situation that is pretty much unique to their single virus-friendly platform.
But that's not so much a Linux strength, as it is a Windows weakness; it isn't a reason to switch to Linux, it's a reason to switch to anything else. But hey, Linux is part of "anything else." :-)
Most people don't know that before they're exposed to greener pastures, or talk to someone who has been there.
That's a reason for switching from Windows to MacOS. Granted, it is a reason that Linux isn't doing well. But having software "just work" is pretty far from most Windows users' experience.
This is not relevant. Author earlier complains about "too many distros" but distro variety is exactly why millions of people could start using Linux today, without ever having to see a command line.
This is a poor way to describe applications. What you should say is, "I use crypto for telling family members that the front door's lock won't be fixed until Saturday" or "I use crypto to hide my kiddie porn from the government" or "I use crypto for my death star blueprints."
Or, as your followup suggested, "I use crypto to conform to minimum legal standards." (Thus, your question is really for lawyers, not security researchers.)
The point is, to evaluate your needs, you need to think about what you're encrypting, not the medium that it's stored on or transmitted over.
The problem is that a music player needs many gigabytes of storage. Currently, you just can't get a 100 gig drive that is small enough to not make a phone seem bulky. Maybe in a few years...
Then there are power issues. Music players use energy much faster than phones (unless you're talking on the phone all the time). So it would need a bigger battery. Fine a new way to store concentrated energy, and maybe you'll be on to a good idea. But, again, the technology just isn't here yet.
If they can guess the recipient's private key or the AES256 session key, then they are not merely "geeks."
Foe of a Foe. Don't you want to meet your enemy's enemies? They're your friends, and good candidates for being recruited into your conspiracy.
And as for contrasting "rich people" with Mr. Kerry, that's a very interesting spin you have chosen.
That aside, though, this is a neat use of watermarks. Much better than that stupid the-watermark-determines-the-restrictions crap that the music companies were playing around with, a while back.
This just in -- they found out what went wrong with Spirit. It was auto-sodomized by its own chastity!
Can you imagine what would have happened if, in early 2000 instead of early 2004, there had been hints about something like this in connection with Bush? Can you say, "President McCain?"
This is just another example of Republican betrayal and corruption. If you want small government, voting for Republicans isn't the way to get it. I used to think, "at least they're not nearly as bad as the Democrats" but after these last 3 years, I just can't see a difference anymore.
(And it doesn't have anything to do with piracy. It is perfectly normal for users to want to use all their usual standard apps to work with multimedia (to snip clips, burn to playback media, etc) instead of having to buy special tools.)
Writing your software to serve the interest of people other than the users, is a good way to guarantee that eventually, an open source/free software alternative will crush you. Tivo's product announcements bode well for the Freevo and MythTV teams.