I'd give this a -1 for troll. After last summer's happenings, E*Trade must be the most hated online brokerage in the Linux community by now. Or do people just have short memory?
were accused of portscanning? It would be absolutely hilarious to forgesend a couple of rouge packets from 38.228.47.6 to it. For those who don't know: 38.228.47.6 is Weil, Gotshal & Manges, of DVD CCA fame.
Hey, this sure looks like an organized attack from the scientologist (a.k.a. clams).
Years ago, they tried the same kind of shenanigans against the alt.religion.scientology board, which is a forum for scientology criticists. First they tried to shut down discussions by forge-cancelling any critical article, and when that didn't work any longer, they tried swamping the board with meaningless rubbish.
... for the next monopolist. Indeed, Bill Gates is not the first monopolist, nor is he the last. If we give those guys the impression that they can get off with it with only a slap on their wrist, it will happen again and again and again. Even if, for each monopoly, the situation will be "remedied" eventually, the monopolist will still have done enough damage to the marketplace in the meantime. So yes, "rewarding" Bill Gates' behaviour should be avoided at all costs.
The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed. It was written by authors who expressly permitted and encourage the redistribution of this software and information. The purpose of this software is not, I repeat not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information neccesary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way a certain protection scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or one of its members. The sources and programs on this site are purely written by 3rd parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods, which is, again, completely legal. This software and information below make it possible for people who legally obtained their DVD movies to view them on their Linux systems.
Attention
www.rhythm.cxwas hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:
NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.
UPDATE:Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.
I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:
Page last updated: Sat, Nov 13, 4:50pm EST
Current Mirrors (Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)
This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see: http://crypto.gq.nu/
Semi-broken Mirrors (These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't) ftp://134.173.94.44/
Broken Mirrors (These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them) http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
Mirrors shut down by The Man (A moment of silence, please.) http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
What it does is redirect any accesses from the nets 148.122.208.x and 193.214.96.x to Index.HTM. Both address blocks are registered to simu.no, the law firm handling the issue. Add more addresses as soon as you notice more lawfirms joining in the fun. Put the following into Index.HTM:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Taken Down</title> </head>
<body> <h1>Taken Down</h1>
This site has been taken down for legal reasons. Sorry <hr> </body> </html>
The idiot lawyers will just assume that you already chickened out and leave you alone. If you're more daring, you could play them other nasty tricks, such as redirecting them to the chargen port of their own router, or to some cgi script which just waits and waits and waits and then times out. Great to keep them busy, and to drive up the bill that they'll present to the "movie industry"
And moreover, if a first post appears at 2am, it doesn't mean that the first poster was awake. Only that his cronjobs ran on time, and duly noticed the new story.
... and doctor the sources of the tool in such a way that it flags jocks rather than geeks! Give them of their own medicine. And it will impress the chicks too.
Bullshit. The only reason the initial Windows mice had 2 buttons was in order not to infringe on Apple's patent. Ergonomy had nothing to do with it. Indeed, in their foolishness, Apple described the mouse as a "pointing device with one button", or sth similar. Thus, adding another button was an easy way to avoid charges of patent infringment.
That's also why this second button was not actually used for several years by Windows (in 3.1, it was useless, contextual menu was only added in '95). Indeed, the reason for its presence was legal, not technical.
Part of the reason why MS finally added a function to that button may actually have been the Unix precedent, which does use all available buttons.
Isn't that the same dataguess that made the news few years ago by producing an analysis showing that the Pentium bug was irrelevant in practice, just days before Intel themselves finally gave in?
Slashdot Mirror
I'd give this a -1 for troll. After last summer's happenings, E*Trade must be the most hated online brokerage in the Linux community by now. Or do people just have short memory?
address. Does that make me eligible for this offer too?
were accused of portscanning? It would be absolutely hilarious to forgesend a couple of rouge packets from 38.228.47.6 to it. For those who don't know: 38.228.47.6 is Weil, Gotshal & Manges, of DVD CCA fame.
Years ago, they tried the same kind of shenanigans against the alt.religion.scientology board, which is a forum for scientology criticists. First they tried to shut down discussions by forge-cancelling any critical article, and when that didn't work any longer, they tried swamping the board with meaningless rubbish.
No, they'll do the Windows on the building...
... for the next monopolist. Indeed, Bill Gates is not the first monopolist, nor is he the last. If we give those guys the impression that they can get off with it with only a slap on their wrist, it will happen again and again and again. Even if,
for each monopoly, the situation will be "remedied" eventually, the monopolist will still have done enough damage to the marketplace in the meantime. So yes, "rewarding" Bill Gates' behaviour should be avoided at all costs.
Quite appropriate...
Only problem: they are the trademark owner themselves, so who's gonna sue them?
... it will soon pop back up on a hundred tiny mirrors near you (and also far From you, for that matter. Indeed, how are they gonna pRoSecuTe abroad?)
... they only believed it was twice as large as the size Columbus assumed. And now, guess who was right, and who was just extremely lucky ;-)
... then the 18, years clause would not be binding either. So what's the point?
Like, errrm, a woody?
Hehe, I can see the headlines now: "Penguin accused of raping minor and posting images on website"
maybe they did it because of all the F-words In the keRnel Source, or whaT do you think ? ;-)
Name: tide70.microsoft.com
Address: 131.107.3.70
Aliases:
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Sure, a truly unbiased "independant third party" comment. Can you say Astroturf?
Yes you missed this: ...of every other deceny, of every other century, of every other millenium , meaning that it'll be a long time til the next one.
Explanation on legality of this information:
The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed. It was written by authors who expressly permitted and encourage the redistribution of this software and information. The purpose of this software is not, I repeat not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information neccesary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way a certain protection scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or one of its members. The sources and programs on this site are purely written by 3rd parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods, which is, again, completely legal. This software and information below make it possible for people who legally obtained their DVD movies to view them on their Linux systems.
Attention
www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:
NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.
UPDATE: Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.
I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:
Page last updated: Sat, Nov 13, 4:50pm EST
Current Mirrors
(Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)
This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/
Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/
Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.t
Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI / .* Index.HTM
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR}
^(148\.122\.208\.|193\.214\.96\.)
RewriteRule
What it does is redirect any accesses from the nets 148.122.208.x and 193.214.96.x to Index.HTM. Both address blocks are registered to simu.no, the law firm handling the issue. Add more addresses as soon as you notice more lawfirms joining in the fun.
Put the following into Index.HTM:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Taken Down</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Taken Down</h1>
This site has been taken down for legal
reasons.
Sorry
<hr>
</body>
</html>
The idiot lawyers will just assume that you already chickened out and leave you alone. If you're more daring, you could play them other nasty tricks, such as redirecting them to the chargen port of their own router, or to some cgi script which just waits and waits and waits and then times out. Great to keep them busy, and to drive up the bill that they'll present to the "movie industry"
See this comment for the address to get it
And moreover, if a first post appears at 2am, it doesn't mean that the first poster was awake. Only that his cronjobs ran on time, and duly noticed the new story.
... and doctor the sources of the tool in such a way that it flags jocks rather than geeks! Give them of their own medicine. And it will impress the chicks too.
And searching for Altavista works too. Strange
That's also why this second button was not actually used for several years by Windows (in 3.1, it was useless, contextual menu was only added in '95). Indeed, the reason for its presence was legal, not technical.
Part of the reason why MS finally added a function to that button may actually have been the Unix precedent, which does use all available buttons.
Isn't that the same dataguess that made the news few years ago by producing an analysis showing that the Pentium bug was irrelevant in practice, just days before Intel themselves finally gave in?