As it gets shared, relying on an infrastructure that keeps the cost of delivery low becomes essential. So if you're a filmmaker and you have a great new documentary film you want to make available on the internet, if you post it on your web site and it becomes successful, then you go bankrupt.
Man, Mirrors and torrents are so counterrevolutionary! I'll/. your site!
On a side note, he also express some interesting thoughts on the upcoming Grokster's decision.
You don't get it. In soviet Russia, girls ride their bikes in Tchernobyl's forbidden area and weird fishes spring out of the ocean to demonstrate against GW Bush and the US breach of Kyoto Protocol. IT IS ALL TRUE, not a petty american-capitalist scam.
Btw, the russian thread it is all about is more than one year old. Did the fishes foresee the Tsunami that far before it happened? Beware the power of mutant communist fishes, they use OSS for sure!
he was already a researcher at Harvard when it all started but what he is sued for mostly took place in a French-speaking newsgroup and the Internet does not really bother with frountiers, nor do the plaintiffs, so he got sued in France. Plus at Harvard his research field is BIOLOGY not computer security. Security research is kind of a hobby to him.
So all in all yes he is prosecuted in France, yes he is doing research at Harvard but not computer-related, yes he is facing a decision in March this year. So wait and see.
at last a simple solution at least as effective as a disclaimer on a frontdoor: "I'm killing my wife. If you are a police officer, hear strange noises coming from my house and break into it, you agree not to arrest me on one count of attempted first degree murder."
As long as you don't control to whom the key goes and just release it in the wild, there is no way your encryption-trick can legally bind anyone and restricts their rights to prosecute you.
Being awarded the observer's status is quite an achievement. Check out the list of the 165 other observers: click me.
FSFE will be among the likes of CISAC, IFPI, ISO, UNESCO, WHO, etc. FSFE better shows it's up to the task and comes up with clever arguments why OSS is the way to go (or at least a way to go).
The UN has cumbersome rules, no popular participation, and can't get anything useful done about the darkly rising tide of stateless terror and military adventurism.
You're almost there. Actually it is:
The Icann has cumbersome rules, no popular participation, and can't get anything useful done about the darkly rising tide of stateless spam and VeriSign's adventurism.
you mean Sauron isn't in fact George Lucas and the master-plan to overtake Middle-Earth is not a trick to produce more director's cuts versions of the original Star Wars' trilogy?
Man, so what are we, Westerners, fighting for?
Ps: note that by rearranging the letters in George Lucas' name you can write Sauron. Well, except for the "n" but that's a trick to get you to think there is no trick. That tricky is the dark side of the Force of the One ring thingy. And Yoda is a hobbit who ate to much vegetables.
I don't see how this is news but oh well if someone blogged about it...
If you're interested into this kind of things (how IP is a temporary monopoly designed to reward authors without inhibiting innovation) do yourself a favor and go read on some of the amicus briefs sent in support of the Eldred V. Ashcroft case (the infamous Mickey Mouse Amendment). Yes, enlight me!.
Here is a peak
The main economic benefit from copyright protection is to give an author an incentive to create new works. The size of this economic incentive depends upon the present value of compensation, as anticipated by the author at the time of creation. [...] By reducing
the set of building-block materials freely available for new works, the [extension of the copyright term for existing and future works] raises the cost of producing new works and reduces the number created.
That list is so wrong. Actually it is what people considered a good movie during their time IN THE US. I don't see any other explanation bacause that one strikes me as odd:
26- Shrek 2 (2004)
$805 (World BO (M))= $436.5 (Adjusted BO (M))
39- LOTR: The Return of the King (2003)
$1129.2 (World BO (M)) = $377.0 (Adjusted BO (M))
Ok so if it was sorted by total gross worldwide, it would mean that a dollar in 2003 was worth 0,334 constant dollar when a dollar in 2004 was worth 0,541 constant dollar. Or did I miss something?
Actually, French courts have already took similar steps by asking French ISPs to deny access to a server's IP address. There was a neo-nazi site on this server and it was physically located in the US (see here if you can French: click me). I'm not saying that's not the dumbest solution of all but at least they're trying hard.
Now I'm waiting for the whole Yahoo! site to be locked out from France. Google überalles!
Next thing you know, you'll be able to hook your computer to a group of computers connected to other groups of computers. And we shall name it the Intergroup of computers or Intergroup.
Here in France it is now written down in the law books that the State should be paying the "Electronic Communications" operators for any extra costs they suffer due to wiretapping on their networks. The issue is that the text doesn't say how to calculate the costs, what exactly will be covered and how the State will hand the money. Another text is required to precise that.
4 years ago the State already forced on the operators the holding of connexion logs for a certain amount of time and said "how, we will compensate for that". As far as I know, we're still waiting.
At least the Canadian government is not fooling anyone here.
Come on, since when are domain name disputes trade mark disputes? "In the real world", when you are to register a trademark your rights are limited to a territory and a class. There are 42 classes (click me).
Now with domain names there is no such class and a name is "global". But -hey!- why bother? As long as you can trick big companies into believing their names are subject to some kind of "universal" trademark and you can generate a nice amount of litigations from that belief, go for it! Give me the money, honey!
Now, the Wipo (World Intellectual Property Organisation) endorsing this kind of behaviours and providing arbitration for something that is pure legal bullshit is a different matter...
It's the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of Icann which issued the report not the Board of Icann! This committee is literally filled with top-notch DNS experts (see here: Members of the Committee) and I don't think they give a rat's ass about Icann's issues with VeriSign. Btw, 2 VS employees are also members of the SSAC...
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Man, Mirrors and torrents are so counterrevolutionary! I'll /. your site!
On a side note, he also express some interesting thoughts on the upcoming Grokster's decision.
Syphilis?
Btw, the russian thread it is all about is more than one year old. Did the fishes foresee the Tsunami that far before it happened? Beware the power of mutant communist fishes, they use OSS for sure!
So all in all yes he is prosecuted in France, yes he is doing research at Harvard but not computer-related, yes he is facing a decision in March this year. So wait and see.
Seriously, don't fool yourself and don't think you can fool anyone. You consume, you just don't want to pay when you can pirate things instead.
As long as you don't control to whom the key goes and just release it in the wild, there is no way your encryption-trick can legally bind anyone and restricts their rights to prosecute you.
Eventually, there is always a use for so much bandwidth. Just run a ftp-server on the box with anon login et voilà.
FSFE will be among the likes of CISAC, IFPI, ISO, UNESCO, WHO, etc. FSFE better shows it's up to the task and comes up with clever arguments why OSS is the way to go (or at least a way to go).
They mean Al Qaida? Damn, those guys at Redmond should go easy on Halo2.
No-click phising? That's infringing on Amazon's one-click patent!
You're almost there. Actually it is:
The Icann has cumbersome rules, no popular participation, and can't get anything useful done about the darkly rising tide of stateless spam and VeriSign's adventurism.
Man, so what are we, Westerners, fighting for?
Ps: note that by rearranging the letters in George Lucas' name you can write Sauron. Well, except for the "n" but that's a trick to get you to think there is no trick. That tricky is the dark side of the Force of the One ring thingy. And Yoda is a hobbit who ate to much vegetables.
If you're interested into this kind of things (how IP is a temporary monopoly designed to reward authors without inhibiting innovation) do yourself a favor and go read on some of the amicus briefs sent in support of the Eldred V. Ashcroft case (the infamous Mickey Mouse Amendment). Yes, enlight me!.
Here is a peak
The main economic benefit from copyright protection is to give an author an incentive to create new works. The size of this economic incentive depends upon the present value of compensation, as anticipated by the author at the time of creation. [...] By reducing the set of building-block materials freely available for new works, the [extension of the copyright term for existing and future works] raises the cost of producing new works and reduces the number created.
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Jack Valenti, 1982 click me
That list is so wrong. Actually it is what people considered a good movie during their time IN THE US. I don't see any other explanation bacause that one strikes me as odd: 26- Shrek 2 (2004) $805 (World BO (M))= $436.5 (Adjusted BO (M)) 39- LOTR: The Return of the King (2003) $1129.2 (World BO (M)) = $377.0 (Adjusted BO (M)) Ok so if it was sorted by total gross worldwide, it would mean that a dollar in 2003 was worth 0,334 constant dollar when a dollar in 2004 was worth 0,541 constant dollar. Or did I miss something?
Now I'm waiting for the whole Yahoo! site to be locked out from France. Google überalles!
Next thing you know, you'll be able to hook your computer to a group of computers connected to other groups of computers. And we shall name it the Intergroup of computers or Intergroup.
4 years ago the State already forced on the operators the holding of connexion logs for a certain amount of time and said "how, we will compensate for that". As far as I know, we're still waiting.
At least the Canadian government is not fooling anyone here.
Come on, since when are domain name disputes trade mark disputes? "In the real world", when you are to register a trademark your rights are limited to a territory and a class. There are 42 classes (click me).
Now with domain names there is no such class and a name is "global". But -hey!- why bother? As long as you can trick big companies into believing their names are subject to some kind of "universal" trademark and you can generate a nice amount of litigations from that belief, go for it! Give me the money, honey! Now, the Wipo (World Intellectual Property Organisation) endorsing this kind of behaviours and providing arbitration for something that is pure legal bullshit is a different matter...
It's the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of Icann which issued the report not the Board of Icann! This committee is literally filled with top-notch DNS experts (see here: Members of the Committee) and I don't think they give a rat's ass about Icann's issues with VeriSign. Btw, 2 VS employees are also members of the SSAC...
Now keep on flaming!