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CBS again runs afoul of its Net critics [Disables copying and pasting from online Memogate report]
New York Times ^
| January 18, 2005
| Tom Zeller
Posted on 01/17/2005 12:08:09 PM PST by RatherBiased.com
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:09:54 PM PST
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Brilliant
To: RatherBiased.com; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; devolve; potlatch; Mia T; JohnHuang2; Diogenesis
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:11:37 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
("Islam fears democracy worse than anything- If the imams can't control it - they will kill it.)
To: RatherBiased.com
According to Linda Mason, a CBS News executive who served as a liaison between the network and the independent panel, an attorney from the law firm called her on Wednesday and asked that the digital restrictions be made - including the prevention of copying and pasting. The fear, it seems, was that an enterprising ne'er-do-well could copy the text into a new document and begin circulating a faked version of the report. There's a Tonight Show joke lurking here.
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:12:31 PM PST
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Ben Chad
To: RatherBiased.com
Edit
Select all
copy
open word
new document
paste
save
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:13:01 PM PST
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pabianice
To: RatherBiased.com
According to Linda Mason, a CBS News executive who served as a liaison between the network and the independent panel, an attorney from the law firm called her on Wednesday and asked that the digital restrictions be made - including the prevention of copying and pasting. The fear, it seems, was that an enterprising ne'er-do-well could copy the text into a new document and begin circulating a faked version of the report. Ahhh... don't you just love irony?
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:13:31 PM PST
by
So Cal Rocket
(Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
To: RatherBiased.com
Add to the fact that Thornburg is an on retainer attorney for CBS and their entire "independent" investigation goes out the window.
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:15:45 PM PST
by
Peach
(The Cl intons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: RatherBiased.com
The eye is falling... It is the end of Middle Earth as we know it.
... Well, at least the end of midtown Manhattan.....
To: RatherBiased.com
Didn't someone post the whole thing here ... in text?
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:18:50 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest! - Bullwinkle J. Moose)
To: Ben Chad
There's a Tonight Show joke lurking here. Haha ... that's funny. Wouldn't want any fake documents out there, would we!
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:20:28 PM PST
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BunnySlippers
(When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest! - Bullwinkle J. Moose)
To: BunnySlippers
CBS, information, information age...
One of these doesn't belong in this grouping.
To: RatherBiased.com
Yep I noticed this "problem" with copying.
At work, I printed the entire document then used the fancy Xerox workstation to "scan to PDF" and email it to me.
An extra step or two but nothing difficult.
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:21:44 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: BunnySlippers
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:23:34 PM PST
by
Polybius
To: Polybius
Nyuk, nyuk, I knew it. Thank you, sir.
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:24:42 PM PST
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BunnySlippers
(When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest! - Bullwinkle J. Moose)
To: DBrow
Doing a screen capture and "save as PDF" works fine for me.
True to form, CBS runs behind the bloggers.
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:25:46 PM PST
by
speed_addiction
(Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
To: RatherBiased.com
Time to take them all down, they have become nothing more than the mouthpiece of anything or anyone that is Anti American. They are the Pravda's of Socialism.
They have Sold their Souls and broken the Bond of Trust that once existed between the MSM and the People. Their Treachery has been discovered and the People will turn their backs on them. We must establish other means of information or take over one of the Alphabet Networks.
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:26:22 PM PST
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26lemoncharlie
(Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum,Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum! per ómnia saecula saeculórum)
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:27:21 PM PST
by
G.Mason
(A war mongering, UN hating, military industrial complex loving, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
To: Happy2BMe
"I'd written a couple of pieces on the document earlier in the week," said Ernest Miller, a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School who writes a popular blog on Internet law (www.corante.com/importance). "Then I noticed that I couldn't copy and paste from the report as I did in days past."
With the help of Seth Finkelstein, a programmer and fellow blogger (sethf.com/infothought/blog/), Mr. Miller found that the document's encryption settings had been changed and, as a result, the text could not be copied. Anyone who downloaded the panel's report from either the CBS News servers or those of the law firm would have to retype any passages they wished to include in, say, an e-mail message or a blog post.
What a bunch of losers at SeeBS!!
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:27:34 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: BunnySlippers
Nyuk, nyuk, I knew it. Thank you, sir.
Curses! Foiled again!!
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posted on
01/17/2005 12:29:47 PM PST
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Polybius
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01/17/2005 12:38:53 PM PST
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afnamvet
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