Posted on 05/01/2007 8:58:23 PM PDT by HAL9000
Our totally broken intellectual property system is melting down as we watch. Good riddance.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/480843632_9bde6adc20_o.jpg
Soon, they will be posting to get around any censor filters I betcha.
I agree and I make my living with intellectual property. My competitors freely copy my merchandise and I welcome their piracy. It pushes me to constantly come up with new, different, and more profitable ideas.
Aren't Democrats less friendly to that than Republicans? There could be a silver lining in the Congressional cloud.
Wow. Searching for “09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0” now generates 283,000 hits on Google. Up 13K in just a few minutes.
I’ve read that there are already a whole gaggle of HD DVD torrents available
You said — “Oh Nine, Eff Nine”
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Cool..., that reminded me of the “pi song” — for whatever it’s worth. I think it could be a hit song.. LOL...
I really kinda like it...
He really doesn’t have anything more than the salary he is getting from Digg/Revision 3. The company is still in the “burn VC money” mode. The $60 million is from a BS Businessweek story from a few months ago.
It figured that Digg could be sold for $240 million, so Rose would see $60 million for his 25%.
Both parties have been involved in DRM legislation - Hatch, Tauzin, Dingell, Feinstein, Hollings, etc.
Well that certainly changes things.
That is QUITE unfortunate for Mr. Rose.
Better luck next time...
You said — This isnt even a hunk of programming that offers functionality, like decss was ruled to be. I wouldnt be able to decode a DVD without also writing a program that uses this infamous code, and wouldnt that part be protected by patent?”
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See Post #15 —
Proof of concept code for the process key hack is here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=953484#post953484
Implementation for Windows: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=953496#post953496
Implementation for OSX: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=953516#post953516
Actually it reminds me more of the movie "Z" from 1969. It's all about the military dictatorship in Greece. At the end of the movie the narrator says:
Concurrently, the military banned long hair on males; mini-skirts; Sophocles; Tolstoy; Euripedes; smashing glasses after drinking toasts; labor strikes; Aristophanes; Ionesco; Sartre; Albee; Pinter; freedom of the press; sociology; Beckett; Dostoyevsky; modern music; popular music; the new mathematics; and the letter "Z", which in ancient Greek means "He is alive!"Back then we were all appalled that a letter could be banned. Now in 2007, we have a number being banned.
You said — “Back then we were all appalled that a letter could be banned. Now in 2007, we have a number being banned.”
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Never did see that, but, yes, it is appalling... The system is crazy. They should have never passed that DCMA...
"Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann
lol
well the doom9 folks sure musta dug(g) in. their stuff sure ain’t gone.
Every intellectual property lawyer in Hollywood is racing to to the office right now. Meanwhile, the owners of doom9 are frantically buying Krugerrands and booking tickets to South America under assumed names even as we speak.
Well this cow done left the barn and had about a million calves.
In the tech wars, I can’t see any way around this than to decode it all from digital to analog in a trusted dongle, encased in some impervious material that would require the resources of a CIA to bust into without destroying the electronics. Most of the revenue would come from selling the dongles.
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