Hollywood Preaches Anti-Piracy to Schools
Thu Oct 23, 3:09 PM ET
By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - As part of its campaign to thwart online music and
movie piracy, Hollywood is now reaching into school classrooms with a
program that denounces file-sharing and offers
For some updated news about NGSCB, aka Palladium, go to the Microsoft
NGSCB newsgroup page at
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=ngscbslcid=us.
This might be a good forum for cypherpunks to ask questions about
Palladium.
There was a particularly informative posting by
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On Friday 24 October 2003 10:14, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:43:22PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
TM: the last two paragraphs were of course added by me. But the point
is still valid, that much of Hollywood's claims about illegal
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Cute, but actually putting George Orwell on the ticket
would actually be a very nice counterbalance to Ashcroft,
etal (or course, he's dead, and
At 07:43 AM 10/24/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
The problem with the central premise, of course, is that without some
Big
(Brother) Central Server, there's just no way to track simultaneous
usage, so
there's no way to assure that the number of
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license at a time. That is what a library is.
An
At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license at a
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 00:43, Morlock Elloi wrote:
There are precedents. In Franko's Spain, all typewriters had to be registered
with the state, and all had serial numbers. It was illegal and punishable to
possess one without license.
What does that have to do with anything? We're talking about
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:14:03PM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Major Variola writes:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:14 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:43:22PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
TM: the last two paragraphs were of course added by me. But the point
is still valid, that much of Hollywood's claims about illegal
listening are not really any different from
I predict we'll soon be seeing a new thought control campaign with this
theme, that if you use encryption, you help the terrorists win.
Similar to the heavy advertising (paid for by Big Brother, and hence by
money stolen from taxpayers) with the theme that lighting up a doobie
helps Osama,
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 02:04 PM, BillyGOTO wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:14:03PM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Major Variola writes:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:43:22PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
TM: the last two paragraphs were of course added by me. But the point
is still valid, that much of Hollywood's claims about illegal
listening are not really any different from reading without buying
books and magazines in libraries. The
Steve Schear writes:
Why not have each individual's PC which offered to lend do the
accounting. This means their PC must be on-line whenever someone who
didn't pay wants to listen, limiting the number of copies available, but it
could be fully decentralized.
You'd have to piggyback this
At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Someone else must have thought up this idea, but I don't recall seeing
it. Please inform me nicely if you have seen it proposed before.
This sounds a lot like the SunnComm DRM system that got so much publicity
recently. (the one that
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:46, Steve Schear wrote:
Why couldn't this be applied on-line to music. Under current fair use
provisions readers and listeners who have purchased a work are allowed to
lend it out freely. Surely the number of people who want to read or listen
to a work are much
Major Variola writes:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that
I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license
at a time. That
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