> D. McNab is compelled
> to move to Colorado, where he's made to do punitive labor putting
> "Keep this Bag Away From Small Children" onto plastic Piggly-Wiggly
> bags.
This is one thing that Rebirthing and Freenet have in common - they both
strive to restore power to the individual, and incur wrath of powers-that-be
along the way. Reaction to the Colorado incident is testament to the power
of the media. Why? Because the 'therapy' used was not even Rebirthing - it
was a bizarre form of psychodrama. Rebirthing encourages strong free
breathing, it doesn't stifle it. To call the Colorado incident Rebirthing is
like saying that Freenet is a joint project between RIAA, BSA, Doubleclick
and Radiate. But, thanks to inaccurate reporting, the state of Colorado has
made it an offense for anyone to recommend the use of Rebirthing, let alone
administer it.
It's chilling to contemplate the devastation that could be caused by an
orchestrated media campaign. Consider...
"Jail Inevitable for Freenet Child Porn Hacker"
REUTERS - Los Angeles, October 18:
Freenet activist Fred Bloggs admitted in court today that he could not rule
out the presence of child pornography on his hard disk, including images of
children as young as three being sexually molested and mutilated.
Counsel for the accused claimed that his client is oblivious to the nature
of the files in the Freenet datastore on his disk, since the files are
encrypted and he lacks the decryption keys. But on cross-examination by
prosecution, Bloggs was unable to prove that he had never possessed the
decryption keys.
But what stunned legal observers was the report of a technical analysis of
the accused's system. Software engineering consultants acting for the
prosecution installed the accused's computer into a small Local Area Network
(LAN), and installed the Freenet software with empty data stores on all the
other computers.
Upon typing a short character sequence into the other computers, the
consultants' computers downloaded 1800 megabytes of data from the accused's
system, then proceeded to show graphic movies, including one of a 5 year old
girl being brutally raped by several men. All members of the jury were
clearly horrified as these movies were played in court.
The consultants also reported that several hundred files had been deleted
from the accused's system in the days leading to the arrest, and that it was
clearly possible that these files, now overwritten, had contained decryption
keys necessary to provide the accused with full access to the datastore.
Counsel for the accused objected vehemently to this manoever, demanding that
these consultants reveal where they obtained the decryption keys. This
objection was however overruled, and struck from the trial transcript.
The jury is now in deliberation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mr.Bad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:21 PM
Subject: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-devl] JRE License
> B> Also, thanks for being paranoid about this.
>
> Hey, I'd rather take 24 hours to hash this out than have it bite us in
> the ass in a major way in the future. Why give Them a hook into us?
>
> Consider this (particularly stretched, mostly humorous, not
> particularly cogent) example for the super-paranoid: say that Sun
> joins in some Bertelsmann/Napster-style unholy alliance with some
> record company or movie cartel, maybe as settlement in a juicy lawsuit
> about JXTA or something.
>
> Part of the deal is that they sue the collective Freenet developers
> over niggling issues with the JRE license. They want $20 jillion
> dollars for lost revenue, pain and suffering, and medical bills for
> Scott McNealy's fingernails that he chewed down worrying about all
> those redistributed JRE 1.3 files.
>
> We can either fight a $20 jillion lawsuit in court, or accept a
> settlement in which we turn over all rights to Freenet to (say) the
> MPAA. Remember, settlements in a lawsuit don't have to have anything
> to do with the actual grievance in the suit. Other terms of the
> settlement are that Oskar and Scott have to foreswear beer for a year,
> Steve Hazel has to wear a T-shirt that says "NO PIR8TZ" with a circle
> and slash through it, MJR must do 1000 hours of community service with
> PIRG, and Peter Todd gets sent to reform school in the Yukon.
>
> In addition, Adam Langley is put in wrist and ankle shackles and
> paraded through the streets of London, pelted with rocks and garbage
> all the way by snaggle-toothed peasants. Don Marti (unwillingly linked
> in as a co-conspirator) is forced to use GIFs. D. McNab is compelled
> to move to Colorado, where he's made to do punitive labor putting
> "Keep this Bag Away From Small Children" onto plastic Piggly-Wiggly
> bags.
>
> Travis Bemann has to join Up With People and wear American flag
> underwear everywhere he goes. Ian gets dropped off the invite list for
> the Malibu party circuit, and Bill Gates and Chuck D both stop
> returning his calls. Sebastian is exiled to the northernmost reaches
> of Sweden indefinitely.
>
> Tavin Cole must install Linux One. You, Brandon, must publish an
> official picture of yourself, and put up flyers all over your
> neighborhood saying, "THIS MAN IS A FILE SHARER. KEEP HIM AWAY FROM
> YOUR CHILDREN," and consequently your SourceForge rating plummets. GJ
> is forbidden from Rudyard Kipling quotes for a year. Rob Cakebread
> must sign a statement saying that wxPython is patently silly, and is
> put into a work furlough program at the Del Amo mall food court.
>
> All of this pain and horror is totally avoidable by careful parsing of
> licenses for included software.
>
> ~Mr. Bad
>
> --
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> written by a madman in a drug induced rage" -- Ben Franklin
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