Judge sides with Hollywood in DVD descrambling/DMCA case

2000-08-18 Thread Declan McCullagh
Decision is at: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08117.PDF Final judgment and order: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08118.PDF http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38287,00.html Studios Score DeCSS Victory by Declan

Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread petro
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: :If they truly believe in getting rid of guns, why don't they start with the :guns of their body guards? They [obviously] don't believe in "getting rid of guns": they believe in getting rid of OUR guns. I think there is nothing much

Re: europe physical meeting

2000-08-18 Thread Tom Vogt
Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote: Yip. Interested. Definitely interested. What happened to that meeting in munich ? Do you need any help organizing ? I didn't get any reply on what's up with the munich meeting, so I guess it was just a rumour. if anyone wants to help in the org, I'd be happy.

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2000-08-18 Thread myforums
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Re: MPAA Wins New York DeCSS Case

2000-08-18 Thread John Young
Kaplan's overt prejudice from day one surely diminished respect for federal justice. I had not seen such behavior before in New York. And when the prejudice was flaunted increasingly during trial it occurred to me that he was diabolically aiming to show just how biased the DMCA is toward the

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2000-08-18 Thread JulieSuzie
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Re: bombs

2000-08-18 Thread Anonymous
could you tell me where to buy any books on how to make pipe bombs A plea to the FBI Education Commission: Please do update provocateur procedures as far as electronic forums are concerned. You are insulting us and forcing us to lower already low regard for the institution you are associated

Re: trial panic?

2000-08-18 Thread Tom Vogt
Benjamin Huth Byer wrote: does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if they get the peak of their life. No, and nobody ever will. The MPAA tried to make an issue of this -- "surely DeCSS is making you popular!" The response was that 2600 keeps no logs and does

Investors Forecast.com Merges With ePredict.com!

2000-08-18 Thread epredict.com
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anything is speech - here is the proof

2000-08-18 Thread Tom Vogt
you'll find a small piece of software attached. from the README: the purpose of this program is to demonstrate that ANYTHING is speech, or can be expressed as speech. one of the wordlists supplied as examples is the US constitution. using dox, you can express decss, or cookie recipes, or kiddie

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2000-08-18 Thread Aladdin Systems
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Focus on the Fed's Monetary Policy

2000-08-18 Thread WSC-Analysis
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Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:42 PM -0700 on 8/17/00, Tim May trolled: Bob Hettinga, who used to practice this same kind of "why can't you write the kind of articles I _like_!" pressuring Oh. Pressuring. *That's* what it was... I stand corrected. ;-). Cheers, RAH Who agrees with Tim more often than he'd like to

trial panic?

2000-08-18 Thread tom
it seems the trial result will do the opposite of what the MPAA is hoping for, at least in the short term. if the MPAA truly believes, as judge kaplan put it, that decss is an epidemic spreading around the web, then the trial result gave it a giant boost. I'm running a high-profile DeCSS site,

Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread Tim May
I wrote a few minutes ago: fascist-units. About the only judge I know the name of, aside from the Supremes, is Judge Bader, because of Napster, the crypto speech case, and because I attended one of her sessions a few years ago. No, I have no plans to kill her. --end excerpt-- A brain fart.

Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread Tim May
At 12:39 PM -0400 8/18/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 9:42 PM -0700 on 8/17/00, Tim May trolled: Bob Hettinga, who used to practice this same kind of "why can't you write the kind of articles I _like_!" pressuring Oh. Pressuring. *That's* what it was... I stand corrected. ;-). To

Re: trial panic?

2000-08-18 Thread Benjamin Huth Byer
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if they get the peak of their life. No, and nobody ever will. The MPAA tried to make an issue of this -- "surely DeCSS is making you popular!" The response was that 2600 keeps