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May 05, 2003
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UPDATED: LINKS FIXED, SOME SPELLING CORRECTED. no, really.
(i'm getting knocked off the net every 5 minutes. this is annoying and making for a dissjointed posting/editing experiance.
hairball's students get mention in a new york times article on the kitchen's of manana. the cookit cart.
the chicago tribune reports little looting at the baghdad museum. yup. they stole the toilets but not the art or antiquities. (irony alert)
lisa rein has thoughtfully put up multimedia links from the Kay presentation--click on the tour link. she includes text from Kay explaining late bound languages that even i understood.
another concise Kay bio. a less concise bio. the links to apple in this one are dead. apple has removed allmost all mention of Kay from their pages.
all the articles say the same thing: over one million sold. the apple store outsells mickey d's in one week.
the RIAA is moving ahead with it's plan to sabotage the computers of dile swappers, despite it being against the law. in illinois it's againt the very law the riaa lobbied for...
interview with streamcast ceo michael weiss. streamcast uses the gnutella open source p2p system.
UVMapper for texturing those wavefront file you have laying about.
Hp prepares "blade" desktops. a feeble attempt at dealing with windows admistration issues. a computer with out a real remote login that has access to all the admin tools is a toy. Sun's SunRay did this better, years ago, on the unix side. (disclaimer: Ben worked on the SunRay project, i'm biased, i had dreams of the library providing Sunray's, sun ray's in airports, etc.)
it's official: the war's not over. as jerry has said all along, "it's about the elections, stupid..."
is apple's profitability based on it's own investemnts?
RIAA spams p2p users. another interesting google exclusion. this was everywhere last week, but i can only get one article from google news now. i put the same search criteria into google's web search, got a link to the dissociated press, which finally got me the link i had read last week from the NY Times. i was looking for this quote:
"A spokeswoman for Sharman Networks, the distributor of KaZaA, said that the tactic violated the company's user agreement, which prohibits making search requests to accumulate information about individual users. Sharman, which is based in Vanuatu, a Pacific island nation, said in a statement, "We strenuously object to efforts outside the law, in violation of user agreements, or in violation of the privacy rights to indiscriminately spam, mislead or confuse" its users."
hmmm. looks like a job for a lawyer.
reading down the dissociated press press page, i found this slashdot story i missed, about the 1992 home recording act, with links to the law. i do not know if this was superceded by the DMCA in whole or part.
According to the AHRA:
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."
from slashdot:
From House Report No. 102-873(I), September 17, 1992:
"In the case of home taping, the [Section 1008] exemption protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings."
From House Report No. 102-780(I), August 4, 1992: "In short, the reported legislation [Section 1008] would clearly establish that consumers cannot be sued for making analog or digital audio copies for private noncommercial use."
Therefore, when you copy an MP3 the royalties have already been paid for with tax dollars in accordance with the law. If you are a musician whose recordings are publicly distributed, then you are entitled to your share of these royalties by filing a claim under Section 1006 (http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1006.html [cornell.edu]).
Napster tried to use this law to defend their case, and the court ruled this law did not apply to them because they are a commercial company. But as a consumer it seems to me you are perfectly within your rights when you make a copy for noncommercial private use.
the dp article goes on to ask what has the RIAA done with the money? and why why did the 4 swappers agree to terms?
Posted by parody at May 5, 2003 01:33 PM
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Finally, I get to beat up on the RIAA. If they go ahead with their sabotage plans, they could run into serious problems.
The Madonna trick is almost certainly legal (and, many would say, just desserts.) But disabling computers or networks is almost certainly beyond the pale.
I suspect their lawyers have told them this, and they don't really plan to do any of the more outrageous things, except on a very selective basis, to set an example (as they did with those students recently -- though they had little money, the RIAA insisted on payment plans to set an example.)
They're probably just threatening this to scare people off the file-sharing networks.
Anybody who went beyond fair use in their file-sharing (meaning, most users) would, if they sued RIAA for sabotage, face a counterclaim from RIAA for infringement, which is a substantial deterrent to bringing suit. But there are many innocents who will suffer from the sabotage, and RIAA would really have to put its balls on the block to take the risk of hurting innocents.
I suspect this is just more PR designed to move the public attitude toward recognizing the illegality of massive file-sharing.
Posted by: Jerry at May 5, 2003 02:01 PM
Happy Birthday Oakey
Posted by: Buffy at May 5, 2003 02:02 PM
Hey, today's Jim's Birthday? Happy day, Jim! (sorry, but I remember very few birthdays, and very few dates generally.)
So, you were born on Cinco de Mayo. It's also Bobby Sands' yarzheit. . . .
Posted by: Jerry at May 5, 2003 03:53 PM
Happy B-day, Oakey!
May your tree fall where conservatives lie
-Danny
Posted by: Me Too at May 5, 2003 05:16 PM
Ffej.org is moving to a different server until speakeasy.net is cutover. Wish us luck.
Posted by: Ben at May 6, 2003 02:10 AM
it's true. and i've been unable to post through the cell phone all night to put it on the main page. sorry about the inconvience.
Posted by: ffej at May 6, 2003 02:16 AM
They got it all wound up.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/19/ma_375_01.html
Thanks for the birthday wishes ffej danny and jer
Posted by: Oakey at May 7, 2003 08:41 PM