September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: new directions
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14 Sep '00

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CDR: fun and games with SDMI
by Private User 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Linux users say SDMI contest a trick By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News Some Linux lovers say the record industry is using them as a free consulting service to improve SDMI encryption. Some members of the Linux community are rejecting the record industrys request to help it create a more secure technical lock on its digital music. The Linux Journal is sponsoring a boycott of the Secure Digital Music Initiative hacking challenge, which starts Friday and promises to pay $10,000 to any hacker who strips out the watermark from a digital song. SDMI is a technology initiative launched by the record companies to crack down on piracy. In the coming weeks, SDMI will try out a variety of security measures, with plans to eventually adopt a hacker-tested technology that will prevent people from playing bootleg songs on SDMI-compatible hardware. However, some Linux lovers say the record industry is only using the hackers as a "free consulting" service to help it crack down on legal uses of music in the future, in an attempt to exert unprecedented control over when and where people play songs. The Linux Journal is urging readers to sign a letter saying they wont play along. "Thanks, SDMI, but no thanks. I wont do your dirty work for you," the letter states. "I will not help test programs or devices that violate privacy or interfere with the right of fair use." People who sign the letter will agree that they will never make a bootleg copy of a recording, but will only play one copy at a time in different devices, an action thats legal under the concept of fair use, but may be hard to follow in these days of rampant digital file swapping. In a sense, the open sharing of information that has allowed the Linux community to mushroom is directly at odds with the motives of traditional entertainment companies, which want to lock down their content. PR stunt Ironically, the entertainment industry in the past has sued people whove tried to reverse engineer their encryption technology -- the same act SDMI is now asking them to perform during the hacking contest. Linux Journal technical editor Don Marti, one of the boycotts organizers, said the goal is to thwart what he called "SDMIs PR stunt." "Why are freedom-loving people supposed to do free consulting work for an organization that wants to take away our freedom?" he asked. SDMI officials were not immediately available for comment.

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CDR: MP3.com yanks DeCSS sourcecode sung
by Private User 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

MP3.com yanks song with illegal DVD-hacking code By Corey Grice Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 13, 2000, 7:25 p.m. PT Joseph Weckers song about a binary computer code wasnt exactly a chart-topper, but he doesnt think MP3.com should have banned it. The popular music Web site today removed the song, in which Wecker, sounding more than a little like a 1960s sit-in protester, sings a version of the banned computer code known as DeCSS. In an email to Wecker, MP3.com cited the nature of the music lyrics for the songs eradication. "Your song has either a song title or lyrics that are offensive or otherwise inappropriate," the company wrote. "Since there is a precedent holding (2600.com) culpable for posting the code, we felt it was in our best interest to remove it," an MP3.com spokesman said in an interview. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed lawsuits seeking to outlaw the code, calling it a hack of its DVD encryption scheme aimed at making and distributing illegal copies of digital films. A federal judge in New York last month agreed, banning hacker publication 2600.com from publishing or linking to the code online. The song, called DeCSS.MP3, offers an English-language rendition of computer code that, depending on whom you ask, is either a harmless exercise in experimental software engineering or a missile aimed at the heart of Hollywood. Either way, DeCSS has become a flash point in the head-on collision between digital technologies and copyright owners, much as Napster has for the music industry. The programmers who wrote the code insist DeCSS was designed to play legally purchased movie DVDs on computers running the Linux operating system--a format not supported by the movie industry. They say the code is a form of speech and is protected by the First Amendment--a claim many DeCSS supporters have rushed to validate by churning out artistic and other nonfunctioning works based on the DeCSS source code. Wecker said he sang the DeCSS code as a way to attract attention to the issue. "Its gone one step too far," Wecker said. "Its illegal to photocopy a copyrighted poem. But now its like it has become illegal to tell someone how the Xerox works." Other protesters have published portions of DeCSS on T-shirts and have recorded dramatic readings of the code. Some have used the code to create images in graphics files. Pro-DeCSS supporters say these demonstrations dont contain the full source code necessary to decode a DVD, a popular digital home movie format. "I find it very disturbing that I live in a country where singing source code may be technically illegal--kind of chilling," Wecker said. "My song is just like the T-shirts. The T-shirts dont even have enough code to decode a DVD." MP3.com, meanwhile, is wrestling with its own copyright troubles. A federal judge last week found that the company willfully infringed the copyrights of Universal Music Group in creating an online database of some 80,000 CDs for use with its My.MP3.com music locker service. The company could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

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by DePalma, Michele R. 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Do you know of any science articles that were written that were not accurate/correct? My daughter needs an article, etc. for a school project. Appreciate your help.

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CDR: Re: McVeigh, Freedom Fighter or Kook?
by No User 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Motyka quivered: >I enjoy the rhetorical device of visiting death and destruction on the >bad guys and clearly there is no shortage of politicians whose actual >passing out of this life -by unspecified means- would make the world a >safer, cleaner place but calling McVeigh a "freedom fighter" is off the >mark. 0 points for that one. What the fuck do you mean McVeigh isn't a freedom fighter? He's an American national hero, most certainly the greatest freedom fighter in the USA in recent memory! We need a McVeigh *everyday*! "If you want justice to grow, you've got to use a lot of fertilizer."

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CDR: Hey!!
by lauren32 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

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CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?
by Craig Brozefsky 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Jodi Hoffman <jlhoffm(a)attglobal.net> writes: > You are wrong to protect them without knowing what they're about, Jay. > Their motto is, "Sex before eight, or it's too late." They are > referring to grown men having sex with an under-eight year old little > boy. Surely you don't mean to suggest that a website promoting > intercourse with a little boy should be protected speech, do you? Having read over parts of the NAMBLA site months ago when the URL was floating around the office as a joke, I saw nothing of the sort Jodi is claiming. It was a very straightforward and well-written site that had no really racey content. It was quite pedestrian in nature, consisting mostly of discussions of anti-sex legislation, age of consent issues, and social stigmatization of homosexual relations between partners of different generations. It would be well below the pervert radar of most of the United States for sure, since in terms of sexual relations it was much less detailed and evocative than your common Sex Ed textbook. In fact, the raciest comments are those from boys who wrote in about their experiences, all between the age of 13-18, often having been involved in abusive relations prior to meeting what they call a "boy lover". If the words "Sex before eight, or it's too late" appear anywhere, it would certainly not be in the context of their motto, more likely a sarcastic comment, or a quote about what people like Jodi think they are. Jodi is talking out her ass here. I can't fathom the hatred she must have in order to make up something so ridiculous. Of course now Jodi and others going to put me in their dirty pedo file for daring to speak out in defense of NAMBLA. I'm not gay myself, but I remember the pain that several classmates in High School had to deal with when coming to terms with their sexuality and the way that society treated them. Isolated, villified, and often suicidal, is no way for a kid to grow up. Anyways, for those who want to confirm for yourself, check out: http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/04/11/www.nambla.org-1/ For a laugh, check out the hacked version: http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/04/11/www.nambla.org/ It's ironic that a site for archiving hacked websites is the first mirror of the NAMBLA site I find when doing a google search. I suggest that those who wanted to do mirroring of the site grab it from there ASAP.

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CDR: Só até ao fim de Setembro
by apoio＠giganetstore.com 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

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CDR: Why?
by Michael Motyka 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

>> ...calling McVeigh a "freedom fighter" is off the mark. 0 points for that one. > >Why? > Only accomplishments : a greal deal of pain for some plain folks a loss of legal ground that may never be recovered Altruism and patriotism were not factors I can't imagine what was Broken eggs, not one trace of an omelette Negative points I'd say. Oh well.

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CDR: (KMM16139539C0KM)
by Email Offer 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

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