June 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: eBay: Burn DVD movies onto CD?
by David Honig 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

At 06:15 PM 6/21/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, David Honig wrote: > >> My argument, to any judges reading, is that its *not* circumvention if you've >> bought the damn thing, no matter how you decode it. >> >> If you paid for satellite TV but you build your own descrambler, its *not* >> illegal circumvention, even though your gizmo (legally) circumvents >> access controls. Get it? [Rhetorically; Riad is not the problem :-] >> >> Hint: its only illegal if its fraud. DeCSS has nothing to do with fraud. >> "cp" does. Actually, only humans do, "cp" is not a moral entity. > >Actually that won't hold up. There is a distinction that you are missing. > What is that distinction? >Do you legally purchase service from that cable vendor? If so then even >building your own cable descrambling box may be illegal if the contract >says so (you're depriving the cable company of contractual income, >fraud?). 1. yes, contract law always holds; however govt-backed (eminent-domain, spectral allocation) based monopolies should be as open as possible (cf ATT cable in SF) 2. no one has a 'right to income' only the terms of contracts The only(!!!) way that I can see building your own descrambler >and getting away with it is if you have no(!) connection to the vendor, >hence they have no claim to a 'loss' since you're not buying any service >in the first place. Generally a bit provider requires that you have some equiptment to make use of their bits, however you have no obligation to use their equiptment. Bit provider = ISP | DVD producer. Equiptment = cable modem | DVD-licensed player

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Matt - FBI Oversight by Bootlicking Senators?
by Matthew Gaylor 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

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More on the Hague Convention
by Jim Choate 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/06/22/162252.shtml James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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CIA can't keep up with commies....
by Jim Choate 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/19906.html James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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The ultimate limits on computers
by Jim Choate 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/01q2/limits/limits-1.html James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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Osama on video
by John Doe #2 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

How soon before this gets DivX'd & Gnutella'd? Will it play at Sundance? June 20, 2001 -- Osama bin Laden's terror network is circulating a chilling recruitment video in which he urges Islamic militants to join his holy war on the United States and Israel - and calls for "blood, blood and destruction, destruction." Bin Laden, wearing traditional Yemeni dres with a dagger, is shown on the 100-minute tape telling Muslims they must leave countries that are ruled by "allies of Jews and Christians."

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INTEGERS: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory
by Jim Choate 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

http://www.integers-ejcnt.org/ James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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ScienceDaily Magazine -- UCSD Chemists Develop Tiny Silicon Wires To Detect Trace Residues Of Explosives
by Jim Choate 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010604072746.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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ScienceDaily Magazine -- Researchers Find The "North Pole" Of The Molecular World
by Jim Choate 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010605075137.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Scientists Take Step Toward Single Molecule Switches
by Jim Choate 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0622011.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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