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DRM as a Smart Contract
by Anonymous 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

Nick Szabo created the idea of Smart Contracts several years ago. http://www.best.com/~szabo. These would be self-enforcing agreements that were based on technology rather than laws. It all sounded cool at the time. But isn't DRM a form of Smart Contract? If I need a special viewer to download some content, and that viewer enforces the terms of the contract which allows me to do the download, that enforcement happens without any laws. It is all handled by the technology. It's a Smart Contract. It's interesting how ideas can sound good until you realize that they won't let you take other people's creative output without their consent. Maybe it's time for cypherpunks to put principle over greed.

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Slashdot | EFF And MPAA On Broadcast Flags (HDTV & program reuse)
by Jim Choate 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/07/07/2014201.shtml?tid=129 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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begrippenlijst 2002 recht
by coole_zegt_hallo 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

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Windows Internet security tools
by Ng Pheng Siong 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

Hi, I reckon this is a good crowd to ask this of. I'm helping a Win98-using friend acquire some Internet usage security. I think he needs at least the following: 1. An anti-virus package. (Google reports a free-for-personal-use one at www.free-av.com.) 2. PGP, www.pgpi.org. My friend uses Eudora. What is a good Eudora PGP shell? (I use GPG. I'm assuming GPG interoperates with, say, PGP 7.) 3. A disk/file encryption tool. Any to recommend? (Free for personal use preferred.) 4. One of those personal firewall/anti-snoopware thingy? 5. Anything else? TIA. Cheers. (Please cc replies. I'm not subscribed to the list.) -- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps(a)netmemetic.com> * http://www.netmemetic.com

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Slashdot | Commerce Dep't to Hold Public Workshop on DRM
by Jim Choate 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/07/07/0522219.shtml?tid=172 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Artists
by Marcel Popescu 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

Regarding our recent thread on copyrights and artists who won't create anymore if they're not getting paid, has anyone ever played with the WinAmp plug-ins? Some of them are amazingly beautiful. Now, are they upset that people copy them? On the contrary - some of them are accused of creating bogus accounts to boost the reputation of their plug-ins, or lower that of their best competitors. So much for "we won't create if we aren't paid" - and, again, I'm not talking Britney Spears or Picasso here, I'm talking beauty. Mark

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"First, get it built into all CPU chips...only _then_ make it mandatory."
by Gary Jeffers 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

My fellow Cypherpunks, Tim May writes: >Then, perhaps after some major war or terror incident or other trigger, >major OSes will require the TCPA/DRM features to be running at all >times. Sure, maybe some little Perl or Java program Joe Sixpack writes >won't need it, but anything not on the margins will require it. This then brings up the question of Open Source operating systems like the (GNU) Linux distributions and the BSD operating systems. Is the TCPA/DRM feature code to be published or censored out? For the source code, will the censored code be a binary file? This could be a mess. I believe that there was a discussion of US mandated Malice code in Open Source operating systems on the Cypherpunks list recently, but I couldn't find it with a Google search. Anybody got a Cypherpunk Hyperarchive link? If the above happens, it would keep the coding anarchists busy for years :-) Recompiling your operating system with an outlaw file included would be an anarchic and patriotic act. It could also knock down Microsoft market share. I suspect the the US solution would be hardware. All new hardware would be maliced and old hardware would become obsolete. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers Beat State!!!

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Slashdot | Rental Car Companies Watching By Satellite, Again
by Jim Choate 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/07/007254.shtml?tid=158 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | MS Palladium Patent (Cryptome)
by Jim Choate 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/07/133222.shtml?tid=109 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Do You Want to be a Millionaire?
by Home Biz Forum 06 Jul '02

06 Jul '02

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