Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own an integer too!
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155
- d.
On 5/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own an integer too!
Let's join in the fun and ignore the fact that the issue had nothing to do with "ownership" of any number.
On 08/05/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own an integer too! http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155
Let's join in the fun and ignore the fact that the issue had nothing to do with "ownership" of any number.
Read the page. It did. [[Edward Felten]] has a fair bit of knowledge of this stuff from the sharp end.
- d.
On 5/8/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own an integer too!
Let's join in the fun and ignore the fact that the issue had nothing to do with "ownership" of any number.
Depends. The DMCA itself doesn't legislate ownership of a number. But there are an awful lot of people suggesting that it does exactly that - that any mention or distribution of a certain number, in any context whatsoever, without permission of the AACS LA, is illegal.
Anthony
David Gerard wrote:
Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own an integer too!
I think this is a perfect solution to our other problem. If each person uses their integer as their Wikipedia password, then a) we'll have a lot of cryptographically strong passwords, and b) we'll be able to sue anybody stealing passwords for violating the DMCA. It's just crazy enough to work, I tell you.
William
On 5/9/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
b) we'll be able to sue anybody stealing passwords for violating the DMCA. It's just crazy enough to work, I tell you.
No because the passwords will not be part of a DRM system.
On 5/8/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/9/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
b) we'll be able to sue anybody stealing passwords for violating the DMCA. It's just crazy enough to work, I tell you.
No because the passwords will not be part of a DRM system.
If they're an admin, then the password protects access to a copyrighted work, namely, the deleted articles.
On 5/9/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/8/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/9/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
b) we'll be able to sue anybody stealing passwords for violating the DMCA. It's just crazy enough to work, I tell you.
No because the passwords will not be part of a DRM system.
If they're an admin, then the password protects access to a copyrighted work, namely, the deleted articles.
They're deleted, but the editors still released their contributions under the GFDL.
We could hardly sue them for copying deleted copyvio though. I mean, we don't even have the rights to it. :)
--Michael Billington
On 5/8/07, Michael Billington michael.billington@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/9/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/8/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/9/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
b) we'll be able to sue anybody stealing passwords for violating the DMCA. It's just crazy enough to work, I tell you.
No because the passwords will not be part of a DRM system.
If they're an admin, then the password protects access to a copyrighted work, namely, the deleted articles.
They're deleted, but the editors still released their contributions under the GFDL.
Doesn't matter if they're released under the GFDL, they're still copyrighted, so they're still covered by the DMCA (at least until the GFDL specifically waives the power to forbid circumvention, like the GPLv3 is supposed to do).
We could hardly sue them for copying deleted copyvio though. I mean, we don't even have the rights to it. :)
The suit would be for circumventing a system which effectively controls access to a copyrighted work. The copyrighted works would be anything deleted, and anyone who has written such a work could initiate the suit. So, depends on who the "we" is. I've had articles deleted before. Don't know about you.
Anthony
On 5/9/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
If they're an admin, then the password protects access to a copyrighted work, namely, the deleted articles.
Yes but by that argument mediawiki itself is a DRM system and thus it is illegal to copy the source code. Somehow I can't see that holding up in court.
On 5/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own an integer too!
Now I own my very own integer. It's 503 as on "503 service unavailable".
Thanks a pantload slashdot.