Posts tagged “copyright”

The DVD industry's CSS encryption failed because they had to give users the tools to decrypt it. Airline security has the same flaw: publishing the rules tells attackers exactly what to work around. Security theater with a known ruleset is just a temporary inconvenience for a determined adversary.

Aaron Swartz, self-important boy-genius that he is, does occasionally have clever things to say....Jul 31, 2003

Compulsory licensing for free music downloads sounds appealing but doesn't work. The real fix is making buying music easier than stealing it. Right now, stealing wins on convenience. I'd pay per song for guaranteed quality, but not RIAA prices -- they're a useless middleman ripping everyone off.

(Cross-posted to Gay Geeks) A few words on the ongoing SCO versus IBM situation, rapidly...Jun 11, 2003

SCO is picking a fight it can't win by threatening IBM's AIX license. But the real issue is bigger: overzealous copyright and patent claims are strangling innovation. Copyrighting UNIX now is like copyrighting "car" in 1950. The system is broken, and it's killing the internet.

The RIAA is planning an offensive against the new crop of file-sharing services, including a PR...Oct 3, 2001

The RIAA is planning PR campaigns and "spoofing or interdiction" against file-sharing services. That's industrial sabotage, which is illegal, but these are the same folks deliberately breaking CDs to prevent copying, so I guess the law is optional for them.