Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 2 May 2011 @ 1:49pm
Re: Re: Re: Hypothetical.....
of course this will probably mean pirates will be releasing high quality versions of new movies in about, ohh, 10 and a 1/2 days from theatrical debut. Which will be a big jump from either the shitty day 1 cams or the multiple month weight till a screener leaks. So they will probably stick to blaming the pirates.
There's usually decent quality digital rips (not cams) a day or two after release for many movies. Much distribution is done digitally now, without needing to ship film rolls around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema
It just takes one guy making $8 an hour at the theater flipping switches and making sure the projector works to get a good capture or straight up copy it.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 2 May 2011 @ 1:28pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Silvers says that you can't only assign the right to sue. Here, Righthaven was assigned all of the copyrights as well. Righthaven then granted an exclusive license to Stephens Media.
So, again, we have the situation where caselaw says you can't do X. So Stephens does Y, and Righthaven does Z. Y + Z = X.
Let's try something else. Since Righthaven is the owner, then I'm sure they would have no difficulty whatsoever in showing specific and explicit proof of where Righthaven has suffered economic loss. They could show where they tried to license the work and no one would buy... wait, Stephens has all the exclusive licenses. They could show where their attempts to exploit the work went poorly... wait, they don't exploit it, Stephens does.
And that leads us to...
Look at the entire Stategic Alliance Agreement and the individual assignments. They specifically say that Righthaven gets ownership of the copyrights.
Just because something is written on pretty paper with fancy letters doesn't change what is true. I imagine that's kinda scary to a lawyer. Tough. All the contracts that Righthaven and Stephens Media can dream up won't help them if they are founded on a fraud. Stephens is the real owner of the (worthless) rights, not Righthaven.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 2 May 2011 @ 9:14am
Re: Re: Re: Re:
It's like if you lease a house. Your lessor still owns the house even though you've leased it.
Wrong.
It is not like that at all.
This is like if I owned a house, went and found some lawyer, and wrote on a napkin that he owns the house. But in order to give him the napkin, I can live in it for free, do whatever I want with it, and can take back the napkin whenever I want. But the lawyer can go and sue anyone who takes a picture of the house (if I don't disagree) and anything he gets out of them I get half.
Actually, bad analogy. A napkin has some worth, if minimal. I can wipe my hands off after lunch with a napkin. "IP rights" aren't even good for wiping your ass.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 29 Apr 2011 @ 1:12pm
Re: Nice try at spin, but...
Sorry, but it looks like Mr. Nosal tried to be 'cute' before left a gig for a new gig, and got caught. Instead of taking a physical prototype or confidential rolodex, he tried to take a "virtual" version.
Mike was very clear in saying that he likely had civil or contractual issues. The question is whether he deserves a federal felony charge under the CFAA for something which was not hacking.
Don't federal prosecutors have better things to do than put a guy in jail for taking information (which he has legitimate access to) with him when he leaves a job?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 29 Apr 2011 @ 10:57am
Re: Re: Re:
When you understand that pirates are mostly underserved markets, you'll realize that you tried to be sarcastic and failed because you wrote something that was true.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 29 Apr 2011 @ 7:21am
Re: don't rely on others
Drive all traffic to your own website that you have more control over.
And your website is hosted where? A hosting company. Even if you own your own servers, traffic is still going to their data center.
So... build your own data center? Still need an ISP.
Your own ISP? Well, your domain will still be under control of one of the top-level providers like Verisign. And no-one would ever try to shut down and seize an entire domain... oh, wait.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 28 Apr 2011 @ 9:10am
Re: Re:
They're not tracking the fact that you were at Joe's Bar at 123 Main Street in Memphis at Monday at 9pm. However, your phone knows that it was probably within a hundred meters of Joe's Bar at 123 Main Street in Memphis at Monday at 9pm.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 28 Apr 2011 @ 8:53am
Re: Re:
Never played WOW, never will. But have played other MMOs (no, I don't buy gold). I'm sure the tactics are the same regardless of game, though.
I don't see how the can crack (not hack) your account, unless you give them your credentials, either willingly or unliwingly (phishing). Or maybe you have a weak password?
Have the user create an account on the gold farming website, let them create their own account name and password, make them provide email, and their character name. Many will use the same account/password as their game account.
Also, I don't see how they can deploy malware into your PC through the game.
Don't need to deploy through the game - use any of the dozens of browser exploits on the gold farming website. Or put an add-on to the game client on one of the popular sites.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 28 Apr 2011 @ 7:56am
Re: Passwords should be stored as a one way hash
There should be no way to decrypt a password. It should be done as a one way hash.
There is no possible way to store a password that cannot be compromised in one way or another.
Hashes are not strictly one-way. It is computationally expensive one way. If you know the hash method, its trivially easy to create a rainbow table (just takes a one-time investment of CPU time). Rainbow tables are available for all common hash methods for passwords at least up to 12 characters last I looked.
Salt it, you say? Ok, but in order for the password to actually remain useful, your authentication systems will need to have that salt value stored so it can compare the stored password with what you're using to login, and that salt value can be compromised. That takes us right back to creating your own rainbow table for the hash method and salt value.
That's not to say that Sony shouldn't have stored them in plaintext. Just don't be under the impression that just because your password is hashed means it is safe.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 26 Apr 2011 @ 11:26am
Re: Re: Re:
So yes, if I upload copyrightinfringingfile.rar and someone else has already uploaded it, I know I'm not the first one. But I can't do ANYTHING with that knowledge.
Well...
The lawyers can. Download popularinfringingmovie.avi via torrent. Upload to account on Dropbox. If it uploads instantly, at least one other person already uploaded it. Subpoena Dropbox to provide info on all users with access to it. Sue and profit.
(Public Service Announcement: Encrypt your files before uploading them to the cloud.)
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 25 Apr 2011 @ 2:34pm
Re:
Oooo. Figured it out. There is a reason.
They need server space and domains. This will allow them to actually put the content they "own" out there on the Internet so they can show the judges that they're not just a sham lawsuit mill.
Since they're lawyers, the only way they know how to acquire things is to sue someone else for them.
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Re: Re: Re: Freedom of Speech
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110104/02392412508/fakecelebrity-twitterers-bloggers-may -face-jail-california.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091123/0139267047.shtml (arrested for not sending out a tweet)
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100521/0421119524.shtml
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Re: Price point seems to be a sticking point
The threat is the poor theater experience you described.
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Re: Re: Re: Hypothetical.....
There's usually decent quality digital rips (not cams) a day or two after release for many movies. Much distribution is done digitally now, without needing to ship film rolls around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema
It just takes one guy making $8 an hour at the theater flipping switches and making sure the projector works to get a good capture or straight up copy it.
On the post: Unsealed Righthaven Agreement Has Other Judges Questioning Legitimacy Of Righthaven's Lawsuits
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
So, again, we have the situation where caselaw says you can't do X. So Stephens does Y, and Righthaven does Z. Y + Z = X.
Let's try something else. Since Righthaven is the owner, then I'm sure they would have no difficulty whatsoever in showing specific and explicit proof of where Righthaven has suffered economic loss. They could show where they tried to license the work and no one would buy... wait, Stephens has all the exclusive licenses. They could show where their attempts to exploit the work went poorly... wait, they don't exploit it, Stephens does.
And that leads us to...
Look at the entire Stategic Alliance Agreement and the individual assignments. They specifically say that Righthaven gets ownership of the copyrights.
Just because something is written on pretty paper with fancy letters doesn't change what is true. I imagine that's kinda scary to a lawyer. Tough. All the contracts that Righthaven and Stephens Media can dream up won't help them if they are founded on a fraud. Stephens is the real owner of the (worthless) rights, not Righthaven.
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Re: Re:
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Re: Re: My new talking point
On the post: Unsealed Righthaven Agreement Has Other Judges Questioning Legitimacy Of Righthaven's Lawsuits
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Wrong.
It is not like that at all.
This is like if I owned a house, went and found some lawyer, and wrote on a napkin that he owns the house. But in order to give him the napkin, I can live in it for free, do whatever I want with it, and can take back the napkin whenever I want. But the lawyer can go and sue anyone who takes a picture of the house (if I don't disagree) and anything he gets out of them I get half.
Actually, bad analogy. A napkin has some worth, if minimal. I can wipe my hands off after lunch with a napkin. "IP rights" aren't even good for wiping your ass.
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Re: Nice try at spin, but...
Mike was very clear in saying that he likely had civil or contractual issues. The question is whether he deserves a federal felony charge under the CFAA for something which was not hacking.
Don't federal prosecutors have better things to do than put a guy in jail for taking information (which he has legitimate access to) with him when he leaves a job?
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Re: Re: Re:
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Re: Congress shall make no law...
Lawmaking authority is not granted to the executive branch in the executive powers section of the Constitution.
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Re: don't rely on others
And your website is hosted where? A hosting company. Even if you own your own servers, traffic is still going to their data center.
So... build your own data center? Still need an ISP.
Your own ISP? Well, your domain will still be under control of one of the top-level providers like Verisign. And no-one would ever try to shut down and seize an entire domain... oh, wait.
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Re: Re:
Fixed. Learn how cell tower triangulation works.
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Re: Re:
I don't see how the can crack (not hack) your account, unless you give them your credentials, either willingly or unliwingly (phishing). Or maybe you have a weak password?
Have the user create an account on the gold farming website, let them create their own account name and password, make them provide email, and their character name. Many will use the same account/password as their game account.
Also, I don't see how they can deploy malware into your PC through the game.
Don't need to deploy through the game - use any of the dozens of browser exploits on the gold farming website. Or put an add-on to the game client on one of the popular sites.
On the post: Lawsuits And Laws On The Way In Response To Sony Data Breach
Re: Passwords should be stored as a one way hash
There is no possible way to store a password that cannot be compromised in one way or another.
Hashes are not strictly one-way. It is computationally expensive one way. If you know the hash method, its trivially easy to create a rainbow table (just takes a one-time investment of CPU time). Rainbow tables are available for all common hash methods for passwords at least up to 12 characters last I looked.
Salt it, you say? Ok, but in order for the password to actually remain useful, your authentication systems will need to have that salt value stored so it can compare the stored password with what you're using to login, and that salt value can be compromised. That takes us right back to creating your own rainbow table for the hash method and salt value.
That's not to say that Sony shouldn't have stored them in plaintext. Just don't be under the impression that just because your password is hashed means it is safe.
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Re:
-The cocaine habit of some mid level executive at a record label is not a worthwhile cause.
On the post: Dropbox Tries To Kill Off Open Source Project With DMCA Takedown
Re: Re: Re:
Well...
The lawyers can. Download popularinfringingmovie.avi via torrent. Upload to account on Dropbox. If it uploads instantly, at least one other person already uploaded it. Subpoena Dropbox to provide info on all users with access to it. Sue and profit.
(Public Service Announcement: Encrypt your files before uploading them to the cloud.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
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Re: At leat nobody was...*puts on sunglasses*... ICEd
On the post: Righthaven Demands Servers Of Website Sued, Even After Court Rejects Demands For Domain
Re:
They need server space and domains. This will allow them to actually put the content they "own" out there on the Internet so they can show the judges that they're not just a sham lawsuit mill.
Since they're lawyers, the only way they know how to acquire things is to sue someone else for them.
On the post: Righthaven Demands Servers Of Website Sued, Even After Court Rejects Demands For Domain
Hosting provider?
How can they sue for something the defendant most likely doesn't even own?
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