Re: Re: "Here's all the relevant files." "There's nothing there." "Exactly."
The problem even with this is it would be trivially simple for Amazon to turn on "always recording" via a simple soft/firmware update.
So if the authorities wish to eavesdrop on someone, then they might be able to use existing powers (e.g. NSLs, or in UK RIP) to force the company to enable that on targeted devices.
And that isn't even considering hacking (from blackhats to NSA/CIA/FBI) to enable that functionality, bypassing the manufacturers entirely.
It would not surprise me if Denuvo was licensed on a per-copy sold with Denuvo basis (or some other similar unit-time basis). So at some point the $-cost-per-unit vs $-lost-per-pirated copy (if u believe in piracy as lost sales - which their financial departments usually do) is no longer worth it.
Therefore the developers will stop shipping new copies of the software with Denuvo and 'patch up' extant copies to the same level so they don't have to support different editions.
That is some truly impressive mental gymnastics there, it's a pity unlike normal gymnastics there isn't an olympic event for it, I really think you'd have a shot with the skill you've displayed here in trying to lay the blame on anyone but the ones who deserve it.
I suspect the Olympic committee knows they couldn't compete with the US Presidential elections in that particular event.
If the game developer can prove that the game has been hacked within x time of release while also proving a correct setup of the DRM, it could be something a DRM-manufacturer would promise or something an AAA-studios lawyers would specify after the DRM-producer oversells its product.
Maybe the game devs are cracking it themselves?
I can see it now, 1 week before the 3-month deadline is up, they release the crack themselves into the wild so they get their money back while still having had DRM on their game in the critical 'box-office' initial 3-months.
On the falsehood hood, I'm torn (without referring to a dictionary - too easy), but I'll accept that a "falsehood" is stating something that's false, and can be whether you know it or not, whereas a lie is always knowingly stating a falsehood. But, tbh that's not how I'd use it, to me, both the phrases "stating a falsehood" and "lieing" are synonyms, mean the same thing.
For example, if I lend a box full of sheets to a friend, and that friend returns the box, but with a little extra, say a kilogram of coke in it, but I don't open the box, I just take it back and stick it in my hallway cupboard, in common vernacular someone might say I was in possession of a kg of coke. And, if I said I was not in possession of the coke, under your reasoning I'd have stated a falsehood.
However, under the law, since I wasn't aware of the coke in the box, then legally I would not be in possession of the coke, for purposes of charges relating to "being in possession of". Therefore it would not be a falsehood, or lie, to say I wasn't in possession.
However, in the second case, I cannot agree.
A criminal is someone who has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law.
If you are charged with homicide, and the jury verdict is not guilty (e.g. self-defense), then you have not committed a crime. And, by definition, you have not committed an illegal act.
If you have justification for breaching the letter of the law (killing someone, but it was self-defense) then you have not committed an illegal act.
It is up to the courts to determine the illegality, or not, of an act, not the police or the DA's office. They arrest and prosecute someone on suspicion of committing an illegal act, but the courts are the ones who decide whether you have or have-not committed the illegal act. And if they do not convict (not guilty, not proven, hung jury, mistrial, whatever the phrasing used that isn't "guilty"), then you have not committed a criminal act, therefore you have not committed a crime.
Doesn't that have the possibility of then putting the US in contravention of some treaties, like, e.g. the Berne Convention?
Tho, admittedly, what the rest of the world could do about that is pretty limited when any complaint could be met with "come over here and say that", with "over here" being right next to my Carrier Group task force (or two, or three - which would exceed the air forces of all except the largest half-dozen or so air forces)...
Snowden had no background in intelligence and is likely unaware of the significance of the documents he stole.
Then how the hell did he get a job at the NSA???
As an IT Administrator, you don't need to know anything more than "this data over here is unclassified, so doesn't need much security around it, and this data over here is of the "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you" variety, therefore needs maximum security around it"
It's like expecting the building maintenance who supply or re-arrange the desks to know the significance of specific intelligence documents.
Like those bigoted sociological ideals did not exist until Obama created them ... right.
No, he didn't create them.
But in 8 years as the most powerful man on Earth, let alone just the US, he hasn't done much, if anything, to reduce them. Some may even argue it's worse now than when he became president. That's not much of a legacy, especially as the first black man, a member of one of those races must subjected to bigotry, to become President, and to have done little if nothing to reverse that.
it's with the brain-dead way something noncommercial was taken down.
I'd phrase it as "non-infringing" rather than non-commercial. Something can be both commercial and non-infringing, e.g.:
when we compare our product, the super-gee-whiz hamburger-orgasm, with our main competitor's product, McDonald's(tm) Big Mac(tm), we think our product is better.
However, not to be pedantic (which means I am about to be) , and IANAL, but it is not, and cannot be, a DMCA letter, for several reasons:
1) Redbubble is not the owner or legal representative of the copyright holder, therefore they cannot submit a DMCA notice;
2) Redbubble is an Australian Company, whereas the DMCA is a United States law. So, since Redbubble is the issuer of the 'notice' to itself basically, it can't be a DMCA notice because US law does not apply (that is not to say a US entity couldn't submit a DMCA notice to Redbubble - in which case Redbubble is under no legal obligation to comply, or that Redbubble couldn't submit a DMCA notice of it's own copyrighted content to a US-based hosting service, because in either if these cases one party is subject to US law, but in this case neither party is subject to US law, therefore it can't be a DMCA notice).
There may be others, but I'm pretty sure any claim by Redbubble that this is a DMCA notice would be some sort of fraud.
not all falsehoods are lies and not all illegal acts are crimes.
It could just be an issue of semantics, e.g. using casual 'pub talk' definitions of words and concepts vs strict dictionary definitions vs profession-specific (e.g. legal dictionary vs English dictionary), but could you expand on what you mean by that? AFAIK, a falsehood is a lie, and illegal acts are crimes.
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Re: Re: "Here's all the relevant files." "There's nothing there." "Exactly."
So if the authorities wish to eavesdrop on someone, then they might be able to use existing powers (e.g. NSLs, or in UK RIP) to force the company to enable that on targeted devices.
And that isn't even considering hacking (from blackhats to NSA/CIA/FBI) to enable that functionality, bypassing the manufacturers entirely.
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Re:
Therefore the developers will stop shipping new copies of the software with Denuvo and 'patch up' extant copies to the same level so they don't have to support different editions.
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Hopefully the climax of this situation was mutually satisfactory to all involved.
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Re: Jack off metadata??
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Re: Re:
I suspect the Olympic committee knows they couldn't compete with the US Presidential elections in that particular event.
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James Clapper's Orifice To Finally Reveal NSA's 'Incidental Collection' Numbers
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Re: Re: Re:
Maybe the game devs are cracking it themselves?
I can see it now, 1 week before the 3-month deadline is up, they release the crack themselves into the wild so they get their money back while still having had DRM on their game in the critical 'box-office' initial 3-months.
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hahahahaha
I'd suggest it confirms the lack of integrity generally in the profession.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Cautiously Optimistic
OK, it is a semantics thing.
On the falsehood hood, I'm torn (without referring to a dictionary - too easy), but I'll accept that a "falsehood" is stating something that's false, and can be whether you know it or not, whereas a lie is always knowingly stating a falsehood. But, tbh that's not how I'd use it, to me, both the phrases "stating a falsehood" and "lieing" are synonyms, mean the same thing.
For example, if I lend a box full of sheets to a friend, and that friend returns the box, but with a little extra, say a kilogram of coke in it, but I don't open the box, I just take it back and stick it in my hallway cupboard, in common vernacular someone might say I was in possession of a kg of coke. And, if I said I was not in possession of the coke, under your reasoning I'd have stated a falsehood.
However, under the law, since I wasn't aware of the coke in the box, then legally I would not be in possession of the coke, for purposes of charges relating to "being in possession of". Therefore it would not be a falsehood, or lie, to say I wasn't in possession.
However, in the second case, I cannot agree.
A criminal is someone who has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law.
If you are charged with homicide, and the jury verdict is not guilty (e.g. self-defense), then you have not committed a crime. And, by definition, you have not committed an illegal act.
If you have justification for breaching the letter of the law (killing someone, but it was self-defense) then you have not committed an illegal act.
It is up to the courts to determine the illegality, or not, of an act, not the police or the DA's office. They arrest and prosecute someone on suspicion of committing an illegal act, but the courts are the ones who decide whether you have or have-not committed the illegal act. And if they do not convict (not guilty, not proven, hung jury, mistrial, whatever the phrasing used that isn't "guilty"), then you have not committed a criminal act, therefore you have not committed a crime.
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Re: Re: "Guaranteed in the Constitution"
Doesn't that have the possibility of then putting the US in contravention of some treaties, like, e.g. the Berne Convention?
Tho, admittedly, what the rest of the world could do about that is pretty limited when any complaint could be met with "come over here and say that", with "over here" being right next to my Carrier Group task force (or two, or three - which would exceed the air forces of all except the largest half-dozen or so air forces)...
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Re: Re:
And something else to add (damn no 10-minute edit window a'la The Register):
Snowden did not get a job at the NSA.
He was a contractor providing specific services (IT) to the NSA.
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Re:
As an IT Administrator, you don't need to know anything more than "this data over here is unclassified, so doesn't need much security around it, and this data over here is of the "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you" variety, therefore needs maximum security around it"
It's like expecting the building maintenance who supply or re-arrange the desks to know the significance of specific intelligence documents.
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Re: Re: Obama loves war
No, he didn't create them.
But in 8 years as the most powerful man on Earth, let alone just the US, he hasn't done much, if anything, to reduce them. Some may even argue it's worse now than when he became president. That's not much of a legacy, especially as the first black man, a member of one of those races must subjected to bigotry, to become President, and to have done little if nothing to reverse that.
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Re: clapper: n. - one who produces or transmits...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: "Act now, for a limited time only you can get one Safety for the low price of one Freedom!"
AC said:
Therefore there wouldn't be an "own land" left either ;)
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Re: Re:
I'd phrase it as "non-infringing" rather than non-commercial. Something can be both commercial and non-infringing, e.g.:
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Re: Here is the DCMA Letter (in full)
Thanks for posting the letter in full.
However, not to be pedantic (which means I am about to be) , and IANAL, but it is not, and cannot be, a DMCA letter, for several reasons:
1) Redbubble is not the owner or legal representative of the copyright holder, therefore they cannot submit a DMCA notice;
2) Redbubble is an Australian Company, whereas the DMCA is a United States law. So, since Redbubble is the issuer of the 'notice' to itself basically, it can't be a DMCA notice because US law does not apply (that is not to say a US entity couldn't submit a DMCA notice to Redbubble - in which case Redbubble is under no legal obligation to comply, or that Redbubble couldn't submit a DMCA notice of it's own copyrighted content to a US-based hosting service, because in either if these cases one party is subject to US law, but in this case neither party is subject to US law, therefore it can't be a DMCA notice).
There may be others, but I'm pretty sure any claim by Redbubble that this is a DMCA notice would be some sort of fraud.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Cautiously Optimistic
It could just be an issue of semantics, e.g. using casual 'pub talk' definitions of words and concepts vs strict dictionary definitions vs profession-specific (e.g. legal dictionary vs English dictionary), but could you expand on what you mean by that? AFAIK, a falsehood is a lie, and illegal acts are crimes.
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Therefore it's better to keep Wang under control and not let it go prancing around inserting itself where ever it wants.
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Re: "Guaranteed in the Constitution"
Sounds like a plan.
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