Ah, good point. I'll need someone at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to immediately seize the RIAA.com and MPAA.org domain names as well as all affiliated domains from other TLDs. The only legitimate and legal URL for these Associations of America are RIAA.AAAAA and MPAA.AAAAA using the AAAAA TLD we just proposed for Associations of America. (Domain name registration pending accreditation as an official Association of America and numerous registration fees and bi-weekly dues compliance)
I hereby declare the founding of the AAAAA! Otherwise known as the Association of America Accrediting Association of America, my organization will be in charge of deciding who the legitimate "Association of Americas" are and who are not. Our first act of business is to declare the AAAAA an accredited Association, all other associations will need to submit applications to the AAAAA in order to receive their accreditation and begin issuing legitimate accreditations in their respective industries.
The MPAA and RIAA are welcome to apply as authoritative accreditors of the film and music worlds, however they should remember that without our graciousness they'll be relegated to the status of 'pirate association' operating outside the providence of an actual Association of America. Don't mess with the legacy player I've just invented or we'll slam the gates shut on your tangentially related business prospects.
Right, that's why it sounds like this service only works with DRMed music purchases. The copy protection accesses servers to make sure you're authorized to play the music, and if you sold your authorization to someone else the song doesn't play any more.
This of course wouldn't prevent a consumer from burning and ripping a CD so they can play it on a device that doesn't support that DRM scheme; and then selling the DRM auth.
This reminds me of the sub-par IMAX theaters that are popping up at all the local multiplexes. They're not actually up to IMAX standard that the public associates with the brand, yet because the company has given its consent trademark law sees no trouble with duping customers into paying more for something they aren't getting.
This is absolutely true; I am so brimming with anticipation about several movies released in 2007 that I can barely stand it... except I can't remember what they are any more.
But that may be a really interesting public demonstration or protest; being extremely diligent and litigious concerning copyright infringement by legislators. How many representatives would land on the hook for almost two million dollars in mp3 download infringements before the call to action was heard?
Anyone out there hold a copyright they can exercise? (raise your hand if you've taken a picture or composed an email.)
Yeah, IANAL, but a warrant means police have the authority to go look for something in a specific location, not the authority to command a suspect divulge information. You have to trick them into revealing the secret by leveraging their own ego:
Col. Jessep: You want answers?
Kaffee: I think I'm entitled.
Col. Jessep: You want answers?
Kaffee: I want the truth!
Col. Jessep: You can't handle the truth!
[pause]
Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has tubes, and those tubes have to be guarded by encryption algorithms. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have more numerous salt bits than you could possibly fathom. You weep for digital forensics, and you curse the cipher. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That cryptography's invention, while inconvenient, probably keeps secrets. And my use of it, while absurd and incomprehensible to you, keeps secrets. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want secrets to be kept, you need secrets to be kept. We use words like key, code, hash. We use these words as the backbone of a science dedicated to securing communication. You use them as a specter. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain cryptography to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very security that it provides, and then questions the security it provides for others. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a decrypter, and start brute forcing. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Kaffee: Do you know the private key?
Col. Jessep: I know the premise of encry...
Kaffee: Do you know the private key?
Col. Jessep: 4b752O7o3dgJ#?;6q7IxLBr7:#gUL^!
Forced to divulge information? I sure hope enhanced interrogation isn't going to fly in the American legal system.
This seems like a detective asking a robber where he hid the diamonds to me, you'd have to weigh the consequences of not cooperating. Sounds like a reinforcement of the advice that people not know their encryption keys, but know how to get them instead.
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Unfortunately Congress changed the meaning of "patriot" for too many people in 2001.
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I'll do the Accreditation
The MPAA and RIAA are welcome to apply as authoritative accreditors of the film and music worlds, however they should remember that without our graciousness they'll be relegated to the status of 'pirate association' operating outside the providence of an actual Association of America. Don't mess with the legacy player I've just invented or we'll slam the gates shut on your tangentially related business prospects.
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Surely that's worth... something?
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This of course wouldn't prevent a consumer from burning and ripping a CD so they can play it on a device that doesn't support that DRM scheme; and then selling the DRM auth.
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Passing off inferior products
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Anyone out there hold a copyright they can exercise? (raise your hand if you've taken a picture or composed an email.)
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Col. Jessep: You want answers?
Kaffee: I think I'm entitled.
Col. Jessep: You want answers?
Kaffee: I want the truth!
Col. Jessep: You can't handle the truth!
[pause]
Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has tubes, and those tubes have to be guarded by encryption algorithms. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have more numerous salt bits than you could possibly fathom. You weep for digital forensics, and you curse the cipher. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That cryptography's invention, while inconvenient, probably keeps secrets. And my use of it, while absurd and incomprehensible to you, keeps secrets. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want secrets to be kept, you need secrets to be kept. We use words like key, code, hash. We use these words as the backbone of a science dedicated to securing communication. You use them as a specter. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain cryptography to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very security that it provides, and then questions the security it provides for others. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a decrypter, and start brute forcing. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Kaffee: Do you know the private key?
Col. Jessep: I know the premise of encry...
Kaffee: Do you know the private key?
Col. Jessep: 4b752O7o3dgJ#?;6q7IxLBr7:#gUL^!
Boom! Techno-lawyered.
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Make me.
This seems like a detective asking a robber where he hid the diamonds to me, you'd have to weigh the consequences of not cooperating. Sounds like a reinforcement of the advice that people not know their encryption keys, but know how to get them instead.
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