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Seth Johnson | 2 Nov 2003 05:54
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Swarthmore College Stands Up to Diebold


(Forwarded from Interesting People list)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [IP] Swarthmore press release on Diebold...
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:27:31 -0500
From: Dave Farber <dave <at> farber.net>
To: ip <at> v2.listbox.com

>Delivered-To: dfarber+ <at> ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
>Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:03:08 -0800 (PST)
>From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall <at> SIMS.Berkeley.EDU>
>Subject: Swarthmore press release on Diebold...
>To: Declan McCullagh <declan <at> well.com>, Dave Farber <dave <at> farber.net>
>
>I don't know if you have seen this. I applaud Swarthmore's stance and
>hope to see more institutions stand up to Diebold:
>
>http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/releases/03/diebold.html
>
>For Immediate Release: October 31, 2003
>Contact: Tom Krattenmaker
>610-328-8534
>tkratte1 <at> swarthmore.edu
>http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/
>
>
>Swarthmore Administration Taking Steps To Support Student Action in
>Diebold Matter
>
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Seth Johnson | 2 Nov 2003 06:01
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Palladium Debuts


> http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7712822%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Palladium makes debut

By James Riley

October 30, 2003

MICROSOFT has given developers the first look at its long-awaited Palladium
security and authentication architecture with the launch of its first SDK
(software developers kit) at a conference in Los Angeles.

Palladium was the project name given to a fundamental redesign of PC
hardware and software architectures to improve inherent security problems.

The project was subsequently renamed NGSCB (Next Generation Secure Computing
Base) and is being pursued by an affiliation of PC industry vested interests
under an organisation called the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA).

The release of the NGSCB SDK at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Forum
represents the first time the development community has been given an
insight into the design requirements of the system.

Broadly, NGSCB is a security system based on a hybrid of new hardware and
software technologies. Its impact on the PC industry will be fundamental -
requiring PC hardware vendors to make fundamental changes to motherboard
designs, and for the deployment of entirely new operating systems.

Because the NGSCB standard won't run older applications - or at least older
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Seth Johnson | 2 Nov 2003 18:23
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Freedom Fighter - Harold Varmus


(Forwarded from CPTech's Random Bits list)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Random-bits] Freedom Fighter - Harold Varmus
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 11:25:47 -0500
From: James Love <james.love <at> cptech.org>
To: random-bits <at> lists.essential.org

"It must have been amazing news for Harold Varmus. More than 500,000  hits
on 13 October had crashed the servers as people rushed to log on to  the
debut issue of the pioneering science journal he had helped create.  The
furore caused by the journal shows no signs of going away. Luckily,  Varmus
is used to the heat: as head of the National Institutes of  Health, it went
with the territory. But what made him, now in another  high-profile job,
sign up for this particular controversy? Kurt Kleiner  was curious

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp;jsessionid=GKOGIOLHOCEN?id=ns24191

Meet the people shaping the future of science

This interview was first published in New Scientist print edition,

Freedom Fighter - Harold Varmus

Interviewed by Kurt Kleiner

You are in the middle of a distinguished career, and the system has  treated
you well, so you don't seem a natural for an idea like this. Why  does it
strike such a chord?
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Seth Johnson | 4 Nov 2003 13:00
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WIPO Deliberations on XCasting Treaty


(Forwarded from CPTech Random Bits list)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Random-bits] WIPO deliberations on "casting" treaty
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 02:47:05 -0500
From: James Love <james.love <at> cptech.org>
To: random-bits <at> lists.essential.org

Monday's meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related 
Rights (SCCR).

James Love <james.love <at> cptech.org> +41.79.566.0475

I am in Geneva attending 3 days of meetings at WIPO, mostly focused on  the
proposed treaty on Broad/cable/web/casting.   The treaty seeks to  expand
and extend a "related right" for casting organizations, that  would exist
independent of copyright, and extend to areas where is there  no copyright
in the underlying information, or where the casting  organization did not
have authorization from copyright owners to manage  or restrict access to
information created by others.  (see 
http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/wipo-casting.html).

I am part of a very large delegation from the Civil Society Coalition 
(CSC), which registered a dozen members for the meeting, of whom eleven  are
here in Geneva.

The day began with an informational session on the problems facing the 
blind, and in particular, the proposals by organizations for the  visually
impaired to have global exceptions to copyrights in order to  reverse
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Seth Johnson | 5 Nov 2003 01:54
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FCC Orders "Broadcast Flag" for Digital TV


(Forwarded from POLITECH)

-----Original Message-----
From: Declan McCullagh <declan <at> well.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:22:40 -0500
Subject: [Politech] FCC orders "broadcast flag" for digital TV, from 
Tech Daily [ip]

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From: "Clark, Drew" <dclark <at> nationaljournal.com>
To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declan <at> well.com>,
Subject: For [Politech]
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:11:35 -0500

Just posted on Technology Daily:

Technology Daily Breaking News
FCC: Digital TV Makers Must Include Anti-Piracy Technology
The FCC announced late Tuesday that it will require
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-240759A1.pdf>
digital
television manufacturers to include "broadcast flag" technology in
their
sets by July 2005 in an attempt to stop individuals in the future from
pirating digital television programs.
FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-240759A2.pdf>
that
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Seth Johnson | 5 Nov 2003 23:07
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More on: PC HDTV Tuners and "Broadcast Flag"


(Forwarded from DMCA Discussion list)

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Blunk <lblunk <at> yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:12:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [DMCA_Discuss] PC HDTV tuners and FCC broadcast flag 
issues

   Looks like I misread the FCC ruling.  It does not permit
sending unencrypted video over "user accessible" buses, such
as the PCI bus.  So it appears that all the cards below, with
the exception of the accessDTV card, would be illegal as of
July 1, 2005 (at least in their present state).  Buy 'em up now
before it's too late.

   On another note, it appears that accessDTV dropped the price
of their card to $249 today.

--- Larry Blunk <lblunk <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> In light of the FCC's ruling today, I've compiled a list of currently
> available PC HDTV tuner cards.  I've come up with a total of 5 of
them,
> with the cheapest going for $159.
> 
> DViCO FusionHDTVII - $159
> http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/fusion2.asp
> 
> pcHDTV HD-2000 - $189.89  -- note: Linux driver only
> http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_2000.html
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Larry Garfield | 6 Nov 2003 07:06
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Re: More on: PC HDTV Tuners and "Broadcast Flag"

Seth Johnson wrote:

>>will they eradicate the old drivers from the Internet?   Will it
>>be possible to write FCC compliant open-source drivers for the
> HD-2000
>>card?  I believe a couple of the cards don't provide access to
>>the ATSC stream, thus making it impossible to detect the flag.

The activist in me feels that the effort should be under way to write 
FCC-non-compliant open source drivers for it, and make them damned good. 
  Host them offshore if you have to, but fight every bloody inch.

--

-- 
Larry Garfield			AIM: LOLG42
larry <at> garfieldtech.com		ICQ: 6817012

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of 
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an 
idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it 
to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the 
possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of 
it."  -- Thomas Jefferson
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Seth Finkelstein | 6 Nov 2003 07:23
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Re: More on: PC HDTV Tuners and "Broadcast Flag"

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:06:55AM -0600, Larry Garfield wrote:
> The activist in me feels that the effort should be under way to write 
> FCC-non-compliant open source drivers for it, and make them damned good. 
> Host them offshore if you have to, but fight every bloody inch.

	Oh no. Make it FCC compliant, by all means. Why buy trouble?

/* The following lines implement the broadcast flag per FCC rules.
   DO NOT DELETE THESE LINES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. No way. Nuh-huh.
   Don't do it. You'd be a bad boy if these lines were deleted.
   Naughty, naughty, naughty, on you for deleting this part of the file
   Nudge-nudge-wink-wink know what I mean?
*/

	In fact, I think the broadcast flag would be great as an
independent loadable kernel module. Good design. Make sure you load
that module now, the FCC requires it. Go look at the BROADCAST-FLAG-HOWTO.
Not loading the module would be against the law, and we know you
wouldn't want to go there, right?

	In reality, you can't get away with that stuff. But I couldn't
resist the joke today.

--

-- 
Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf <at> sethf.com  http://sethf.com
Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/
Seth Finkelstein's Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/
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Seth Johnson | 6 Nov 2003 16:31
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IPJ News: UK Outlaws File-Sharing and Circumvention Devices


(Forwarded from Digital Copyright list)

-----Original Message-----
From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois <at> umuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:30:30 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: IPJ News: UK Outlaws File-Sharing and Circumvention 
Devices]

FYI...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: IPJ News: UK Outlaws File-Sharing and Circumvention Devices
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:38:33 -0800
From: IP Justice <newsletter <at> ipjustice.org>
To: newsletter <at> ipjustice.org

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IP Justice Newsletter ~ Nov. 5, 2003
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In this Issue:

1. EU Copyright Directive Takes Effect in United Kingdom
     UK Outlaws File-Sharing and Circumvention Devices
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. EU Copyright Directive Takes Effect in United Kingdom
    UK Outlaws File-Sharing and Circumvention Devices
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Seth Johnson | 6 Nov 2003 19:23
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Re:    IPJ News: UK Outlaws File-Sharing and Circumvention Devices


-----Original Message-----
From: Anatoly Volynets <av <at> total-knowledge.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:17:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 	IPJ News: UK Outlaws File-Sharing and Circumvention 
Devices

> I would like to put together 2 facts:
> 
> 1. UK seems to have the toughest pro-IP laws, working for the longest
> period of time, to compare with other countries.
> 
> 2. Some time ago I was listening to a radio program with
> participation of few British artists and politicians (do not
> remember, who were they exactly). The issue was: UK has been loosing
> its positions in development of culture. Nobody could put forward
> any reasonable hypotheses for the trend.

Failure and refusal to accept and comprehend the nature of 
information, and the consequences of information technology.

A loss of value as a consequence.

Seth Johnson
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