and excellent “this is where we are” story today about Napster and the labels. BTW, there’s no such thing as a secure file format. I’m no crypto genius or anything, but it’s pretty clear to me that someone could “deCSS-ify” any such format – because at some point, the file has to be decrypted to play. Open is open, and may be intercepted by another program that could copy it.
Archives for 2000
Cool things about
Montreal on the web, exhibit A: an exhaustive study of Sushi in Montreal by Luc Devroye. I’ve been to several of the places mentioned, including Maiko last week, and he’s right on in his comments.
Wow – this is
amazing: Chile’s Pinochet Stripped of Immunity-Court Sources. I thought it would never happen in spite of the British/Spanish intervention a while ago. What a stunning development.
Since last week
, there have been several interesting articles that note the power of David Touretzky‘s testimony. The EFF noted it in their DVD Update [via Ed and Scripting News], Another take on it was published in a Wired News article explaining that the deCSS T-Shirt guys have been named defendants in the trial.
Last week, Cam Barrett
of CamWorld pointed to a transcript of the deCSS trial from July 25, 2000. I read it that day while I ate lunch at my desk. In the transcript, there’s a lot of stuff that seems to miss the point, or make a point so tangentially that I wonder if the judge et al. will really get it. But not everything was so oblique – one witness explained, clearly, how code could be construed as speech, and therefore protected in the US by the First Amendment – finally!
I say finally because this has been an issue ever since I first jumped online in 1993, when I got hooked on the whole crypto/PGP thing. Code = speech has a long history, and it might finally be getting its due. I’m not 100% sure how far down that road I go, mind, but I think it’s a compelling argument and definitely the case to some extent.
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