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at 11:46 PM, bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Dave Del Torto wrote:
>> Here the plot thickens: If the only two sigs on the key at CDNOW are
>> the key-owner's sig and David's, then the ability of any CDNOW
>> customer to trust the key's
Have at it.
http://www.doe.gov.in/it-bill.htm
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Dave Del Torto wrote:
> Here the plot thickens: If the only two sigs on the key at CDNOW are
> the key-owner's sig and David's, then the ability of any CDNOW
> customer to trust the key's security is based on David's "trustability
> quotient" as well as the ability of CDNOW to
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Ray Hirschfeld wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:06:32 -0800
> > From: Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > but it appears that an argument based on copyright would have been
> > a better approach.
>
> I conjecture they did it this way because the prohibition against
> c
At 10:46 pm -0500 2000-01-01, Dan Geer wrote:
>My daughter was ordering a CD this evening from the site cdnow.com
>and I noted that besides the SSL option they also had a PGP option.
>Take a look at
>
>http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=0/pagename=/RP/HELP/order.html#8q
>
>This is new to me.
> From: Andreas Bogk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 01 Jan 2000 22:37:18 -0500
> Is it just me, or did the DVDCCA not exist when DeCSS was released?
> I've never heard of them, and when I tried to obtain a CSS license,
> the information I had was that CSS is licensed by some japanese
> company (whic
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I just got email from Warren Agin, of Swiggart and Agin, this afternoon.
Swiggart and Agin has offered to be the first partial sponsor of the EFF
fundraiser we've been kicking around on the DCSB list recently, a direct
result of discussions on the cypherpunks l
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:06:32 -0800
> From: Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> First, basing the litigation on trade secret seems sub-optimal. Not that a
> different legal argument would be anywhere near compelling, but it appears
> that an argument based on copyright would have been a better
I've been debating whether to ditch this or not, but I feel it needs to
be said. So, as the Duke of Wellington may, or may not, have said,
"publish, and be damned".
Cheers,
Ben.
.
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Public Key
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Lucky Green wrote:
> 1. CSS was reverse engineered from Xing's DVD player.
> 2. Xing's player requires the user to click on a button accepting a license
> agreement prohibiting reverse engineering.
> 3. Reverse engineering could not have been performed without accepting this
The DVD plaintiff's request to the court includes, in part,
"DVD CCA makes this Application for the issuance of a Temporary Restraining
Order ... enjoining Defendants ... from making any further use of ...
or "linking" to other web sites which disclose, distribute or "link" to,
any propri
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Goldberg) writes:
> > The expected number of collisions you get if you sample S items out of
> > a universe of size U (=2^N in the above case) is about (S^2)/U.
>
> I know this is a month old but I'm
To supplement Lucky's report here are other docs
in the DVD DeCSS case:
Original DVD CCA Complaint of December 28:
http://cryptome.org/dvd-v-500.htm (64K)
Nine Court filings by DVD CCA at December 29 hearing:
http://cryptome.org/dvd-v-521.htm (194K)
Zipped:
http://cryptome.org/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Goldberg) writes:
> The expected number of collisions you get if you sample S items out of
> a universe of size U (=2^N in the above case) is about (S^2)/U.
I know this is a month old but I'm only now catching up on the
newsgroup. I'd be surprised if the expected number is
> The only reason that justifies the existence of the player keys in the
> CSS scheme is control of the DVD consortium over the licensees: they
> can always threaten to revoke the player key of a given licensee if
> that licensee doesn't play by the rules (Macrovision, Region Codes,
> etc.).
>
>
My daughter was ordering a CD this evening from the site cdnow.com
and I noted that besides the SSL option they also had a PGP option.
Take a look at
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=0/pagename=/RP/HELP/order.html#8q
This is new to me.
--dan
Let me just echo everything Lucky has said, and emphasize a
few things. The EFF truly saved the day in this case. Without quick
action on the part of the EFF the TRO would have been granted and the
DVD CCA would have dealt a significant blow to free speech. Attorneys
for the defense Robin
Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> other individuals distributing copies of [De]CSS source code. DeCSS was
> originally published to allow for playback of DVD's on computers running the
> Linux operating system.
I think it's about time to clear up some issues. DeCSS is *not* Linux
softwar
Today, I attended a fascinating hearing in State of California Superior
Court (county of Santa Clara). The issue at bar was a request by the "DVD
Copy Control Association, Inc." (DVDCCA) to issue a temporary restraining
order (TRO) against various named and unnamed operators of websites and
other
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