[freenet-chat] Re: Licensing problem in winstaller
Matthew Toseland wrote: Under UK law almost any time you copy a file is a copyright infringement unless you have explicit permission or are covered by one of the incredibly narrow exceptions. There is no real fair use, in the american sense. I might argue that in the UK it is necessary to accept the GPL in order to use GPL'd software. If so, that's interesting. The GPL still seems insufficient, though, since nothing in it actually gives you the right to use anything. What is the difference in the user's rights between software that comes with no usage license at all and software that comes with an EULA? Does it make a difference if you somehow run EULA'd software in such a way that you never see the EULA? (Ignore for the moment all the reverse-engineering and by-opening-this-box stuff, suppose the program came in a form where running the installer showed you the license but you could run the program directly without using the installer at all.) theo ___ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[freenet-chat] privacy conference in london
It feels odd to be talking about anything non-World-Trade-Center-related right now, but anyway: there's a free one-day conference coming up on September 27 that UK folks might be interested in. Caspar Bowden of the Foundation for Information Policy Research is speaking, as is Prof. Jeffrey Rosen, author of _The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America_. see http://www.spiked-online.com/Event/ to register. theo PGP signature
[freenet-chat] UK rally for Dmitry Sklyarov
Mr. Bad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian programmer arrested by the FBI at Def Con on July 16th after giving a talk on security holes in Adobe System's eBook software. He's also the author of a piece of software that allows legitimate purchasers of eBooks to exercise fair use rights, like making backups of a file or reading it on an unsupported platform (like Linux). Dmitry was arrested under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- a US law that does not apply in his native Russia -- for creating a circumvention device. He's been held without bail and apparently is out of contact of his family and friends in Russia. If you're in London, a protest is planned outside the US Embassy near Hyde Park tomorrow (Friday) at 1300. We will meet at 1230 at Hyde Park Corner tube station, and march from there to the Embassy. Please come! More details can be found at: http://uk.freesklyarov.org/ theo PGP signature
[freenet-chat] interesting article on falun gong and internet
Sect Clings to the Web in the Face of Beijing's Ban http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/world/05FALU.html?pagewanted=all Tapping away at one of his computers in a cramped two-room apartment in western Beijing, Lloyd Zhao is engaged in an extraordinarily dangerous endeavor - searching through the night for holes in the electronic wall that the government has built to keep Chinese from seeing Web sites of Falun Gong, the outlawed spiritual movement. PGP signature
[freenet-chat] Marillion funds album through Internet
This is somewhat old news in a sense, but I haven't heard anything about this before, so maybe it is news to other people as well. Marillion has just released a new album, Anoraknophobia -- what's interesting about it is that production of the album was funded entirely by pre-sales to fans over the Internet before any tracks were recorded. This is the first actually successful example of a street performer-like setup that I've heard of. http://www.lineone.net/express/00/08/20/city/m0200-d.html ran a story about it when they were doing it. theo PGP signature
[freenet-chat] [Fwd: CRIA conference and dinner May 19]
fyi - conference in Cambridge (UK) with Gene Spafford and Whitfield Diffie: For those of you who don't know, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs is hosting a conference on the Internet and State Security on May 19. It is followed by a semi-formal dinner at Peterhouse with a keynote speaker (historian from Trinity). There's a wicked line-up of speakers for the conference, including the guy who invented public/private key encryption, the CEO of cipher (Fortune has ranked it as the number one internet start-up in europe), Chris Demchak (she writes about the e-Jihad), etc (more info on the website). For those of you who are interested in the conference, you can sign up at www.cria.org.uk for a mere 25 pounds. The entrance fee includes lunch and dinner, and is heavily subsidized. (The dinner costs 23 pounds per head.) It would be a huge, unbelievable help if some of you could come to the dinner (we're selling tickets separately from the conference at cost - i.e. for 23 pounds). Although we have incredible speakers (most computer and IR geeks recognize several names on the programme), the downturn in the stock market has limited our registrations. We're worried that the dinner will look a little empty. It should be a fun evening with plenty of wine, port, sherry and of course, me! I promise to make a total spectacle of myself. Thanks guys... Mike. - End forwarded message - PGP signature
