[freenet-chat] Meeting with FTC Friday 28 January 2005

2005-01-26 Thread Seth Johnson
> Original Message > Subject: Meeting with FTC Friday 28 January 2005 > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:21:12 -0500 (EST) > From: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you wish to meet with the FTC regarding Microsoft and > computer vendors' refusal to honor the refund clause of

[freenet-chat] Call to Assembly: Internet Commons Congress 2004

2004-03-06 Thread Seth Johnson
New Yorkers for Fair Use Call to General Assembly - Internet Commons Congress 2004 March 24-25, 2004, Outside Washington, DC Scheduled Sessions/Participants: http://www.internationalunity.org/schedule.html http://www.internationalunity.org http:

[freenet-chat] URGENT ALERT: Stop the "Broadcast Flag" at the FCC

2003-10-24 Thread Seth Johnson
New Yorkers for Fair Use Action Alert: -- Please send a comment to the FCC AGAIN, opposing the "Broadcast Flag" Proposal Tell the FCC to Serve the Public, Not Hollywood! Okay, you folks understand this issue -- it's very important to send word to the FCC in

[freenet-chat] Earthstation 5: Filesharing in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

2003-08-16 Thread Seth Johnson
(Forwarded from Boing Boing Blog) Original Message Subject: P2P network originates in Palestinian refugee camp Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:52:32 -0700 From: "Cory Doctorow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A pair of entrepreneurs in a Palestinian refugee camp h

[freenet-chat] CFP: Peer-to-Peer Computing and Interaction with Grids

2003-05-31 Thread Seth Johnson
(Forwarded from Decentralization list) Original Message Subject: [decentralization] CFP: Special issue on Peer-to-Peer Computing and Interaction with Grids Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:15:36 -0500 From: "Adriana Iamnitchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Adriana

Re: [lists] Re: [freenet-chat] New Law may make Freenet illegal

2003-03-29 Thread Seth Johnson
Reed Hedges wrote: > > If only that pesky SC would get out of the way or if it were filled > with shills for the executive administration! Perfect! I am still gobsmacked that Scalia actually put a "dissent to the dissent" statement on their decision that essentially put Georgie Boy in offic

Re: [freenet-chat] New Law may make Freenet illegal

2003-03-28 Thread Seth Johnson
required to provide this option back when they first started installing Caller ID and running those hysteria-provoking ads about stalkers. Seth Johnson Greg Wooledge wrote: > > David McNab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > But a story in today's Slashdot, > > http://yro.s

[freenet-chat] FreeNetworks Conference 2003

2003-01-29 Thread Seth Johnson
(Forwarded from Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing Blog. Website text pasted below. -- Seth) Original Message Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:58:42 -0800 From: "Cory Doctorow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schuyler sez: The FreeNetworks Conference (FN-CON) 2003 is focused

[freenet-chat] DEADLINE Tonight! Stop the "Broadcast Flag" Proposal!

2002-12-06 Thread Seth Johnson
New Yorkers for Fair Use Action Alert: -- Please send a comment opposing the "Broadcast Flag" Proposal to the FCC by midnight tonight, December 6, 2002. Tell the FCC to Serve the Public, Not Hollywood! Okay, you folks understand this issue -- it's very impor

[freenet-chat] Artists and Publishers Seek P2P Infringement Ruling

2002-12-01 Thread Seth Johnson
Original Message Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:19:11 - From: "Rifat Qureshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pho List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> National Music Publishers' Association Announces Songwriters and Music Publishers Seek Infringement Ruling Against Unlicensed Peer-to-P

[freenet-chat] Legal History on "Natural" vs. Statutory Exclusive Rights

2002-10-24 Thread Seth Johnson
age, citizens in a free society have more fundamental rights than those of either publishers or creators. Seth Johnson > http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm COPYRIGHT C.P.U. Creators, Proprietors & Users by Harry Hillman Chartrand (Selection on the American legal tradition:

[freenet-chat] Internet Society on Digital Restrictions Management

2002-08-15 Thread Seth Johnson
(Forwarded from CYBERIA list) Original Message Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:02:06 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:18:29 +0100 From: Somebody To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subjec

[freenet-chat] DotGNU IRC Meet-a-thon Underway

2002-06-29 Thread Seth Johnson
A marathon session of IRC meetings is underway this weekend for people to discuss the DotGNU project. Listen in, ask questions, volunteer, meet the participants. -- Seth Original Message Subject: [DotGNU]Meet-a-thon Announcement Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:35:49 +0530 From: Gop

[freenet-chat] The Virtual Remote Server

2002-02-06 Thread Seth Johnson
http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/VRS/ A Virtual Remote Server (c) 2002, by Bill Lance [[ Draft Feb, 6, 2002 ]] Introduction The Virtual Remote Server (VRS) is a peer-2-peer cluster that is designed to provide Web Services to the general Internet. To the outside, the server looks and acts like

[freenet-chat] WIPOUT Essay Contest

2002-01-24 Thread Seth Johnson
Original Message Subject: [C-FIT_Community] WIPOUT Essay Contest Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:56:23 -0500 From: Seth Johnson - Forwarded message from Alan Story - Subject: WIPOUT PRESS RELEASE Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:25:48 - WIPOUT Press Release - 24 January

[freenet-chat] other lists

2002-01-11 Thread Seth Johnson
Try the C-FIT Community list. http://RealMeasures.dyndns.org/C-FIT To subscribe by email, send message with the following in the body: subscribe C-FIT_Community . . to: Listserv at RealMeasures.dyndns.org Seth Johnson krepta at juno.com wrote: > > Anyone know of any other lists

[freenet-chat] deep philosophical question

2002-01-01 Thread Seth Johnson
edium. Seth Johnson Glenn McGrath wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:54:49 -0800 > "Josh" wrote: > > > Is spam free speech? > > > > I think everybody wants to answer NO, but i think it is free speech. > > Just because people dont like the message

[freenet-chat] Cybercafes in China

2001-10-09 Thread Seth Johnson
(Forwarded from [EMAIL PROTECTED] list) Seth Johnson Committee for Independent Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 08:18:41 +0800 From: "Alan G. Alegre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Very interestingon different levels... -

[freenet-chat] Anonymous Tip Web Link Now Available Worldwide to ReportInformation toU.S. Authorities

2001-09-15 Thread Seth Johnson
A good initiative, forward from C-FIT_Community list. Seth Johnson Original Message Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:18:07 -0400 From: Seth Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Forwarded from CYBERIA list; originally from FREEMATT list) Original Message Date: F

[freenet-chat] The End Game From Microsoft. Really.

2001-06-27 Thread Seth Johnson
*might* be able to counter it. I don't know: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/06/27/dotnet.html Ask me what I mean, if you don't see what I'm saying. I'm pissed and anxious as heck about this. Seth Johnson ___ Chat maili

Re: [freenet-chat] Sourceforge down again?

2001-06-23 Thread Seth Johnson
I just tried. No go. Seth Johnson > Stefan Reich wrote: > > I tried to connect to http://www.sourceforge.net from three different > networks - they all failed. Anyone having the same problem? ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: [freenet-chat] Reasonable use Issues.

2001-06-21 Thread Seth Johnson
any claim that we were really very fond of copyright > law would be incredible. > > Again, I agree, if we omitted the "state" from that passage, it would > still be plausible. And then we should take reasonable steps to allow > the government to censor, since we obvi

Re: [freenet-chat] Reasonable use Issues.

2001-06-21 Thread Seth Johnson
What about, straight up: Political organizing. Sheesh. Seth Johnson Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Mark J. Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > The goal of Freenet is anonymous publishing and reading. What use do > > law-abiding people have for anonymity? Not much.

[freenet-chat] [Fwd: Hague Diplomatic Conference Ends, Badly for Now]

2001-06-20 Thread Seth Johnson
(Forwarded from Info-Policy-Notes List) Original Message Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 02:22:22 -0700 From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As the Hague Conference Diplomatic Conference ends the Internet and the Public Domain are at risk Jame

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Node operators responsibility

2001-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
IANAL, but looks good to me. Seth Johnson Nomen Nescio wrote: > > Seth Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does it define "providers?" > > Article 1, paragraph 3: Definitions > > For the purposes of this Act > 1. the term "providers

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Node operators responsibility

2001-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
Does it define "providers?" Seth Johnson Nomen Nescio wrote: > > IANAL either, but IMHO proxy caches fall under the provisions of article 1, > paragraph 5, section 3 of the Information and Communication Services Act, > available online at http://www.iid.de/rahmen/

Re: [freenet-chat] Only criminals need anonymity, silly.

2001-06-02 Thread Seth Johnson
I'm a criminal. "Mark J. Roberts" wrote: > > Only criminals need anonymity. ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: CPRM in BIOS

2001-05-24 Thread Seth Johnson
Let's go, then! We gotta go *now*. Seth David McNab wrote: > > I guess the key to victory here is to make all efforts to keep the public > suspicious of the content industry - a process of education, from the > grassroots level of telling all one's friends and acquaintances, through to > larg

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: CPRM in BIOS

2001-05-24 Thread Seth Johnson
I found it! http://www.slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml And here's a couple of more substantial bits on it: http://pcsupport.about.com/compute/pcsupport/library/weekly/aa030101a.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17230.html Seth Johnson David McNab wrote: > >

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: CPRM in BIOS

2001-05-24 Thread Seth Johnson
Here's a good one to start with: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15686.html I'm still trying to find a later article I read, about how the "victory" over CPRM in hard drives should not be acclaimed so loudly because IBM (if I recall correctly) had simply decided they could accomplish the

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: CPRM

2001-05-23 Thread Seth Johnson
Give me a bit. I definitely read it . . . CPRM. SDMI. They basically the same thing? Searching now. Will post if I find it. Seth Johnson David McNab wrote: > > you got any urls on that? > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Seth Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECT

[freenet-chat] Re: CPRM

2001-05-23 Thread Seth Johnson
David: Is CPRM the bit where they were going to put copy protection in hard drives? I heard that while that scheme was stopped, the dirty secret is that the scheme was simply shifted to the BIOS. I understand that the plan is currently to put copy protection into the Phoenix BIOS. Seth

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: underground dns

2001-05-15 Thread Seth Johnson
David: I actually got excited reading this little narrative, and it's so-cool payoff. Rah! Rah! Seth Johnson David McNab wrote: > > Church of Scientology loses. > Freedom of Information wins. ___ Chat mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: Child Porn (was: Re: [freenet-chat] Thoughts about Freenet)

2001-04-22 Thread Seth Johnson
"Mark J. Roberts" wrote: > > Why wouldn't poor people turn to charity, as they do now? Because if you're not at least a wage slave, you're worthless. Or so the story goes. Seth Johnson ___ Chat mail

[freenet-chat] Information Producers Initiative

2001-04-21 Thread Seth Johnson
munity" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forward this message freely as you wish. The text below is also available at: http://RealMeasures.dyndns.org/C-FIT Thanks for your help, Seth Johnson Committee for Independent Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Information Producers Initiative A Project of th