posted 08-13-2001 14:28
Cool, you guys surely know what's up. Again, that BBS thing on the front page is killer. What about a MOO???Anyway, something of interest:
The Anti-DMCA Index
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August 13, 2001
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The most recent version of this document can be found here: http://www.anti-dmca.org/dmca-index.html
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1. Amount Cornell University Library pays for subscription to "Journal of Applied Polymer Science": $12,495.00
2. Amount charged to University Libraries for subscription to "Journal of Economic Studies": $13.40/page
3. Number of people who find the $13.40 per page ironic: 3 out of 4
4. Number of Project Gutenberg Etexts converted by voluteers: 3,551
5. Current "Cost" per Etext based on 3,481 texts: $2.87 per text
6. Number of Scientists worldwide boycotting Corporate Science Journals beginning September 2001: 26,000
7. Number of college and research institutions "Declaring Independence" by publishing themselves: 200
8. Number of days DMCA arrestee Dmitry Sklyarov spent in jail: 13
9. Number of jails he spent them in: 4
10. Amount charged to taxpayers for those 13 days: $4,000
11. Window of time Microsoft and the American Association of Publishers (AAP) can engage in
their cooperative Internet surveillance program: 24x7x365
12. Number of AAP members who apparently support the Internet surveillance program: 250
13. Number of "companies" which control the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA): 4
14. Number of Executive Directors who appear to control the DVD Copy Control Association: 1
15. Amount one company charges for eBook encryption security: $3,000
16. Number of letters one must rotate the alphabet to decrypt that book: 13 (ROT-13)
17. Amount recovered in recent "software raid" conducted by BSA.org against Minneapolis Company: $260,000
18. Number of disgruntled employees who may report you to the BSA resulting in a "software raid.": 1
19. Number of Irish software companies currently being sued by BSA.org: 7
20. Companies BSA represents in those cases: Adobe, Autodesk, Macromedia, Microsoft and Symantec
21. Number of cities included in July 2001 BSA "Truce" Campaign: 5
22. Number of states which experienced Raids conducted by FBI on July 24 commended by BSA: 9
23. Number of proported jobs lost from software piracy in study conducted by BSA.org: 109,000
24. Amount an eBook customer may be fined for a backup not permited by the Publisher: $250,000
25. Amount of time that customer might spend in jail: 5 years
26. Number of restrictions placed on "Alice in Wonderland" (public domain) eBook: 5
27. Maximum penalty for reading "Alice in Wonderland" aloud (possible DMCA violation): 5 years jail
28. Maximum penalty for having a "pirate" copy of "Planet of the Apes": 10 years jail/$2M fine
29. Average sentence for commiting Rape: 5 years
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This index actually contains a scrambled (stenanographically hidden) version of
Britney Spear's new single. However, we can't find the key so we're not quite
sure it's there either.
Harper's Interactive Index http://harpers.org/harpers-index/
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Sources
1. http://www.englib.cornell.edu/displays/stickershock/car.htm
http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~kirby/journals.html#App1
2. http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/jppage.htm
3. Quick and simple poll
4. http://promo.net/pg/nl/0105.html
5. http://promo.net/pg/nl/0105.html
6. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp?Article=200172219199
7. http://www.arl.org/sparc/DI/
http://www.createchange.org/
8. http://www.fresklyarov.org
9. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/08/10/12241.html
10. Some multiplication
11. http://www.microsoft.com/ebooks/das/antipiracy.asp
12. http://www.microsoft.com/ebooks/das/antipiracy.asp
13. http://www.lemuria.org/decss/hal2001.html
14. http://www.lemuria.org/decss/hal2001.html
15. http://www.download.ru/defcon.ppt
16. http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/rot13/
17. http://www.bsa.org/usa/press/newsreleases//2001-08-06.680.phtml
18. http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2799089,00.html
19. http://www.bsa.org/ireland/press/newsreleases//2001-08-02.682.phtml
20. http://www.bsa.org/ireland/press/newsreleases//2001-08-02.682.phtml
21. http://www.bsatruce.com/us/indexjuly2001.phtml
22. http://new.bsa.org/usa/press/newsreleases//2001-07-25.678.phtml
23. http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/epub/faqs.asp
24. http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/epub/faqs.asp
25. http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/epub/faqs.asp
26. http://www.pigdogs.org/art/adobe.html
27. http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/dvd-discuss-faq.html#ss2.4.6
28. http://www.politechbot.com/p-02293.html
29. http://www.sharon-herald.com/localnews/recentnews/0005/ln050400h.html
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