My intent was not to make a rigorous argument from current law but to make a statement about the morality of cloning. Law rarely perfectly matches morality. Pajitnov's actions through The Tetris Company combined with his previous statements, such as that free software "destroys the market" and "should never have existed", imply that he believes that cloning is immoral. But by that standard, he used the product of immorality to make his flagship product.

The fact that it's still possible to build a desktop PC from parts.

Not at the beginning of a sentence.

Or better yet, "I went to my Uncle Jack's stud farm and helped him jack off a horse". Not that there's anything wrong with that.

No.

Last time I checked, the Tetris keiretsu (Tetris Holding, The Tetris Company, and Blue Planet Software) was managed by Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers. So yes.

It's a bad thing if you're trying to sell them a new computer that can run a newer operating system such as Xubuntu 14.04 or perhaps Windows 8.1 with Classic Shell.

And there's a pattern to this. Among laptops that ship with Windows, only the larger ones tend to come with optical drives. For example, Ultrabook laptops tend to omit one.

When the goods are electronic, you are making the copy yourself. (I can dig up court cases if you want.) If the copyright on the underlying work is still in effect, you are violating the law.

Apps like this probably don't work over an ordinary HTTP proxy anyway. Nor do they typically need caching, so you could probably just run them straight out to the Internet.

Then have the proxy verify the EV and use a separate EV certificate (which you have accepted in your browser)

If deep inspecting HTTPS for the sole purpose of office-wide caching is illegal, then deep inspecting HTTP ought to be illegal too.

That's what I meant. What's the benefit of owning a copy over streaming?

How much would that plane ticket cost?

Do you have anything to declare at the border?

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Caching in the browser works as well with HTTPS as it does with HTTP. A caching proxy works too so long as each user of the caching proxy imports the caching proxy's certificate.

DANE, Perspectives, and other CA-free approaches are equivalent in assurance level to a domain-validated certificate from a CA. The difference between a domain-validated certificate and an organization-validated certificate is that it's a lot harder for a typo squatter to get an organization-validated certificate for, say, "bankofamerrica.com". This is why the Comodo Dragon browser warns for domain-validated certificates.

Plus 1-500 bytes of randomized padding added to the HTTP headers and the HTML comments that the server inserts to foil BREACH attacks.

For a while, Slashdot did support Unicode. This allowed vandals to not only evade the ASCII art lameness filter with foreign characters but also use bidirectional override characters to impose Unpossible Terrifying Fuckery on the site's layout.