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Submission + - Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America (activepolitic.com) 1

Submitted by bs0d3 on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @03:31PM

bs0d3 writes: After some litigation; ReDigi, a site where people can sell used MP3's has been found legal in America. One of the key decisions the judge had to make was whether MP3's were material objects or not. 'Material objects' are not subject to the distribution right stipulated in "17 USC 106(3)" which protects the sale of intellectual property copies. If MP3's are material objects than the resale of them is guaranteed legal under the first sale' exception in 17 USC 109. Capitol Records tried
to argue that they were material objects under one law and not under the other. Today the judge has sided with the first-sale doctrine, which means he is seeing these as material objects.

Comment Hmm (Score 1) 720

by echo_kmem on Thursday February 02, 2012 @02:39PM (#38906331) Attached to: Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist

Return of 'McCarthy'ism?

Comment Inches? (Score 1) 421

by echo_kmem on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @06:49PM (#38884121) Attached to: Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away

10 *inch* Bullet that's Guided using Laser and has Fins? I think those are also known as Missles!

Comment Re:1st Borg Joke! (Score 1) 129

by echo_kmem on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @12:31PM (#38879191) Attached to: Building the Bionic Man

Rats! You and that Bionic eye have bested me! Bah! =) Actually, Bionic hands would be rather 'handy' in a lot of ways.

Comment 1st Borg Joke! (Score 1) 129

by echo_kmem on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @10:41AM (#38877595) Attached to: Building the Bionic Man

We are the Borg...erm Human. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.

Comment Re:Not welcome (Score 2) 86

by echo_kmem on Friday January 27, 2012 @06:47PM (#38846579) Attached to: DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer

Not all of 'us' feel as you do. Most of 'us' do it purely out of curiosity, not because we want to impress some stranger on a forum somewhere. Hackers make the world go round, money keeps the bills paid. So just because he won't be welcomed in your basement does not mean I won't invite him down to mine.

Comment Re:An interesting use for Raspberry Pi (Score 1) 86

by echo_kmem on Friday January 27, 2012 @06:35PM (#38846491) Attached to: DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer

I think the Raspberry Pi's are targeted for Schools and Developing Countries, I do not think they are available to the public, least at this time. PogoPlugs have been around a bit and seem to run twice as much as the suggested on the Raspberry Pi's. http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Media-Sharing-Device-Remote/dp/B005DB6NG6/ref=dp_cp_ob_e_title_1

Comment Time to head out. (Score 2) 247

by echo_kmem on Friday January 27, 2012 @12:31PM (#38841473) Attached to: AT&T Threatening To Raise Rates After Merger Failure

Verizon's line up and availability of their '4G' have already had me considering the switch from AT&T, I'd rather pay premium and get premium than pay premium and get AT&T. =/

Submission + - Stealing smartphone crypto keys using radio waves (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Friday January 27, 2012 @11:49AM

coondoggie writes: "Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month."

Comment And yet... (Score 5, Insightful) 188

by echo_kmem on Thursday January 19, 2012 @02:30PM (#38751794) Attached to: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA

All these voices coming out against these Bills, yet the Congress and Senate still push as if they really have a shot.

Comment Re:You might want to double check your work... (Score 2) 170

by echo_kmem on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @05:34PM (#34646752) Attached to: A Klingon Christmas Carol

How does one say "Do not feed the Trolls" in thIngan Hol/Klingon?

Comment Re:In No Way Is This A Virus (Score 3, Insightful) 115

by echo_kmem on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @07:15PM (#18878779) Attached to: Virus Writers Target Google's Sponsored Links

Another Yawn is the whole 'Thats what you get for using IE'. The article states the problem lies within Unpatched Versions, not the application itself. Not that I am trying to defend it, just trying to keep the story straight as well. So, Yawn. Keep current on your patches.

Details of Microsoft's Settlement With Iowa 96

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @06:12PM from the pay-up dept.

dringess writes "As reported on Yahoo, Microsoft has settled the suit brought by the State of Iowa. Individuals can collect $16 for each copy of MS-DOS or Windows purchased from 1994-2006, while Office nets $29. No proof of purchase required! Now I can finally get some money from Microsoft!" Here is our original coverage of the settlement.

Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It 518

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @05:17PM from the good-lines-in-the-sand dept.

SoCalChris writes "Montana's governor signed a bill yesterday in defiance of the Real ID Act. House Bill 287 [PDF] requires the Montana Motor Vehicle Division to not implement the provisions of the Real ID Act, and to report to the governor any attempts by any agent or agency of the Department of Homeland Security to attempt to implement the bill. Montana is the first state to implement such a law."

Vonage Admits They Have No Workaround 345

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:19AM from the i-hear-violins dept.

drachenfyre writes "It looks like Vonage has no workaround for their recent patent infringements. This means if a permanent stay isn't granted it is likely that it will be the end of the line for Vonage. What will happen if millions of phone customers suddenly lose their service? Their own filing to the court stated 'While Vonage has studied methods for designing around the patents, removal of the allegedly infringing technology, if even feasible, could take many months to fully study and implement.'"

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