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Nov. 8th, 2004
07:04 pm - Betamax decision:
Sony v. Universal, more commonly known as the Betamax decision. The key points of the Betamax decision are:
1. [The] noncommercial home use recording of material broadcast over the public airwaves [is] fair use of copyrighted works and [does] not constitute copyright infringement
2. [The law] does not support [...] theory that supplying the "means" to accomplish an infringing activity and encouraging that activity through advertisement are sufficient to establish liability for copyright infringement
3. The sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other articles of commerce, does not constitute contributory infringement if the product is widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposes, or, indeed, is merely capable of substantial noninfringing uses.
4. [U]nauthorized home time-shifting of [television] programs is legitimate fair use
The last point is the key one here: EVEN IF the copyright holder does not authorize you to make a copy for your personal use, you are STILL legally entitled to do so.
Copyright is NOT an absolute monopoly on the duplication of a published work -- no matter how they whine, the copyright cartels cannot deny you your LEGAL fair use rights.
Sep. 29th, 2004
03:57 pm - Feng shui
My boss has no idea what it is.
Me neither, so ask my girlfriend.
03:51 pm - Windows reboots
How come a bunch of geeks have pretty much mastered distributed computing with BitTorrent, eDonkey, jigdo, GFS, etc and online updates via yum, apt-get, Red Hat Network, YAST, etc, but Windows Update still has to do one piece at a time, punctuated by several reboots?
Sep. 17th, 2004
03:57 pm - I hate hardware even more
My hard disk were i stored all my web pages, my digital pictures, my debian packages and other things went dead two weeks ago. After that I have had a nightmare preparing for the dj performance on last saturday's party.
So if you live in Helsinki area, have a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120 ATA/133 manufactured around 22MAR2003 and want to exchange it for another 120GB disk (heh, or even a 160) contact me.