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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   16 May 2002  22:36:35
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    Banks and browsers. The state of Linux-based web browsers has improved
    in a big way over the last couple of years; Linux users can now use
    the net with fast, robust, free, state-of-the-art applications and
    need no longer content themselves with old, proprietary, buggy code.
    Thanks to the efforts of the [32]Galeon, [33]Mozilla, and
    [34]Konqueror developers (among others), life has gotten much better.
 
    It has often been pointed out, however, that it is not enough just to
    have a pile of nice, free code. Without open data formats, the free
    software community's ability to interoperate with the rest of the
    world is limited. Anybody who has had to exchange Word documents
    understands this point well. Open formats, of course, extend to data
    exchanged on the net, including web pages.
 
    Certain web sites have proved to be difficult to use with Linux-based
    browsers - free or otherwise. Commerce sites, and banks in particular,
    can be problematic. The developers of many of these sites do not feel
    that they have many customers in the Linux world - if they think about
    Linux at all. As a result, Linux users lose out on some of the
    functionality of the net.
 
    A few efforts have been made to track which banks have sites that work
    with Linux browsers, and which do not. Now, [35]a new web page put
    together by Evan Leibovitch is pulling that information into one
    place. With a glance, it is possible to see which banks work well with
    your Linux system, and which do not.
 
    This information is useful on a couple of fronts. In cases where
    incompatibility is caused by a failure of the bank to follow current
    web standards, a public display can help members of the community to
    encourage changes and, if need be, to choose a more customer-friendly
    bank. Where the problems are caused by bugs in the Linux browser(s),
    the site can point developers at the problems and help to get them
    fixed. For the free browsers, anyway.
 
    Linux browser compatibility has gotten better as the browser software
    itself improves. If AOL really does deploy Mozilla-based browsers to
    its customers, one can expect things to improve quite a bit more. It
    will always be necessary to watch out for proprietary formats and
    "extensions," however, if Linux is not to be relegated to a small,
    free software backwater.
 
    Time to ban markers. Various schemes for "copy protecting" audio CDs
    are seeing increasing use, especially in Europe. These techniques
    generally involve violating the CD standard by putting corrupt data
    tracks on the outer part of the disk. Audio players ignore that data
    and play the disk without trouble, but computer drives get confused
    and refuse. At least, if you are lucky, they refuse: Apple drives,
    apparently, lock up and must be taken in for service.
 
    The many of us who listen to their legitimately purchased music on
    computer drives have a new hope, however, in the form of a high-tech
    circumvention device. Chel van Gennip pointed us at [36]this Chip
    Online page (in German) which gives detailed instructions on defeating
    corruption-based protection (a translation into something resembling
    English is [37]available via Babelfish). There are two techniques,
    both of which work by preventing a computer drive from trying to read
    the corrupted data track.
 
    Essentially, all you have to do is cover that track. This can be done
    with a Post-It note, a piece of electrical tape, or a carefully-drawn
    line with a heavy marker. All it takes is a few seconds of effort, and
    the "rip protection" is no more.
 
    It will be interesting to see how the entertainment industry responds
    to this one. The industry and the U.S. courts have been very clear on
    their position: a device which circumvents protection schemes is
    illegal under the DMCA, regardless of any legitimate uses it may have.
    The industry, it seems, must either (1) take the marker manufacturers
    to court, or (2) admit that, perhaps, some tools capable of
    circumvention might have uses that don't involve letting pirates take
    over the world. Which will it be?
 
    The digital consumer's bill of rights. On a related subject, it is
    worth taking a look at [38]the bill of rights proposed by the Digital
    Consumer project. These rights are:
      * The right to time shift content.
      * The right to space-shift content.
      * The right to make backup copies.
      * The right to use content on the platform of their choice.
      * The right to translate content into new formats.
      * The right to use technology to achieve the above rights.
 
    These rights are a good starting point: if they were a part of U.S.
    copyright law, there would be no DeCSS, Elcomsoft, or personal video
    recorder cases, and office supply stores could start stocking markers
    again. It is a good beginning for the definition of "fair use" in the
    digital age.
 
    This bill of rights would not solve the entire problem, however. We
    are not just consumers of "content;" increasingly we are all producers
    as well. As many have pointed out, "content" and "intellectual
    property" are inputs to the creative process, not just the output. The
    current expansion of copyright, patent law, and "digital rights
    management" schemes makes it ever harder to create anything without
    running into somebody's claimed intellectual property. Thus the
    original goal of intellectual property laws - to encourage invention
    and creation - is being thwarted.
 
    Modern technology makes it easier for us all to be producers, not just
    consumers, and the world is a richer place for it. We very much need a
    bill of rights which protects our rights as consumers, but we also
    need a bill of rights which recognizes that we are producers.
 
    No dismissal in Elcomsoft case. Meanwhile, back in the real world,
    here is [39]a release from the EFF on the latest ruling in the
    Elcomsoft case. Judge Whyte has refused all of the defense's motions
    for dismissal. The DMCA, he says, is entirely clear: it means to ban
    all "circumvention devices" regardless of their legal uses. And, while
    the program involved qualifies as speech, the government still can
    regulate it because it is controlling its "function," not its
    "content." The trial date is May 20.
 
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        1.4, Mozilla 1.0 RC2, FLTK 1.1.0rc2, Wine 20020509, AbiWord 1.0.1,
        Ask Perl 6, PHP 4.2.1, Phpmole 1.3.
      * [44]Commerce: Free software in the Spanish administration; Red Hat
        opens new facility.
      * [45]Letters: Commercial use of GPL software; total cost of
        ownership.
 
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