There's a big Gnutella discussion going on at discuss.userland.com. And (unfortunately) under a seperate thread, a discussion on the ethical issues with Gnutella.
There's a big Gnutella discussion going on at discuss.userland.com. And (unfortunately) under a seperate thread, a discussion on the ethical issues with Gnutella.
(Remember how they created DeCSS: They didn't crack the codes on DVDs, they reverse engineered a legal player platform.)
Oi. It had the usual lawyer I-want-the-technology-so-it-must-be-possible quote, too: "Gema, Germany's main music licensing group, said the verdict was a signal that Internet services need to introduce technologies to protect copyrights online." The sad part is a coherent conversation on this topic is virtually impossible... you can't communicate to a lawyer that something may well be impossible. After all, they can always produce developers claiming they can create something to satisfy the lawyers... and you end up with the DeCSS fiasco when your protection is bypassed.
German court: AOL liable for music piracy: "In a ruling that could give the music industry a weapon against Internet piracy, a court said Wednesday that America Online is responsible when users swap bootleg music files on its service."
BTW, concrete damage to you is being done by this; while I'm fixing something that should not have been a problem, I'm not implementing favorites functionality in the Weblogs.com sidebar. Sure, in this case it may not damage you any if you don't use it, but it's the only concrete example I can give you.
I am annoyed.
Works fine in Mozilla. Guess what IE5 (not 5.5) does? It does not retrieve elements based on name, it looks for ID! But wait, there's already a function (IE-specific) that retrieves elements based on ID, which is document.all. Apparently, despite the hint given in the function name itself, Microsoft can't figure out what to retrieve elements based on.
I have to agree with them. I have been trying to implement the contraction-expansion this site does in IE on windows in Mozilla. I'm pretty sure now I can do it. But I want it to work in both, not just Mozilla! So I try to use the document.getElementsByName function. It should retrieve a list of elements in an HTML document that have a NAME="" attribute that matches the argument of the function.
The Web Standard Project has elaborated on their distaste for IE5.5.
Interesting thought!