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  • On the post: Another Court Rejects RIAA's 'Making Available' Claim

    DaveL ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2008 @ 07:13am

    Well, Javarod does make a good case of where do you draw the line on "making available"? Is a simple password enough? or do we need to protect it with high end encryption?

    I think leaving the door unlocked is a good analogy...

  • On the post: More Courts Saying That Customs Officers Can Look Through Your Laptop

    DaveL ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2008 @ 05:38am

    Re:

    Good news that I don't have to give up my encryption password...

    We travel to Europe a good bit for work and I have a lot of proprietary stuff on my machine. The whole hard drive is encrypted.

    I have a feeling that telling the Border agent, "Sure you can look through my laptop, but can you sign this NDA first?" wouldn't go over so well.

  • On the post: Falsely Accusing Your Customers Of Software Piracy Is Not A Victimless Crime

    DaveL ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2006 @ 11:17am

    Microsoft's goal

    What I think a lot of people don't understand yet is that Microsoft doesn't want to SELL software... that want to lease it to you (so you don't own it)... by putting something like this in place, they are making it much easier for them to force this on the end user.