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The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits devices and software that can be used to circumvent digital restrictions, no matter how trivial the restrictions. A new slide deck from the US Department of Homeland Security (warning for PDF) states that the overall number of copyright-, patent-, trademark-related seizures increased by 8% last year. Though much of it was from traditional counterfeit goods, there were some hints at something more problematic regarding interpretation of the rules:
New data released by Homeland Security shows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized significantly more DMCA circumvention devices in 2017. The seizures, which includes mod chips for gaming consoles, increased 324% compared to the year before, although the actual number remains fairly low.
[...] What we did notice is that the International Intellectual Property [sic] Alliance (IIPA) recently framed streaming boxes as possible circumvention tools. The strong enforcement focus of rightsholders on these devices may have been communicated to border patrols as well.
Again, there is no word yet on what the border staff actually consider to be circumvention technologies.
From TorrentFreak : U.S. Border Seizures of DMCA Circumvention Devices Surges
and the Washington Examiner : US customs agencies seize $1.2B in counterfeit imports as illegal goods market continues to grow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:27AM (9 children)
Nice to see the alt-wrong strong at work. Is this EF's new troll account? Drug + aspect of transportation + racism?
(Score: 0, Troll) by cocaine overdose on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:36AM (8 children)
As to follow up on the third sentence, I make no claims that I'm a righteous and fair person. I am vehemently racist and misanthropic. I hope this makes it worse in your mind. And women, and animals, and children, and the french. They're all terrible. On another note, what does "aspect of transportation" mean? And overdose is not an aspect of anything, nor is it related to transporation, unless you want to lump it under the already stretching "route of administration," which in the case of drugs is more close to "method of administration," than route or path or whatever other word country bumpkins decided meant "how one thing gets to another place."
If you can, and if you have one, log into your account and give me a troll modifier (or whatever you like). There's nothing worse than being neutral, not even hated.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 11 2018, @03:43AM
XBox? XBOX?! Have you no shame? Have you, at long last, no shame?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:38AM (2 children)
EF is Ethanol-Fueled, great guy, one of the best on here. Or anywhere. And maybe I'll see him on Tuesday when I go to San Diego. To look at the prototypes for my beautiful Wall. And decide which ones move on to Round 2. #TrumpTV [twitter.com]
But Ethanol-Fueled doesn't use a typewriter to write his tweets. I love the ones that are written on the typewriter. We live in the age of computer, the age of digital. But it's so nice to see documents that are written the old way. And to see our young people doing that again. Not because it's easy. Because it's beautiful. And you type very well. Great job!
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 11 2018, @07:21PM (1 child)
Sorry, man. Ain't gonna happen. Gotta work. Although even more disappointingly if I could stop by it would be an easy opportunity for a photo-op since there are not a lot of people within a 30-mile radius of Otay Mesa who would shake your hand and buy you a beer. As it so happens, I will be within that radius when you are around, but too busy to stop by and shoot the shit.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 11 2018, @11:31PM
Thank you for your support! I don't drink beer, but they say San Diego makes some of the best. Maybe I'll try the one without alcohol, it's fabulous for the health. According to all the scientists.
We have millions of new jobs since I took office. Very easy for me to win in 2020, right? WRONG! Because our working folks, so many of them, are busy on Tuesdays. That's why my predecessors loved Welfare. You put somebody on Welfare, that person has all day to vote for you. Looking very closely into what they do in Australia, they do their elections on Saturday. But our Constitution says Tuesday. Change it, or I'll proclaim a holiday!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:48AM (3 children)
Heh, no idea about EF but you already have a psychological workup of aristarchus? I sense a balloon filled not with hot air, oh no! This one is full of fermenting doody.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 11 2018, @07:44PM (2 children)
Cocaine overdose is the up-and-coming new professional troll in his rookie season. I've analyzed the writing style and see some overlap between 1 or few others, but then again that could just be the Schizophrenia talking.
He or she is off to a good start, but as I have suggested before, a real SN troll must stand on the shoulders of SN's literary giants -- they don't need to ape our style, just have enough of their own for a 1 or 2-pager.
He or she is off to a good start with some kind of technical credibility, even if it is bullshitted. I suspect the nihilism will be a problem when trying to make journal entries longer than a few sentences, and the component of sadism needs to stay cartoonized lest it risk the potential for dividing his or her existing fanbase.
But that's just, like, my opinion; man. And I'm one insignificant shit amongst many here.
(Score: 3, Informative) by cocaine overdose on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:34PM (1 child)
Melodrama aside, your words are good, old man. But you're old and you let your guard down. There's no room for a heart-to-heart in this business. The moment you take a break from standing post, the moment you sit down, those worms will force themselves between the armor joints and latch themselves onto your energy. All that work keeping frame, and you let it slip for some sentiment. Thank you, sifu, for sitting down. I will start by standing on your shoulders, as I make my way climbing the giants. That old fart that keeps going on about having his scribblings burned is next.
With the culture of your wisdom and the nitrogen of your corpse, springs forth a disgusting fungus.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday March 13 2018, @06:39PM
Heinlein convinced me I'm the only person in existence. Because sometimes all of you go away, but I'm always here.
Now that I think about it, that means Heinlein was fictional too. That's sad.
Then again, maybe I am too.
This sig for rent.