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The court acquitted Jon Johansen on all charges and said he did not break the law when he created a system that could remove copy protection on DVDs. |
The ruling by the court said there was no evidence that Mr Johansen was helping people break the law as the US film industry claimed. |
The decision is a serious blow to US entertainment industry ambitions to extend control over what people can do with the movies, music and software they have bought. |
In 1999, Norwegian police raided the home of teenager Jon Lech Johansen following a complaint by US entertainment giants that the software he had created was being used to help people pirate DVDs. |
Mr Johansen produced software, called DeCSS, that could strip the Content Scrambling System (CSS) from DVD disks. |
Mr Johansen said he created the DeCSS software to let him watch DVDs he purchased on a Linux computer rather than an expensive DVD player. |
Mr Johansen maintained that he should have the right to watch films he had legally bought on a device of his choosing. |
Now the Norwegian court has backed Mr Johansen and said there was "no evidence" that what he did was aiding DVD piracy. |
With no evidence that Mr Johansen was engaged in piracy or that he was aiding others to illegally copy disks the Norwegian court had no choice but to acquit the teenager. |
The court also ruled that it was not illegal to use DeCSS to watch legally obtained DVD films. |
The court case pitted the mighty Motion Picture Association of America against Mr Johansen and was widely seen as a test case for US ambitions to extend its control over what people can do with copyrighted materials. |
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten broke the news about the court case. |
US laws, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, have encouraged movie and music industry associations to pursue people who they see as aiding piracy. |
These ambitions have been dented recently by two court decisions. |
The first concerned Russian software firm Elcomsoft which was accused of creating tools that could unlock encryption controls of electronic books. |
But in late 2002 a US court acquitted Elcomsoft and said the firm had done nothing wrong. |
Now Norwegian judges have issued another rebuff to the US entertainment giants. |
"Hollywood is limping away from this fight" |
Vyacheslav Maltsev. Source: Youtube.“0 days, 0 hours, 0minutes, 0 seconds until the new historical epoch begins” - this is what the timer on the website of Vyacheslav Maltsev's Artpodgotovka movement currently reads. Maltsev, leader of the radical populist movement, promised that Russia would experience a revolution on... |
Russia’s new revolutionaries hoped to repeat Ukraine’s EuroMaidan scenario, but this “Russian Maidan” did not happen. On 5 November, more than 400 people were detained — 302 of them in Moscow. Many arrestees had weapons confiscated from them. (There were clearly less protesters on Russia’s streets than the security ser... |
Alexey (name changed) came from the Urals town of Perm to St Petersburg to make revolution. In a secret chat on the Telegram messaging app, Alexey told me how he had planned to steal weapons from police officers during the failed coup. He travelled to Russia’s northern capital with 10 other men, all wearing balaclavas ... |
But on 5 November, the Russian people didn’t come to power, and it seems that this would-be revolutionary will have to return the cash. |
Apart from a debt amnesty, Artpodgotovka’s political programme includes points such as the “immediate removal of Putin and his band from power”, ending Russia’s foreign military operations, cancelling all taxes, raising pensions and wages and “returning national goods stolen by corrupt people”. |
Artpodgotovka, which means “artillery training”, emerged at the end of 2013, when Vyacheslav Maltsev, a former deputy in Saratov’s regional parliament, began to regularly publish his “Bad News” programme via his YouTube channel. During Maltsev’s hour-long broadcasts, he would criticise the authorities, telling his audi... |
A week before the auspicious date, Nikita hacked the wifi routers installed in several Moscow metro carriages, uploading agitprop for Maltsev’s movement instead of the usual adverts. Even the city newspaper failed to notice it. This kind of minor “actionism”, it seems, forms the core of Artpodgotovka supporters’ activi... |
Oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev (right) posing for photographers during the opposition march on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. (c) Yevgeny Biyatov / RIA Novosti. All rights reserved.Screenshots of the hacked adverts were posted on Artpodgotovka Telegram chats with several thousand users. The movement attracts a range of p... |
These Telegram chats are home to both serious revolutionary ambitions and videos of anonymous bloggers wearing Guy Fawkes masks, making teenage reflections on the necessity of hacking Russia’s television networks. In one chat, I watched how users discussed Mr Robot, an US TV show where a group of hackers destroys the g... |
Several admins of these chats told me how they created these channels themselves. They reckon that, in Russia’s regions, Artpodgotovka is more like a circle for like-minded people, a chat with roughly 100 people. Maltsev told me that the number of chats was unexpected. |
The week before 5 November, people began organising into city-specific “defence units” and groups for sending out agitprop. Several people even gave out blank Google accounts for people to use to spread propaganda on YouTube. In the “defence unit” that I followed, activists compared what resources they had, giving each... |
A pre-revolutionary message on Telegram: "Comrades, we've got 3k people in the group. Tomorrow 7k maximum will come out. We need to stand till the end. That's when everyone else will come." This refusal could have had something to do with events at the end of October, when a Siberian regional court declared Artpodgotov... |
The court order’s description of Artpodgotovka as “an inter-regional civic movement” is far from reality: Artpodgotovka was only really organised in Moscow region, where it had a “People’s House” (a kind of open consultation office) for a while. Maltsev and his supporters called the absence of organisational structure ... |
Aside from Artpodgotovka, Vyacheslav Maltsev has a rich political biography under his belt. In 1994 he became a deputy in Saratov’s regional parliament, where he remained for three terms. According to Maltsev, it was there that he became friendly with Vyacheslav Volodin, the current speaker of Russia’s State Duma. Unti... |
In 2001, Maltsev was involved in setting up Saratov’s branch of United Russia. Today, Maltsev explains his work for the Russian authorities by referring to the fact that, according to the original idea, United Russia was supposed to oppose Russia’s new president, Vladimir Putin. But this didn’t happen, and in 2003 Malt... |
Around the same time, in 2003, Maltsev began working on a campaign against Saratov’s regional governor, Dmitry Ayatskov. Supporters of this campaign even held pickets in Moscow. In 2005, after regional elections were annulled, Putin chose not to appoint Ayatskov as Saratov governor — the leader of Artpodgotovka conside... |
Maltsev only came to be considered a real political figure in 2016, when he took first place (with the help of his YouTube channel) in the primary elections for the People’s Freedom Party, better known by its acronym PARNAS. He was added to the federal party list, but neither he, nor his fellow PARNAS members made it i... |
Vyacheslav Ryabkov, an Artpodgotovka member from Chuvashia, faces criminal prosecution for repeatedly breaking regulations on public meetings. Source: Facebook. Indeed, it was in 2016 that Maltsev managed to cause some dissatisfaction in the party for his xenophobic rhetoric. Artpodgotovka’s political programme still i... |
13 April 2017 saw Russian law enforcement search the apartments of Maltsev and Ivan Beletsky, leader of Russia’s Party of Nationalists, in connection with an attack on a police officer during anti-corruption protests in Moscow on 26 March. Maltsev managed to start live-streaming his detention, before he suffered a card... |
Following these searches and detentions, Maltsev fled Russia for France, where he established himself together with several supporters. While Maltsev continues his YouTube broadcasts, the Artpodgotovka supporters who remained in Russia face repression. In the summer, several supporters in the regions were fined for “sy... |
13 April: Vyacheslav Maltsev suffers from a heart attack before boarding a plane for Moscow while under arrest. |
According to Maltsev, Russia’s new revolution was meant to start on 4 November, at the “Russian March”, a nationalist gathering held in Moscow annually. The revolution was meant to continue overnight, but instead, Russia’s nationalist movement, full of internal incriminations and forced exile, experienced another split... |
Beletsky, leader of the Party of Nationalists, told me that he believes the reason for the rally’s cancellation was interference from the FSB. Beletsky, who is currently a witness in three criminal investigations in Russia, is now outside the country. His VKontakte page is blocked, though you can correspond with him vi... |
It appears that, to follow Artpodgotovka’s slogan, it was the Russian security services who were “not waiting, but preparing”. On 31 October, Russia’s new National Guard started a two-day training mobilisation, and a few days later the round-ups against the movement started. |
For several days in early November, the FSB reported on its successful operations against “Artpodgotovka conspiratorial cells” and confiscated Molotov cocktails, explosives and weapons. On a video published by the FSB, you can watch how security officers blow open the window of an apartment, where they find firearms an... |
FSB storms apartment of Artpodgotovka members. Source: Tass. All rights reserved.On 5 November, police detained not only people protesting, but even random passers-by. For example, people attending the Adam Smith Lectures discussion forum in Moscow were detained as they walked to McDonalds after the lectures, 1.5km fro... |
After the “revolution”, the authorities opened an investigation into signs that Maltsev and his followers had organised a terrorist group. Apparently, members of Artpodgotovka had planned to commit arson attacks against police officers and public administration buildings. Indeed, the police operations continued — on 10... |
The idea that the protesters detained in central Moscow possessed weapons has provoked doubt from some observers, but instructions for how to make Molotov cocktails, as well as images of weapons sent by members of Artpodgotovka’s “defence units”, are documented in the movement’s chat archives. Some supporters even coll... |
Back in October, a message from an anonymous account was distributed on Artpodgotovka’s chat network. Apparently, the author was a member of the group behind Russia’s recent wave of “telephone terrorism”. For three months now, scores of public buildings across the country have been evacuated after bomb threats via tele... |
I spoke to one person allegedly involved in this telephone campaign (to prove their authenticity, they predicted two evacuations, though did not support these claims with any further evidence, such as VPN phone-call logs or screenshots from chatrooms). They also promised that public administration buildings would suffe... |
Justifying the mass evacuation of Raiffeisen Bank branches and call centre in October, this account mentioned the “yids profiting off people” with the help of the financial institutions and stated that these telephone calls were meant to damage the infrastructure of the security services. At the end of the conversation... |
This video from an account called “The People’s Destabilisers” lists Russia’s problems and calls for war against the Russian authorities. The video was uploaded in April this year. |
The bomb threats have continued. So far, only a police source in conversation with Mash, a Telegram news channel run by former Life News employees, has mooted the theory that “5.11.2017” and the telephone calls are connected. There’s no open confirmation of it available. Vyacheslav Maltsev told me that people had asked... |
Despite numerous detentions and criminal cases against Artpodgotovka supporters, Vyacheslav Maltsev does not consider 5 November a failure. He says it’s only the beginning. He calls the people detained “defenders of constitutional principles” and has accuses the Russian police of unlawful actions. |
Failures aside, Maltsev is responsible for a minor media revolution — live online talk shows on politics have become a fully-fledged genre, occupying their own niche on Russian YouTube. Maltsev’s victory at the PARNAS primaries already demonstrated that his audience has a certain electoral potential. |
Vyacheslav Maltsev and Alexey Navalny, April 2017. Source: Vkontakte. All rights reserved.Every Artpodgotovka video includes details of how viewers can make donations to the movement. By 16 November, in Bitcoin alone, Maltsev had received more than 10m roubles (£127,000). This isn't the movement's first Bitcoin wallet,... |
Maltsev uses the phrase “the people” constantly, including on air. Speaking to him one-on-one, he reminds me of a taxi driver confidently stating his beliefs. Maltsev’s profile as a blogger emerged during the rise of rightwing populism in Europe and the US, and he has become its Russian reflection. His supporters are r... |
After the revolution failed to happen, the number of “dislikes” on Maltsev’s videos began to rise. Many were disillusioned in the leader of Artpodgotovka. In the comments, former supporters called him a traitor (some also made anti-semitic slurs), criticising him for not supporting detainees. The press have reminded Ma... |
Judging by Artpodgotovka’s chat rooms, Maltsev’s supporters are planning to join the campaign of Alexey Navalny, who unexpectedly endorsed activists from Artpodgotovka after the “revolution”. Navalny believes that the number of people arrested in Maltsev’s failed revolution will exceed that of the Bolotnaya case, when ... |
It’s a different matter, however, if anyone else will offer support to the men and women about to figure in Russia’s next big political trial. Maltsev’s supporters are rather different from the people who protested on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square five years ago. The majority of those in detention centres today are fans of... |
Fairview Police have taken a man into custody after responding to a report of a barricaded person inside a building in the 2800 block of Fairview Boulevard. |
Shortly after 3 p.m., police received a call of a man barricaded inside an apartment and in possession of a gun. |
The apartment is located in close proximity to Fairview Boulevard, which has been shut down from Valley Road to Deer Ridge Road since 3:26 p.m. |
As a precautionary measure, neighbors in the adjoining apartment were evacuated, and the Fairview Recreation Center has also been placed on lockdown. |
Police took the suspect into custody at 4:49 p.m. |
Services that require a high level of security often use two-factor authentication—a process that requires you to enter your password plus a second piece of information before you can log in. |
You probably use two-factor now when you visit your financial or health-care websites. You might also see it more frequently on campus websites and services over the next year or two. |
At UC Davis, about 1,000 people who formerly used Safeword as a second factor to access the Banner student information system recently moved to a different product, Duo Security. They joined about 300 other system administrators who started using Duo for other services. |
And here’s why the change might interest non-technologists: The campus has made it possible for Duo to work with CAS, the Central Authentication Service. Most UC Davis websites and services use CAS as part of their logins—so if the managers of those services and sites start using Duo as well, then two-factor authentica... |
This change would apply to services used by faculty and staff. At this time, the campus Duo licensing does not include use by students. |
There is no guarantee that additional CAS-protected campus services will add two-factor authentication, but the practice is common, helps protect privacy, and improves security for both the individual and UC Davis. The odds are good that many services will at least consider adding it. |
Duo verifies your identity by requiring a second “factor” before it lets you log in to an application or website. Typically, Duo generates and delivers a temporary, second password to individual users. |
You can have the second password sent to you via a free mobile app (see photo) that you install on your smartphone. The mobile app will enter the second password for you, or you can enter it yourself. You can also use Duo via a “hard token,” which resembles a fob, and costs $30. Text and phone delivery options exist, b... |
In exchange for the slightly longer login, you get much better security. To break in to your account, an attacker would need your passphrase as well as the physical device you use with Duo. If one factor is compromised, the other will still protect you. |
The central campus does not now require services to adopt two-factor authentication (also known as multi-factor), but it wants to have a good, standard tool available. The campus purchased Duo because the tool can be used in different ways, and because it works well. Many other universities already use it. |
The first campus services to integrate with Duo, nearly a year ago, were the UNIX and Windows Bastion hosts, which technologists use for administrative access to servers they manage. They had been using Safeword. That move to Duo involved about 300 people. |
The next service to integrate with Duo was administrative access to Banner. That happened over the summer. Students do not need to use Duo to access services they use. |
The UC Davis Health System is also launching Duo for some hospital services. Health System users who need assistance with CAS authentication or Shibboleth and Duo should contact IT Express. |
Any campus services that use CAS and add Duo to their logins will need to communicate the change to their customers, plus provide instructions. |
The Duo implementation project is co-sponsored by Student Affairs and Information & Educational Technology. Read more about Duo in the IT Service Catalog, or for more information, contact Duo Implementation Project Manager Joyce Johnstone at jmjohnstone@ucdavis.edu. |
July 20, 2010 What do a CIA agent, an inappropriate electronics store manager, and an alien annihilator have in common? They're all female film characters — played, respectively, by Angelina Jolie, Jane Lynch and Sigourney Weaver — originally written for men to play. |
July 12, 2010 Comic book writer Harvey Pekar, whose American Splendor captured with wit and angst the downbeat details of a life lived in Rust Belt Cleveland, was found dead in his home early Monday, authorities said. He was 70. |
July 12, 2010 The Emmy-nominated actress is back for a sixth season of TNT's police procedural, playing ladylike Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson. NPR's Neda Ulaby visited the show's new set. |
July 8, 2010 After acclaimed performances in films from You Can Count On Me to Zodiac, the actor Mark Ruffalo returns in the indie drama The Kids Are All Right. NPR's Neda Ulaby talks to Ruffalo about his upcoming directorial debut, his tendency to play disruptive charmers, and the trials he's dealt with on the home ... |
July 6, 2010 Rock residencies are part of a national trend of club managers turning over the slowest night of the week to an up-and-coming band for a solid month. Club owners have nothing to lose -- and the bands have everything to gain. |
June 30, 2010 This week on Culturetopia: Interviews with musicians Mark Mothersbough, ?uestlove and Lauryn Hill; the documentary "Restrepo," and what Tom Cruise means to Hollywood. |
June 29, 2010 With the technology on the rise, more and more cinematographers are looking to become proficient in three-dimensional moviemaking. But clunky cameras mean that many are harboring reservations. |
June 24, 2010 This week in the Culturetopia podcast: stories about Ulysses on the iPad, an archive of amazing Polaroids, and what happens when mumblecore goes mainstream. |
Sea Salt Latte: Is 85C The Next Coffee Craze? |
June 8, 2010 The coffee company from Taiwan hopes to teach Americans to love marbled taro and iced sea salt lattes. Each store in the 85C chain also includes a bakery. A crossover hit is black squid-ink bread, made with Vermont sharp cheddar cheese and garlic paste. |
June 1, 2010 Artist Louise Bourgeois died in New York at the age of 98 Monday. Known primarily as a sculptor, Bourgeois was a leading figure in 20th century art. Her works were provocative and disturbing, but often playful. |
May 28, 2010 For decades, musicians have used shock value to provoke their audiences. Elvis swung his hips, Madonna sang about her nonexistent virginity and Marilyn Manson named himself after a convicted killer. Now, there's a new crop of rabble-rousers on the scene. Lady Gaga, M.I.A. and Erykah Badu are among the ar... |
May 20, 2010 NPR's Neda Ulaby learned a few things about the network upfronts this week. Two of them are that you can't record sound, and that ABC is really into that documentary format. |
May 18, 2010 The broadcast TV networks are rolling out their new seasons in presentations to advertisers this week. All eyes are on NBC, which is trying to recover its prime-time lineup from the disaster of Jay Leno at 10 p.m. |
Salman Khurshid made light of Yeddyurappa praising Cong and slamming BJP chief Gadkari for not making him Karnataka BJP chief. |
NEW DELHI: Law Minister Salman Khurshid today made light of former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa praising Congress and slamming BJP chief Nitin Gadkari for not making him the Karnataka BJP chief. |
"He may have said something but it seems he is parting away from the BJP. If anybody praises us, it feels good but the cause for praising should also be good," Khurshid told reporters here. |
He was reacting to questions on Yeddyurppa's remarks in Bangalore that "from Jawaharlal Nehru to Sonia Gandhi, the Congress has never let down its leaders." |
The sulking former Karnataka Chief Minister, who skipped attending the BJP's national executive in Surajkund also took pot shot at Gadkari, saying that he hadn't kept his promise of making him the Karnataka BJP chief. |
Will Apple Hardware Make It in the Cloud? |
One of the perennial question in IT circles is whether Apple still has the desire to mount a truly competitive data center platform, or should it just give up the pretense of being remotely interested in infrastructure altogether? |
This morning it dawned on me: The best way to gauge Apple's commitment to its hardware platform is to see how much cloud development it's getting. The answer is: next to nothing. |
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