gmail is the answer
He wont get the royalties, but guessing he could just type up a bunch of emails and send them to his gmail account. Once the account is hacked, and the emails public, all will be forgiven.
Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook
Assistant Professor Matthew Green has asked US courts for protection so that he can write a textbook explaining cryptography without getting sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Green, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, is penning a tome called Practical Cryptographic Engineering that examines the …
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Monday 3rd October 2016 08:38 GMT Voland's right hand
Re: Welcome to the land of the free!
You already do.
Try publishing a textbook which contains exact synthesis instructions for anything prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, Wassenaar as well as, let's say, the exact instructions for the additives you need to put into the growth medium for Yersinia Pestis (the ghastly thing is actually a royal PITA to grow at scale, it will start and then just die out unless you really know what you are doing).
You _WILL_ get a visit from some gentlemen in black suits in a vehicle with blacked out windows.
By the way - I have both stashed somewhere in the remote corners of my brain in violation of relevant UK Thought Crime laws.
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Sunday 2nd October 2016 06:42 GMT Steve Davies 3
Re: First Amendment ?
Back in the day, authors used to do 'readings' of their works.
If he did nothing but hosted readings where spoke all the words of his work to an audience then IMHO the 1st Ammendment will cover him from prosecution.
Then he could publish the words (and the audio) he spoke (and only the words he spoke). Again, the 1st Ammendment will cover him because it is a verbatum record of what he spoke.
Well, thats my IANAL view of things.
I'm sure the DMCA supporters will be thinking differently.
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Saturday 1st October 2016 15:48 GMT Mage
Or he could move
The USA "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" is actually contravening the Berne Convention on Copyright, suppressing security research and human rights.
I suppose it's not practical as plan "B", to give up US citizenship and live in a country prepared to ignore illegal US extraterritorial attempts at US law enforcement.
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Saturday 1st October 2016 19:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Or he could move
>Or he could move
After being an ex-pat working in most of the developed countries in the world I can tell you unless you are born into them you won't ever belong (Canada being one exception). If you do so you do it for your kids. Also as an American I haven't seen a country that much better than the US that would make it worth starting over.
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Sunday 2nd October 2016 11:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Or he could move
lso as an American I haven't seen a country that much better than the US that would make it worth starting over.
Until early November that is and when a certain candidate gets elected {Rug included}
Is a pretty sure bet that a good number of fine upstanding citizens will decide to move to 'somewhere else entirely'.
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Sunday 2nd October 2016 06:17 GMT Mk4
Really?
I am from the UK and expat but unlike you I have spent more than 10 years in one developed country, not bouncing around many of them. I speak and understand the language (not natve level but my job is in English). I have now spent enough time here (just) to somewhat disentangle the national persona and stereotypes from individual people's personalities and get used to a host of ideosyncratic ideas and behaviour.
Before you write off the non-US world, think about how much time you spent in each place compared to the time you spent in the US growing up and normalizing your viewpoint with the rest of the US people around you.
I think the reason you didn't feel you belonged is that you didn't belong. When you do, you do.
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Sunday 2nd October 2016 06:18 GMT Mk4
Really?
I am from the UK and expat but unlike you I have spent more than 10 years in one developed country, not bouncing around many of them. I speak and understand the language (not natve level but my job is in English). I have now spent enough time here (just) to somewhat disentangle the national persona and stereotypes from individual people's personalities and get used to a host of ideosyncratic ideas and behaviour.
Before you write off the rest of the non-US world,think about how much time you spent in each place compared to the time you spent in the US growing up and normalizing your viewpoint with the rest of the US people around you.
I think the reason you didn't feel you belonged is that you didn't belong. When you do, you do.
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Monday 3rd October 2016 08:24 GMT Wzrd1
Re: Really?
@Mk4, I can't agree more.
This, from a US citizen who spent five years in various GCC states, much of that time, with my wife happily in tow.
Act and feel like you belong, be accepted as belonging. Act and feel like you're special and an outsider, be embraced by one and all as that outsider. Just realize, the latter has the cost of not being allowed to play with the locals kids. ;)
I've actually played Santa in Arabian homes. The downside, it was 28 degrees C outside and that Santa suit was a bit... Warm.
Still, smiling kids and all. :)
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