Omniscience Protocol 356
solidox writes "There is a new RFC discussing the Omniscience Protocol.
It proposes that every computer be installed with an OP Client which would allow law enforcement ('Good guys.') and copyright holders (RIAA, MPAA) to remotely destroy the computer of any user who has been involved in copyright infringement ('evil-doer'). The client will be completely undetectable and unremovable by even the most skilled hacker. It also must be able to report to the server at any time. 'The OP must be able to communicate through uncooperative firewalls, NATs, and when the computer is disconnected from the Internet.' So if your computer randomly blows up in the next while, you can put the blame on this."
Hello? Check the date (Score:0, Insightful)
It's the first day of April. Ring any bells?
sigh (Score:3, Insightful)
The only news on
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Quit posting these april fools jokes. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Hello? Check the date (Score:2, Insightful)
go along with the joke?
Or, as a certain AC around here is fond of saying:
No shit, sherlock!
Re:Simply patheticc. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's actually called Palladium, and Microsoft is rolling it out together with Longhorn. The necessary hardware modification, in the form of TCPA or the Phoenix DRM bios, are already around the corner.
Good Thinking (Score:3, Insightful)
BAD IDEA
Re:Oh purlease (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:goddamn, this isn't FUNNY, it's STUPID! (Score:3, Insightful)
Except that a picture isn't speech. Even if you don't believe that line, the pictures would be of the commission of a felonious assault, and I believe, illegal. Since that is a stretch, let's step away from the actual subject. Photographers, to use their pictures, must have the consent of everyone in the picture to distribute it. Unless the rape victim did not consent to sex, but did consent to the pictures of it, the photos are illegal to distribute, AFAIK.
Yes, I know it was a troll, but it's still an interesting thought (the speech, not the rape).
Lame... So obvious (Score:3, Insightful)