China's 'Green Dam' Software Program Near Collapse 46
katarn writes "Apparently domestic and international pressure, security vulnerabilities, and a $2.2B lawsuit over alleged stolen code have taken their toll on China's Green Dam software censorship program. Green Dam is a separate program from the 'Great Firewall of China,' which remains firmly in place. According to Green Dam program partners, funding for the project has not been renewed. The project development team has been shut down and the installation and aftercare team is facing closure. Unsurprisingly there has been no official comment from official Chinese authorities."
Going green (Score:2)
But now how will China go green?
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Maybe they should read the previous topic?
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Maybe they shouldn't fail at reading and/or getting fairly obvious jokes?
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There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
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Crossbreeding with Na'vi.
Note: It was a US Software Company suing for 2.2B (Score:3, Insightful)
US software firm sues China over Green Dam piracy [guardian.co.uk]
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Who handles these kinds of cases?
I seriously have no clue how international law (especially with copyrights) work.
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This is also where ie. someone like Google would sue over those intrusion attacks made by China a few months back.
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According to WIPO, China is a signatory, and the treaty is in force, which means there is domestic legislation in China, and it would be via this that I'm assuming software makers would be suing.
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Link is here: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=16 [wipo.int]
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How would we know? (Score:2)
Maybe they have commented, but it got censored.
I'll show myself out.
Dam it! (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, the government did try to respond, but unfortunately Green Dam blocked it. Some sort of obscenity issue, apparently.
Damn China damn green damn software (Score:1)
Re:Damn China damn green damn software (Score:4, Funny)
**** China **** green **** software sirs.
China green software? What is this supposed to mean? I don't understand. Are you saying I should uninstall Green Dam?
I'm eagerly awaiting... (Score:2)
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... the juicy novelization of what _really_ happened, by Cory Doctorow of course :-)
Plenty of puns to choose from for the title ("Damn, Green", the "Green and the Damned", "The new Dambusters").
Nonono, Cory is Canadian. The only reasonable title is 'Red Green', accompanied by subtle puns about how the software is only (duct) taping over the holes.
Maybe then can sell it to MA (Score:2, Insightful)
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/13/1837227/Massachusetts-Bids-To-Restrict-Internet-Indecency [slashdot.org]
They close the team because .. (Score:1)
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Awful.
Re:Officially Official (Score:4, Insightful)
Good! (Score:1)
Although one wonders:
China can't do it because its so huge, but what about smaller countries like Canada, the US, Mexico or Brazil?
Green damn! (Score:2)
"According to Green Dam program partners, funding for the project has not been renewed. The project development team has been shut down and the installation and aftercare team is facing closure. Unsurprisingly there has been no official comment from official Chinese authorities."
Further, Green Dam project partners have been trying to get the development team on the phone for weeks, but just yesterday have been getting "Number not in service" recordings, and the mail and news papers have been collecting at the door of the development team office for months.
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In most places that would mean it was out of business. In China it means that, tragically, the developers died in a plane crash after forgetting to put fuel in the tank.
This thread is useless without pics! (Score:1)
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Does someone still have all those cute 'anime' style Green Dam Girl pics?
This? [paheal.net] (alert, NSFW)
What funding? (Score:2, Insightful)
The project doesn't need funding; the developers will work for the good of the people. That's what Mao would have wanted, right? He was an OSS kind of guy.
You coulda saved a buck or two (or two billion) (Score:1)
With China's version of "Big Brother" pictures in every home and face-eating-rat cage rooms. That's what you get for trying to go "legit".
Good day brother!
Close an over-budget, non-performing program down? (Score:2)
20m Yuan for stealing a sw? (Score:1)
Tired of all the green crap (Score:1)
Conroy take note (Score:1)