Friday, May 6, 2011
Fwd: [P2P-F] Mozilla Refuses to Roll Over for Homeland Security Nazis
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From: Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Subject: [P2P-F] Mozilla Refuses to Roll Over for Homeland Security Nazis
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Apparently, the folks at Homeland Security are not at all pleased with the very, very simple Firefox extension, called MAFIAAfire, that negates ICE's domain seizures, by automatically rerouting users to alternate domains. Apparently, DHS demanded that Mozilla take the extension down from its listing of Firefox extensions claiming that the add-on "circumvented" DHS's seizure orders. Thankfully, Mozilla didn't just fold, but instead left it up and sent DHS a list of questions concerning the request. The list of questions is really fantastic, as it goes way beyond the direct request to really get to the heart of the questionable nature of ICE's activity with domain seizures:
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From: Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Subject: [P2P-F] Mozilla Refuses to Roll Over for Homeland Security Nazis
To: leftlibertarian2 <LeftLibertarian2@yahoogroups.com>, libertarian-alliance-forum <libertarian-alliance-forum@yahoogroups.com>, p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org>
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via Techdirt by Mike Masnick on 5/5/11
Apparently, the folks at Homeland Security are not at all pleased with the very, very simple Firefox extension, called MAFIAAfire, that negates ICE's domain seizures, by automatically rerouting users to alternate domains. Apparently, DHS demanded that Mozilla take the extension down from its listing of Firefox extensions claiming that the add-on "circumvented" DHS's seizure orders. Thankfully, Mozilla didn't just fold, but instead left it up and sent DHS a list of questions concerning the request. The list of questions is really fantastic, as it goes way beyond the direct request to really get to the heart of the questionable nature of ICE's activity with domain seizures:
To help us evaluate the Department of Homeland Security's request to take-down/remove the MAFIAAfire.com add-on from Mozilla's websites, can you please provide the following additional information:It's always nice to see some organizations not just roll over when the government comes calling. Kudos to Mozilla for not just refusing to takedown MAFIAAfire, but for also asking serious questions of DHS. Of course, DHS has refused to respond at all...
1. Have any courts determined that MAFIAAfire.com is unlawful or illegal in any way? If so, on what basis? (Please provide any relevant rulings)
2. Have any courts determined that the seized domains related to MAFIAAfire.com are unlawful, illegal or liable for infringement in any way? (please provide relevant rulings)
3. Is Mozilla legally obligated to disable the add-on or is this request based on other reasons? If other reasons, can you please specify.
4. Has DHS, or any copyright owners involved in this matter, taken any legal action against MAFIAAfire.com or the seized domains, including DMCA requests?
5. What protections are in place for MAFIAAfire.com or the seized domain owners if eventually a court decides they were not unlawful?
6. Can you please provide copies of any briefs that accompanied the affidavit considered by the court that issued the relevant seizure orders?
7. Can you please provide a copy of the relevant seizure order upon which your request to Mozilla to take down MAFIAAfire.com is based?
8. Please identify exactly what the infringements by the owners of the domains consisted of, with reference to the substantive standards of Section 106 and to any case law establishing that the actions of the seized domain owners constituted civil or criminal copyright infringement.
9. Did any copyright owners furnish affidavits in connection with the domain seizures? Had any copyright owners served DMCA takedown notices on the seized domains or MAFIAAfire.com? (if so please provide us with a copy)
10. Has the Government furnished the domain owners with formal notice of the seizures, triggering the time period for a response by the owners? If so, when, and have there been any responses yet by owners?
11. Has the Government communicated its concerns directly with MAFIAAfire.com? If so, what response, if any, did MAFIAAfire.com make?
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Fwd: Worlds first true open-source OpenRISC processorASIC
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Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM
Subject: Worlds first true open-source OpenRISC processorASIC
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HELP US SHOW THE OLD CONSERVATIVE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY THAT OPEN-SOURCE IS HERE TO STAY AND WILL CHANGE THE INDUSTRY!
From: Opencores Mail Delivery <noreply@opencores.org>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM
Subject: Worlds first true open-source OpenRISC processorASIC
To: technologiclee@gmail.com
HELP US SHOW THE OLD CONSERVATIVE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY THAT OPEN-SOURCE IS HERE TO STAY AND WILL CHANGE THE INDUSTRY!
Please help us create the "worlds first true open-source OpenRISC ASIC", meaning:
- Build and release all design files as "true" open-source.
- Offer it back to the donors as a super-low cost ASIC.
- Use a "flat price model", meaning that the price-level will be set accordingly based on the accumulated annual volume, which means everyone will benefit if the volumes goes up, not only buyers with high volumes. The more we are, the lower unit-price we will get.
THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO TRY AND CHANGE, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
Some of us who have worked for Semiconductor companies have seen the large margins and the large price differences depending if you were a large customer with many different products, or if you are a smaller company with a great new product. Since price always is important , it is today almost impossible to compete with large companies even if you have a "better" product.
We are very happy to see that the existing donors are donating quite allot of money per person, however since we are so many members of the OpenCores community (117.000 users), we basically would be well off with a couple of $ per person. What we are trying to say is that all donations counts and matter allot!
Since we do not know yet what ASIC-technology we can afford, the current design specification is "not set in stone". We want the community and donors to provide feedback when we have better indication on what ASIC technology we can use. The ASIC technology selection defines both how much logic (functionality) and what performance we can get, which then impacts what functions we can/should integrate, for example, it would be great if we can integrate multiple OpenRISC processors, PCIexpress etc.
HELP US MAKE THIS WORK, AND SHOW THE OLD CONSERVATIVE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY THAT OPEN-SOURCE IS HERE TO STAY AND WILL CHANGE THE INDUSTRY!
Click here - OpenRISC-ASIC page
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