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IP: more on Esther Dyson replies to RIAA, says CD copyright laws necessary
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:10:26 -0500
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:12:36 -0800 From: Seth David Schoen <schoen () loyalty org> To: farber () cis upenn edu David Farber writes: > >Subject: Re: FC: John Gilmore on Ukraine doing the right thing, fighting > >RIAA > >Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:57:02 -0800 > >From: David Lawrence <david () online-today com> > >To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com> > > > >On or about 1/3/02 7:31 AM, a certain Declan McCullagh [declan () well com] > >wrote: > > > >[John Gilmore:] > >>Reader, in case you didn't know, every color Xerox machine and color > >>laser printer prints the serial number of the machine on every page > >>they produce, covertly hidden in the output, under a long-standing > >>private "arrangement" with the US Treasury Department. I have been > >>unable to confirm whether this is also true of black-and-white xerox > >>machines. > > > >What in the HELL is he smoking? This is laughable. Are we just being > >goaded by someone who is a conspiracy theorist? It's interesting that people are still so skeptical about this, when even Xerox's published specifications for copiers often mention it. http://www.google.com/search?q=counterfeit-deterrent-marking Just to be absolutely sure, I asked Xerox directly about whether there are serial numbers in color copier output, and they confirmed it. http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/xerox.txt "The Secret Service has the ability to track a particular document to the source equipment that has produced a suspect image. This information is used for criminal investigation purposes only. The Secret Service does not provide this information to private individuals or companies, nor do they allow other parties to access this information. To detail how these anti-counterfeiting systems work would only encourage the illegal acts they are designed to prevent." (They didn't say anything about color printers, only color photocopiers.) -- Seth David Schoen <schoen () loyalty org> | Reading is a right, not a feature! http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | -- Kathryn Myronuk http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ |
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