27 Oct
2002
27 Oct
'02
2:07 a.m.
Hi all,
It is with regret that I have to inform you that I will not longer be
maintaining Vsound.
From the web page (
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/vsound/ )
October 27th, 2002
Although I have maintained vsound for nearly three years, I can no
longer do so, nor can I continue to make it available from this web
site.
I live in Australia which has a law (Digital Agenda Bill 2000) which
is similar to the DCMA in the US in that it makes the distribution
of a devices for circumventing copyright protection illegal. I have
neither the time, money or inclination to make myself a possible
target for such legal action by companies with endless legal and
financial resources.
However, vsound is probaly available from other web sites. If you
want a copy, you should search the web. Do not email me as I cannot
and will not provide you with a copy.
I will however continue working on other Linux audio software such as
libsndfile and Secret Rabbit Code.
Erik
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27 Oct
27 Oct
9:14 p.m.
again i am very saddened to see a valuable piece of research stopped by
what i feel are unnecessarily strict copyright laws.
i would like to see Vsound live on, and so i have made it available via
a link from the news page of my website at www.copyleftmedia.org.uk
please be aware that you will be directed to a click-through agreement
page first disclaiming any responsibility by me for its use, and
agreeing that you are not downloading this software from a country which
prohibits its use...
i will host the software as long as i am able - unfortunately we may
well see the introduction of this kind of legislation in the UK by the
end of the year, but for now, this is my protest....
best,
miriam
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
It is with regret that I have to inform you that I will not longer be
maintaining Vsound.
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From the web page (
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/vsound/ )
October 27th, 2002
Although I have maintained vsound for nearly three years, I can no
longer do so, nor can I continue to make it available from this web
site.
I live in Australia which has a law (Digital Agenda Bill 2000) which
is similar to the DCMA in the US in that it makes the distribution
of a devices for circumventing copyright protection illegal. I have
neither the time, money or inclination to make myself a possible
target for such legal action by companies with endless legal and
financial resources.
However, vsound is probaly available from other web sites. If you
want a copy, you should search the web. Do not email me as I cannot
and will not provide you with a copy.
I will however continue working on other Linux audio software such as
libsndfile and Secret Rabbit Code.
Erik 
28 Oct
28 Oct
4:37 a.m.
Hi,
Erik de Castro Lopo hat gesagt: // Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
It is with regret that I have to inform you that I
will not longer be
maintaining Vsound.
This brings me to the question, if it wouldn't be possible to achieve
something similar to Vsound with the use of ALSA's plugin
architecture. Reding a bit through the asoundrc docs at
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html, I
found the plugin:
File
This plugin stores contents of a PCM stream to file.
pcm.name {
type file # File PCM
slave STR # Slave name
# or
slave { # Slave definition
pcm STR # Slave PCM name
# or
pcm { } # Slave PCM definition
}
file STR # Filename
or
file INT # File descriptor number
[format STR] # File format (only "raw" at the moment)
}
Now this obviously is intended to be used for capturing the sound of
an application to a file. Did anyone use this already? And would this
work for ALSA's OSS emulation, as well?
ciao
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6 Nov
6 Nov
3:31 a.m.
i'd like to mirror it.
all i have is a very-low-bandwidth site at spunk.dnsalias.org (only
128kb/s upstream), but at least it's there.
erik, as the author, which place would you recommend for maximum
download enjoyment and quality of bits ? :)
regards,
jörn
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
It is with regret that I have to inform you that I will not longer be
maintaining Vsound.
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Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany
http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server)
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ (Linux Audio Developers)
From the web page (
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/vsound/ )
October 27th, 2002
Although I have maintained vsound for nearly three years, I can no
longer do so, nor can I continue to make it available from this web
site.
I live in Australia which has a law (Digital Agenda Bill 2000) which
is similar to the DCMA in the US in that it makes the distribution
of a devices for circumventing copyright protection illegal. I have
neither the time, money or inclination to make myself a possible
target for such legal action by companies with endless legal and
financial resources.
However, vsound is probaly available from other web sites. If you
want a copy, you should search the web. Do not email me as I cannot
and will not provide you with a copy.
I will however continue working on other Linux audio software such as
libsndfile and Secret Rabbit Code.
Erik
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo nospam(a)mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid)
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
The Earth is around 70% water. Fish rule the seas.
Humans are over 90% water. It's only a matter of time.
9:12 a.m.
great! so far there are at least three mirrors then, as far as i know...
peter clay and i believe julian midgely are the others...
we've successfully established through debate on the campaign for
digital rights mailing list that vsound is *not* a circumvention device
under s296 of the UK copyright act... because it cannot be established
that Real Audio streams are a form of 'copyright protection' - imho its
a convenience measure for saving bandwidth... but ianal and ymmv (to
cram as many acronyms into one sentence)....
i hope this might bring some more hope for vsound development... but int
the meantime we'll continue our mirrors....
Joern - what is the current legal situation in Germany at the moment
with regard to circumvention devices / copyright law?... i gather the
German EUCD will be a lot more lenient than the UK version...
feel free to take this off-list if its a wee bit OT....
best
m~
Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
i'd like to mirror it.
all i have is a very-low-bandwidth site at spunk.dnsalias.org (only
128kb/s upstream), but at least it's there.
erik, as the author, which place would you recommend for maximum
download enjoyment and quality of bits ? :)
regards,
jörn
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
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www.iriXx.org
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www.copyleftmedia.org.uk
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Hi all,
It is with regret that I have to inform you that I will not longer be
maintaining Vsound.
From the web page (
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/vsound/ )
October 27th, 2002
Although I have maintained vsound for nearly three years, I can no
longer do so, nor can I continue to make it available from this web
site.
I live in Australia which has a law (Digital Agenda Bill 2000) which
is similar to the DCMA in the US in that it makes the distribution
of a devices for circumventing copyright protection illegal. I have
neither the time, money or inclination to make myself a possible
target for such legal action by companies with endless legal and
financial resources.
However, vsound is probaly available from other web sites. If you
want a copy, you should search the web. Do not email me as I cannot
and will not provide you with a copy.
I will however continue working on other Linux audio software such as
libsndfile and Secret Rabbit Code.
Erik
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo nospam(a)mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid)
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
The Earth is around 70% water. Fish rule the seas.
Humans are over 90% water. It's only a matter of time.
2:29 p.m.
there is now a very-low-bandwidth vsound mirror of miriam's page at
http://spunk.dnsalias.org/vsound
the server is located in essen, germany and thus within the realm of
german jurisdiction, where, to the best of my knowledge, circumvention
devices as defined by the dmca and similar laws are not illegal.
please don't hammer too much on the machine, it's a wee little p/233 on
a 768/128kbit/s dsl link. (yes, ~15k maximum dl rate.)
go spread the stuff over the net :)
regards,
jörn
wow civil disobedience feels cool. :-P
iriXx wrote:
great! so far there are at least three mirrors then, as far as i know...
peter clay and i believe julian midgely are the others...
we've successfully established through debate on the campaign for
digital rights mailing list that vsound is *not* a circumvention device
under s296 of the UK copyright act... because it cannot be established
that Real Audio streams are a form of 'copyright protection' - imho its
a convenience measure for saving bandwidth... but ianal and ymmv (to
cram as many acronyms into one sentence)....
i hope this might bring some more hope for vsound development... but int
the meantime we'll continue our mirrors....
Joern - what is the current legal situation in Germany at the moment
with regard to circumvention devices / copyright law?... i gather the
German EUCD will be a lot more lenient than the UK version...
no such law. yet.
feel free to take this off-list if its a wee bit
OT....
best
m~
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Jörn Nettingsmeier
Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany
http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server)
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ (Linux Audio Developers)
3:24 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:25:30PM +0100, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
there is now a very-low-bandwidth vsound mirror of
miriam's page at
http://spunk.dnsalias.org/vsound
go spread the stuff over the net :)
Moved with subversive revolutionary spirit I thought I'd do just that,
so I went to the site and found there's a .deb file. Which made me
wonder, is there a .deb on the official Debian mirrors. Yes, there is!
So what's the problem? Do the other distributions carry it?
(apt-cache search lists version 0.5.3 on stable, but I'd guess that
later versions are on testing and unstable...)
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7:11 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:20:39PM +0000, Anahata wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:25:30PM +0100, Joern
Nettingsmeier wrote:
> there is now a very-low-bandwidth vsound mirror of miriam's page at
>
> http://spunk.dnsalias.org/vsound
>
> go spread the stuff over the net :)
http://poplar.seitz.com/~ross/vsound has a copy of the tarball and the
diff to 0.5.5.
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He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
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He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
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