This is total BS. How is posting a few screen-grabs from their publicly available video a violation of their copyright? Isn't it considered fair use? I was expecting more on the lines of "we are sorry for the whole fiasco, our legal team acts independently whenever it feels like there is a violation", instead of him defending the DMCA. They used DMCA to try and censor a debate about their lies. Talking about DMCA, is it just me, or does anybody else think that government is always eager to pass copyright protection (aka censorship) laws, rather than passing laws to protect the citizens from corporate greed?
CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
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Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#12This is total BS. How is posting a few screen-grabs from their publicly available video a violation of their copyright? Isn't it considered fair use? I was expecting more on the lines of "we are sorry for the whole fiasco, our legal team acts independently whenever it feels like there is a violation", instead of him defending the DMCA. They used DMCA to try and censor a debate about their lies. Talking about DMCA, is…
That's what the citizens get when they don't hire lobbyists.
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#13I didn't follow this story. Where can I find more information about this "Controversy"?
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#14> A couple of recent discussions in a few board threads contributed to by our competitors have questioned CipherCloud’s approach to delivering cloud information protection. My BS meter is running high.
You might want to recalibrate it; the mercury should have burst the tube at this point. Searching encrypted data is impossible without fully homomorphic encryption and fully homomorphic encryption is wildly impractical for use at present.
"Contributed to by our competitors" -- if that's the case, the competitors are giving informative SO answers about crypto. Whereas they are engaging in censorious shenanigans. I, for one, prefer the "competitors'" contributions.
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#15This is total BS. How is posting a few screen-grabs from their publicly available video a violation of their copyright? Isn't it considered fair use? I was expecting more on the lines of "we are sorry for the whole fiasco, our legal team acts independently whenever it feels like there is a violation", instead of him defending the DMCA. They used DMCA to try and censor a debate about their lies. Talking about DMCA, is…
That's what the citizens get when they don't hire lobbyists.
So how can this be fixed?
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#16Link to the Crypto StackExchange thread: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3645/how-is-cipher...
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#17May be honest, it's just very convenient. "That demo we have on our site to show off the technology? It's really crippled and doesn't actually show off the technology... We promise the real thing actually works! Oh, you want to hear about the DMCA takedown? That was just our legal team, you know how they can be!"
And oh, about the forums.. it was just a bunch of jealous competitors trying to put us down.
That was my "favourite" part of the whole message.
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#18I'm a little confused about not wanting to disclose IP during a patent process. Isn't that what the patent process is designed to do? Disclose a novel invention, and have it (among other things) vetted for prior art. They say these patents are pending, in which case, shouldn't they be searchable? Has anyone found them? I did an albeit cursory search and couldn't find anything. I'd like to give these guys the benefit of the doubt as they are funded by a16z, but the lack of information is troubling.
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#19> A couple of recent discussions in a few board threads contributed to by our competitors have questioned CipherCloud’s approach to delivering cloud information protection. My BS meter is running high.
You might want to recalibrate it; the mercury should have burst the tube at this point. Searching encrypted data is impossible without fully homomorphic encryption and fully homomorphic encryption is wildly impractical for use at present. "Contributed to by our competitors" -- if that's the case, the competitors are giving informative SO answers about crypto. Whereas they are engaging in censorious shenanigans. I, fo…
Contributed to by our "competitors", who are actually a lot more competitive than us.
Re: CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy
#20Coral cache version as site seems to be struggling already: http://blog.ciphercloud.com.nyud.net/responding-to-the-myths...
Due to a malicious denial of service attack, likely by our competitors, in which they leverage forum-promulgated references, which through human-mediated multiple hyper-text transfer protocol requests to our blog hosting infrastructure, attempt to access proprietary information about our strategic positioning viz a viz current nonpositive media attention,
we are unable to provide this patent pending document at this time.
Our legal department will be shortly dispatching a DMCA infringement notice to all parties "mirroring" our content as a sign of our ongoing commitment to protecting our valuable intellectual properties against these thieves and scoundrels.
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