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CueCat Decoder Mirror List
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This is the beginings of a cuecat decoder software mirror list. If you have a mirror, or if you know of a mirror of the cuecat software, please contact peri@logorrhea.com so that I can add it to the list.
Please mirror this page. Please. Your rights that are under attack, stand up or loose 'em. The right to express yourself in code (footnote 1: decss ruling). The right to reverse engineer. The right to distribute other's coded expression (footnote 2: decss ruling, linking). The right to fair use of copyrighted material (footnote 3: vis-a-vie the microcode inside the cuecat. See also the _complete_ control over use, and hence the removal of the right to fair use, given to the copyright holder by the digital millennium copyright act through the act's prohibition of decryption.) By participating you are exercising and strengthening these rights, and, incidentally, standing against false advertising.
Footnote 1: UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC, et al. vrs SHAWN C. REIMERDES, et al. http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08592.PDF Pages: 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, 63
Footnote 2: UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC, et al. vrs SHAWN C. REIMERDES, et al. (See link above) Page 80
Footnote 3: Digital Millenium Copyright Act Section 1201 a2
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The CueCat
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Links to more information
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Local Files
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Also, you might want to check the directory that this list resides in (if available). It might contain all sorts of goodies such as the open source windows cuecat software, and a BeOS version!
For full descriptions of these programs, visit Michael Toren's CueCat website
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Mirrors
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Full Mirrors:
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How to mirror this page
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You can simply copy this page and its downloadable files to your html directory to get the most recent mirror list. If you would like to keep your mirror list continously up to date and you have a unix or Linux webserver you can use wget to grab the mirror list every night in a cron entry similar to this:
# Mirror cuecat daily.
35 4 * * * wget --quiet --no-host-directories --no-parent --convert-links --directory-prefix=/home/htdocs/cuecat/ --cut-dirs=2 --mirror http://www.logorrhea.com/cuecat/mirrors.html
If you do not like the look and feel of this web page, and you would like to attach the mirror list to a page of your own design you can directly reference just the mirror list by retrieving http://www.logorrhea.com/cuecat/mirrors.dat. The format of this file should remain fairly static.
I am currently verifying by looking for the text, "cuecat" in my list of full mirrors. I do this in a cron job with a perl one-liner. I'll email it to anyone who asks.
Mirror List News:
- Jan 7, 2001: New mirrors, and another CueCat resource was added. I will also be updating the actual software now, as there have been a number of developments recently. The importance of this mirror site has fallen recently due to DI's silence legally. I will try to keep everything up to date, but for the latest in everything, it is best to visit the author's site. I've been quite busy with school and other projects, but there have been a number of developments in CueCat land recently. The CueCat was recently choosen as toy of the year in the Linux Journal Editor's Choice awards, which is actually what prompted me to finally update everything. I re-added the essay becuase the Linux Journal article might attract a number of poeple who are not familer with the CueCat issue and history.
- Sept 30, 2000: Added a ton of mirrors, added a ton of software. Removed the essay (by this point, I think many poeple are already quite familier with the cuecats nature, and it got in the way of the mirror list). I now have an opensource windows version as well as a BeOS version!! I will not add these to the main list becuase I don't want to break the links on the sites of poeple who mirror the html of this page nightly. I'll figure out a solution eventually...
- Sept 26, 2000: Added mirror... considering limiting new decoder submissions. The list is just getting too long. A simple decoder is just too easy to write.
- Sept 22, 2000: Development on third party cuecat software is accelerating. I've added a bunch of new software, and a ton of new mirrors.
- Sept 9, 2000: Added link verifier... fixed broken links.
- Sept 8, 2000: Added cuecat.tcl to the local downloads. Also added an updated version of cuecat-decoder, now called foocat-barcode. Congrats to Michael Jacobson and Michael Rothwell for the great new software! Download and mirror your copy today! I also added about 3 or 4 new mirrors in the last two days.
- Sept 6, 2000: Fixed wrong link... ugg... added Shawn's mirror page verifier.
- Sept 5, 2000: Added footnotes to intro (why you should mirror). Fixed broken links and made minor asthetic changes. Added a mirror.
- Sept 5, 2000: Changed the name of the CueCat decoder from cuecat-decoder-latest.tgz to cuecat-decoder-0.1.tgz, minor change in essay.
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