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A revealing look at attitudes towards the DMCA from 2005

In addition to the source in the code library for CS225 labs at UIUC around 2005, I pulled some dated files off my backup media which are suggestive of approval on the part of the instructors for the course around that time. The following legalese jibberish is senslessly offsensive:

<ASX version="3.0">

<title>CS225: dsImplem</title>
<ABSTRACT>CS225</ABSTRACT>
<ENTRY>

<Ref href = "mms://dvideo2.cs.uiuc.edu/cs225/dsImplem.wmv" />
<Ref href = "mms://dvideo1.cs.uiuc.edu/cs225/dsImplem.wmv" />
<StartTime Value = "0:00" />

         <TITLE>CS225: dsImplem</TITLE>
         <COPYRIGHT>Copyright © 2005 All Rights Reserved</COPYRIGHT>
         <ABSTRACT>CS225</ABSTRACT>


</ENTRY>

</ASX>

Moreover, we might as well dwell on the next (in)formative copyright notice on the university funded educational materials produced by the CS department many years ago (as in when I was young, and you all were in diapers):

<ASX version="3.0">

<title>CS225: pqADTHeaps</title>
<ABSTRACT>CS225</ABSTRACT>
<ENTRY>

<Ref href = "mms://dvideo2.cs.uiuc.edu/cs225/pqADTHeaps.wmv" />
<Ref href = "mms://dvideo1.cs.uiuc.edu/cs225/pqADTHeaps.wmv" />
<StartTime Value = "0:00" />

         <TITLE>CS225: pqADTHeaps</TITLE>
         <COPYRIGHT>Copyright © 2005 All Rights Reserved</COPYRIGHT>
         <ABSTRACT>CS225</ABSTRACT>


</ENTRY>

</ASX>

And finally, let's not spend too much time emphasizing that I did actually spend some time studying for my CS classes before dropping two of them that year:

<ASX version="3.0">

<title>CS225: pqds</title>
<ABSTRACT>CS225</ABSTRACT>
<ENTRY>

<Ref href = "mms://dvideo2.cs.uiuc.edu/cs225/pqds.wmv" />
<Ref href = "mms://dvideo1.cs.uiuc.edu/cs225/pqds.wmv" />
<StartTime Value = "0:00" />

         <TITLE>CS225: pqds</TITLE>
         <COPYRIGHT>Copyright © 2005 All Rights Reserved</COPYRIGHT>
         <ABSTRACT>CS225</ABSTRACT>


</ENTRY>

</ASX>

Credit where credit is due

If you want to sincerely thank Jas0n (and profusely) for his contribution and time to enhance the offsensive prosecutions of CS undergrads for their percieved sins, his email addresses are linked here and here (I couldn't find his official CV to link to online these days -- therefore, we must assume it doesn't exist). I sincerely hope that all of the "youngsters" who can now benefit from the code library (especially this STL gem which sadly Cinda Heeren missed -- header file) will choose to thank the old man by DOS-ing his old school Un1x spam filter:

HELL_FREEZES_OVER = ((2**32 - 1))
int_i="0"
while[ $int_i -lt $HELL_FREEZES_OVER ]; do
     emailFrom="`LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'\''()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~' </dev/urandom | head -c 13 ; echo`@SuckIt.net";
     echo -e "So long, and thanks for all the code, \t\t\t\t\t\t\tJason!" | \
              mail -s "See message line." jason.zych@gmail.com -- -r "$emailFrom";
     int_i=$[$int_i + 1];
fi