“Since I left Evin, I can`t sleep without sleeping pills. That`s terrible. Loneliness never leaves you long after you have been “free”. All doors that are closed to you. That`s why we call it “white torture.” They get what they want without having to beat you. They know enough about you to control the information you receive: they can make you believe that the president has resigned, that they have your wife, that someone you trust has told them lies about you. You start to break. And as soon as you break up, they`re in control. And then you start confessing. [25] Other examples include ReactOS, an open source operating system composed of Windows cleanroom reverse engineering components,[13] and Coherent operating system, a cleanroom reimplementation of Unix version 7. [14] In the early years of its existence, Mark Williams Company, developer of Coherent, was visited by a delegation from AT&T who wanted to know if the CMM infringed the property of AT&T Unix. [15] It was released as open source. [14] Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
v. Connectix Corporation was a 1999 lawsuit that set an important precedent for reverse engineering. [18] [19] Sony sought damages for copyright infringement on Connectix`s Virtual Game Station emulator, claiming that its proprietary BIOS code was copied into the Connectix product without authorization. Sony won the original verdict, but the verdict was overturned on appeal. Sony eventually bought the rights to Virtual Game Station to prevent the sale and development. This set a precedent for the legal implications of reverse engineering business efforts. White torture, often referred to as cleanroom torture, is a type of psychological torture technique[1],[2] aimed at complete sensory deprivation and isolation. This specification is then reviewed by a lawyer to ensure that no copyrighted material is included. The specification is then implemented by a team unrelated to the original reviewers. Clean room design (also known as Chinese Wall technology) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing the copyrights associated with the original design.
Clean room design is useful as a defense against copyright infringement because it relies on independent creation. However, since independent inventions are not a defense against patents, cleanroom designs generally cannot be used to circumvent patent restrictions. In terms of taste and smell, the prisoner is fed white food – conventionally, unseasoned rice – to deprive him of these senses. In addition, all surfaces are smooth and deprive them of the sensation of touch. [7] All white rooms are sterile at best, but most of the time, white rooms can be warm and welcoming. If something isn`t white, it`s A-OK! Let`s say your floors are dark brown, it will totally work! We want to have some contrast with other neutrals to make sure that white people will show up against them. (Please note that this works well with other neutral colors such as cream, beige, brown, gray, black, and sometimes gold.) Allow yourself to have touches of color. After a few months in your all-white room, you may start to get bored or frustrated and find that you need a little variety. It is very easy to add a touch of color at once (pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). This can be done with a bouquet of flowers, a pillow or a pair of cheeky lamps. What you want to avoid is having more than one color in your white space at a time.
Keep in mind that this rule does not apply to neutrals. In Iran, white torture (Persian: شكنجه سفيد) was practiced on political prisoners. [15] Most of the political prisoners who suffer this type of torture are journalists[16] detained in Evin prison. [17] “Amir Fakhravar, the white Iranian roommate, was tortured [in Evin prison] for 8 months in 2004. He still hates his time in the clean room. [8] According to Hadi Ghaemi, such torture in Evin is not necessarily directly authorized by the Iranian government. [18] Clean room design is generally used as a best practice, but not necessarily required by law. In NEC Corp. v. Intel Corp. (1990), NEC sought a declaratory judgment against Intel`s allegations that NEC engineers had simply copied the microcode of the 8086 processor into their NEC V20 clone. A U.S. judge ruled that while the first internal revisions of NEC`s microcode did constitute copyright infringement, those revisions, which were actually incorporated into NEC`s product, although derived from the first, are sufficiently different from Intel microcode and can be considered free from copyright infringement.
Although NEC itself didn`t take a strict cleanroom approach when developing their clone`s microcode, they hired an independent contractor during the test who only had access to the specifications, but ended up writing code that had some similarities to NEC and Intel`s code. Based on this evidence, the judge concluded that similarity in some routines was a matter of functional limitations arising from compatibility requirements and therefore capable of being free of creative elements. [16] Although the cleanroom approach has already been used as a preventative measure with respect to potential litigation (e.g., Phoenix BIOS), NEC v. The Intel case was the first time the cleanroom argument was accepted in a U.S. court case. A related aspect worth mentioning here is that NEC had a license on Intel`s patents for the 8086 processor. [17] With all these warnings, I see that you are not convinced. that nothing I can say will stop you from the all-white living room, bedroom, or office you`ve been dreaming about since the beginning of 2015 (since they became very trendy back then, and oh, by the way, this trend will end in less than two years..
but I digress).