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LXer: The RIAA-Hollywood-DRM-Linux Suicide Pact
Dec 1, 2005, 04 :00 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (12479 reads)

(Other stories by Carla Schroder)

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"After reading Tom Adelstein's Preventing DVD Playback on Linux Like Prohibition in the 1920's, I had to lie down and think about it for some time. (Snoring is too a sign of thinking.) Now Tom has a scholarly style of writing. I'm more of a Bart Simpson, and the conclusion I came to after lengthy pondering and cogitation is 'WTF is wrong with those people?'

"Actually, I had already come to the conclusion that the fine folks behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Rights Management, and the Business Software Alliance are either nuts, corrupt, or both..."

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for the last time, DCSS and the like do  ...   same old misconception on the deference between co   
kegwasher
Dec 1, 2005, 12:22:12
 
I agree with the author, there is no "in ...   "Intellectual property"   
Don Whitbeck
Dec 1, 2005, 13:14:26
 
An interesting note here is that almost  ...   DMCA doesn't hold up   
Daniel McCarthy
Dec 1, 2005, 13:48:15
 
Businesses fail all the time- that's ...   Bottom Line   
Kiaser Zohsay
Dec 1, 2005, 14:48:30
 
I don't think it's worth getting ...   Re: "Intellectual Property"   
omniprovident
Dec 1, 2005, 16:43:12
 
Why support companies that treat you bad ...   Just cut them loose   
phil
Dec 1, 2005, 18:43:43
 
>> the defendant acquitted. Dimitiry Skl ...   Re: DMCA doesn't hold up   
Hans
Dec 1, 2005, 20:04:23
 
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