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LXer: The RIAA-Hollywood-DRM-Linux Suicide Pact

Written By
CS
Carla Schroder
Dec 1, 2005

[ Thanks to Carla
Schroder
for this link. ]

“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…”

Complete
Story

CS

Carla Schroder

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