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DivX;) Goes Legit
ZooB writes: "There is an article running on CNET right now about DivX and how,(and I'm sure this comes as no surprise to anyone reading this here), such a technology used so frequently for piracy can be used in a legitimate manner. The article is interesting enough, but take careful note of the comment by an MPAA representative. "We are aware of DivX and similar technologies, but it's not the technology that's the issue, it's how it is applied," said a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America, who declined to comment specifically on DivXNetworks. "Our concern is with technology that is marketed, promoted and used as a tool for piracy." His first sentence seems to fly in the face of the DMCA as the law is currently written and then, perhaps realizing what he has just said, the spokesman back pedals and contradicts his previous statement! It is nice to know that someone besides a politician can speak out of both sides of their mouth."
Bizatch!
DivX is good for my porn. It lets me masturbate to Jenna Jameson all day long.
We need to take action immediately and warn our friends and family before this technology catches on and becomes a mainstay in the average consumer household. Write a letter to your representative or elected official and let them know how you feel. We simply CANNOT allow any more of our rights to be taken away.
Slashdot: Open Source, Closed Minds.
Beautiful face, femininity and a great ass. That's all you need! Breasts are secondary. Jenna is just not feminine and looks artificial.
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
the new trolltalk
The Toronto Star has a beautiful artical about DCMA and Dmitry.
Artical here
Hahaha, that was good :)
I like chicken. Chicken tastes alot like itself. Chicken is the most versatile tool in the universe. Chicken is amazing. Chicken ownz j00. Chicken kicks your ass. Chicken has mad skills. Chicken McNuggets from Mcdonalds suck hairy grandma ass, but Chicken Nuggets from Wendy's Rule the World.
I also like to get a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger with No Mayonnaise from Wendy's. I hate mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is evil. Mayonnaise is so evil that it will grow hair if you leave it out in the sun for 1 hour, start to talk after 2 hours, and try to take over the world in 4. We must stop all the mayonnaise from taking over the world. I'm a member of the anti-mayonnaise club. Mayonnaise sucks ass. Chicken kicks Mayonnaise's ass. If there were a celebrity deathmatch between Chicken, and Mayonnaise, Chicken would definitely own Mayonnaise. Probably, the Chicken would rip off the mayonnaise's top, and pour the Mayonnaise down the sink.
If you think Mayonnaise is wonderful, like my friend Shahram, who eats Mayonnaise by the tablespoon, you can come over to my house and I can kick your fucking ass. Shahram is a stupid Iraqi. He has a big nose, and a big Adam's apple. Chicken is tasty.
Chicken should rule the world. If chicken ruled the world, I would bow down before Chicken. When Chicken rules the world, I'm sure Chicken will destroy all Mayonnaise. I once found a fried Chicken head in a box of Chicken Mcnuggets. The only reason I bought a box of Chicken Mcnuggets was because the nearest Wendy's was about 60 miles away. I was in Idaho. Idaho is a stupid place. Toronto is another stupid place. Once I got lost in Toronto and I had to stay at a different hotel than the one I was staying at, in order to get to the one I was staying at. I was staying at the Holiday Inn, and in order to find the Holiday Inn I had to stay in the shitty Novotel next to the airport for 2 days.
Canada is also stupid. When I went to Canada, there was no Dr. Pepper. Canada is basically England, but French, and Big, and just North of the US. England was fun. It was more fun than Canada, except for when I fell down the 3 story building when the London punk pushed me. I got £200 from that asshole after he pushed me so that I wouldn't press charges. I couldn't, anyway, 'cause I wasn't a citizen. I learned how to row a rowboat in England.
There is no Iced Tea in England, so I was very depressed when I was over there. Everyone says Colour instead of Color, and Cheque instead of Check. In Scotland no one wears underwear.
Do you know what a Scotsman keeps under his kilt? His family jewels. I learned that from a tour guide in scotland. The tour guide was like 900 years old, and a veteran of the Scottish revolution. He smelled like that odor removal stuff that smells like shit itself.
In England everything costs what it would cost here in dollars, except in £ and in metric system. Gas was like £2.25 per Liter, which is like $8 per gallon. That's why no one ever drives in England, but traffic is so bad. In Canada milk comes in a bag.
The baked potatoes from Wendy's suck. Once I was eating at a Shoney's in Tennessee, and I ordered this mozzarella Chicken sandwich. It took like 30 minutes to make, and when it came, it was like boiling, and it burnt the roof of my mouth.. Later when I was driving, I peeled the skin off of the top of my mouth where the Chicken had burnt it, and it hurt for like 12 days.
That was the last trip I took, and it still hurts.
Fast Service!
A random comment about pr0n is more interesting than your dim witted post, even if it is on topic.
Now quit bothering me, I'm watching your mom on HotZone via my pirated directTV.
that acronym is way too unwieldy. Let's call it the S3CA. That way, it's still a four-letter word like "DMCA" and "fork"
Don't blame me - I voted for Howard Dean. http://dean2004.blogspot.com
>>In other words: Microsoft is your true solution
>> for legitimate video and audio codecs.
>>If you any other codec, then we'll assume
>>you're a pirate,
Please show me where he said this?
Oh yeah - he didn't.
Typical slashdot paranoia and FUD.
His statement is perfectly valid. Most content providers equate MP3 == Piracy. Calling yourself 'the next MP3' brings along all those connotations whether you want to admit it or not.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZTT. Back to Jr. High for you....
Yeah, but the writing had been on the wall for *King trolls. A recent survey had put Dead Stephen King trolls at less than 5%. Theo DeRaat claims that only 5000 Open Stephen King trolls are in use. If you look at the percentages of USENET postings...(continued, ad-nausium)
Looks like this time he missed to click on the "Post Anonymously". Please moderate his ass down!
Oh, cunning Slashdot humor... What would I do without you?
Would someone please explain to me how the FUCK that was a troll? Because he's an AC is making VALID pointsabout how the DMCA is necessary for people and companies to protect their interests?
Fuck off mods.
How fucking uninformed are you? Go read the DivX website before your half-assed attemps at karma whoring.
Sure, go to your local library.
What part of the phrase "in other words" don't you understand? The guy is obviously restating what he thinks they mean. Saying FUD a thousand times (NOTE: USE OF THE NUMERAL THOUSAND IS HYPERBOLE AND NOT MEANT TO REPRESENT ACCURATELY THE NUMBER OF TIMES SPURIOUSGEORGE (NOTE THE MISNAMING OF THIS POSTER AS SPURIOUSGEORGE IS AN EXAMPLE OF SATIRE) ACTUALLY USES THE TERM FUD, WHICH IN FACT IS SEVEN) does not make what this is (a person expressing his opinion of M$'s intent in a humorously exagerrated way) what you say it is (a crazy marxist statement to burnb down all The Man hat wrought). This guy is saying he thinks Microsoft seeks to bash nonproprietary formats in service of their own proprietary formats. And he's fuckin' right, you nitwit: that is exactly what they do.
What are we talking about again?
Are you really an idiot, or do you just play one on Slashdot?
They were the fucking ones that thought up this technology, are they fucking insane?
? Wow. An anti-US Troll.
*NOTHING* I've ever seen or heard speaks that the colonists were "worst off" after the revolution. For about a generation, though, they were in enlightened times the likes of which weren't seen again until today.
IIRC, the early American Citizens did some amazing things after the revolution--forged their government as a necessary thing, founded upteen attempts at Utopia (most of which failed, but they sure as heck tried!), and managed to convince every major world power that they should be left alone and traded with.
Not bad, really.
And what exactly do you think the phrase "In other words" means, genius?
You're a fucking idiot. FUD is making vague and misleading statements to steer people away from a competitor's product. FUD is not something you happen to disagree with. I don't give a fuck how wrong it is, it's not FUD. Cut your stupid fucking MS-trolling shit out. YOU ARE NOT COOL.
...before Circuit City shut down that dumb 'standard'. Slashdot editors screwed up again.