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Content Faction v. Tech Faction

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

An Anonymous reader writes: "This essay describes the current battle between two former allies in the DMCA fight - The Content Faction (Universal, MPAA, etc.) v The Tech Faction (IBM, Microsoft, etc.). It gives a great overview of what the battle is, who is taking what position, what's at stake - and how consumers are going to be taking it in the *** no matter who wins, it's just a matter of how rough it will be. "

8 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Could it be? Can one hope? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Congrats!

    Oh, and second post

    --sdem

  2. Eat my feet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, eat them now!

  3. An interesting business model.... by IIOIOOIOO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Hey recording industry! Seeing as we have captured one of the largest audiences currently trading illegal copies of your music, we somehow believe to have transformed ourselves into a valuable commodity. I mean, of course these guys all came to our service in order to get music for free, but I'm certain that if you pay us some money, instead of shutting us down, that the people will GLADLY pay money for the music they once got for free...."

    Next month I'm going to start a business to corner the market on killing people. I'm not sure how commercialize my business model, but I'm sure I can convince someone to pay me to stop.

  4. What did you expect... by tomcio.s · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because terrorists now use 'illegal' mp3s of wholesome american artists to widen their ranks.
    Watch out YOU could be their next recruit.

    On a serious note: I am way sick and tired of hearing illigal this, protect that.

    Insanity

  5. Im so leet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Firts Pots! fort post! yipppyyy!

  6. Update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello everybody,
    I am running FreeBSD now, instead of Linus. I can run my favorite Lixnu game, Doom, in the Linus compattibilty layer of FreeBSD. It works fine but similar to Lunix, the fonts look like crappy in the X Windows. For such a space-age sounding name, the X Windows sure is a piece of crap!
    That is all.

  7. OH NO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This page is all shit colored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. Annoying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "<B>.</B>o<B>O</B>0<B&g t;O</B>o<B>.</B>" is very annoying.


    Please desist.