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EFF Comments on HDTV Copy Restriction Plans

Posted by chrisd on from the floating-head-of-seth-david-schoen dept.

Seth Schoen writes: "EFF has been following the work of the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (which was featured in a CNet article linked from slashdot on Thursday) since it was founded in November. Co-incidentally, we today released an EFF overview of this work which contains some of our criticism of these efforts to control the ability of future consumer devices to record digital HDTV broadcasts."

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  1. first post? by alargeduck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whee

  2. EFF comments on HDTV copy restrictions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bah, I'd rather see Slashdot editors comment on Slashdot posting restrictions!

    1. Re:EFF comments on HDTV copy restrictions? by zcat_NZ · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Same here. I even submitted the post as an ask-slashdot. But apparently they don't want to talk about it;

      • 2002-01-18 05:26:46 The first Slashdot troll post investigation (again (askslashdot,slashdot) (rejected)

      I currently have +25 karma.. I'm expecting to find it somewhere in the negatives by tomorrow morning.

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    2. Re:EFF comments on HDTV copy restrictions? by whereiswaldo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A problem I am feeling with Slashdot's system is that often there are so many new stories coming on to the main page that people don't really have time to read and comment on all of them (of interest).
      If they do, they don't get to go back and reply to their comment's replies (by this point there are 10 new stories and nobody cares about the "old" ones anymore).
      No idea what a good solution would be at this point, though.
      On a positive note, I've been finding myself think ing about moderation categories in everyday life from time to time. Like, if someone says something that really pisses me off, I just think to myself "Flamebait" and shrug it off. Ha! Interesting effect it's had on me, for the better I think.

      [chorus 1]
      They're coming to take me away,
      Haha, they're coming to take me away,
      Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
      To the funny farm
      Where Life is Beautiful all the time
      And I'll be happy to see
      Those Nice Young Men
      In their Clean White Coats
      And they're coming to take me AWAY,
      HA HAAAAA

      (j/k) ^^google quote

    3. Re:EFF comments on HDTV copy restrictions? by Marcus+Brody · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Check more on this thread

  3. EFF Rocks by flerchin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although I've seen them mentioned numerous times here on slashdot, i've never read anything from them. I suppose the only info I know about them would be considered "hearsay" from slashdot discussions. This article is coherent, easy to understand, well thought out, did i meantion easy to understand, and informative. In short, if i wasn't unemployed, I'd be donating right now.

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  4. IMPORTANT by baron000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IMPORTANT: Please read the whole post

    I'm sure many of you are aware of this thread already.

    If you are interested in helping against the moderators who have been "editing" the thread, please read this.

    Please do not moderate this post down. It is good for the long term, but if you still feel like being someone who denies the horrible truth, give me your best shot. You will help hold all of Slashdot users back in the long term.

    For more info, read this piece from an apparently superior news site.

  5. Re:ep!!! also: ethics question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    First of all, using torture is self-defeating. People will tell you anything they think you want to know.

    Secondly, torture would be nothing but revenge and revenge should never be a part of a civilised society. Saying that torturing prisoners MIGHT save human lives are just trying rationalise their thirst for vengenance which the realise is barbaric. In the same way you could claim as well that killing all the ordinary criminals on the spot might save human lives because a POTENTIAL murderer might be caught.

    Besides, I'm sure the prisoners are being mistreated by the marines anyway. Interestingly, AFAIK the prisoners are being fed MREs. I just wonder if they know that one ingredient in it is pork protein.

  6. Re:They'd be fools not to! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And their supporters should be eliminated as well.

    And just exactly where will it end? That's like the atrocious new law in the EU that makes it illegal to be a member of a criminal organisation. How do you define "a criminal organisation"? What if a right-wing party takes power and declares all the other parties criminal organisations?

    So, how do you define a "supporter"? Is a country a supporter of terrorism if it objects to the brutal use of force against sovereign nations decided on flimsy evidence that's never made public.

    GWB seems to think so. In fact, he seems to think that he is the ultimate arbitrator of the truth: you are either with us or against us.

  7. Re:kuro5hin by Marcus+Brody · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks. Nice link.

    For those of you reading at +2, nested or whatever, the parent to this post provided a real nice link.

    Check it.

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