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Copy-Protected Digital VHS
DragonMagic writes: "BBC carries this story regarding the comeback, certain studios hope, of the video tape against the dominating sales of the DVD. Fox, Universal, Dreamworks SKG and Artisan Entertainment are releasing a series of blockbuster movies onto the format D-VHS, developed by JVC. DVHS offers High Definition TV technology and the possibility of copy prevention, and is able to play old VHS tapes as well."
I got first post, mofos
Simple, they are evil sinful things that exploit women!
har.
the same way that burlesque ain't considered "legitimate theater".
I am a big, fluffy, cute, cuddly bunny. fear me.
The average Joe Q Slashdot reader may read slashdot at -1. He, rightly so, thinks some -1 is underrated and actually some of it is very good stuff. However, he gets quickly annoyed by the -1 page widenings and simply moves his threshold to 0 or 1. So now you have all the regular "good citizens of slashdot" reading slashdot at higher thresholds. So nobody is reading at -1.
Now, Crap Flounderson says his intention is to destroy slashdot. However, it's obvious his attention is just to flaunt his own ego(much like the numerous linux zealots) because page widening no longer works(as everyone has found the workaround to go to a higher threshold).
That would be fine if it weren't for the fact that page widening is having an ADVERSE affect to the time honored art of trolling. Trolls post to be seen. If noone sees their work, trolls get bored with slashdot. So what page widening is essentially doing, is running off the trolls. And this is why it won't be fixed. CmdrTaco & co. win. The trolls have run off, and all the "upstanding" citizens of slashdot are reading and posting at higher thresholds. This is hardly contributing to the destruction of slashdot.
7. For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11. For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Perhaps US should not be supporting THEM?
--Warning, religion may be hazardous to your mental health
I believe that all material, regardless what it is, should be considered valuable intellectual property and should be copy protected such that it is impossible to access it by any means. This is what I suggest: International laws will be passed making it necessary to publish your work through a licensed publishing company. Regardless of whether you're a single person writing a short story or an entire studio making an epic motion picture, your publisher will take your completed original, along with any and all copies, notes, materials, whatever, and publish them by throwing them into a blazing furnace. This innovative technology will prevent 100% of copyright violations and intellectual property thefts by making it physically impossible to make illegal copies of the valuable work.
No.
If you don't have the courage to log in then you don't have the right to question me.
graspee