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MPAA vs. Television
Today brings several articles on the MPAA's attempt to create a "broadcast flag" to kill home recording of broadcast television. Lunenburg writes "Apparently too impatient to implement the Broadcast Flag in digital media through legislative means, both Sen. Hollings and Rep. Tauzin have both sent letters to FCC Chairman Michael Powell urging him to mandate the implementation of the Broadcast Flag under FCC rules, according to the EFF's Consensus at Lawyerpoint blog." There's a CNet story about a presentation given by the MPAA to pro-business lobbying groups, and a MSNBC story about digital video recorders.
So the FCC won't let me be or let me be me, so let me see........
the MPAA will start distributing movies with only two minutes of actual story line and filling the remaining 88 minutes with explosions, noise, bad dialogue, and product placements to prevent the unauthorized distribution of its intellectual property.
How, exactly, is a PVR any different from a VCR?
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the PV and VC... the R is the same
When no one is in his office, 'he' quickly opens his chest plate and drinks some more oil. (You can see the Bush connection rather easily.)
Senator Hollings and his rampage of bad legislation MUST be stopped. 'He' will let nothing stand in his way of his goal of Total Disneyfication of the entire world.
'His' Achilles Heel?
Pies.
Throw pies at the Senator. That will interfere in his 'Small World Reasoning Center'. Only you can stop the madness.
Next, get rid of your internet connection. It will have the effects you describe, ten-fold, for lots of people here :).
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
It would also be wrong to go back and in time to 1937 and shoot Hitler, before he gassed millions of innocent people because savings uncountable lives of children just isn't justified by taking away fewer than 10 lives of a raving lunatic.
The Temporal Prime Directive forbids this. That's why it would be wrong.
To Do: 1. Take over world 2. Pick up Milk and Bread on the way home
Next the MPAA will be after those that have this device that circumvents ad's its called a TV remote, and TV viewers everywhere are using it to skip commercials by changing the channel. The MPAA has decided to fight back by running commercials on every channel at the same time so that channel surfing can no longer circumvent TV AD's. "We even went so far as to add this huge chain to the TV so that users are no longer allowed to leave the TV to skip adds. If they try to leave or disconnect the chain, the TV automatically turns off for 10 minutes. Some think this is drastic but we must protect the rights of the movie industry.", said Jack Valenti.
Attention MPAA.
Usenet does not exist.
Nothing more to see here.
Move along.
~Will
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The absolute best solution to this kind of thing has been around for decades, works perfectly, doesn't cost a cent, and causes your day to suddenly seem a couple of hours longer:
Sell your books.
Try, just try, life without books. You'd be amazed how little you miss them, and how much other stuff you'll do instead. If you have a significant other, you'll have time to actually spend with that person, instead of sitting on your arse and not looking at each other. If you don't have an SO, you'll drastically increase your chances of finding one. If you're not looking, you'll at least have time to pursue other hobbies, like coding, or cooking, or bungee jumping, or whatever the heck else trips your trigger. Just try it. You may very well love it.
We live in a capitalist society. If you don't like what the businesses are trying to do to you, then stop using their product. What the hell does federally-mandted illiteracy matter to you when you don't read books?
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
And let's not get started on the other guy....
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