Bruce Perens Plans On-Stage DMCA Violation

cyber_rigger writes: "From this article at infoworld Bruce Perens said he plans to break the DMCA during a presentation on digital rights management (DRM) Friday afternoon at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego. Technically, under the DMCA, Perens' explanation of the technology makes him liable for a fine of US$500,000. You have to admire his spirit."

Comments

Will the real Bruce Perens please stand up?

[Captain Pedantic]

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so won't the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

Sig 11 don't got to cuss in his posts to get Karma
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
you think I give a damn about my Karma
half of you trolls can't even stomach me, let alone stand me
"but bruce, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird"
why? so you guys can just lie to get me here
so you can sit me here next to Natalie here
shit,Enoch Root's momma better switch me chairs
so I can sit next to trollmastah and Post First
and hear em argue over who modded it down first
little troll, flamed me back on IRC
"yeah, he's fast, but I think he types one-handed, hee hee"
I should download some audio on MP3
and show the world how you released it BSD (aaaaaah)
I'm sick of you little troll and l33t groups
all you do is annoy me
so I have been sent here to destroy you
and there's a million of us just like me
who post like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
who code like me, walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing, but not quite me......

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so won't the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

I'm like a head trip to listen to
cause I'm only givin you things
you troll about with your friends inside you rabbit hole
the only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of ya'll and I aint gotta be false or sugar coated at all
I just get on the web and spit it
and whether you like to admit it (riiip)
I just shit it better than 90% you trollers out can
then you wonder how can
kids eat up these posts like gospel verse
it's funny,cause at the rate I'm going when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the chat rooms flirting
cyberin with nurses when I'm jackin off to porno's
and I'm jerkin' but this whole bag of viagra isn't working
in every single person there's a bruce perens lurkin
he could be workin at Micron Inc., spittin on your SDRAM
or in the printer queue, flooding, writin I dont give a fuck
with his windows down and his system up
so will the real perens please stand up
and click 1 of those fingers till you drag up
and be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
and 1 more time, loud as you can, how does it go? ...........

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

haha guess it's a bruce perens in all of us........
fuck it let's all stand up

great idea

[tps12]

I love the idea of grabbing "mindshare" (/me crosses himself after uttering evil marketingspeak) through good old-fashioned media whoring. Circus ring tactics are essential in the modern computer business. Remember Jay Leno's TV special introducing Windows 95? Or when that Microsoft dude was dancing or whatever? Steve Jobs practically invented tech-biz dramatics.

This will only help in the battle to get Free Software and the FSF taken more seriously by the public. Maybe we can arrange to have someone dressed in a Tux costume as well. Juggling burning Windows XP CDs.

Re:Why don't more people do this?

[Anonymous Coward]

If Americans don't stand up more forcefully, the US will either infect the whole world with their orwellian shite

This, coming from an EU citizen...

Re:Why is it illegal?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why in the hell is it illegal to modify property that you already own?

Welcome to Dick Cheney's America.

Re:Wasn't Code Ruled Free Speech?

[skotte]

ok, but here's the thing. fFree speech or not, fFor some reason, software fFalls under a different set of guidelines. talking about murder in public is okay. demonstrating how to rape women is legal. probably wont win you any fFriends, but it's legal. (then again, it's done wonders fFor eminem's social circle)

but talk about software piracy in public or private? yer going to the klink, buddy!

Re:Why don't more people do this?

[Anonymous Coward]

I hate Americans who hate Americans. Please go take your mindless stereotypical view of Americans, put it in a suitcase, get on a plane and leave the country. We don't want imbeciles like you here.

Familiar Plan

[xidix]

Perens' protest plan:

"The DVD industry uses regional encoding to control consumers, so we're going to play this UK DVD on a US player."

reminds me of a plan we've seen before:

"Terrence and Phillip are supposed to be killed, so we think we should crank call a bunch of policeman and have pizzas sent to them that they didn't order. Viva la resistance!"

I think we need a snobby kid who attended Yardale and had a 4.0 grade point average to come up with something a little more effective.

Oh, yeah. And Kyle's mom is a bitch.

Re:My question for Mr. Perens

[lovebyte]

If his balls are that big, I am sure he'll make loads of friends in jail!

Re:My question for Mr. Perens

[linzeal]

What race is bruce perens?

Sounds English, maybe?

Re:Why don't more people do this?

[linzeal]

Luther and calvin were just new masters, we need NO MASTERS.

Follow-through action

[Ogerman]

So, if Mr. Perens is arrested, how many of you so-called geeks are going to boycott Hollywood movies, RIAA music, cancel your cable/dish TV, etc. I hope every single one of you--for anyone who does not is a flaming hypocrite. And you'd better spread the word to your neighbors as well. DMCA is no small violation of our basic freedoms and it needs fought tooth and nail.

And like any good boycott, you can help promote substitutes as well:
- off-air television (get yourself a Terk TV-55 or similar)
- local bands / unsigned online artists
- independent films
- trade existing movies with friends but don't buy into anything new