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All We Want Is Whatever's On Your Machine

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-fair-doesn't-it dept.

kubla2000 writes: "A breathless story about how the best defense against [fill in the blank: piracy, virii, hacking] is a good offense at CNet. What struck me most though is that in the midst of the rant from Timothy Mullen (no stranger to hacking the hack as this story from computerworld magazine shows, was a throw-away line justifying the RIAA and MPAA's appeal to Congress to make it legal to do this! It seems the bandwagons have started rolling. Who's next to jump on?"

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  1. Incoherant headline by Stiletto · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Time to burn some karma...

    Is it me, or is this story's headline totally incoherant? I re-read it twice and still only have a vague clue of what the links are going to be about. He couldn't even take some time to proofread or even close his parenthesis.

  2. Re:its viruses not virii by glenebob · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's not it's not its, its it's, it's it's not its, it's it's.

    If you're going to be a grammer Nazi Nazi, at least get it right right.

    Oh God, I'm confusing myself myself. Easy to do, I know...

  3. Re:its viruses not virii by Fat+Casper · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    If you're going to be a grammer Nazi Nazi, at least get it right right.

    It's spelled grammar. At least get that right.

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    I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.