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Five PVR Users Allowed To Join Replay Court Fight
hachete writes with this snippet from the Mercury News: " 'A federal judge in Los Angeles agreed to allow consumers to join the legal battle between Hollywood and the makers of the ReplayTV 4000 digital video recorder to defend their uses of the device.'" The five customers chosen to add some insight include craigslist founder Craig Newmark.
Hollywood can put its commercials here.
Do you really want to see the broadcasting industry go into the shitter
Hmm... Friends, Big Brother, celebrity boxing, "when someting normal does something dangerous to someone stupid" (FOX only), the Anna Nicole Smith show and the last six years of Saturday Night Live... and you're worried about broadcasting getting worse?
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
If every /.er tried to have a meeting with his or her senator about the DMCA, DRM or any other topic, we could really change things.
Yeah, we would slashdot the senators.
If there is hope, it lies in the trolls.
Cars allow people to run over and kill innocent children. Kitchen knives can be used to cut, torture, and kill innocent children. Rocks can be used to bash in the skulls of innocent children.
Video recorders can be used to make (shitty) copies of movies which can then be distributed on the Internet and viewed by innocent children.
Box knives can be used to hijack airliners, which can in turn be used to kill innocent children.
And of course a ReplayTV unit can be used to record porno flics from TV which can then be sent to innocent children for viewing.
We should outlaw anything that can be used for any sort of illegal purpose. It's simple, really.
What has the AA foaming at the mouth, bribing the judge with large quantities of beer?