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Fritz's Hit List
wwwssabbsdotcom was one of several to submit news stories about Ed Felten's latest venture: Fritz's Hit List, a list of electronic devices with some sort of digital storage and processing capabilities sufficient to qualify them "digital media devices" under Sen. Hollings' CBDTPA bill.
Today on Fritz's Hit List: Big Mouth Billy Bass.
That's right, your favorite wall-hanging, singing, dancing, animatronic fish qualifies for regulation as a "digital media device" under the Hollings CBDTPA. If the CBDTPA passes, any new Billy Bass will have to incorporate government-approved copy protection technology.
Fight piracy -- regulate singing fish novelties!
I thought the CDBPABST was supposed to be a bad law. How can anything that aims to regulate the proliferation of Singing Billy Bass be evil?
I love you, Fritz Hollings!
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Fritz Hit List #8
Those voice-boxes for throat-cancer patients that enable them to speak with a deep voice will now need to protected with government approved anti-copright protection.
Fight Piracy = Regulate deep throating devices!
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You're right. They forgot the gigantic dollar sign in the middle.
(Note to mods: Yes I know that it's supposed to start with a red stripe at the top.)
Makes sense, if not in this light.
After all, imported robot pets are finding employment without green cards and taking rewarding pet jobs away from more expensive to maintain domestic alternatives.
You laugh now, but when that little robotic R2-D2 takes your waitressing job because he's willing to work for less than minimum wage, you'll change your tunes!
I'm sure there's a Slashdot article around here somewhere about hacking your "Billy Bass" to record and playback MP3s. You should try it. The sound quality is incredible.
I looked at the RIAA's web site, and listened to all the soundbites from Jack Valenti, Sen. Hollings and Hilary Rosen, and I agree.
"Piracy is theft"
Downloading a song from the internet is every bit as bad as stealing a CD from a shop. I didn't realise this. I was stealing music all this time
Now then, if I had come across several CDs that I didn't own, and I knew who their owner was, I would take some efforts to return them.
Now, I have several gigabytes of stolen mp3s. I think I should return them to their rightful owner. To whom do I email them?
Machine: You had 3 messages. 1 Message deleted automatically since it has copyrighted material.
User: Oh no, Grandma again left a message with her radio on in the background.
notice how almost every message moderated above 3 in this thread is "Funny" - that probably says something... I'm too lazy to figure out what, though.
sic transit gloria mundi
Next from apple:
iAnal, the legal advice firm that gets so hung up on details it never gets it right.
I live in a giant bucket.