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Protecting Your DRM Rights

Posted by Hemos on from the gettin'-covered dept.

A reader wrote to say:"There's an article on SiliconValley.com that talks about a new bill in Congress that will, if passed, mean that consumers can copy CDs, DVDs and other digital works for personal use, just as they now do with TV shows and audio tapes."

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  1. Jack Valenti, complete moron by elmegil · · Score: 3, Funny
    "You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it."

    He must have a hell of a broadband connection.....

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  2. Heh by weird+mehgny · · Score: 3, Funny

    ``If this bill were to pass, it would render ineffective, worthless and useless any protection measure we would have in place to protect a $100 million movie,'' Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill.

    And we all know no one will go to the cinema to see the next LOTR movie, right?

  3. Jack Valenti's Cable Modem by imadork · · Score: 5, Funny
    ``If this bill were to pass, it would render ineffective, worthless and useless any protection measure we would have in place to protect a $100 million movie,'' Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''

    Hmmm, (1 million * 4.7GB) / (24 hrs * 60 mins * 60 secs) = 54GB/sec bandwidth! Jack's cable modem must not have the download caps in place...

  4. Re:Nice, but.... by unicron · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you're grossly overestimating his status as a musician. I'm pretty sure his income from this career stems from the selling of 5 dollar home made cd's after his show at your friend Jimmy's Barmitzfah(sp?).

    "What's your band called? Memorex?"

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  5. I'm switching to this guy's ISP.... by SofaKingdom · · Score: 1, Funny

    Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''

  6. Protecting Your DRM Rights?? by neoform · · Score: 2, Funny

    that doesn't even mean anything!

    "Protecting your digital rights management rights."

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  7. Re:Wrong solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel attached to his crotch.

    The bartender says, "Excuse me, do you know there's a steering wheel attached to your crotch?"

    "Arr," says the pirate. "It's driving me nuts."

  8. Let's do the math... by smiff · · Score: 2, Funny
    A typical DVD is 4GB. One million DVDs is 3.4x10^16 bits. One day has 24x60x60=86,400 seconds. So, you would need a 397Gb/s pipe, assuming no overhead.

    This is fun, let's do some more math. A typical DVD costs $20. One million DVDs costs $20 million. If you did that every day, you could steal $7.3 billion from the movie industry every year. If 50 million people did it, the nation could collectively steal $365,000 trillion from the movie industry.

    Wow! The movie industry is potentially worth 3500 times the nation's gross domestic product! Bush should tap into this to solve our current economic crisis.