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DMCA bad for Apple Users

Aguazul writes "TidBITS has published a really strong article on the DMCA and on how this is bad for Apple users, with some good links and suggestions for action. The author, Adam Engst, is regularly voted the most influential person in the Mac world outside of Apple, so this is a serious wake-up call to Apple users everywhere."

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  1. Proof positive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Straight men don't use Macs.

    http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56409,00.ht ml

    SP!

  2. YET ANOTHER QUALITY STORY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ..rejected by Taco lamer and brought to you by the hacker underground.

    News.com is reporting that IBM has won a $290 million contract with the federal government to build what are expected to be the world's two fastest supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The other machine, the Linux powered Blue Gene/L will be 10 times faster than the current #1 , NEC's Earth Simulator with a speed of 360 teraflops, according to IBM.

  3. apple is going down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    faster than Taco on RMS

  4. Calling for a serious Apple user by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Man, I'd like nothing better than a hot S&M session with an Apple user.

    You'd make me lick your boots, thighs and finally suck that sweet, sweet, sweet cock until you were thoroughly satisfied. Then you'd ride my back and whip my ass with a horse crop until it was all red and bleeding. You'd fuck my sore ass mercilessly with your monster 9" cock while pulling my hair. Finally you'd give me permission to cum if I licked the cum off the floor and the shit off your cock.

  5. Re:Down ALREADY? by Davoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    What do you expect?... it runs on MacOS.
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u =off&mod e_w=on&site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tidbits.com%2F&submit =Examine

    --
    "Don't sweat the technique."
  6. Re:of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Apple is known as *the* creative people's platform, look at how many sound engineers use Logic or ProTools on Mac, enumerate Avid's video users, Photoshop's/MacOS hardcore DTP'ists...

    And... what's the conclusion when it is also known that creative people tend to be gay more than us more normal people? Uhhuh. Got it right. Apple users are gay.

  7. Re:money means power by BurKaZoiD · · Score: -1, Troll

    We're going to get Digital Rights Management, Ecrypted CPUs, Pallidium, DMCA and the like whether we like it or not.

    WTF is this "we" shit you're talking about? What are they going to do? Come TAKE your money out of your wallet and GIVE you all of these eletronically controlled computing systems without you having anything to say about it? Are you going to tell me that you have no choice in what you buy? You're going to buy what is force-fed to you because that's all there is?!? The simple solution is not to buy the goddamn thing. A computer may be central to my work, but it most certainly is NOT central to my life. And for anyone that it is, you have either too much free time, or not enough life. Unplug and go read a book for Chrissake's.

    The fact of the matter is that DRM and DMCA is a failure. Any new protection scheme will be broken inside of a week, so who is it really stopping?

  8. Re:of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    aren't afraid to experiment with their sexuality

    Ah... so now you're saying that being gay is in fact a choice? But what happened to the "born gay" nonsense that you freaks like to quote whenever confronted by someone with enough common sense that you are very very sick people.

  9. Re:of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Apple is known as *the* creative people's platform
    Yeah, I hear the Goatse Man uses a Mac.
  10. Here's some lyrics for ya by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Fuck yeah!

    DMCA is for the working class,
    pissed off, real man.
    Not some Apple using faggot with
    his boss's dick up his ass.

    I'm 30lbs overweight,
    with the fuckin' hairiest ass crack
    this side of a gorilla.
    I've got a 10 inch bone that
    wont quit. My wife loves it, and
    so does yours.

    I jackhammer streets all day,
    and jackhammer cunt all night.