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BSA To Join Battle Against DRM
Dunark writes "It appears that two of our favorite enemies are now at loggerheads with each other: According to The Inquirer, the Business Software Alliance has joined the fight against the Hollywood-backed attempt to legislate required DRM (the Hollings bill). Read about it in The Inquirer and also at Mercury News"
I am amazed. A flash of sanity for the BSA. The next thing, you know, Microsoft will make the source code for W2000 open source. Or maybe even, I will find a meaningful, rewarding job.
North Korea is planning an attack on Iraq if they don't stop production of "weapons of mass destruction".
Strange thing, though.... most appear to be missing, and new faces are showing up behind bars.
If they are our favourite enemies then that means they can stick around right?
Please don't mod this +1 funny, as it's not meant to be that way. I really do find strinkingly large simularities between the way the Nazi's do things and the way certain members of congress try to force the people that elected them to give up their rights. Just because "Rights" is one of the DRM words, doesn't make it right.
I believe in Law that is for the people.
please follow the links...
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
My enemy's enemy is my ... Er wait a minute... I'll get back to you...
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
I'm not too sure about American law, but is this true? It really sucks if it is. You can just imagine the meeting around the table before the sudden U-turn in BSA policy.
"This DRM bill should help our strategy a lot then."
"Sir, we just realised that we could get even more control WITHOUT the bill!"
"Everyone to lobby stations! Release the $2 billion emergency bribe money!"
== Jez ==
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Yeah, and no matter who wins they'll have stomped half the city.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Well, Vader switched to good at the end of Jedi, but I don't think that's what's happening here.
In other news, Osama bin Laden issued a statement saying that part of the problem is a perception that his organization is a band of murderous thugs.
In both cases, the statements are being subjected to sophisticated high-tech analysis to determine whether they are the work of a live speaker, or have been patched together posthumously from old clips.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
> I say we put the two sides in a steel cage, maybe with some
> pichforks and chainsaws. Two go in, one comes out.
Might I add, that we'd need to keep a shotgun handy to deal with the winner.....
Bugs Bunny was right.
Common enemies make strange bedfellows.
13 year old white supremacists are shitty web designers.
I too thought they meant the Boy Scouts of America. They're certainly one of my enemies, but I don't really see how they'd rank up with the RIAA and such here on /.
Ignorance is bliss and I'm suicidal.