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Senator Pushes Bill To Limit Anti-Copying Schemes
Brushfireb writes "Republican Sen. Sam Brownback is pushing a bill that will limit the ability of record labels, movie studios and others to use anticopying technology on their products. Most notably, this is important because it states that people will be able to resell their used DVDs, along with putting a concrete limit on this behavior of DRM/anticopying schemes by the RIAA and MPAA."
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is growing
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has risen yet again, now up to more than 30 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has gained more market share , this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is sending other OSes into complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by topping the charts in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Daemon to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a long and prosperous future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows Server because *BSD is growing. Things are looking very good for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to gain market share. Red ink flows from Redmond like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most loved of them all, having gained 93% more core developers. The sudden and pleasant release of the long developed 5.0 only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is growing.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 70000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 70000/5 = 14000 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 7000 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (70000+14000+7000)*4 = 364000 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the release of OSX, cool new technologies and so on, FreeBSD is expanding into more desktops than ever. FreeBSD has become more than the sum of its parts.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily gained in market share. *BSD is very powerful and its long term survival prospects are very bright. If Windows is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to improve. The progress achieved is nothing short of a miracle. For all practical purposes, *BSD is alive and kicking.
Fact: *BSD will kick your ass
All is lost, as GNU/Linux is being sued by SCO!
To be honest, I'm not sure if it's Linux people, nor someone insecure. Just some fuckwit with nothing better to do with his life. Kind of sad that with all the things open to people in this world, they get their jollies off posting the same lame jokes over and over. "Heh, cool, I have an AC posting bot, I trash BSD on slashdot, heh heh, cool Beavis".
The same senator is trying to push through a bill demanding that hell freezes over sometime in the near future. Sources say he has much more chance with the second one.
I believe there are about 5 of them in the Senate...
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
I am in total disbelief. Did they do a DNA check to make sure he isn't a replicant replacement?
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
I don't understand, who gave him money ?
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
...and soon to be voted off the island by said corps.
Work sucked, until it became unemployment, when it became slightly more tolerable. -Tet
I think this bill may actually be his more creative way of saying he will not run for another term.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Senator Brownback surely must be the only one in the government without a yellowback and not accepting greenbacks.
Can we just pretend that he got my well written e-mail explaining that after I voted for him, I was mad he was going after video games and should focus on something meaningful like fighting the DMCA!
Please?
PLEASE?!
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
hmm.. I thought "Dust in the Wind" was pretty okay..
ELiTeUI
Oh yes it is. Crack that proection and face 20 years in jail. Doesn't matter how legit your purpose is. Murder in the 1st degree often results in similar jail time, though there is no assurance that they won't be released for good behavier in 5-10 years.
So... what is this telling our kids?
*****DON'T COPY THAT DISK*****
-*-*-KILL SOMEONE, YOU'LL SERVE LESS TIME-*-*-
---Murder, the choice for a new generation
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
OK .... so who gave Tommy Mottola a slashdot account ?
Servlet v2.4 container in a single 161KB jar file ? Try Winstone
Yeah, that's why I always voted for Strom Thurmond.
If there were a nuclear war that destroyed all known copies of Shakespeare, the last thing you need to worry about is THE FUCKING DMCA!
It seems to me that this might be a silly way to promote such things... My suggestion is to make it considered increadibly cool to be an inventer or an author or an artist, and even cooler to buy them a beer/sleep with them. All you would need is a few laws controlling the media forcing them to cast inventors/authors into their shows as cameos, into variety shows with the interviewer sucking up to them, in celebrity events etc in really glamorous positions, soon they will be cool, they can get all the money they need from sponsorship by rich people wanting to be cool, they can pick up girls/guys who are attractive and charasmatic. So they can generally have a great life after inventing something while still letting people copy their works.
This is probably not as good dor most people as getting rich, but I know, since I am a slashdotter, I couldn't get laid regually or considered cool even if I was rolling in cash and this solution seems like the only one for my current problem.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Yeah, I hope he can get Bill to remove that pesky Windows Activation scheme, it doesn't work anyway.
Money for nothing, pix for free
It's a sad day when consumers have to run to Republicans for protection.