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More Incompatible DVDs and CDs Coming Your Way
wwwssabbsdotcom writes " More DRM is coming to DVD and CD shelves in the future. Looks like more incompatible discs for players around the world. Rip-proof and self-destructing seems to be the latest DRM craze."
Edible DVDs
"I filter at +6, and have yet to miss out on an important comment." (#822545)
So if I buy the "Mission Impossible" DVD, I better heed the warning that says "This message will self destruct in 5 seconds" ?
Trolling is a art,
"You'll just have to trust us. Even though you can't play the movie, it was really, really, really good." - MPAA
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And I'd rather pirate, to each their own.
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Heck... I might pay for that!
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When I first talked about getting a DVD player, my dumbass step-dad (who LOVES to show off all the "wicked cash" he makes as an accountant) told me that DIVX would be the latest and greatest.
I hadn't heard about DIVX at that point, but he assured me that it would become the unquestioned standard, just as soon as there were enough people aware of its wonderful benefits.
I just chalk it up to the long list of reasons I'm convinced my Mom "traded down," along with the plastic fence, the way he totally assed my rewire of their phone system, and the vinyl siding on his modular home.
DIVX RULES!!!!
Mom says my
And just wait for the first time some idiot CFO accidentally locks himself out of his own files...
Heck, the CFO could just circumvent the copy protection on those files. What's a DMCA violation on the criminal record of a CFO these days anyways? It wouldn't even show up until the 8th or 9th page.
Even if you don't buy every disk from the local "pirate," you should try to buy a few now and then.
Remember "piracy" is the only guarantee you have of:
1. Always being able to get a copy of a disk you want. Say the powers that be decide to suppress some disk for some reason? Copyright allows them to censor something no matter whether it is important poltical speech or not.
2. Being able to get unedited copies of disks. This is similar to the above. Just because Hollywood decided Eyes Wide Shut was to risque without censorship for Americans doesn't mean you have to live with that.
3. Being able to get copies of disks that won't self destruct and will work in the broadest variety players.
The only ethical thing to do is to support organized crime in their effort to provide you with disks that you actually own and don't still belong to the companies you've purchased them from after you purchased them.
It's about time people stop wasting time watching TV, it really cuts into the amount of time you can waste each day reading slashdot.
Worthwhile hobbies? Adventures?
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You mean, like, posting on
"most of the Heavy Metal and Death Metal bands started producing lousy music"
Do you mean there was a time they produced non-lousy music?
mbbac
I tried to read the article, but it melted away before I could read it. It only allowed 5 minutes to read it. I suppose I shouldn't have gone to get a drink.
It's not like we don't have alternatives. If you like music, listen to the radio. In the car, you have the stereo, and Z-100 (in New York, anyway). At work, and at home, you have WinAmp, or XMMS for the Linux crowd. You don't have to own ANY music. Just listen to whatever's on.
'Course... This may save you from Baby Boomer Disease (that's the sickness some of the older guys in my office have, where they fanatically assert that no good music has been produced since the early eighties). The poor bastards have been holed up, Unabomber style, with their LP collection for twenty years now. Pity the poor Baby Boomer; he swore he wouldn't turn into his father in the sixties, and in '03, he's turned into his GRANDFATHER ("You kids today!!! When I was a kid, we had REAL music...").
If I hear ONE MORE OLD FART telling me that the Beatles are "real music" and Techno is "bubblegum" I'm going to start throwing Molitov Cocktails.
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
"...most of them will spend their lives working as strippers or grocery store clerks or, even worse, journalists. They will die alone, unloved and unknown in a run-down apartment with 47 cats, to the end clinging to the pathetic hope that they can write the Great American Novel if only someone will pay attention to them."
I must admit that it sounds tempting. What are the disadvantages?
Damn, you got me stuck in an endless loop with that recursive footnote there, until my cube neighbor rebooted me. Careful with those asterisks, cowboy.
"Teach a man to buy a CD, and he's a customer.
Allow a man to rip a CD, and he's a thief forever."
- Ancient RIAA proverb.
'm more musically inclined than Britney Spears and company. I say fuck the "artists"...
Oooh yes, please =)
Changing the litter boxes, for one... but if you move to a neighborhood with lots of kids with sandboxes, for some reason it's not as big of a deal, if they're outdoor cats.
Get off my launchpad!
Don't get me wrong, I'm just like him, except for the buying the original cd part :)
If I can't rip it I can't play it.
If I can't play it I can't view it.
If I need a new DVD player.....
I have a screw driver, a sodering iron, and etchant. What I don't have is unlimited supplys of cash to buy a new player every time some jerk get's a fuzzy up his butt.
I don't actually exist.
>not the 2 hours of celebrity mutual masturbation
Err, what DVD are you referring to? I'd like to know for, umm, academic purposes.
So all we have to do is make that single play a ripping session :-)