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EFF Coordinates Fight Against DirecTV

Posted by michael on from the always-need-another-website dept.

wumarkus420 writes "In response to recent lawsuits filed by DirecTV against purchasers of smartcard equipment, the EFF and Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society have announced a new site devoted to the legal fight against DirecTV's aggressions. Hopefully, this new site will provide innocent consumers that have been threatened under the veil of the DMCA with professional legal advice and information."

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  1. Buy one by poptones · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm wondering if I bought one of these now would it still attract the attention of dtv? I used to be one of their customers, and I could use a good fight right now...

  2. Re:their advice by Alien+Being · · Score: 2, Funny

    "a judge may see this logic"

    BEDEVERE: Tell me ... What do you do with witches?

    ALL VILLAGERS: Burn them! Burn them! Burn them up!

    BEDEVERE: And what do you burn apart from witches?

    FIRST VILLAGER: More witches!

    SECOND VILLAGER: Sh!

    THIRD VILLAGER: Wood!

    BEDEVERE: So why do witches burn?

    FOURTH VILLAGER: [pianissimo] ... Because they're made of wood...?

    BEDEVERE: Good.

    [PEASANTS stir uneasily then come round to this conclusion.]

    ALL VILLAGERS: Oh! Oh yeah!

    BEDEVERE: So. How do we tell whether she is made of wood?

    FIRST VILLAGER: Build a bridge out of her!

    BEDEVERE: Ah ... but can you not also make bridges out of stone?

    ALL VILLAGERS: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Uhh...

    BEDEVERE: Uh, does wood sink in water?

    ALL VILLAGERS: No! No! No! It floats! It floats! Throw her into the pond! The pond!

    BEDEVERE: What also floats in water?

    ALL VILLAGERS: ... Bread! ...Apples! ... Uh, very small rocks! Cider! Gra- Gravy! Cherries! Mud! Churches! Churches! Lead! Lead!

    ARTHUR: A duck!

    [They all turn and look at ARTHUR. BEDEVERE looks up very impressed.]

    BEDEVERE: Exactly. So... logically ...

    FIRST VILLAGER: [beginning to pick up the thread] If... she ... weighs.. the same.. as a duck ... she's made of wood.

    BEDEVERE: And therefore?

    ALL VILLAGERS: A witch! A witch! A witch!