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PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request
doubleacr writes "MacSlash is reporting that PlayFair has been removed from SourceForge.net. Didn't see that one coming." We posted about PlayFair on Monday. SourceForge.net received a DMCA complaint from Apple on Thursday, claiming PlayFair is in violation of the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, section 1201(a)(2). As per SourceForge.net policy, the project has been disabled. Should the project managers file a counterclaim, the project could be restored. SourceForge.net is owned by OSDN, the parent company of Slashdot.
Apple's DRM allows you to burn your tracks to a CD and rip them back to any format you want. Oh, I'm sorry, is that too much of an inconvenience for some of you? Or is it that $0.50 for a CD-R is too much out of your budget?
The RIAA and MPAA use things like this to boost their campaign for more control. You stupid fucks out there supporting these developers are the ones who are making the case for legislation like th CBDTPA and DMCA.
Apple has been working hard to make fair use online distribution possible at a reasonable price then these guys come along and work hard to undo all of that so that they can do.... what exactly? You can already change the AACs to MP3s with a good CD ripper. What do you need this app for, besides sharing the tracks with every friend and family member you have plus on Kazaa?
When the feds mandate Palladium and the CBDTPA, you people will only have yourselves to blame because you're making it hard for companies like Apple to create a market-oriented alternative that protects your rights. Maybe if you dumbasses would get away from your Linux boxen and hacked XBoxes long enough to study politics and causality you'd understand why supporting this is so stupid.
I say good riddance to this project.
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This,
Is truly the definition of a mob mentality. The person is basically saying "We are going to take your property and there is nothing you can do about it."
I don't know where "ln -sf head ass" is geographically located, but in the USA we have courts and trials and juries for deciding these sorts of issues. And for good reason. It used to be that the King of England could come into your home and force you to give up your food and shelter for one of his soldiers.
The attitude displayed is no better than the King of England's.
What if Microsoft suddenly decided to come in and take the GNU compiler as it's own? distributing it as a freebie in it's operating system and putting this or that limit on it. SCO is apparently doing that right now with Linux.
The outcry would be tremendous from the Slashdot community.
What this person is espousing is exactly the same sort of thing. Taking, or enabling the taking of, property and changing the rights to it and distributing it as their own.
Anyone who believes in this sort of mayhem should be ashamed of themselves and look very closely at what type of world they really want to live in.
One of chaos or one that at least has some sort of respect for another's space.
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Wait -- so just because something WILL be ours in 75 years, that means we own it now?
Shit, I better go tell grandad to give me my inheritance. After all, it'll be mine eventually, right? Why should I be cheated just because his life keeps getting extended?
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Don't get me wrong. I don't disagree that the DMCA is flawed. I guess I'm just living in this idealistic little world where we finally got what we wanted: an easy way to buy single songs without having to spend $15 on full albums, and people should be happy with that. Yet people still find a need to get around the technology and other people sit back and cheer them on.
Apple came up with a way for me to listen to my music at home over the Internet. Some morons abused it and that feature was written out of iTunes. Apple managed to bring us a great way to buy music, and a few choice idiots are going to ruin that as well.
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I downloaded playfair a couple of days ago. Built it fine, but it doesn't work. It claims to be decrypting my m4p files, but the resulting files are corrupt and crash QuickTime and iTunes. (Yes, I had my iPod docked.)
I'd be a bit more upset about the program getting yanked if it actually did something.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak