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Apple Hunts Playfair in India
An anonymous reader writes "A news posting at Sarovar.org says that they have to take down the 'PlayFair' program upon receiving a notice from Apple's attorneys. They are awaiting their attorneys' response. This is bad news for all those who appreciated this cool program. Let's hope that 'PlayFair' might appear in some other country now."
How about this?
Apple lives up to the bs the have been saying for 10+ fucking years about how they are totally different than other large companies.
Damn it, you HC apple supporters are just like the Bush|Clinton HC supporters in that what every YOUR side does is OK but if the other side does it it is the WORST FUCKING THING in the world.
Of course this will get mod bombed into hell soon like almost all posts about apple that do not proclaim apple the next best thing to God.
Before defending oneself, one needs to know what one is charged with. I know that in the new America you just throw people in concentration camps for a couple of years because they have shifty eyes, but in most other countries you need to say what law has been broken first.
What if DRM had never been invented? What if it was 100% clear that nobody would buy DRMed songs?
If the RIAA had never gotten to the point it has, then yes, your point stands, but if iTunes didn't place DRM on it's music then the RIAA would refuse to allow them to distribute their music, killing the service because there wouldn't be nearly enough demand for the music it could distribute.
And DRM is just an extension of the same securities that prevent a hacker from defacing your website and rewriting your HD files, or even posting as you on slashdot. While a slightly different implementation, that login promt you get is what validates your browser as allowed to upload comments under your name.
Without DRM at all, computers wouldn't exist as they do today, and the internet wouldn't exist either.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
Didn't even read it, did you asshat?
I host a small webpage on my cable modem. As for "fantasy countries", I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Now, if your first language isn't english, then my apologies. I have been meaning to have it translated to various languages for months, and just haven't had the time (or money). But if that isn't the case, just means you're a fool.
Metanet isn't a "fantasy country", nor is it the little webpage I pointed you to so you could read about it. Like any true internetwork, it's distributed across many hosts, all over the place. The clever part is, that I don't know the identities of but a few of the participants, nor could I unless I flew several trans-oceanic flights, and somehow "persuaded" the few I do know, to give up the identities of the people *they know*. Even there, it doesn't stop, I might have to then chase down even more people. In theory, at most I would only ever have to do this 24 times (in 24 seperate jurisdictions), but in practice it's not quite that secure. If you weren't an asshat, I would invite you onto the network for a tour. Hell, maybe you would have stayed, and made it even harder for those who want to break it.