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MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use
kcsduke writes "Following a recent speech at MIT on Movies in the Digital Age (streaming audio available), MPAA front man Jack Valenti sat down for a revealing interview with The Tech, MIT's student newspaper. In this entertaining read, Keith J. Winstein grills Valenti on fair use and the right to play DVDs under GNU/Linux. My favorite part is when Winstein shows a dumbfounded Valenti a six-line DVD descrambler he's designed, to which Valenti responds with language inappropriate for the Slashdot homepage. Throughout the interview, Valenti demonstrates his ignorance and misunderstanding of fair use."
Assuming you're a nerd, then Slashdot has fulfilled its objective, though not in the way you expected.
You, sir, are a dumbass.
Read your own words. When copyright holders are the only people with rights to their copyrighted works, that means that you, as a consumer, have no rights to their works. It is controlled exclusively by them, and they can, therefore, exert full control over their own works.
Given that Valenti isn't in any way a part of the judicial system, I find it hard to see exactly why the fuck this matters.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
You fucking Monday Morning Quarterback. What he did was perfect, because it wasn't covered in the PR script. Anything general would have gotten a "We here at the MPAA believe in 'Merka. Don't you like 'Merka, or are you a communist/terrorist/nonchristian?" Response. He shocked (trolled?) Valenti into responding with as 'Jack Fucking Valenti, Clueless Asshole', instead of as 'Bitch Stiffcunt, PR Advisor'.