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Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims

Posted by michael on from the didn't-do-nothin' dept.

An anonymous reader notes that the Beastie Boys have responded to claims that their new album is DRM-crippled; their response is that the US and UK versions aren't crippled, and the DRM software is only installed in RAM, not on disk. See our previous story for background.

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  1. shift by A_GREER · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a shift key and I am not afraid to use it...

  2. Re:So What? by _Knots · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Er... well, so that's complicated. In Latin, viri is the nominative plural of vir,viri (m,2nd) ["man"], which should have "virus" as its nominative singular form but doesn't - it's an irregular. So if virus were to exist it would likely be an irregular to avoid conflation and so virii is a likely outcome.

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  3. Re:So What? by RichardX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? no! It's captain anal!

    I know that you're feeling all smug and pleased with yourself for correctly using "virii" as the plural of virus, but you are, in fact, wrong. Vir is the latin root for "man", therefore virii is in fact "men", and the plural of virus is the horrendously wrong sounding "viruses". Furthermore, the ii ending in Latin is only attached to words ending in "ius" - for example "radius" > "radii".

    Anyways, no need to thank me.. must dash, I think I hear someone somewhere talking about their "PIN Number"... and remember, I'm not arrogant, just better than you.

    Captain Anal, over and out.

    (btw, in true slashdot fashion, I haven't actually bothered to check any of these facts, so I may actually be wrong. ha!)

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