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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. firefst post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st p0st!

  2. Re:Cognitive Dissonance? by tracon5 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hey atleast theres no silverware or ladies ware installed.

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    Non-smokers die every day --Bill Hicks
  3. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So instead of wasting MY hard drive space, it's eating up RAM that I need to run the bloated memory hog of an OS WindowsXP.

    1. Re:Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's only bloated if you don't know how to use it. I've only got 512mb of PC133 in this speed demon (slanted because it's going so fast) and XP runs very well. I have tons of memory free, too. Maybe you're the problem and not the OS?

    2. Re:Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah? Well, I have 192MB of RAM on my Linux machine, and it runs just as well, or even better than your XP POS.

      (aside from the fact that my processor is getting old). I'll upgrade when Doom3 comes out.

  4. Take their word for it? by MakoStorm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fight against the copyright machine. If you want to see old men making complete asses of themselves just go to the local nursing home. There is plenty of them, plus, admission is free, and you can tape record as much as you want. No DRM restrictions there.

  5. Re:Yeah, but honey... by ragecgi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok mod this funny as HELL!!!!!!!!! lol ! +20!

  6. OH YES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU FUCKING FAIL IT!!!

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

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

  8. 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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  9. 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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