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Disney Suggests Mandating DRM On All Media

Posted by timothy on from the oh-it's-just-an-idea-but-I-could-make-it-into-a-concept dept.

Ethan Butterfield writes "Cory Doctorow posted this on his blog this morning. Essentially, Disney wants the FCC to regulate all devices capable of recording from any audio broadcasting medium or from the Internet."

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  1. Could this... by Tuxedo+Jack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could this possibly tie in with their crappy newly-released PCs? I'd love to get one of those and tear it apart to see what DRM they've put in.

    Mickey with a shotgun saying something about a "motherfucking IP infringer" comes to mind...

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    1. Re:Could this... by danamania · · Score: 5, Funny

      Could this possibly tie in with their crappy newly-released PCs? I'd love to get one of those and tear it apart to see what DRM they've put in.

      You can do that, as soon as you buy a DRM-enabled screwdriver to undo the DRM-enabled screws on the DRM-enabled case.

    2. Re:Could this... by Dwonis · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, you'd get charged criminally.

    3. Re:Could this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You can do that, as soon as you buy a DRM-enabled screwdriver

      That'd be license the DRM enabled screwdriver.

    4. Re:Could this... by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Right On!

      Hack the Mouse PC!

      Boycott Disney movies (shouldn't be too hard - there isn't any nudity in them, right?)

      Disney and Microsoft - up there with Exxon and Enron as the most disgusting companies on Earth.

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    5. Re:Could this... by fireman+sam · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not quite... In Soviet Disneyland the DRM-enabled licenses screw you

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  2. Only a matter of time before it happens by kaltkalt · · Score: 4, Funny

    That being said, I'm not surprised that it's Disney who made the official proposal. I give it 10 years before DRM violation arrests are second behind drug possession arrests. Buy prison stock now.

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  3. Re:So... by jejagua · · Score: 5, Funny

    Up next: DRM for your brain. Maybe now I can get rid of all those silly TV theme songs constantly playing in my head.

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  4. nice! by sometwo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then we won't be able to listen to Disney music?

    Bring it on!

  5. Re:Mickey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You know what annoys me? Mickey Mouse's birthday being announced on the television news, as if it's an actual event. I don't give a shit. If I cared about Mickey Mouse's birthday I'd have memorized it years ago. And I'd send him a card: "Dear Mickey, Happy Birtdhay, Love George." I don't do that. Why? I don't give a shit. Fuck Mickey Mouse! Fuck him in the asshole with a big rubber dick. Then break it off and beat him with the rest of it. I hope Mickey dies! I do, I hope he Goddamn dies. I hope he gets hold of some tainted cheese and dies lonely and forgotten behind the baseboard of a soiled bathroom in a poor neighborhood, with his hand in Goofy's pants. Mickey Mouse. No wonder no one in the world takes our country seriously. We waste valuable television time informing our citizens of the age of an imaginary rodent!" -George Carlin

  6. Right by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe when I say, "Fuck That", I speak for all of us.

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  7. clothes by sacrilicious · · Score: 3, Funny
    Boycott Disney movies (shouldn't be too hard - there isn't any nudity in them, right?)

    I must have the director's cuts of some of those Disney movies, because I just got through watching The Jungle Book and there wasn't a stitch of clothing on that oh-so-friendly bear. Also, in Dumbo they try to draw your attention away from it but if you freezeframe it you see that the mouse doesn't have pants on, just a shirt...

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