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DVDCCA Sues Maker of Luxury DVD Jukebox

Posted by timothy on from the cut-off-nose-spite-face dept.

McSpew writes "The DVD Copy Control Association has decided to sue Kaleidescape for violating its CSS license. Kaleidescape's crime? They make a super-high-end (~$27k) DVD jukebox system that caches DVD movies onto a server (3.3TB of disk space). Kaleidescape says they've complied with the terms of their CSS license and they're considering countersuing. I want one, but I'm not a pro athlete, rapper or movie star, so I'll probably have to roll my own."

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  1. Re:Legitimate uses forbidden now? by dossen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wrong: Assume population of 10 persons. 6 with IQ 110, 3 with IQ 90, and one with IQ 70. The average IQ is (6*110+3*90+70)/10 = 100. There are however 6 persons with above avarage IQ. So half the population is not "by definition" of below average intelligence. The word you are looking for is median.

  2. Re:Legitimate uses forbidden now? by roju · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's true, but IQ assumes intelligence is normally distributed over the population. So in any large population, both the mean and median IQ should be 100.