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Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy
Sascha J. writes "Disney is continuing their war against piracy. To their Oscar reviewers they now send out special encrypted DVDs, which can be played only on a DVD player of the "Cinea" series. From the article: "The DVD players are encoded with recipients' names, and screeners sent to those people are specifically encrypted so they can be seen only on those particular DVD players." Yet, Disney is alone on this. Sony and Universal Pictures said they won't follow that step."
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I occasionally receive inquiries from people who have read my previous letters and want to know why I believe that I am getting rather tired of sweeping up after repeated Mr. Mumbles The Clown, Esq. fiascoes. I always try to answer such inquiries to the best of my ability and that's precisely what I'm about to do now. Unless you share my view that Mr. Mumbles The Clown, Esq.'s spin doctors are just as bad as Mr. Clown is, if not worse, there's no need for you to hear me further. Just look at the bill of fare served up in recent movies and television programs, and you will hardly be able to deny that his faculty for deception is so far above anyone else's, it really must be considered different in kind as well as in degree. Whenever he is blamed for conspiring to put our liberties at risk by a baleful and prudish rush to call for ritualistic invocations of needlessly formal rules, he blames his expositors. Doing so reinforces their passivity and obedience and increases their guilt, shame, terror, and conformity, thereby making them far more willing to help Mr. Clown apotheosize unconscionable schizophrenics.
Mr. Clown plans to require schoolchildren to be taught that children don't need as much psychological attentiveness, protection, and obedience training as the treasured household pet. He has instructed his functionaries not to discuss this or even admit to his plan's existence. Obviously, Mr. Clown knows he has something to hide. It's not necessarily the case that I hope that this sends a strong message to people across the nation that his confreres have demonstrated brutally, horribly, and with great terror how they will further political and social goals wholly or in part through activities that involve force or violence and a violation of criminal law. On the contrary, he has never satisfactorily proved his assertion that he's the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread. He has merely justified that assertion with the phrase, "Because I said so." Mr. Clown's ostentatious anecdotes arose out of an unjust system only to spread more injustice in their wake, proving that there is no end to ethically bankrupt ageism. Okay, that's a bit of an overstatement, but for all of you reading this who are not inarticulate four-flushers, you can understand where the motivation for that statement comes from.
Mr. Clown wants to sucker us into buying a lot of junk we don't need. Faugh. Although it requires risk, commitment, and follow-through to make some changes here, he has no idea what he's doing. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that I am not a robot. I am a thinking, feeling, human being. As such, I get teary-eyed whenever I see Mr. Clown biologically or psychologically engineer coldhearted, jejune scroungers to make them even more froward than they already are. It makes me want to lift the fog from his thinking, which is why I'm so eager to tell you that I recently heard Mr. Clown tell a bunch of people that his snow jobs are Right with a capital R. I can't adequately describe my first reaction to this notion; I simply don't know how to represent uncontrollable laughter in text.
At the very least, there is something grievously wrong with those corrupt hackers who cause invidious subversion to gather momentum on college campuses. Shame on the lot of them! Should we worry that Mr. Clown wants to encourage gloomy dingbats to see themselves as victims and, therefore, live by alibis rather than by honest effort? In a word, yes. And that's not just because experience shows that in the good old days, when courage, honor, devotion, duty, and loyalty meant something, it was comparatively easy to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Mr. Clown but also because by allowing him to inculcate predatory politics, we are allowing him to play puppet master.
Mr. Clown is not only immoral, but amoral. We must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on t
sod the oscars. Let the people decide! This is America aint it?
Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious
Wow, speak the truth and get labled Flaimbait.