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Sony Pulls Controversial Anti-Piracy Software
An anonymous reader writes "Bowing to public outrage, Sony BMG has temporarily halted the use of its controversial anti-piracy software in all of its music CDs, the company said in a statement today. The move comes just a day after a top Bush administration official chided Sony and the entertainment industry for going too far: according to this story over at Washingtonpost.com, Stewart Baker, the Department of Homeland Security's policy czar warned would-be DRM makers: 'It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.' The Post has the full text and video of his commentary." We've reported on this story previously.
I sure don't.
To quote a good song by a good band, Dope: DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE!
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Debian Hurd / Mach microkernel, Gnu, not Linux, would have been interesting.
or Solaris
Would they mind giving us their benchmark software so we could do it?
and a copy of singularity?
wake up and hold your nose
Just like bashing Bush at every opportunity doesn't make you a left-wing
.. seeking to acquire chemical weapons and other dangerous weapons." Many Republicans denounced the bombings as an attempt to divert attention from the Monica Lewinsky affair.
I am a left-wing liberal and proud of it.
, believe-all-junk-science,
Just what is "junk-science"? Peer-reviewed science published in reputable journals? Any science article that doesn't allude to God? Are you talking about global warming, which is accepted fact by even the EPA?
screw-all-businesses,
Like poor Sony, who has installed countless root-kits? The only businesses that get "screwed" by lefties are disreputable, unethical ones.
anti-military,
If you want anti-military, just look to the Bush administration, who sent our troops over to Iraq with inadequate armor, forcing many military families to buy armor to protect their loved ones. In 2003, the Bush administration tried to cut combat pay of the 157,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (by rolling back "imminent danger pay" by $75 a month and "family separation allowances" by $150 a month). And who fought against that? Democrats.
intellectually snobbish,
Because we don't say "nuculer"?
narrow-minded,
It's the right-wingers who fit that description, pushing to ban gay marriage, take away abortion rights, and even prevent terminally ill people from using doctor-prescribed medical marijuana. It's the right-wingers who try to censor television, radio, and even the Internet. If you want narrow-minded, just look to your own people.
"don't do a fu*king thing to people who are trying to kill everything you know and love" (aka. "just talk to them and they'll love all of us") asshole?
In August of 1998, Clinton ordered an air strike against bin Laden and his compatriots because of "compelling information they were planning additional terrorist attacks against our citizens and others with the inevitable collateral casualties and