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RIAA vs Linux and DVDs
PlayfullyClever writes "The entertainment industry has put itself on the fast-track to destruction, using well-proven tactics as explained in Preventing DVD Playback on Linux Like Prohibition in the 1920's. Are their heavy-handed tactics to lock up and control everything we touch signs of plain old human stubborness?" Or more likely- greed.
.... besides making no sense whatsoever, is depressingly difficult to masturbate to.
(Someone had to say it.)
Prohibition in the 1920s was actually very successful at preventing DVD playback on Linux, so I guess the thinking is that it's a pretty good model to go with.
Unfortunately, it's kinda tricky:
Step One: Don't invent the DVD yet.
Step...
D'oh!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I just wish they'd hurry up and die from their mistakes so something better can come along.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
For the love of god, don't read that article. I just did and I swear it was so utterly terribly it actually made me dumber. I RTFA from the original post and went away thinking that it would probably be the worst piece of nonsense I encountered this month (I don't read blogs, or I'd encounter a lot more similarly craptacular "articles"), boy did this prove me wrong. I wish I could un-read it.
yeah man, it's the corporations... they're like, taking over and stuff. if we could just like, get together, and show the corporations that we don't need their profit-mongering and extortion and capitalism, then that would show them!
The only thing that makes me stop short of thinking that's exactly what it is is the lack of the "word" "Rediculous".
And what's wrong with the word "rediculous"? Balki used it all the time.
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
The guy who beat two sticks together needed more cowbell.
I have to work hard to be that incoherent. Even if I'm already drunk.
The things you own end up owning you.
- Tyler Durden
I'd like to be owned by a big mansion, a yact, and a Lotus Esprit Turbo, please. Where do I post my "for sale" sign?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
*fap* *fap* *fap* *fap* *fap*
Especially since he can't spell "yacht".
(at least he got "Esprit" right...)
Unfortunately, our market surveys show the only interested buyers are a one bedroom apartment, a used kayak, and a lime green Geo Metro....
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
I do know that the open-source liquor industry has gone way downhill since Prohibition was lifted.
Well then 1. Tell people to have three-step lists with the last step being "Profit!!!" 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
13. Any legal action is absolutly excluded. (Pi World Ranking List rules)
THIS RECIPE LICENSED UNDER THE GPL.
Great. Now I won't be able to drink it while using MS Word.