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RIAA vs Linux and DVDs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

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.

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  1. This article.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... besides making no sense whatsoever, is depressingly difficult to masturbate to.

  2. What he say? by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > The entertainment industry has put itself on the fast-track to destruction,

    ...it have no chance to survive, make its time?

    (Someone had to say it.)

  3. Re:Who's doing what to whom when how? by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. It was said well enough long ago by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny
    Those who refuse to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

    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."
  5. Re:Who's doing what to whom when how? by sd_diamond · · Score: 5, Funny

    I do know that the open-source liquor industry has gone way downhill since Prohibition was lifted.

  6. Re:Open Source Beer by sd_diamond · · Score: 5, Funny

    THIS RECIPE LICENSED UNDER THE GPL.

    Great. Now I won't be able to drink it while using MS Word.