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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. I call BS by minus_273 · · Score: 1, Troll

    There are linux DVD players just that none are free. There are no free legal DVD players ON ANY OS. You know how everyone says MS Office,photoshop,reamweaver etc will never have a linux version because linux users do not pay for software, well that is quite true.

    Legal linux DVD player

    Stop the BS about people trying to stop DVD playback on Linux. It just makes you look stupid.

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    1. Re:I call BS by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Troll
      Are you talking about freedom in classical definition of the world or the GNU/Freedom slang term? If the former, you are free to use it for what it was intended for without restriction.

      The last time I checked, software does not have rights to freedom given that it is a non-entity. It is property of its creator. That creator has the right/freedom to release it under whatever license he/she choose.

      It is the perversion of language regarding "freedom" which is turning people off linux and other open source software. RMS and his followers are what is keeping linux off the desktop.

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  2. Self mutilation like putting up the Berlin Wall by syousef · · Score: 0, Troll

    Eating Tacos like the fall of the Roman Empire
    Meeting pretty girl at party like slap in the head with cold fish. ...and other such LSD induced nonesense.

    Seriously, learn to argue with a solid analogy or don't try.

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  3. Re:One other major flaw in the analogy... by shmlco · · Score: 1, Troll

    About two thirds of the adults in the US consume alcohol in some form (beer, wine, spirits) or another. As such, equating prohibition, which affected the majority of the adults in the US, with something currently used by, what, 2-3% of the population (half of which are probably teens), is yet another major fallacy.

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