Slashdot Mirror
FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM
An anonymous reader writes "FairUse4WM, according to engadget, "can be used to strip Windows Media DRM 10 and 11". What does the slashdot community think of this development in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game going on between big media and what is available online?"
Extra! Extra! Slashdot travels back in time to retrieve everybody else's headlines from last friday! Read all about it!
Slashdot: 24 hours behind every other site or your money back!
And if the teacher is distributing content in violation of the law, then that teacher should be fired.
Jesus Christ, I can't see how people can be so thick about this issue... If you don't want to abide by the terms of the agreement, then don't listen to the music, don't watch the video, and don't play with the software. It's not that difficult to understand. If you absolutely have to listen to the latest crap to come from Coldplay or whatever it is that you listen to, then you will have to abide by the agreement, which means that you will usually have to pay for the content that you download, and you will have to agree to not distribute copies of the content.
How freaking self-centered does a person have to be to believe that their rights to pirate music are more relevant than the rights of the people who actually own the music?
Slashdot, where you get modded down as redundant for stating an opposing viewpoint... Independent thought anyone?
There are lots of things you can't do with your Linux machine. You have chosen to use Linux, and for that choice you have the advantage of an operating system that doesn't crash daily, but you also have the disadvantage of not being able to use all the software that is available, and you can't use all the DRM content that you want on your machine.
Your choice to use a Linux box doesn't give you the right to circumvent the law.
It's all part of a cost-benefit analysis, like everything else in life.
Slashdot, where you get modded down as redundant for stating an opposing viewpoint... Independent thought anyone?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you think teaching abstinence would be effective if it weren't for the "it it feels good, do it" mindset of America's youth.