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Media Server Manufacturer Wins in Court
whoever57 writes "The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has lost its bid to shut down Kaleidescope, which manufactures media servers that can copy DVDs (along with decryption keys) to built in hard drives. The DVD CCA claimed that this violated the terms of the contracts that control DVD-related equipment because the DVD need not be physically present for payback. However, the
judge ruled against the DVD CCA on the narrow grounds that part of the specification of the Content Scrambling System was not part of the overall license agreement. This may open up the market for similar devices."
Hello DVD-ripping in iTunes! And not a moment too soon as they just started shipping the Apple TV.
Not that it matters to us nerds since we've been ripping DVDs with Handbrake/MediaFork for a while, but still.
I am now officially disgusted at this thread because every single post in it except for this one and the first one are, at the time of my posting, related to grammar or spelling mistakes in the summary.
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
Am I hallucinating, or are we really arguing and quibbling about nonstories like "Media Server Manufacturer Wins in Court"?
Here we are, on the eve of Yet Another War in the Middle East, this one apparently planned to be triggered by the '15 British agressors'. Hundreds of thousands will die.
But you'd never know this from Slashdot.
No, in this amazing world of Slashdot, what we really need know about is every piddling detail in the life of a Media Server Manufacturer. Well, I'll tell you what. Ask 10 people on the street what a Media Server even is, and not a single one will be able to tell you.
But who am I to disillusion you all. Go on, get back to your bubble, suckle on that techno-teat, and spend your days concerned about the 'war' between Debian and Ubuntu (or whatever) rather than the real problems facing billions of real people in this world.