Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying

Ynefel writes in with a PC Magazine article reporting that the DVD Copy Control Association is considering an amendment to the agreement equipment vendors must abide by, which would completely ban all DVD backups, whether fair use or not, and prevent DVDs from playing without the DVD disk being present in the drive. The amendment is being voted on imminently and if approved would go into effect within 18 months. Quoting: "The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD CCA this past March."

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Re:dear execs

[TheMeuge]

Firstly, Pan's Labyrinth is in Spanish, not Italian. Secondly, only an American could say that a movie sucks because it's in a different language.

My take on that is that you should kill yourself, for the benefit of the human gene pool.

Re:Who cares?

[stratjakt]

No, it is not an argument.

It's an opinion. Is there a problem with that?

And as uncreative as "spoonfuck" and "shit for brains" may be, I don't see how you deserve any better.

It's not like I'm going to put on my thinking cap to tell you off.

You wont even argue logged-in for fear of your precious, precious karma.