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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."
Linux == terrorism
In your pants.
smoking aces, pan's labarynth, epic movie, and the rest I don't remember.
Smoking aces is gay and I fell asleep during it, pan's is in italian and i thought the lead character was a guy for the first 20 minutes, epic movie was just cheap [as in low budget and not funny].
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Whatever, I didn't say it was bad because it's in another language. I said it's bad because it's boring, long, drawn out, and the lead character looks like a dude. And the chirping sounds every 3 seconds from the "creatures from the woods" was really annoying.
And I'm not American, I'm Canadian, bilingual and have a respect for other languages [I watched several movies in arabic [with subtitles] and enjoyed their point of view].
You must be one of them European hippies where if someone doesn't agree with you it's because they're a yankee fascist pigdog. Here's a tip, we don't all think the same over here, and that's perfectly ok.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
mod parent flamebait please. how can you generalize on all Americans ?
Only a pathetic person would tell someone else to kill themselves. A pathetic ignorant person who has not enough maturity to value life. Before you start claiming who should live and who should die you should learn some respect for people and stop acting like a child!
I like muppets.
Yeah, Ive experienced that one. It can be hard having a girlfriend who isnt already jaded. Maybe I need to date someone older than 20.
Really? Are you telling me that you don't speak and/or write in an unsatisfactory, inadequate, or unskilled manner?
Q.E.D. That's Latin for "pwned you, luser!" or something.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
thats why its important to support your MPAA representatives, what happens if your aunts one copy of "its a wonderful life" broke, without the movie companies protecting their back catalogs, who's going to be there to sell her another copy? All of this "fair use" stuff seems to imply that you can't purchase a backup copy, and thats often not the case.