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Medieval Copy Protection
An anonymous reader writes "In medieval times a 'book curse' was often included on the inside cover or on the last leaf of a manuscripts, warning away anyone who might do the book some harm. Here's a particularly pretty one from Yale's Beinecke MS 214: 'In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. In the one thousand two hundred twenty-ninth year from the incarnation of our Lord, Peter, of all monks the least significant, gave this book to the [Benedictine monastery of the] most blessed martyr, St. Quentin. If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgment the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.'"
They should put message at the beginning of movies instead of the stupid FBI warning thing.
I think it would be pretty kick-ass to have some Saint materialize and lay on some whup-ass to would be thieves.
*gasp* THE BISHOP!
crazy dynamite monkey
No wonder my crops failed and there was a rain of toads on the farm after I downloaded "Superman III".
Slashdot: where we don't bother reading the summary, let alone the article, when writing the headline.
You're just upset because Moses yelled at you for building the golden calf.
"Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going! Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays 'O Come All Ye Faithful,' so you want to get one too." -George Carlin
Living With a Nerd
'In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. In the one thousand two hundred twenty-ninth year from the incarnation of our Lord, Peter, of all monks the least significant, gave this book to the [Benedictine monastery of the] most blessed martyr, St. Quentin. If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgment the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.'
That is the longest password I've ever seen.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
You can tell it's a Sony Bible if opening it puts a rootkit in your soul.
Yet someone stole that and wrote it down in a little book called the Bible. Perhaps he should have included some DRM on his tablets...
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
The first version was written on papyrus, but someone walked off with it.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Can you fork it? Can you modify it? Can you sell it?
Nope, you can walk into any bookstore and get the original untranslated version, and only that, for free. There aren't any other versions allowed and nobody ever sells it.
is this supposed to be your first step? If so, posting on slashdot doesn't count on abandoning it.
I thought there were no lawyers allowed in heaven by definition?
I thought that was a common functionality of all bibles?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Some scholars believe that God's ultimate intention for that was to establish the need for a large, majestic container to store them in, and thus prepare the way for the eventual creation of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Bwahahahaha, he said "educate"!