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Feds Continue To Consider Linux Users Criminals For Watching DVDs
An anonymous reader sent in a link to an article in Wired about the latest DMCA loophole hearing. Bad news: the federal government rejected requests that would make console modding and breaking DRM on DVDs to watch them legal. So, you dirty GNU/Linux hippies using libdvdcss better watch out: "Librarian of Congress James Billington and Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante rejected the two most-sought-after items on the docket, game-console modding and DVD cracking for personal use and 'space shifting.' Congress plays no role in the outcome. The regulators said that the controls were necessary to prevent software piracy and differentiated gaming consoles from smart phones, which legally can be jailbroken. ... On the plus side, the regulators re-authorized jailbreaking of mobile phones. On the downside, they denied it for tablets, saying an 'ebook reading device might be considered a tablet, as might a handheld video game device.'"
So you can jailbreak a phone, but if it's 1" larger and considered a "tablet" you are breaking the law.
That's cute but... The Register of Copyrights is appointed by the Librarian of Congress. James Billington was appointed by Reagan.
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What unlicensed system?
Everybody who's playing DVDs on Linux already has a license, because they have a licensed DVD player in the computer, and already paid the Microsoft tax.
The patent holders can't ask for more than that.
Don't watch DVD, download higher quality .mkv from pirate bay instead.
There is... Fluendo DVD Player, made by the same guys behind GStreamer, the same media framework used by GNOME.
You should try and change your news source. You seem to be misinformed
My guy didn't make it dummy. Nowhere do I see Ron Paul's name on any ballot. Just because I'm not a fan of Romney doesn't make me an Obama supporter. I will say that Bush and Obama make me miss Clinton where the biggest concern was which ugly slut he was banging this week.
I really hate to agree with the copyright holders on this one, but...
DVD players arn't licensed. And even WinXP didn't come with a license: http://www.pcworld.com/article/166586/cant_play_dvds.html
Also, I don't buy crappy computers...I build my own and run Ubuntu
And a war criminal.
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Keep towing that party line
Toeing. The phrase is to 'toe the line', not to tow it.
WTF? I think you're confusing the two parties.
But lets look at Democrats - they have decades of failed social engineering programs under their belt.
The last Democrat failed social program was Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, which was remedied during Clinton's administration with PWORA. I know of no more recent such "social engineering" by the dems, but Bush II had his failed "no child left behind".
They're beholden to corrupt corporations.
Both parties are beholden to corrupt corporations.
They engage in pointless wars.
The last Democrat war was in Vietnam, and it can be argued that that was a Republican war, since we had advisors in Vietnam under Eisenhower. Since that war ended in 1975, we had Reagan's invasion of Panama to get some dope dealer that was running the country; Bush 1's Iraq war, no war under Clinton, Bush 2 had both Afghanistan and yet another Iraq war. Under Obama Iraq 2 is over and Bush's other war is winding down.
Yadda yadda.
Yada yada indeed, fool. You're full of shit and an idiot as well.
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