You should be able to modify any equipment you own without fear of prosecution because the effect of that modification could possibly, in certain specific circumstances, violate copyright laws.
Agreed, and the DMCA does not prevent you from doing this. You can modify your X-box to make espresso, and you are well within your rights. You can even distribute all the information so all the other X-Box owners can do it.
What you can't do is sell, or distribute, a device that circumvents copyright protection mechanisms. You know, like a modchip does.
It's like arresting someone for putting a better engine in their car becuase "They might decide to speed", or worse, arresting the person who sold the performace parts.
It's nothing like it. It's like arresting someone for building a better engine, when in fact all they do is some minor changes to the computer and sell that engine as their own. Or even better, it's not a fucking analogy.
This guy sells modchips which allow an Xbox to play pirated games, right? There is no analogy needed. Nobody is stopping you from doing whatever the hell you want to your hardware, as long as you do it.
He still violated software copyright laws, not anything related to hardware.
From Niklaus:The chinese word for AIDS is (ai4zi1bing4), searching for which brings up 588 entries, like for example www.aids.net.cn or www.aidsonline.com.cn. Probably still not as much as appropriate, but better than one.
No offense, but I think his search is a bit more accurate than your own. He posts the sequences so you can search as well.
I'm sure that if you did a search in Chinese you would get more results. Although I'm not sure if they have a character for the disease... I don't know anything about Chinese, really.
I do know that if you try searching for something in English on a Japanese search engine, you don't get that many results. Write it in katakana (Japanese characters used to write foreign words) and you get the real results.
Not only this but labeling SARS as an "epidemic" is the same as the hoax where the kid said Hong Kong was being listed as an infected city. SARS has reached 100 deaths, and they are getting a handle on the disease and understanding it more.
Sensationalist journalism at it's finest points, authored by a sci-fi game writer.
Merely by existing and being written in English, this is already the best reference on the planet. Hell, it could be written in Klingon and still be more understandable than half the API documents.
You have no idea how much better this makes me feel. I was really starting to doubt my own knowledge and abilities. It's so nice to feel that I'm not alone.
You accuse others of rabid zealotry, but maybe you might want to sit back and consider the possibility that Microsoft really is using McCarthy-style propaganda and scare tactics, instead of competing in the marketplace. Sure, it's their right to do so, just as it's my right (and the collective right of the rest of their targets) to ridicule them for it.
I'm not disputing Microsoft's counter tactics, they are playing in a very tough game. The only thing that they really have going for them is that major corporations are not backing open source, which is changing. What I am saying is that writing things like "Micro$oft" is, at best, stupid. It really makes the person look like a high school cheerleader.
So what, because it's not Zope based, it can't be open source? I don't follow your flippant remark at the end.
The submittor probably did the typical if ( $Language == Proprietary ) OpenSource = false; style logic. Because Java is owned by C, anything written in Java is evil. You can apply this formula to most things around here, actually.
The submittor could also have some hard on for Zope and PHP, like those people who think that there is only one language for all problems.
So pointing out a historical trend is the mark of a zealot, now? In the past, Microsoft has countered positive articles about open source in exactly that fashion, usually within a week.
If you are going to respond, don't do it AC. It makes for a much meaningful conversation.
Saying, "The historical trend of Microsoft is to counter positive articles about open source with their counter points and opinions, however misguided, usually happens within a week" is not the mark of a zealot. "I wonder how long it will take the M$ team to start churning out response articles alleging that Open Source is destroying capitalism" however is the mark. The classic dollar-sign substitution, and the outlandish "destroying capitalism" claim, which to date, Microsoft hasn't actually said.
Yes, open source is in competition with Microsoft. Microsoft responds with it's press releases stating how it is better than open source. This is business, not a cheer leading squad. People who post dumbass comments about "Micro$oft" being evil and bad really need to graduate high school, drop the pom-poms, and start being constructive and real.
I'd be interested in someone finding a way to rig Guinness Draught in a can to come out of some dispenser. (Perhaps filling it with the little ping-pong balls?) Just to impress small groups of connisuers. I was lucky, I turned 21 and worked with a guy with Irish ancestry. He got me hooked on the stuff while I was impressionable. To me, Budweiser tastes like foamy sour sugar water.
Just to save you some embarassement, if you ever have some real Irish or real beer drinkers over, never mess with those cans. When you are talking about Guinness, it should be drank from a real tap, designed to pour Guinness and Guinness alone.
If you want real Guinness, go to St. James. If you aren't up for making a trip to Ireland just for the beer, go to London. Guinness ships out beer depending upon a few factors, one is how close the target is to St. James, the other is how much they buy. The US gets the mediocre Guinness, London gets (usually) the #2 or #3 brew. The #1 brew is always reserved for St. James.
The cops can hold you as a "material witness" without bothering to get a judge's OK, that's what's so scary about this law.
No, they can't. Go look up a rule book. In order for an individual to be labeled a material witness there must be a federal judge who signs off on the mandate, otherwise it doesn't happen.
The FBI is controlling this, not the "cops". The FBI answers to federal judges.
It's just more convenient for you to have a knee-jerk reaction, instead of looking at the facts.
Explain to me again how the government is within their rights? First off, if they are detaining him because they feel he is guilty of something, they don't have a right to do it under hostile witness clauses.
No. They do not feel he is guilty of something. Well, they may, but they don't need to tell us. He is being held as a material witness. Not as an accused criminal.
They need to do it as a criminal prosecution. If they are honestly holding him as a hostile witness, (which I doubt) why wouldn't they tell him what he is expected to testify about?
Learn the difference between a criminal and a material witness, and we'll talk. K?
Where did I say there wasn't a reason for his detainment? I'm saying cough up the reason and press charges or let him go. The government can't legally hold you indefinitely without telling you what you've done wrong and what you're being charged with. Check the bill of rights, I think it's the sixth amendment if I'm not mistaken...
Well, you are wrong. The government can hold you indefinitely, but they will tell you and your lawyer why they are holding you, which the article does state. Everybody else is under a gag order so it can't get out. Keep in mind he is not being accused of committing a crime, but he is being held as a material witness. This means he is in danger of either being harmed, taking off, or disrupting the investigation.
These are valid reasons for detainment, and a federal judge was convinced he fell into one of those three categories. I personally have faith that it was done with a good, sound reason, and it will most likely turn out there was a good reason.
5 guys in Portland also got "disappeared" by the government, much to the dismay of their neighbors and families. They said that they took a trip to the middle east to visit their family. Instead, after looking at the flight information, they flew to Afghanistan and helped the Taliban setup defenses (I'm not sure exactly what they did, the newspapers didn't report that. It was a very brief write-up saying that they flew to the middle east, travelled to Afghanistan, and helped with preperation) prior to the US attack.
Suddenly the public outcry stopped, and everybody went about their business. If this guy does turn up to be involved with financially backing a terrorist group, unbeknownst to his family and friends, what will they say? Will they apologize for all the slanderous comments they made? Doubtful.
All I am saying is that the government is well within their rights, and this has nothing to do with the new bills being placed in the War on Terrorism. This happened to mafia members long before terrorism was a thought in the American mind.
And how long should everybody wait for these facts? A year? 5 years? 10 years? What is a year of your life worth to you? Hell, what is a month of your life worth to you? At what point is it fair that he's either prosecuted or released?
There is a definite reason why he is detained. This much is certain. I have a few friends that are Arab, in Portland, and haven't been detained. So far 44 people have been detained, for a reason. Granted, somet times the reason is wrong, but there is always a reason.
You know, we could stamp out a lot of terrorism in Britain and Ireland by bombing the shit out of Boston, Chicago, and New York, oh yes. And arresting the hundreds of thousands of Irish-Americans that fund terrorist organizations.
I wouldn't say hundreds of thousands, but you are probably right. I have a strong feeling that unless you are donating to Sinn Fein, you should be. When this "War on Terrorism" bit started, I was actually concerned as being an Irish-American, and also speaking out in support of Sinn Fein.
Thankfully enough, the Smoked Irish methodology isn't as strong as it was decades ago.
They say over and over that they do not know of the ties, yet it is already public knowledge (I read it on the free newspaper this morning) that the primary reason why he was originally under investigation is that he made a very large donation to a charity that has known connections to terrorist groups.
If you are going to make a Free Mike website, at least read the newspapers. They obviously aren't that close of friends to not know what people who don't know the guy know.
His story is already getting major media coverage on local (Portland) news stations. I think this might do better than you predict.
What about the 5 guys who "got disappeared" by the government last year. They weren't wealthy, and had a little local clamor by their friends and relatives. Then you don't hear anything about them.
The whole reason why anybody is rallying is because he has friends with money to spare. It's just like OJ!
Granted, I have no opinion on this what so ever. I think that people need to wait and look at the facts. He's a material witness, being held as such, by the government. The facts aren't being released, because the government most likely feels that those facts will jeopardize the connection they are trying to break.
I would be more surprised if this guy didn't know something was up. I think he knew the charity he donated to did have terrorist ties and just voluntarily turned the other way.
I just enjoy raggin on peoples cars:) They tend to get ultra defensive and talk smack and for some reason I just always found that amusing. I still would prefer a nice 300ZX over any supra, way better handing, just the downside of more expensive to make fast
I'm going for the G35. Same chassis as the 350Z, but has a back seat. The points that I like the Lexus SC over the supra is mostly in the suspension upgrades.. much smoother ride, and you get a little bit better drift stock. The supra has a stiffer suspension because it needs to "feel" more sporty.
The Supra and the SC are almost identical mechanically wise though. SC is much, much, more comfortable.
Actually, check out suprastore.com. They have some pretty insane upgrades, most of which is stock-engine upgrades. Plenty more than 800RWHP, too:)
To some of the other posts under this one: Not everyone likes racing the 1/4 mile. I don't recall ever seeing a road-race prepared Chevelle. My Supra is prep'd for performance street driving, which includes coilover suspension, basic performing upgrades, and yields about 450HP at the crank. I eat stock production cars like it ain't no fuckin' thang, even though my car is very mildly modified as far as performance goes (import or domestic).
I'm an autocrosser, fuck 1/4 mile. If I wanted to go fast in a straight line, I'd buy a drag bike.
then you've not seen a real musclecar. anyone that knows how to build and tune an engine can do under 9 seconds in the quarter mile and i've seen some go even faster.
Prove it, because I've never seen a 1/4 mile muscle car that can stand up to a properly equipped import.
let us not forget how ugly those asian race cars are, as well. come on, admit it. you'd much rather race in an american car than an import, given equal performance characteristics. i know i would.
My Lexus SC (Toyota Soarer) has more class and style than any muscle car ever made. You probably think mullets are cool and Trans Ams are the best cars ever made, right?
NOTHING will beat a classic american muscle car. good luck getting lucky in the back of a subaru, unless you're a midget or a very small asian or something. same with motorcycles. but an old chevelle or mustang or camaro... they have speed, looks, they're often convertible, you can get lucky in the back, and you can adjust the weight of the whole car tremendously, since they (for the most part) aren't unibodies. you can replace all that steel with fiberglass, add nitrous, and the thing will not only still look stock, but it will win 9/10 races it participates in.
This is how I know that you are an idiot, with no concept of racing. You say, "add nitrous" to a NA engine, without thought as to the other things that you should do first. There are several terms for people like you, who think that all you need is to add nitrous to build a race car. My favorite is "Nitro Whore"
My Lexus is more comfortable than any American designed car I've ever been in, and I'm 6'1. My "best" American designed car is a Camaro SS convertible, and it was fun, but wasn't even comparable to my SC.
Googlewhacking, Googlewashing, Googling, what else are there?
Google is a freaking web-based index and search tool. Why is this a concern at all? If Second Superpower is the name of a company, than I would expect to see it be on the list where it belongs. If someones blog or site is named that, what is the issue? Many people are linking to it, and it escalates the PageRank.
Welcome to proof that Google works the way it was intended, in only 42 days!
If they crack the encryption, unleash the DMCA on them. Settle only if they let CowboyNeal screw lightbulbs into Hilary Rosen's ears.
This would work, but you seem to be forgetting that the DMCA is a copyright law. You have no copyright on the music, unless it's yours. In that case, the RIAA wouldn't give a rats ass about you because they would either own you, or you suck, or you are Courtney Love.
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You should be able to modify any equipment you own without fear of prosecution because the effect of that modification could possibly, in certain specific circumstances, violate copyright laws.
Agreed, and the DMCA does not prevent you from doing this. You can modify your X-box to make espresso, and you are well within your rights. You can even distribute all the information so all the other X-Box owners can do it.
What you can't do is sell, or distribute, a device that circumvents copyright protection mechanisms. You know, like a modchip does.
It's like arresting someone for putting a better engine in their car becuase "They might decide to speed", or worse, arresting the person who sold the performace parts.
It's nothing like it. It's like arresting someone for building a better engine, when in fact all they do is some minor changes to the computer and sell that engine as their own. Or even better, it's not a fucking analogy.
This guy sells modchips which allow an Xbox to play pirated games, right? There is no analogy needed. Nobody is stopping you from doing whatever the hell you want to your hardware, as long as you do it.
He still violated software copyright laws, not anything related to hardware.
From Niklaus: The chinese word for AIDS is (ai4zi1bing4), searching for which brings up 588 entries, like for example www.aids.net.cn or www.aidsonline.com.cn. Probably still not as much as appropriate, but better than one.
No offense, but I think his search is a bit more accurate than your own. He posts the sequences so you can search as well.
I'm sure that if you did a search in Chinese you would get more results. Although I'm not sure if they have a character for the disease... I don't know anything about Chinese, really.
I do know that if you try searching for something in English on a Japanese search engine, you don't get that many results. Write it in katakana (Japanese characters used to write foreign words) and you get the real results.
Not only this but labeling SARS as an "epidemic" is the same as the hoax where the kid said Hong Kong was being listed as an infected city. SARS has reached 100 deaths, and they are getting a handle on the disease and understanding it more.
Sensationalist journalism at it's finest points, authored by a sci-fi game writer.
Merely by existing and being written in English, this is already the best reference on the planet. Hell, it could be written in Klingon and still be more understandable than half the API documents.
You have no idea how much better this makes me feel. I was really starting to doubt my own knowledge and abilities. It's so nice to feel that I'm not alone.
You accuse others of rabid zealotry, but maybe you might want to sit back and consider the possibility that Microsoft really is using McCarthy-style propaganda and scare tactics, instead of competing in the marketplace. Sure, it's their right to do so, just as it's my right (and the collective right of the rest of their targets) to ridicule them for it.
I'm not disputing Microsoft's counter tactics, they are playing in a very tough game. The only thing that they really have going for them is that major corporations are not backing open source, which is changing. What I am saying is that writing things like "Micro$oft" is, at best, stupid. It really makes the person look like a high school cheerleader.
So what, because it's not Zope based, it can't be open source? I don't follow your flippant remark at the end.
The submittor probably did the typical if ( $Language == Proprietary ) OpenSource = false; style logic. Because Java is owned by C, anything written in Java is evil. You can apply this formula to most things around here, actually.
The submittor could also have some hard on for Zope and PHP, like those people who think that there is only one language for all problems.
So pointing out a historical trend is the mark of a zealot, now? In the past, Microsoft has countered positive articles about open source in exactly that fashion, usually within a week.
If you are going to respond, don't do it AC. It makes for a much meaningful conversation.
Saying, "The historical trend of Microsoft is to counter positive articles about open source with their counter points and opinions, however misguided, usually happens within a week" is not the mark of a zealot. "I wonder how long it will take the M$ team to start churning out response articles alleging that Open Source is destroying capitalism" however is the mark. The classic dollar-sign substitution, and the outlandish "destroying capitalism" claim, which to date, Microsoft hasn't actually said.
Yes, open source is in competition with Microsoft. Microsoft responds with it's press releases stating how it is better than open source. This is business, not a cheer leading squad. People who post dumbass comments about "Micro$oft" being evil and bad really need to graduate high school, drop the pom-poms, and start being constructive and real.
Particularly one written in a positive light, and without reference to Geeks or Zealots.
Refreshing isn't it.
I wonder how long it will take the M$ team to start churning out response articles alleging that Open Source is destroying capitalism.
Good thing it didn't last long. Real journalism doesn't need to mention zealots. Slashdot does it well enough.
I'd be interested in someone finding a way to rig Guinness Draught in a can to come out of some dispenser. (Perhaps filling it with the little ping-pong balls?) Just to impress small groups of connisuers. I was lucky, I turned 21 and worked with a guy with Irish ancestry. He got me hooked on the stuff while I was impressionable. To me, Budweiser tastes like foamy sour sugar water.
Just to save you some embarassement, if you ever have some real Irish or real beer drinkers over, never mess with those cans. When you are talking about Guinness, it should be drank from a real tap, designed to pour Guinness and Guinness alone.
If you want real Guinness, go to St. James. If you aren't up for making a trip to Ireland just for the beer, go to London. Guinness ships out beer depending upon a few factors, one is how close the target is to St. James, the other is how much they buy. The US gets the mediocre Guinness, London gets (usually) the #2 or #3 brew. The #1 brew is always reserved for St. James.
Budweiser isn't beer, it's a mullet-enhancer.
The cops can hold you as a "material witness" without bothering to get a judge's OK, that's what's so scary about this law.
No, they can't. Go look up a rule book. In order for an individual to be labeled a material witness there must be a federal judge who signs off on the mandate, otherwise it doesn't happen.
The FBI is controlling this, not the "cops". The FBI answers to federal judges.
It's just more convenient for you to have a knee-jerk reaction, instead of looking at the facts.
First, you much learn the meaning of "due process of law." Then learn what "loophole" means. Finally, study the notion of "above the law".
I bet your favorite color is clear, isn't it? It must be nice to have an opinion without any knowledge of the facts, I wish I could do shit like that.
Explain to me again how the government is within their rights? First off, if they are detaining him because they feel he is guilty of something, they don't have a right to do it under hostile witness clauses.
No. They do not feel he is guilty of something. Well, they may, but they don't need to tell us. He is being held as a material witness. Not as an accused criminal.
They need to do it as a criminal prosecution. If they are honestly holding him as a hostile witness, (which I doubt) why wouldn't they tell him what he is expected to testify about?
Learn the difference between a criminal and a material witness, and we'll talk. K?
Where did I say there wasn't a reason for his detainment? I'm saying cough up the reason and press charges or let him go. The government can't legally hold you indefinitely without telling you what you've done wrong and what you're being charged with. Check the bill of rights, I think it's the sixth amendment if I'm not mistaken...
Well, you are wrong. The government can hold you indefinitely, but they will tell you and your lawyer why they are holding you, which the article does state. Everybody else is under a gag order so it can't get out. Keep in mind he is not being accused of committing a crime, but he is being held as a material witness. This means he is in danger of either being harmed, taking off, or disrupting the investigation.
These are valid reasons for detainment, and a federal judge was convinced he fell into one of those three categories. I personally have faith that it was done with a good, sound reason, and it will most likely turn out there was a good reason.
5 guys in Portland also got "disappeared" by the government, much to the dismay of their neighbors and families. They said that they took a trip to the middle east to visit their family. Instead, after looking at the flight information, they flew to Afghanistan and helped the Taliban setup defenses (I'm not sure exactly what they did, the newspapers didn't report that. It was a very brief write-up saying that they flew to the middle east, travelled to Afghanistan, and helped with preperation) prior to the US attack.
Suddenly the public outcry stopped, and everybody went about their business. If this guy does turn up to be involved with financially backing a terrorist group, unbeknownst to his family and friends, what will they say? Will they apologize for all the slanderous comments they made? Doubtful.
All I am saying is that the government is well within their rights, and this has nothing to do with the new bills being placed in the War on Terrorism. This happened to mafia members long before terrorism was a thought in the American mind.
And how long should everybody wait for these facts? A year? 5 years? 10 years? What is a year of your life worth to you? Hell, what is a month of your life worth to you? At what point is it fair that he's either prosecuted or released?
There is a definite reason why he is detained. This much is certain. I have a few friends that are Arab, in Portland, and haven't been detained. So far 44 people have been detained, for a reason. Granted, somet times the reason is wrong, but there is always a reason.
You know, we could stamp out a lot of terrorism in Britain and Ireland by bombing the shit out of Boston, Chicago, and New York, oh yes. And arresting the hundreds of thousands of Irish-Americans that fund terrorist organizations.
I wouldn't say hundreds of thousands, but you are probably right. I have a strong feeling that unless you are donating to Sinn Fein, you should be. When this "War on Terrorism" bit started, I was actually concerned as being an Irish-American, and also speaking out in support of Sinn Fein.
Thankfully enough, the Smoked Irish methodology isn't as strong as it was decades ago.
They say over and over that they do not know of the ties, yet it is already public knowledge (I read it on the free newspaper this morning) that the primary reason why he was originally under investigation is that he made a very large donation to a charity that has known connections to terrorist groups.
If you are going to make a Free Mike website, at least read the newspapers. They obviously aren't that close of friends to not know what people who don't know the guy know.
And yes, that sentence was fun to type.
His story is already getting major media coverage on local (Portland) news stations. I think this might do better than you predict.
What about the 5 guys who "got disappeared" by the government last year. They weren't wealthy, and had a little local clamor by their friends and relatives. Then you don't hear anything about them.
The whole reason why anybody is rallying is because he has friends with money to spare. It's just like OJ!
Granted, I have no opinion on this what so ever. I think that people need to wait and look at the facts. He's a material witness, being held as such, by the government. The facts aren't being released, because the government most likely feels that those facts will jeopardize the connection they are trying to break.
I would be more surprised if this guy didn't know something was up. I think he knew the charity he donated to did have terrorist ties and just voluntarily turned the other way.
I just enjoy raggin on peoples cars :) They tend to get ultra defensive and talk smack and for some reason I just always found that amusing. I still would prefer a nice 300ZX over any supra, way better handing, just the downside of more expensive to make fast
I'm going for the G35. Same chassis as the 350Z, but has a back seat. The points that I like the Lexus SC over the supra is mostly in the suspension upgrades.. much smoother ride, and you get a little bit better drift stock. The supra has a stiffer suspension because it needs to "feel" more sporty.
The Supra and the SC are almost identical mechanically wise though. SC is much, much, more comfortable.
He's saying he runs consistently at 10.5, not a best run of 10.41. I'm pretty sure his best run times are probably down in the 10.1 to 10.2 range.
The thing that's great about the high HP supras, is they can turn, too!
Actually, check out suprastore.com. They have some pretty insane upgrades, most of which is stock-engine upgrades. Plenty more than 800RWHP, too :)
To some of the other posts under this one: Not everyone likes racing the 1/4 mile. I don't recall ever seeing a road-race prepared Chevelle. My Supra is prep'd for performance street driving, which includes coilover suspension, basic performing upgrades, and yields about 450HP at the crank. I eat stock production cars like it ain't no fuckin' thang, even though my car is very mildly modified as far as performance goes (import or domestic).
I'm an autocrosser, fuck 1/4 mile. If I wanted to go fast in a straight line, I'd buy a drag bike.
then you've not seen a real musclecar. anyone that knows how to build and tune an engine can do under 9 seconds in the quarter mile and i've seen some go even faster.
Prove it, because I've never seen a 1/4 mile muscle car that can stand up to a properly equipped import.
let us not forget how ugly those asian race cars are, as well. come on, admit it. you'd much rather race in an american car than an import, given equal performance characteristics. i know i would.
My Lexus SC (Toyota Soarer) has more class and style than any muscle car ever made. You probably think mullets are cool and Trans Ams are the best cars ever made, right?
NOTHING will beat a classic american muscle car. good luck getting lucky in the back of a subaru, unless you're a midget or a very small asian or something. same with motorcycles. but an old chevelle or mustang or camaro... they have speed, looks, they're often convertible, you can get lucky in the back, and you can adjust the weight of the whole car tremendously, since they (for the most part) aren't unibodies. you can replace all that steel with fiberglass, add nitrous, and the thing will not only still look stock, but it will win 9/10 races it participates in.
This is how I know that you are an idiot, with no concept of racing. You say, "add nitrous" to a NA engine, without thought as to the other things that you should do first. There are several terms for people like you, who think that all you need is to add nitrous to build a race car. My favorite is "Nitro Whore"
My Lexus is more comfortable than any American designed car I've ever been in, and I'm 6'1. My "best" American designed car is a Camaro SS convertible, and it was fun, but wasn't even comparable to my SC.
Googlewhacking, Googlewashing, Googling, what else are there?
Google is a freaking web-based index and search tool. Why is this a concern at all? If Second Superpower is the name of a company, than I would expect to see it be on the list where it belongs. If someones blog or site is named that, what is the issue? Many people are linking to it, and it escalates the PageRank.
Welcome to proof that Google works the way it was intended, in only 42 days!
If they crack the encryption, unleash the DMCA on them. Settle only if they let CowboyNeal screw lightbulbs into Hilary Rosen's ears.
This would work, but you seem to be forgetting that the DMCA is a copyright law. You have no copyright on the music, unless it's yours. In that case, the RIAA wouldn't give a rats ass about you because they would either own you, or you suck, or you are Courtney Love.
I also believe [the X-box] to be a superior console in both hardware and the availible games.
That's because everybody knows that PCs are the better platform for games. Although the X-Box is more like a Mac.