Aside from the fact you can do pretty much the same thing with a VCR, if you've got a PC with a video capture card, you can use software like this to setup a streaming video server in your basement (there's another that's actually a streaming video server with a web interface, but I can't find the link):
http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Product_Profile.jsp? p=WinDVR
If that's not illegal, how could pulling the video off of your Tivo be illegal?
You must be a fundy. Science is the most precious thing we have. The "Scientific Method" has turned out to be our greatest friend, protecting us from credulity and proving to be the only reliable tool for understanding ourselves and our world.
And you wonder we defend it so vigorously?
How do we stop such madness?
Sadly, we'll probably stop it the same way the French did, the Boxers did, the Bolsheviks did, and the way so many, many others. With a big assed gun.
I am so fucking sick of every goddamn thing in a this backassward society being focus on fucking buying or selling shit
Does every fucker with swinging balls or jiggling tits have to try and convince me the most important fucking thing in the whole fucking world is buying some feckless piece of shit they squeezed out of their asshole?
Godfuckingdammit I'm going to put an irimi nage on the next dipshit that treats me like a walking cash machine.
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That's amazing. You mean to tell me there's no way they could come up with a site licensing agreement that was more cost effective?
Where do they get off charging that much money for a couple CDs, regardless of how many CPUs its contents are running on.
Sounds like plain of profiteering to me.
Aside from the fact you can do pretty much the same thing with a VCR, if you've got a PC with a video capture card, you can use software like this to setup a streaming video server in your basement (there's another that's actually a streaming video server with a web interface, but I can't find the link): http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Product_Profile.jsp? p=WinDVR
If that's not illegal, how could pulling the video off of your Tivo be illegal?
You must be a fundy. Science is the most precious thing we have. The "Scientific Method" has turned out to be our greatest friend, protecting us from credulity and proving to be the only reliable tool for understanding ourselves and our world. And you wonder we defend it so vigorously?
How do we stop such madness? Sadly, we'll probably stop it the same way the French did, the Boxers did, the Bolsheviks did, and the way so many, many others. With a big assed gun.
I am so fucking sick of every goddamn thing in a this backassward society being focus on fucking buying or selling shit
Does every fucker with swinging balls or jiggling tits have to try and convince me the most important fucking thing in the whole fucking world is buying some feckless piece of shit they squeezed out of their asshole?
Godfuckingdammit I'm going to put an irimi nage on the next dipshit that treats me like a walking cash machine.
Fuck Bush, fuck Cheney, fuck Gore, fuck Greenspan, fuck Gates, fuck the whole recording industry, fuck Apple, fuck GM, fuck the oil companies, fuck OPEC, fuck NATO, fuck religion, fuck the whole retarded, greedy lot.
Whew, that feels better.
(Yes, I know, my nick is spelled wrong. Who ever said Paks could spell, anyway?)