Kant had a simple philosophy- do not do anything that you would not want done to you. Period. I think that is valid.
And about Socrates, he eventually gave up his life so he would not bring down the society he was living in. I would think that a few nerds would be able to refrain from watching dvds in their illegal players to do the same.
Like the MPAA cares about the opinions of a handful of geeks. I'm just an ordinary guy who happens to believe in upholding the pillars of society. You start circumventing the laws and society starts to tumble down- ever read Kant, or the Socratic Dialogues by Plato?
There are some musicians, such as the Psychodelic Zombiez, who aren't even big enough to be represented by this group. They're not even on a label.
Yet their music is still on napster, copied illegally.
They had to quite, and break up, because they weren't going anywhere- probably because of piracy. Of course, you could still buy their albums online, but then you'd have to actually pay for it.
Is it legal to crack the MPAA's encription algorithm, (you know, getting around region codes and all that legal-schmegal stuff that you slashkiddies seem to love avoiding) and then steal the content, whether displaying it onto the screen or making a copy? I think not.
You've got the dvd. You need a legal, authorized player to play it on.
I'm assuming that your subject means 'damn, you're an idiot'. I have corrected it to avoid confusion.
The livelihood of everyone involved in the creation and broadcasting of the signal. If you decide to h4x0r it, then the reprocussions will be bad for all of us- the people who earn their living from it, and us, the consumers of their product.
By copying into a digital format that can be distributed around the internet ad hoc, they have to make it secure so you can't just send your 5,000 closest friends copies. This is bad for everyone, since copy protection is a hassle at best, and makes it impossible to watch at worst (see: DVD region codes).
I'm sorry, but my my logic is meticulous and my facts irrefutable.
Making your own copy is not illegal, and shouldn't be. That's not what I'm talking about.
What would be illegal, and very bad, is for someone to copy it and put it up on the internet. And just watch- it will happen. HDTV was never intended to have shows off of it canned and passed out on the net like acid at a phish concert.
And once it is available on the net in force, we get into the whole 'we need to add copy protection' thing. I don't blame them, either- they put a lot of money into television programs, and they shouldn't just be copied and distributed willy-nilly on gnutella or whatever the newest copying tool is.
And then, we, the consumer, suffer.
We fuck ourselves. Game over, man.
If people don't stop doing this kind of shit, then the industry will be forced to press for legeslation to prevent copying. And it'll be the fault of people like those that will 'hack' this device not using the technology as it was intended to.
This is talking about how you will be able to stream it to a computer. To a digital format. Digital will always mean that it can be turned into a format that is easy to redistribute. Meaning that the content is going to be everywhere- not a legal, fair-use recording of it, an illegal copy. So, the recording industry will have to put copy-protection. It's just a short, slippery slope away, and we'll all suffer from it.
I think that people should be able to make recordings for their own use. But making something available everywhere (like napster or gnutella) makes for stricter control by the content provider. (SDMI, anyone?)
Quite frankly, I don't blame them, either. I wouldn't want to spend thousands of dollars on a TV show just to have some punk kid record it and 'share' it with a few thousand of his closest friends. The copies that are now in peoples possession are lost income for the industry- they could have been sold to people for profit.
Or do you believe that 'all information and should be free'? Heh. Right.
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Almost time to celebrate my birthday with a good round of UT, and later, vigirous masturbating.
God fuckin' bless America.
...and a question of simple human dignity.
Illegal or not, I can understand the resistance part.
But a question of simple human dignity?
Are you fucking kidding me? By not producing a legal client for linux, they are stripping you of your human dignity?!??
And about Socrates, he eventually gave up his life so he would not bring down the society he was living in. I would think that a few nerds would be able to refrain from watching dvds in their illegal players to do the same.
You, baby- only you.
Yeah. That's it.
I'm paid to read slashdot
Bwahahaha... right.
Like the MPAA cares about the opinions of a handful of geeks. I'm just an ordinary guy who happens to believe in upholding the pillars of society. You start circumventing the laws and society starts to tumble down- ever read Kant, or the Socratic Dialogues by Plato?
There are some musicians, such as the Psychodelic Zombiez, who aren't even big enough to be represented by this group. They're not even on a label.
Yet their music is still on napster, copied illegally.
They had to quite, and break up, because they weren't going anywhere- probably because of piracy. Of course, you could still buy their albums online, but then you'd have to actually pay for it.
You've got the dvd. You need a legal, authorized player to play it on.
Couldn't have said it better myself. QED.
Why the huge rush to play dvds on linux?
Why don't you self-proclaimed 'geeks' just use a normal, accepted operating system- like Windows or Mac OS? It's not hard to reboot, you know.
But this is slashdot. We can't let ethics get in the way.
No, it's illegal in the same way that breaking and entering is illegal- you break the lock on the dvd, then you 'look around inside'.
That's illegal, and no appealing to how you purchased the dvd or dvd-rom drive is going to change that.
Sorry, but it's still an unauthorized, rogue player.
According to a Salon article I read, playing DVDs on linux is illegal.
Until the MPAA decides that dvd-playing on linux is legal, it is still not legal. It's an unauthorized, rogue operation.
Slashdot: News for common criminals, stuff for petty thiefs.
No wonder this place gets no respect in the real media.
The livelihood of everyone involved in the creation and broadcasting of the signal. If you decide to h4x0r it, then the reprocussions will be bad for all of us- the people who earn their living from it, and us, the consumers of their product.
By copying into a digital format that can be distributed around the internet ad hoc, they have to make it secure so you can't just send your 5,000 closest friends copies. This is bad for everyone, since copy protection is a hassle at best, and makes it impossible to watch at worst (see: DVD region codes).
I'm sorry, but my my logic is meticulous and my facts irrefutable.
What would be illegal, and very bad, is for someone to copy it and put it up on the internet. And just watch- it will happen. HDTV was never intended to have shows off of it canned and passed out on the net like acid at a phish concert.
And once it is available on the net in force, we get into the whole 'we need to add copy protection' thing. I don't blame them, either- they put a lot of money into television programs, and they shouldn't just be copied and distributed willy-nilly on gnutella or whatever the newest copying tool is.
And then, we, the consumer, suffer.
We fuck ourselves. Game over, man.
If people don't stop doing this kind of shit, then the industry will be forced to press for legeslation to prevent copying. And it'll be the fault of people like those that will 'hack' this device not using the technology as it was intended to.
I think that people should be able to make recordings for their own use. But making something available everywhere (like napster or gnutella) makes for stricter control by the content provider. (SDMI, anyone?)
Quite frankly, I don't blame them, either. I wouldn't want to spend thousands of dollars on a TV show just to have some punk kid record it and 'share' it with a few thousand of his closest friends. The copies that are now in peoples possession are lost income for the industry- they could have been sold to people for profit.
Or do you believe that 'all information and should be free'? Heh. Right.