Seems that nobody has mentioned this, and this post may be seen only by me, but when canadians hack the US satellite signal, the only one who loses out is Canada itself. These people obviously will not buy cable or canadian satellite, or if they do, they will buy vastly less than they would have (common sense). Therefore, canadian companies lose out, which would be the reason I would try to use if I were trying to make it against the law in Canada (so northern brothers, be on the look).
Another reason to make this illegal though, is forward thinking. In the future, it probably will be possible to intercept almost any wire wirelessly, i.e. reading the very tiny emissions from wires themselves. When this happens, do we want it legal to watch, read, and listen to everything we do? Hmm, maybe I should invest in lead houses, could come in handy...
What I'd really love, is the ability to turn off certain *parts* of javascript, for ALL sites. For instance, I never want to see a pop-up window, no matter WHAT it is. And I HATE when I hit back and it re-downloads the dang page that is already in my cache (I think that's a javascript thing, anyway. Not sure really). Just to name a few...
I'm considering using Mozilla eventually and tailoring the code to do just these things for me, if I can figure it out. Wouldn't anyone else love the ability to tailor javascript itself, instead of just enabling or disabling it?
Say MP3.com requires you to rip the MP3s yourself. Now, they first check if you really own the CD. Then they check the MP3 files themselves, and make sure your MP3 files are the exact same as theirs. If you and MP3.com were both using the exact same encoder/bitrate/quality, the files should be exactly the same. So basically, after it is assured that the user DOES own the CD, and DID rip it to MP3, and MP3.com hosts the EXACT same files, would that be legal?
For me the keyboard really doesn't seem to matter, but moving the mouse on the left side of my desk helped a lot. Wouldn't mind one of those $300 keyboards, but, what ya gonna do...
I could be wrong, but when I heard about this case, I automatically assumed the reason they don't want you to decrypt DVDs is not because they're afraid you'll copy the DVD bit for bit, but because they are afraid you will decode it, encode it in some other format, and save it to a CD-ROM (ala VCD). Is this even part of the case at all? There are DVD rips all over the internet, which is what it seems like they would want to stop.
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Seems that nobody has mentioned this, and this post may be seen only by me, but when canadians hack the US satellite signal, the only one who loses out is Canada itself. These people obviously will not buy cable or canadian satellite, or if they do, they will buy vastly less than they would have (common sense). Therefore, canadian companies lose out, which would be the reason I would try to use if I were trying to make it against the law in Canada (so northern brothers, be on the look).
Another reason to make this illegal though, is forward thinking. In the future, it probably will be possible to intercept almost any wire wirelessly, i.e. reading the very tiny emissions from wires themselves. When this happens, do we want it legal to watch, read, and listen to everything we do? Hmm, maybe I should invest in lead houses, could come in handy...
What I'd really love, is the ability to turn off certain *parts* of javascript, for ALL sites. For instance, I never want to see a pop-up window, no matter WHAT it is. And I HATE when I hit back and it re-downloads the dang page that is already in my cache (I think that's a javascript thing, anyway. Not sure really). Just to name a few...
I'm considering using Mozilla eventually and tailoring the code to do just these things for me, if I can figure it out. Wouldn't anyone else love the ability to tailor javascript itself, instead of just enabling or disabling it?
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Would this be legal?
Say MP3.com requires you to rip the MP3s yourself. Now, they first check if you really own the CD. Then they check the MP3 files themselves, and make sure your MP3 files are the exact same as theirs. If you and MP3.com were both using the exact same encoder/bitrate/quality, the files should be exactly the same. So basically, after it is assured that the user DOES own the CD, and DID rip it to MP3, and MP3.com hosts the EXACT same files, would that be legal?
For me the keyboard really doesn't seem to matter, but moving the mouse on the left side of my desk helped a lot. Wouldn't mind one of those $300 keyboards, but, what ya gonna do...
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I could be wrong, but when I heard about this case, I automatically assumed the reason they don't want you to decrypt DVDs is not because they're afraid you'll copy the DVD bit for bit, but because they are afraid you will decode it, encode it in some other format, and save it to a CD-ROM (ala VCD). Is this even part of the case at all? There are DVD rips all over the internet, which is what it seems like they would want to stop.