My objection is not that the government eavesdrops. It is that they do it without court orders. I guarantee that if the government went to a judge and asked for a warrant to eavesdrop on particular suspects that it would be granted. The secretive dragnet approach is the problem. What is the problem with requesting warrants anyway? Do they really think the judge is going to spill the beans and the suspect will be alerted. I doubt it.
On top of that, after looking around a good bit, I can't find anything about deauthorizing a computer. If you sell/toss an old computer I don't see a mechanism for getting your music to your new machine. Is this possible? Can they be that dense? Perhaps they just haven't put the faq up yet.
It's wholly inferior because the bootleg "masters" were videotaped with a camcorder in the movie theater
Not true, I have seen an illegal DVD of Lord of the Rings with my own eyes, and this was not a camcorder job. Some text scrolled across the bottom of the screen every once in a while warning us not to buy or rent this "screener version". I guess this was what got sent out to the academy members for the oscars?
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My objection is not that the government eavesdrops. It is that they do it without court orders. I guarantee that if the government went to a judge and asked for a warrant to eavesdrop on particular suspects that it would be granted. The secretive dragnet approach is the problem. What is the problem with requesting warrants anyway? Do they really think the judge is going to spill the beans and the suspect will be alerted. I doubt it.
On top of that, after looking around a good bit, I can't find anything about deauthorizing a computer. If you sell/toss an old computer I don't see a mechanism for getting your music to your new machine. Is this possible? Can they be that dense? Perhaps they just haven't put the faq up yet.