If these pirates had been smart, they would have just stolen the movies from their local walmart and given them away. That is a much less serious offense (shoplifting vs violating the DMCA). One gets you a fine and community service, the other gets you years of ass rape in prison.
Is this really any worse than all the open services that a windows box runs by default? Or using IE with the security settings turned down, or using IE at all;)
How about using outlook and having it set to autodisplay emails (including running activex controls etc embedded therein)?
Sorry, but this isn't really news, until some company that makes an RSS reader sues MS for building RSS into the OS:)
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That means it will take about a week for someone to write a crack to bypass all those annoying trailers we have to watch before we can actually watch the dvd we payed for.
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So if I produce a movie, and I can't get it published, another movie company can make a copy of it and distribute it, then keep all the profits? Also, what about a studio employee that takes a copy and sells it to a competing studio before it's released?
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If these pirates had been smart, they would have just stolen the movies from their local walmart and given them away. That is a much less serious offense (shoplifting vs violating the DMCA). One gets you a fine and community service, the other gets you years of ass rape in prison.
Is this really any worse than all the open services that a windows box runs by default? Or using IE with the security settings turned down, or using IE at all ;)
How about using outlook and having it set to autodisplay emails (including running activex controls etc embedded therein)?
Sorry, but this isn't really news, until some company that makes an RSS reader sues MS for building RSS into the OS :)
Mat
That means it will take about a week for someone to write a crack to bypass all those annoying trailers we have to watch before we can actually watch the dvd we payed for.
So if I produce a movie, and I can't get it published, another movie company can make a copy of it and distribute it, then keep all the profits? Also, what about a studio employee that takes a copy and sells it to a competing studio before it's released?