So, say m$ really did write this "virus". Any computer that blaster will run on has theoretically signed off on m$'s evil auto-update EULA, so wouldn't this theoretically be "legal" for m$, but not anyone else. Wouldn't that situation sort of contradict the DMCA?
I don't think that the actual ability of the FBI to wiretap Internet lines is what's really at stake here. I mean, do you really think that they have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting for you to download some warez? That isn't what bothers me about this issue. It's the precedent that it sets. Everytime the government passes a law like this it becomes easier for them to control everything that people see, read, listen to, etc... all intellectual stimuli. Control this and you control the way people think. It's what lies down the road as a result of anti-privacy acts such as this that scares me. It seems ridiculous now, but how long until they use software to log whatever you do on your personal desktop and upload it to a server to be looked at on whim by some secretary? How long before Big Brother's hands are around our throats? Oh, and if you think the FBI is scary, remember when Congress asked the NSA to demonstrate some of it's code-breaking abilities and the NSA just said "No."?
Most people don't know this, but Discmans scratch cds. I'm not sure when, or how, I think its when it skips, but the Discman makes small circular scratches. I haven't had any problem with the scratches causes skips [yet], but I did have a problem with trying to sell my old cds to a used cd store. That's when I learned about this.
Another reason why the RIO (or any portable mp3 player) is superior to a portable cd player is because cds do skip, and a RIO doesn't.
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So, say m$ really did write this "virus". Any computer that blaster will run on has theoretically signed off on m$'s evil auto-update EULA, so wouldn't this theoretically be "legal" for m$, but not anyone else. Wouldn't that situation sort of contradict the DMCA?
I don't think that the actual ability of the FBI to wiretap Internet lines is what's really at stake here. I mean, do you really think that they have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting for you to download some warez? That isn't what bothers me about this issue. It's the precedent that it sets. Everytime the government passes a law like this it becomes easier for them to control everything that people see, read, listen to, etc... all intellectual stimuli. Control this and you control the way people think. It's what lies down the road as a result of anti-privacy acts such as this that scares me. It seems ridiculous now, but how long until they use software to log whatever you do on your personal desktop and upload it to a server to be looked at on whim by some secretary? How long before Big Brother's hands are around our throats? Oh, and if you think the FBI is scary, remember when Congress asked the NSA to demonstrate some of it's code-breaking abilities and the NSA just said "No."?
Most people don't know this, but Discmans scratch cds. I'm not sure when, or how, I think its when it skips, but the Discman makes small circular scratches. I haven't had any problem with the scratches causes skips [yet], but I did have a problem with trying to sell my old cds to a used cd store. That's when I learned about this.
Another reason why the RIO (or any portable mp3 player) is superior to a portable cd player is because cds do skip, and a RIO doesn't.