On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:20:30 -0400 Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
. > > What really strikes me is aren't we going backwards with all this copy > protection BS? Right now I get most of my news from NPR and the web. > If it comes down to me either bowing down to Bill Gates to surf the > 'net or NOT surfing all I'll take the latter. Just cancel my > RoadRunner and DirectTV, thank you. I'll get my news from the radio. > Welcome to the 1940s! Oh, the reason I'll be giving up my TV is the > recording industry is pushing to have all television stations to > digital by 2004, not 2007 which is the current date of all this going > digital. The recording industry is also pushing for digital signals > to have a "digital watermark" which prevents the "unauthorized > copying" of the signals. This means all TV sets are obsolete as well > as DVD-Rs, VHS, TiVOs, etc. Nice, huh? > What scares me about DRM is DRM hard drives. What happens if the copy protection bit accidently gets set on, say, your term paper? I'm sure that the MPAA will just be dying to tell you how to circumvent it so you can print it out at a lab when its due this afternoon. On the other hand, DRM hard drives might actually beneift me because instead of giving my professors the lame excuse that the dog ate my homework, I can now tell them that it was accidently copy protected and duplication of it would result in a federal crime. > > <http://www.froghunters.com/cbdtpa/html/read_the_bill.html> > A bill in the Senate RIGHT NOW calling for digital copyright > protections based on software patented by Microshit > > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html> > Little Billy's plan to eradicate Linux > > <http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/ > 20020907/tc_nm/bizcomputers_security_dc> > More M$ BS > > <http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/09/17/school.web.filters.ap/ > index.html> > Red Hat blocked by firewall software purchased by public school. > Unrelated? Maybe. Maybe not. > > ..and I could go on and on. > We need porn in schools. Given the sorry state of sex education in North Carolina, kids gotta learn somewhere. -- Ilan Volow, [EMAIL PROTECTED] My choice after I quit film school was either to be a script writer for porno flicks or a linux UI designer. And to tell you the truth, there's hardly any difference. _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
