dorbie

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  1. P.S. I have an large library of DVDs I paid for them all. I still think I should have the right to play them on linux devices and make fair use backups as was once a principal under the law. In vact I should be able to make a digital juke box of them if I choose (my own video iPod) you'll notice that the MPAA's attempts to kill an exciting startup company doing exactly this recently failed. No WHY would movie cartels ever attempt stop this? There's certainly no theft going on. This technological explosion gifts huge earning potential to artists. It creates a market that never existed. I have no sympathy for artists and industry associations that are too busy defending against lost sales they don't make (and probably never would) to focus on growing & appreciating the sales they do and treating those legal customers with the respect they've earned. Their solution, to take a sledghammer to both the PC internals, the law and innocent software developers who've given more of value to the world than they ever will in a strategy that WILL NOT solve the problem and only abuses their legal customers is contemptible. You're smarter than that.
  2. Shoplifters are arrested for the costs they impose on society, and so should the MPAA and the bastards like Valenti. Jon Lech Johansen was placed on trial twice and finally cleared on all charges in December 2003 in a country that would not have given a shit were it not for presure from the US State Department after lobbying by the MPAA. You also missed the obvious catch 22.
  3. You sure you dont want say what Right have been stolen?? At best it was a non sequitur w.r.t. MPAA and the DMCA since it is inherently a non protected format, it merely highlights your lack of understanding of the issues being discussed. I have described the rights that have been removed by the DMCA several times. One would think that you'd be embarrassed enough by now to do a little research, instead of disingenuously repeating the same mantra. Have you stopped to think that DVD Jon's software is an essential open source component for any opensource DVD player (that would be essential to play LEGAL ORIGINAL DVDs)? Do you even know who the guy is or what happened to him thanks to pressure from the US state department? Did you pause even for a moment to consider the ramifications of Kallend's remarks? Of course not, because according to you no rights have been removed, by the DMCA, and damn the facts or any information to the contrary. I suspect you'd have been guarding the crates of tea in Boston Harbor had you been there in 1773.
  4. I pointed out you can rip CD's thanks. According to you it's illegal when you joined in here. You are completely oblivious to what is going on or how encrypting a format factors in here. Get back to me when you have actually learned about the impact of the DMCA.
  5. I see you claimed to be trolling in your previous post. You are either posting dishonestly or too lazy to read the posts I have made. If you want an answer it has been supplied at least five times in my earlier replies.
  6. You keep saying "what rights" even as it applies to CDs, if you are so ill informed why attempt to contribute to a debate? The extant rights to make fair use copies of the works you purchase. You denying rights exist or ever existed is flat wrong. How many times and how many ways do I have to say exactly what rights exist and have you completely ignore the facts and make the same post?
  7. dorbie

    Rating tests

    Sounds like a dumb way to administer any test.
  8. That doesn't sound like a quota, it sounds like a grudge.
  9. Yup, the more I think about it, the more chewing tobacco makes sense.
  10. I think you should give it to him in cigarettes, $100 worth. Or maybe chewing tobacco, since he likes it so much and it makes a point.
  11. That's what Standard Oil said. You make a lot of assertions that are just not true w.r.t. the fair use rights people have to copy the works they have purchased. We have a system of laws that protect people from exploitation and frowns upon unjust enrichment, an example of which would be getting paid for the same work twice. Analogizing over format changes where no transfer is possible to justify artificial restrictions devised to prevent a transfer is not making a case. You might want to notice the word fair in the phrase fair use. It was established in law that we do have a right to make fair use copies of works we purchase. Devices that might be used to copy (specifically the VCR) are not illegal because someone MIGHT break the law, the legitimate legal use they are put to protects them (bastards like the vampire Valenti lost that one). Once again the right to make legal copies of your CD collection exists today. Almost everyone with an mp3 player does this and it is legal. They are not obliged to purchase twice so what point are you trying to make? You are arguing for rights being removed by pretending that there is no right that exists or is used today. For CDs there is a right, it is fair use, it is legal, it exists today and millions of Americans enjoy and exercise those rights every day. In the area of DVDs the same rights have been stolen by Valenti and other bastards, and he is justly reviled for his corrupting influence in stripping our rights, a cause to which the greedy fuck devoted a great deal of his time and energy.
  12. Now you seem to be saying that you have NO rights at all to the music you 'licensed', just ownership of the media, but you're also wrong in the practical sense because there is overlappng use of multiple media today, e.g. CDs and iPods. The issue is moot as it applies to CDs but it is instructive to see what has happened with the DMCA, it is legal, to copy CDs but the problem here is that all someone needs to do to screw with rights you enjoy today is come up with a trivially modified format and you don't just lose the ability to copy, it becomes illegal to circumvent the new format thanks to the DMCA. That sucking noise is your rights disappearing. They have tried this, for example idiotic attempts stop the circumvention autorun. But this should trouble anyone, fair use rights that exist and are used legally to the great benefit of legal consumers everywhere go out the window as a result of any trivial contrivance these guys can force on you. CDs are not there yet, DVDs are, thanks to assholes like Valenti. So who do these laws benefit and who do they screw? Remind me again where the power to pass laws comes from?
  13. P.S. CDs are unencumbered by DRM and allow fair use, the format predates copy protection (although autorun has been abused). If CDs were devised by lich Valenti and his mob: Ripping your CD collection to iTunes to play the tunes you purchased on your computer or iPod would be impossible. At best you'd have to pay for everything again on iTunes store (nice business if you can get it). Any software which allowed you to make a copy of a CD for personal use would be deemed illegal. You would not be able to play CDs on a PC without purchasing a licensed player including a hefty fee, despite your hardware being perfectly capable of playing the content. CDs would only work in players from one part of the world, if you purchased a CD on vacation it would not work in any of your players in the USA. Unfortunately if this gives you the impression all is well with music you would be mistaken. Assholes (Valenti wanabes) have tried to screw up CDs by using autorun to install malware on your PC without warning or permission that permanently screws with your multimedia software and even installed rootkit vulnerabilities on customer PCs in one case. Buy a CD, pop it in your PC rom reader and you get some free malware courtesy of Sony. Fortunately Sony got on deep shit for this stunt, and pressing the shift key on your keyboard is not yet seen as a crime under the DMCA, much to the chagrin of various corporate lawyers. Despite the prevalence of CDs everywhere with trivially rippable high quality songs without encryption, all of which is fair use, if you actually PURCHASE a song online it is still encumbered by DRM . Apple recently announced a deal where this was lifted, of course they charge the law abiding customer more for the freedom. (and they have the cheek to call others pirates).
  14. It's not for us to come begging to YOU for rights to be GRANTED. We have innate intellectual abilities which YOU seek to curtail. By what RIGHT to YOU ask to curtail the intellectual and physical endeavors of others? You're forgetting that the power to pass laws for the exclusive benefit of a few corporations is vested by the people. Moreover there are rights granted by law that and the courts. Fair use rights etc. Corporate monopolists dictating what we can & cannot do, won't fly. Just because some peckerhead writes some shit on a shrinkwrap doesn't make it legal under the law, that is for the courts to decide, but DVDs don't even HAVE a contract so what the hell are you talking about a license, where did John Q Public sign? What you are doing is criminalizing legal activities, criminalizing human progress and industry. The onus is on the person seeking to invent new crimes to justify the artificial system they seek to impose upon the rest of us. Not the other way around. The most ridiculous part of your discussion is it deals exclusively with people who LEGALLY PURCHASD a DVD, we're not even in the realms of piracy, yet you bleat about licenses and the rights and advocate the abuse of the customers who actually BUY the product forgetting that the real beef is with those who DON'T. The MPAA struggles under the same illusions.
  15. The sad thing is people who don't understand what freedoms are at stake. Can I purchase a PC uencumbered by DRM costs? Can I build a functional multimedia computer using open source software and the hardware I've purchased or should we let corporations collude to make this impossible? Can I exercise my fair use RIGHTS recognized in law with the property I own, not what some Sony exec wants to dictate I can't do? This is no smarter that the battle against the VCR but he implications are broad. You have a very blasé atttude to your rights being erroded for corporate gain.
  16. This is the thin end of the wedge. It is inconceivable that they just spontaneously and objectively arrived at this conclusion. This is an organization that no longer cares about even the appearance of propriety, or they think everyone in general aviation is an idiot, perhaps both.
  17. I'm down 10-15 lb, still in, not much progress for about a month, need to throw in much more exercice.
  18. When software that might make fair use possible is illegal and the author branded a criminal and the code illegal to print on a T-shirt is every high school teacher supposed to reverse engineer content scrambling themselves? Perhaps we should mail Sony our DVD along with a grovelling letter to ask that they allow us to exercise our rights whenever we encounter a fair use scenario.
  19. And the DMCA makes circumventing any DRM a crime, no matter how flimsy. This has been abused so badly that we've even had a student threatened with a lawsuit for posting a message online that CDs won't autorun if you hold down the shift key on a PC, that would make Microsoft a bigger culprit in this regard, but the unholy alliance is now complete, we can probably expect to see such OS utility vanquished in future since the interference in the internal operations of PC systems goes far deeper that such trivialities. Closer to home (w.r.t. MPAA) the state department has been strongarming countries around the globe about conformance with DMCA legislation most notoriously in the case of the persecution of Jon Lech Johansen who quite legally reverse engineered the CSS decryption algorithm used to decrypt DVDs in his home country. Something you used to be able to do in the USA. Intelligent freedom loving people everywhere hailed "DVD Jon" as a hero. I have his code on a T-shirt that it is now illegal to sell in the USA, despite the code being prevalent.
  20. Your poll is inadequate. Main does not have to be cut away or entangled, for example if you had a total.
  21. You might want to explain that women have naturally larger visible foreheads than men, it is one of the cues researchers have found makes them look feminine and attractive to men (even if men dont know this it is a measured fact). Then show her a few pictures of Andie MacDowell. Of course you'll mention that in addition to being a famous actress she was a top model including cosmetics contracts and being THE spokesperson for L'Oreal, (they don't give cosmetics contracts to anyone perceived as less than perfect). I'd say Andie has at least a 5 finger forehead and always has. It didn't stop her. http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/249066~Andie-Macdowell-Posters.jpg http://images.askmen.com/imagessexsymbol/2004_may/andie_macdowell/andie_macdowell_150.JPG http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/news/060130/amacdowell.jpg http://www.rachelsimon.com/images/hmnew-andierachel.jpg
  22. This discussion has moved beyond your poll. I am having a valid discussion responding to other posters including a moderator posting on exactly the same topic I am, all of whom are free to take this to PM's and none of whom you have asked to use PM's. So thanks for the invite but no thanks.
  23. Exactly correct. Only instead of passively watching the story, you're part of it. Instead of simply sitting next to your friends while watching the story, you get to play with your friends. If movies were 5000 hours long with simple repetitive plot lines. MMORPGs are engaging and interractive on the level of having a pigeon peck on the red button for seed. I refer you to Plato's cave.
  24. So . . . time wasted while being mindless is somehow "better" than time wasted while being mentally enganged? Hmmm. Yes there is a difference between filling idle moments and a huge time sink that absorbs massive personal resources. Why pretend otherwise, is there a reason for your denial? Everquest earned the moniker Evercrack for a reason. EQ, WoW etc. have caused people to flush degrees and careers down the toilet. Apart from the people I've met and discussed this with there are ample examples of this online. Now not everyone has an issue with these games, but I've met plenty of people with vastly unhealthy relationships with their WoW accounts. There's nothing wrong with occasional gameplay or even the occasional PC game butt-numb-athon, been there done that. But MMORPGs aren't as benign as that for all their players, even for the 'average' player I suspect. Most of whom have been compelled to play into wee hours going through the same instances with their guildies yet again. This is not rare it's absolutely typical. But hey, if it's no big deal just post your /played numbers.
  25. Just part of the horrendous legacy of the lich..... http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/01/1935250.shtml Some of the comments are worth a read, here's one.....