The Real Purpose of DRM 235
Roberto writes "Gorgeous nerd Annalee Newitz hacked a political interpretation to recent vacuum cleaner cockfights at O'Reilly's ETech: 'Hollywood corporations have finally admitted that the real reason they built digital restriction management (DRM) software into PVRs and DVD players was to stop geeks from turning their recording devices into back-alley combat machines. You haven't seen ugly until you've watched what a DVD player without DRM can do to a TiVo.' Don't try to even think of this at home."
Dude... (Score:5, Funny)
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Those uprisings do cause ever so much trouble.
-Lord Rove II
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Another one *shudder* [othermag.org].
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digital rights management (Score:3, Funny)
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Never believe any Slashdot story on April 1st... or April 2nd.
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Digital Rights (Score:3, Funny)
(Digital, digital, didgeridoo...)
O.M.G. (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Posted March 14, 2006. (Score:5, Funny)
We used all the _real_ news yesterday.
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I know it's sexist, but it's generally a good idea not to fork on the first date. I know it's a great way to keep in shape and everyone wants that fresh forked look, but it's wise to spoon for a while before you move on with the forking, to knifing depending on how things go.
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