I wasn't referring to them. I thought we were talking about people who care enough about iTunes to complain about it stopping working. They probably still use iTunes because in the past they have bought something from the iTunes Store.

I think it refers to the fact that not all builds of HandBrake for all variants of all platforms include the DVD and BD decryption code. This page states that Windows users have to install Kodi (formerly XBMC) and dig the CSS library out of that. On which platform are you running HandBrake?

What does Xubuntu 15.04 leak back to Canonical or any other "home base"?

I suffered through Ubuntu Unity on my laptop for one month until I did sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop. I wonder what'll break in a year once I upgrade from what amounts to Xubuntu 14.04 LTS to 16.04.

And expensive connections. The going rate for a cellular Internet connection in the United States is $10 per GB uploaded or downloaded.

I agree with you that copyrights are too broad. Now how should I go about convincing a majority of American voters to remove from office all representatives and senators who support keeping copyrights too broad?

Because that would require national legislatures to actually do non-trivial work. They're already busy enough deciding whether and how much to spend on particular military, entitlement, and military entitlement projects. Nor have they seen any evidence that reforming overly broad copyright would win them more votes, especially when Hollywood promises them essentially free ad time to reach their constituents during election season but only if they "behave" (FOX News; The Hollywood Reporter).

From the FAQ: "For best results, you should feed HandBrake unprotected video." Yet the vast majority of DVDs and all BDs are protected.

Does Winamp work with movies purchased through iTunes Store without having a working copy of the iTunes client on the PC?

Such a copyright term applied to works with an individual author would violate the Berne Convention, which all World Trade Organization members must adopt. The Berne Convention requires a minimum term of 50 years after the death of the last surviving author or 50 years after publication for works with a corporate author. A country adopting such a copyright term for works with an individual author would get kicked out of the WTO and see its exports in unrelated industries become subject to prohibitive import duties.

The "Winqual" certification for the Games for Windows logo can be fairly expensive. It also imposes rules on your game design, such as not being allowed to make the visible portion of the world 4:3 in shape ("The game must not stretch pixels or center a 4:3 render window"), which can make ports of classic games with naturally 4:3 playfields impossible. In addition, a game cannot use more than half the system's resources because it "must run in a new user session when it is already running in another session."

The PC CD-ROM SOFTWARE logo and its DVD successor can be used without needing to submit your game to this certification program.

Two things, one unrelated: The keys labeled Return and Enter on Mac keyboards are labeled Enter and Right Enter on Windows keyboards. So in a sense, Windows 2000 keyboards do lack a Return key, but they do have one with the same function.

And the other is related: Pressing Enter inserts a newline into the comment. But Slashdot comments are written in a subset of HTML, and one of Slashdot's post modes does not convert newlines into HTML line break elements. Furthermore, the modes have misleading names:

• "HTML Formatted": Do no translation at all apart from sanitization.
• "Plain Old Text": Translate line breaks and allow inline HTML, like PHP nl2br($post).
• "Extrans": Translate line breaks and escape all < signs, like PHP nl2br(htmlspecialchars($post)).
• "Code": Translate line breaks, escape < signs, and use monospace formatting, like PHP '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars($post).'</pre>'.

Because as one of the traditional safety valves, expiry acts as a check on the application of overly broad copyright. How many authors do you think the Shakespeare estate could sue? In addition, expiry limits the deadweight loss caused by exclusive rights in orphan works.

Only for those rich enough to emigrate from the United States and other countries with legislation analogous to the DMCA. See Universal v. Reimerdes.

I'm not referring to the Sam Smith case as much as the Thicke and Williams case. Mr. Gaye's heirs have sought an injunction against further exploitation of "Blurred Lines". I'm also referring to composers refusing to let their work be interpolated, and recording artists refusing to let their work be sampled, in new recordings. For example, one of the songs on the Bloodhound Gang album Use Your Fingers was intended to contain a sample of a song by The Cure, but Robert Smith denied sample clearance. And the version of "Pump Up the Volume" by MARRS heard in the United States is missing a few samples that couldn't be cleared for the U.S. market.