This isn't about piracy.

It's about all the legally made TVs/videos having to obey bullshit rules - unskippable bits, not allow you to record a show, only keeping it for X amount of time.

It won't do a damned thing to stop copying. If you make TVs you'll need to sign a legal agreement in order to "decrypt the content" however trivial that encruption is. It'll just allow content companies to ensure that THEY control the people who make TVs - and will sue any of them who don't hop into line. They make the rules - and the BBC is a content company

Head of Intellectual Property at UN thinks Intellectual Property makes things better.

Pope thinks Catholicism makes the world better.

News at 11!

You are making the same mistake that a lot of people make. The Kindle (the e-ink reader) isn't a computer/tablet/PDA... it's for reading books. Buy it for that... and it's brilliant. The keyboard on the Kindle 3 was always a bit pointless.

I've been around on slashdot long enough to remember this bit of idiocy from way back. The top comment still makes me chuckle every time I hear "bake off"... even 10 years later.

Nobody is assumed to have knowledge about "every bit of web bullshit".

Well actually, the author of the submission did.

No-one is talking about an encyclopedia entry - just a bit of context for those of us who don't spend our time fetishising the latest nosql data bucket with holes in it.

Activision won't be done until their entire customer base loathes them and thinks they are greedy control-freak imbeciles.

They are modelling themselves on Sony.

So DNF is still among the remaining great "unsolved problems" of slashdot? Much like Hilbert and his famous list of math questions, this list echoes through the generations.

Solved

Releasing the code for slashdot (free slash!) DONE

Releasing Kevin Mitnick (free kevin!) DONE

Unresolved questions/problems

How to petrify Natalie Portman in an undressed state - UNSOLVED

Does it run Linux (default answer must be YES) - UNSOLVED

"Why were these stories rejected?" With a list of obscene article titles - UNSOLVED

The whereabouts of OOG THE CAVEMAN - UNSOLVED

The whereabouts of Jon Katz - UNSOLVED

The ultimate fate of the "slashdot cruiser" offered as a prize and never delivered - UNSOLVED

The assassination of "Signal 11" - NOT YET COMPLETED

The article doesn't make it clear which technology they are referring to... however this google tech talk on LFTR is absolutely fascinating.