shakestheclown - Slashdot User

Comment Re:pwned (Score 1) 521

by shakestheclown on Friday March 21, 2008 @02:36PM (#22822242) Attached to: Blu-ray BD+ Cracked

A VHS movie is not 'data'. Look up the definition of data. And just becuae it was widely copied does not mean it's legal.

Sure, but it's not legal. And the reasons you give for copying are all justifiable in some manner, but again not legal. Most people here bizarrely think that just because the movie is now digital they can make legal copies of it. No you cannot. Copying movies to a harddrive is not legal and does not fall under the terms of the oft quoted 'fair use' law.

I understand that you will still argue about exactly what data is, but VHS is an analog format and the dictionary defines analog as: "of or pertaining to a mechanism that represents data by measurement of a continuous physical variable, as voltage or pressure." Further, data can be used to describe a body of information.

Regardless, I do agree that in most cases it isn't legal.

Submission + - Has open source jumped the shark?

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AlexGr

on Monday April 30, 2007 @01:07PM

AlexGr writes: "This article by Jeff Gould is a good follow-on to "Is commercialization killing open source": "I've been a Linux fan for years, but lately I wonder if the drum beating from the big IT vendors in favor of open source hasn't finally slipped over the edge from sincere enthusiasm to meaningless — or in some cases downright hypocritical — sloganeering. The example that brought this gloomy thought to mind was a recent IBM press release touting a "new open client solution" as an "alternative to vendor lock-in". Wow. Imagine that. An alternative to vendor lock-in." http://www.findtechblogs.com/enterprise-systems/"

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