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Posted by Allan on 09/25/05 13:47
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:10:03 -0700, "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:
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>"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
>news:MPG.1d9f8c3d1d1d06c9989ffc@news.nabs.net...
>> Howard (stile99@email.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>>> "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote in news:11jb8eg2oulojf3@corp.supernews.com:
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>>> > You are wrong.
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>>> Time will prove me right.
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>> If that turns out to be the case, it will merely be because the system
>> chosen turns out to be as weak as CSS.
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>It is not a weak structure at all. If there is a crack, the codes can be
>changed on the fly by internet connection. Further, if devices fail to
>comply, they are disabled...you have to take them in for repair.
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All this discursion is based upon the assumption that new HD machines
will have to be tied to the Internet??? Now that is just foolish.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
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