Posted by <aborgman on 10/10/07 14:50

In rec.sport.football.college Don Del Grande <del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Trackmaven wrote:
>
>>Giles wrote:
>>> That Don Guy <del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote in
>>> > Here's a solution: make iPods that allow you to copy songs from CDs,
>>> > but you have to "recharge" them every 24 hours by reconnecting the
>>> > iPod to the CD player and then "play" the original CD - that way, the
>>> > iPod has some idea that you still own the CD.
>>>
>>> Dumbest post ever.
>>
>>YHBT, and by a B1FF-style post no less.
>>
>>Hang your head in shame.
>
> IANATNABTYVM - I am neither a troll nor a B1FF, thank you very much
> (although I will admit that I owned an Atari 800 in the early 1980s,
> even though a true B1FF used a VIC-20). I'm just tired of people who
> think the solution to the music problem is to get rid of RIAA (and,
> while they're at it, the MPAA) and allow for free copying.
>
> Tell me, what's your opinion of the following theory of legalizing
> decrypting video discs:
> 1. I have the right to watch the movie on the (choose one: Blu-Ray,
> HD-DVD) disc I bought on whatever device I want;
> 2. I choose to watch it on my computer running Linux;
> 3. Linux is required to be open source - therefore, the decoding
> software must be open source, and therefore public information;
> 4. Therefore, we have every right to publish the method for
> decrypting the discs, and if it results in the ability to upload the
> contents of the discs for free downloading by whoever wants them, then
> that's not our problem - it's like when you drive 80 in a 65 zone; if
> the police catch you, then you're guilty, but you don't pass some law
> making it illegal to have a car that can't go faster than 15 (because
> that's the speed limit near railroad tracks).

You don't mean legalizing, you mean "returning things to the way they were
prior to the DMCA"

--
Aaron

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