Feds Continue To Consider Linux Users Criminals For Watching DVDs 423
An anonymous reader sent in a link to an article in Wired about the latest DMCA loophole hearing. Bad news: the federal government rejected requests that would make console modding and breaking DRM on DVDs to watch them legal. So, you dirty GNU/Linux hippies using libdvdcss better watch out: "Librarian of Congress James Billington and Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante rejected the two most-sought-after items on the docket, game-console modding and DVD cracking for personal use and 'space shifting.' Congress plays no role in the outcome. The regulators said that the controls were necessary to prevent software piracy and differentiated gaming consoles from smart phones, which legally can be jailbroken. ... On the plus side, the regulators re-authorized jailbreaking of mobile phones. On the downside, they denied it for tablets, saying an 'ebook reading device might be considered a tablet, as might a handheld video game device.'"
So you can jailbreak a phone, but if it's 1" larger and considered a "tablet" you are breaking the law.
Re:They told me... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:duh (Score:5, Informative)
What unlicensed system?
Everybody who's playing DVDs on Linux already has a license, because they have a licensed DVD player in the computer, and already paid the Microsoft tax.
The patent holders can't ask for more than that.
An easy solution (Score:5, Informative)
Don't watch DVD, download higher quality .mkv from pirate bay instead.
Re:duh (Score:3, Informative)
There is... Fluendo DVD Player, made by the same guys behind GStreamer, the same media framework used by GNOME.
Re:the govt does not have any room to talk (Score:3, Informative)
You should try and change your news source. You seem to be misinformed
Re:12 days til we toss out the Bush Administration (Score:4, Informative)
My guy didn't make it dummy. Nowhere do I see Ron Paul's name on any ballot. Just because I'm not a fan of Romney doesn't make me an Obama supporter. I will say that Bush and Obama make me miss Clinton where the biggest concern was which ugly slut he was banging this week.
Re:the govt does not have any room to talk (Score:0, Informative)
Bump in the Road
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/24/obama-sacked-consulate-and-dead-ambassador-bumps-in-the-road/
Not Optimal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-8zBt4xU0
UN Speech calling attack on ambassador a result of a film after he knew it had nothing to do with the film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jve1bV_hOJc
Not sure what facts you think I made up. There are the videos of Obama himself saying those things. I guess you liberals think a few murders are ok to be covered up as long as it helps your guy win. But then again you think killing of babies is a platform to be proud of as well, so it really isn't a surpise.
Re:duh (Score:3, Informative)
I really hate to agree with the copyright holders on this one, but...
DVD players arn't licensed. And even WinXP didn't come with a license: http://www.pcworld.com/article/166586/cant_play_dvds.html
Also, I don't buy crappy computers...I build my own and run Ubuntu
Re:12 days til we toss out the Bush Administration (Score:5, Informative)
And a war criminal.
Re:They told me... (Score:5, Informative)
Keep towing that party line
Toeing. The phrase is to 'toe the line', not to tow it.
Re:They told me... (Score:2, Informative)
Don't be so naive. Repubmocrat clowns are only different in minor details that aren't as relevant as the parts of the Constitution they've torn down over the last century. Or the history they've covered up by public schooling, as evidenced by your silly remark about "church and state". You really have not much background in the Constitutional era or the people involved to make such a dumbass remark. Let's clear that bit up, shall we?
We will even accept the dreaded Wikipedias entry here:
"Separation of church and state" (sometimes "wall of separation between church and state") is a phrase used by Thomas Jefferson (in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists) and others expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The phrase has since been repeatedly cited by the Supreme Court of the United States.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...." and Article VI specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." The modern concept of a wholly secular government is sometimes credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, but the phrase "separation of church and state" in this context is generally traced to a January 1, 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Echoing the language of the founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams—who had written in 1644 of "[A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world"— Jefferson wrote, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
Jefferson's metaphor of a wall of separation has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. United States (1879) the Court wrote that Jefferson's comments "may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] Amendment." In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Black wrote: "In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state."
So you see, that isn't meant to protect your ears from street preachers or keep states from mirroring biblical laws in their own legislation. Just realize that you've been suckered into believing so by your REPUBMOCRAT sycophants. Get over it, the whole thing makes you sound sillier than anyone you disparage. Like those who notice there is only a one party system in place and it is a bad thing.
Both wings of the Repubmocrat party have Cranial Rectumitis and they've passed it on to their constituents .
So take a pill and get over it.
Re:They told me... (Score:3, Informative)
WTF? I think you're confusing the two parties.
But lets look at Democrats - they have decades of failed social engineering programs under their belt.
The last Democrat failed social program was Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, which was remedied during Clinton's administration with PWORA. I know of no more recent such "social engineering" by the dems, but Bush II had his failed "no child left behind".
They're beholden to corrupt corporations.
Both parties are beholden to corrupt corporations.
They engage in pointless wars.
The last Democrat war was in Vietnam, and it can be argued that that was a Republican war, since we had advisors in Vietnam under Eisenhower. Since that war ended in 1975, we had Reagan's invasion of Panama to get some dope dealer that was running the country; Bush 1's Iraq war, no war under Clinton, Bush 2 had both Afghanistan and yet another Iraq war. Under Obama Iraq 2 is over and Bush's other war is winding down.
Yadda yadda.
Yada yada indeed, fool. You're full of shit and an idiot as well.