Homeland Security Reminds Hollywood They Don't Own Your Computer
from the because-it-seemed-like-they-had-forgotten dept
Well, well, well. With the federal government looking like they were totally in bed with the entertainment industry over intellectual property, it seems like not everyone got the message. Dave Farber's Interesting People list points to an apparent quote from the Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for policy taking the entertainment industry to task for moves like rootkitting computers by saying: "It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer." Someone should tell Orrin Hatch.
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Homeland Security say what?
It's like you're daring somebody to say something nice about them!
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OTOH
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not yet it isnt
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damn politicians and lawyers
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homeland security
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Re: tommy
Xenophobia - look it up.
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Re: homeland security
Honestly, though, I think homeland is more worried about their own computers landing a Sony root-kit than anything else....
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grr now i dont like my own contoury even more o.o
is there a more free contoury ? maybe i move....
oh well.. so long thay dont accesses meh comp and meh movies ill be happy
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"Normally, you should have Administrator rights,
unless you are working in a corporate environment
in which case, you'll need to contact your IT
department to have them install the software for
you."
Sure, mister IT man, would you please install
this rootkit on my machine for me?
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Tommy
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Do you remember
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