"DRM punishes your customers, not the people that download copies."
And that's really the crux of the issue. It's why DRM serves no real purpose. Those that aren't going to use it because they aren't "technologists" aren't going to infringe anyway. Those that are, are going to crack the DRM.
More importantly, I think the argument can be made that including DRM on a DVD/movie/CD/software actively paints a target on it for "pirates". You're inviting infringement, IMO. I imagine that there is a certain amount of satisfaction that comes from watching a cracked movie because it's cracked....
Seconded! - What He Said! - DING! - Dark Helmet FTW!
Murdoch is not a hypocrite, his views on "intellectual property" are simply in a state of quantum superposition and unable to be completely or accurately described due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
The Schrödinger equations lead us to the understanding that chaotic systems create a random matrix of possible states making it impossible to determine with any great degree of accuracy or certainty the position he will take at a given moment in time.
http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20041001/0941211#c1653 --
"As an aside, there was a report of an event which one of his siblings attended in London for the well to do Jewish fraternity. 1000 people attended and raised a grand total of £3000 for charity! wow very generous- they probably spent more on parking than that.'
Honestly like DH said "The anti-semetic remarks in that thread were some of the most benign I've ever seen referred to as anti-semetic." so I could see how they would be hard to find.
What surprised me (along with the wholesale spamification of the bible passages and other book long 'comments' having nothing to do with the article), is why the hell is a 6 year old article that has little to do with anything current getting all this attention (comments) in the last few months?
Unless as was previously suggested, somebody is trying to hijack the space/bandwidth to store an online bible. Seems like kind of a stupid way to go about it though, jacking old blog posts.
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Wall of text says what?
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No this is not the public domain music you are looking for. You can go about your business and pay us more money. Move along... move along.
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Quantum Mechanics Resolves This ;~)
The Schrödinger equations lead us to the understanding that chaotic systems create a random matrix of possible states making it impossible to determine with any great degree of accuracy or certainty the position he will take at a given moment in time.
{/sarcasm}
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Unless as was previously suggested, somebody is trying to hijack the space/bandwidth to store an online bible. Seems like kind of a stupid way to go about it though, jacking old blog posts.
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LOL!
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Ditto! ... Hell Ditto^3!
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