the new super-naughty disks
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miriam_eI've just been reading quite a lot of stuff about the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks that the big corporations will be bringing out soon. Amazing! I can't believe these sub-morons have learned so little from the whole DVD encryption thing.
It is just plain annoying how they are lying to customers by telling them they need these for HD programs, when we have had new free compression systems like XviD for a while now that easily fit high definition movies onto ordinary DVDs.
But what is really disturbing is that these nasty little blighters are intending to set your equipment up to self-destruct if it thinks you are doing something it doesn't like. I can see what will happen here -- we end up with a whole range of viruses that will trigger that one. What incredible fools!
And if you run an open operating system like Linux, or hope to one day, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will of course not be usable from it.
Don't, for heavens sake, buy into the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray scam. It is a scam.
Read this: http://bluraysucks.com/boycott
It is just plain annoying how they are lying to customers by telling them they need these for HD programs, when we have had new free compression systems like XviD for a while now that easily fit high definition movies onto ordinary DVDs.
But what is really disturbing is that these nasty little blighters are intending to set your equipment up to self-destruct if it thinks you are doing something it doesn't like. I can see what will happen here -- we end up with a whole range of viruses that will trigger that one. What incredible fools!
And if you run an open operating system like Linux, or hope to one day, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will of course not be usable from it.
Don't, for heavens sake, buy into the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray scam. It is a scam.
Read this: http://bluraysucks.com/boycott
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Re: Future Class Action?
Date: 2006-04-27 12:01 pm (UTC)I remember not long back the RIAA sent out letters threatening thousands of innocent people with legal action and it turned out to be a computer error. To my knowledge a case was never mounted against the RIAA for wrongful accusation.
Of course deliberately destroying a part of your computer is a whole other thing, but still... considering the lack of public interest in pursuing the mass letters of slander I kinda doubt anything much would happen.
Also it is widely known that the RIAA is responsible for putting malware on the file sharing networks. One moronic RIAA-funded US senator was proposing that they directly infect people's machines with viruses if suspected of sharing files. That was hushed, but considering how out-of-control these coke-damaged nut-cases are I would not be surprised if it went ahead. Of course their error with sending out legal threats shows how reliable such actions might be. And if you are one of the people who is hurt along the way, oh well... we already know they consider copyright is more important than human life.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/21/dmca_exemptions_controversy/