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Either way you’re breaking the lawPosted by Synfinatic on October 17, 2008 at 8:34 pm in Geek Law.The comic xkcd makes the point that when you “buy” DRM’d software, music or movies that you’re really at the mercy of the company who controls the DRM and they can effectively revoke your access for any reason just as Walmart threatened to do recently. Of course, once the company locks you out of the content you paid for you either have to pay for it again or break the law by bypassing the DRM. Hence, you’re probably better off pirating the software, music or movie in the first place- if you’re going to break the law there really isn’t any point paying for it in the first place since laws like the DMCA don’t care if … Tags: DMCA, DRM, piracy, xkcd
Maybe McCain wont vote for bad bills next timePosted by Synfinatic on October 15, 2008 at 3:31 pm in Geek Law, Politics.I found this really amusing. McCain’s campaign wrote a letter to YouTube requesting that they give special preference to political videos when receiving DMCA takedown notices. Basically some people are claiming the McCain campaign is violating their copyright by including music, video, etc in their YouTube videos and are demanding the videos be removed. Tags: DMCA, irony, mccain
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