Recent Comments:
Cannes Review: Sicko {Cinematical}
May 20th 2007 5:33AM But Americans also pay for health care through their taxes, and in fact they pay more in taxes for their horrendously patchy system than the citizens of most countries pay for universal coverage, and then pay more than that again on top for private coverage.
Roulette-cheating gadget may be legal in the UK? {Engadget}
Sep 18th 2006 2:05AM It's not cheating; predicting where the ball will stop is what you're supposed to be doing when you play roulette. But the casinos can stop it very very easily simply by requiring all bets to be placed before the wheel is spun.
FairUse4WM strips Windows Media DRM! {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2006 1:51PM -p- :
If your neighbour wants $1 million to paint your house, you can go and get someone else to paint your house instead. But if you want a particular music track and the record company doesn't make it available in a DRM-free format, you can't just go and buy it from someone else who does. Copyright gives the copyright-holder a massive monopoly, and therefore should place massive restrictions on the way in which copyright holders can exercise their monopoly power. Personally, I'd say that no work may be copyrighted unless it is copyable -- distributing a work with any measures intended to prevent or control copying automatically puts it into the public domain, permanently. So you can use DRM or you can use copyright, but you can't use both, so you had better believe that your DRM works.
