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It is quite easy to pirate DVDs to suitable pirate quality without ever using DeCSS. You just connect the video out from your DVD player to a Mini DV camera, or plain old VCR, and record 'til your heart's content. No encryption hack, no DeCSS, nothing.

The DMCA is like putting people in prison because they buy a lock, then dismantle it to see how it works, on the basis that such activity can only possibly be to burgle homes. Therefore, learning the design of the lock becomes a criminal offence.

"Burn her, she's a witch". I wonder if the Monty Python crew knew of the DMCA 25 years ago?
Posted by: Fred Fredrickson   Posted on: 12/25/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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pffft  ickusslime@... | 12/24/03
Listen up, RIAA...  Jomo_z | 12/25/03
Greedy bastards just won't...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/24/03
Right On!  Update victim | 12/24/03
Yes. Independent from RIAA artists/studios are "most wanted" (NT)  Vily Clay | 12/25/03
If they'd just keep the prices down...  JohnnyCNote | 12/31/03
Hopefully it will mean more consumer friendly laws  FilledOut | 12/24/03
But..  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/24/03
I agree, corporate interests rule Congress  FilledOut | 12/24/03
We can get Consumer Friendly Laws, but  Update victim | 12/24/03
Wanna solve this problem fo rgood?  worknman | 12/24/03
this is the sad truth  JWatson77 | 12/24/03
revenge  guitar player | 12/26/03
Buying used still feeds the MPAA and RIAA  voska | 12/29/03
DVD acquittal means DMCA quick death  Nigel Johnstone | 12/24/03
So the VCR is dead  hal9000mx | 12/24/03
the vcr is not dead  JWatson77 | 12/26/03
Can't force to buy and can't force to watch  FilledOut | 12/26/03
I stopped watching TV  maxo_z | 12/26/03
I've pretty much stopped watching TV too  voska | 12/29/03
It's maybe a saturation point reached  FilledOut | 12/29/03
I hear ya  voska | 12/29/03
i watch comercaials sometimes  JWatson77 | 12/28/03
To many comercials  voska | 12/29/03
Bytes can't hide  Anton Philidor | 12/24/03
industries' biggest stupidity of all  hal9000mx | 12/24/03
what  JWatson77 | 12/24/03
Ok...  BitTwiddler | 12/24/03
SOFT MONEY  JWatson77 | 12/25/03
scapegoat...  ryusen | 12/24/03
exactly  JWatson77 | 12/24/03
The Only Ignorance  ParadigmOdyssey | 12/24/03
or  JWatson77 | 12/24/03
I thought encryption and copy protection was  nite_w0lf | 12/24/03
DMCA laws and encryptions.  Jonic | 12/24/03
What is talent  BXLE | 12/25/03
But that's not the point  Fred Fredrickson | 12/25/03
That's what the MPAA is worried about  voska | 12/30/03
Hurrah for truth in news reporting  Knorthern Knight | 12/25/03
that can't stand real justice  JWatson77 | 12/26/03
BEWARE...big business is slowly becomming a new form of government...  xunil skcor | 12/29/03
Hollywood does not want us to buy CDs/DVDs.  Vily Clay | 12/25/03
close but  Hanover Phist | 01/02/04
Wrong Target  Ray Radlein | 12/26/03
So true  FilledOut | 12/26/03
How will we buy anything at those prices with our jobs offshore?  maxo_z | 12/26/03
tougher copyright laws needed  JWatson77 | 12/28/03
Mr Turkewitz, do you believe your own bs?  Lord Talon | 12/29/03
No need for tougher laws  voska | 12/29/03
Isnt it ironic  JoeMama_z | 12/29/03
Copyright and DMCA rants  Yensi717 | 12/29/03
I have about 100 MP3s on my hard drive  voska | 12/29/03
RIAA gets it, but won't admit otherwise  FilledOut | 12/29/03
The number of MP3s shouldn't make one a criminal  AbsolutelyNot | 12/30/03
Go Figure  Scooter_z | 12/30/03
Intellectual property laws...  jstead1 | 12/31/03
it's not the tools  JWatson77 | 01/04/04

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