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Well, I guess I know which DVD player to buy:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/20/samsung_sued/


These movie execs...........making friends might not be one of their stronger abilities, eh?
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Man calls tech industry "a bunch of girlie men" over DRM:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060220-6218.htm

I think he's right.l
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Canada's answer to all this?

http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/6313fa ... index.html


Re-instate the CD tax that creates as much as a 70% difference than buying blank DVD/CD's in the States. Might be a good time to stock up.
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Yet again, showing how the DRM is nonsense:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=180
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Swedish political party with high approval rating to oppose this nonsense:

http://www.linuxp2p.com/forums/portal.php?article=0
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Brief overview on this mess:

http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=190
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This site makes me optimistic about everything:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/


But the fact that they can change keys almost instantaneously?



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"Use music? Are you insane? You must merely pay us for music to exist! You cannot use music for anything light-hearted and practical!"

http://tech.moneycontrol.com/news/riaa- ... 526/india/

RIAA sues YouTube.
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you gotta wonder what they hope to achieve by alienating their clientell...

it just doesnt make any sense
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its a small victory really... the unfortunate thing is that its not going to do much good in the long run
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Why (just in case you've forgotten ;) ) the RIAA is a bunch of tards:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060721-7322.html
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Don't hate the RIAA........they can't help it...........they're just 'tards:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20060811/1341213.shtml
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The Pirate Bay:

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... =rss.index

Flipping the bird to the RIAA since day one.
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What if Ramen Noodles were treated the same way as music?

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,716 ... =rss.index

An interesting concept.
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