Read it and weep

[Fana]

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

Its happening right now, and it scares the shit out of me.

 

[Dukat]

I just got in and I'm not exactly what a judge would consider sober so I may not have got the contents of that link, but basically it sounds buggered up to me

If it isnt scaremongering, of which we have heard alot of in our time, I am kinda worried,but I would imagine there will be a way around it though, microsoft are very usually half-assed in the execution of thier hard liner policy, so the end result is a rule that most people choose to ignore, or dont even know/care about.

 

[Huntingtons]

basically it has roots in a very loose legal system in the computer operated world i guess. its very frightening tho.

 

[Ballard]

Boycott vista, blue ray and the PS3 if you want to be able backup your DVD's and albums to your PC in the future

 

[Naffets]

If it can be coded by man it can be uncoded by man and you know it People thought windowsXP activation was the end of the world at first

 

[old.Tohtori]

I don't get why people are so afraid of "not being able to share".

Hell, we used to use computers without ze internet.

 

[evzy]

And Linux or some other op system would just sell gazillions if they tried to pull that... won't happen tbh.

 

[crispy]

Just dont buy it

They are digging their own grave atm

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

And Linux or some other op system would just sell gazillions if they tried to pull that... won't happen tbh.

The good linux versions are free

 

[Raven]

the only people this sort of thing would effect is johny consumer, and who gives a fuck about him.

 

[Huntingtons]

I don't get why people are so afraid of "not being able to share".

Hell, we used to use computers without ze internet.

we also used to take a shit in the woods and die of common diseases, you wanna go back to that as well?

 

[old.Tohtori]

we also used to take a shit in the woods and die of common diseases, you wanna go back to that as well?

Yeah, same thing. Sure.

Gees...

 

[Ati]

Its okay, we'll relise that Marc's belifs were real and we will overthrow our governments.

 

[Ati]

we also used to take a shit in the woods and die of common diseases, you wanna go back to that as well?

Sure, but we made the decision to!

 

[Glacier]

Rise of the Machines!

 

[Lamp]

Conspiracy bollocks

 

[Thorondorito]

The good linux versions are free

Debian rules

 

[Sharma]

Conspiracy bollocks

My thoughts exactly.

It's like the usual tripe you read during the Daily Mail or News of the world.

Complete bollocks intended to scare the common populace into a single train of thought.

While some of it may be true, it's most likely twisted to the point where it is non-sensical rubbish.

Remember the massive conspiracy over Police-ware?

"OMFGS teh police are on our gfx cards mates! They're like gonna report our piracy and stuffs!"

As someone said, a human made the program, someone can reverse engineer it, just takes time, a lot of program hackers spend a lot of time doing this, otherwise we wouldn't have program hacks.

There's always a way to overthrow "Security" measures implemented.

 

[Thorondorito]

TBH I'm not worried about this...

It's the same shit with different smell... Once they finish doing and investing millions of dollars in it there will be some hacker group that will release "the cure" to that so they will be seen (again) as stupid morons that waste their money into nonsense and useless things rather than add best performance to their software...

PS. At least they changed graphic motor in windows vista... now its the graphic card who will be controlling the windows, not the processor, whoa! (Macintosh is being doing this for years...)

 

[Ctuchik]

I don't get why people are so afraid of "not being able to share".

Hell, we used to use computers without ze internet.

yeah, and we used to have roads with no cars on them to......... and sky with no airplanes, and water with no boats.......

 

[Tasslehoff]

"But Microsoft is not alone: the KaZaa music-sharing software is designed so that KaZaa's business partner can rent out the use of your computer to their clients"

Isen't that just called P2P?

 

[Darzil]

Whilst some of the way this is headed could be a bit poor, that article was completely over the top.

Any relevant points were swamped by the idiotic ones.

Darzil

 

[old.Tohtori]

yeah, and we used to have roads with no cars on them to......... and sky with no airplanes, and water with no boats.......

Why are people making comments like that when it's a whole different thing.

I was just saying that some of us old farts managed to live without filesharing, people would be able to live without it nowadays too.