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My Evening Was Almost Ruined by DRM

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Submitted by kierduros on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 23:56

For Christmas, I got a spiffy new HD TV.

A couple of weeks ago, I got a new laptop. I purcahsed a nice new HP model with a built in BluRay drive and HDMI-out figuring it would solve two problems--my old laptop was really showing its age and I had no BluRay player to hook up to my nice new TV.

The HDMI cables I ordered showed up in the mail yesterday and, on my way home from work, I picked up my first Bluray movies: Zombieland (which I missed in theaters) and Sin City (which I somehow never picked up on DVD).

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Submitted by kierduros on Sun, 06/04/2006 - 22:35

This is only going to become a bigger issue as time goes on. I am firmly convinced that the things going on now will set the groundwork for much of our future--and much of our future freedom.

Podcasting saved from the UN -- for now

The US had pushed hard to get this new right applied to the web, even though virtually every country in the world had rejected this idea. The US was put up to this by Yahoo and Microsoft, who have giant databases of webcasts that other people have entrusted to them, which they wanted to get an ownership interest over. Over and over again, the world's nations have told the US that this wasn't an option, and over and over again, the Chairman of the committee snuck away between meetings and stuck it back into the treaty.

Just where does that line between the idea freedom and the reality of being a gluttonous capitalistic society lie? Things like this and the oil-based economic problems will show us quite clearly where.

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