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1. Comment - AnyDVD claims it defeats protection on latest BD+ discs

   (Jan 1, 2009 - 8:15 PM)

   @kristy34c - sorry, US law does not apply to people living outside the US. The international Treaties state that each country has to have laws upholding the Copyright of the other countries. The DMCA's clause preventing reverse engineering of copy protection schemes has NOTHING to do with copyright, but rather a method used to prevent copying the media.
   
   Although fair use is being eroded in the US and attempts are being made to erode it in other countries, does not mean that it does not exist in other countries (I don't know the laws in Antigua), nor does it mean that those countries automatically outlaw the reverse engineering (Canada doesn't, yet). The act of copying the disk may be illegal in some areas of the world, and in others it may not be, while still upholding copyright laws. Now if you are copying it for purposes other than backup/reuse on another medium of your own you have stepped out of the grey area, but please don't assume that the US laws apply outside US borders because they don't.
   
   They don't even apply in an occupied country like Iraq.

2. Comment - Google-backed group calls RealPlayer 'badware'

   (Feb 5, 2008 - 1:56 PM)

   Is that all they could find wrong with Realplayer? I guess basically breaking everything on the machine it is installed on isn't malware, it is just plain sh*tty programming...

3. Comment - New 'Daily Show' Site Launches with 13,000 Clips

   (Oct 18, 2007 - 4:07 PM)

   Nice comments. Seeing as the Daily Show is a reasonably popular show (except for maybe Fox News groupies) I am sure that some people find it funny, I find it at least as funny as the talking heads on Fox News anyways, and at least The Daily Show seems to be relevant.
   
   And the site seems to be getting hammered by users at the moment.

4. Comment - TiVo Could Return to DirecTV

   (Jun 6, 2007 - 2:18 PM)

   So how do I start to poke Liberty Media to make sure that one of the first things they do is pick up the phone and call Tivo?
   
   My contract term is almost up, and I am not willing to renew until I know I can get a new HD Tivo that supports MPEG4 their new HD transmission scheme.

5. Comment - Amazon Brings 'Unbox' Service to TiVo

   (Feb 7, 2007 - 1:21 PM)

   Is it an afterthought? or an alternative to cable alltogether?
   
   Depending on where you are cable is around $60/month so that is 30 "episodes" per month @ $1.99 to be equivalent costs. So about 7.5 hours a week of viewing (which is close to what we watch in our house), so a HDTivo with a HD antenna + Unboxed costs + Tivo Subscription could be significantly cheaper than cable. Seems like a winning combination to me, especially if the quality of the unboxed content is good (picture quality, the content would be the same old crappy stuff).