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Member since June 21, 2004

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    Matthew Simpson

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  1. Comment - Court Sounds Death Knell for 321 Studios

    (Jun 21, 2004 - 8:56 PM)

    To say their software "bypasses rights management" is being extremely generous to the DVD-CCA. CSS is not a "rights management" system, it's merely a trivial technological barrier, barely the equvalent of a "no trespassing" sign hung on a picket fence. Calling it "rights management" is like calling ROT13 "encryption".

    As others have mentioned, 321 borrowed the concept of, if not the actual code from, freely available sources. Their only innovation was in packaging, marketing, and useability; call it finding the lowest common denominator for the applicaiton genre. Anyone who really wants to pirate DVDs is using other, better, more sophisticated software anyway.

    BTW, I don't group people who rent-and-copy among "pirates"; they're just time-s***ing's all... You know: get a Netflix account, and a copy of Gordian Knot, and expand your movie-CD collection...

    We all just watch any given movie once or twice anyhoo.

  2. Comment - MSN to Boost E-Mail Storage Space

    (Jun 21, 2004 - 8:32 PM)

    "You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much storage space."