Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? 735
Couch Potato asks: "I'm worried that, come next July, the FCC mandated broadcast flag will soon take away all sorts of fair use rights I have long enjoyed. Given that there are only a few months left to make purchasing decisions, how best can one prepare for the advent of the broadcast flag?"
"I'm somewhat aware of projects like Myth TV, but it's not all that I want. Specifically, I want to make sure that I can record DVDs or similar files of any program I want off of cable, sattelite or broadcast TV, flag or not and without any other encumbering restrictions (such as the Macrovision DRM for DVDs) and without worry that someday they'll change something so that my old drivers and hardware are suddenly obsolete and useless when faced with updates to the formats. Note that this makes closed-source-only drivers an issue, because assuming the hardware can still be adapted to whatever they change on us, open-sources drivers can be modified and closed-source ones probably won't be, whether for legal or practical considerations. So then, what can someone with a modest budget do to make sure that their constitutional fair use rights don't succumb to planned obsolecense, like the VCR has?"
Necessary Purchases (Score:2, Funny)
Stock up on:
Canned Food
Water
Yacht Batteries
Guns
Ammunition
Stop watching TV (Score:1, Funny)
Follow these simple steps:
i'm unvincible! (Score:2, Funny)
maybe I should break down and get one of those newfangled video to LP recorders...
My own plans for the broadcast plan (Score:5, Funny)
Upon the day of the broadcast flag, I will be taking my family into the bunker along with a supply of food, air, and other needs to last 100 years.
When my great-grandchildren emerge into the world after society collapses, all the old books (which were deemed illegal during the Copyright Stealing Prevention act of 2050) are burned and all eyeballs gouged out during the Copyright Memory Prevention Act of 2075, when humanity has children born without R/M/AA approved Eyeball Extractors coming to remove their ocular sockets to be installed with DCMA III approved cybereyes (which shut down if it appears the looker is attempitng to actually remember what they see to replay it in their mind later, which of course is a copyright violation), then my great-grandchildren will be able to use these books and DVD's as barter.
Hm - I wonder how much food they'll be able to buy with a copy of "Cryptonomicon". Maybe I should get another copy....
Re:Write Some Letters (Score:5, Funny)
Re:lemme get this straight. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Write Some Letters (Score:2, Funny)
-- Pogo
Yes, but are you using all the compiler flags?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Write Some Letters (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My own plans for the broadcast plan (Score:3, Funny)
About a pallet load of "Cap'n Crunch".
Re:Buy offshore (Score:4, Funny)
Worse, when smuggling them cards by sea beware the navy seals and their specially trained tuner-tuna.
Re:Stop watching TV (Score:1, Funny)
[ ] You posted a Religious Thread
[ ] You posted a accusation with no proof
[ ] You posted a thread containing 1337 talk
[ ] You posted a me > u thread
[ ] you posted a worthless offensive thread
[ ] You continued a long, stupid thread
[x] You committed crimes against pork biproducts
[ ] You posted a "YOU ALL SUCK" message
[ ] You haven't read the FAQ
[ ] You don't know which forum to post in
[x] You just plain suck
[ ] You posted false information
[x] You posted something totally uninteresting
[ ] You doubleposted
[ ] YOU POSTED A MESSAGE ALL WRITTEN IN CAPS
[ ] You posted racist crap
[x] I don't like your tone of voice
[ ] You are not civilized enough to post in these forums
[ ] Yuo mispeled evry sengle wurd.
[x] Your parents are related
[ ] You and your wife are related
[ ] You dated my sister
[ ] You dated my brother
[ ] You made love to my dog
In Punishment, You Must:
[x] Give up your AOL Internet account
[ ] STFU & GTFO
[ ] Jump into a bathtub while holding your monitor
[ ] Actually post something relevant
[ ] Read the f****** FAQ
[ ] Call Bush and inform him he sucks
[ ] Go to your room with no supper
[ ] Apologize to everybody on this forum
[ ] Go stand in the middle of a Highway
[x] Recite the Greek alphabet backwards
[ ] Take a bath in bleach
[x] Drink out of a spitoon
[ ] Eat my ass
[ ] Grind a rail on your sack
[ ] All of the above
In Closing, I'd Like to Say:
[ ] 1 R 1337
[x] Pwned
[ ] GG no re
[x] Blow me
[ ] Get a life
[ ] Me > u
[x] Never post again
[ ] I pity your dog
[ ] Go to hell
[ ] Your IQ must be 7
[x] Take your s*** somewhere else
[ ] STFU & GTFO
[ ] Learn to post or f*** off
[ ] Go jump into some industrial equipment
[ ] STFU botter
[ ] All of the above
Re:Move (Score:3, Funny)
OK, I did that.
After I made love to your wife, my wife got rather annoyed with me. And she really got pissed when I kept at it after our first child was born.
I ended up having to move to Canada, and I already knew there was pr0n on the internets before I started, so where, precisely, was the win here?
Re:Write Some Letters (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My plan (Score:2, Funny)
Last night my girfriend made the most wonderfull smelling muffins so I decided to record the smell using my camcorder. When I tried to replay the smell all I could smell was a dusty TV. Do you think the FCC has allready placed a broadcast flag for smells in camcorders?!!
Re:My own plans for the broadcast plan (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Write Some Letters (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Write Some Letters (Score:3, Funny)