Re: [TCLUG:13321] Channel 4000: Hackers Plan Local MPAA Protest

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>	*grin* Yeah.  I could imagine cases in which it is most
>definitely not irrelevant though.  :-)
        yeah. like if you're a 16-year-old who figured something out that a
lot of people with a lot of money wish you hadn't figured out. :)

> 	disinfo.org ran a series of links about them a few years ago.
>	I looked at their site, and they seem to really want you to buy
>a print copy in order to read anything.
<RANT>
        jeeziz! I just looked at their site... what a piece of crap! I used
to read them a few years ago, when it was nothing but unfiltered fringe
news... they used to rate the links to info pages with 1-5 hand grenades,
rather than stars. ;> it was 95% crap; but there were some things you
wouldn't find anywhere else. I last read it a few months ago, after a
hiatus, and saw it had been 'slicked up' somewhat; but still had the kind of
content it always did. (they were talking about the Artemis moon-colonizing
project days before it hit Slashdot).
        this thing doesn't bear any resemblance to the disinfo of old. the
old sections of Revolutionaries|Politics|Tech|etc. are gone. now they're
just trying  to sell some cheesy magazine. :(
        I now understand how people feel about Wired changing over time...
but that's nothing compared to this sellout. :( :(
</RANT>

>	Kind of.  The DeCSS source code will survive forever (and
>perhaps even be improved) on the Net, and there's nothing the MPAA can
>realistically do about it.  But, as someone (I think on Slashdot)
>pointed out, this is largely irrelevant since it won't be 'mainstream'.
>*sigh*
        that may change. I think we'll soon have solid DVD-player apps for
Linux. I don't know if the major distros will initially touch them (depends
how the courts rule; I think the courts would have to come out
overwhelmingly in favor of freedom, for distros to risk offending the MPAA);
but they may become popular even without distro support, and by virtue of
popular support will be included in the 'mainstream' eventually. :)

ok, enough rambling...

Carl Soderstrom