Alan Cox Files Patent For DRM 281
booooh writes "Alan Cox has filed a patent for DRM (Digital Rights Management). From the filing: 'A rights management system monitors and controls use of a computer program to prevent use that is not in compliance with acceptable terms.' According to the patent pledge of Cox's employer Red Hat, they will not license this technology if the patent is granted. And it can probably be applied to the DRM that is in Vista. This forum has a few more details.
Illegal iTunes? (Score:5, Funny)
I would like to ... (Score:2, Funny)
note to myself (Score:2, Funny)
Time Travel Patents (Score:4, Funny)
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Time_Travel_Patents [uncyclopedia.org]
Jolyon
Re:FrostWire (Score:2, Funny)
Spahling ignorant?
Re:Wow! (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft? They're not huge DRM supporters by nature, they just implement it because they think that's the only way copyright holders will use Microsoft networks/products to distribute their music/movies/whatever.
Re:Wow! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:FrostWire (Score:5, Funny)
How obedient of you, you deserve a treat.
*pats domesticated ape on the head*
Aww, isn't he cute?
Re:FrostWire (Score:2, Funny)
First, the common greeting.
Now, let's take a look at the posters rendition.
While the choice of emotion, & objectionable stereotype used is questionable, it still maintains good form.
Note that here, the poster has suggested that at this moment, they're of the same world, or on the same level, or able to understand eachother, we'll get into this in more detail later.
Here, the poster seems to be suggesting that DRM is in place to make sure nobody goes too fast.
You have to admire the posters perseverance in this statement, though they are fully aware that they're incapable of expressing the ideas they believe in, they push on in hopes of teaching the person they're screaming at a "lesson".
I found this statement rather intresting, if there's no hope of being on the same level with theese people, how is it possible to know the ways in which they think ?
The poster seems to have witnessed & participated in theese debates enough times that they've come to know the common responses from the other side & take it upon themselves to turn it into a one-sided argument.
Looks can be decieving.
.25? (Score:2, Funny)
Wait, is that .25 cents or 25 cents? You don't happen to work for Verizon [blogspot.com], do you?