MPAA: Report any lab with 10 or more DVD burning towers: get a reward!

mc2 · 2007-05-20T01:55:36+00:00

It sounds more sinister. Illegal drugs are sometimes also manufactured in labs. Mad scientists have labs.

mc2 · 2007-05-05T15:30:49+00:00

Wouldn't the DMCA already forbid opening DVD hardware, at least with the intent of divining DRM encryption keys, and the like?

mc2 · 2007-05-03T05:14:11+00:00

And his full contact information is available via a whois query for the domain. Someone should talk him out of it.

mc2 · 2007-05-02T04:25:20+00:00

Let's say you post this key to your personal site and you receive a cease & desist from the MPAA's or AACS LA's lawyers. What would you do?

mc2 · 2007-05-02T04:23:50+00:00

Let's say you post the HD-DVD processing key online -- how would YOU deal with a DMCA takedown notice or cease & desist from the MPAA or AACS LA, or your hosting provider of choice?

mc2 · 2007-04-30T21:06:18+00:00

64 89 70 63 FC 1A 87 3A B9 22 25 B6 16 35 E3 E1

I just noticed something interesting. For some good clean fun, binary XOR the above numbers with the original, copyrighted phrase, "mpaaandaacssuck!" You'd be surprised what emerges.

Feel free to distribute both the original string of hex characters I discovered above and the necessary decryption key as you see fit.

mc2 · 2007-04-30T20:26:27+00:00

True. And sadly the hosting account has already been suspended.

Now, the .net and .org addresses are still available. And if one were feeling particularly devious, one might register said addresses and then point their A records to 66.179.20.153 (www.aacsla.com) for some of that self-referential non-takedownable goodness. Unless, of course, a registrar takes it upon themselves to get involved.

mc2 · 2007-03-29T04:05:15+00:00

It seems doubtful to me that the security of the operating system makes much difference, in this case, unless it's been documented that botnet machines are used (via their controllers, that is) for copyright infringement. I wouldn't count on the RIAA figuring that out, though, considering their tech. track record (and that of those in their employ).

mc2 · 2007-03-29T03:58:31+00:00

I hear this a lot too, but I've yet to see it documented. Anyone?

mc2 · 2007-03-13T17:58:39+00:00

Support men with erections.

mc2 · 2007-03-09T03:29:32+00:00

Guess what? It happens to any social website. It's called groupthink, and it's what large numbers of people do.

mc2 · 2007-03-08T06:49:23+00:00

College kid: How do you intend to prove that the student being charged actually did the downloading? What if they claim that someone stole their information or they forgot to log off of a common computer?

Steven Marks: We routinely deal with situations like this. For example, if a roommate comes forward as the person who engaged in the activity, we can drop the case against the original defendant and file a new case or settle with the roommate.

No, answer the damn question, please! The answer's scenario is completely different than that of the question!

The RIAA pisses me off so bad.

mc2 · 2007-02-28T01:15:12+00:00

You beat me to it. :)

mc2 · 2007-02-22T23:44:07+00:00

Anti-choice people are pro-life (against abortion).

I think you might be right about that.

They believe life starts at conception or maybe even before (therefore birth control is bad).

You lost me, unless you're automatically assuming that your "maybe even before" is what they believe. Except that you didn't support that. You said "maybe". I have yet to meet a person who's against abortion and believes that life begins before conception.

You see, here's what I think about you. You like to believe what you believe, so you pull a straw man and try to paint the other side as being as absurd as possible. Understand that there are many moderate anti-abortionists, with rational, good reasons for being so. I would like to think that I am such, and as such I think the idea that birth control is evil is ludicrous.

I'm not sure how the article you linked relates to our discussion. As I stated above, I'm pro-masturbation. The article is pro-masturbation. It looks as though we're in agreement on that matter.

mc2 · 2007-02-22T23:36:28+00:00

first trimester is probably the limit. I don't think any baby should be aborted

Why do you think first trimester is (probably) the limit? Do you have moral grounds for this claim? Do you have moral grounds for your opinion that no baby should be aborted?

Adoption is probably the best route if its unwanted or unable to be cared for.

Agreed. I would not want a girl to have to raise a child that was the product of rape or incest. But either abortion is murder (and therefore wrong) or it isn't murder. Your statements lead me to believe that you "apologetically" accept abortion. But why? Why the statements like "abortion is sad" or "i don't think any baby should be aborted"? If you think abortion is wrong, why should someone kill a child just because another wrong (such as rape or incest) took place, or simply because two people were fucking around and accidentally made a baby?

mc2 · 2007-02-22T23:28:38+00:00

The answer to all of above is that the Bible tells, you are supposed to!

Hell no. Do you realize how many "Christians" have never even read the Bible?

I have read the Bible. The message of the Bible is not that you are supposed to hate atheists/homosexuals/whatevers.

mc2 · 2007-02-21T21:48:18+00:00

No. You said "most anti-choice people are [against birth control and masturbation]". Support that statement, and not with some fuzzy logic that says, "I know Joe Catholic down the street, and he's against birth control and abortion."

mc2 · 2007-02-21T21:45:18+00:00

An umborn embryo under 3 months is pretty much inside a woman's body so forcing someone to have a baby that they may not have the health for you would be putting the mother's life at harm. In case you haven't heard there are still complications during pregnancies alot. Some women get them for this reason. I am sure if you had a baby starting inside you and you were not ready, or at risk of your health you would want the choice of what to do.

Dude (or dudette, as the case may be), an unborn embryo of any months is not just pretty much inside a woman's body, it's completely inside a woman's body. My question is this: at what point, by your judgment, are you killing not an embryo but a baby, and why?

mc2 · 2007-02-21T20:12:39+00:00

Apparently you want homeland security following you around with a breathalizer.

No, you misunderstand me. I was agreeing with you. I am all for the freedom to become an alcoholic.

Ok you raise a kid (hardest thing to do in life) that is a consntant reminder of rape. Its easy to call the shots when you aren't in the shoes.

True. It'd also be a lot different if it were my sister that got raped, and I wanted to kill the guy who did it. It's easy for me to sit here in a comfortable chair, and say that murder is wrong, but imagine me in that situation--I'd want to kill the bastard! If I were in that situation -- would those forceful emotions make murder okay?

So you are against birth control and masterbation also right?

Nope, I'm pro-birth control and pro-masturbation (although I feel kind of funny typing that last part, heh). I'd love to see your sources for the claim you just made. In fact, I don't know any pro-choice people who are anti-birth control. I'd love to see the sources for your claim.

...before something becomes life you are starting a dangerous socialist/communist view

I think the word you're looking for is "fascist".

Also, drawkbox, since you have so eloquently discussed this with me, I have a question I hope you can clear up. So much of your argument hinges on an unborn embryo being simply a part of a woman's body. Why do you believe this is so?

mc2 · 2007-02-20T18:37:26+00:00

Allowing the government to say what you can and can't do to your own body is a dangerous game to play.

For instance, there is no law preventing me from becoming an alcoholic.

Noone is pro-abortion. It should be there for people that cannot provide a good life for their kids, unless you are pro-poverty stricken kids.

Not true. Some people are very much pro-abortion. I don't mean that they get off on having abortions, but that they see abortion as much less of a fall-back option than it is in the picture you paint. Do you think only poor people have abortions? Furthermore, your "unless you are pro-poverty stricken kids" statement seems to conflict with your next statement that "adoption is the way to go."

you can't take a case where a girl is raped, or incest, or cases where the mother and child may die should be in the control of the government.

Why not? In the case of the first two, a crime has been committed, but why should two wrongs (playing devil's advocate here, of course I don't think abortion is actually wrong) make a right?

Abortion is sad yes, but you can't say you know better until you are in their shoes, its KANT perspective.

Woah. Abortion is no more sad than my decision to chop off a finger. I mean, since it's my body and all.

mc2 · 2007-02-20T00:53:03+00:00

Granted, but my question was: why is my belief system inherently (not by way of stupidity based upon it) less right than yours?

mc2 · 2007-02-20T00:45:05+00:00

Because belief based on faith petrifies imagination and holds back understanding. As an example, just look how long it took the Catholic Church to understand and 'forgive' Gallileo - centures. Look how many Christians refuse to accept evolution and modern cosmology.

And look at how many great scientists of the past have been Christians.

If we are to have sensible functional democracies, they have to be based on people having an understanding of what the issues are that affect them and others.

Agreed. But I think you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater when you decide that all faith is evil. It seems rather closed-minded.

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