Actually, I'd be more inclined to look into:
Avoiding giving any cash to a certain corporation <g>
> >I'd normally never buy this but the Xbox is Eur300 on IOL's shop, a very
> >large company are making a loss on it and:
> don't forget to add to that the modchip, and the time to put it on.
> (/me thinks unless you want 3d graphics, www.mini-itx.com is the way to go

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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85505995
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I've been in Austin all weekend. On Friday, I spoke at the University of Texas
about EFF issues. Jon Lebkowsky was there -- hell, he organized it -- and he
blogged the hell out of the talk:
Entertainment industry has tradition of attacking technology: the piano
roll, the radio (sued by vaudeville), television (would destroy cinema!),
"the Betamax affair"... the latter being the first consumer VCR. In Betamax
case, argued that the ability to make a full copy of a broadcast work would
not be a fair use (in terms of copyright). It was illegal enough that the
VCR should be kept off the market, they argued. The Supreme Court got the
case, and the thing that shook out of it was the Betamax principle: a
technology is legal so long as it has substantial non-infringeing uses.
This principle is under attack.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998. Illegal to defeat a copyright
measure. Regionalization system for DVDs. This is a control that limits
distribution. John Johansen in Norway figured out how to break the content
scrambling system and allows you to move from one region to another,
override copy protection. It was called DeCSS - Johansen is facing trial
for creating a piece of code.
Link[1] (Wes blogged it, too[2]) Discuss[3]
[1] http://www.weblogsky.com/2002_09_01_blarchive.html#85500802
[2] http://wmf.editthispage.com/2002/09/27
[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/4rEePy7RSm38x