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To: Swordmaker

The context is perfect, to support my position, as a matter of fact. The thread was entitled:

Mac OS on a Dell? Dell in favor, Apple opposed

Clearly Apple is opposed to OSX running on Dell. What is antiRepublican's SOLE comment to the thread?

His defiant proclomation that DESPITE Apple's wishes, OSX will be hacked by his Russian hacker buddies "in less than 5 minutes". Which is no surprise, he calls himself a hacker in this very thread and has already been defending the hackers since the actual crack was announced, with lies he admits to knowingly and purposefully making at that time in their defense.

Find me a quote other than this thread where he claims to support anyone's DRM such as that which protects Apple's OSX LOL. There may be one but these are the types of post of his I keep finding:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377815/posts?page=46#46

"Too effin' bad, I'll hack the hardware so I can watch my German DVDs as much as I want to. CSS is trying to keep me from taking fair use snippets and making backups? Too effin' bad, the tools I need to exercise my rights that were made illegal under the DMCA aren't illegal in other countries, and the WWW is far-reaching."

Golden Eagle Out


550 posted on 01/15/2007 12:33:21 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle; Swordmaker
Clearly Apple is opposed to OSX running on Dell. What is antiRepublican's SOLE comment to the thread? His defiant proclomation that DESPITE Apple's wishes, OSX will be hacked by his Russian hacker buddies "in less than 5 minutes".

Is a statement of the incredibly obvious too much for you? It's like the Democrats get elected and I post "Here come the tax raises." Does anyone honestly think it won't happen?

DRM is flat-out a losing battle. The only way to sort-of make DRM work is to make cracking it illegal, but of course the collateral damage for that is our fair use and first sale rights. Ever ripped a CD? The RIAA thinks that should be illegal, and would like to enforce that through DRM, to the extent of root-kitting your system!

That I why I think DRM is both harmful and futile. It does NOTHING to stop large-scale copyright infringement. Such infringement is best handled the old fashioned way -- hunt them down and sue them. DRM hurts the innocent, while it is barely a slight inconvenience to the bad guys.

556 posted on 01/15/2007 7:44:23 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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