piracy
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eBay Thinks Sandra Bernhard Is A Pirate!
How does eBay tell if you’re a pirate? Your peg-legged swagger? Your use of arghs as punctuation? The foul-mouthed parrot crapping on your shoulder?
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Windows XP Now Calls You A Pirate
If you’re using Windows XP with a product key of dubious origin, you may have noticed that your computer just got a lot more obnoxious.
France Furthers Anti-iPod DRM Bill
Liberte, Egalite, no DRM? The French are voting on legislation that would restrict iTunes and its ilk from from limiting upon which devices the music can be played or how the songs can be shared. [Photo from recent student demonstrations outside the Sorbonne, just imagine the mattress represents a giant iPod and we’re good to go.]
MPAA Says: “DRM Exists To Annoy Honest Customers”
We saw this astonishing quote from Dan Glickman of the MPAA over at the Beeb, when asked about the effectiveness of DRM:
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Ice Cream Man Convicted for Pirating Videogames
100,000 or $174,345.29 in unilateral decision making money.
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Authors of StarForce Threaten Lawsuit Upon Criticism
Please excuse our breach of form this morning, but the Deals Round Up will have to wait, because we work up cranky and then the internet was full of stupid again. It seems that Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing discovered StarForce, the malignant copy-restriction curse suffered by many PC gamers, only to be threatened with a lawsuit after criticizing the product as “malware.”