16 year old plus Girl Guides want a ’safe sex’ badge. Geeklawyer is available as a tutor, but not for the Brownies. Oh no.
The US is not interested in British opinions on the War on Terror. Wants to arrange the torture of people anyway. No shit?! really? - who’da thunk it.
Guantanamo trials a farce and window dressing for a lynching. No shit?! really? - who’da thunk it.
BBC committed to a Linux/Mac iPlayer. Geeklawyer thinks this is a good idea as he used either Ubuntu or OSx and rarely Winduhs apart from games. The trouble is that there is no DRM software for Linux so as long as content providers insist on it, stupidly in Geeklawyer’s opinion, we are stuffed.
Format shifting may be coming to the UK. You may soon be able to lawfully rip your CDs to MP3. Relieved? yea Geeklawyer is too ‘cos he doesn’t do it at the moment - honest.
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So what if there’s no DRM software for Linux? Just build it into the application.
And when, exactly, was the last time DRM stopped *anyone* from doing what they like with your audio file?
If DRM is not welded into the kernel with magic anti-tamper pixie dust they’ll say it’s too vulnerable to trust. If it’s in the app everyone will just intercept the video/audio stream etc.
It has a piss poor record I’ll agree but thats what they want: pixie dust. I heard it direct from the lips of the Siemens (?) guy working on iPlayer for the BBC - at LugRadio in Wolverhampton a couple of weeks back.
Thats what content providers want so the Beeb says it must comply: I don’t buy that 100% but there ya go.