d2r: yes, you can use that which you had paid for

yes, you can use that which you had paid for

Up until now, manufacturers have been wary of building a device to allow this type of usage because they've been afraid a lawsuit. The DVD Copy Control Association had claimed this was contractually forbidden, but now a judge says otherwise [...].

Up next: the Department of Justice decides that it's ok to put a PC in the living room and connect it to a TV, solving the problem that has puzzled many a tech geek.

Radical notion, that of us being able to decide how to best make use of our own property... :-)

Categories: technology
Posted by diego on April 29 2007 at 5:10 PM | TrackBack (0)

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Letting people do what they want with what they own is just the first step down the road toward terrorism! Better to just cut off that whole potential issue by mandating limiting usage. If only we could find a way to enforce it in realtime... perhaps an armed guard in every living room? Yes, that should make people feel better.

Posted by: Mike Rowehl at April 30, 2007 9:03 AM

Armed guard in every living room, what a concept! To cover the whole population, people would have to stand guard in their neighbor's houses, which would prevent them from using their own things, which is what started the whole thing in the first place. All we need to do is stand guard, problem solved!

Genius I say.

Posted by: Diego at May 5, 2007 8:54 AM