Hollywood wants to hack your PC

[anarchic_teapot]

:-?  I'm sure I saw something in the Declaration of Human Rights about no condemnation without a fair trial, or something along those lines...

Of course, the USA is the country where the Scientologists can confiscate your computer if they don't like what you write about them, isn't it?

(note to self: don't get started on this)

[anarchic_teapot]

Spiffy quoth blithely:

Typical socialist stuff.

I always wonder where the Americans get their ideas about Socialists from. Probably the same pop-tv media that they say we in Europe get our vision of the USA from.

Anyway, left- and right- wing comparisons/accusations/whatever are IMO out of place here. What we've got is a powerful, ultra-conservative (with a small 'c') lobby that reacts to change by pretending it doesn't exist, then when that doesn't work, trying to push through legislation ordering it not to exist.

Along with M$'s Palladium project, this is beginning to sound like the death knell of Wintel machines. Which is good news for us: how many people out there know how to hack an Amiga (or even MorphOS!) compared to those who attack M$ and Linux-based machines?
 :-D

[anarchic_teapot]

Another example of rabid protectionists getting things slightly out of perspective:
Partying Barbie

Well, I think it's hilarious. Do judges in the USA often advise litigants to 'chill out'?

Proof that some people can keep a sense of proportion, even in Merkia  ;-)