Amigas turn to play catch up - new intel cpu

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It also restricts where/when and how long you can watch the HD Content and what on  !

I wouldn't call the a step forward, would you ?

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If you are so against DRM then I guess you never bought an XBox, Playstation or iPhone either then.
Heck, you better not have bought cable TV either..
I'm not saying I'm in love with the technology...but the horse has already bolted.

Your List:
Xbox (Cracked)
Playstation (Cracked)
Iphone(Cracked)
Cable TV( Was cracked...now not)

I will add another weak link
 
HDCP (Cracked)

The horse hasn't bolted. Its made of MPAA legal wood with a load of lawyers inside.

The problem for me is when I buy something I consider I own it. I don't consider I have licenced it, hired it or borrowed it for the weekend, the further these morons try to decide that content be it physically stored or not, belongs to them when I have bought it fair and square, the more I will spend good money to circumvent their stupidity.
 
I know this flies in the face of the good folk of the amiga community, but if I pay good money for something I expect to use it under my terms and conditions not theirs. f**k em!

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@haywirepc/Steven

I really don't understand... Is it jealousy?..... Is it mother issues?... Because we have somehow bruised your sensibilities? Because we're not doing it your way? All I can think is, that you're just a little too sensitive or have crazy high expectations.
.. you act obsessively crazy in regard to us.

... You sir, are not normal, to put it kindly.

...Yeah, sorry your highness.

....Don't assume it's bullshit..... I wrote a few lines on this forum bearing our licensed Amiga name.

I assume you intend to back up these allegations, evidently your employer has funds available to support these assertions, and as a representative of the company, I expect you have Barry's full backing to post here as such.

Interesting times ahead.

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Looks like I'll continue to buy AMD processors (until they add that DRM crap too).

There all going this way, everything embedded soon on single BGA package. Covered in gunk or extended over the pcb to prevent tampering, locked down with a bastion hypervisor, running a drm'ed processor/video and audio with eventually encrypted memory and tamperproof internal fuse-links.

They all want to be the next (Sky/Fox/NDS VideoGuard and milk the video cash cow.)

Where do you want to go today, that's 5 bucks, oh no the door bell rang, pause, thats 5 more bucks, oh you want to watch it upstairs thats 10 more bucks, oh you missed it, thats 5 more bucks, you want to watch it again, thats 5 more bucks, oh you like to keep a copy that's 40 bucks but we never actually send it you its on our server anytime you want until the end of calendar year. You can't resell what you never owned can you !. Oh just in case that's 40 bucks for a transfer licence.

What book was that called "Brave New World", not in our collection it must have been archived, have you taken your pill !

The free, must defend, those who are not.

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Interesting little rant you have there. I have dishnetwork and for ony 5bucks I have dvr service. Pause, rewind, record, watch anywhere anytime, only 5 bucks a month. Not 5 bucks each time 5 dollars once a month.

These companies have a right to protect their money flow. And they realize that we have rights too. We can get DVDs with free digital copy. Watch it on your laptop, or Ipod, or whatever, they don't care as long as you follow the rules and don't rip them off. You want a particular game or movie or whatever, buy it.

Mr Kthunder of the good ole USA, thank your star spangled banner that you don't live in near a Murdochnopoly, I pay 150 dollars a month to watch some football and a few movies in HD with the ability to pause/record and rewind. Thank you very much for your DMCA 2000 that doesn't appear to affect your digital economy very much, but by god it affected everyone elses and mr murdoch wants even more....once a thieving bastard always a thieving bastard ! and we don't have much of a choice to stay legal!

Sky Sports 15 quid approx
Sky Movies 15 quid approx
Sky HD Basic pack 10 quid
Sky Basic Package 20 quid approx
Sky HD Options pack 2 quid
Sky Multi-Room (That's for an extra receiver) 10 quid
Sky HD Basic pack for the 2nd box 10 quid

And its so locked down NDS VideoGuard has never been cracked.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

PS Yes I can afford it at the moment, but don't lecture us about the rights of the "company". (Oh yes Murdoch is now a naturalised american !)

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ok Mr. Boudicca

Ouch! Quick check...nope nowt there....phew.

it's in my pipe and I'm smoking it

I bet they all say that...down your way

but it seems really really...normal.

Fair do's if thats the case.

You seriously call this thievery?!?

Deffo. Murdovision is theft. (Definition: Thievery - Pronounced (We remember Wapping), A method to obtain money by blatant reruns/cheap tv production and charge ridiculous sums of money for sporting and other live content which was originally on national television to allo for the purchasing of the Fox Network to extort monies from American citizens, and feed the UK with even more crap. (Quote OED, Oxbridge University Press)

Who the heck was lecturing? not me!

Oh ok, then don't tell the French, that we also Surrender monkeys.

Tell me what rights you think the companies that produce and distribute the entertaintainment we "can't" live without have.

You got me there, I have decided to pay the other form of entertainment, that's it enoughs enough...I've gone fishing.

Do they have a right to make a profit? Each of the channels we watch costs money, it costs money to put satellites up to carry the data, etc. etc.

Your absolutely right. Where's my coat.

What I call thievery is the 95% of people who produce no art, no film, no anything constantly trying to find ways of getting this stuff (which is not necessary for life) for free.

Contradiction there, but if we can't live we out it, its can't be not necessary for life.

I think the truth is, we take for granted many things in life, TV is a luxury in anyone's book but I find it difficult to understand in a open and fair society that a content provider Sky tv also are a content distributor and reseller. 90% of all channels viewed in the UK are the almost the property of one R.Murdoch and no matter what pricing is charge, I resent the man, I resent what he stands for. It isn't business its greed and more greedy these little b*ggers get, the more I feel we need to remind them who actually pays for their lifestyle.

If that means finding ways around that greed. I won't argue its wrong....any especially not wrong when it comes to murdovision.

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@ KThuder

Mr Murdoch who currently owns around 39% of SKY and is at this very moment trying to buy out SKY completely, is not a very popular chap in this county mainly thanks to his vast ownership of much of the newspapers & other media here...

He also like to do things as cheaply as possible in any of the pies he has his grubby little fingers in which generally leads to the dumbing down of it's content...

If Murdoch has his way TV here will only get worse as he'll simply flood us with more cheap made American trash and even more adverts (it's almost as bad as American TV here now...)

I wish Mr Murdoch would do as his arch rival did (Robert Maxwell) and fall of his luxury yacht and swim like a brick...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/city-news/2010/07/30/sky-tv-reveals-record-profits-115875-22451060/

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a252503/sky-profits-soar-amid-hd-demand.html

Hear...Hear!

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ok Mrs.? Boudicca

Better

Queen of the Iceni
 

I read, and reread your post and you don't seem to really be saying anything, until the end so other than the Mrs. thing i'll only address that.

I thought I was being witty, but I can't please everyone

doesn't seem to be proper english so I don't know what to do with it.

Low....English is spelt with a capital E.

If you actually get into it you realize how much syndication costs, production costs etc. all are.

and I like good acting and writing

It all costs money. thats were we come in.

Yes but our money just seems to be crossing the Atlantic to fund your T.V, Sky syndicate/produce absolutely nothing of their own and what passes for new content, generally follows some wannabe reality T.V tart getting a boob job for two hours, or worse the 100th showing of best of police chases 6....Our TV is your TV. and we are paying for it.