Movie Junkie

I resent that implication. Hell, in FL (run by asshole King George's brother Jeb) if you were Democrat in some locations your vote didn't count! I'm sure you remember the Supreme's sucking King George's ass as they gave him the election.

Fuggettaboutit!

The problem with CMC programming is that most of the time it doesn't last long enough to run it even one time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LFC!

Thanks for the answer LUK.

A bit of both I think bill. most are in survival mode just trying to get by and feed families pay bills etc and dont have time for the crap that politicians throw their way ,some are of the mind that it doesn't matter who gets elected you're going to get screwed anyway so whats the use .The Govt. counts on that, here in the US only 65% of all eligible voters vote and then some candidate gets elected with say 55% of that vote so its not like its the voice of the majority that gets him/her elected .Then they're called world leaders ,I wondered if any of them has taken a good look at the state of the worlds affairs at all, this kind of leadership we can all do without I heard many years ago that as long as the government kept us busy being pissed-off at each other we would be too busy to see what the hell they were doing to us.

I'm sorry but in my haste to answer you I misstated what I had wanted to say. I'm not an expert either but I am under the impression that the Supreme Court decision was based on laws that were in effect at the time of their ruling. Those laws gave us the right to make copies of movies that we owned in addition to being able to copy programs "off the air".

I have used QUITE A FEW 8X -R Verbs with no problems. The only +R Verbs I have used are their DL discs (with very few problems).

Could someone explain to me why when I type in http://forum.imgburn.com/ I come to this forum but when I type in http://www.forum.imgburn.com/ I go to some other place? (Try it yourself.)

All I know is that Congress could have passed laws against DRM just as they did in the Sony/Betamax case back in the 1970's that would have allowed us to make legal backups of the movies we own. but instead they passed laws making it illegal to circumvent the copy protection on those same movies.

Sorry...duplicate post!

Are we talking about the same House and Senate that allowed DRM? They allowed that and they will not do a damn thing about BD+. For the most part they are in bed with these companies and while being in bed with them they will devise ways of FCUKING the rest of us.

If the general public was able to see the problems with DiVX maybe they'll be able to do the same with this other crap!

The only benefits will be to the manufacturer. I realise that. (Not quite that old and silly yet). Sorry Shamus. I should have realized it was a rhetorical question. (I must be that old and silly.)

The ONLY way is not to purchase the equipment of the discs. Then it might go the way of the original DIVX discs and players.

The only benefits will be to the manufacturer. Beside the fact that they'll be able to shut it down whenever they want they will also be able to keep track of what we watch. They also might be able to tell if the discs are from a rental of a purchase.

From what I understand the player will need to be connected to the telephone line and if it's not connected for an unknown specific time period it will cease to work. They will also, supposedly, be able to update the firmware in the player via the discs that you play.

You've got that right!

Here is a tidbit from an article in BusinessWeek Online... "STRANGLEHOLD ON CONTENT. Even more extreme is a scheme called BD+ that deals with the problem of what to do when someone cracks the encryption scheme. The players can automatically download new crypto if the old one is broken. But there's an ominous feature buried in this so-called protection mechanism: If a particular brand of player is cryptographically "compromised," the studio can remotely disable all of the affected players. In other words, if some hacker halfway across the globe cracks Sony's software, Sony can shut down my DVD player across the Net." The entire article can be read here. Now I'm not condoning piracy but the BD+ scheme is pure BULLSHIT! I could be puchasing all of the HD discs that come out but if someone in Bumblefuck Singapore cryptographically compromises the brand of player I have then Sony can shut down my unit even though I don't have any pirated discs! As I said before this is pure BULLSHIT!

But if his DVD's weren't stolen by he'd really make a lot of .

Happy Birthday jmet!