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Phillip McCleod

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12. true but the temp copy stored during streaming
Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:29 PM
Mar 2013

is what the license pays for, not the permanent copy i hypothetically made on the hard disk that i can watch any time i want or burn to disk and share. hey don't get me wrong.. international waters? content i already paid for? i doubt i'd think twice about it.. note that i couch this in hypothetical terms, however..

truth is, after aaron schwartz and the SCOTUS' recent decision not to hear a couple downloading cases.. screwing we the people over in the process.. i have little empathy for hollywood or their crappy films. the DMCA can burn in hell AFAIC.

so little regard in fact that i already posted here on DU and on pastebin a little instructo-script that will let any Linux user download whatever directly into /dev/null .. do not pass RAM, do not pass HDD.. so it's perfectly legal. it would be the equivalent, in hollywood lobbyist terms, of grabbing a DVD off the shelf and walmart, walking into the office supplies aisle, and sticking it in the floor model shredder. i never left the store with the DVD so i didn't steal it, per se, but i did destroy that copy.

..which just goes to show how disconnected from reality hollywood, and in fact all our copyright and patent laws, are from reality.

i called it 'Operation_DMCA > /dev/null'

here's a fresh link..

http://pastebin.com/65ZFtZVv

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ps. for those not in the know, '/dev/null' is aka, 'the black hole'. it's nowhere. see, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev/null

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