But apparently none of this is a big deal since highly technical people will be able to crack their own discs, but the regular public will have to be content with getting screwed by the DRM, or risking lawsuit by downloading a gigantic movie. I frequently encounter people who have run afoul of DVD region encoding who don't know what to do about it, despite the fact that DVD cracking is so easy many programs do it automatically, how the hell are they supposed to get through the HD minefield?
And about being able to get an ATSC/QAM tuner card for linux still, that's great... can you get premium content off your cable with that, like most HD channels?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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But apparently none of this is a big deal since highly technical people will be able to crack their own discs, but the regular public will have to be content with getting screwed by the DRM, or risking lawsuit by downloading a gigantic movie. I frequently encounter people who have run afoul of DVD region encoding who don't know what to do about it, despite the fact that DVD cracking is so easy many programs do it automatically, how the hell are they supposed to get through the HD minefield?
And about being able to get an ATSC/QAM tuner card for linux still, that's great... can you get premium content off your cable with that, like most HD channels?