[opendtv] Re: News: ANTIPIRACY TECHNOLOGIES
- From: "Brian Park" <floman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:51:07 -0500
All language changes. Look how 'rubbish' has become a verb in Britain in the
last ten years. Piracy just means 'stealing' today, that's all. Makes it
sound more menacing, so don't rubbish it.
bp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Baker" <hbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:03 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: ANTIPIRACY TECHNOLOGIES
> Just a stupid question: how did "copyright infringement" morph
> into "piracy" ?
>
> Here's the definition of _real_ piracy:
>
> PIRACY (BY U.S. CITIZEN) - Whoever, being a citizen of the U.S.,
> commits any murder or robbery, or any act of hostility against
> the U.S., or against any citizen thereof, on the high seas, under
> color of any commission from any foreign prince, or state, or on
> pretense of authority from any person, is a pirate, and shall be
> imprisoned for life. 18 USC
>
> I guess this is roughly similar to the way that anal retentive
> behavior became the Soup "Nazi"...
>
> -----
> At 04:32 AM 10/5/2004, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> >Via Edupage
> >
> >NEW GROUP TARGETS COMPATIBILITY OF ANTIPIRACY TECHNOLOGIES
> >Leading technology and media companies have joined forces to ensure
> >compatibility of various forms of antipiracy technology. Sony,
> >Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Matsushita, Samsung, InterTrust Technologies,
> >and Twentieth Century Fox are members of the new group, called Coral,
> >whose goal is to avoid potential conflicts among different types of
> >digital rights management (DRM) technologies...
>
>
>
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