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Is it possible to get RC2 if I am not a subscriber? is it available to the
public?
public?
domain.
Chad Harris said:Nope. No "laws" against using a Torrent for a Beta to answer the question posed.
In some countries, but not mine the U.S. , there are no laws against stealing from P2P. I'm
not advocating the yuppie buppie practice of wussies and most of the pillars of communities
of tomorrow on college campuses who steal music and movies all the time and think they can
distinguish it from driving their Hummers through a plate glass window, pistol whipping the
help, and stealing whatever they like.
Currently the RIAA has hauled about 30,000 people into the 93 federal district courts in the
U.S. and a judge has ordered them to sing an agreement to pay the RIAA $3500 including one
deaf parent whose daugher indulged her penchant for free music. The downloads from p2p are
tracked by a service, and in this country the appellate court system and the Supreme Court
have upheld that the RIAA can obtain your contact info from your ISP.
http://www.riaa.com/default.asp
I believe there are a lot of thorny problems on the horizon regarding DRM, and MSFT is being
disingenous about it. Yesterday afternoon, 10/19/06 in an MCE chat, Andy Vanosdale, an MCE
SEDT, gave this answer to this question:
Q: [93] AndyVa [MSFT] (Expert): so your saying i have to purchase again another $1000 dollar
software package because microsoft does not want to support there os's talking to one another
on a single domain?
A: We do not support MCE 2005 joining a domain because most home environments do not have a
domain. MCE 2005 is a consumer product. Windows Vista Ultimate will be reasonably priced with
the feature set included. You should be able to upgrade to Vista Ultimate for $259, in the
US.
One of the major reasons, and it is ridiculous that MCE cannot join a domain, is that MSFT is
trying to extend DRM protection or their perception of it to 3rd parties.
I still laugh at the situation I encountered with one of my CDs ripped to WMP 11 where I had
to click on a couple dialouge boxes to get the privilege of playing an mp3 ripped from the
CD I bought years ago.
See:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=154
Re: DRM is a Horrible Idea Part II
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=26115&messageID=493685
The Blue Screen of DRM
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1355
DRM Chris Lanier's Blog
http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/search.aspx?q=drm&p=1
Home or Professional? Which on is Media Center?
http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2004/11/08/18290.aspx
CH
Altimax98 said:Mike are you crazy??? Or just...well you get the point... Not only is it
dangerous but isnt it also illegal??? Im sure some sort of anti-Piracy laws
will show theyre heads soon enough. I would hope that there is a law against
that. I want RC2 but not that bad.
That has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard-
I'm almost speechless.
Tom Lake said:Why is it dumb? How many home users are running a Server version that can
create a Domain?
Not too many, I'm sure. Most home users use a workgroup.
There's that same ignorant arse attitude- "since most don't
do something let's keep all from doing it."