SO MANY SPINNING DISCS. I keep trying to dream up ways to troll copyright law and none of them have been as awesome as this one so far. thumbs up.
(I've considered trying to sue my friends for forwarding emails, for example. or for downloading webpages from my servers. apparently i'm not a lawyer.) On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Alec Story <[email protected]> wrote: > I just spotted this: (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/zediva/) on > the blagotubes. TL;DR: this company has a farm full of dvd machines. When > you want to stream a video, they physically play the DVD in their farm, > using your computer as a remote control, and send the video stream over the > ether to you. They claim this is the same as rental. > > While not free, this is a really interesting workaround using rental > protections. Think it'll hold up? Could a free culture group set up > something similar to stream copyrighted movies? > > -- > Alec Story > Cornell University > Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- http://www.madebyparker.com
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