New laws tar­get mod­chip users, and, you know, every­one else.

Two steps for­ward, three steps back­wards. I can’t believe we’re being dragged into this crap. Slightly too angry about this (yeah I knew it was com­ing but hadn’t had occa­sion to address it) to blog ratio­nally about the issue — insert usual remarks about my ille­gal down­load­ing and instal­la­tion of DVD CSS cir­cum­ven­tion soft­ware, Sharp­Musique, etcetera, and the gen­eral crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of broadly com­pat­i­ble open source software.

So appar­ently I cop five years in prison if I share some de CSS soft­ware with some­one so they can watch con­tent they’ve paid for. Guess what the max­i­mum term for copy­right vio­la­tion is? Yeah, five years. Bas­tards. Solu­tion: Down­load pirated ver­sions of con­tent that have broader com­pata­bil­ity, expos­ing your­self to the same extent for vastly less effort.

Q.E.freakin’.D.

Tags: circumvention software, digital media, forward, installation of DVD CSS, open source software, three steps backwards