It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

DVDs have copy protection.

It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.

You got a source on that? I don’t think that falls under fair use.

However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit the restrictions allowed by the copyright owner’s reproduction right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That’s why it’s ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can’t rip DVDs to your computer.

Ripping a DVD I own to my hard drive for my personal use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Man, how did you find that? I wasn’t getting anything on ddg.

Anywho, looks a little buggy (it doesn’t seem to deal with website credentials, so I’m not sure how it ever worked), but it’s got the bones to do what I want to do. Thanks for the link.

Edit: Fixed it! https://github.com/patchy-oss/fwdl/pull/1

What’s cool is you can actually do this for music, but in a way that humans can’t even detect it.

For sure. Given that public roads are the most horrendously undertaxed public resources out there, it’s especially irritating when folks go out of their way to use them in the most self serving fashion imaginable.

Private tracks exist. They don’t mind engine noise.

Yet they always wear dark colors. Hmm…

I drive electric, so…yes?

There are ways to enjoy cars off public roads and away from private residences.

Allegedly hit by the street view car.

Probably chasing this rabbit https://maps.app.goo.gl/JwY2fck8fi1wE5w66

They should make a dance called “the impossible.”

Pretty sure there’s some kind of skateboard move called that already.

Their first name is “Mr.”

It’s melting point is 85F, but I’ve found it difficult to melt with body heat. Haven’t played with it out of the vial yet though. Maybe it’ll be easier when it’s thinner.

That’s a shit prank, and people like your nan don’t understand how pranks work.

A good prank should allow the subject to join in the fun. Some stuff came up this year, so my plans have to be delayed until next year, but I bought a vial of gallium that I’m planning on molding with a cast of one of our kitchen spoons.

So my wife will wake up and see that her coffee melted her spoon. Little miraculous and inexplicable moment in the morning.

(Gallium is non-toxic)

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I’m talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they’re done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.

Vodka is renewable

“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

If I recall, the next post down was them realizing their mistake and asking how to delete things from Facebook, so it would have to be a humiliation fetish.