More Evidence that Jobs is a Deity: No License Plates

The deal is apparently Steve Jobs counts (rightly so) as a "celebrity" and California law has some kind of vague law allowing this (anti-stalking, etc, I presume).

Back on the post, no license plate? That is awesome. Does anyone know what kind of car(s) Steve Jobs rolls in?

no, not ridiculous. I don't support DRM as much as the next man, but far to many people misread the DMCA as some evil 1984 rights taking document. The truth is, if you actually take the time to read the document, that you must be using a tool that has piracy as a sole use. If you're taking media, and unlocking it youself, WITHOUT the intention of piracy, then you're fine...same as if you are creating a tool.

That removing DRM is illegal is only the tip of the iceberg, as far as why the DMCA is evil. It protects anything "protected" by a technological device from that device being removed. This is a very, very broad statement. For example, unzipping a .ZIP archive could be considered circumventing a copyright protection mechanism, if the content owner's stance is that the zip archive is a copy protection. A group of researchers wanting to audit Diebold voting machine code that they had been given was partly stymied by this sort of thing. Their lawyers told them, you can only deal with code files that someone gave you, and which they had already unzipped. If you unzip it, you've potentially violated the DMCA. Ridiculous.

Oh man, your right! People talk all the time about frivolous law suits, and things of that nature, but the real evil in our society seems to be our government and it's leaders. I had heard of the DMCA, but was never aware of what it really was. Atrocity? No, that's an understatement (to say the least).

So if someone stole the 'number' plates (as we call them in Belfast) from my parent's or my brother's car, they could all drive without plates!?! Then nearly run over a guy who works for Microsoft!?!? Bet Jobs smokes pot aswell...

Tim, stripping DRM isn't legal, due to the atrocity that is the DMCA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA

Well, no. Your not an all knowing god like his Steveness. Anyway . . . stripping DRM off your songs is legal, as long as you bought them fair and square, right? You should not need the blessing of a superior being to use your legal files as you deem fit on a legal digital audio player (other than an iPod). You could spare yourself the trouble of stripping DRM, and assimilate yourself into the (borg) iPod users to spare yourself the trouble and legal obscurity. Remember, "Identity is irrelevant. Individuality is irrelevant. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile." (I own an iPod too, and love it... I just like to fiddle with people's minds)