F*** you Disney!

[bigdaddy]

The baby shower for my cousin.

Turns out fucking fugi film is a piece of shit company that has copyright protections on their BLANK tapes!

 

[OmahaStar]

On second thought, not worth it.

 

[bigdaddy]

So...
Fuck Disney.
Fuck Sony.
Fuck Scotch.
Fuck TDK.
Fuck Fugi Film.

 

[Servo]

^^ I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else. If I have the means to unlock my stuff for my own use I'll go right ahead. EULAs don't mean a thing frankly. If you buy a game you don't encounter the EULA until you've parted with your cash, there's nothing you can do at that point if you read it and don't agree, shops won't accept returns. If the publishers are gonna play unfairly so am I.

What the hell have games got to do with anything? We're talking about modifying the firmware that runs your machine, not the software that runs on it.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

So...
Fuck Disney.
Fuck Sony.
Fuck Scotch.
Fuck TDK.
Fuck Fugi Film.

That's quite a list. Please protect yourself.

 

[bigdaddy]

I'll make sure to wear condoms.

"her name is Sony and she is my sexbot."

 

[Kataaran]

^^ I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else. If I have the means to unlock my stuff for my own use I'll go right ahead. EULAs don't mean a thing frankly. If you buy a game you don't encounter the EULA until you've parted with your cash, there's nothing you can do at that point if you read it and don't agree, shops won't accept returns. If the publishers are gonna play unfairly so am I.

What the hell have games got to do with anything? We're talking about modifying the firmware that runs your machine, not the software that runs on it.

You bought up the EULAs. Firmware is just low-level software, the line between them is quite fuzzy. Besides, firmware, software or hardware, it's mine to to what I want with once I hand over my cash, the EULAs are unenforceable.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The law is a bit fuzzy on what you can do with software/hardware you've purchased. It is legal to modify the software for your own personal use if such modification is necessary for the full utilization of the software. What's less clear is whether it's okay to modify the software into order to fully utilize the hardware. The language of US copyright law says you can "modify software A to use software A," but not "modify software A to enhance hardware," which might seem like hairsplitting but is no doubt an important legal distinction.

I think it should be legal to do so, in any case. If you are modifying software on a console you paid for in order to get more functionality out of it, and those modifications are not a detriment to anyone else (for instance, enabling cheating) then I see no reason why it should be illegal. One's right to modify software/hardware that they own has been long-established. You just may not be able to resell it and any warranties associated with it are void.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Re: Fuck you Disney!

Want to be pissed at Disney? I am. Be pissed at them for how they're handling/handled the release of the Tron DVDs.

I'm pissed at the rate they are releasing their classic movies on Blu-Ray!

I want them all right now!

You will be waiting a very long time for Song Of The South on blu-ray.

When I lived in Savannah, GA I used to occasionally pass by a very, very scary adult bookstore that was apparently run by white supremacists (this was told to me by someone). There's a sign outside the place that advertises bootleg copies of "Song of The South", but it's under some weird, horribly racist title (I can't remember it now).

A bit of an aside, but it popped into my head.