Copy protection didn't work on the Apple II, or on any other box that I've ever seen or worked with. Why? Because it has to EXECUTE. And if it can execute on a computer, a human can trace it, figure it out, and work around it. Eventually the fools who made software for the Apple figured this out and stopped wasting money and time on worthless copy protection schemes. Instead, they turned to producing more and better games/software.

In the realm of the morons at the MPAA and the RIAA, and cable - you too have tried 'scrambling' stuff. Ya know what? Uh uh... Ain't gonna work. WHY? Because you imbeciles - I have to be able to VIEW or HEAR IT! And if I can do that, guess what? I can re-encode it in a NON-ENCRYPTED FORMAT!.

Who cares if the first 'pirate' copy isn't perfect? It's still $20 less than what you're trying to rape us for

and every subsequent copy will be too... Piracy is the consumer's answer to getting ripped off. If your products were reasonably priced, we'd buy them. But they're not, so we pirate them.

As for the DFAST - yeah right... *yawn* I'm either hacking the chip, the firmware, or I'm just gonna capture the signal wherever it's not encrypted/encoded and I'll put it back together... Why else would I need a 1.4GHz Linux box? :-)

Taaa...

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