[CrackMonkey] Re: Pigfuqrz!

[Miles Nordin]

> This is an FYI, since I'm not aware that anybody noticed 
> our success in rolling out "legal" Linux DVD movie playback with our 
> ThinkPad models.

[...]

> you could just make a temporary copy on your hard drive for
> the airplane, or play it over the net at home. The best DVD hardware
> for a ThinkPad might be DVD hardware attached to another box. 

I don't think you can do that, ``legally''.  Surely LinDV, or 
whatever those shameless buttsucking IBM whores came up with, 
can't do it.

New Hacker's Dictionary, 2024

legal /li' gel/ adj.
[from District Attorney Valenti's landmark case People vs. Mr. 
Bad, 2003] 1. Describes a computing device which re-implements 
a feature found elsewhere on a licensed Microsoft Windows 
platform, in a way that is both compatible and includes no 
_il_legal features not present in the licensed implementation.  
ex., ``I will have no problems sending mail from Outlook to 
WebTV, because WebTV is a legal email program.'' 2. any small 
program endorsed by a company that makes larger programs.  For 
example, it is ``legal'' to write a memory-tooth player only 
if you have the endorsement of the music producers that own 
the music stored inside the tooth.  This is because music is 
a larger program than a music player.  Size, for purposes of 
``legality'', is conventionally considered so as to have the 
greatest benefit to the communal economy.  For example, the 
gross sales of a given type of intercompatible software:  the 
music tooth is bigger than the toothplayer because everyone 
buys musicteeth for billions of dollars a year, but each 
musictooth player only brings in a few tens of millions at most.
3. the act of writing a legal program is legal activity.  ex., 
``I refused to work for that company because they wanted me to 
perform work that wasn't legal.''