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Honestly, the DMCA, being such the horrible, bad, despicable, paranoid |
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law it is, is so broad, that this thread could go on forever and ever |
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w/o reaching any conclusion. One side is favouring not supporting |
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Gentoo/XBox in any official capacity because of the overt broadness of |
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the DMCA, while the other feels there is nothing to fear. |
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I find it hard to agree with either side in this matter, as both offer |
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strong arguments. Perhaps opne should email Microsoft, and see if you |
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get any kind of reply regarding the matter. That's one way to find out. |
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For all I care, I have no problem with supporting Gentoo/XBox because I |
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honestly do not think Microsoft will go after us simply for supporting |
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linux on their console. Now *if* we supported means of actually copying |
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and pirating the software, that's a completely different matter |
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entirely. The XBox bios was encoded the way it was to thwart MOD Chip |
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hackers and the like, not to prevent the installation of Linux or any |
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other alternative OS. |
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The problem with this is, from what I hear, you still need a MOD chip to |
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use Linux effectively on the machine. This would be the only real legal |
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issue, because 99% of all people who use MOD chips use them for playing |
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pirated games, not for running Linux. It's all a matter of intention. |
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Unfortunately, the DMCA is such a sorry excuse for a law, it was not |
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designed with intention in mind. It was designed to implicate that |
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everyone who circumvents copyright protection mechanisms must be an evil |
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pirate and should be made to walk the plank (not in the literal sense). |
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Anyways, to avoid getting too idealological, I say support Gentoo/XBox |
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and frell the DMCA. We're not out to help people pirate stuff, we just |
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want to help people make better use of an otherwise silly console. If |
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our intentions are noble, then that's all that matters. |
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Sidenote: Here's why the DMCA was created, because the Music/Movie |
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Industry has no brains (everyone's a pirate they say): |
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5404542 |
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--Kumba |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: |
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small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are |
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elsewhere." --Elrond |
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