Vista DRM/Copy Protection and future implications

[snarkout]

ironic as it may sound, blue ray seems to be cracked now along with hd-dvd a few weeks ago. Of course there are lots of legitimate linux users out, its just in case no linux media player will support those two formats , we can at least watch them, all be it illegally.

It wasn't cracked - at least what I saw was not a crack, but a chink in their control of the "analog gap" so to speak. Playing media on a software player it wasn't intended to play back on doesn't mean that anything has actually been cracked in terms of crypto. This is good in many ways since it means that you can capture that stream in some fashion, but it doesn't mean that there will be a libcrackbluray anytime soon.

[snarkout]

System76 has no name recognition, no reputation to the average user, and uses linux, which everyone has been told is hard to use.

I didn't know shit about system76 until I heard the interview, really. All I knew is they sold linux lappys and boxen with Ubuntu (gnome-only) pre-installed. I also knew they were mailing out "ubuntu inside" stickers, free for the asking. I didn't know anything about the company itself. That's a problem for a lot of these places, actually - I see ads for many of them in linux rags, but all I can tell is that they either sell oem/retread lappys, or sell thinkpads/dells/sagers at about a 30% markup. Putting a face on a company is very important IMO, especially to a large portion of the linux community who, in general, are do-it-yourselfer's by nature.

[chuck]

With this weeks show and Peter coming on next week I almost wish I was just a listener so I could focus more on all this great content.

I'd stay where you are. At least there you can apparently hear the content without the audio issues that us listeners have to deal with

[Vogateer]

Man, Chuck, that's reptilian.