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- PATSCRU, on 10/12/2007, -21/+570kevin ross, FTW.....wait who the ***** is kevin ross?
- Logal, on 10/12/2007, -8/+517Don't you know who Kevin Ross is? He's good friends with Leon Laporte.
- Vladk1000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+272Before anyone asks, Leo changed "5B" to "58" on purpose, but I don't think anyone would have noticed.
- Tunguska, on 10/12/2007, -13/+276dvorak.org/blog
- thomasknowland, on 10/12/2007, -4/+207His brother used to paint happy little trees.
- tnvwboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+150Actually thats pretty smart for two reasons:
1. It'll keep Leo out of legal trouble.
2. If the AACS does go after him he could go ahead and let them take him to court and then in front of the world say, "umm...it's not the same number." Thus exposing how ridiculous the whole thing is to start with.
#2 will never happen but think how sweet it would be. - treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+131Props to the OP for getting a "Kevin Ross" front-page story!
Adding "Kevin Rose" in the title or description is child's play, front page every time stuff... but "Kevin Ross", wow, just wow! - martoon, on 10/12/2007, -12/+121his mom made the American flag
- deut, on 10/12/2007, -9/+85Kevin only has time to appear on TWiT when he has some important ***** to pimp. - didn't ya know?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+67Leo did a great job. I felt he was actually kind of tough on kevin with a few of his questions. And the situation called for it. I think he is tired of how kevin only runs to twit when he has some sort of fire to put out. I also like how Dvorak got some nice competition from the other twits. All of the members were spot on except the ars girl. And leo was not easy on her either.
- legioss, on 10/12/2007, -18/+67*Kevin Rose
- jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40If I see this code on the front page again, I'm going to buy an HD-DVD player and some movies!
- suprchunk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35No, wikipedia tells you that he was a cornErback/safEty. I would say your 'e' button is broke, but you managed 'me' and 'he' without incident.
- coit, on 10/12/2007, -10/+37So Kevin Ross AND Kevin Rose were there? And is Kevin Rose just a TWiT guest now? I thought he was a TWiT original?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+42HD-DVD? We don't need HD in 2D so here's the key. Now take the money you save on those DVD's and spend it on LED's & batteries and go to Boston and spread the terror of light!
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- geeke, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26every time you post the HD-KEY, God kills a kitten :-(
- holzp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Actually, since he is a web 2.0 guy he was a cornerbck/safty
- nace33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Honestly, who gives a *****. In order to really get your point across the MPAA you have to quit buying movies and going to movies. If everyone did that for a month or two the industry would be at its knees and they would fold to our demand to give us the content the way we want it. And guess what, they would make more money!!!
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27Google tells me that "Kevin Ross is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of Technology and Information Management at the University of California".
It'll do! - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I've just heard the part of this podcast where he's saying that Kevin's address was posted. That's just so wrong.
- spudlyo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2190% of artists get nothing but ***** by the music industry. Every time you hear the RIAA say "oh, but think of the artists" realize that they don't give a ***** about them.
- tnvwboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Totally with you, unfortunately the vast majority of the US public is completely oblivious to this entire situation. How are you going to convince them that they shouldn't buy/see any movies for a couple months?
- JackHoffman, on 10/12/2007, -14/+27Kevin Rose: "A lot of times it was a little bit of people being upset and so there would be, you know, profanity in the post and just, you know, really lashing out at Digg over the fact that we started removing this so of course we're gonna remove that stuff from the site."
No, Kevin, you are under no legal obligation to remove criticism of the way you handle cease and desists. Your site contains a lot of profanity, so that alone is no reason to start removing comments and entire stories with perfectly normal comments. The choice to try and silence your users for criticizing you is your choice and one that brought people up against you. You could have created a story right away, explaining why you think you have to remove the key. That would have concentrated the criticism in one place. If you do something that the MPAA wants, you are going to draw some fire from your users. It's the way that you deal with that criticism that makes or breaks you. Unfortunately you still seem to overlook that distinction. - MightyNe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13To Kevin's house!
- expiredmeatbag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13After Alex and Kevin were on Cranky Geeks, Leo said that he doesn't want them on twit until they stop encouraging underage drinking. He has made a few exceptions for Kevin though.
- pukiman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Ah, *****. I just listened for the entire episode, without realizing I'm listening to #95.
Wasted over a hour :( - bcope16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11That's true. Artist usually don't get paid squat for recordings. Just check to see which artists are pissed about it. Bands like Metallica and Dave Matthews Band, who have such a large share of profits on sales that they say something and make you think all artists must be pissed. The truth is that until a band sells a million albums, they aren't going to see $$ from sales. All of their money is made from touring. And even a portion of that goes back to the record companies to pay for equipment purchases/rentals/hiring.
So, what you normally see is that 80% of the musicians WANT their music to be shared and spread, because they just want more people at their shows. Check out bands like Steadman, who give their music away for free now that they can. They just want to fill seats and get their music out there.
If you think that the RIAA is fighting for artists, you are sadly mistaken. They are fighting for the people who can give them money or clout. These are the top %1 of artists and then the Recording companies. The rest have to sit back and just hope their music gets traded, because they can't say anything to promote the sharing of their music without violating contracts, or having to worry about getting their deals revoked.
The thing that I find most humorous is the fact that iTunes has made everyone to believe that $.99 is a good price to pay for a song. Hello! We're paying more per song this way, getting a worse quality product in most instances, and there's no paper cost to the companies. Where the digital cost is far cheaper. We should be paying .49 a song at most now for recording companies to still make a killing. And now we'll get drm free stuff for even greater expense to us, while the companies selling it will actually be SAVING money since they won't have to put drm on them. That's hysterical. Great Spin from the industries. It's like Baskin Robbins selling you a scoop of ice cream for .20 more if you bring in your own cup and spoon. Awesome! Where do I sign up!!
Not to mention all this time, the Recording industry is going to promote bands that file in line with their policies because it doesn't matter if the bands are really that good, only that they'll follow their rules and because of the lack of places to hear "Unknown" bands, they'll still sell the albums of the crap bands that they can enlist.
The recording industry sucks. It has always been a crappy industry and the digital age isn't changing it, it's just making them more money, all the while they get to put a spin on it making it look like they are suffering. And if Patrick Norton wants to defend the artists and their ability to make money, then he should be promoting the sharing of music, and the downfall of organizations like the RIAA. - chukd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15now if it were puppies, i might care. who needs kittens.
- sho222, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10until the imaginary peace treaty is signed, of course
- d03boy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Think maybe it has something to do with changing one letter in kevin's name? 5B/58, Kevin Rose/Kevin Ross
- loneraven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11It's 16*32 not 16^32
- sykotic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13If you know what 1 digit was wrong!
And if you know that you probably know what the right one is - Tarnum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9€43,90 for a t-shirt? Is that an official RIAA shirt, to support their fight against the piracy and communism?
- hansonc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I like how Kevin can find time to do This Week in Tech when it's adventitious to him but can't be bothered to show up occasionally and talk about anything not about him.
- spudlyo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8We as a community should just randomly pick some summer blockbuster movie and all agree not to go see it. See if we can create enough buzz to take a noticeable bite out of the first week movie sales. Ideally it'd be some movie that would normally be a big hit with the digg demographic. Spiderman 3 would have been a good choice IMHO.
- mhii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think there is a more fundamental question that needs to be asked. Is this number even protected by copyright? If not, then how does the DMCA even apply? It seems more likely to be a trade secret and if that is the case then arguably the secret was out long before it was posted on Digg. As a result, the posting on Digg did not cause any damages. Damages are an essential element to any lawsuit. Without damages, you cannot sustain an action in court. It appears that AACS has no damages from this posting as the number already exists on 600,000+ locations on the Internet according to Google.
- stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Here, read about the rest of the family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_%28disambiguation%29#Persons
- HouseofEl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You do realize that we are part of that "system" just by being members of Digg?
- adamawick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Aww!
- MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I hope Digg update the TWiT Podcast soon so we can Digg it :)
- Azio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Come on, John. Putting the key to use may be a long and difficult process, but all it takes is for *one person* to do it and post a torrent somewhere for the pirated file to spread to everyone who's interested. Go to any torrent site, type in "1080p" and you'll find full-resolution rips of every HD-DVD/Blu-Ray movie yet released, for free. The only difficult part is the 12-hour wait for the download to finish, and occasionally figuring out how to play whatever bizarre codec the pirate has decided to encode the video with.
- animo47, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Leo "netcast" Laporte has shown that he has grown a huge set of balls by naming TWiT 96 that. GO LEO!
- interg12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@linkedlist (#6553721)
yeah but it also fits in the industry news.sometimes things fit in two categories. - ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7So.
- greenjohnsmith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The arguments in this episode were really really bad. This episode could have been much much better.
- theratdotus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8I think Kevin loves himself too much these days. Im not saying I wouldnt like to shake his hand, im just saying i enjoyed him much more during the dark tipper times, the system has taking mr rose over. i guess we all need money one day
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?productID=992
A much cheaper and i think better shirt. Plus it is from jinx so you can get all your rev3/digg shirts at the same time and save on shipping. - spudlyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The chick from Ars Technica had the dumbest "set up" of the revolt I've heard yet. Maybe it was the crappy ass voip phone she was on. "They thought it was censorship, it was this and that and they just started submitting stories."
Submitting stories (and flaming idiots) is what digg users do. Being pissed your account was deleted is not "this and that". Dogg eat your digg homework? -
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