Digital "Rights" Management - Whose "Rights?"

It cheeses me off that big corporations treat us like criminals!

They *assume* every one of us intends to rip off their intellectual property - and sell copies we've made of their DVDs and CDs to all our friends!

And in the process they take away our LEGAL RIGHT to make back-up copies of the stuff we've bought.

Macrovision(TM) is a pain. (Not that I have the technology to back-up my DVDs - but I reckon I've got the right to do so, afterall I've paid for them.)

You can buy hardware in the UK to break Macrovision and copy DVDs - but I suspect that with that dastardly US Digital Millenium Copyright Act migrating to Australia under the terms of that ill-conceived Free Trade Agreement with the US - I'd get in deep trouble if I tried to import one of those UK hardware devices.

I am not a criminal - I am not interested in DVD-piracy - I do not deserve to have my back-up rights swept away.

The Terror of the Blank Page

Here it is - the blank page!

Horrors.

Can I be interesting in these pages? Will people actually *enjoy* reading The Blogg?

It is all an experiment. (Little did I know when I enrolled in my Certificate of Dynamic Website Design that I'd be forced to face the tyranny of the blank page.)

Not so blank now.

On a minor note - it's my birthday today.