Interesting article! 10/10

accepted by me, read the first and last paragraph, thought it was good :)

Nice article very good and true 10/10

One of the reasons why I installed Linux...

roger that mate :)

So true 10/10 good job.

Right on! I miss Mx tabs. Mx isn\'t the only one getting flack either. Quite a few tab sites are that way too.

blackbun, congratulations for the article. you\'ve said what we all think and wrote what we all see...

Below you can see a link to \"A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection\" written by Peter Gutmann. It\'s a very interesting and professional analysis of the Vista DRM and it\'s effect. You all must read this :)
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

For the article: 10/10 from me. Keep up the good work.
~utererr

Very, very nice. Easily one of the best articles I\'ve read on the subject. Using linux isn\'t enough - we need to fight back! 10/10

Super Article! Yes, using Linux isnt enough. . 11/10

great article!
lol, Microsoft made a lot of enemies with their continued constant power/money-hungry surge even after they made their initial millions...

I don\'t understand the attacks on the DRM. Isn\'t stealing Cable TV a crime? Shouldn\'t it be? Shouldn\'t stealing any private or classified information be a crime (especially in the case of Sandy Berger stealing classified documents from the National Archives)? blackbun, if I wanted a copy of \"Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables\", don\'t you think your friend Mr. Biafra would be a little perturbed if I downloaded the whole thing rather than pay the meager $10 to own it legally and help him pay the bills? What if EVERYONE did that? How would Jello have the money to go give the talks he gives when he cannot afford food, nevermind plane fare. You wouldn\'t classify HIM as one of your so called \"corporate fascists\" and I doubt he is making millions, yet you\'d be quick to steal his hard work from him.

You all hate Microsoft yet without them and the other corporate giants none of us would be using our computers to complain about them.

Honestly, how many of you don\'t use ANY Microsoft products at all? Go ahead and brag in your replies if you don\'t, like that makes you better than everyone else but you know what? Open-source Linux OSs will always be inferior to concurrent products like Windows Vista as long as the only incentives to improve it are \"helping the community\" rather than increasing stock value and profits.

It is sad but true.

sidebottom-Very very true. I understand why people would get upset about not being able to download a $30 movie, but dang for the people that work how about we take your job away because it isn\'t needed for example.For fast-food, robots cooked your meals never need to go to McDonald\'s again or working in a factory(anyplace) all of a sudden people can get the stuff you make or do off computer technology. Well it sucks for you, because your out of a job.

Also if you like a band and want more of there kind of music why not support them by getting it for $15? Well if people can get movies without having to pay then guess what NO MORE movies.

I could understand about mx-tabs getting sued is pretty dumb, but for the real reason if people do stuff on their own, nobody needs a business. For windows if they didn\'t come out it may have been another 20 years before an operating system comes out, if not for microsoft(who owns Windows) you wouldn\'t have an X-box 360. So before people go and post arguments how about looking on both sides of view.

Well that\'s my argument I give a 5/10, because I\'m generous and It gave me something to argue about.

Wow. Honestly, I\'m surprised at this relatively positive reception of my admittedly un-planned out article. I should have edited it before posting it, but I guess it\'s done well enough, considering.

As far as the negative opinions go, I see where you\'re coming from. Honestly, for the most part, I agree. I\'m less referring to the glory of open source and piracy and more to the ridiculous lengths that corporations are going to try and stop it, rather than finding ways to adapt to it. That\'s the epitome of bad business.

If you can\'t adapt to new trends, you need to take a step out of the market. Microsoft (whose products I no longer use unless required of me. Furthermore, I DON\'T own an X-Box.) has decided that because they make crappy for-profit OSes and hardware that they can control what others can do with computers. And in a way they can, as long as you use their products. The Linux vs. Windows debate is long and exasperating and I have little patience and enough courtesy not to argue it here.

Suffice to say, in my humble opinion, a community that strives to perfect a piece of software (or art, or hardware, or a monument, or a government) have in mind only one thing. To make it better.

Multi-billion dollar corporations like Microsoft create their products with only one thing. To enslave for profit.

If you disagree, we can always try and register www.hackthissite.org as a paysite with one person in charge of the whole project and gets to divide the profits.

Thanks for the 5/10, though. :) I appreciate it much m

Blackbun, that is an interesting thought about adapting to \"new trends.\" It seems that there was a market trend in the automotive industry recently called STEALING CARS. You know how they \"adapted\" to that trend? They improved security devices. They used GPS tracking devices, RFID keys, laser cut keys, alarm systems etc. Not all that different from how computer companies are now protecting the digital and intellectual rights of artists etc. Different means to the same end; protecting someone\'s constitutional right to safe property.

My disappointment here comes from everyone who is on the \"bash Microsoft bandwagon\" because it seems to be trendy (especially in this community) to hate the rich and successful rather than try to emulate them.

You state the following:
\"Multi-billion dollar corporations like Microsoft create their products with only one thing. To enslave for profit.\"

Now check out this info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

How much money have you people raised\\donated to get vaccines to children in third world countries lately? I bet it\'s less than the Gates\' $34 billion!

And as for your final thought, you\'ve pretty much proved my point, albeit unknowingly. If hackthissite.org was a paysite then obviously we would not have nearly as many members. However, every member would be much more active and never again would someone post an article claiming \"...I should have edited it before posting it...\" We also would not have the same recycled articles over and over because it would be replete with properly researched and edited articles written by paid professionals, not highschool freshmen who want to h4x0r some jock that picks on them.

Don\'t get me wrong I am not attacking your article. I am just fed up with simple-minded hypocrites attacking corporations and the government like in some of your \"positive responses\".

I am merely proffering my experiences and my dissenting opinion here. We cannot do away with Microsoft and all live happily in tingly-wingly land with only open source software. Nor should we belittle the amazing acheivements of the open source community. I believe that both are crucial today and it would be nice to see some open minds in this community who agree.

2/10 for \"original thought\"

EDIT: Alright, I don\'t want to prolong this.

Thank you for your opinion, Sidebottom. I\'ll certainly take your arguments into account and re-examine my own.

I don\'t want this to degrade into a flame war (as another response like your previous one might very well inspire me to do) so I\'ll just try to accept your opinions without hostility and move on.

Thank you for your input. :)

I am so happy to see logical people on the site. Both of you. It\'s been a while since someone knew how to use paragraphs.

Go! Go! English teachers?

i dont use microsoft. if open source OSs made such huge profits like microsoft does, THEN they wouldnt be \"inferior\". and i get the impression you consider them inferior because, well, they require a brain. there is no possible way you can deny the monopoly over the OS market which bill holds. why pay an already obscenely rich company money you wish you didnt have to spend? because you have no choice! not everybody can write their own drivers, and not everybody knows how to use wine or cedega, and not everybody understands why their .exe file they just downloaded wont execute! microsoft has simply provided a product that makes it extremely easy to manipulate a computer, making the experience of learning how to actually USE one obsolete. thats why people would rather shell out the $250 and be on their merry yet ignorant way...

It\'s nice to see that there is a definite lifeblood running through the denizens of the internet. And I agree with virtually everything the author is saying. Kudos for that article. 10/10.

-Deathwatch05

I wouldn\'t exactly say they are dieing. maybe injured, but we do have to stay on our toes to help make sure this terrible thing does not happen, and there is the physical ways that they can make us comply.

Nice article. I have to say we should not be so confident that we are not dying as well. The numbers of thinking people are being rapidly depleted. Critical thinking is something that very few people are capable of. I would suggest that anyone with even the smallest ability to hack should start a mission to post on news sites news about the Illegality of the Federal Reserve and the Income tax. That is the keystone to this horrible problem we see all around us on the internet and in our economy. Semper Fi!!!