[FoRK] House proves my point

[Owen Byrne]

Technically, you could say that since House is a fictional character
whose depiction, dialogue, etc. have appeared on DVDs protected by
DRM and bolstered by the DMCA that he is (the character) a poster
boy for DRM.

Owen

On May 6, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Jeff Bone wrote:

>
> On May 5, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:
>
>> House stuff
>>
>> Ok the cool part about House is he just does not give a crap  
>> because he is
>> careless on the plains of his memspace being that he in effect sets  
>> the
>> rules in a Masters of Nomic way. Sure he gets busted and then does  
>> what is
>> needed to get the elast of punishments, maximzing the House'  
>> profits by
>> minimizing the loss. Problem is this leaves him bored... so he sets  
>> up some
>> rules to trip himself up to maximize the play of the game rather than
>> convienence. He is also not above letting others set some rules in  
>> order to
>> makje the game more complex, thus enjoyable, thus maximizing the  
>> thrill fo
>> the game.
>
> Or, put differently, House rocks. ;-)
>
>> He is not justifing supporting a crappy DRM device:)-
>
> I'm not sure being the poster child for Vicodin is any better or  
> worse...
>
>>> rational economic decision, not because I acknowledge the mystical  
>>> power
>>> of The Law.__________________________
>>
>> Jeff's Godwin limit hits when he brings in the (non)existence of  
>> mystical
>> powers:)-
>
> Hey, I thought that was a pretty clever and thought-provoking  
> analogy...  really, I did!
>
> Think about it.
>
> jb
>
>
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