Linked by David Adams on Mon 27th Oct 2008 23:11 UTC
As part of our ongoing series, "Building the Wired Home," we've been experimenting with what could be a sea-change in the whole concept of a home computer. Home computers, of course, have long ago become commonplace, and computers have even taken on some roles that used to be delegated to standalone consumer electronics, such as audio and video storage and playback. They've gone from being exotic oddities to ever-more-useful home appliances. Interestingly, though, as our home computers have become more powerful, sophisticated, and useful, they have also become decentralized and have, in most inefficient fashion, been chopped up and redistributed around the house. "Read more" to learn how our experiment worked out.
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2008-03-17
I would have to agree: storm in a teacup...
It's not like to copyright police are going to storm into your house and arrest you. There are plenty of tools on the net that make ripping dvds an absolute breeze.
What you might be more wary of is downloading illegal/pirated content. The only reason I do it is due to the reasons outlined in the article:
Official content is just too difficult to format/time/place shift.
I watch tv shows on my ps3 streamed from my media server. I get torrents that automatically come from an rss feed, easy and no fuss. So from my perspective railing against media unavailability is pretty much void, although I can understand those that do not want to follow my methods.