Well the date has been set for the annual Coed-y-Brenin piss up weekend of Mountain Biking.

So that means it’s time to grab your helmet and dress like your gay!

It’s on the 18th of July for those that need to know.

In lieu of doing any ranting my self I hand you over to the great Daniel Rutter of dansdata.com

The Great Apathetic Revolution

As every nerd knows, copy protection – more accurately describable as “copy control” – works backwards.

And yet there seems to be more of the bloody stuff with each passing year.

The marketing people babble on about how Digital Rights Management “enhances” your “enjoyment” of a product. But what copy control really does is make ripped-off stuff better than the legal version.

The most obvious example of this is the difference between illegally downloaded movies and commercial DVDs.

To view a downloaded movie, you double-click it. And then you’re watching it.

Stick a recent commercial DVD into your player, though, and you’ll probably have to sit through lengthy, un-skippable warnings about how dastardly is the piracy which you did not just engage. And that’s before you even get to the annoying menus, trailers, and other dross that stand between you and the movie for which you, one might start to think foolishly, paid.