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Ricker,

It's a simple enough equation:

Your gleeful posts about stripping DRM from consumer media

+

Ryan and Peter constantly talking on the podcast about how they get all of their content over BitTorrent

+

Me not being a naive fool

=

You're promoting piracy. Again.

Go ahead and ban me for calling you on what you're doing; I can't stop you. But don't think we're stupid enough to believe that the only reason you want DRM off of online media is because of the principle of the thing.

More piracy cheerleading from Thomas Ricker? Egads, I can hardly believe what I'm reading!

Pity Ryan Block didn't write this story. I'd have another opportunity to call him a hypocrite for claiming Engadget's gleeful cheerleading for FairUse4WM is only about getting rid of DRM when he constantly speaks on the podcast about how great this program is for stripping the DRM off of subscription tracks from Napster.

The Linux project always attempts to port Linux to every possible device-- sometimes the results are useful, most of the time, useless. It's one thing to port Linux to the PSP and use it for homebrew applications. But the Apple TV already runs Unix and has plenty of resources built-in that would-be Apple TV hackers could use, right? I admit, it's possible I'm completely misunderstanding the situation. Someone please help me clear up my own confusion.

Sadly, this is what a blog offers that a regular news site does not: a complete lack of even a cursory attempt at objectivity. Whereas GameSpot or IGN would simply let us know the release date, the price, and basic info about the game, Joystiq devotes half the post to deriding the game and instructing readers not to buy it.

As the BMOC of Joystiq, Mr. Grant, I would think you would know better than this. Then I remember what kind of site this is, and I realize that you do know better, you just don't care.

What I love is how they report the story, then two paragraphs in the writer starts downplaying it. "Hey, guys, great news! ... oh wait, it's not really news. Well, go read up about 360s failing again, then."

Engadget and Joystiq have both gotten into the habit of insulting any company when they do anything that is intended to curtail piracy. The amount of pro-piracy cheerleading these sites continue to do is very surprising considering they're owned by AOL Time Warner.

They finally did it. After years of trying to make products that are "so sleek, they should be illegal", Samsung has made a product that is so sleek, it actually is illegal. Now we'll never be able to buy it in North America. Thanks a lot, Samsung, you stupid obsessive bastards, for ruining everything for us.

Mr. Ransom-Wiley, I'm not sure what point you're attempting to make with your comment at the end. By attempting to secure the PSP, Sony is implying to publishers that the system is not secure? And overall it sounds like you're complaining that they're attempting to secure the system-- are you suggesting that it would be better for them to do nothing?

Sorry, but anyone who has read Engadget for at least a month knows how much they hate the iPod and hate the iTunes Music Store; so seeing yet another pointless Apple-bashing story is not surprising, even considering that it's not even attempting to be newsworthy or address anything relevant. That's par for the course at this site.