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While I don't doubt the quality of this entry, I think we can simply get rid of the article and link to the one at Wikipedia. After all, we don't have articles on things like "television", etc. Thoughts? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 07:18, 5 March 2008 (CST) | While I don't doubt the quality of this entry, I think we can simply get rid of the article and link to the one at Wikipedia. After all, we don't have articles on things like "television", etc. Thoughts? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 07:18, 5 March 2008 (CST) | ||
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:Thirded. This has no direct relevance and a link to Wikipedia will do fine. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:37, 5 March 2008 (CST) | :Thirded. This has no direct relevance and a link to Wikipedia will do fine. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:37, 5 March 2008 (CST) | ||
::But this article on the Defectivebydesign aims primarily to document how it targeted the BSG DVDs for DRM elimination through the Amazon.com tagging feature. The reason is that the recently-released BSG HD DVDs are encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes, the Advanced Access Content System, which made them "defective by design", and prevents people from copying rightful owned content (a practice believed to be under fair use). The newly-released DVDs are encrypted with the same DRM schemes also. Please see [http://www.amazon.com/tag/defectivebydesign/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1XBSCVEX9IUCW&cdThread=Tx1TSXKRBE94BSZ&displayType=tagsDetail Tagging Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies] on Amazon.com forums for more information. | ::But this article on the Defectivebydesign aims primarily to document how it targeted the BSG DVDs for DRM elimination through the Amazon.com tagging feature. The reason is that the recently-released BSG HD DVDs are encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes, the Advanced Access Content System, which made them "defective by design", and prevents people from copying rightful owned content (a practice believed to be under fair use). The newly-released DVDs are encrypted with the same DRM schemes also. Please see [http://www.amazon.com/tag/defectivebydesign/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1XBSCVEX9IUCW&cdThread=Tx1TSXKRBE94BSZ&displayType=tagsDetail Tagging Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies] on Amazon.com forums for more information. | ||
::Also, the [[w:Broadcast flag|broadcast flag]] is another DRM scheme, and is used to protect BSG while airing. [[User:Starkiller|Starkiller]] 13:32, 5 March 2008 (CST) | ::Also, the [[w:Broadcast flag|broadcast flag]] is another DRM scheme, and is used to protect BSG while airing. [[User:Starkiller|Starkiller]] 13:32, 5 March 2008 (CST) | ||