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DRM must die

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Got a good deal on an ex-display PVR from LG with blu-ray. Sold as new with a two year warranty, in my country it's basically the same as buying a new product without a box. I bought it for the HD PVR and to replace a failed DVD player, not primarily for blu-ray. I don't intend to buy all our DVD collections on the new format just for a few extra pixels. But I thought I'd buy a blu-ray of a movie we hadn't seen before, just to make sure everything was working properly and in case we wanted to buy more at some stage. So, brand new player, essentially a 2013 model, brand new blu-ray disc from 20th Century Fox. A 2012 film "Lincoln" with the blu-ray released in 2013. Plays the 20th C Fox just fine, then this: I'd updated the player to the latest software release already. Here's the answer LG Support gave me as to why it won't play: First of all, thank you for taking time out of your day to contact ourselves in relation to your  LG HR93...

Have the terrorists in Paris achieved the opposite of what they wanted?

Maybe I'm a hopeless optimist, but the reports on the public reaction to the terrible events in France this week make me wonder something. Have the terrorists, now reported as financed by Al Qaeda, not amateur lone wolves, have achieved the exact opposite of their presumed intent? It sounds to me like most of the people of France, and standing shoulder to shoulder, other Europeans, including the British people, citizens of the US, religious, non-religious, Muslims, Christians and others all over the world united in one thing. The terror world of the Islamists, one mullah's version of Sharia law imposed on women unequally with men at the point of a Kalashnikov will not stand. We demand freedom. Freedom of thought, expression, religion and none. As long as you do not try to impose your opinions/religion on others through the use of violent force, anything else goes. Please offend me, offend my prophet - the Flying Spaghetti Monster as it happens - ask for the fleas of a thous...