OMB Fines CD-R King Over Blank Discs
I’ve been saying it for years: the Optical Media Act is a bad idea. Part of that bad idea: import permits for fucking pieces of plastic. The Optical Media Board (OMB) has ordered CD-R King, one of the country’s biggest suppliers of optical media and related technology products, to pay P1.5 million in administrative penalties. […]Click here to continue reading "OMB Fines CD-R King Over Blank Discs"...OMB Fines CD-R King Over Blank Discs
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As we say in Filipino, “paurong”.
that’s for public use lang remember,this is one of the reasons i want to migrate.
Crappy law from crappy politicians. No wonder, most of our politicians are from the media – actors and newscasters.
Maybe the national ‘move’ to flash-based memory would make SSD prices go up or something, due to a record-high number of demand versus supply… given that both optical and magnetic media are ‘sanctioned’ by the ‘OMB’…
Isn’t that law bordering on privacy and civil rights? Well what I mean is, I own this stuff, I bought it, then it follows that I have my right to use my stuff for it is mine, but simply because of how it was made, I can therefore not use it?
That ‘optical drive registration’ thing, if it really was supposedly a written law, should then be plastered everywhere data storage devices are sold. Something along the lines of ‘WARNING’. But why is it not? Hmm… I remember calling up people working at some PC hardware stores… Persons with even an idea of what this ‘registration’ is, are… somewhat almost non-existent.
Well, that was immediately after the OMB ‘raid’.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if for some shallow chance, CD-R King closes shop. That would then be one less place to go to when I’m on a budget.
What’s next, outlawing WLAN access?
@mike
Let’s go even ‘low-tech’. That law means that the OMG este OMB will even require rights to use:
– 8-track quadraphonic
– 1/4″ wide open-reel audio
– ED Beta
– SoundStream
– Answering Machine
and what not… the list is almost endless…
WTFH?!
Lorelai: You know, the human body produces magnetic fields that can be read as medical data. Wonder if the OMB will require licenses for those.