Valenti's greatest challenge to date has been found. An MIT student who was chosen, apparently against his will to interview His Hackness after Valenti's recent propaganda speech at MIT.

Keith J. Winstein, Senior Editor of The Tech (TT below; JV is Jack Valenti), was the lucky winner and here are just a couple of tidbits from his interview.

TT: Indeed, but are you doing that when you rent a movie from Blockbuster and you watch it at home? ... I run Linux on my computer. There’s no product I can buy that’s licensed to watch [DVDs]. If I go to Blockbuster and rent a movie and watch it, am I a bad person? Is that bad?

JV: No, you’re not a bad person. But you don’t have any right.

TT: But I rented the movie. Why should it be illegal?

JV: Well then, you have to get a machine that’s licensed to show it.

TT: Here’s one of these machines; it’s just not licensed.

[Winstein shows Valenti his six-line “qrpff” DVD descrambler.]

TT: If you type that in, it’ll let you watch movies.

JV: You designed this?

TT: Yes.

JV: Un-fucking-believable.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. love it

was this televised?

I think I heard Valenti use the term fucking during the recent live deal on CSpan..I know for a fact he say "hell" and "dumbasses"...

"The Tech: You’re described by various people as the best lobbyist ever. Do you have any tips for the other side, about how they can achieve better victories in the legislative area?

Jack Valenti: I hope that I’m a good persuader, that I’m able to make advocacy of a cause that people say, “You know, that makes sense.” ‘Lobbyist’ has a connotation to me that gives me little shivers. But I like to believe that I try to make things simple to understand. And frankly, if I can understand it, then I figure everybody else can understand it, because I am not a technologist. ... But I try to make things simple and clear as I can, and I think that helps you persuade other people. "

Hack Valenti is a perfect example of the physical, mental, and emotional sequeale of 80 years of constipation.

Medically, he has "status constipatus"

Now that is a good interview!
I've got to read the whole thing.
Valenti said "ass" a couple of minutes into his "speech" on C-Span. I thought he was going to make some point about what was decent or indecent. I mean, that was supposed to be the topic.
Instead, he talked about LBJ and all the good things he did.
He talked about how expensive it was to make a movie - over and over again.
No one asked him about the income from the sale of the movie on VHS or DVD. (The camera did show students yawning in the audience).
No one questioned him about copyright.
It was the same thing this morning.

"You know, that makes sense.” ‘Lobbyist’ has a connotation to me that gives me little shivers."

This guy gives me big shivers, the freak. Didn't this wrinkled up jackass retire?

Where is the FCC when we need them? Oh yeah, colleting money from lobbyists like Jack Valenti.

I aint worried bout old Man Valenti----his time is coming...oh for those who do not know......THE Recording Infidel Asses of America has filed another 477 lawsuits....My I cant wait for this to backfire on them they still dont want to work with p2p.Riaa learn to get along if ya cant beat em join.....I dont even dowload their music anymore not worth the legal trouble and not my bandwidth..Thank God for firewalls...protection may not be 100 per cent but I kno at least who is trying to enter my comp and scan my stuff.

"Jack Valenti: I hope that I’m a good persuader, that I’m able to make advocacy of a cause that people say, “You know, that makes sense.” ‘Lobbyist’ has a connotation to me that gives me little shivers. But I like to believe that I try to make things simple to understand. And frankly, if I can understand it, then I figure everybody else can understand it, because I am not a technologist. ... But I try to make things simple and clear as I can, and I think that helps you persuade other people. "


Wow, so Jack warps everything into his own simplistic views and everyone that listens loves it so much they believe his every word. Ever heard of something being lost in the translation.

"The broadcast flag -- if you are in your home, then you can copy anything that’s on over-the-air television to your heart’s content. The only time that you will know there’s a broadcast flag is if you try to take one of those copies and redistribute it on the Internet. Then, the flag says, ‘No, you can’t redistribute it.’ But you can do everything you’re doing right now -- you’ll never know there’s a broadcast flag. Well, why would people object to it? "

Because it is not so cut and dry and it does not allow people to "copy to their hearts content".

"JV: Let’s say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can’t have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can’t do it that way."


Nice of him to blaitently dismiss the prospect of a compramise that does not slaughter the creative talent of 100,000 people for the sake of control over the rest.

He also evades the point that people should be able to do these things. If they are not allowed where is their incentive to be creative...

"Because if you have the right to do it, everybody can do it."

So if he takes away our rights the bad people suddenly loose their abilities... Uhh no.

"the ten thousandth copy is as pure as the original "

So the world will only spin if the creative commons is is degrading? Anyone watch a mcguiver episode lately? Hows the sound quality? Yeh what a shame it would be to immortalize it in digital.

"So once you let the barriers down for your perfectly sensible reason, you gotta let it down for everybody. "

Again a complete dismisal of any compramise, which is the original problem the interviewer raised and Jack so self rightously claimed to be morally above.

"I don’t want to get into the definition of morality. I never said anything was immoral in what I was saying. I said it is wrong to take something that belongs to somebody else. "

That is a matter of morality you tard. It is either legal or illegal and it is either rightious or wrongful. Those are two different spectrums, one is centered on the legal system and the other is centered on the general moral debate. Which is older than time and never has one solid conclusion. Which is why the only way to find the rightous behavior is to open up the debate and find what is socially acceptable. Which requires communication with society. Not the secret society but the entirety of society.

I bet this all just made ole Jack feel all warm and fuzzy inside.....

‘Lobbyist’ has a connotation to me that gives me little shivers.

"Let me put it in my simple terms. If you take something that doesn’t belong to you, that’s wrong. Number two, if you design your own machine, you can’t fuss at people, because you’re one of just a few. How many Linux users are there? "

Here we go, more simplistic terms. Oh more morality arguments. ah hem "I don’t want to get into the definition of morality"

"if you design your own machine, you can’t fuss at people, because you’re one of just a few."

IE screw the innocent.

"[Rich Taylor, a spokesman for the MPAA, later pointed to one company, Intervideo, that has a license to sell GNU/Linux DVD software, although the company does not actually sell a product that Linux users can purchase. Linux users who want to watch DVDs should “perhaps buy a DVD player instead,” Taylor said, or “write to Intervideo and others, encourage them that they’re the market,” he said. Will Linux users ever be able to view DVDs on their computers without breaking the law? “I’m sure that day is not far away,” Taylor said.

A spokesman for Intervideo, Andy Marken, said the company’s product is only for embedded systems and that Intervideo has no plans to release a software player for end users.]"


This really does cap it off. I agree with jack, there is a reason. However, I'm not one for looking at the bottem of the food chain for the cause of the shit that just landed on my head.


"‘Lobbyist’ has a connotation to me that gives me little shivers."

Funny, I get the same feeling when I hear the name Jack Valenti.

Sorry to blog, this really pissed me off though.

I do however, have a new opinion of jv. I think he really is ignorant now. I think he truely believes he is a benefit to society. Not an excuse but maybe I can say that after reading this I would refrain from kicking him after I knocked him out.

purfus , I was just going to say, are you peeood ???10/4 flbgbt

I need that lady from Germany to express my opinion.

ok i dont swear in post usualy but ill make an exseption.
"JV: You designed this?
TT: Yes.
JV: Un-fucking-believable. "
thats fucking great

Jack Valenti is un-fucking-believable.
What a horses ass.

Fuck you Jack Valenti.

Judging from Valentinies obvious lack of any form of technological knowledge, I would say he is deliberately not studying that area. He thinks of himself as a lobbyist only, a political expert, and refuses to go near the geek stuff. Its possible he secretly fears if he understood the geek arguements, it might compromise his ability to argue unreasonably against them.

Sun Tzu says to know yourself and know your enemy and you shall succeed. If jack wants to play that way he better be prepared to loose.

He used to work for Nixon. 'nough said.