Medieval Copy Protection 226
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samzenpus
from the thou-shall-write-your-own-book dept.
from the thou-shall-write-your-own-book dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In medieval times a 'book curse' was often included on the inside cover or on the last leaf of a manuscripts, warning away anyone who might do the book some harm. Here's a particularly pretty one from Yale's Beinecke MS 214: 'In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. In the one thousand two hundred twenty-ninth year from the incarnation of our Lord, Peter, of all monks the least significant, gave this book to the [Benedictine monastery of the] most blessed martyr, St. Quentin. If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgment the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.'"
FBI warning (Score:5, Funny)
Anti-theft device, not copy protection (Score:4, Funny)
I think it would be pretty kick-ass to have some Saint materialize and lay on some whup-ass to would be thieves.
*gasp* THE BISHOP!
No wonder (Score:5, Funny)
No wonder my crops failed and there was a rain of toads on the farm after I downloaded "Superman III".
Re:That's not copy protection (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot: where we don't bother reading the summary, let alone the article, when writing the headline.
Re:FBI warning (Score:4, Funny)
They should use warning from The IT Crowd.
Re:::facepalm:: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Two actually (Score:4, Funny)
"Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going! Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays 'O Come All Ye Faithful,' so you want to get one too." -George Carlin
Holy Cow (Score:4, Funny)
That is the longest password I've ever seen.
Re:Public domain (Score:2, Funny)
You can tell it's a Sony Bible if opening it puts a rootkit in your soul.
Re:::facepalm:: (Score:3, Funny)
Yet someone stole that and wrote it down in a little book called the Bible. Perhaps he should have included some DRM on his tablets...
Re:::facepalm:: (Score:2, Funny)
The first version was written on papyrus, but someone walked off with it.
Re:That's not copy protection (Score:3, Funny)
Can you fork it? Can you modify it? Can you sell it?
Nope, you can walk into any bookstore and get the original untranslated version, and only that, for free. There aren't any other versions allowed and nobody ever sells it.
Re:That's not copy protection (Score:3, Funny)
is this supposed to be your first step? If so, posting on slashdot doesn't count on abandoning it.
Re:That's not copy protection (Score:3, Funny)
I thought there were no lawyers allowed in heaven by definition?
Re:FBI warning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Public domain (Score:2, Funny)
I thought that was a common functionality of all bibles?
Re:::facepalm:: (Score:3, Funny)
Some scholars believe that God's ultimate intention for that was to establish the need for a large, majestic container to store them in, and thus prepare the way for the eventual creation of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Re:That's not copy protection (Score:1, Funny)
Bwahahahaha, he said "educate"!