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Sad story... Guess Darl Mc Bride is pretty
fond of things like this!One positive thing for non-us citizens:
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Even if this bill would only valid in the USA it would have catastrophically effects worldwide. Because US companies are not allowed to develop and sell "unsecure" software, others would have to jump onto the TCP-train, so they would give total control over themself to the TCPA (USA?), or they would have to live completely without software and harware from US-companies. No Windows, Solaris, MacOS, Photoshop, Winamp or to say it short: The largest part of all software that's used on this planet would not be usable."I am perfectly happy without windows/solaris/mac/photoshop/winamp!
But the next step probably will be that a common cd player will need that kind of security encryption?
But when computers are no fun anymore, then why use them? We can start a zoo with lots
of pinguins and dolphins!
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haven't they figured out yet that no matter how complex the encryption made by a gov committe it can be broken in 2 days by a 17 year old from finland?
example; the much touted/over hyped/ dvd encryption.
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I think someone's a** needs a kicking. I'll take my chances if the bill passes, I'm not giving anything up.
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The only purpose of this agenda is to control information, and thereby control the user. Computers should not enforce laws and agenda.
"haven't they figured out yet that no matter how complex the encryption made by a gov committe it can be broken in 2 days by a 17 year old from finland?"
That's not accurate. Integrated components are different from high-level software or media-related copy-protection schemes. When trying to secure something, you depend upon the layer of abstraction below your application. If this is a passworded PDF file, you depend on the OS's handling of memory, system libraries, your own libraries, and other details. If this is a DVD, you depend on drivers, pehaps the software player, and the format's standards. The reason all of this has been circumvented so easily before is because there are simply too many details involved in tacking-on security to a system not designed for that purpose. If you don't control the system from the bottom up, you can only have absolute control of user-interface.
I am not saying these attempts will not be circumvented. This is a new type of trust relationship and the user is not part of it.
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This is old news to me.
My advise is to stock up on Motherboards now.
Though apple has something similair no bios and yet linux will run on PPC Platform.
I hate DRM just as bad.
I was sent a file in Email it would not play on any of my Linux boxes. So I startup my XP gaming PC and it wants to download an update to media player in order to play the DRM protected file. No way That file went in the trash.
Show how you feel by writing your elected leaders and with the purchases you make.
Dont buy any curropt(copyprotected) Cds and write the music Company telling them why you wont buy. etc....
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I bought a CD which has "copy protection" on it. It says "This cd cannot be burnt on a CD-R or hard disk, nor can it be converted into MP3 for file sharing", but I had absolutely no problems extracting the tracks using cdparanoia. I wonder how this copy protection thing works (or doesn't work).
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I think that most of them have errors on them and only work on Windows. The copy protection that is.
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Copy protected CD's should be illegal in my
country. We pay a tax for every blank CD recordable and that gives us the RIGHT to make copies for ourselves. We don't have to own the original work, but we can make copies of it, providing we make the copies ourselves. Another person is not allowed to make copies for us. Pretty crazy, I don't invent laws.Of course needless to say, I'm involved in trying to get this stupid tax removed. But the whole process is a little similar with a soap like convincing the pope, abortion should be legal. So far they haven't yet understood the fact, that sometimes work released under copyright doesn't mean the owner of the copyrighted work wants money for every copy made. Well, for an institution involved in copyright tax collection, I think they don't want to understand. Very time consuming.
So for the past years I've stopped buying music. There is something very unfree going on in that industry and I hate the smell of it. I like music, and I do have lots of it, legally copied from friends. The tax isn't very much, about 0.15$/CD, but the tax is collected over every blank CD recordable, so also free software, pictures and backup CD's.
I think the music industy is only hurting itself.
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,,,"all thats required for evil to triump is for good men to do nothing",,,,,,
if you want all of this to get worse and big bizz to own all our souls, keep voting for the bizz party, the republicians.
they have passed more of this "let them eat cake" laws than any other in history and more in the last 10 years than all of the rest of history combined.
and NO im not a libral or a dem, just telling the truth.
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