In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
<mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:36:17 +0000
<1o7d34-ho8.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PDT
>>>
>>> Could Hollywood hack your PC?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal
>>> | that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for
>>> | illicit file trading.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html
>>
>> There seems to me too many possibilities of mistakes.
>>
>
> The copyright holders should not be given police powers - this is the
> first mistake. They are /not/ the police.
>
And who are the police? More to the point, who authorizes
the police to search one's home if there's evidence of
breaking the law? Are they even needed as an intermediary?
And perhaps even more to the point: who is going to stop
them? At least with Linux I have a fighting chance. :-)
But Linux is only part of the solution; if laws make Linux
illegal (since Linux doesn't enforce DRM provisions such
as the DMCA), then so be it, and the revolt may very well
begin a few years later.
The obvious solution is to change the law -- but there
are many factors involved therein, not the least of which
is money. I don't have money. Some other people do.
Welcome to the New World Order II.
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