Goes with the territory.. Corporations have been fighting technology since the dawn of time.. Ref: Audio Cassettes, Video Cassettes, CDs, DVDs, MP3, and now digital video.
I can't think of any circumstance where they've won. You can't fight the progress of technology. You can try, but you'll lose. There will always be workarounds. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Neil Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:41:31AM -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: > >Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how > >about something like: > > > >"The Big Media Companies are about to buy you. The Government is > >about to sell you. Do you want to be a digital slave?" > > > >or > > > >"Imagine a world with no fast forward buttons" > > Ultimately the broadcast flag will take away our VCRs. VCRs will be > phased out in favour of DVRs which, when honouring the broadcast flag, > will be less functional. No more time shifting. > > Ultimately, I think this law will fail. Even if it's passed, there will > be mass civil disobedience. There will be a work around. There always > is. People will simply buy offshore devices that shipped in brown paper > boxes. > >
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