* Jason Holt [Fri, 23 Jan 2004 at 21:23 +0000] > As to the "analog hole", that's an even bigger stretch, but could also be > plugged if watermarks exist which survive the analog output, and all analog > devices are required by law to watch for the watermark.
It's not like an analog device would be hard to make, and even if you don't know how to make one, it would be easy enough to get one off the black market that doesn't look for the watermark for not that much. Again, because they're not that hard to make. I think now of PlayStation, how it checks for said watermark, and if it's not there, won't play the game, but you can buy a mod chip(and people do, so if you're thinking at the above, would any one buy an illegal analog device? the answer is yes). And this leads to my pet peve in this area, no one can tell me what I can own, I would be very, _very_ upset if there was a law about what kind of analog device I could own. And also, what I do with my own property is my business, whether it be that analog device or an ebook or putting my DVD's on VCD or what have you. The only place the law should have say, I believe, is where what I do begins to infringe on other's rights, for example: * I use my analog device to beat someone. * I copy and distribute my ebook to the masses and take the authors profits. (before any arguments on "owning" the book, the author wrote and published the book on the pretense that he would be compensated for the time and effort, if nobody gets paid to write books, or make movies, or what have you, then there won't be books or movies except where they profit the author in other ways such as prestige and recocnition, we certainly wouldn't have Lord of the Rings made into a movie, or other really great stuff. Boy, that was a little long winded) * I use my favorite analog device to blackmail a congressman into reducing term limits on copyrights * I use my spray paint (which I have a right to own) to vandalize SCO headquarters with large manic penguins and phrases like 'rm -rf ~SCO/' etc. In conclusion, I do believe that some things should be payed for, but DRM is rediculous and will never work. As has been said, the mere act of presenting information subjects it to copyability. I don't care _what_ you do, there will always be modchips and a way to redirect the information. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
