On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:13:15AM -0700, Ross Werner wrote: > > Tell me your hypothetical system, and I'll tell you the trivial way > > to break it. > > Okay, I've got one for you. Imagine a system where, if you circumvent > it, you will go to jail.
Excellent point, Mike. How will they know if I've broken it? It basically boils down to something I've held to be true for a long time now: our current system of copyright has two paths to take, extinction, or a police state. At the moment, the latter seems lamentably more likely. The only way to enforce DRM is to enforce a de facto police state. And I would rather live in a world where copyrights didn't exist at all, even for Leenus Turvalds, than live in a police state. ~ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
