"DRM is a lie. When an agenda driven DRM infection peddler gets on a soapbox and blathers about how it is necessary to protect the BMW payments of a producer who leeches off the talented, rest assured, they are lying to you. DRM has absolutely nothing to do with protecting content, it is about protecting the wallets of major corporations. The funny thing is they aren't protecting it from you, they are protecting it from each other."
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Member since:2005-07-06
The sinle most important problem with the law is that is is created by "experts" that use such arcane language that nobody can or wants to protest it anymore. It's brilliant, how can you protest when you can't even read it to know it's unjust ?
As the predident of a certain country once said when their presidents still said stuff that mattered :
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow. (James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788)"
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2005-11-12
Making laws is a fine balancing act, you don't want to make completly outrageous and unenforcable laws. For example the current penalties for copyright infrignement with things such as music .etc. This form of copyright infringement is a modern problem and requires modern solutions. IMO the best solution is simple FAIR laws, enforced by a trully accountable public authority (i.e. the police). Simply destroying our rights to freely use the media we buy, doesn't solve the problem, it just makes copyright enforcement seem even more extreme and drives more users to flaunt it.
Edited 2006-01-24 01:45