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Posted by michael on from the head-in-the-sand dept.

An AC wrote to say that "telepolis has an article telling you why the DMCA and the companies who pushed it forward are doomed to fail. It's nothing new but a good summary of the neverending copyright discussion." The author's summary is good but I disagree with the conclusion -- there's no reason to believe that some deus ex machina is suddenly going to save net users from a police state.

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  1. Summary... by tshak · · Score: 5, Insightful
    To save you - the busy /. reader - time, I've compiled a summary of posts:

    • The DMCA violates free speech. It's bad.
    • There's no excuse for piracy.
      • Hey, if I want to copy my CD to my MP3 player that's MY business (read: FAIR USE).

    • Let's DO something instead of talking about it. Click here[some.gov] to write your congressmen! Click here[eff.org] to donate your tax rebate to the EFF.
    • Our society views "hackers" as if they where "rapists". How ignorant!
    • The average person doesn't even know what the DMCA is, nor do they care.
      • Oh ya, then why has [3 big new agency links] been reporting it?
      • They will when they buy their error-encoded CD and find out they can't play it in their computer.

    • IANAL, but section i of paragraph j states [rubbish]. What this seems to say is that [attempt to decipher rubbish].
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    There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips