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DotcomScoop writes: "We were provided with a copy of the letter sent by Congressman Rick Boucher to RIAA head Hilary Rosen and IFPI head Jay Berman questioning the legality of copy-protecting CDs. 'I am particularly concerned that some of these technologies may prevent or inhibit consumer home recording using recorders and media covered by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA),' Boucher writes. We've summarized the letter in a story and CNET also has coverage. Monday is the kick-off of the two-day Future Of Music Policy Summit, which includes keynotes or panels from Boucher, Rosen, Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers, Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, Fugazi's Ian MacKaye and the National Writer Union's Jonathan Tasini, among others." We already posted a story about the Boucher letter, but it can't hurt to mention it again.
I'm not sure I understand how your post is relevant and rates an "Interesting" mod, but I thought I would reply anyway.
Your post is funny and when I read it I laughed. Then I thought about it and wondered to myself why it's funny because, after all, that's what they're doing with software these days.
With a software product you have only labor involved, assuming the potential customer downloads the product. If he wants it on media then you make him pay for media an shipping. But a car has a hell of a lot of material involved in it, so you would require a healthy dose of venture capital to purchase the material and give that away. Yikes!
So software is really one of the few things you could do this with. Cars, no way.
. Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.
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Yes but the charts are full of lowest-common-denominator bland whiney teenage well-groomed all-style-no-substance pap.