Predicting The End Of Digital Copying

prostoalex writes: "Christian Science Monitor warns about approaching era of digital prohibition. With FCC requiring the use of copy prevention mechanisms in future generations of television sets, soon 'Americans may not be able to copy a song off a CD, watch a recorded DVD at a friend's house, or store a copy of a television show for more than a day'. Of course, no article on this topic can go without a mandatory quote from Jack Valenti, who points out: 'It is not legal to make a copy of a DVD now. Everything people are doing legally today, they'll be able to do legally tomorrow'."

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Re:IP Laws Are Necessary Only in a Slave System

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In the past, the same message has been modded to troll several times. FYI, I am neither a libertarian nor a left-wing socialist nor a capitalist. I believe in freedom.

A libertarian is someone who believes in freedom, only excessively so. Hey, I believe in freedom too... just not the same freedoms as you.

At least I am brave enough to use my real name. Here's my first law of spineless /. posting: be as God!-Awful anonymous as you can while accusing others of being spineless.

Brave or stupid? 5 years from now you'll love it when an employer/date/reporter digs up some offhand comment you made that you didn't think would be archived/meant to be sarcastic but forgot the ;-)/will be taken out of context. I already have a couple of these attached to my name and I don't intend to add any more.

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