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Copy Protection a Crime Against Humanity

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cutting-some-slack dept.

Trevalyx writes "An article over at Wired looks into the relation between copy protection and the reality of a rational amount of 'wiggle room' that is typically provided by the legal system. It's a topic covered often on Slashdot, but it's still a good read. Should be accompanied by a visit to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for your Daily Dose of Defending Digital Freedom." The article does a good job of giving examples of legal leeway that's granted every day.

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  1. Aw C'mon by windowpain · · Score: 2, Troll

    This is a bit of a stretch.

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    1. Re:Aw C'mon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      This is a bit of a strech, wouldn't you say?

  2. You heard it here! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not registering and enforcing patents on here-say non-patented media is pro-freedom.

    I will now hang myself...

  3. Re:Uhhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Couldn't you have just said 10 million people? I smell your agenda.

  4. Re:Is that what you got from it? by The_dev0 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I am certainly not an advocate of DRM, and I don't believe the **AA has any right to cripple a product I purchased in good faith. I just don't think that using moral relativism to justify breaking laws is a strong argument. (Irrelevant of the law's intent or a law's applicability in our changing world). As a writer for a respected magazine I think it is irresponsible for the author to take this view.

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  5. Re:Uhhh... by nurightshu · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please, put the crack pipe down and back away slowly.

    Nobody wants to make it illegal for you to transfer your "knowledge and works of art to reliable media and new display platforms". What they're looking to do is keep you from transferring other people's knowledge and works of art.

    If an author, artist, or director does not wish for his work to propagate in the future, it is his prerogative to ensure that does not happen, not yours to violate his wishes. Even if you think that he's denying "future generations their cultural heritage," you have no say in the matter. Never have.

    I think it's highly fscking unlikely that "[o]ur culture, our knowledge, all our achievements will be lost to our children." If you honestly believe that within two or three generations, we'll be back to living in caves and hunting prey with pointed sticks, please get your head out of whatever propaganda you're reading and take a look at the real world. All the knowledge will still be there, it's just that you'll have to have something to exchange to get it, just like it's always been.

    In other words, nothing to see here, break it up folks, move along.

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  6. Fucking lameass filter is fucking gh3y. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fucking lameass filter. I was gonna post my bitchin' lyrics to "The Real UNIX Owner", with an actual fucking verse three but the gh3y filter sez there's too few characters per line "(currently 34.3)". Fuck that shit. If /. don't want my song, then I'll give them muthafucking pseudorandom text. How'd you like dat, Malda?!?!?!




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