If you deed your house to your children, and they to theirs, there is no "time limit" after which the house becomes public property and any random homeless person can just walk into your living room and make himself at home. That would be absurd. So how is this any different? Ownership persists. That's what "ownership" means.
1)Ever heard of squatting? It has a long histroy of being a valid way for a random person to just walk in and make himself at home. (Specificaly, if you don't use the property for a period of time, a squatter can come in, fix it up, and gain ownership of it)
2)There many not be an OFFICIAL time limit for private property, but almost every foot of the US was stolen (some of it was actualy bought, like NYC) from Native Americans. They aren't getting their property back.
3)Even in smaller cases 30 years is often held to be too long of a time to get property back. World War 2 Holocost victims and their kids have been trying to get paintings and other pieces of art back for decades without much success.
Such much for: "All freedom is predicated on private property."
Its more that all freedom is predicated on your ability to DEFEND your private property, because once someone else gets their hands on it, you aren't getting it back, no matter how much claim you have.
What we're seeing is pure spite on the part of the MPAA. If they aren't total idiots they must already realize that: 1)Nothing they can do can get rid of DeCSS at this point. 2)Even if they did manage to get rid of DeCSS, once DVD-R's drop below $600 and DVD blanks drop under $8 a piece, large numbers of people are going to begin copying DVDs.
In this light, the MPAA's actions take on a scary new signifigance. The MPAA represents the first large scale group to intentionaly attempt to destroy the internet. Previous threats have been from people/groups that simply wanted to make things better (in their opinion), not realizing or caring about the effects of this change (I don't think anyone would say that the Republican Communication's Dency Act was designed with the intent to destroy the internet, even though that would have been the effect).
The way this campain is being carried out seems to support my conclusion. Attacking 2600 can't slow the spread of DeCSS. All it can do, is piss a lot of people of and show off the MPAA's legal muscle.
It almost seems as if MPAA wants to bring together everyone who will fight with them so that they can have some sort of dramatic confrontation (expecially ironic, because that would be a very hollywood type of ending for this struggle).
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If you deed your house to your children, and they to theirs, there is no "time limit" after which the house becomes public property and any random homeless person can just walk into your living room and make himself at home. That would be absurd. So how is this any different? Ownership persists. That's what "ownership" means.
1)Ever heard of squatting? It has a long histroy of being a valid way for a random person to just walk in and make himself at home. (Specificaly, if you don't use the property for a period of time, a squatter can come in, fix it up, and gain ownership of it)
2)There many not be an OFFICIAL time limit for private property, but almost every foot of the US was stolen (some of it was actualy bought, like NYC) from Native Americans. They aren't getting their property back.
3)Even in smaller cases 30 years is often held to be too long of a time to get property back. World War 2 Holocost victims and their kids have been trying to get paintings and other pieces of art back for decades without much success.
Such much for:
"All freedom is predicated on private property."
Its more that all freedom is predicated on your ability to DEFEND your private property, because once someone else gets their hands on it, you aren't getting it back, no matter how much claim you have.
What we're seeing is pure spite on the part of the MPAA. If they aren't total idiots they must already realize that:
1)Nothing they can do can get rid of DeCSS at this point.
2)Even if they did manage to get rid of DeCSS, once DVD-R's drop below $600 and DVD blanks drop under $8 a piece, large numbers of people are going to begin copying DVDs.
In this light, the MPAA's actions take on a scary new signifigance. The MPAA represents the first large scale group to intentionaly attempt to destroy the internet. Previous threats have been from people/groups that simply wanted to make things better (in their opinion), not realizing or caring about the effects of this change (I don't think anyone would say that the Republican Communication's Dency Act was designed with the intent to destroy the internet, even though that would have been the effect).
The way this campain is being carried out seems to support my conclusion. Attacking 2600 can't slow the spread of DeCSS. All it can do, is piss a lot of people of and show off the MPAA's legal muscle.
It almost seems as if MPAA wants to bring together everyone who will fight with them so that they can have some sort of dramatic confrontation (expecially ironic, because that would be a very hollywood type of ending for this struggle).