We all know this has been in the pipeline for *years*, but as DNA says in The Salmon Of Doubt(well its quoted in The Salmon of Doubt - he said it somewhere else first):
"The holywood process is like grilling a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it."
I guess I'm just an all-or-nothing kind of guy. If I'm not given permission to copy and distribute content, I don't really care if there are technical measures to stop me. In fact, I'd actually prefer it, because then at least I don't have to worry about others who do circumvent the technology driving up the prices for me.
A fair point of view. But these measures go much further than merely stopping you from copying an OGG or something. Physically preventing kernel level debuggers? Surely thats fair use of your hardware. VCRs were never banned because, although they can be put to misuse their main purpose is fair.
Thats not quite accurate. Admittedly the idea that the Act is aimed at the TCPA is Lucky's own idea, and this has been discussed on the mailing list in detail.
The bit that made me submit this was the quote. Perhaps I should have added that the quote about kernel level debuggers etc didnt come from lucky, but from the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. This is a powerful group of people. Companies like MS, Intel, Compaq etc. Even if this bill comes to nothing (as we all hope it will) this is still a prophecy which could well come true.
I don't think the/. readership is as worried about TCPA as it should be, as I dont think they are as AWARE of it as they should be.
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We all know this has been in the pipeline for *years*, but as DNA says in The Salmon Of Doubt(well its quoted in The Salmon of Doubt - he said it somewhere else first):
"The holywood process is like grilling a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it."
It just seems wrong to me!
-- Ian Hill
Thats not quite accurate. Admittedly the idea that the Act is aimed at the TCPA is Lucky's own idea, and this has been discussed on the mailing list in detail.
/. readership is as worried about TCPA as it should be, as I dont think they are as AWARE of it as they should be.
The bit that made me submit this was the quote. Perhaps I should have added that the quote about kernel level debuggers etc didnt come from lucky, but from the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. This is a powerful group of people. Companies like MS, Intel, Compaq etc. Even if this bill comes to nothing (as we all hope it will) this is still a prophecy which could well come true.
I don't think the
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Ian Hill