For a software licensing organization how does the BSA pull off things like this? Do they have any ties with law enforcement?
Do they have any ties with the government?
Of course they do. They have lots of money to feed to the government, and in return, the government 'feeds' them by allowing things like this. It's the same kind of thing that got the DMCA passed, for instance.
To make a circuit from these would be like assembuiling it from discrete transistors, but at a near molecular level.
Speaking of molecular level, when this story refers to molecule-sized transistors, is there a specific molecule size they are talking about? If I'm not sadly mistaken, different molecules have different sizes (e.g. a molecule of C6H12O6 is larger than a molecule of H2O). The same is true from atoms -- Si > H, etc. Not that it'd make that much of a difference, though.
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One interesting twist is that the decision was justified in part by provisions of the much-denigrated Communications Decency Act (CDA).
Wasn't the CDA struck down though?
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MSFT merges with AOLTW:
For a software licensing organization how does the BSA pull off things like this? Do they have any ties with law enforcement?
Do they have any ties with the government?
Of course they do. They have lots of money to feed to the government, and in return, the government 'feeds' them by allowing things like this. It's the same kind of thing that got the DMCA passed, for instance.
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MSFT merges with AOLTW:
To make a circuit from these would be like assembuiling it from discrete transistors, but at a near molecular level.
Speaking of molecular level, when this story refers to molecule-sized transistors, is there a specific molecule size they are talking about? If I'm not sadly mistaken, different molecules have different sizes (e.g. a molecule of C6H12O6 is larger than a molecule of H2O). The same is true from atoms -- Si > H, etc. Not that it'd make that much of a difference, though.
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MSFT merges with AOLTW: