that copy-prevention measures are morally and legally justified.
This will be sold as the necessary protection of Intellectual Property Rights to insure the continued viability -- read 'profitability' -- of producing, distributing and marketing of 'creative' or 'inovative' intellectual 'product'.
The language of public disscusion, the generally available tools (jiggered consumer electronics/appliances/computers/OS's), and the likely evolution of common law will, under corporate pressures, combine to make J.Q. Public see this curtailing of previously common and "fair use" options as necessary and inevitable. Indeed, the consuming public will become percieved as making these measures necessary by virtue of its previous, irresponsible abuse of available technologies.
Anyone caught circumventing various copy 'protection' schemes may be seen as unlucky, but also as in the wrong.
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that copy-prevention measures are morally and legally justified.
This will be sold as the necessary protection of Intellectual Property Rights to insure the continued viability -- read 'profitability' -- of producing, distributing and marketing of 'creative' or 'inovative' intellectual 'product'.
The language of public disscusion, the generally available tools (jiggered consumer electronics/appliances/computers/OS's), and the likely evolution of common law will, under corporate pressures, combine to make J.Q. Public see this curtailing of previously common and "fair use" options as necessary and inevitable. Indeed, the consuming public will become percieved as making these measures necessary by virtue of its previous, irresponsible abuse of available technologies.
Anyone caught circumventing various copy 'protection' schemes may be seen as unlucky, but also as in the wrong.