...doesn't always apply. Especially when that "common" sense isn't too common. Sure, we could use current conventions if a person was literally prying into your machine with a screwdriver, but seeing as how the sercurity-circumvention race is still ongoing, how does one determine if the program I am using to protect my (personal) machine is still useful and/or valid in terms of protecting my machine? Joe user may not have the time to keep up or the knowledge, espcially if new cracks and cracking tools as well as security patches are being released on a (mostly) weekly basis...
Of course, we all hope that the courts would understand and be able to figure it out, but frankly I don't think anyone really gets it all right now.
Done and done. I read the article and then read two more that were linked from the first one. All I remember is that the Senator that is proposing new P2P "fight back" legislation looks earily familiar to Sen. Kelly from the two X-Men movies...
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...doesn't always apply. Especially when that "common" sense isn't too common. Sure, we could use current conventions if a person was literally prying into your machine with a screwdriver, but seeing as how the sercurity-circumvention race is still ongoing, how does one determine if the program I am using to protect my (personal) machine is still useful and/or valid in terms of protecting my machine? Joe user may not have the time to keep up or the knowledge, espcially if new cracks and cracking tools as well as security patches are being released on a (mostly) weekly basis... Of course, we all hope that the courts would understand and be able to figure it out, but frankly I don't think anyone really gets it all right now.
Done and done. I read the article and then read two more that were linked from the first one. All I remember is that the Senator that is proposing new P2P "fight back" legislation looks earily familiar to Sen. Kelly from the two X-Men movies...