Of course, if someone manages to pull this off, how much longer until someone drafts legislation or policy saying this could be used as a terrorist or piracy tool? Someone's bound to use this as an example and an excuse to further kill privacy and mandate random checks of postal mail and the like. For all we know, someone's doing this already.
Of course, there's also the matter of how much someone would have to pay just to send the CD's through postal or FedEx anyways. Sure, the USPS and the delivery companies like FedEx and UPS could use extra revenue (possible economy boost?), but how much volume could this add to their daily deliveries? Enough to justify adding vehicles and employees, adding jobs and orders for industry? Probably, probably not. Would make for an interesting study though.
One would think the word "standard" would apply to something widely adopted by all parties, not this "choose A, B, C, D, or E" nonsense like we're seeing here.
Seems almost reminiscient of the copy-protection "standards" the big players are using these days (Cactus, etc.)
Maybe they're going to "standardize" the english language like this next:)
As sick as this may sound, what if they were to become victimized from the very precedents they set into motion?
Say some small developer or artist somewhere were able to successfully get a bigger developer's site (for the sake of argument, the RIAA's own site and all of their music sites). I don't think the RIAA would take to kindly to that, and would probably be doing everything in their power to either get a loophole for the precedent (which I don't think is too likely, being a precedent) or get the precedent overturned somewhere by influenc^H^H^H^H^H informing congress that there's a problem.
Of course, since smaller artists and developers rarely if ever have the money or the argument necessary to pull this off, it doesn't seem very likely. But it would be really interesting to see the big players get bit in the ass by their own vipers, so to speak.
Yeah, I can just see this now... a million people, walking around the city, trying to get into everyone else's living space to search for tonics, money and relics:)
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But wouldn't hacking a rat be a violation of the DMCA?
Here's a horrifying thought that I haven't seen very often here...
Say this DRM bull gets put into everything new that comes out for us "consumers"...
Then, say in the interest of national security or whatnot, some security agency finds a way to do more with the DRM technology than just check if someone's pirating or not.
I have to wonder if the corps like Sony even realize what this sort of technology could be used for in the future, particularly stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with fighting alleged piracy.
You always have to ask, "What's next?" Unfortunately, not very many people seem to these days...
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Of course, if someone manages to pull this off, how much longer until someone drafts legislation or policy saying this could be used as a terrorist or piracy tool? Someone's bound to use this as an example and an excuse to further kill privacy and mandate random checks of postal mail and the like. For all we know, someone's doing this already.
Of course, there's also the matter of how much someone would have to pay just to send the CD's through postal or FedEx anyways. Sure, the USPS and the delivery companies like FedEx and UPS could use extra revenue (possible economy boost?), but how much volume could this add to their daily deliveries? Enough to justify adding vehicles and employees, adding jobs and orders for industry? Probably, probably not. Would make for an interesting study though.
Just my 2.5 cents worth.
Maybe the author writes EULA's in his spare time?
Seems almost reminiscient of the copy-protection "standards" the big players are using these days (Cactus, etc.)
Maybe they're going to "standardize" the english language like this next :)
Say some small developer or artist somewhere were able to successfully get a bigger developer's site (for the sake of argument, the RIAA's own site and all of their music sites). I don't think the RIAA would take to kindly to that, and would probably be doing everything in their power to either get a loophole for the precedent (which I don't think is too likely, being a precedent) or get the precedent overturned somewhere by influenc^H^H^H^H^H informing congress that there's a problem.
Of course, since smaller artists and developers rarely if ever have the money or the argument necessary to pull this off, it doesn't seem very likely. But it would be really interesting to see the big players get bit in the ass by their own vipers, so to speak.
Strange... I don't remember any pornos named "The Wang of Khan"...
Yeah, I can just see this now... a million people, walking around the city, trying to get into everyone else's living space to search for tonics, money and relics :)
Get it past enough animal-rights activists, and you've got the next big thing for Christmas! ...maybe. :)
I wonder if anyone's thinking of doing a rat-in-a-maze MUD now?
Say this DRM bull gets put into everything new that comes out for us "consumers"...
Then, say in the interest of national security or whatnot, some security agency finds a way to do more with the DRM technology than just check if someone's pirating or not.
I have to wonder if the corps like Sony even realize what this sort of technology could be used for in the future, particularly stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with fighting alleged piracy.
You always have to ask, "What's next?" Unfortunately, not very many people seem to these days...