That's because PC manufacturers don't have anything innovative to protect. Heck PC manufacturers have acknowledged as much by signing away their rights to sue MS over patent-infringements.
ESR needs to do a bit more research on DVD/DeCSS before coming up with his theories. Content providers grateful for the hack because the hack will open the market when anyone can decode DeCSS? That would only hold water if DeCSS currently limited the content creators, but it doesn't, for the very simple reason that there is nothing that obliges them to encode their discs with DeCSS. Indeed there are lots of unencoded discs out there, especially in zone 2. If they thought DeCSS limited their market and served no other function, they could abandon it, DeCSS-hack or not.
This is far to reactive. It would make more sense to come with legislation requiring employers to fix potential problems *before* people are injured rather than afterwards. As to cost issue, that is a red-herring. Firstly, there is ample evidence that productivity gains out-strip the cost of the measures. Secondly, even if they employers aren't smart enough to realise this, it is an employee's market out there right now, so its a good time to call their bluff.
Actually, it was the other way around. The Soviets had come up the first ABM system (deployed it around Moscow). The US threatened to do the same, but instead they both decided to back down. I believe the Soviets were allowed to keep the missile base around Moscow, but there was never any proof it would have worked.
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That's because PC manufacturers don't have anything innovative to protect. Heck PC manufacturers have acknowledged as much by signing away their rights to sue MS over patent-infringements.
ESR needs to do a bit more research on DVD/DeCSS before coming up with his theories. Content providers grateful for the hack because the hack will open the market when anyone can decode DeCSS? That would only hold water if DeCSS currently limited the content creators, but it doesn't, for the very simple reason that there is nothing that obliges them to encode their discs with DeCSS. Indeed there are lots of unencoded discs out there, especially in zone 2. If they thought DeCSS limited their market and served no other function, they could abandon it, DeCSS-hack or not.
This is far to reactive. It would make more sense to come with legislation requiring employers to fix potential problems *before* people are injured rather than afterwards. As to cost issue, that is a red-herring. Firstly, there is ample evidence that productivity gains out-strip the cost of the measures. Secondly, even if they employers aren't smart enough to realise this, it is an employee's market out there right now, so its a good time to call their bluff.
Actually, it was the other way around. The Soviets had come up the first ABM system (deployed it around Moscow). The US threatened to do the same, but instead they both decided to back down. I believe the Soviets were allowed to keep the missile base around Moscow, but there was never any proof it would have worked.