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Originally posted by RawAlex@Jul 1 2004, 01:06 PM
KK: I see a ton of potential - free hosts gone, shortage of sponsor content, content provders charging more or only selling to "known" webmasters in private deals, etc. It could also be another weapon against unlicensed content, as people using, say, scanned images from magazines would be faced with an eay to prove violation of 2257, which would make it more than a civil violation.
Documenting every single image every time used, and documenting every image created on an individual case basis is a huge undertaking. I am not sure any of us is up for the job.
Alex
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While what you say is true in the short term, will cost you dearly in the future.
It is the granting of the moral sanction to them at the puny advantage of a few short terms bucks that will cost you and everyone else in the form of very diminished freedoms in the future. We live, and especially you americans, live in a steath dictature.
An idea dawned on me. Is there a technology just about to emerge that will magically make people able to "comply" with this victmiless paper crime ? If so, it might what will make the idiot shortsighted businesspeople accept such things as a new fully-traceable IP protocol , some proprietary digital right management format, or some other similar patented shit...
"The only power any government has is to crack down on crime and criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, then one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens. What's there in that for anyone. But just pass the kinds of law that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of lawbreakers - and then you can cash in on their guilt."
-from _Atlas_Shrugged_ by Ayn Rand