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A defence to a form of the TCPA?

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sporkme:
they did not start it, but one cannot deny that over the past 8 years the internet really bacame the massive network, with everything anyone could possibly want.

without the dirty fuckers' money, we would not have this

the problem is that they are dirty... the net is fine

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as for legislation, i am not the man for that particular job... i have a way of torching bridges and making myself look like an ass.  a lot of people dont like my opinions, and i dont suffer idiots well.  i would gladly contribute, and i can be a leader, but i would really just piss them all off

TU:
i don't understand why describing how to make a gun bullets and how to shoot it is legal. but giving someone the sourcecode to a program that gives you a root shell thruough SSH isn't.

rtgwbmsr:
It's because the lawyers are still writing laws for stuff invented 50 years ago (I guessed on that one). They need to catch up ASAP, or shit like that will be legal forever.

beltorak0:
what it boils down to is that information can be copied and distributed freely with virtually no production cost.  You can tell a hundred people how to hack a ssh, and the can tell a hundrend more, then 10,000 people can hack a ssh.  Print out a detailed manual on how a gun works, and how to kill with one, and each person has to buy a gun, and at least one bullet....

The entertainment dictators have hated every method of time / space shifting content since the 8 track came out.  When it was discovered that analogue copies degrade after a time, they backed off.  cd's cost around $.12 - $1.50 to make, yet they cost more than records did when LP's were the hottest thing.  why? and why has the price never come down?

And then cd-r's came out....  now they bitch because digital copies never degrade (beyond media damage).  So they start the evil things like DMCA, CDBTPA, and TCPA.  Everyone thinks that TCPA will be the vehical for pushing DRM down our throats, but it's the other way around I assure you.  DRM will be the reason for foisting the TCPA upon us, and then controlling every asprect of our computers.  DRM is not the end, but mearly the means.

< /rant>

-t.

sporkme:
yeah, sure sucks to be the napster guys

and will soon suck to be affiliated with gnutella (morpheus, etc.)

the big picture:  GREED ...dammit

greed, nothing but, and plenty of it.  these shitfucks care not about the things they claim to protect... musicians, creativity, intellectual property... they care about FUCKING MONEY and it is blood on the hands of totalitarian - syphallis - hosting - cumguzzling - peter - puffing - genocidal - money - grubbing - facist - poindexter - pencil - pushing - sacks - of - monkey - dung like the ones we are forced to deal with on this beautiful forum.

BAH

and just let me add... don't even begin to think that gnu/gpl is safe.  if you believe the TCPA rhetoric about @opting-out@ then you are sadly misinformed

good post beltorak0

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