Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:07:38 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010110117.04268f00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011010185224.A83192@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010104701.04264050@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110100931360.45215-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011010101446.053c3560@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110100931360.45215-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <20011010184600.A82552@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011010104701.04264050@localhost>
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At 10:52 AM 10/10/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >The only thing they're really after is music >swapping over the internet. Not true at all. The RIAA and MPAA are out to stop ALL copying, by any means, if they can. As well as time-shifting, to the extent that they can get away with it -- because any technology that lets you time-shift MUST make a copy. Finally, as much as possible, they would like to make all media "pay per view." The Internet is only one of a large, large number of leaks in the dike which they would like to plug. Fortunately, they probably do not have enough fingers. What annoys me especially is that, as a musician myself, I don't pirate music. But for these groups to try to hamstring my computer in the event that I might is insane. It's no less a hopeless jihaad than Osama bin Laden's dream of world domination by fundamentalist Islam. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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