From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 10:50: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0E8154B6 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:49:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12Bj88-000KYx-00; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:49:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29850; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:49:56 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:49:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat Subject: Re: IBM In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000120145704.01a24100@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Brett Glass wrote: >At 02:45 PM 1/20/2000 , Terry Lambert wrote: >>It is illegal in the US everywhere shrink-wrap licensing is >>legally binding. The "Millenium Copyright Act" will incidently >>make this "everywhere in the US", and will additionally apply it >>to things like videos and CDs. So be ready to say goodbye to >>used videos and CDs if it passes. > >I think you're overly pessimistic about the current situation, >but there's surely a drive to make it that way in the future. >UCITA is actually the biggest threat, not the Millennium >Copyright Act. But the latter is significant too. Is this really in the works? That means once a piece of media is purchased, only the owner may use it, and it is non-transferrable? >>so-called "service economy", where we can all produce no >>tangible results or goods, and get paid anyway. How does a service economy get away with not providing service? -=> jm <=- Actual penalty by referee in an American Football game: "Unsportsmanlike conduct: giving him the business! Fifteen yard penalty, automatic first down!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message