Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:03:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-chat) Subject: Re: IBM Message-ID: <200001220203.TAA26199@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211847460.29673-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "Jonathon McKitrick" at Jan 21, 2000 06:49:56 PM
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> >>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? Yes. You no longer buy CDs and video tapes, you only buy licenses. The company selling you the license kindly gives you the media for free. > >>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? Beats me. All of the economists are crazy about it, though, and have been since way back when I was in college. I never understood how everyone could work at McDonalds without there being someone, somewhere, raising cows and draining money out of the service economy into the cow-raising economy. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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