From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 18: 3:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB42415562 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA12883; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:58:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAFRaqjz; Fri Jan 21 18:58:56 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA26199; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:03:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200001220203.TAA26199@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: IBM To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-chat) In-Reply-To: from "Jonathon McKitrick" at Jan 21, 2000 06:49:56 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >>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