From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 1 12:26:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A68737B41C for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g21KQAK10294; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:26:10 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05175; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:26:09 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C7FE3DD.B06CE8F6@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:26:05 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSSCA (Was: DVD+RW) References: <3C7F80DC.B63138D8@centtech.com> <20020301172757.GA421@raggedclown.net> <15487.48787.947758.22079@guru.mired.org> <3C7FD708.3DE9B7AD@centtech.com> <15487.57977.914606.803767@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would guess that keeping prices reasonable would keep most people from copying it. I mean really, if a CD was $3, you probably would buy more of them, and pirate less.. Maybe these companies should invest in companies who make blank media? Eric Mike Meyer wrote: > > Eric Anderson types: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > That worm is already turning. Take a look at SSSCA, which exists > > > because the DMCA isn't sufficient. If that becomes law, it could be > > > illegal to buy a Windows PC and install FreeBSD on it. It might also > > > be illegal to buy a PC without a pre-installed OS on it. > > EEK! that sounds horrible.. I can't imagine that going anywhere tho. > > Well, I couldn't imagine DMCA going anywhere, either. But this comes > from the same people who gave us the DMCA, with the same gigabuck > funds, and basically gives it more teeth. If you haven't read it, it > makes it illegal to sell any device that can display, store or copy > digital content that doesn't include some kind of copyright protection > scheme (*); to modify such a device so as to defeat said scheme; to > tell someone how to make such modificiations; or to do research on > copy protection schemes in general. > > *) It's not retroactive; any device manufactured before some date that > is later than the signing can be legally sold whether or not it has > such a copyright protection scheme > > I've heard it claimed that this is the *minimum* needed to prevent the > wholesale theft of any digital content. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message