Pirate this, go to jail (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com reports on the latest anti-copying bill from Senator Joseph Biden. ""The world is moving toward closed digital rights management systems where you may need approval to run programs," says David Wagner, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. "Both Palladium and TCPA incorporate features that would restrict what applications you could run.""

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Pirate this, go to jail (News.com)

Posted Jul 29, 2002 18:35 UTC (Mon) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

What do people like this get out of all this hot air apart from a big fat pay pcaket from the well to do erksome life forms of the big corporations M$ and friends.

It ought to be an offence to even think of such draconeon measures punnishment 10 - 20 years hard labour, They are doing nothing for the world at large or even your country except make it a place to avoid having any dealings with .

I can see it now you arrive at an American airport with your trusty Laptop ( Linux Powered ) of course customs comes along and bingo in the slammer for trying to import goods of an undesireable nature into the US of A .

GET A GRIP ON YOUR GOVERNMENT OUT THERE CUS YOU WILL BECOME A PLACE OF ILL REPUTE IF YOU DONT START TAMING SOME OF THESE MAVERICS ..

P Nikolic

Don't use Microsoft ? Go to jail

Posted Jul 30, 2002 12:55 UTC (Tue) by DeletedUser2964 ((unknown), #2964) [Link] (1 responses)

Hello. Greetings from France.
So please excuse me for my bad english.

I agree about anti-piracy claims, but it's now a pityful plea for Micro$oft to gain sales.

In short, use the latest version of Windows, or be jailed.
It seems that M$ has bought the US gov. (and deputies).

Who thinks now America is still a Democraty ?
Welcome into the Banana Republic of America. :((

Don't use Microsoft ? Go to jail

Posted Jul 31, 2002 4:58 UTC (Wed) by DeletedUser2993 ((unknown), #2993) [Link]

oh no no no. This is perfect.

As it becomes more and more unmanageable to install and run legally purchased programs, as it becomes more and more difficult to do things like make backups and restore them-- or open your data file with a text editor, or find out about security flaws in proprietary software, this is how open-source software will become a serious option on the desktop.

Or maybe I should stock up on pencils...