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Re: [dvd-discuss] Is the DMCA doomed?
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- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Is the DMCA doomed?
- From: Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:23:15 -0700
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Here's a great quotation from that article: "In one sentence, the
maintenance of technologically obsolete copyright regimes requires a
police state. "
Scott A Crosby <[email protected]>
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08/29/01 02:48 AM
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This resonates with a talk here, oh, about 3 years ago...
It took 100 years from the invention of the printing press to the first
book being banned.... Right now, with the DMCA, we're just shy of that
timetable.
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9409/1.html
Scott
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No DVD movie will ever enter the public domain, nor will any CD. The last
CD
and the last DVD will have moldered away decades before they leave
copyright.
This is not encouraging the creation of knowledge in the public domain.