From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 16:44:39 MDT
> (Steve Davies <steve365@btinternet.com>):
> Just found out about the link below. This certainly hasn't been getting publicity over here.
>
> http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html
>
> How serious is this?
I'm sure Microsoft et al. are serious about it. That doesn't
make it any less doomed to total failure. The only way this stuff
will ever be jammed down consumer's throats is by force--i.e., if
they manage to lobby congress to mandate it. Even then, I and
millions of others will still revolt and kill it.
They're too late--computers available now are already many times
more capable than needed to run all the killer applications for
which a consumer needs one, so why on Earth would anyone buy a
crippled machine when he can do everything he wants to do on a
free one?
Every few years, content-producers try some new gadget to exert
tighter control over the consumer. They always have, and they
always will. They have always failed, except in one case:
copyright law.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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