RE: Quote of the Day: Cory Doctorow

[Charles PICKENS <charles.pickens () itergy com>]

Unfortunately, this falls into the category of “just because you can do something…”

The perception here is “They’ll throw everyone with a VCR into the can!”
The actual outcome of this is “We’ll throw select in-DUH-viduals into the can… at our discretion.”

A law is just words on paper (yeah, the “paperless office” is still a fantasy) without enforcement. Enforcement of a 
law is very, VERY selective. I tend to see this and the pattern of other new (ish) laws as a precursor to a more robust 
RIAA-type of enforcement. “If we catch you with music files, we have all the leverage we need to lock you up… “

No, I’m not paranoid… but I know how laws like this can (and often are) arbitrarily enforced.


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of rms () computerbytesman com [rms () 
computerbytesman com]
Sent: September 21, 2007 6:07 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Quote of the Day: Cory Doctorow

Is the next step to ban the sale of devices which can be used to make
"illegal" home recordings of music and movies?  No more DVD recorders, MP3
players, PCs, and Tivo boxes?

Richard


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> "Nice going, Germany -- between this and the new anti-hacker laws, you've
> managed to criminalize every productive member of the information society.
> Enjoy the caves and flint axes."
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> - - Cory Doctorow, writing on Boing Boing, that "Germany's parliament on
> Friday approved a copyright law, which makes it all but illegal for
> individuals to make save and make copies of television, films and music,
> even for their own use. It goes into effect in 2008."
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> http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/21/germany-bans-all-mus.html
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> - - ferg
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>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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