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Originally posted by Slartibartfast
If they ban all these 'potential' copyright infringement hardware and software products, they are also going to have to ban the photocopy machine because the same stupid 'logic' applies.
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Hey man, don't give them any ideas. Besides, Big Brother wouldn't ban the copy machine outiright, they'd just require the manufacturers to build in logic that checks anything you attempt to copy against a database owned by the Publishing Industry (PIAA?), and disallow duplication if it's a copyrighted work. Naturally the police would be dispatched to the location the copy machine reports.
Of course there are any number of valid reasons to copy a book you've legitimately purchased, but such rights aren't as important as the publishers' right to charge you inflated prices in an oligopy.
Yes, my words paint a ridiculous scenario, and I hope the sort of thing I described doesn't happen. But when it comes to the rights of the American people, a lot of things are happening today that would have sounded ridiculous ten years ago.