copyright due for overhaul (Re: Software pirates face ten years in jail)

[Ben Laurie]

Adam Back wrote:
> Still in the more immediate term there are some interesting battles
> brewing in the US over the attempted outlawing of general purpose
> computers by the copy-protection cartel.  I think the computer
> hardware industry is a few orders of magnitude larger than the film
> and music industry so we'll see how that turns out.

Its interesting that the computer hardware industry does not seem to
have woken up to this yet! Guess they aren't used to lobbying.

Cheers,

Ben.

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