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

[Casper Dik]

>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.


Yeah, I was wondering why the good people of ukcrypto cared so much.

Time to resurrect the British and other computer industries.

US computer and components exports will halt if they are the only
ones forced to sell defunct products.

Casper