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

[Ken Brown]

Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> 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,

"Guess they aren't used to lobbying."? This for a version of "they" that
includes IBM?  !!!!

Ken Brown