robert blake

"Tony" <tony23.no@dslextreme.com.spam> wrote in
news:11dg5dn33ibop98@corp.supernews.com:

>
>> A spokesman for the general public welcomed the ruling, saying it
>> confirmed that the manufacture of equipment for use primarily in the
>> copying of music, video and books/magazines, was illegal.
>
> Don't laugh - the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) makes
> equipment able to defeat copyright protection such as Macrovision
> illegal. Not the USE of it, but the manufacture and/or posession of
> it.
>
> Of course, Time-Base Correctors, which are used, and necessary, in
> broadcast video production, easily defeat copy protection.
>
> Personal responsibility for your own actions is a thing of the past.


scary times, Tony.

We live in times where big corporations seemingly influence/buy new laws.

Of course, the problem for the state is that many of these measures are
largely unenforceable.

I want to see democracy restored (I am in the UK).