On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:25:46PM -0400, Edward J. Huff wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 16:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You may not agree with it but if the government doesn't want > > you doing something, it should come as no surprise they will > > pass laws that prevent you from doing it. > > The problem is, it's not the government that doesn't want us > doing something, it's those corporations which stand to lose > money if we do. They bribe the congress for laws designed to > prevent their mistakes from harming them. In particular, their > mistake was investing huge sums of money on the assumption that the > technological status quo would not change.
Well, I'm coming to the belief that ideologies are for sale. But really there doesn't need to be any wrongdoing. It's The Economy Stupid. The economic theocracy says what's good for big biz is good for the economy. The most vocal big biz's are often the ones with the most invested in intellectual property. And there's scarcely any consciousness of all this on the part of the wider electorate. So we get idiocy such as software patents, and the DMCA. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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