On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:22:23PM -0700, Adam Stenseth wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Steve Furlong wrote: > > > No, that won't do it. People could still spread their dissentious ideas > > by telephone, and photocopy the intellectual property of content > > providers. We need to ban electricity, then the problem goes away... > > But then wouldn't all those lecherous pirates just copy works by > hand or, *gasp*, transcribe them with typewriters? And musicians(and > labels) can be deprived of their well-deserved income with nothing more > than a musical instrument! > > I mean, yeah, sure, banning unlicensed pencils, pens, paper, > typewriters, or musical instruments good first step, but the copyright > problem will not be solved until we can close the optical hole. We must > not allow unlicensed, non-copy-protecting optical sensors(like "eyes") if > we're to maintain the solvency of the Content Economy. And if the content > economy becomes unsolvent, the economic devastation would be unparalleled! > The damage to the american economy at large would be horrific. Clearly, > only a terrorist would want to possess unlicensed eyes. > > -adam
Forget the pencils and pens, just ban paper. Or perhaps a step in the right direction would be to ban all paper except that made from hemp, thereby solving numerous problems at the stroke of a (gasp) pen. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
