On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On 2 Aug 2002 at 10:43, Trei, Peter wrote: > > Since the position argued involves nothing which would invoke > > the malign interest of government powers or corporate legal > > departments, it's not that. I can only think of two reasons why > > our corrospondent may have decided to go undercover... > > I can think of two innocuous reasons, though the real reason is > probably something else altogether: > > 1. Defending copyright enforcement is extremely unpopular because > it seemingly puts you on the side of the hollywood cabal, but in > fact TCPA/Paladium, if it works as described, and if it is not > integrated with legal enforcement, does not over reach in the > fashion that most recent intellectual property legislation, and > most recent policy decisions by the patent office over reach.
a. TCPA/Palladium must be integrated with laws which give to the Englobulators absolute legal cudgel powers, such as the DMCA. So far I have not seen any proposal by the Englobulators to repeal the DMCA and cognate laws, so if TCPA/Palladium is imposed, the DMCA will be used, just as HP threatened to use it a couple of days ago. And, of course, today there is no imposed TCPA/Palladium, so the situation will be much worse when there is. b. Why must TCPA/Palladium be a dongle on the whole computer? Why not a separate dongle? Because, of course, the Englobulators proceed here on principle. The principle being that only the Englobulators have a right to own printing presses/music studios/movie and animation studios. > > 2.. Legal departments are full of people who are, among their > many other grievious faults, technologically illiterate. > Therefore when an insider is talking about something, they cannot > tell when he is leaking inside information or not, and tend to > have kittens, because they have to trust him (being unable to tell > if he is leaking information covered by NDA), and are > constitutionally incapable of trusting anyone. > > --digsig There is a business, not yet come into existence, of providing standard crypto services to law offices. oo--JS.
