- Copy
Protection Is a Crime
- 'We all understand that before the law there's leeway - the true
bedrock of human relationships. Sure, we rely on rules to decide
the hard cases, but the rest of the time we cut one another a whole lot
of slack. We have to. That's the only way we humans can
manage to share a world. Otherwise, we'd be at one another's
throats all the time - or, more exactly, our lawyers would be at each
other's throats. Yet we're on the verge of instituting
digital rights
management. What do computers do best? Obey rules.
What do they do worst? Allow latitude. Why? Because
computers don't know when to look the other way'
- ( David Weinberger via
Wired )
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- See also this
Slashdot
discussion
http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
