Arthur Cordell wrote: > Information technology is transformative. It changes everything. Whether > or not one likes patents on software or hardware, the idea of patenting and > copyright is challenged and will be changed by IT. > > When a law is unenforceable (viz. file sharing a la Napster, et. al.) then > it is no law at all.
But alas, the jurists are trying hard to stop the free development and to channel it into the lucrative goals of their paymasters (viz. the destruction of Napster by court sentences). Like Gates himself (son of a jurist, btw), the jurists have slept over the technical development of the Internet for a long time, but now that they realize that it threatens to subvert their absolute power (over all 3 estates and the 4th too), they're trying hard to catch up on it (liability for links and such idiocies). If/where they win, the results are ugly for the public... Chris
