--- On Sun, 12/4/11, Bret Indrelee <[email protected]> wrote: > There is going to be a lot of cultural information lost > that way. Consider that copyright holders have no > responsibility to maintain the data nor distrubute it once > it goes public domain. Furthermore, it is illegal in the USA > to extract data that has gone into the public domain because > of the DMCA. The data may be public domain, but extracting > it requires defeating a security key.
If someone found an encrypted flash drive with all the books and scrolls thought lost in the various fires of the library in Alexandria, I think it's safe to say there would be changes made to the law ... In more general terms, I don't think it's workable to assume a current law dealing with technology will remain unchanged in 100 or 500 years. Slow to change? Sure. But unchanged? No. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
