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> Any digital, private communications channel can be used for private protected > correspondence, or to transfer works that are under copyright monopoly. > In order to prevent copyright monopoly violations from happening in such > channels, the only means possible is to wiretap all private digital > communications to discover when copyrighted works are being communicated. As > a side effect, you would eliminate private communications as a concept. There > is no way to sort communications into legal and illegal without breaching the > postal secret – the activity of sorting requires observation. > Therefore, as a society, we are at a crossroads where we can make a choice > between privacy and the ability to communicate in private, with all the other > things that depend on that ability (like whistleblower protections and > freedom of the press), or a distribution monopoly for a particular > entertainment industry. These two have become mutually exclusive and cannot > coexist, which is also why you see the copyright industry lobbying so hard > for more surveillance, wiretapping, tracking, and data retention (they > understand this perfectly). -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
