On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:10:26 +0800, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:50:27 +0800, proc ps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > why not scanners? > > Probably because the aforementioned board is quite technologically > short-sighted? I dunno. > > > > up next: every CD burner will read the barcode on the CD-R (they > > > already do) and every CD-R manufacturer will have to put a unique > > > serial on each CD-R for taxation purposes. Also, the CD burner will > > > not write to this special CD-R unless you have the special AMI "DRM > > > BIOS." > > > > all for taxes. i see nothing that will protect the content with all > > these barcodes and bios bs. just alot of money grabbing. > > I agree. And the CD burner is ruled by technology. It's still another > technological constraint that can be circumvented. > > I do believe the Schneier article had a very good point: technological > constraints do not last.
There was a similar incident in some US state in the past where they legislated the value of PI to be equal to 3. While they can legislate "digital rights management" it won't hold out for long as it really goes against the reality that digital media begets to be copied in its inherent nature. The only thing I see in maintaining the status quo of charging per reproduction of digital material and subsequent attempts for DRM is one simple explanation - corporate greed. In order to maintain the very profitable business they'd go as far as pushing for legislative measures. Well, we could legislate that gravity does not exist, but there's this natural law: what comes up must go down. In a similar way they're legislating for something against the very nature of digital media. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
