Karl Shah-Jenner <shahjen@iinet.net.au> writes: > Brian writes: > > > Here's an excellent little essay on the fantasy of "copy protection": > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1827/byt1008956384733/1224_oped.html > > great article Brian, but one thing bothers me - the author supports the > comment: > > "digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made > not wet." Huh? Perhaps you've totally missed the point. He doesn't "support" it, any more than I "support" the claim that there are no even prime numbers greater than 2. It just happens to be true. Supposing the Disney Government decided - in its infinite wisdom - that wet T-shirts were one of the biggest evils facing the American Family Way: two possible ways of enforcing a ban would be (a) draconian penalties for wetting a T-shirt (10 years in jail minimum) coupled with Orwellian snooping, or simply (b) banning all access to water, except under government supervision. What is not very plausible is (c) legislation ordaining that all T-shirts will be unwettable. The last is the level of stupidity of the "we're going to stop copying" lobby. All photographers should be concerned that if this gets totally out of hand, when it finally penetrates the thick skull of Valenti and his co-dimwits that (c) isn't possible, you will get (b) instead. This means a "war on lenses", which makes about as much sense, and has as much chance of success as the "war on drugs" or the "war on terror". Brian Chandler ---------------- geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 http://imaginatorium.org/
