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As these examples show, the death of copyright does not mean the death of intellectual property. It does mean that producers of intellectual property must find other ways of getting paid for their work. The first step is recognizing that, in the long run, simply enforcing existing law is not going to be an option.

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[Sat Mar 6 00:37:53 PST 2004-65] Leopold (NOSPAMleopold_the_cat@yahoo.com.NOSPAM):
This is completely wrong. Microsoft/Intel "Trustworthy computing" will make the copyright 100% enforceable:

1. Your computer will not allow you to use any content provided in the protected format if you did not license it. Moreover, it will report you to the copyright holders and the police.

2. The goverment will empose the criminal penalties on every maker and user of the software that would allow you to provide the copyrighted content in non-protected format. This is exactly what DMCA is about.
[Fri Oct 29 21:27:13 EDT 2004-302] jomama:
Which police will come to get me if I live in Borneo, or Somalia, or some other place?

Don't you think there's a way around every 'protected' format?
[Fri Feb 4 03:11:41 EST 2005-34] Monsyne Dragon (NOSPAMdragondm@integral.org.NOSPAM):
Re: first comment: No it won't. It won't because of one of the basic properties of computers, called Turing equivalence. The DRM'ed content will *think* it is running on a perfectly licenced "trustworthy" Microsoft Windows system, when infact the "system" is really an emulation running on my Linux box with keys cracked from intel's "trustworthy" crypto hardware chips by a teenager in Bulgaria and distributed over the net. The output will go to what the content thinks is "trustworthy" chunk of output hardware, but is really a software emulation that saves the decoded content to disk. And the police won't come, because the "trustworthy" network device that it would talk to to send the notification is really a software emulation that analyzes all traffic and blocks any such notifications from ever going out.

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