Surprise! Copyrights Misdirect Congress
Copyright problems? Not to worry. Washington's on it. Florida Congressman Cliff Stearns, concerning the movie industry's inability to limit copies: "I can't think that this is not a solvable challenge. Why don't we make it the copyright equivalent of the race to the moon. We went to the moon almost 40 years ago - it seems to me technology should afford a means of limiting the number of copies we can make of a protected work."More here.
Tim Lee of The Technology Liberation Front notes: "Files are just strings of 1s and 0s. Computers manipulate 1s and 0s. There's no such thing as an uncopyable 1 or 0, so there's no such thing as an uncopyable file. If you've got one copy of a file, you can make as many copies of it as you like. That's just the way computers work."
Encrypt till you smoke your hard drive. As long as a file is destined for human consumption, it must reveal itself to speakers and/or video display. In that process, the file can be easily intercepted.
Then one person with an Internet connection anywhere on Earth can drop it to BitTorrent and the world.
posted by Fergie @ 11/18/2005 08:45:00 AM
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