At the risk of steering dangerously off-topic, I recommend
reading the information available at
http://trustedpc.org, a
scary consortium of some very large players hard at work
at turning the personal computer into an entertainment industry
controlled home AV component.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Document copy protection
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Arno Kletzander wrote:
>
> > Even if it's a bit complicated, this would at least allow you to print
> > the contents of those manuals the original viewer doesn't want you to.
> > Legality of such operations is another problem; I do not want to
> > encourage illegal actions. But I also don't want to see perfectly
> > repairable appliances go to the dumpster. Choose your way...
>
> As long as the viewer program can be loaded and run on your computer, it
> can be "debugged".
>
> That's what amazes me about all this silly copy protection and rights
> management nonsense. Ultimately, in order for what they are selling to be
> a product that humans will want, it has to somehow come out of our
> computer and go into our sense organs. As long as that data goes into the
> computer, it can be liberated.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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