At 5:23 PM -0500 1/9/01, Ray Dillinger wrote:
But if Microsoft and its ilk do in fact successfully create systems that prevent "piracy", it won't be possible to be a hypocrite about it any more. And with commercial software flatly refusing some kinds of use, perhaps a fair number of people who now *think* they are not doing any piracy will have to face some harsh facts.
Or you can realize that you were exercising "fair use" and the software companies are now going to use technical means to prevent you from exercising your right on copyrighted works. It will only me a matter of time before some hacker provides the necessary tools to exercise our "fair use" right again. -- Matt Elliott High Performance Data Management Team 217-265-0257 mailto:melliott@ncsa.uiuc.edu