On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, James A. Donald wrote:
-- On 2 Aug 2002 at 10:43, Trei, Peter wrote:
Since the position argued involves nothing which would invoke the malign interest of government powers or corporate legal departments, it's not that. I can only think of two reasons why our corrospondent may have decided to go undercover...
I can think of two innocuous reasons, though the real reason is probably something else altogether:
1. Defending copyright enforcement is extremely unpopular because it seemingly puts you on the side of the hollywood cabal, but in fact TCPA/Paladium, if it works as described, and if it is not integrated with legal enforcement, does not over reach in the fashion that most recent intellectual property legislation, and most recent policy decisions by the patent office over reach.
a. TCPA/Palladium must be integrated with laws which give to the Englobulators absolute legal cudgel powers, such as the DMCA. So far I have not seen any proposal by the Englobulators to repeal the DMCA and cognate laws, so if TCPA/Palladium is imposed, the DMCA will be used, just as HP threatened to use it a couple of days ago. And, of course, today there is no imposed TCPA/Palladium, so the situation will be much worse when there is. b. Why must TCPA/Palladium be a dongle on the whole computer? Why not a separate dongle? Because, of course, the Englobulators proceed here on principle. The principle being that only the Englobulators have a right to own printing presses/music studios/movie and animation studios.
2.. Legal departments are full of people who are, among their many other grievious faults, technologically illiterate. Therefore when an insider is talking about something, they cannot tell when he is leaking inside information or not, and tend to have kittens, because they have to trust him (being unable to tell if he is leaking information covered by NDA), and are constitutionally incapable of trusting anyone.
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