Ross's TCPA paper

[Tim May]

On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 07:15  PM, Mike Rosing wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
>
>>     --
>> On 1 Jul 2002 at 15:06, Tim May wrote:
>>> I have strong views on all this DRM and TCPA stuff, and
>>> especially on the claim that some form of DRM is needed to
>>> prevent government from taking over control of the "arts."
>>>
>>> But we said everything that needed to be said _years_ ago. No
>>> point in repeating the same points.
>>
>> No, it does need to be said again.
>
> I agree it needs to be said over and over again.  But for a different
> reason.
>
> There are always new people to teach.  New kids born every day,
> who don't have the history, nor any clue that there *is* a history.
> Old folks who never pain any attention before because it didn't
> concern them, but now it does.
>
> I would be willing to bet the ancient Greeks argued about many of the 
> same
> things we do now, and in much the same way.  The time scale has changed,
> but the basic ethics hasn't.

Then say it. I'm not stopping you.

I explained why _I've_ already said it several dozen times, not why you 
or others shouldn't.

(Helpful advice: Realize that those to whom it needs to be said won't be 
listening to you and that those who are listening don't need to hear it 
for the fifth time. And realize that crossposters from Perrypunks are 
not interested.)


--Tim May
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things 
have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to 
make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?" 
--Alexander Solzhenitzyn, Gulag Archipelago