what moral obligation? (Re: DRM technology and policy)

[Declan McCullagh]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:43:27PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> Given that a tax is already collected to make backups of music (the 
> 1992 Home Recording Act levies a tax on blank media), if one were to 
> buy a CD at Tower Records and then not be able to make a copy, one 

Remember what the freedom-loving Bush administration did today
in a deal inked with the freedom-loving Singaporean government:

http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-1000110.html?tag=lh
>Under the deal, Singapore agrees to prevent its citizens from
>manufacturing optical discs unless they hold "a valid license to do
>so." 

The actual text is here:
http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Singapore/consolidated_texts.htm

-Declan