20 Jun
2002
20 Jun
'02
5:21 a.m.
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(a)siconic.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Document copy protection
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Arno Kletzander wrote:
Festival
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
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