"...the assumption that we are all copyright outlaws"
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: "...the assumption that we are all copyright outlaws"
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:19:47 -0400
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ4IB5MLKC
Thieves R Us
Computer makers are building equipment on the
assumption that we are all copyright outlaws
Mike Godwin
The American Lawyer
April 18, 2001
Every year or two I upgrade to a newer, faster
Mac laptop, and this means I go through a
now-familiar ritual of hooking up the new
machine to the old one through a cable or local
area network and copying everything --
software, data (including my MP3 music
collection), and settings -- to the new
machine. So you can imagine my surprise and
horror when I heard reports recently that a new
standard for consumer hard drives would make
this kind of copying difficult or maybe even
impossible.
The reports may have been at least partially
wrong, as it turns out. But I think they raise
important issues, and ones we ought to be
thinking about now.
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