They said that about the DMCA, too. Guess what -- it passed!genestarwind21122 wrote:This seems to be way to over the top to be passed.
As far as your other questions:
IT DOESN'T MATTER. I don't see why this is so hard to understand.
If this passes, future technologies will have these safeguards built in. AT SOME POINT, you may want to upgrade -- say, to make use of a new technology. (This is not a fantastic scenario; new compression technologies routinely require more processing power, for example.)
But the new devices you can buy will be locked down like this, and thus will you have to submit to these limitations. Or not use those technologies at all, and thus limit yourself.
As far as the "well, it'll just be broken" argument goes:
EXACTLY. It DOESN'T -- people find ways around it.Vlad G Pohnert wrote: Really people...
I've been around quite a while and seen this kind of crap has been tried to implement against the tape recorder, cassette tapes and VCRs... IT NEVER WORKS and is just plain stupidity... I've not yet know any of this kind of crap to ever stop people from recording, copying, etc...
BUT, two points:
Why would you ALLOW it to happen in the first place?
Why are you so complacent? (Besides the fact that you're Canadian.)
Yes, it is. I'm amazed at the number of people here who can't seem to see past stuff like the above, or cannot/will not apply this legislation to fields outside of AMVs. Like software development. (Given how much free/open source stuff is used here, I find that quite surprising, too.)Flint the Dwarf wrote: Oh come on, is it really that surprising?