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Re: copy protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Dillinger)
Mon Dec 25 13:50:37 2000
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 09:43:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
To: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
Cc: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de, Lenny Foner <foner@media.mit.edu>,
cryptography@c2.net
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On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Jay Holovacs wrote:
>I expect the approach will make the software refuse to install on
>noncompliant disks. They already have extensive equipment requirements,
>adding compliant disks to the list (especially when virtually all machines
>are shipping with them) is trivial.
I figure they'll probably lobby congress for a "copyright tax" to be
levied on all noncompliant drives, creating a price differential where
the copy-protected drives are cheaper. Such taxes are already in place
in many countries.
Bear
