On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 08:51, Seth David Schoen wrote: > The lawyers working on this stuff are veterans of successful > legislative efforts like the Audio Home Recording Act and the Digital > Millennium Copyright Act I'd rather call this the biggest legislative failure in the past century. > Sure, some > of the legislation they worked on was seriously flawed, and much of it > doesn't exist outside the U.S. But it should be clear that copyright > and patent interests in the U.S. are having a powerful effect on > legislation in Europe. Not really. As long as these legislations don't exist outside the US, there's nothing to worry about. Why do you think encryption software, even though export is forbidden in the US, still exists outside the US? Because other countries do allow export, so this software is created elsewhere. > Anyway, I'm here trying to draw attention to this because I really > think things like this are going to be bad for free software, not only > in the U.S., but eventually everywhere. Good thing, but I don't think it'll be that bad. In the US, it'll be bad (but I'm getting used to that after some time). In other countries, there will be reason and this legislation won't come through (I hope). Ronald -- - .-. - /V\ | Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - // \\ | Running: Linux 2.4.18-XFS and OpenBSD 3.0 - /( )\ | http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ - ^^-^^
