so anyway, news.com decided to write up two wonderful articles on the
DMCA and decided to link to decss.exe, the very verboten code that
ended up getting 2600 (but none of the other news services that
I find this all incredibly funny really.  Congress _and_ the courts
relaly do need to be considering how laws such as the DMCA are
applied.  For the most part, these rules are coming down to whose
friend you happen to be, how nefarious the defendant party is, and how
asleep the judge is behind the case (asleep/self-interested/bought).
Its giving me a real cynical view on being a lawyer, thats for sure.

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Re: erratum [Re: no matter ...] & errors
From fork-admin@xent.com  Mon Oct  7 21:56:36 2002

>>>"The United States is the only country in the world to tax its citizens
>>                              If they manage to emulate the process
>>that occurred in Northern Ireland, then maybe in 20 years or so
>>they'll be yelling at each other across the floor of some legislative
>>assembly instead.  Label me an optimist.
>must've been plenty of places it worked
I'm not sure what you mean by "let's you and him fight", but it is
important to remember that England was in control of Ireland
for 300 years, and that it was only thanks to the distraction of WW I
that the south managed to gain its independence. If you mean
splitting countries upon arbitrary lines and assigning different groups
to opposite sides of the line, it also seems to have not worked in
I suppose Canada, which is supposed to be a "loose confederation" of 2
founding nations (French and English) can be cited as a success. The
jury is still out, but so far only a few brief rebellions and
referendums and such, still together after 130+ years.