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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think that is vanishingly unlikely. There are lots of things that people "don't like" - eg taxes - but you have to have them. What I think is more likely is that sooner over later the technology will catch up with the criminals, and that we'll get effective DRM once again.
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I didn't say "don't like", I said "didn't believe in", which is completely different. When the vast majority of the populace don't believe in a law,
any law, it gets either repealed, or "dead lettered". That was the hard-nosed lesson of American alcohol Prohibition (1920-1933). A well-funded, very vocal minority, got a major legal change passed to abolish alcohol, because of all of it's well known ills. The problem was that the
majority of Americans "didn't believe in" the idea an occasional beer was evil. The result was massive civil disobedience, and the rise of a violent organized crime infrastructure to supply the demand. After 13 years, it was repealed, never to arise again. When the vast majority of voters have grown up downloading, they aren't going to vote for politicians backing draconian laws for a few major corporation's existence. Now people like me and you can keep the "cork in" for a time, youth will eventually triumph over age...
Technology hasn't been able to put a "cork in" copying technology since 1947, I don't see it happening in the next 20 years. By then we'll be in the voting minority...