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Originally Posted by HansTWN
A certain loss certainly is built into the system. They are not targets of such legislation.
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Not these specific laws, maybe, but there are constant pushes by the entertainment lobbies to get laws passed that DO prevent any and all types of copying for any purposes whatsoever. For instance, attempts to end the "fair use" doctrine:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08...doch-vows.html
and attempts to close the "analog hole" with restrictions built into HDMI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ba...ent_Protection
The various entertainment industries very much want not only control over every single viewing/listening/reading of their work, they want to be able to TRACK every use. Such as when Circuit City attempted to kill DVD with DIVX:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
The powers-that-be in the entertainment industry are Orwellian thugs. And no number of laws and filters are going to keep their obsolete business model of artificial scarcity alive.
I'm not claiming that I know what will
replace their artificial scarcity, futile copy-locking model. I don't know how content creators will manage to make money in the future. But I do know that the RIAA, MPAA, and their pet politicians will-- in the long term-- fail, dry up, and blow away.