September 23, 2004 12:00 PM PDT
Jail time for California file swappers?
Minors can be fined up to $250 for their first two offenses, and a minor's third offense can bring a $1,000 fine and a year in county jail. The law provides exemptions for people sending works to immediate family members and for the transmission of works inside a home network.
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Innovation and invention will belong to the rest of the world while we are stifled by corporate greed and government corruption and mediocrity.
The turn-over has begun. I'm moving.
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- these laws are 100% pointless
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September 27, 2004 10:09 AM PDT
- As a Libertarian, i have great respect for private property and consider it the foundation of our free society. That said, as an IT professional, i realize that a) no encryption scheme will work if someone can redirect the output of their speaker/TV leads to a recording device; b) technology is rapidly developing to the point where it will be impossible to block transmission of information from points A to B; and c) bandwidth limitations will soon cease to be a factor.
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(7 Comments)Given these realities, there is no way that intellectual property sharing can be eliminated without also eliminating most of the economic benefits of the internet. Therefore, in a short period of time our current model for intellectual production will become invalid and unless we make radical reforms in our system intellectual production will break down, and we will be overtaken by totalitarian socialist states such as China which do not have our problem.