| I must say that I accept that the TCPA, Fritz and palladium all exist, as long as they exist as opt-in components. I don't think I'll ever really respect it, but I'll accept it, since I think that every man must be allowed is he/she wants. So if intel and microsoft want to manufacture these things, who am I to stop them?
However, the fact that people are actually suggesting laws (at least in the U.S., I hope they'll never strike over here), is really worrying. I hear that this new "Disney-founded" Hollings bill is actually suggesting that every single digital equipment (including portable CD players and everything) _must_ have one of these Fritz (I wonder if could have something with Fritz Hollings to do...) chips in them. I really can't understand how someone could even consider submitting such a bill.
And on top of all that, the D.M.C.A. is already to close as un-constitutional as it gets (I think it was something that all these DeCSS-like programs are allowed, since that's enforced by the consitution, but that the D.M.C.A. makes it unlawful to distribute them... Judge for yourselves if that's constitutional or not...)
I don't know if you've read Stallman's "Right to Read" novel, but he truly appears to have been before his time. | 
What does everyone think about it here? I'm very worried about. How anyone can say MS is good beats me. They are boody evil 
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