website previously posted on Sunday 03/11/2002 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Very interesting read. I don't know about America, but Australia has things called referendums. They're hard to force, but if public opinion is strong enough the Australia government generally will set up a referendum. We really need to kill this idea NOW. Stop it before companies like Intel and Microsoft can fully introduce it. I'm not stupid, most governments secretly want it, it will allow them to TOTALLY control us. They'll let microsoft/intel introduce it and then hijack the standards themselves (pissing intel/microsoft off in the process no doubt). The best way is to send that email link off to every friend, relative that you have. Talk to them, explain to them what it will mean, what it potentially will (OK we all know it will) do. The public *must* voice its opinion on this now to all world governments and stop it. It is anti competitive for starters (but hey i've long said the US government is corrupt), but I don't see it being stopped because of that. Say, my .doc file won't open in either star office or openoffice. Hell, my old pc is useless (can't surf the net etc etc etc) because it doesn't conform to the new chipsets/palladium software. We'll be blackmailed into accepting this shite (shite: noun, commonly used in Ireland, meaning totally shit). Personally, i'm very anti religion, very anti government, very anti modern fiscal policy. They are all evil implementations of control over the normal populace. For those that haven't read it/heard it, the US senate recently passed a bill allowing the RIAA, recording companies, movie studios et al to DDos or virus attack software pirates, with no ramifications from the law. Well...I call that hypocrisy personally. I really want to see this happen cos then crackers worldwide will unite and take down these dickheads (although they'd be employing the same tactics its illegal, go figure). What is this all about? Three things. Money. Power. Control. Sorry, but this boy doesn't like being controlled. How many of you guys build your own PCs from oem hardware? I bet quite a few. You can kiss that goodbye under the palladium consortium. It'll be something like "sorry, this is oem hardware, not an official build from dell etc, so it won't boot. We'll be forced to use old hardware, old software, won't be able to even share documents with friends and families because our "old" hardware isn't palladium compatible. Makes you wonder eh? Let's see...another example. Oh, this new software. It won't work unless you have a particular hardware set, say a intel pentium 6, 7ghz CPU. If you have anything less than that the software won't play (not because of technical merits, but because marketing wants you to buy a new shiny CPU). Remember this is a US led idea, by US based companies. Why the fuck should it affect or control the world? I'm not being anti us here in general (the people are fine, the government sucks major - but then all governments do). The US industry(ies) and government do not have the right to introduce legislation locally and then expect that to be rammed down every other countries throat(s). Sure they can introduce it in USA. I have no problems with that. But these large corporations shouldn't then try and ram it down my throat as I live in Australia. This is what they are trying to do, by trying to make palladium a world wide movement. Bah...my 2nd dummyspit/whine for November...and I only wanted to do it once....oh well Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
