Re: DVD copying and CSS
Regarding the US constitution, I consider the most
important word in that clause to be "limited". This is
not just to ensure that inventors and writers get
their
exclusive use. This is to ensure that wide scale use
of
those ideas is possible with the public domain AFTER
the limited time the originators get special
protection.
If "limited" had anything to do with Copyright any
more,
I'd be defending it like crazy. However, with the
endless copyright now in place (The Mouse will never
enter the public domain!) there is effectively no
public domain unless some originator deliberately and
specifically puts it there.
Like civil forfeiture, copyright has been abused. That
abuse should be resisted by everyone.
Long live CSS.
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