On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:39:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > There have been efforts in the U.S. to undo the effects of _Feist_ > through legislation. One example is the "Collections of Information > Antipiracy Act"[1]. (I don't think that bill passed.) Lobbyists apparently tried to get it bought a few years in a row, but were unsuccessful. The following URL has a ton of information and links: http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/database.html I suspect that rather than give up, the database interests have merely changed tactics. Price is no object when you stand to reap a government-protected monopoly windfall. Ain't the free market great? -- G. Branden Robinson | To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to branden@debian.org | unlearn old falsehoods. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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