Re: [Cdn-DMCA] [Fwd: Coming Soon: Hollywood Versus the Internet (fwd)]

From: "Chris Palmer" <cpalmer _-at-_ accesscable.net>
To: "No DMCA in Canada" <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:25:13 -0400
References: <3C206A26.32FBA250@storm.ca>

A related thought on this issue - the sneaky nature of the attack on our
copyright rights - the idea has been floated on programmer sites that this
is the reason why "modern" computer languages like Java and C# compile to an
intermediate language (JVM, CLR)  instead of directly to machine language
the way  C or C++ do; the intermediate language could prevent copying
copyright files or prohibit access to certain files or writing CD's and
such. In the mean time a computer science curriculum that ignores lower
skills like assembler coding results in fewer and fewer people with the
skills necessary to defeat encryption or write CD files. Perhaps Assembler,
C, or C++ could ultimately be declared illegal, or useable only by licensed
engineers. Maybe Visual Basic will become the only legal language??

A different thought, has anyone noticed that the recent raft of under $200
DVD players, they are all  Region 1 only and have no commands to change
region?


> Seen on another list:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Coming Soon: Hollywood Versus the Internet
> Mike Goodwin - mneumonic@well.com
>
> If you have a fast computer and a fast connection to the Internet, you
> make Hollywood nervous. And Tinseltown is nervous not because of what
> you're doing now, but because of what you *might* do -- grab digital
> Hollywood content with your computer and broadcast it over the Internet.
>
..............

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