Re: [Cdn-DMCA] RE: Rights Management Information

From: "Tom Trottier" <Tom _-at-_ Abacurial.com>
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:53:54 -0500

If RMI is just a work identifier, like an ISBN or ISSN, then I have 
no difficulty with it, and it should be useful for searching and also 
identifying privilege and moral rights holders. Presumably, there 
should be forms compatible with pure text as well as pictures, 
videos, ... Why is legislation necessary?

But I would be leery of it being used to check online for access 
rights. That allows no privacy of access. Read Das Kapital lately? 
How about Mein Kampf? Penthouse? The story of O? Marquis de Sade? 
What's your reading list? 

BTW, apparently the credit card companies in the US have just started 
an initiative to profile possible terrorists by their purchases. Wait 
til they start tracking currency serial numbers....

Tom
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