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Can you trust your computer?

��Treacherous computing� is a more appropriate name, because the plan is designed to make sure your computer will systematically disobey you. In fact, it is designed to stop your computer from functioning as a general-purpose computer. Every operation may require explicit permission.�

CDR – Welcom page

�[�] companies publish guides telling consumers what they cannot do in the digital world. For these companies, consumers have no rights in buying CDs, DVDs or other digital material – apart from a few generously bestowed exceptions!
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The time has come to guarantee consumers certain basic rights in the digital world, and to tell them what they can do with their digital hardware/content.�

OpenP2P.com: Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution

�We don�t have a substantial piracy problem in the US and Europe.�

TP: Home Taping Saves Music

�In einem Kommentar dazu berichten die Erben eines puertoricanischen Musikers davon, dass sie �ber 100 Werke ihres Vaters nur �ber Sammler wieder fanden, da die zugeh�rigen Plattenfirmen l�ngst nicht mehr existierten. Die nach Ansicht der Plattenbranche illegalen Sammler und Tauscher erhalten also kulturelle Werte, die sich mit modernem DRM und Kopierschutz l�ngst selbst zerst�rt h�tten��

10 Big Myths about copyright explained

�This document is still protected by you-know-what even though it has no copyright notice.�

A brief intro to copyright

�Copyright law secures for the creator of a creative effort the exclusive right to control who can make copies, or make works derived from the original work. There are a lot of subtleties and international variations but that�s the gist of it. If you create something, and it fits the definition of a creative work, you get to control who can make copies of it and how they make copies, with some important exceptions.�