The Null Device

Security guru Simson Garfinkel reckons that the DMCA and the ban on DVD decryption will inevitably fall and the MPAA will end up losing. I'm not so sure; given how much money there is riding on keeping artificial scarcity and preserving the hegemony of multinational content companies, I suspect that we're merely witnessing the opening salvos of a War On Copying to rival the War On Drugs in ferocity and scope. (Remember all those people who've been predicting the legalisation of marijuana, year after year, for the past three or four decades?)

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