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Academics and legal scholars are claiming that
copy control technologies deprive consumers of legitimate rights.
The technologies in question include Microsoft's Product Activation technology
(which will require new Windows installations to be registered and activated
from Redmond), CPRM (hardware copy control coming to your next hard disk) and
SDMI. Some are calling for amendments to copyright laws giving consumers more
fair-use rights. Mind you, given that this is just a bunch of bleeding-heart
leftists in ivory towers, with no "soft money" to donate to election campaigns,
this will probably be given as much heed in the Real World as other academic
proposals (such as equation formatting in HTML 3.0).