And we're all waiting for the first court case where the claim will be used that the legally downloaded music from an illegal site became legal once it was put on such a taxed disk.
The tax on blank media is intended to cover copyright entitlements for legally purchased materials copied onto alternate media. More info here:
T2FA states: The files that the numbers were located in are marked with a warning saying the release of its contents is "prohibited by federal law".
How enforceable is this? Might he actually be liable for releasing the information to news agencies? Is it any different than accidentally being copied on an e-mail stating that it's a crime to release the contents of the e-mail if you're not the intended recipient?
Are any of those disclaimers enforceable anyway?
"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
