Laws are always behind the technology curve (Score 1)

Lawmakers, increasinly in the US anyway, seem out of touch with reality. Perhaps it's a sideeffect of being in power for decades, stagnation sets in. In any case, lawmakers have shown again and again that they do not, or cannot, grasp modern technology, and the laws they have passed reflect this. Money, as always, talks, and that shows as well (Digital Millenium Copyright Act, for example). But ironically, technology continues, in spite of the laws passed, or to circumvent a particular law. This will always occur, as the rate of advance of technolgy will always outrun the number of lawmakers who understand what they are trying to regulate.