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Comment Re:Gunshots (Score 1) 186

by NcF on Monday February 26, 2007 @08:36PM (#18161144) Attached to: Surveillance Cameras Get Smarter

Interestingly enough, even if there were no official laws, there would still be a government of sorts in place, however, on much smaller scales. Each government would likely ban many offenses, such as murder, rape, etc., leaving us with a fully working society, even if broken apart. The only thing that really goes up in such a system is government-to-government fights.

DRM and the Myth of the Analog Hole 314

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 29, 2006 @09:06PM from the scuttle-the-screencap dept.

Art Grimm writes "Movie studios want to punish legitimate customers for legally purchasing content, while the real pirates go right on stealing. ZDNet's George Ou writes: "There seems to be a persistent myth floating around the board rooms of the movie companies and Congress that analog content is the boogie man of music and video piracy. In fact, they're so paranoid about it that they're considering a mechanism called ICT (Image Constraint Token) that punishes law-abiding customers for content that they legally purchased. But ironically, the real content pirates who make millions of bootleg movies have no intention of ever taking advantage of the so called "analog hole" because that is the slowest and lowest quality method of stealing content.""

SCOTUS To Hear Patentable Thought Case 394

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 19, 2006 @02:45PM from the get-out-of-my-head dept.

skayell writes "The Supreme Court of the United States will hear a landmark patent case involving whether or not thoughts and relationships are patentable. Michael Crichton's essay in the New York Times attempts a thoughtful summary of Metabolite's primary assertion: they not only own the connection between homocysteine levels in the blood and vitamin B12 deficiency, but also any thought connecting the two."

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