It has nothing to do with being cowards, they are robots. It's a case of saving a little money at the expense of being excluded from a lot of money.

Piracy laws are very effective... for curbing intentional piracy in businesses because they have too much to lose to break laws like these and they are basically robots with instructions to follow the law.

But they won't outlaw these, what they'd do is prohibit companies that use them from government work/contracts and the government gives away WAY too much of our money to give that up.

The customer already has a high-end, power-managed speakerphone in their pocket.
Nobody needs this object.

They should be making The Orb of All Truth, Facts, and Wisdom,
instead of making Microsoft Intimate Intern - Home Office Edition.

At least OpenAI has that Jonny Ive glass and aluminum money.
No Teenage Engineering plastic trash for them.

These things are giant agriculture robots that can shred or squish or dis-arm you in a blink.
The guidance system is complex and (of course) requires accurate and precise calibration,
interacting with whatever is attached to the bus and mechanicals.
You can see Deere's potential legal liabilities here.

There's an assumption that salt-of-the-earth farmers will know what they're doing,
will follow all documented procedures and not take shortcuts.
Doubtful. They have other work to do.

If Bessent is involved, and taken at all seriously,
then here's no truth or insight to be found with any of them.
Just more banditry.

when Stephen C. Johnson wrote lint for Unix V7?

...of sunk costs.

way too early for Zip.
8" and maybe 5" floppies.

They couldn't type it in and build it as they go thru the code? It can't be that big.
Using OCR seems half ass and lazy,
as if the motivation for those in charge was only to generate some executive PR hype.

Good luck.
Hope you find your beaver.

Does it hurt when you write like that?
All non-perportional and everything?
Seems like it would hurt.

I assume the interested parties are doing what they wish and scooping up everything in some form.
regardless of law or warrant, inadmissible or not.

Whatever they haven't been able to index and archive is considered a fault to be remedied.
The law is just an impediment if a case reaches the courts.

Won't they just run six of them?
You would.