Comment Foolish analogies (Score 0, Flamebait) 531
I can sum up half the posts so far as follows:
"I have this pencil which can also be used to commit a crime. The goverment ought to outlaw that, by the same logic they use in DeCSS. Now we don't have pencils! The goverment sure is stupid!"
"I have this pencil which can also be used to commit a crime. The goverment ought to outlaw that, by the same logic they use in DeCSS. Now we don't have pencils! The goverment sure is stupid!"
Okay kids, now I'm not a fan of the way IP is handled in the US either. But seriously...DeCSS is not a pencil. It is a tool designed to remove copyright protection from someone's IP.
Are guns a right? Yes. But we don't allow people to own nukes, or certain kinds of guns, either. Why? Because they're explicity designed to do Bad Things, as opposed to possibly being used for Bad Things.
The argument that DeCSS is explicity designed to get around a (questionable) law is CORRECT.
