Actually, it's probably an added layer of protection (probably easily broken) that will only be used if applications call for it to be used, as with the stuff that Microsoft included in Windows Vista and 7, which caused no problems to most if not all people.
No, they won't. The fact is that I have NEVER had a situation where DRM such as this interfered with my doing anything on my computer, even 'illegal' stuff like ripping DVD's and Blu-Ray's.
You also forget that this DRM will ONLY BE USED IF THE APPLICATIONS IN QUESTION ASK FOR IT TO BE USED!
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Yeah, in a pig's eye! The fact is that if there are more Wikileaks and 'dead drops' for government information, maybe government will stop trying to hide all it's embarrassing stuff and BE HONEST with us about what they are doing in our name.
Exactly. The fact is that if I saw records that showed that American companies were selling Afghani boys as sex slaves, I would wonder what else was going on and might do a 'total rip' myself of anything below Top Secret and pass it off to Wikileaks myself, were I to have a security clearance.
In a perfect world., that would be the case.... however, we are living in an imperfect world, mostly made that way by the Repukian and conservacreeps drones who don't think that well or rationally.
It is only in China's estimation that pornographers are 'bad people'. Most of them only get a bad rap because people are watching them like hawks, waiting for them to do ONE 'bad' thing so they can jump on the beatdown bandwagon.
Joe, you miss the salient fact that ANYONE can be made to appear a criminal if the police want them to, as well as the NUMEROUS laws that are on the books in America that shouldn't be because they violate human rights in various forms as well as Constitutional rights.
Wake up, Joe.... if you think this will just be used against 'criminals', do something that pisses off the government or someone in power and get back to me on that.... after your 20 years in prison or longer!
Some courts have said yes.... other courts have said no. The Supreme Court, in all their STUPIDITY, has not weighed in on this issue yet and said (right decision here): "NO, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEARCH A PERSON'S LAPTOP JUST BECAUSE IT IS UNENCRYPTED OR UNPASSWORDED!"
They still need a warrant to search your phone if it is on you, Joe. Just like if a cop comes into my home, sees no evidence of criminal wrongdoing just by LOOKING at my COMPUTER, they need a warrant before they can search my computer OR MY PERMISSION.... which I have the right to give them or not give them.
Then, if I don't give permission, they have to get a..... W A R R A N T! What does that spell? WARRANT! Is this so goddamned hard to understand?
Wrong, Joe. Those laws that try to say that it is obstruction are on VERY PRECARIOUS legal standing, because it would be like the police insisting that you tell them every single place you have ever eaten, stayed at (hotel wise), etc. so they could go on a fishing expedition.... which is what any judge with AN OUNCE OF BRAINS would see it as.
I also notice the apologist is once again posting under "Anonymous Coward".... to me, if you cannot put your name or at least a pseudonym attributed to you behind your posts? You don't have much to say nor do you have much right to say it.
On the issue at hand here, this is the SAME EXACT BULLCRAP that the Supreme Court already said that the cops could not do. Searching your person and OUT IN THE OPEN places (a locked box is not 'out in the open'), fine.... anywhere else, no.
Not without a warrant and not without a good justification for that. With the searching of people's clothing, it is meant to cut down on the chances of cops being physically injured because someone has a weapon on them.
With searching phones? Sorry, doesn't apply, and don't give me that bullcrap about "Evidence might be destroyed!" Evidence of what? You are usually being pulled over for speeding, that doesn't give the police carte blanche to assume that you are a rapist, murderer, or drug dealer!
You aren't going to get sensible options from people who assume that every person lending a game to another person = a lost sale.
You have to tell them "No, that does NOT equal a lost sale, no more than someone allowing their brother/sister to play their copy of a game does!" and slap them down with the law, by ILLEGALIZING DRM PERIOD!
The reality is not only 10%. I don't know where you are getting that number, A. Coward, but the 3 out of 4 being rejected number is closer to the reality of things.
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You also forget that this DRM will ONLY BE USED IF THE APPLICATIONS IN QUESTION ASK FOR IT TO BE USED!
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Wake up, Joe.... if you think this will just be used against 'criminals', do something that pisses off the government or someone in power and get back to me on that.... after your 20 years in prison or longer!
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Answer: They are not going through the data as much as you would think they are.
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Then, if I don't give permission, they have to get a..... W A R R A N T! What does that spell? WARRANT! Is this so goddamned hard to understand?
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On the issue at hand here, this is the SAME EXACT BULLCRAP that the Supreme Court already said that the cops could not do. Searching your person and OUT IN THE OPEN places (a locked box is not 'out in the open'), fine.... anywhere else, no.
Not without a warrant and not without a good justification for that. With the searching of people's clothing, it is meant to cut down on the chances of cops being physically injured because someone has a weapon on them.
With searching phones? Sorry, doesn't apply, and don't give me that bullcrap about "Evidence might be destroyed!" Evidence of what? You are usually being pulled over for speeding, that doesn't give the police carte blanche to assume that you are a rapist, murderer, or drug dealer!
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People can publish their OWN books today very easily, therefore the 'publishing industry' isn't really needed anymore.
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You have to tell them "No, that does NOT equal a lost sale, no more than someone allowing their brother/sister to play their copy of a game does!" and slap them down with the law, by ILLEGALIZING DRM PERIOD!
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