X-Message-Number: 21336 Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 06:50:03 -0800 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Experts: Copyright law hurts technology http://news.com.com/2100-1023-990689.html?tag=fd_top Experts: Copyright law hurts technology By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 1, 2003, 4:30 PM PT BERKELEY, Calif.--Attempts to protect copyrighted material have strayed from their original purpose, say lawyers, technologists and academics, but few can agree on the solution. Speaking Friday at a University of California at Berkeley conference on the law and policy of digital rights management, experts from all circles seem to agree that more is going wrong than right with the current approach to protecting digital content. Moreover, they argue that current laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--which makes cracking copyright protections illegal, even when otherwise acceptable under other laws--are serving the extremes, not the mainstream populace. [cont.] Just wait until they get a load of the concept of transparent surveillance wherein everyone's brain computer AI implant interface records everything our eyes see, ears hear, noses smell, skin feel and tongue tastes, not to mention expanded capabilities such as enhanced sensory with the likes of infrared visual, DNA and/or chemical composition decoding upon touch and ultrasound sonar, just to mention a tiny tiny few. That's right my vision of transhuman capabilities is this far reaching and much much more. What happens to the definition and laws regarding of pornography when just having your eyes open during sex amounts to making an adult video? James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ While there follow the links to photos of me and some of my artwork and a radio interview on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality". A RELIGION I actually recommend: http://www.venturist.org A FAVORITE quote: Last lines of the first Star Trek the Next Generation movie. Capt. Picard: "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived, after all Number One, we're only mortal." Will Ryker: "Speak for yourself captain, I intend to live forever!" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21336