Locking Up Your Rights
Can it be illegal to give people the tools to break into their own property? The U.S. government thinks so...
NEWSWEEK March 18 issue -- Alexander Katalov never asked to be a commuter between his native Russia and Silicon Valley. His software company was doing quite well, thank you, without a presence in California. But now he often finds himself in an apartment in San Mateo, taking Caltrain to the federal courthouse in San Jose, where his company is criminally charged with violating a law known to few Americans, let alone Russian businessmen. [Newsweek]
...according to the RIAA, and the MPAA, we have no rights. They want to own it all and have control over anything we do with the things we have bought. That is why I will never buy copy-protected material...mj
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