Unintended Agenda
Dan Gilmor writes
about the efforts of the entertainment cartel at
the "Agenda 2003" conference ...
The entertainment cartel is winning where it counts
in the short term: Congress, which the cartel all but owns.
He does not go on to say anything about the medium term
or the longer term.
My opinion is that in these cases, the "short term" lasts
at most a month before whatever crippled media distribution
formats they choose are broken or copied out to the entire
world.
To the extent that they can buy votes
in Congress for crippled semi-computers, and/or to
make such copying illegal, those votes will just buy
more civil disobedience, and even less respect for
the rules of federal law. This is one of those
unintended consequences of laws not thought through.
11:21:09 AM
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