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I'm not splitting hairs -- suing a company for cloning a CPU, versus spying on citizens to preemptively check that they're not pirating -- the difference isn't
by uvdiv 14y ago
I'm not splitting hairs -- suing a company for cloning a CPU, versus spying on citizens to preemptively check that they're not pirating -- the difference isn't a hair, it's an enormous gulf. I'm not hostile to slippery-slope rhetoric, but you have to make it credible; this is over-the-top.
- bediger4000 14y agoBut the spying/surveillance is what we see happening: Google for "six strikes" and see what you find. Google for "The Unbearable Lightness of Monitoring", let me know what you find. We also have a lot of "spying" precedents in the USA. Google "CALEA", "DCS-3000", "DCS-6000". Once something becomes illegal, almost nothing will be spared to suppress it. The NSA is almost certainly snooping on almost every US citizen, with the aid of telecomm companies. Google for "Room 641A". They aren't even looking for specific crimes, they're just monitoring. Google for "crypto wars" to see what the USA wanted to do. Read especially the specifics of Skipjack that you can find. Ask yourself why cryptography was so nearly suppressed. I don't really think this is over-the-top: it's almost factual, very little separates us from a really tight "IP" control regime.