Re: [dvd-discuss] Court-sanctioned spying on users

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

Oh...don't give Uncle Bill any ideas...Maybe in the next set of mandatory 
upgrades will be the command to spam congress with emails of "stop hurting 
Uncle Bill...what's good for Bill is good for America, The World and all the 
Solar System if not the universe!"

On 3 May 2002 at 15:49, Scott A Crosby wrote:

Date sent:      	Fri, 3 May 2002 15:49:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:           	Scott A Crosby <crosby@qwes.math.cmu.edu>
To:             	<dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Subject:        	[dvd-discuss] Court-sanctioned spying on users
Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu

> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3186191.htm
> 
> ``A federal magistrate in Los Angeles has ordered SonicBlue to spy on
>   thousands of digital video recorder users -- monitoring every show they
>   record, every commercial they skip and every program they send
>   electronically to a friend.''
> 
> --
> 
> I *CAN'T WAIT* till Microsoft gets this court order. (`` You are ordered
> to collect information about every program run and every file opened and
> copied '')
> 
> Yes, there's a reason my windows installation doesn't know about the
> existance of the internet, much less know my name.
> 
> Scott
>