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

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

After reading about the judge that ordered AOL to remove a media player 
from AOL 6.0 installations via the "upgrade" and this one, I can see that 
some Judges need to be reeducated about the Constitution which is designed 
to prevent such mischief. What this one seems to miss is that even if they 
DO collect all this information, they didn't have it before and so it 
cannot be used to inflate damages even if there is so much infringement 
that the judge drops dead from a heart attack because he's never seen so 
muchintellectual property raped pillaged and plundered.




Scott A Crosby <crosby@qwes.math.cmu.edu>
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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.''

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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