1. Joseph Pietro Riolo on September 5, 2004 9:42 AM writes...

What bothers me the most is that Ernest Miller, as you
claimed the importance of listening to him, thinks
that he is helping us by giving a better version of
Induce Act but actually, he is helping the fox looking
better. No form of Induce Act is safe for any users.
Senator Hatch cleverly trapped us by forcing us to
give him any version of Induce Act, no matter how weak
it is. Once Induce Act becomes a law, there is no more
turning point and in future, the law will keep on expanding.

If Ernest Miller is supposed to be a copyfighter, he is
supposed to oppose Induce Act in any form.

I may be guilty of ad hominem but so be it.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo@voicenet.com>

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions
in this comment in the public domain.

2. Mike on September 5, 2004 11:54 AM writes...

I am not usually a conspiracy theorist type, but I think a lot of the emphasis on DRM -- and it failing -- is deliberately scripted by the copyright hellhounds to spur on the passage of such laws as the Induce Act.

Let me explain.

DRM, as we all know, is trivial to defeat, if for no other reason that at some point, the signal always must be converted to analog (where it then can be captured, and re-digitized).

Knowing this, content "providers" attempt to introudce more and more draconian forms of DRM, which because no one wants restricted content, not many people purchase it, and which inevitably fail for one reason or other. Then the "providers" look to Congress to alleviate their problems with their falling sales and these horrible "pirates."

I think this is quite a deliberate ploy to seek tougher legislation on the part of organization like Microsoft, Real, the MPAA, RIAA, etc., who would all benefit from the lockdown on technology and the stranglehold control that would give them.

However, what they don't know is that this will only hurt them in the end, perhaps at most be an 8-quarter benefit, as it will cause major economic problems, and ensure, pretty much, the economic dominance of Asia.

But these organizations have shown time after time they'd be willing to pretty much destroy the economy and the Bill of Rights to make a bit more profit, and this is no exception.

3. Alexander Wehr on September 6, 2004 7:40 PM writes...

"No form of Induce Act is safe for any users."

let us not become moronic zealots here.

What if INDUCE were actually completely rewritten as say... a defense appropriations bill and the acronym stood for something completely different.

Let us not confuse the name with the intent.