This story is just another example, albiet a small one of the creeping changes that are happening in the realm of copyright, technlogy and patent law. I attribute these unhealthy changes to a Congress that is at best clueless and at worst are corporate shills, not to mention, a corporate world that sees their customers as something to be controlled.
The DMCA was the first salvo... The problem here is that these laws stifle innovation and destroy the spirit that has made America a leader in technology. If I buy an X-Box and decided to take it apart to see how it works and discover how to load my own software that is not a crime, it is tinkering.
All of this ties in with another idea that I have had for sometime, freedom is always under attack. It is not that today is any worse than any other time. We need to change the way we think of freedom. We should shift the paradigm from complacency to being vigiliant about the forces that are always ready to erode our freedoms.
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