following up a message from Roy J. Tellason to Sean Dennis:

 RJT> Sean Dennis wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 SD> Replying to a message of Roy J. Tellason to Sean Dennis:

 RJT> It'd be funnier if those idiots that are fighting that losing battle
 RJT> weren't sticking us with such crap as the DMCA while they're at
 RJT> it...

 SD> The DMCA is one really bad piece of law... written by politicians
 SD> whose pockets are deep with the entertainment industry's money...

 RJT> Yes indeed.

 RJT> This all has a ways to go before it shakes out completely,  but
 RJT> there are going to be a *lot* of changes,  a lot of things that
 RJT> are going to end up being very different from the way they are
 RJT> now,  and the efforts of those who are making the money at the
 RJT> present time to keep it the way it is are just a losing battle. 

 RJT> The entertainment industry as a whole seems to be locked into a
 RJT> mindset that a lot of politicians can also feel comfortable with
 RJT> -- a hierarchal structure,  with a small number of people "in
 RJT> control" at the top,  generating "content",  for
"the masses". 
 RJT> Never mind that the 'net is provoking a completely different way
 RJT> of doing things that renders most all of that obsolete.

 RJT> Suppose we'd had laws to "protect" buggy-whip makers,  eh? 

For more on this,  see the post I just put in the 10TH_AMD echo entitled
"from TLE#223 - 7th article"...

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