From: Jason Joel Thompson (jasonjthompson@home.com)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 13:42:10 MDT
> > Listen, the fact of the matter is that technology can overcome any
arbitrary
> > "barrier to entry" that you might like to erect. Including timely
> > transmission, or whatever other attribute you'd like to try to use to
make
> > your intellectual property valuable.
>
> If the broadcast is over a cable channel, where all subscribers have
signed
> contracts to not re-use data, then copyright is irrelevant AND the
property
> value of timliness is retained.
> Then what will happen is if you try to broadcast in violation of contract,
your
> packets can also be jammed, and you can then be sued via the PPL network.
Firstly, it doesn't matter if its over a cable channel-- that's no
security-- I've got a pure stream of cable coming in my house and I can
re-broadcast that signal, no problem.
Secondly, this whole concept of signing contracts to not re-use data is
really just a form of content ownership which is apparently the thing you're
arguing against.
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