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First the Pentium III chip ID number debacle, then Windows XP Activation, now this... I wonder if we'll be old geezers one day, tellling our unbelieving children about "the old days" of the PC.
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And if that wasn't enough, there's also that obscure little law known as the Digital Millenium Copyright Act which has the potential to make our real and digital lives very difficult.
I sometimes wonder how closely Orwell's 1984 would've come to resemble our current society had the man been around a little bit longer.
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I wonder if they have ever registered their copy(ies) of GIF Construction Set...
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the ACLU is challenging the DMCA, so hopefully it'll go buh-bye. the DMCA isn't as bad as the RIAA trying to make it legal for copyright holders to hack computers that might have pirated material. the thought makes me want to kiss my hardware firewall.
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I already have.
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The scary thing is, I don't know if that guy was joking, or if he was serious.
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The scary thing is that people still haven't figured out that there's no reason to resurrect weeks-dead topics when they have nothing important to say.
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